Degraded Intelligent Life
"How is that possible? How could Intelligent Races degenerate into a beast?"
Bai Qiuran surprise on the surface, but was actually thinking inwardly.
Although the wild animals previously imprisoned in the cell all looked like monsters, they did possess some characteristic of being able to use tools, and their intelligence seemed to be higher than that of ordinary wild animals.
Bai Qiuran initially thought this was a special sample captured and studied by the Machine God, but if what the Blue-skinned Elder said was true, then everything would make sense.
But if those strange beasts he had seen before were once Intelligent Lifeforms, then what turned them into what they are now?
"It's the Machine God, or rather, it's the Machine God's Rule."
As if guessing Bai Qiuran's thoughts, the Blue-skinned Elder said, "As Intelligent Lifeforms, we possess far greater cognitive abilities than other beasts. We can think, create, and invent countless things, but we are ultimately just living beings."
"When a creature is domesticated by a stable life for a long time, it will eventually become another kind of creature. If we don't think, our minds will atrophy; if we don't exercise, our bodies will gradually atrophy, eventually turning us into a group of wild beasts that have lost the ability to think. At that time, we, who have lost our breeding value to the Machine God, will be driven out of the City and into the Wilderness, becoming the bottom of the food chain and ultimately heading towards extinction."
"Is the saying 'Born in hardship, die in comfort' true?"
Bai Qiuran murmured.
Where did you hear that from?
The Blue-skinned People Elder nodded.
"But that makes a lot of sense. You see, are domesticated creatures and their wild relatives still the same kind of creatures?"
Of course not.
Bai Qiuran replied in her mind.
Just like Domestic Pig raised in captivity and wild Wild Boar in the wild, apart from their similar appearance, they are completely different species.
"Alright, I've said my piece. You can leave if you want, or report to the Machine God if you wish."
The Blue-skinned Elder waved his hand and said, "Just pretend I'm talking to myself. Hmph, anyway, after the Ascension Ceremony, you new generation are already the Machine God's Lackeys."
"I have another question."
After thinking for Bai Qiuran asked, "Where did you get this [historical knowledge] from?"
The Blue-skinned Elder dragged himself down onto the bed in the corner of the cell, remaining silent.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Bai Qiuran and didn't press the matter further.
The announcement from the monitoring Machine Puppet echoed in his mind. Perhaps seeing that he had been lingering outside a cell for too long, the Machine Puppet began to ask him if something had happened.
Bai Qiuran brushed it off, then closed the iron bars on the cell and left with Tang Ruowei.
"Master."
As the two piloted their Machine Puppet bodies through the prison corridor, Tang Ruowei transmitted her Spiritual Sense to Tang Ruowei, asking, "Do you think what he said is true?"
"It's mostly true, at least within his understanding; it's all true."
Bai Qiuran replied, "He knows his situation, and he clearly knows that after his race undergoes the Ascension Ceremony, it will be Thought Imprint with an absolute Loyalty to the Machine God, so he wouldn't go to great lengths to lie to us... He knows that lies are useless against the Blue-skinned People after they've been promoted to Machine Puppet."
"If it's true, then this thing that Shuhua back then..."
"It's gone bad, or maybe he didn't design it well in the first place, causing it to go astray."
Bai Qiuran replied without hesitation, "After all, it's been fifty thousand years. It's normal for this to happen. Let's search some more, and we'll discuss this matter again after we find the captives from the Immortal Realm."
Bai Qiuran chose to remain silent, and Tang Ruowei did not ask any more questions. However, the girl knew in her heart that her master would never let the Machine God go unpunished after learning about the situation here.
This stems not only from her understanding of him, but more importantly, from the Thought Imprint that Bai Qiuran herself has etched upon herself.
The Machine God is now clearly hindering the progress and development of countless beings and civilizations in the Material World, so for Bai Qiuran, it is an irreconcilable enemy.
The Consciousness Domain, the front line of the Immortal Realm Fortress.
A metallic Spaceship, originating from the Far Shore Void, silently arrived near the magnificent Immortal City.
It landed on the surface of a certain world. The blue flames emitted from the Spaceship's accelerator nozzles gradually disappeared. Then, a cloud of silvery-white liquid flowed out from the gap in the hatch.
The liquid flowed onto the surface of the Consciousness Domain, gradually condensing into a Slime -like liquid mass. After it successfully detached from the Spaceship, a huge golden symbol appeared on the Spaceship's hatch, emitting a dazzling light.
After the Runes appeared, the entire Spaceship silently self-destructed. In a burst of light and flame, all the elements that made up the Spaceship instantly turned into golden particles and scattered.
The silvery-white liquid writhed, releasing its senses and reaching towards the enormous Immortal City ahead.
At this moment, the Consciousness Demon Calamity in the Consciousness Domain had been eliminated, and the gates of the Immortal City were wide open. Countless enormous Immortal Realm Void Airship passed through the gates and entered the Immortal City, unloading all the supplies and baggage on board onto the Immortal City's docks.
After writhing on the surface of the Consciousness Domain for a moment, the silvery-white liquid suddenly transformed into the smallest Void Airship. It flew towards the fleet of ships in the Immortal Realm, silently blending in with them. Then, as it approached the bottom of a large ship, it quickly transformed into a coating and adhered to the bottom of the large ship.
The scorching energy emitted from the Runes at the bottom of the ship burned its constituent parts, causing the silvery-white liquid to Mobile along the ship's surface and eventually Mobile the deck, where it transformed into a lump of countless supplies and piled up on the ship's cargo rack.
As the large ship entered the harbor, it was unloaded from the ship along with other cargo by the Immortals using magic and transported to the warehouse. After the people in the warehouse left, it transformed into a tiny Flying Insect, flew out of the window, and landed on the back seat of an Immortal Realm Convoy.
Following the convoy, it arrived at the innermost part of the Immortal Realm Fortress complex, near the Rift in the Consciousness Barrier. Then it turned into a puddle of clear water, silently evading the perception of an Immortals, and hid in the scabbard on his back, transforming into the most basic metallic particles that attached themselves to his Flying Sword.
As the Immortals passed the Immortal Realm's detection and entered the Immortal Realm's Void opposite the Consciousness Barrier, the silvery-white liquid secretly sensed his thoughts and memories using its own mind-sensing device. Then, when the Immortals went to the immortal Immortal Realm Fortress on the other side of the Consciousness Barrier and entered an empty street, the silvery-white liquid knocked him unconscious and then transformed into his appearance.
He sealed the Immortals within a fold of space, then, carrying his Flying Sword, leisurely followed the Immortal Realm fleet back to the Central Immortal Realm.
After arriving in the Central Immortal Realm, he repeated his previous actions, knocking out a low-level Shi Chen and having him take his form, thus entering the Central Immortal Palace.
Inside the Hall of Supreme Harmony of the Central Immortal Palace, the New Immortal Emperor Le Zhentian was handling state affairs when a silver-white liquid, disguised as Shi Chen, entered and bowed to him before observing him discreetly.
It finally met the ruler of the Void on this shore.