Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 829 577: Mining the Stars

Does the Space Taoist Master know?

Yimiao blinked upon hearing this: "There's no need for him to know."

"True." Chen Zhixing nodded, since Yimiao didn't plan to enter the Spirit Realm in the future, the opinion of their own Taoist Master didn't seem necessary.

Seeing Chen Zhixing being so sensible, Yimiao smiled with satisfaction and then turned to Chen Zhixing:

"Alright, seeing how obedient you are today, I'll reward you with something."

"Hmm?"

"Why are you looking at me, do you want the coordinates of a small world near destruction?"

"Yes!"

".....You answered so decisively, come with me then."

As soon as the words fell, Yimiao tore open a space rift in front of him and stepped inside.

Chen Zhixing was a bit speechless and followed him in.

...

Yimiao said he would give Chen Zhixing a space coordinate, but what Chen Zhixing didn't expect was that Yimiao personally took him to a small world about to be destroyed.

After a day and night of continuous space jumps, when they emerged from the space rift, the sight before them gave Chen Zhixing a shock.

This was at the star ring of a planet, which was red and yellow in color and had four huge cracks.

Visibly, red earth spread endlessly, with lava constantly flowing, and what should have been a robust atmosphere now seemed barely there.

What was even more surprising was that a part of the planet had a hole, as if bitten by someone, with a third of it missing, exposing the bright core to the air, and even the supposed hot core magma had cooled, showing no signs of vitality.

At that moment, Yimiao stood at the edge of the gap, calmly saying to Chen Zhixing:

"This was once the Floating Realm; the core Spirit Vein of my Daluo Taoist Lands was extracted from here twenty thousand years ago. You're lucky, this Floating Realm hasn't completely perished yet; in maybe another five thousand years, the essence will be entirely depleted."

Chen Zhixing fell into silence upon hearing this.

This was a dying planet, not far from the Celestial Profound Realm; according to their travel, it was about the distance from Earth to Mars.

Such a planet should have been visible from the Celestial Profound Realm, but for some reason, this Floating Realm had disappeared from the records of the Celestial Profound Human Race for over ten thousand years. It's safe to say that common people have never seen it, nor did they know that such a star existed in the nearby Star Sea.

Why is this so?

Seemingly seeing the reason for Chen Zhixing's silence, Yimiao glanced at him and then said indifferently:

"Don't overthink, it's not because of us. The initial discovery of the Floating Realm's damage was twenty thousand years ago, coincidentally when a Sun-devouring Divine Dog passed by this star system and took a bite here. Later, it was driven away by the Divine Court Emperor Venerable of that time, leaving this ruined world behind."

Driven away by the Divine Court Emperor Venerable?

Vaguely, a bad thought emerged in Chen Zhixing's mind.

"Wasn't the Sun-devouring Divine Dog summoned by the Emperor Venerable?"

"No." Yimiao shook his head. "But in the end, the Emperor Venerable left Celestial Profound with it."

Chen Zhixing: "???."

No, although I had previously speculated that the Emperor Venerable might not be dead, you said you ate some chaotic meat left by the Emperor Venerable. How come now you're suddenly implying the Emperor Venerable didn't die but left the Celestial Profound Realm!

At this moment, Chen Zhixing was utterly speechless.

Yimiao didn't mind, calmly explaining:

"Don't misunderstand. When I said the Emperor Venerable left, I meant his humanity left; his physical body remained in the Celestial Profound Realm. It's not hard to understand, right?"

"Is it similar to the situation with the Celestial Saint?"

"Exactly."

Yimiao nodded in approval: "This situation was common during the Imperial Court era over twenty thousand years ago. At that time, the Imperial Court ruled the world with the belief that 'only Immortals without humanity and who follow rules can bring lasting peace and stability to the world,' so most of those forming the Celestial Court were 'gods' who had lost their humanity, leaving only a shell. Thus, when the Divine Court called them corrupt, it wasn't without reason."

"...That seems quite reasonable."

"Hmm? Do you also agree that losing humanity is better for following rules?"

"Indeed."

"You're overthinking. If they truly followed the rules as expected, the Three Great Sacred Lands wouldn't have overthrown them later."

Yimiao said helplessly: "After losing humanity, they merely adhered to the rules they followed while alive. Someone who didn't follow rules in life, do you think they would adhere to what kind of rules after death?"

"Then shouldn't you appoint someone who followed the rules in life as the god?"

"What if the rules changed?"

"???."

"For example, twenty thousand years ago, the Eastern Sea Race was rampant, and the Imperial Court mobilized a vast number of cultivators to fish the Flood Dragons from the sea trench. After a thousand years, when the dragons became endangered, the Imperial Court prohibited sea fishing. What about those gods who had turned themselves into Corpse Ghosts during this period, how should they follow such a rule?"

"Uh...." Chen Zhixing blinked, sensing a deeper meaning in Yimiao's words.

"Precisely, they couldn't enforce it. The decree wasn't implemented; after it was issued, nearly ten percent of the Corpse Ghosts in the Imperial Court continued to fish secretly in the East Sea, and soon all the big and small Flood Dragons there were fished to extinction."