For Cultivators, any line of thought is worth referencing; sometimes, even a failed person's sudden inspiration might lead to a great path.
Although the direction was wrong, the idea had merit. The experience of failure also served to eliminate incorrect options for those who came later.
Having finished all this, Gu Xiao arrived at the last location: the cultivation room on the second floor.
Gu Xiao reached out and pushed it, and it opened easily.
Generally speaking, places like cultivation rooms have locks to prevent disturbance.
Moreover, the locks and doors are all made of special materials to prevent violent destruction.
Of course, when not in use, the door would certainly not be locked.
However, when Gu Xiao walked into the cultivation room, she found that the interior was not what she had expected.
In the center of the cultivation room, a middle-aged man was sitting cross-legged.
Gu Xiao's pupils suddenly contracted, her muscles instantly tensed, and her spiritual power sank into her storage ring. She took out a jade token and injected spiritual energy to activate it.
At the same time, she quickly retreated, backing out of the cultivation room.
The series of actions was completed in one smooth motion, arguably the fastest speed Gu Xiao had ever achieved.
But after she had done all this, she realized the middle-aged man inside made no movement.
This jade token was refined by Old Master Jing. It could withstand a full-power strike from a peak Ninth-rank powerhouse, and when released, it was equivalent to a full-power strike from Old Master Jing.
Furthermore, if Gu Xiao were attacked, Old Master Jing would be able to sense it immediately and come to her rescue.
With the jade token in hand, Gu Xiao became bolder and began to carefully examine the middle-aged man in the cultivation room.
After a series of assessments, Gu Xiao confirmed that the person had been dead for a very long time.
However, his cultivation base was so profound when he was alive that even after a thousand years, his physical body remained undecayed, looking as if he had only just died.
Only after confirming there was no danger did Gu Xiao finally breathe a sigh of relief, though she still didn't put away the jade token in her hand.
This kind of life-saving item is disposable; since it was already activated, she might as well leave it open until the spiritual energy inside ran out.
Gu Xiao surveyed the cultivation room. The furnishings inside were very simple: a table, a chair, and paper and pen on the table. There was nothing else.
Walking back into the cultivation room, she first looked around the corpse of the middle-aged man.
She couldn't discern anything.
The gap in strength between them was too vast; even if there was something wrong with the other party, she wouldn't be able to tell.
She turned and approached the desk, where an open notebook lay.
[Successor, when you read this notebook, it means I am already dead. I, Cheng Yuchuan, along with like-minded comrades, never forgot to fight back against the Mechanical Clan's massacre after Azure Star fell.]
[I became a Professional during Azure Star's first Spiritual Light Surge, enduring countless bloody battles to drive the Mechanical Clan out of Azure Star.]
[In my lifetime, I experienced tens of thousands of battles, large and small. I established the Cloud Sea Sect, fought the Mechanical Alien Race, and battled the Cosmic Evil Race. I once killed one Emperor-rank Mechanical Clan member and three Emperor-rank Cosmic Evil Race members.]
The Cosmic Evil Race is currently the greatest enemy of the Star Federation.
Even on Azure Star, the priority for their eradication ranks above that of the Mechanical Alien Race.
Throughout the Cosmos, there are always some races disliked by all others, such as the Mechanical Alien Race and the Zerg.
But compared to the Cosmic Evil Race, they instantly become much more tolerable.
Compared to the resource plundering carried out by the Mechanical Alien Race and the Zerg, the Cosmic Evil Race desires true destruction.
According to some great scholars researching the history of the Cosmos, the universe was initially a state of Chaos, where only Two Energies intertwined.
One was Creation, and the other was Destruction.
Creation and Destruction originally intertwined and influenced each other.
Until one day, They gained Sentience.
After gaining Sentience, Creation and Destruction each realized Their own Rules.
Creation created everything in the world, such as life, while Destruction waited for all of it to gradually wither, then brought about annihilation, erasing everything to start anew.
This is what is called a Cycle.
Just like the birth, aging, sickness, and death of ordinary people, the life of the universe also has an end.
After gaining Sentience, the two entities separated from their state of mutual integration.
In the beginning, Creation and Destruction indeed performed their respective duties.
However, as time passed, Creation and Destruction, having been completely separated and losing the influence of the other, gradually became fanatical.
They continuously gravitated towards their own essence, becoming extreme.
Creation wanted life to be eternal; It did not allow anything It created to face destruction.
Destruction, however, felt that these lives should not exist in the world, and that a chaotic universe was the most perfect state. It wanted to destroy everything Creation had created.
In the depths of the Cosmos, two terrifying Primordial Beings quarreled, but neither could convince the other.
Since reason failed, they had to resort to force.
An Epic War thus unfolded, resulting in the deaths of both Creation and Destruction.
After Destruction perished, Its body transformed into Twelve Evil Gods, who still aimed for the complete annihilation of all life in the universe.
The strength of each of Them surpasses the strongest Emperor-rank powerhouses in the Cosmos. Fortunately, due to the influence of Creation, They are confined to the Final Battlefield and cannot descend upon the Cosmos.
But although They cannot directly descend upon the Cosmos, They can exert influence over the living beings within it.
Those who believe in the Evil Gods can receive the Evil Gods' Blessing. They can even summon Their projections through sacrifice.
Initially, the beings in the Cosmos simply called these believers "Evil God Followers" and jointly issued a Kill Order.
Any Evil God Follower encountered was to be executed on the spot.
However, as time went on, more and more beings began to believe in the Evil Gods; some entire races even threw themselves into the embrace of the Evil Gods.
And this is the Cosmic Evil Race.
Just like the Star Federation, the Cosmic Evil Race is composed of various races and groups that have embraced the Evil Gods.
Compared to Destruction, who turned into the Twelve Evil Gods, Creation's body transformed into the Supreme Spiritual Light after Its demise, nourishing the entire Cosmos.
From then on, beings in the Cosmos became capable of cultivation, signaling the arrival of the Cosmos Cultivation Era.
Since Creation could restrict Destruction and confine the Twelve Evil Gods, Destruction naturally could also impose restrictions on Creation.
Not all planets had activated Spiritual Light; some were dormant, like Azure Star initially.
But just as the Twelve Evil Gods can influence the Cosmos, the dormant Supreme Spiritual Light can still be activated.
When the will of all living beings on a planet is highly concentrated and intense enough, the Supreme Spiritual Light sleeping there will be activated.
This is how the first Professionals of Azure Star came into being.
Under the catastrophe of racial extinction, the desires of all living beings on Azure Star were highly unified and intense.
Gain strength and drive the Mechanical Alien Race out of Azure Star!