Chapter 1631: Heaven's Chosen (Part 1)

Although Gui Yi Fu Zhuo had gathered a considerable amount of data, he still could not compare to Hu Xiaotian, who had once ventured deep into Long Ling Shengjing. Hu Xiaotian skimmed over the important points and simply recounted his experience of discovering the Blue Skull in Long Ling Shengjing. After listening, Gui Yi Fu Zhuo remained silent for a long time.

Hu Xiaotian said: "I think that fireball was likely an airship that accidentally crashed into Qixia Hu. When the airship fell, it happened to be discovered by Dakang soldiers, who then gathered troops and pulled the airship out of the lake. The extraterrestrials inside believed they were under attack, so they activated their flying devices and engaged in a great battle with these Dakang commanders. In that battle, some escaped, some were shot down on the spot. From the mural I saw, it seems a flying device crashed, and the two extraterrestrials aboard were captured. After they were executed, their skulls and weapons were secretly stored in the Dakang Imperial Palace."

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo nodded and said: "Your analysis makes perfect sense; it seems you understand this matter better than I do."

Hu Xiaotian shook his head and said: "My understanding is very one-sided; I merely happened to discover that Blue Skull. By the way, what is the Blue Skull actually used for? Why do so many people value it so highly, fighting over it?"

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo said: "Those intelligent beings are different from us; they should be able to preserve the information they possess in their bodies through some special means and pass it on to their descendants. Even after they die, the information can still remain on their remains, unless their bones are crushed and ashes scattered; otherwise the information lasts forever."

Hu Xiaotian recalled the strange phenomenon when Ji Feihua wore the Blue Skull, and he couldn't help but wonder inwardly: Could Ji Feihua also be a descendant of those extraterrestrials? He certainly wouldn't lay everything out openly, so he deliberately said: "Are you saying we can obtain their information through that Blue Skull?"

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo shook his head and said: "Impossible; their information can only be passed down to their own descendants. Even if we were given the skull, we could not obtain any information from it."

Hu Xiaotian said: "What kind of people are Emperor Jingde and Empress Dowager Jiang? Are the tattoos on their backs also related to these matters?"

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo sighed and said: "This is a long story. According to the mural you just mentioned, the battle that took place at Qixia Hu one hundred fifty years ago saw two people captured and several others flee. These individuals' lifespans were far longer than ours, yet they ultimately could not escape the cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death. Among those who fled, some could not adapt to this environment and soon fell ill and died. Because their appearance differed greatly from the locals, they could not easily conceal themselves, but they possessed a most peculiar trait: they could undergo genetic alteration and evolution in a short period of time, and this occurred in their descendants."

Hu Xiaotian said, full of incomprehension: "Descendants? Who would be willing to bear offspring with such an ugly appearance?"

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo said: "These beings often act without scruples; to reproduce, they do not hesitate to abduct virtuous women and force them into becoming tools for childbirth. Since the genes of the two sides differ greatly, the birth rate is low, and the survival rate even lower. Even if they happen to survive, their genes undergo significant change. Of course, this also includes the pure-blooded descendants of the extraterrestrials themselves. It is these descendants who can comprehend their information and inherit their advantages—the Heaven's Chosen."

"Heaven's Chosen?" Hu Xiaotian whispered, repeating.

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo nodded and said: "Exactly, they call them Heaven's Chosen. Originally they hoped their descendants would proliferate, and with their wisdom and technology, occupying this world should have been easy. However they encountered one problem after another; even their internal ranks split, with some intending to give up and spend their lives in this world, while another group constantly thought of returning to their homeland. The airship sunk in Qixia Hu thus became their greatest hope of returning."

Hu Xiaotian nodded and said: "Hong Beimo should also be one of the Heaven's Chosen; he built the imperial mausoleum in Dakang, and his true purpose was merely to conceal the fact that he was repairing the airship."

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo chuckled and said: "How could there be so many Heaven's Chosen? The bloodline of the Heaven's Chosen must be pure, unmixed with any foreign genes. Among the people I have seen, only Ling Jiazi qualifies as a true Heaven's Chosen!"

Hu Xiaotian furrowed his brows, thinking: If Ling Jiazi is a Heaven's Chosen, then Qiqi might also be; if Qiqi is a pure-blooded Heaven's Chosen, then she could not be Long Yelin's descendant, and her biological father must be someone else. However, since Ling Jiazi is a Heaven's Chosen, why would she lower herself to marry Long Yelin? To become the Crown Princess of Dakang? Why would her clan stand by and do nothing about this?

