It was a vacuum zone of rules. Any existence that entered it would gradually lose vitality, until even the concept itself dissipated, like the area before them that had been cleared by the giant tome.
The scene continued to shift.
Shen Yi saw the destruction of more civilizations, more star systems.
Some had been eroded by the Black Fog, some had collapsed from within, but even more had been silently erased like this.
And after every erasure, a similar giant stone tome would appear in that region, recording the entire process before devouring all deathly aura and resetting the rule environment to blankness.
It was a cleaner.
And a recorder.
At last, the scene froze on a star map.
The map was unimaginably vast, marked with countless star systems and clusters. Most of its regions were grayish white—the "Dead Sea" regions that had already been recorded and cleared. At the edge of the map, a small area flickered with faint red light.
Shen Yi's breathing caught.
He recognized that area.
It was the star system where Blue Star was located.
A line of annotation stood beside the red light.
[Observation Target: Star System No. 7631. Status: Weak rules, abnormal activity present. Traces of Black Fog selection mechanism intervention detected. Recommendation: Raise observation level and prepare for intervention assessment.]
Black Fog selection mechanism?
Lilith's words flashed through Shen Yi's mind. The Insect Race might be part of the Black Fog selection mechanism, creating threats to force civilizations to evolve and thereby selecting valuable targets for invasion.
And now, the records of this Dead Sea Tome confirmed it.
More than that, they showed that the star system containing Blue Star had already drawn the attention of other, higher-level existences and been listed as a key observation target. Judging from the