Chapter 811: True “Civilization”!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Finally, after countless collisions, all the cracks converged to a single point.
The red crystal that gave birth to the insect-type monster suddenly cracked. It was “born”!
Meng Chao was finally able to observe the world in front of him through the perspective of the insect-type monster without any hindrance—the ancient world from billions of years ago!
The ancient world was a hundred times purer than today.
The sky was as blue as an upside-down crystal bowl. Although it was daytime, one could vaguely see countless stars shining in the distance, like colorful diamonds embedded in the crystal bowl.
Even the clouds had a translucent crystal texture. It did not seem to be condensed from water vapor, but rather the purest spirit fog. It breathed in and out soft light, like a living jellyfish.
The entire land seemed to have been carved out of crystals, too.
Not only were there colorful mother lodes of crystals in the middle of the rolling mountains, they were exposed to the surface of the earth. They were crisscrossed, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, like a super giant neural network that was exchanging a tremendous amount of information.
Where the mother lodes of crystals intersected, super-dense spirit energy was spurting out of the ground and condensing into exquisite, unbelievable “fountains of crystals” in midair, as if they were being watered by rainbows, magnificent, towering trees.
In Meng Chao’s era, the crystal cl.u.s.ters that looked like “fountains of crystals” could only be formed when the veins of crystals in the depths of the ground were subjected to the combination of high temperature, high pressure, and spirit energy shaping over a long period of time.
Moreover, such crystal cl.u.s.ters in perfect shape could not be too large. Their diameter and height were usually less than one meter.
If it could reach two to three meters, it would be enough to incite the forces of the nine super enterprises to shed all pretenses of cordiality and fight.
Who would have thought that the spirit energy in the ancient world would be so dense to this extent.
Looking around, the entire vast land was filled with crystal cl.u.s.ters that were hundreds of meters tall, or even nearly a thousand meters tall. It was like a giant crystal jungle!
When sunlight shone into the depths of the crystal cl.u.s.ters, after a series of refraction, reflection, diffraction, and scattering, it turned into a dense mist composed of millions of colors that rolled on the ground. It was not only beautiful like fairyland, it also brought an endless stream of energy to the carbon-based life forms that resided on the planet, allowing them to burst out with the most vigorous vitality.
However, what was happening on this planet, where spirit energy was gushing out and lingering, did not seem like a scene that should be seen in Fairyland.
Before Meng Chao had the time to carefully observe his surroundings, he felt a strong will surging from all directions like a raging wave, fiercely pouring into his brain—more precisely, it was the owner of this memory… the brain of that insect-type monster from the immemorial era.
Attack, kill, destroy.
Hungry, chew, devour.
Burn, shatter, corrode.
Anger, loathsome, hatred.
Meng Chao felt that if this insect-type monster really had a brain, its brain should also be composed of pure negative emotions like black crystals.
And the 108,000 insect-type monsters around it were also like it, desperately stirring up negative emotions, producing black, no, blood-colored resonance.
Meng Chao saw that the scarlet crystal that gave birth to the insect-type monster was embedded on a giant pillar that was more than ten meters in diameter and hundreds of meters in height.
The giant crystal pillar that gave birth to countless monsters was not buried deep underground by the ‘mother’ as it was today, billions of years later.
Instead, stimulated by the intense spirit energy, it directly broke out of the ground and stood between heaven and earth like a spring bamboo after a rain.
At a speed visible to the naked eye, it continued to absorb the spirit energy around it, condensing into crystal-like vesicles.
Deep inside the crystal vesicles, genes were being adjusted, embryos were being implanted, nutrients were being injected, and cell division was being accelerated.
Soon, ferocious-looking monsters that were baring their fangs and brandishing their claws were being bred to the point that they could break the crystals and fly out.
There was far more than one such giant pillar.
In Meng Chao’s field of vision alone, there were more than a hundred giant pillars that were constantly producing monsters.
Every minute and second, tens of thousands of monsters broke out of their sh.e.l.ls.
Some were waving their blade limbs, some were flapping their wet wings, and some were opening their b.l.o.o.d.y mouths, letting out soul-stirring roars as they joined the vast and mighty beast horde.
That’s right. The area in front of them was made up of millions of monsters. The top could block the sun, and the bottom could block the river. They could instantly swallow a cl.u.s.ter of crystal veins hundreds of meters in diameter into ordinary, brittle, grayish-white rocks that were full of holes, not even half of the spirit energy was left. This was the real beast horde!
The insect-type monster had blended into the army made up of its own kind.
Through its compound eyes, Meng Chao saw what “he” looked like now.
It was like a dragonfly that had been magnified hundreds of times.
However, it had sickles that looked like mantises, venomous needles that looked like scorpions, and mouthparts that could crush the hardest crystal ores in an instant.
