After reading it carefully, I was a little disappointed.
This is actually a sacred book similar to scripture.
The above content is mixed with theology and history, has little research value, and is difficult to understand.
Li Xiaofei looked at it for a while and then lost interest.
He rummaged through the Crabhead Master's bag again.
Finally found another book.
This is a diary-like booklet.
The content recorded on it was exactly what Li Xiaofei was interested in.
"There was a problem with Alena's evolution. The power of the fire element in her body began to go out of control. The Great Elder went to save her..."
"The activity patterns of the flame beasts in the Divine Sea have been very abnormal recently."
"One of the nine priests went crazy and spread the word that we were on the wrong path of evolution and had offended the gods..."
"Yesterday, there were more than thirty-one deaths in the city caused by out-of-control elements."
"The favor of the God of Evolution is leaving us."
"The Great Elder went to the deepest part of the Divine Lake to look for the soul of the elements and try to make up for the shortcomings of evolution."
"The Great Elder went to meet Lord Zhizu."
"The Great Elder is dead. He died of out-of-control elements on the way back..."
"The ancestral court has judged that our path of evolution will not work."
"We failed."
"I became the 726th great elder of the Jinsu tribe, but everything seems to be irreversible..."
"The backlash is coming, Nirvana has found us..."
"Escape, you must escape from here."
"I decided to take my tribe to the ancestral court. The omnipotent Zhizu will definitely be able to solve all the troubles..."
"It's coming, Nirvana is coming, everything is too late."
"Even if it means death, I will send my people away..."
"We failed."
"Under the leadership of the clan leader, we retreated to the elemental prison."
"There are too many, there are too many annihilations, we simply can't hold them back..."
"Many clan members are dead..."
"Our evolution failed."
"The door to the elements is opened, is it too late?"
"Can we still escape from the Temple of Evolution?"
After seeing the last page, Li Xiaofei roughly understood what had happened.
This place belongs to a royal branch of the Intellectual Reapers called the Jinso Tribe. They have built temples and cities, and have been using the energy between heaven and earth to pursue evolution.
Unlike today's Reaper camp, this ancient Reaper royal family did not evolve through expansion and killing, but through some form of 'cultivation'.
Unfortunately, their evolutionary path ultimately ended in failure.
If Li Xiaofei understands correctly, the result of failure of evolution is to be destroyed by an enemy called ‘annihilation’.
So when "Nirvana" appears, the Jinsu tribe is on the verge of doom.
They made a lot of efforts and remedies.
But in the end it was to no avail.
The person who recorded this period of history should be this six-armed crab-headed mage.
In the end, they stubbornly resisted in this elemental prison and used this elemental door to escape from here...
In the end, I don’t know whether it was a success or a failure.
Perhaps a small number of tribesmen managed to escape.
But for a top royal family, such a loss is too huge, almost like the genocide.
evolution!
These two words are mentioned most often in the diary.
The Reapers' persistence in evolution can be said to be innate.
But the price of evolutionary failure mentioned here is a bit strange.
What is annihilation?
That weird monster that can be resurrected?
In this diary, the last sentence caught Li Xiaofei's attention.
"Can we still escape from the Temple of Evolution?"
He said, escape from the Temple of Evolution?
Li Xiaofei looked at this sentence and began to think.
His eyes were closed tightly.
The brain is working rapidly.
More than ten minutes later.
Li Xiaofei suddenly opened his eyes.
"I see."
His eyes were clear, and he finally understood something.
The temple of evolution is not a temple.
Nor is it a palace.
It is this space.
It's this black wasteland.
The temple of evolution that I have been looking for is actually right in front of me.
"Senior Lin Beichen can't make mistakes."
"He said he would send himself to the Temple of Evolution."
"So, when the cave tunnel reaches the end, it is already the Temple of Evolution."
"I am already in the Temple of Evolution."
"Those monsters that suddenly appear, then merge into the earth and disappear after death, are actually the driving force of evolution."
"The Evolution Temple breeds monsters and promotes the evolution of living creatures through external pressure."
"That's why I can rapidly improve my combat effectiveness in a short period of time, and my realm continues to soar, because... I am evolving!"
"The evolution of humans is different from that of reapers."
"Is it faster and easier for humans to evolve?"
"Once the Reaper fails to evolve, it will be the end of the race."
After Li Xiaofei figured it all out, he felt that the fog in his heart had finally dissipated.
But immediately, his eyebrows frowned slightly again.
Since the Evolution Temple is not a temple, but this wasteland, how should I find Sikong Xue and his daughter next?
Huge wasteland, endless monsters.
Finding two people here is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Li Xiaofei had a headache.
After thinking for a while, he had an idea in his mind.
"No matter what, we must look for it."
