Chapter 249: Message

It was a silver star sea that reached the extreme of vastness.

No, perhaps it cannot be called a silver star sea.

That entire desolate space was, in fact, mostly still shrouded in endless darkness.

Yet, within the endless darkness, gigantic silver stars of extreme size floated.

Exactly three thousand silver stars continuously revolved in the endless void along some mysterious trajectory.

Each silver star was incomparably massive, and a gentle silver radiance streamed from each star, spreading across vast stretches of void, forming dreamlike star domains, which made the whole space appear like a silver star sea.

However, those dreamlike silver lights, though appearing gentle, also harbored an incredibly lethal danger.

According to data circulating in the Universe Sea, without a token in hand, even the mightiest Universe Strongest who contacts this silver light would be silently melted into nothingness! "It took nearly fifteen thousand years, and this Silver Token Space finally arrived!"

Zhou Yang fixed his gaze on those dazzling silver star domains, and a smile finally appeared at the corner of his mouth.

After all, he could not, like the Universe Strongest, make the very laws of motion retreat before his own strength.

Thus, traversing the many perils of the Core Land was, indeed, fraught with difficulty.

Hazardous terrain that some Universe Strongest could rush through required him to proceed extremely cautiously, which is why it consumed so much time.

Fortunately, he finally arrived!

"Three thousand silver stars—does that correspond to three thousand silver spaces?"

Zhou Yang couldn't help but gape.

The silver token, nearly extinct in the Universe Sea, is said to have the few existing pieces held by the Two Great Holy Lands.

The silver token he held was obtained from the corpse of a black‑cloaked ape man whose power was suspected to be at least that of a Void True God.

If the silver token corresponded to the Void True God status, then there are a full three thousand silver stars here—does that mean that this ancient Universe Boat once housed at least three thousand Void True Gods? "That seems impossible; three thousand Void True Gods is an overwhelming number. Perhaps, although the Silver Token Space was created, it isn't necessarily filled to capacity."

Zhou Yang shook his head and stopped overthinking.

He first used Teleportation to reach the vicinity of the nearest silver star domain, then began steering the Azure Palace to repeatedly attempt an approach.

"Not here, the next one."

Zhou Yang, holding the silver token, began repeatedly trying to get close to each silver star.

It took about a day and a half.

Finally, once again as he approached a silver star, the token in his hand transmitted a subtle sensation.

"This is it."

The Azure Palace slowly drew near, and when it reached the edge of the silver domain encircling that star, the silver light rippled like a water surface, instantly engulfing the Azure Palace and making it vanish without a trace.

……

Whoa~ the doors of the Azure Palace flung open, and Zhou Yang leapt directly, directly out.

He stood in mid‑air and looked around—

It was an endless, vast expanse, the whole space dark yet self‑illuminating.

Below the space lay an immeasurably boundless continent, with rolling mountains and rushing rivers, as if he had arrived in a picturesque plain.

At the very center of this plain stood a towering emerald‑green ancient tree, its height almost beyond sight.

"Swish!"

Zhou Yang instantly Teleported to the massive ancient tree.

Whoosh~~~ the dense tree's leaves rustled lightly, and a vague thought entered Zhou Yang's mind.

Zhou Yang's consciousness raced, quickly deciphering the information contained in that thought.

"I, Void Ancient Ape Clan Cang Xuan."

"I hail from a powerful branch of the Void Ancient Ape, my talent is decent, and I broke through the Void True God realm early."

"Later, I was fortunate to follow a master in cultivation."

"My master was a towering figure throughout the entire Wu Kingdom; under his guidance, my progress was swift, and I soon reached the pinnacle of the Void True God."

"If I continue to cultivate so peacefully, I should soon break through to the Eternal True God level; if I achieve this within the next hundred billion years, I could be counted among the top five fastest ascenders in my clan's history, and my clan would grow ever stronger under my leadership!"

"But—"

"A disaster struck without warning! The entire Wu Kingdom fell apart in an instant; even the ruler perished in battle, and my master and other strong ones fell, my kin, my relatives, my friends—all died one by one!"

"I hate those who destroyed the Wu Kingdom, and I hate my own weakness, watching my loved ones die before me, powerless!"

"Later, under General Tian Gu's summons, the remaining Wu soldiers gathered to pilot one of the few surviving war fortresses deep into the Universe Sea, attempting to locate and capture a juvenile border beast."

"Each border beast is terrifying; legend says the Purple Wood Divine King once enslaved a border beast king, raised it to its mature peak, and used it to easily destroy a Divine King‑level foe!"

"If General Tian Gu's plan succeeds, Wu Kingdom could be restored, and countless displaced clansmen could settle again!"

"My relatives and friends are all dead; I have no ties, only hatred!"

"Therefore, I joined this operation without hesitation!"

"However, delving into the boundless Universe Sea means confronting endless unknown risks; even if we succeed, we don't know how many years it will consume, and whether I will still be alive then is uncertain."

