The contingency Yao Gu had left behind was even more vicious than those ten thousand-plus Earth Suppression Piles.
If he truly activated those measures, Giant Ring Star would definitely be lost.
Fortunately, Yao Gu had mistaken Lin Shen for someone from the Immortal Court and did not wish to make an enemy of him. In order to win Lin Shen's favor, he revealed this contingency.
Lin Shen had already told Yao Gu that he had nothing to do with the Immortal Court. If Yao Gu refused to believe him, that was none of Lin Shen's concern.
Lin Shen then asked Yao Gu about the Eye of the Star Vein. Yao Gu said that there were actually many Eyes of the Star Vein. A small star system, a galaxy cluster, a galaxy group, a supercluster, even a cosmic web—all could be considered star veins.
Every star vein had its own eye. It was where the fortune of a star system gathered, and also the place most likely to give birth to a Gene Mutation Land.
This was because the planets currently occupied by the various races of the universe were all places reachable through Teleportation Devices.
Thus, the planets occupied by the races of the universe were in truth only a tiny, tiny part of the universe. Vast numbers of star systems remained undeveloped.
However, since they could not teleport to those star systems, and current technology and individual capabilities were insufficient to support ultra-long-distance space travel, there were only so many planetary resources available to fight over.
Only a small number of immortals with special abilities could explore unknown star fields without using Teleportation Devices, relying solely on their own power.
There were even more undeveloped Eyes of the Star Vein in unknown star fields. Yao Gu had once visited