"Even if I have to travel across thousands of mountains and rivers, even if I have to travel all over the ancient roads of the galaxy, I will still find them."
"Mr. Yu, the Reaper Ancestral Court sent Sikong Xue and her daughter into the Evolution Temple with great fanfare. There must be some conspiracy, so it must be destroyed."
"Yu Zi, they are my wife and daughters. Even if I spend my whole life, I must find them."
Li Xiaofei made up his mind.
He searched the body of the crab-headed giant mage.
No other clues were found.
And the weapons held in the palms of his six arms look impressive.
Li Xiaofei thought for a while, took down all these weapons and kept them.
After that, he searched for the nine rat-headed mages under the red wax altar.
Good luck.
I actually found a few maps.
"It looks like it still works."
Li Xiaofei breathed a sigh of relief.
According to the markings on the ground, there are some evolution strongholds of reapers around.
Although many years have passed and I don't know if the Reapers in these evolutionary strongholds are still alive, I can at least look for them.
If we can find 'live' reaper strongholds, we can get information from them, and perhaps there will be clues about Sikong Xue's mother and daughter.
Li Xiaofei breathed a sigh of relief.
He searched carefully in this underground prison again.
Unfortunately, there are no other clues.
Moreover, the continuous activities seemed to have unleashed the power of the lightning law. As expected, as countless fine lightnings fell, all the corpses around them came to life.
They swept towards Li Xiaofei and the Undead Bone Dragon like crazy.
Another killing.
It took half a day before Li Xiaofei successfully killed all the resurrected monsters, including the crab-head mage.
Fighting has always improved Li Xiaofei's strength.
Ao Ying, the undead bone dragon, also collected dozens of satisfactory bones as he wished, and inserted them into his body, allowing his chicken-like wings to finally grow a little bit more.
Then, one person and one bone dragon left the underground prison.
In the next few months, Li Xiaofei was like a ghost, wandering around the Black Wasteland Evolution Temple.
He couldn't remember how many monsters he had killed.
I just feel that in the endless battles, his swordsmanship, knife skills and spear skills are all improving crazily, and his combat effectiveness has skyrocketed.
The quality of the guardian heart has also been greatly improved, tempered more perfectly, and the harmony with Li Xiaofei has also been greatly improved.
The undead bone dragon got a pair of huge and windy wings as he wished.
But it doesn't seem to fit with him.
It cannot grow bigger or smaller according to his wishes.
But it still stubbornly kept these wings.
After all, it took a lot of effort to collect them all.
The bones that I gathered together were inserted into my body with tears in my eyes.
On the thirty-sixth day.
Li Xiaofei found an evolutionary stronghold marked on the rat-headed mage's map.
This is a complex of palaces on a hill.
The scale is slightly smaller than the previous palace complex on the island in the middle of the lake.
But it's also quite brilliant.
In its heyday, at least thousands of people lived there.
It's a pity that it has been dilapidated and destroyed.
The tragedy that happened to the Jinsu tribe in the palace complex in the center of the lake was exactly repeated to this mountain tribe harvester.
Attacked by evolved monsters, they struggled desperately, fought, and tried to escape...
But in the end they were exterminated.
In the space under the mountain below the palace complex, Li Xiaofei found the mountain tribe's tomb, where countless powerful mountain tribesmen were buried.
Their remaining mummies were 'resurrected' by the mysterious power of lightning.
Then they were all killed by Li Xiaofei.
The same thing as before, the statue of the god worshiped by the ancient people in the mountainous area was also completely shattered and turned into fine pieces of stone scattered on the ground, which could not be restored.
This phenomenon caused Li Xiaofei to think.
Almost all the buildings within the strongholds of the Jinsu Tribe and the Shandi Tribe are well preserved, and even if some traces of battles are left, they have not caused excessive damage.
But why were the statues of gods they enshrined completely smashed?
Did they deliberately break it when they fled to avoid the desecration of the gods they believed in, or were they broken by the Nirvana monster?
Somewhat strange.
Through searching, Li Xiaofei obtained some ancient Reaper books and maps, as well as their evolutionary training experiences.
The ancient mountain tribes are a race that mainly cultivates the physical body. By devouring the flaming rock, a specialty of this area, as the basis for evolution, they try to use the physical body to decompose the evolutionary energy in the rock, nourish the physical body, and thus become stronger.
This is completely different from the training direction of the Jinsu people.
But in the end it also ended up as an evolutionary failure.
The classics here have a more explicit description of evolutionary failure.
Many ancient reaper royal families, after choosing the evolutionary path that they thought was most suitable for them, would study and practice as a family, and go all the way to the end at all costs.
at the beginning
, this evolutionary path may be smooth.
