Just as Qin Feng teleported to Divine Wood Village and flew at full speed toward the World Spine · Giant Tree...
Beneath the towering tree, thousands of meters tall and reaching straight into the clouds, countless vines had gathered. These vines, each several meters thick, crisscrossed to form a giant tree cage, trapping a team of sixty inside.
Vines constantly attacked the team, but a powerful member of the team temporarily held them off with a makeshift Defensive Barrier.
"No good, this World Spine's attacks are too fierce!"
A long-haired young man dressed in black spread his hands, his expression grim as he did everything he could to maintain the Defensive Barrier. "More lifespan! I can't hold on much longer!"
Hearing his shout, everyone around him threw Lifespan Orbs toward the black-clothed young man without hesitation, their expressions grave. Each orb contained a hundred years.
Everyone looked awful.
Except... for a large yellow eyeball floating in the crowd.
This large eyeball was an Eye of Knowledge, and it was extremely excited!
Its name was Eye of Knowledge · Zhendeshiduo. Clearly, the Eye of Knowledge Clan had stationed it in the Deep Blue Civilization to gather information.
As an NPC, an Eye of Knowledge did not itself remember the records of previous cycles. However, as long as the civilization it resided in ascended, its clan could use certain methods to extract the information it had collected during every cycle.
Normally, only the records of civilizations that had achieved Ascension would be "uploaded" to the Eye of Knowledge Clan Headquarters. Conversely, if a civilization could not achieve Ascension, the Eye of Knowledge Clan had no need to learn about it... because such a civilization was far too insignificant.
By comparison, the Mechanical Rubik's Cube clearly collected information in a more real-time fashion.