"The sounds I heard most often."
Little Ghost continued, "They were mothers calling for their children. Next came the pain born from all kind creatures silently embracing everything. And then there was the loudest death knell of all living beings—the endless desires in their hearts."
Little Ghost began speaking again.
The deep-blue glow beneath the abyss revived once more, weaving back and forth between the stone pillars.
At the same time.
The Voice of All Things rang out in everyone's ears again—countless sounds of every kind, perhaps reaching hundreds of billions upon hundreds of billions in variety.
Everyone found the noise chaotic and piercing.
Yet Liu Di became immersed in it.
Among those tones were bizarre ones, as well as beautiful ones.
Without realizing it, he heard countless secrets, all of them useless.
From the affair of some married woman on Earth.
To the identity of the traitor within a powerful civilization in the universe.
And the Andromeda Galaxy's long-standing desire to annex the Milky Way Galaxy. It had already begun peripheral collisions, though completing the annexation would still take hundreds of billions upon hundreds of billions of years.
Liu Di also heard an amusing conversation.
"Be your girlfriend? Dream on! Unless the sun rises in the west!"
"You said it!"
The stellar dispatcher from that Gao Deng star system beamed with delight.
Time passed second by second.
By Earth's reckoning, seven hours had probably already gone by.
Little Ghost kept chattering away.
Liu Di remained exceedingly patient.
There were too many secrets in the universe. Liu Di had learned thirty million of them, but none held any meaning.
Suddenly.
Little Ghost looked at Liu Di, seeming quite satisfied with this listener.
It said, "If you wish to break Qiu Yin, the only outcome of facing it directly is death.