Delicious

The ritual with the Micro-Birds was extremely difficult because they had to resist the immense gravity of the Super Ruins and the torrent of ultra-high-temperature matter accelerated to near the speed of light on the horizon.

That is the accretion disk of the Ruins.

An accretion disk is a structure composed of many substances that rotates around a central body, much like a vortex. The accretion disk rotates around the accretion disk at extremely high speeds, overcoming friction to cause the gas to gradually spiral down and be accreted into the accretion disk.

During this process, some matter will be ejected and flung to distant outer regions, becoming part of the World Fountain.

Some substances will be swallowed by the Void, increasing their mass and making them larger and larger.

During this process, matter is continuously accelerated through a cycle of reversion, generating extremely high temperatures and friction, a temperature even less than a fraction of that at the center of the sun.

To work here, one must withstand the intense heat capable of vaporizing all matter and the near-light-speed torrents of matter. A slight misstep could result in being swept away, and getting out would be a real hassle.

If you are swallowed by the viewpoint of the Void, you will never be able to get out again, at least for a fifth-rank character.

However, these dangers were within the controllable range for Li Qi's fifth-rank squad, and their level of danger was no higher than that of fighting against a powerful fifth-rank Human Path.

After all, fighting involves risking your life, and the same goes for exploring this place.

Upon arrival, everyone began their respective tasks.

"Have the three fulcrums been fixed?" Li Qi asked, guarding one of the fulcrums, while looking at the other parts.

The powerful Communication Sorcery bypassed the interference of the material flow and delivered the message to others.

"I'm all set," said Youxiong Gong.

"I'm in a bit of trouble right now. Give me five minutes," Shao Chi replied.

"Don't rush, take your time. The material flow here is very troublesome. We only brought fifteen sets of backup equipment, so the margin for error is limited," Li Qi instructed, then fell silent and looked around.

Although the surroundings were in the void and nothing could be seen, one could still feel the distorted spacetime and the immense gravitational pull around them.

Even though he was already at the fifth rank, he still needed to rely on powerful Law Treasure to maintain his footing under this gravitational pull.

What kind of Law Treasure is it?

The answer is, the Wind-Calming Pearl.

The accretion disks surrounding the Ruins of Return, with their torrents of matter rotating at near the speed of light, are essentially a kind of 'wind'. Although the temperature is extremely high and the impact force is enormous, with each person possessing a Wind-Calming Pearl, they can safely set up Sacrificial Ritual nearby.

Three pillars support a safe place. As for the Sacrificial Ritual center, that's where the technical expert Yan Cong holds ceremonies and communicates with the Micro-Birds.

As for Li Qi and the other two, they were responsible for maintaining the safety of the surrounding environment with the Wind-Calming Pearl, buying him time.

Their design incorporates a large amount of redundancy, so after finishing his own tasks, Li Qi can still take a look at what the Super Ruins looks like.

It's true... it really lives up to the word 'super'.

The enormous black sphere, of course, is colorless itself, but the surrounding accretion disk is full of brilliant colors, ranging from visible to invisible light. With the help of the True Knowledge Dao Charm, Li Qi can see countless colors.

However, in the center of these colors, there is a huge black hole, as if space itself has collapsed.

A hole spanning a full 300,000 light-years.

That's the viewpoint of Guixu. Going in there doesn't necessarily mean you'll die, but you definitely won't be able to get out.

Because you must surpass the Heavenly Way Limit to escape from the Ruins of Return, and as everyone knows, the Heavenly Way Limit cannot be surpassed, so you will be trapped in the Ruins of Return and will not be able to escape until you have the ability to surpass the Heavenly Dao.

Furthermore, this distortion of spacetime can even sever the connection between cause and effect, causing you to completely lose all contact with the outside world.

As mentioned before, within the Light Cone lies destiny.

Within the Ruins of Return, the Light Cone is independent and does not interact with the outside world. In fact, it can be said that the Light Cone of the Ruins of Return is its own visual interface. Once you enter it, you can never escape unless you can reverse the Heavenly Dao.

Therefore, the Ruins of Guixu is the most dangerous celestial body in the universe, and the Ruins of Guixu within the extraterrestrial wonder 'World Fountain' before Li Qi is the largest Ruins of Guixu he knows.

It's fortunate that the Micro-Birds can survive in such a place...

