Although Enoshia inside it had been unable to hear Dr. Einstein's analysis, she could tell that it was an outsider from beyond the heavens with just a brief glimpse into its memories. It belonged neither to the Solar System nor even to the same universe.
Long ago, in some unknown corner of the universe, there lived a group of monsters with snake heads and humanoid bodies. They had no names, and their only activities were reproduction, eating, and excretion. They were no different from most animals on Earth.
Over the course of their long natural evolution, some of them developed the ability to use illusions. Under the process of natural selection, those capable of using illusion arts survived, while the rest eventually went extinct for various reasons. From then on, every member of their species possessed the ability to create illusory realms.
Up to this point, the fate of this group had still been no different from that of most animals on Earth—until a special individual was born.
It accidentally ate a miraculous fruit and subsequently gained the ability to think. Driven by the instinct to survive, it began pondering how to further improve the efficiency of eating and how to stay safer while doing so.
As it gained more experience, its thinking grew stronger as well. Finally, one day, it began contemplating a philosophical question: What was the meaning of life?
But unlike the philosophers who came from every corner of the universe, the conclusion it reached after racking its brains was this: Every lifeform ultimately had only one of two outcomes—eating or being eaten. The only difference was the form that eating took. Therefore, eating and being eaten were the meaning of life.
Just as it reached this conclusion, it encountered the gaze of a god. It was incomparably huge, with countless abyssal maws. The sun, moon, and stars were all its food.
After being glanced at by that god, it and its entire species gained even greater abilities when it came to eating. In theory, anything could be converted into energy and swallowed as food—unless it was stronger than themselves.
After being glanced at by that god, the wise one among the species gained greater wisdom and stronger power. It then improved its people's language based on the documents it had encountered, created their written script, and named the entire species after itself: Huili.
From that point onward, every newborn of the Huili Clan possessed some degree of thinking ability.
That was the abridged version of how the Herrscher's vessel, Huili, transformed from an ordinary animal into an intelligent lifeform.
There was far too much tangled information in its mind. It began with all kinds of grand-sounding settings and cryptic statements that made people drowsy, and faced with at least ten thousand years of memories, Enoshia was afraid that if she accepted it all at once, she would be overwhelmed and turned stupid like Little Kiana.
Therefore, she first filtered and processed the information further. What ultimately entered her mind was an "Introduction to the Huilizoo That Even Enoshia Could Understand."
"This description is undoubtedly about the Voracity Aeon, Ouroboros. Honkai: Star Rail has been out for more than a year, yet it barely says anything about the Pathwalkers of Voracity. I really learned something new today. Taking Ouroboros as a reference, for an existence only as tall as a building to dare compare itself to a serpent... That really takes some nerve."
From then on, the entire Huili Clan's society shifted from primitive society toward a tribal system. And Huili himself, the strongest and most powerful member of the species in both wisdom and martial might, naturally became their chieftain.
From then on, the Huili Clan followed the Path of Voracity. The ultimate purpose behind their pursuit of knowledge and waging of war was eating. After each member of the Huili Clan died, they would be eaten by the others.
In response to the Huili Clan's situation, Huili himself continued to think for a long time. He ultimately reached the conclusion that because it—Ouroboros—only ate others and no one else ate it, an existence that ate others was evidently nobler than one that was eaten. With the entire species in mind, Huili therefore abolished the system of cannibalism. Everyone united to eat others and avoid being eaten.
It was during this period that the Huili Clan evolved once again. Their ability to dream could be used not only on prey but also on their allies. The Huili Clan could dream together through an internal network, which was equivalent to sharing vision to a certain extent and activating team voice chat. This evolution brought about another qualitative leap. Over the following decades, the Huili Clan unified the entire planet through several wars, becoming its absolute rulers.
As a highly expansive and aggressive species, the Huili Clan would never stop at a single planet. Several years later, they invented aircraft capable of interstellar travel and began invading and conquering other planets. However, while other powers launched wars of aggression to plunder resources, their goal was to eat more species and enrich the variety of their food.
Yet the road to conquest could not possibly be smooth. What the Huili Clan brought back from the outside world was not only food, but infectious diseases as well.
At some unknown point, an infectious disease from beyond the heavens swept through the entire Huili Clan. Because of their different bodily structures, illnesses that were merely minor nuisances to other lifeforms had devastating effects on the Huilizoo. Over the course of several decades, the Huili population fell to one-third of its original size. In the eyes of those they had invaded, this was undoubtedly divine will—the heavens' punishment for this terrifying group of barbarians.
When the Huili Clan suffered this catastrophe, Huili, the strongest and wisest member of the Huilizoo, began traveling through space. Since the infectious disease itself had come from beyond the heavens, the cure naturally had to be sought beyond the heavens as well.
As it turned out, whether a person's actions were right or wrong in the eyes of others had no effect on their luck. Huili did not directly find a cure for the disease, but he did encounter another god.
That god had many pairs of arms and wore a pure-white veil over their head. Without saying a word, they agreed to Huili's request. From then on, the Huili Clan not only escaped the nightmare of disease but also gained immeasurable lifespans.
"Good grief. If everything recorded in its mind is true, shouldn't the Huili Clan's rise be called 'The Journey of a Lucky Bastard Who Kept Getting Stronger'? Not only did they receive a glimpse from Ouroboros, they also encountered Yaoshi at the moment of life and death. Two Aeons serving one species—could the Huili Clan possibly have received any greater blessing?"
That was the main content of the Huili Clan's prehistoric legends. Although they were legends, meaning that some of the finer details were inevitably inaccurate, this Huili Clan member named Wang could devour energy and possessed terrifying regenerative abilities. He was undoubtedly the strongest proof that the power of Voracity and the Abundance Miracle existed.
Who would have thought that a Betrayer of Gods would instead give birth to a new god?
I never imagined that there could be a god like ■■, one that was ■■■■ in this world.
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"Wait, wait, wait. Why has it started speaking in riddles again? Could it be that the Huili Clan later came to believe in Mystery?"
Because so much information was missing, the later content could not be abridged like the earlier part.
In short, some unknown upheaval later occurred within the Huili Clan, resulting in a large number of them fleeing. Four members of the Huili Clan—Chi, Mei, Wang, and Liang—eventually arrived on this planet. These four were essentially extraordinary talents among the Huili Clan. As for Wang, who became the vessel of the Herrscher of Frost, his ability, in simple terms, was that whatever he ate granted him resistance to it.
"What about the middle part? What exactly happened to Huili? And how did they get here? Why is it missing?"
Its memories were like a book that Enoshia could flip through or even edit at will. But if several pages in the middle had already been torn out when she obtained the book, there was no way she could know what had been written on them. She could only skip that section and continue reading.
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