Zhou Yi calmed down slightly and thought for a moment.
There were quite a few Celestial corpses outside the ring-sun wall.
This group didn't care about the corpses of their own kind, not bothering to recover the valuable energy blue gems, the black gems used as consciousness linking tools, or the red gems that stored memory archives.
Zhou Yi decided to go and investigate the actual location first.
...
Returning to Emerald City, Zhou Yi directly connected to the Celestial body.
He came to that deep, dark starry sky again.
The Celestial gemstone body he controlled was still floating quietly, the gemstone ocean on its surface flowing silently.
Zhou Yi observed the external environment.
The other corpses nearby were basically unchanged, except that the distance between them had become a little further.
The distant ring-sun wall had turned blue, returning to its pure energy cycle.
Zhou Yi decided to try.
He propelled the gemstone body, moving in the opposite direction of the ring-sun wall.
During this process, he couldn't quantify his own flight speed, but because of the previous consciousness extension outward for positioning, he could clearly sense the direction between Mercury, Venus, and Earth.
After locking onto the coordinates, he had autonomous positioning for flight.
The gemstone body was highly intelligent, and as long as an instruction was given, the various gemstone cells could work automatically.
Zhou Yi quickly felt that, on the scale of space, the speed of the gemstone body was too slow, and going too fast would easily expose him.
It would probably take a year and a half to fly to Mercury, the closest planet to the sun.
Conventional methods seemed impossible.
Zhou Yi summoned Xiaofu and asked if it had any ideas.
"Flying like this is too slow, Da Zhou, you have to find a space channel.
Long-distance movement is done through space channels.
Using a lot of energy to propel acceleration is not only too costly, but also easily exposed."
The Stream Tracer said, "As long as you find a space channel between here and Earth, you can transmit over."
Zhou Yi said hopefully, "Can you find it?"
"I don't have this function or technology, but the Celestials themselves have channels."
Xiaofu reminded, "Think about it, the Celestials can project parts of their bodies to Earth, which is definitely not ordinary long-distance flight projection.
The Light-Core Giants are actually tool-lifeforms that they create with gemstone cells and then project to Earth."
"Their main bodies need to absorb energy near the ring-sun wall, or prepare for potential risks from Jupiter.
In the eyes of the Celestials, Earth poses no threat at all, so their main bodies will not and do not need to stay near here."
"Earth lifeforms are captured by the Golden-Masked Guards they send out and brought into their bodies.
After experimental modification, some of them will be projected like Tie Tie, or become projection carriers of their own consciousness like Tengu."
"This entry and exit channel must be within every Celestial body."
Zhou Yi suddenly understood.
He was looking for glasses while wearing them.
He began to check and test.
The simplest way was to replicate the original projection of Tengu to Earth.
The whole operation wasn't complicated, as it could be done by connecting the black gemstone fibers.
The problem was that there was no lifeform as a carrier now.
Zhou Yi tried, but a single gemstone couldn't trigger that transmission mechanism.
The good situation was stuck on this one link.
He hardened his heart.
If there's no life, then I'll make one with gemstone cells!
I'll make a Light-Core Giant too!
However, Zhou Yi had no idea how to build it specifically, so he just found a pile of white, blue, and black gemstones and pieced together a lump of gemstones.
But this thing didn't look like a living thing at all.
Zhou Yi tried to talk to it with the black gemstone, but as expected, he couldn't sense anything.
He then assembled it according to the appearance of the Light-Core Giant in the memory of the Panda Man Guan Zhong.
In total, he consumed about 1200 gemstones to finally create it.
Small head, large body, the surface completely composed of blue gemstones.
Each long arm had twelve wide fingers, and feet that didn't look very coordinated.
Fortunately, Zhou Yi transformed Guan Zhong into a fire-seed lifeform, obtaining the complete information of his experiences, and the external structure was highly accurate.
As for the detailed internal structure, Zhou Yi could only try one by one.
As before, black and white gemstones were stuffed inside… but the proportions didn't seem right.
It wasn't until Zhou Yi put the first faded red gemstone he had obtained inside that a special chemical reaction finally occurred.
This strange giant seemed to be activated, starting to move, with gemstones all over its body running and flowing.
After correcting itself, its form stabilized slightly, and the gemstones on its body remained fixed.
Zhou Yi tried to talk to it with the black gemstone.
"Can you speak?"
"…"
His high-imitation Light-Core Giant had functional deficiencies; it couldn't speak, and its head was blank.
Moreover, its body would twist involuntarily, looking like it was moonwalking in place, and it wasn't known where the problem was.
In any case, he had managed to create something that could barely be considered a lifeform.
The conditions for projection were now met.
Zhou Yi first withdrew from the Celestial world.