However, given their nature, these material and energy impacts are probably non-existent for them. They are only affected by gravity, which is 'matter' to them. Therefore, this enormous Ruins is their greatest treasure.

Just as Li Qi was using the Wind-Calming Pearl to create a windless area for the technical expert Yan Cong to facilitate the arrangement of the Sacrificial Ritual, a flash suddenly appeared outside.

The flash was a clear message, and it used a universally accepted light signal.

Someone is passing a message to Li Qi's squad.

Li Qi immediately called out to the others, "Be careful, there's someone outside nearby greeting us. They probably don't mean any harm, but we should still be cautious."

"Understood," Shao Chi replied.

"Captain, those are people from the Reason Way. They often use this set of signals to communicate," Youxiong Gong provided Li Qi with this information.

"People of the Reason Way? I understand. You maintain the Wind-Stabilizing Domain, I'll go and have a chat." Li Qi said, keeping the Wind-Calming Pearl by his side, and flew towards the light.

The spacetime here is distorted, making it extremely difficult to reach the Heavenly Way Limit of light speed. Fortunately, there is the Wind-Calming Pearl, so Li Qi is unaffected by the surrounding torrent of matter and can accelerate to about a thousand times.

Soon, Li Qi arrived at the vicinity of the group of people who believed in Reason Way and morality.

Not far beyond the domain, perhaps more than 200 million miles away, but this range is enough for the two sides to communicate, observe each other, and even fight.

"Who are you? Why have you come to our energy station?" the Reason Way cultivator asked Li Qi, his voice transmitted to Li Qi's ears through Technique Method.

"We are from the Shaman Path, from the Guanghan War Zone, here on a mission. We greet you all. You say this is your energy station? In other words, you are from the Reason Way?" Li Qi replied.

It should be Reason Way, because Li Qi knew that Reason Way had indeed done it that way.

While in the East Sea, Li Qi exchanged ideas with Wang Dun, a member of the Reason Way. The Reason Way also has a Nexus of All Realms, the energy of which is extracted from the Ruins of Return, utilizing the accretion disk tides of the Ruins of Return to extract large amounts of energy. (See Chapter 451)

"Yes, so you are Shaman. You shouldn't be able to affect our energy station, right?" The Reason Way guards were somewhat wary.

"Of course not, don't worry." Li Qi nodded.

The Shaman still had some trust in them, after all, the Shaman Path was a fairly peaceful Dao Lineage, so these Reason Way nodded and said, "Alright, then please go ahead, just don't break anything, guarding the Ruins is a very difficult job."

"Alright, please rest assured." Li Qi nodded and then left.

He took a look at these people before he left.

Although practitioners can maintain their dignity, their demeanor still gives off a tattered and dirty feeling.

Indeed, guarding the Ruins is a tough job. It is said that within the Shaman Path, guarding the Ruins is a difficult task and is usually used as a form of punishment.

However, it cannot be ignored. As the most dangerous celestial body in the universe, Guixu naturally possesses the characteristics of resisting all cause and effect and distorting all spacetime. It is extremely strange and also has great energy and gravity. Someone must be guarding it.

After bidding Reason Way to the nearby Lidao, Li Qi returned to continue maintaining the Dingfeng Domain and reported his situation.

Others responded as well, and then continued to cautiously maintain the Yan Cong.

About a month later, Yan Cong finally finished preparing.

"I've finished here. The Sacrificial Ritual will begin. Make sure to prevent any interference," Yan Cong's voice came.

"Clear."

"Good"

"Leave it to me."

The three answered in unison.

As the team leader, Li Qi immediately began to make tactical arrangements. In the previous month, the three of them had set up some formations, all for this moment.

Generally speaking, there shouldn't be any problems. After all, the Shaman Path is too powerful, and this place is too dangerous. Apart from the people of the Reason Way, it's difficult for any other people to find life near the Ruins.

But all the preparations were just to prevent problems before they arise, so Li Qi took them very seriously.

He deeply understood the principle of being prepared for any eventuality.

Another tense seven days have passed.

During this time, the three of them were extremely cautious, not daring to relax for a moment, for fear that something unexpected might happen.

However, everything went smoothly; after all, there aren't that many unexpected events in the world.

Seven days later, a strange gravitational fluctuation was seen flashing at the site of the Sacrificial Ritual.

The Sacrificial Ritual was successful.

The appearance of gravitational 'fluctuations' indicates a change here.