Many ancient tribes also developed very quickly.
But once evolutionary stagnation occurs, the situation faced by the race will become difficult.
When the speed of evolution reaches a minimum threshold, the Annihilation monster will appear.
The strength of this monster is similar to that of the ancient reapers, or slightly higher.
They killed endlessly.
Once it appears, there will be more and more.
Constantly putting pressure on the reapers to survive. ??
If the Reaper tribe cannot achieve a breakthrough evolution under such pressure, it will mean death and genocide.
Annihilation monsters will appear quickly in a blowout manner, sweeping across the entire race in the shortest possible time.
Finally, this reaper race was completely wiped out.
Then, these Annihilation monsters will suddenly disappear.
This is the entire process of the ancient reaper royal families pursuing evolution in the Evolution Temple.
Only those races that are constantly evolving can survive the crisis of death and genocide.
Otherwise, only eternal death awaits them.
This is the price of evolution.
After reading these classics and materials, Li Xiaofei had a very strange idea in his mind.
Why do you feel that the evolution of the Reaper is forced?
The early reaper tribe was like pets or experimental subjects kept by someone.
They were put here to conduct experiments like raising gu, and they continued to evolve and develop. Once the 'experimental data' were not ideal, the existence that controlled all this would release the 'virus' and eliminate them.
Evolution is an experiment?
After leaving the fortress of the ancient mountain clan, Li Xiaofei continued to search in the black wasteland.
Fortunately, the ancient mountain tribes preserved more maps and documents, and their descriptions of the surrounding world were more detailed.
Li Xiaofei relied on these maps and information to constantly search.
In the blink of an eye, one year has passed.
During this period, Li Xiaofei found a total of sixteen evolutionary strongholds of ancient tribes.
Killed over 100 million corpse-turned-ancient warriors.
A lot of materials were obtained.
The strength is also constantly improving.
Finally broke through the Golden Immortal realm.
Entered the realm of Daluo Jinxian.
The combat effectiveness soared again.
Li Xiaofei felt like he was playing a private server with super high levels and equipment, but he encountered a real opponent and couldn't show off in front of other players.
It's a little uncomfortable.
In addition, he collected a lot of information about the ancient Reaper clan in the major fortresses and palaces, and his understanding of the Reapers became more and more profound.
This made Li Xiaofei feel more and more that the Reaper race was a bit deformed and did not look like a natural race that had evolved normally.
He thought of what Zhizu had said to Lin Beichen before.
Zhizu seemed to want to join forces with Lin Beichen to carry out a crucial plan.
But he was rejected by the human sword immortal.
Thinking about it now, Li Xiaofei seemed to feel a vague sense of crisis in Zhizu's words and deeds.
This crisis should not come from the human race.
But it comes from others.
Moreover, all the statues of gods enshrined in all evolutionary strongholds have been smashed.
Without exception.
All of these statues were shattered into fine pieces of stone, which could not be restored at all, and it was impossible to deduce the complete appearance of the statues.
This made Li Xiaofei's doubts grow bigger and bigger.
What are the broken statues hiding?
On this day, Li Xiaofei came to another ‘Fortress of Death’.
This is the place where a group of reapers called the ‘Yantie Clan’ evolved.
Judging from the size of the stronghold, the Yingtie Group should be the strongest race that Li Xiaofei has encountered since entering the Evolution Temple.
The castle complex stretches for hundreds of miles.
The central temple stands high, as if it were a huge mountain 10,000 meters high, making all the surrounding buildings and terrain look like small rocks and dust.
It is hard to imagine that such a large group of reapers has long been lost in the dust of evolutionary history.
Li Xiaofei ordered the undead bone dragon Ao Ying to search the surrounding cut-through buildings.
And he himself entered the huge and majestic central temple.
The entire search process lasted for a full month.
Li Xiaofei had just searched all the 111,100 rooms in the central temple of the 'Yantie Clan'.
Countless living corpses of the Yuntie tribe died under Li Xiaofei's swords and spears.
Finally, Li Xiaofei saw a complete skeleton that could not be resurrected in the core of the Central Temple, which was also the highest hall at the top.
This is a silver corpse two meters tall.
Shaped like a human being.
But the body lines are more slender.
At first glance, he looks too thin.
But if you look closely, you will find that its bones and muscles are perfectly laid out, just like a metal weapon, emitting a cold light.
Its brain is similar to that of a human.
But the face is flat.
The eyes, nose, mouth and other organs can be vaguely distinguished, but they are just stuck to the silver skin of the face, as if a newly kneaded doll has its face slapped with a pan.
"Among all the evolutionary strongholds, this is the one with the most human-like body and facial features among the powerful ancient reapers discovered."
Li Xiaofei observed very carefully.