"Death is not terrifying; oblivion is!"

"My master, relatives, friends, and clan are all extinct; of my master's line and my Void Ancient Ape line, I am the only one who reached Void True God. If I die again, the inheritance of both lines may be severed."

"Before entering the Universe Sea, I dared not leave any inheritance behind, fearing it would attract enemy pursuit deep into the Sea; in the boundless Universe Sea, only our solitary war fortress drifts, and not only the inheritance but perhaps even our very selves could vanish in an instant."

"Nevertheless, this war fortress is the pinnacle of my civilization's mechanical lineage, truly indestructible; each core compartment of the fortress is unimaginably sturdy."

"Even if the entire war fortress crashes and all our soldiers perish, the core compartments should remain intact."

"I have stored the inheritance of my Void Ancient Ape line and my master's line here; not only me, but likely those around me did the same, each placing their own inheritance in their compartments."

"If, after countless eons, we happen to succeed, that would be enough; if we fail, I hope these inheritances survive, so that after endless ages they might be discovered and passed on, letting future generations know that the mighty Wu Kingdom once existed, and that the flame of our civilization never went out."

"If such a day ever comes, and a later traveler arrives here to obtain this inheritance, I have one request to ask of you."

"Please, if you have the chance, help me return to the ruins of Wu Kingdom, back to the ancestral land of my Void Ancient Ape clan, to walk there and see it."

"I really miss home."

The entire transmission abruptly halted here, and Zhou Yang fell into a brief silence.

Within that thought, he sensed a multitude of emotions—deep despair, hatred, confusion, longing, and the like.

A being of Void True God rank, whose mind is so lofty, yet the faint lingering thought and its emotions still caused Zhou Yang to involuntarily resonate.

After a long while, Zhou Yang let out a long sigh.

"Even the Chaos ruler, or even the Divine King, the sovereign level—once they speak of Yun Luo, they fall. The entire ancient nation collapses, billions of lives are extinguished on the Origin Continent; it must be far more cruel than the Original Universe."

He shook his head and forcibly expelled that faint emotion influencing him.

He felt sympathy for his senior Cang Xuan's fate, but the Wu Nation had already been annihilated in the Reincarnation Era; even the Universe Boat was damaged and has lingered in this dimension of the Universe Sea for an unknown length of time.

Under such an extended span of years, perhaps the former Wu Nation and the former Void Ancient Ape ancestral lands have left no trace at all. "However, if I acquire this place's inheritance, it does indeed involve a layer of karma. If I become strong enough and truly locate the ruins of Wu Nation or the Void Ancient Ape ancestral site, I will send my senior there for a journey."

Zhou Yang let out a gentle sigh.

If his guess is correct, the black‑cloaked ape‑person discovered in the Ten Thousand Cavern Gorge Abyss must be that Void Ancient Ape Cang Xuan.

At this moment, his body was even stored by Zhou Yang in a storage space.

He not only obtained the Supreme Treasure he left behind, but also gained his inheritance; if he truly has the capacity later, he wouldn't mind making a trip.

He said no more and turned his gaze toward the towering ancient tree before him.

The ancient tree rose immensely, its branches and leaves lush.

Yet on the trunk of this ancient tree, each branch on the trunk, even the leaves on those branches, subtly contained a mysterious vibration.

Each such vibration marks a powerful inheritance! Zhou Yang directly projected his consciousness into the tree's main trunk, and instantly—

Boom! It was as if his entire consciousness roared, an endless torrent of massive data poured in, nearly filling Zhou Yang's whole mind! Law cultivation, soul cultivation, Divine Power cultivation, even forging Supreme Treasures, breeding insect beasts—various special inheritance data surged into his mind. Even with his current limit as the Universe Strongest, his will faintly sensed his soul 'inflating'—a sign of receiving too much at once! Zhou Yang sat cross‑legged in the void before the ancient tree, his will racing, swiftly sorting and digesting the unfamiliar information flooding his mind.

Various novel cultivation methods, numerous powerful secret arts, and many special hidden legacies—though the messages left by that Void Ancient Ape Cang Xuan claim to be the inheritance of his teacher and the Void Ancient Ape lineage.

But whether it be his teacher or his entire Void Ancient Ape clan, the endless ages have naturally accumulated more than just one or two core inheritances; there are also secondary ones, even collected powerful methods from other cultivation sects.

Cang Xuan, to prevent the civilization's inheritance from breaking, imprinted as much information as possible, so the variety and quantity of inheritances swelled to the extreme! Zhou Yang silently digested them, categorizing and organizing them.

Thus, while receiving and sorting, it took several hundred years before he finally completed the organization of the continuously surging massive data.

Of course, it was only the organization that was finished; Zhou Yang hadn't had time to examine the contents in detail.

If one were to read it carefully, it would take even more time. Sorry, gentlemen, some earlier content wasn't fully removed; it's been corrected now. Please forgive, gentlemen—bow, bow, bow~~~ (End of chapter).