Then, he contacted the exclusive electric cat in the Shuanghe area through the Cat God's dedicated line and started a secret conversation with Extinction Duke.
This was a change Zhou Yi made after learning of the existence of the ancient rulers.
The Great Holy Spirit could no longer protect personal privacy; the electric cat was the best choice, as this technical system was developed and controlled by the company, and it was also safe.
"You're serious? A Light-Core Giant is going to descend on the Shuanghe area?"
Extinction Duke on the other end of the electric cat was shocked: "What's the situation? What happened? What's going on? Are they going to start cleaning the surface again?"
"It's not what you think."
Zhou Yi only said, "There's a scrapped Light-Core Giant from the Celestial side that will land on your side.
I got it through connections.
You should have an exclusive channel over there, right?
Just collect it and store it well, and I'll go over to receive it."
"You can even get this kind of thing?"
Extinction Duke was stunned: "Your connections are too strong!!"
"Although it's a scrapped Light-Core Giant, it was made by the Celestials after all.
In short, the fewer people outside who know about this, the better."
Zhou Yi skipped the process in one sentence and then said, "The Mech-Knight side has developed a secret technology called [Cultivation]… It requires a Light-Core Giant as a carrier."
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"So I went to great lengths to get one for them to use as a physical device, to see if it would work."
There was a moment of silence on the other end: "…The outside world's evaluation of you is still too conservative."
Zhou Yi said, "This is urgent, so arrange it now."
"Don't worry, no outsiders will know."
Extinction Duke said, "The Celestial channel here has always been watched by me personally, and no one else can get close to or enter it."
"That's good."
After Zhou Yi arranged the reception work, he immediately started the projection on the other side.
The projection map immediately appeared in his mind.
He was already familiar with this process from when he sent Tengu back to the ground.
There were two recent projection locations in Shagang: one was Coral Mouth, and the other was the Shuanghe area.
After locking onto the projection location.
The familiar countdown sounded again.
"223, 222…"
"Projection activated."
Zhou Yi's vision blurred, and he came to a bright cave.
Above was a very high opening, with lights fixed on the stone walls.
A Light-Core Giant over a hundred meters tall wouldn't be unable to stretch its body here.
Zhou Yi regained that omnidirectional field of vision, with every gemstone cell in his body becoming a sensory organ.
The Light-Core Giant he made himself had a strength that barely reached the threshold of the Light-Core body.
However, it was a mess in other aspects, lacking any abilities or characteristics.
Even walking was difficult.
Zhou Yi was afraid of falling as soon as he walked, so he could only stay still.
The strange thing was that, even though it was also composed of gemstone cells, the Light-Core Giant was still unaffected by being exposed to the air.
In the memories retrieved from the red gemstone, the Celestial's partial body would directly turn into sand in the Dead Sea.
Was it because of the special structure of the Light-Core Giant, or was the external structure optimized?
Zhou Yi quickly discovered that it was because the blue gemstone layer on the surface of the giant formed a high-pressure field, creating a natural isolation zone from the outside world.
Although it was a very thin layer, it was enough.
The Light-Core Giant was a direct medium, a step further than carriers like Tengu, which could directly transmit lifeforms to the Celestial's body.
He thought that in the battlefield in Guan Zhong's memory, the Light-Core Giant devoured the Panda Men one by one—actually, it transmitted them to the Celestial's main body for experimentation, research, or modification.
Zhou Yi felt slightly happy.
He had touched on a little trick of the Celestial gemstones.
Recovering his diverging thoughts, he turned his attention to the inside of the cave.
Only Extinction Duke was standing in front of him.
Still the body of a teenage doll.
Those painted eyes were watching him.
Extinction Duke's upper and lower jaws moved, as if wanting to say something, but in the end, he remained silent.
Zhou Yi raised his wide palm, gathered his twelve fingers, and made a thumbs-up gesture.
Then he disconnected.
...
The hand gesture made by the Light-Core Giant made Extinction Duke vaguely feel that it should symbolize some kind of friendly signal.
However, the next second, the giant suddenly stiffened, began to wave its arms, and stepped in place with its feet, looking like some kind of strange dance.
A dancing giant?
Extinction Duke was a little dazed.
The other side said that this was a scrapped giant, and it seemed that there was indeed some kind of malfunction.
Extinction Duke's judgment became more and more certain.
Zhou Yi was undoubtedly a Celestial.
He specialized in taking the route of native civilians to develop and promote the progress of the entire world, which was different from the aloofness of past traditional Celestials… It seemed that there were also internal struggles and new and old divisions among the Celestials.
Extinction Duke thought silently.
This was a fight between gods in the sky.
He had already chosen a side and could only go all the way to the end.
He must firmly follow Zhou Yi's footsteps, so that he could have a place in the future Celestial confrontation!