According to the remains on the corpse
From the remaining energy, Li Xiaofei could deduce that the Silver Reaper was very strong during his lifetime, probably at least around level 12.
It seems that it is precisely because of this residual energy that it can resist the power of 'resurrection lightning' after death, and is not activated like other Iron Reaper living corpses.
And its fatal injuries...
It is an imprint of the heart position.
Li Xiaofei looked at this mark and fell into deep thought.
Because it is a handprint.
A human handprint with clearly visible fingerprints.
This mudra has six fingers.
Six-finger mudra.
The reason why Li Xiaofei is so sure that this six-finger handprint belongs to humans is that it is so clear that the palm prints, fingerprints, joint outlines, etc. can all be seen.
It's as if the best carving master had carved it bit by bit with his own hands.
"Halfhand?"
Li Xiaofei looked at the fingerprints and frowned slightly.
The palm print of this six-finger mudra is a broken palm.
As mentioned before, Li Xiaofei learned all kinds of messy knowledge from one hundred and eight masters before traveling through time.
One of them is good at numerology.
I once chatted with Li Xiaofei about some related knowledge in my spare time.
This includes some descriptions of the Broken Hand.
What is broken palm?
It refers to palmistry in which the wisdom line and the emotion line intersect and form a straight line from one end of the palm to the other.
Regarding the Broken Palm, there are various opinions in numerology.
That old teacher once said that once a man cuts off his hand, he will become famous, but a woman will be worthless.
At the same time, Teacher Fu also said that the broken palm represents a person who is proactive and easy to succeed in doing things, but the disadvantage is that he is too impatient and has a vicious heart, and it is easy to lose the bottom line in doing things.
This knowledge was stored deep in Li Xiaofei's memory and was originally useless.
It happened that he had observed the palm print more carefully just now, so he suddenly remembered it.
But Li Xiaofei was not sure what the six-fingered palm print in front of him could mean.
Behind this most powerful man of the silver Yintie tribe is the statue of a god enshrined by the ancient Yuntie tribe.
This statue is the only one that has not been completely broken.
Its lower body is complete.
It's like a human being.
Armor, legs and feet.
barefoot.
The feet have five toes.
It looks like it should be a certain woman.
Unfortunately, the area above the waist was still shattered, with rubble falling to the ground.
Even with the reminder from his lower body, Li Xiaofei still couldn't piece the rubble together.
"There are many branches of the ancient harvesters who have human bodies and animal heads, so this half statue can't explain anything."
"There can't be so many ancient reapers, and the gods they worship must be from the human race, right?"
Li Xiaofei shook his head to get rid of the absurd thoughts in his mind.
He began to search for the body of the most powerful man from the Silver Iron Clan.
As the strongest person in the Yuntie clan, and the only one who can protect his body from being infected and manipulated by the power of annihilation, he should have some good things in him, right?
Li Xiaofei searched very carefully.
Even those things that seemed to be storage devices were carefully observed.
But in the end, I just received a small doll in its arms.
This is a doll in human form.
It is carved bit by bit by hand.
The lower body is human.
The upper body is wearing clothes and looks like a human being.
The face is blurry.
No facial features.
There are traces of palm rubbing on it.
It is conceivable that when this silver iron most powerful man was alive, he must have often held this statue in his hands and played with it.
Already coated.
The material of the doll seems to be some kind of white bones.
But it is far heavier than metal.
Li Xiaofei held it in his hand and weighed it. It weighed at least tens of millions of kilograms.
"Throwing it out and hitting people is very powerful."
Li Xiaofei played with it for a while and found no other special features.
He put away the doll.
After thinking about it, I also saved the body of the most powerful silver iron man.
Then, he entered the library of the Jingtie Clan.
Yes.
This once-splendid group of reapers had its own library, which was relatively well preserved.
Li Xiaofei entered it.
All you can see are huge stone slabs.
There are words and patterns engraved on it.
The ancient Reaper script is no longer difficult for Li Xiaofei to decipher.
What is recorded above is the evolutionary path of the Yingtie clan.
This is the evolutionary direction that Li Xiaofei has seen most closely like the human cultivation system so far.
The Yuntie people believe in both internal and external cultivation.
They guide the external force between heaven and earth into the body, refine the internal organs, pay attention to the internal saint and the external king, and strengthen the physical body through the cultivation of internal organs.
They complete this cultivation process by absorbing a force called "qi" between heaven and earth.
The strong man from the Yuntie tribe who created this technique is their ancestor.
At the beginning, the Yuntie tribe was just a small tribe with a population of several hundred.
It is precisely because they followed the right path of evolution that they developed rapidly, rose brilliantly, and eventually became a super-rich clan with a population of over ten million.