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo said: "The greatest strength of the Heaven's Chosen lies in the fact that, as they age, their consciousness begins to gradually revive, and the knowledge and memory left by the previous generation slowly resurface in their minds bit by bit."

Hu Xiaotian gazed at Gui Yi Fu Zhuo, knowing that he certainly knew a great deal. Could it be that all of this is recorded in the Dakang Imperial House's classics? That seems unlikely; if everything were documented, the Dakang Imperial House would surely not allow Ling Jiazi and Qiqi to live. Nevertheless, from his description, Qiqi indeed matches the traits of a Heaven's Chosen.

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo said: "Those extraterrestrials have never ceased thinking about reclaiming the airship. After the incident at Qixia Hu, the then Emperor of Dakang ordered the lake to be filled in, burying its secrets together. The person in charge of this was a general named Xue Shangwu."

Hu Xiaotian was not familiar with Dakang's historical officials, but Gui Yi Fu Zhuo's explanation immediately drew his attention: "Xue Shangwu is the father of Xue Jiu rang, the founding emperor of Da Yong."

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo said: "The reason the Xue clan could establish itself as a kingdom and later grow strong, standing equal to Dakang, is actually due to the backing of some mysterious power. After the Qixia Hu incident, the Dakang Court treated this as top secret, because the war caused heavy casualties. They gave sufficient attention to the extraterrestrials, began forming secret units nationwide to seek out their traces, and launched a campaign to hunt them down."

Hu Xiaotian nodded and said softly: "In order to survive in this world, those extraterrestrials had no choice but to split Dakang and assist the Xue clan in founding a completely new state in the north."

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo looked admiringly at Hu Xiaotian and said: "Excellent! Although I have no definitive evidence, the ancestors of the Xue clan must have reached some secret agreement with those extraterrestrials; otherwise they could not have risen like a comet in the Central Plains in such a short time, even surpassing Dakang to seize the hegemony of the Central Plains from Dakang's hands. However, every species has internal strife; those extraterrestrials later split into two factions. One faction prepares to live out their lives and die without disturbing any of this world's rules, while the other faction will stop at nothing to return to their homeland, willing to take any means. I myself only learned many of these secrets after performing a cesarean section on Ling Jiazi. From this I inferred that our original mission was actually related to the crash of their airship—it was that very accident that triggered a spacetime disturbance, which drew sufficient attention from our former world. To prevent the balance of spacetime forces from being broken, we dispatched our team to eliminate hidden dangers. Originally our appearance should have preceded the airship's landing, but during the concrete execution of our hyperspace plan, a deviation occurred."

Hu Xiaotian now basically understood Gui Yi Fu Zhuo's origins, and he said softly: "The most direct way to eliminate hidden dangers is to destroy the airship."

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo said: "We simply lack that power; you have no idea how strong they are. In fact, the situation of Dakang and Da Yong is entirely under their control; they deliberately let the two sides stand opposed, fighting each other, thereby consuming each other's strength."

Hu Xiaotian said: "If they truly are that formidable, why not simply destroy all nations and rule the world themselves?"

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo said: "If they could continually reproduce, perhaps they would indeed do so, but they have a fatal flaw in this regard: their birth rate is low. Having been in this world for over a century, they have not only failed to increase their numbers, but their talent has actually withered. No matter how strong their individual selves are, it is impossible for a handful of them to rule this world by force. They also once tried to control certain people to achieve total domination, but human greed and betrayal made them reap only bitterness, so some of them have become all the more determined to return, seeking to locate and repair that airship."

Hu Xiaotian said: "If they merely wish to leave, that would also be a good thing; we could see them off with applause." He faintly realized that Gui Yi Fu Zhuo's connection with those extraterrestrials might be very close; otherwise, how could he know so many internal details?

Gui Yi Fu Zhuo shook his head and said: "Their arrival in this spacetime was no coincidence; the resources of their home world have been exhausted, and they must seek a new environment more suitable for their survival. If they repaired the airship and transmitted the information outward, their kin would come here in an endless stream via spacetime jumps, and this world would be completely overrun. Moreover, even our former world would be threatened by them."

Hu Xiaotian nodded; Gui Yi Fu Zhuo's explanation was already quite clear. The two of us came to this world with different purposes—Gui Yi Fu Zhuo arrived from the start as a savior of the world, whereas I had never thought of saving anyone or undertaking such a glorious and arduous task. Hu Xiaotian felt that Gui Yi Fu Zhuo still had not made things clear: "What exactly do the tattoos on Emperor Jingde and Empress Dowager Jiang's bodies represent?" (To be continued~^~.)