Generally speaking, gravity does not fluctuate; this force remains flat and steadily pulls on everything around it. However, the sudden appearance of a super-gravitational celestial body, such as the newly formed Guixu, will generate gravitational waves, which will create ripples in spacetime like water ripples, affecting a wide range of spacetime distortions and even impacting the observation of material reality.

But here, no new gravitational source was born, nor did any celestial body descend, yet a tremendous gravitational force was generated out of thin air, creating ripples in spacetime.

Li Qi could clearly sense this, so he immediately realized that the Micro-Birds had arrived.

Gravity is their only trace; otherwise, they do not interact with the material world. They are a group of ghosts in the universe.

He immediately focused all his attention on the True Knowledge Dao Charm and tried to observe the Micro-Birds.

Unfortunately, it can't be seen.

He could sense the abnormal fluctuations in gravity, but... he couldn't detect anything else at all. Even if he True Knowledge Dao Charm, he couldn't touch the Micro-Birds.

A life form completely independent of matter, yet possessing quality.

It's almost like... dark matter.

But at that moment, Li Qi suddenly smelled something delicious.

Delicious? How can you feel that way?

It's like smelling barbecue—it's very fragrant and whets the appetite.

This startled Li Qi!

The last time he tasted this 'deliciousness' was in front of the Three Lives Ancient Mirror! (See Chapter 291)

He experienced that smell as he traversed the edge of the universe.

This is another True Knowledge Dao Charm!

Li Qi immediately focused his attention and relayed a message to the others. "Everyone! Be careful, there's a problem!"

As soon as he said this, the surrounding formations were activated, and countless strange phenomena rose up all around.

The others in the team all knew that Li Qi was very good at observation. Although he might not know the details of True Knowledge Dao Charm's background, his ability was always genuine.

So when Li Qi shouted that there was a problem, they reacted immediately.

Only Yan Cong, who was in the center, remained motionless. He wanted to maintain the Sacrificial Ritual, so he chose to trust Li Qi and the others.

No matter who they face, he believes his teammates can handle it, and he only needs to focus on communicating with the Micro-Birds.

This is a very tiring task. Communication can only be done using mathematical language, and the two sides cannot understand each other because their thinking is different. They can only communicate very simply through a lot of compilation.

So he couldn't concentrate and simply trusted his teammates outside completely.

As for the teammates...

They waited with utmost concentration. Everyone was a fifth-rank official, and they all knew that they wouldn't joke around and it was difficult to make a mistake, so they were all on guard against any possible enemies.

However, after waiting all day, nothing happened.

Youxiong Gong frowned and sent a message: "Nothing happened. Are you mistaken?"

Shao Chi then asked, "Captain, what do you mean?"

However, their questions...

There was no response.

Li Qi did not respond to them.

In less than ten seconds, the two moved instantly, perfectly in sync. One rushed towards Yan Cong's Sacrificial Ritual, while the other rushed towards Li Qi's direction.

Whoosh! Without a sound, Li Qi suddenly stopped talking!?

Who? Is a fourth-rank official making a move?

Impossible. Even a fourth-rank official couldn't kill Li Qi silently, especially when everyone was on guard.

Third rank?

That's even more impossible. In this situation, neither the human nor the witch can spare a single third-rank warrior; everyone is busy fighting.

Therefore, this seems particularly strange.

The remaining two decisively divided the tasks and went to two different locations.

They arrived at a speed of only a few hundred million miles away.

"Yan Cong is fine, the Sacrificial Ritual went smoothly," Youxiong Gong relayed. "How about you? Why hasn't the captain replied?"

"... Captain, I don't know if he's alright or not, but he's definitely alright, and he's here. It's just that... he seems to have become one with the Sacrificial Ritual?" Shao Chi didn't know how to describe it, but he still told the truth.

"Huh? It's integrated with the Sacrificial Ritual? What the hell?" Youxiong Gong was completely bewildered.

"You'll see when you come and see for yourself," Shao Chi said.

Without delay, Youxiong Gong rushed to where Li Qi was.

Then, he was dumbfounded.

Indeed, Li Qi is fine.

But... he truly became one with the Sacrificial Ritual.

At this moment, Yan Cong was no longer the only one participating in the sacrificial ceremony.

Li Qi also participated in the Sacrificial Ritual.

Seriously? What's going on with these two Shaman?