There were quite a few Celestial corpses outside the ring-sun wall.
This group didn't care about the corpses of their own kind, not bothering to recover the valuable energy blue gems, the black gems used as consciousness linking tools, or the red gems that stored memory archives.
Zhou Yi decided to go and investigate the actual location first.
...
Returning to Emerald City, Zhou Yi directly connected to the Celestial body.
He came to that deep, dark starry sky again.
The Celestial gemstone body he controlled was still floating quietly, the gemstone ocean on its surface flowing silently.
Zhou Yi observed the external environment.
The other corpses nearby were basically unchanged, except that the distance between them had become a little further.
The distant ring-sun wall had turned blue, returning to its pure energy cycle.
Zhou Yi decided to try.
He propelled the gemstone body, moving in the opposite direction of the ring-sun wall.
During this process, he couldn't quantify his own flight speed, but because of the previous consciousness extension outward for positioning, he could clearly sense the direction between Mercury, Venus, and Earth.
After locking onto the coordinates, he had autonomous positioning for flight.
The gemstone body was highly intelligent, and as long as an instruction was given, the various gemstone cells could work automatically.
Zhou Yi quickly felt that, on the scale of space, the speed of the gemstone body was too slow, and going too fast would easily expose him.
It would probably take a year and a half to fly to Mercury, the closest planet to the sun.
Conventional methods seemed impossible.
Zhou Yi summoned Xiaofu and asked if it had any ideas.
"Flying like this is too slow, Da Zhou, you have to find a space channel.
Long-distance movement is done through space channels.
Using a lot of energy to propel acceleration is not only too costly, but also easily exposed."
The Stream Tracer said, "As long as you find a space channel between here and Earth, you can transmit over."
Zhou Yi said hopefully, "Can you find it?"
"I don't have this function or technology, but the Celestials themselves have channels."
Xiaofu reminded, "Think about it, the Celestials can project parts of their bodies to Earth, which is definitely not ordinary long-distance flight projection.
The Light-Core Giants are actually tool-lifeforms that they create with gemstone cells and then project to Earth."
"Their main bodies need to absorb energy near the ring-sun wall, or prepare for potential risks from Jupiter.
In the eyes of the Celestials, Earth poses no threat at all, so their main bodies will not and do not need to stay near here."
"Earth lifeforms are captured by the Golden-Masked Guards they send out and brought into their bodies.
After experimental modification, some of them will be projected like Tie Tie, or become projection carriers of their own consciousness like Tengu."
"This entry and exit channel must be within every Celestial body."
Zhou Yi suddenly understood.
He was looking for glasses while wearing them.
He began to check and test.
The simplest way was to replicate the original projection of Tengu to Earth.
The whole operation wasn't complicated, as it could be done by connecting the black gemstone fibers.
The problem was that there was no lifeform as a carrier now.
Zhou Yi tried, but a single gemstone couldn't trigger that transmission mechanism.
The good situation was stuck on this one link.
He hardened his heart.
If there's no life, then I'll make one with gemstone cells!
I'll make a Light-Core Giant too!
However, Zhou Yi had no idea how to build it specifically, so he just found a pile of white, blue, and black gemstones and pieced together a lump of gemstones.
But this thing didn't look like a living thing at all.
Zhou Yi tried to talk to it with the black gemstone, but as expected, he couldn't sense anything.
He then assembled it according to the appearance of the Light-Core Giant in the memory of the Panda Man Guan Zhong.
In total, he consumed about 1200 gemstones to finally create it.
Small head, large body, the surface completely composed of blue gemstones.
Each long arm had twelve wide fingers, and feet that didn't look very coordinated.
Fortunately, Zhou Yi transformed Guan Zhong into a fire-seed lifeform, obtaining the complete information of his experiences, and the external structure was highly accurate.
As for the detailed internal structure, Zhou Yi could only try one by one.
As before, black and white gemstones were stuffed inside… but the proportions didn't seem right.
It wasn't until Zhou Yi put the first faded red gemstone he had obtained inside that a special chemical reaction finally occurred.
This strange giant seemed to be activated, starting to move, with gemstones all over its body running and flowing.
After correcting itself, its form stabilized slightly, and the gemstones on its body remained fixed.
Zhou Yi tried to talk to it with the black gemstone.
"Can you speak?"
"…"
His high-imitation Light-Core Giant had functional deficiencies; it couldn't speak, and its head was blank.
Moreover, its body would twist involuntarily, looking like it was moonwalking in place, and it wasn't known where the problem was.
In any case, he had managed to create something that could barely be considered a lifeform.
The conditions for projection were now met.
Zhou Yi first withdrew from the Celestial world.
