Kui stared at Lu Yin and let out a hoarse shout. "This is the respect owed to an Eternal Life. At least let me know what kind of creature I'm dying at the hands of. I can't send word back. Now that I've been captured, the only thing I'm worth is that coordinate. There's nothing else."
"Then tell me what that coordinate means. What's there?"
"I don't know. Huo told me the coordinate. I don't know what's there, and you don't need to know either. You can't go there anyway."
Lu Yin nodded. "That's true. I can't go."
No creature could fully explore the Cubic Distance around it, not even the Technology Fishing Civilization. No one knew what they might discover.
It was like reaching a hand into a muddy pool in an unknown region. You couldn't see anything, but you wanted to explore every inch of it by touch. What would you feel? A rock? A fish? A frog? Or some kind of tentacle, some sharp fang?
Exploring the universe was like exploring an unseen muddy pool.
Lu Yin didn't know what was at that coordinate, and he had no intention of going there. But he needed to know what was there. What if it was another civilization?
After that, Lu Yin repeatedly pierced through Kui with karma, looking into his past. Even death couldn't threaten Kui; all his earlier fear of dying had been an act.
No creature was unafraid of death. But as far as Kui was concerned, he was already dead. He had completely lost the power of Eternal Life. Even if Lu Yin let him go and sent him back to the Black Enlightenment Civilization, he would be worse than dead there.
There were two kinds of death: psychological and physical.
When the body died,