Deep inside its body cavity, there were organs that could emit ultrasound waves. Through the high-frequency vibration of the waves, the organs could crush the prey and food on the physical level.
Compared with the ancient insect, the bugs of today’s Other World, such as the Golden Scythe Vampires, Seven-star Wolf Spider, and Ghost-eyed Golden Winged Flame Beetle, were all pretty and harmless.
“Is this the peak form of the mother body?
“100% full production efficiency. It can produce hundreds of monsters every second, forming an overwhelming beast horde in minutes!
“Moreover, the monsters of the ancient era seem to be more ferocious than the monsters of today. Just this ordinary bug-type monster alone is enough to tear apart many of today’s Nightmarish Beasts!”
Meng Chao was shocked.
Plus, this bug-type monster, after blending into the beast horde army and occupying a crystal lode that was directly exposed to the surface, and swallowing it up, entered the stage of hibernation and evolution with its companions.
In just a few minutes, a layer of mucus was secreted from the bodies of all the insect-type monsters. When the mucus met the air, it immediately condensed into a layer of black, hard sh.e.l.l, or it might have spurted out spider-silk-like substances from its expanding abdomen. It was wrapping itself and its companions into giant coc.o.o.ns.
Accompanied by cracking sounds, all the insect-type monsters broke out of their sh.e.l.ls in just a few minutes, and they became even larger, harder, and more ferocious.
Many adult bugs were more than ten meters long.
Many of the sh.e.l.ls of the adult bugs were even embedded with dense crystals. Controlled by the natural patterns, they could release extremely aggressive spirit magnetic fields, as if they were carrying laser cannons.
With the terrifying evolution, they became even hungrier and crazier.
The ordinary crystal veins were no longer enough to satisfy their endless appet.i.tes for food, destruction, and slaughter.
They longed to find a place where the spirit energy was denser and ten times higher, and then completely devour, destroy, and destroy that place!
Meng Chao and his companions spread their transparent wings that were ten times larger and ten times st.u.r.dier than when they were born and flew into the sky together.
They swept across the land like locusts, devouring everything that contained even the tiniest bit of spirit energy as far as their eyes could see.
Under the stimulation of spirit energy, their genes mutated time and time again, and they evolved into even uglier and more brutal forms.
Deep in the ground where the giant pillars stood behind them, it seemed that the mother was giving them orders.
All the nerves of the insect-type monsters felt the stimulation of the surging electric current.
Guided by the mother, they saw it.
On the horizon, they saw magnificent, towering cities that seemed to be indestructible.
That’s right. They were the symbols of civilization — cities.
Although they looked very different from human cities, Meng Chao still recognized them at a glance.
The solemn, precise geometric bodies that seemed to have been carved out of a whole crystal must have been the carefully designed buildings of the Ancients.
If the area where the mother body was located, which was near today’s Hidden Mist Domain, all the crystal veins were blooming like flowers, gushing like spring water, and even burning like solidified flames, growing freely like a primitive jungle.., it was full of extremely chaotic and vigorous energy.
Then, the city of Ancients, which was the area that Dragon City had pa.s.sed through, was constructed by them into a big cla.s.sroom of three-dimensional geometry.
Cube, cuboid, tetrahedron, hexahedron, nineteen-sided, twenty-seven-sided, absolutely accurate sphere..
All the a.s.semblages were like super large-scale, super-high-purity crystals that were hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters in diameter. There was not a single flaw or crack to be found.
After mingling with Lu Siya for so many years, Meng Chao had also learned a lot of prospecting techniques.
He knew that, at the very least, it was impossible for super-large crystals of such size and quality to exist in planets on earth and in other worlds.
It must have been collected by the Ancients and compressed, smelted, and fused with incredible technology.
Meng Chao could not imagine what level of technology it was!
Not to mention, the ‘super crystals’ were all buildings with hollow interiors. There were a lot of rooms and pa.s.sageways, and countless Ancients lived in them!
In other words, every building in the city contained an astronomical amount of spirit energy.
As long as the appropriate spirit tattoos were carved on the inside and outside of the buildings, a super large-scale spirit magnetic field would be constructed.
The Ancients living inside the building could also adjust the vitality magnetic field to a similar vibration frequency through training.
They would not have to gnash their teeth, sweat, and risk mental derangement to train like the people on Earth today.
Naturally and easily, they would be able to absorb the spirit energy in the crystals incessantly in their daily lives, allowing them to evolve into the most perfect form of carbon-based life!
The buildings of the Ancients were floating on the ground in such an elegant, precise, and perfect posture.. They were slowly rotating, sinking, and floating. They were unscrupulously explaining to the ignorant people of the later generations what a real civilization was!