Then, he contacted the exclusive electric cat in the Shuanghe area through the Cat God's dedicated line and started a secret conversation with Extinction Duke.
This was a change Zhou Yi made after learning of the existence of the ancient rulers.
The Great Holy Spirit could no longer protect personal privacy; the electric cat was the best choice, as this technical system was developed and controlled by the company, and it was also safe.
"You're serious? A Light-Core Giant is going to descend on the Shuanghe area?"
Extinction Duke on the other end of the electric cat was shocked: "What's the situation? What happened? What's going on? Are they going to start cleaning the surface again?"
"It's not what you think."
Zhou Yi only said, "There's a scrapped Light-Core Giant from the Celestial side that will land on your side.
I got it through connections.
You should have an exclusive channel over there, right?
Just collect it and store it well, and I'll go over to receive it."
"You can even get this kind of thing?"
Extinction Duke was stunned: "Your connections are too strong!!"
"Although it's a scrapped Light-Core Giant, it was made by the Celestials after all.
In short, the fewer people outside who know about this, the better."
Zhou Yi skipped the process in one sentence and then said, "The Mech-Knight side has developed a secret technology called [Cultivation]… It requires a Light-Core Giant as a carrier."
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"So I went to great lengths to get one for them to use as a physical device, to see if it would work."
There was a moment of silence on the other end: "…The outside world's evaluation of you is still too conservative."
Zhou Yi said, "This is urgent, so arrange it now."
"Don't worry, no outsiders will know."
Extinction Duke said, "The Celestial channel here has always been watched by me personally, and no one else can get close to or enter it."
"That's good."
After Zhou Yi arranged the reception work, he immediately started the projection on the other side.
The projection map immediately appeared in his mind.
He was already familiar with this process from when he sent Tengu back to the ground.
There were two recent projection locations in Shagang: one was Coral Mouth, and the other was the Shuanghe area.
After locking onto the projection location.
The familiar countdown sounded again.
"223, 222…"
"Projection activated."
Zhou Yi's vision blurred, and he came to a bright cave.
Above was a very high opening, with lights fixed on the stone walls.
A Light-Core Giant over a hundred meters tall wouldn't be unable to stretch its body here.
Zhou Yi regained that omnidirectional field of vision, with every gemstone cell in his body becoming a sensory organ.
The Light-Core Giant he made himself had a strength that barely reached the threshold of the Light-Core body.
However, it was a mess in other aspects, lacking any abilities or characteristics.
Even walking was difficult.
Zhou Yi was afraid of falling as soon as he walked, so he could only stay still.
The strange thing was that, even though it was also composed of gemstone cells, the Light-Core Giant was still unaffected by being exposed to the air.
In the memories retrieved from the red gemstone, the Celestial's partial body would directly turn into sand in the Dead Sea.
Was it because of the special structure of the Light-Core Giant, or was the external structure optimized?
Zhou Yi quickly discovered that it was because the blue gemstone layer on the surface of the giant formed a high-pressure field, creating a natural isolation zone from the outside world.
Although it was a very thin layer, it was enough.
The Light-Core Giant was a direct medium, a step further than carriers like Tengu, which could directly transmit lifeforms to the Celestial's body.
He thought that in the battlefield in Guan Zhong's memory, the Light-Core Giant devoured the Panda Men one by one—actually, it transmitted them to the Celestial's main body for experimentation, research, or modification.
Zhou Yi felt slightly happy.
He had touched on a little trick of the Celestial gemstones.
Recovering his diverging thoughts, he turned his attention to the inside of the cave.
Only Extinction Duke was standing in front of him.
Still the body of a teenage doll.
Those painted eyes were watching him.
Extinction Duke's upper and lower jaws moved, as if wanting to say something, but in the end, he remained silent.
Zhou Yi raised his wide palm, gathered his twelve fingers, and made a thumbs-up gesture.
Then he disconnected.
...
The hand gesture made by the Light-Core Giant made Extinction Duke vaguely feel that it should symbolize some kind of friendly signal.
However, the next second, the giant suddenly stiffened, began to wave its arms, and stepped in place with its feet, looking like some kind of strange dance.
A dancing giant?
Extinction Duke was a little dazed.
The other side said that this was a scrapped giant, and it seemed that there was indeed some kind of malfunction.
Extinction Duke's judgment became more and more certain.
Zhou Yi was undoubtedly a Celestial.
He specialized in taking the route of native civilians to develop and promote the progress of the entire world, which was different from the aloofness of past traditional Celestials… It seemed that there were also internal struggles and new and old divisions among the Celestials.
Extinction Duke thought silently.
This was a fight between gods in the sky.
He had already chosen a side and could only go all the way to the end.
He must firmly follow Zhou Yi's footsteps, so that he could have a place in the future Celestial confrontation!
