Lu Yang received no response.
For the instant he met the face in the Vault Sky, his consciousness sank into darkness, and boundless memories crashed over him like tidal waves.
After the darkness came a dream.
Within that dream, Lu Yang's consciousness seemed to cross through eternity, arriving in an unrecorded age and witnessing beings utterly different from the cultivator community.
The Light Sea had become radiant because of cultivators.
Yet cultivators were by no means the Light Sea's only favored children.
It was common knowledge that the Light Sea gave birth to Jietian, and Jietian gave birth to life. This was an ironclad law, simply because the Light Sea's environment itself was far too harsh for life.
Yet in all things beneath heaven, there was always a sliver of life.
Even within the Light Sea's savage environment, amid trillions upon trillions of coincidental collisions, life could likewise break free from the shackles of zero and give rise to a miracle.
At first, they came from the remnants of a Jietian that had failed to be born, left behind in the Light Sea but not yet destroyed. Every century, this place would undergo the cleansing of [Two Extremes Life-Death Profound Light]. While pushing the remnants further toward destruction, it also purged the life within them.
They had been born in such an environment.
Perhaps because the Jietian remnants already possessed a Fruit Position Prototype and refused to accept their future destruction, the Fruit Position it nurtured was especially suited to sustaining life.
In short, they survived.
To resist the [Two Extremes Life-Death Profound Light], they cast aside the shackles of flesh and existed purely as consciousness, trading it for greater adaptability.
This was their advantage.
Yet at the same time, it became their greatest obstacle—because they were unaffected by matter,