Chapter 2072: Chapter 47: Valiant Soul Path

Light Essence Furnace.

The so-called Light Essence is another name for Aether, or rather, it is used to refer to, and only to refer to ’Aether of the Star Gods’.

For all civilizations in this universe, Aether is complex and changeable; it transcends single universes as a kind of ’non-material existence’. It can decompose through the universe into the substantial ’Origin Quality’ and the non-substantial ’Spirit Energy’, and be fused again by the ’will’ of intelligent life, returning to Aether.

Due to the differences in cognition and self-will of intelligent life, the types and quantities of Aether also possess infinitely different variations.

Even so, ’Light Essence’—’Aether of the Star Gods’ still possesses a certain special quality.

And Terra, being one of the few civilizations fortunate enough to have seen Star Gods in the Stone Age before the development of primitive civilization, had more opportunities to encounter the Aether of Star Gods. They even integrated the Spark knowledge of a Thousand Stars and developed a peculiar symbiotic fungus known as ’Photosymbiotic Fungus’.

Which is the prototype of ’Embrace Light’.

"I see... no wonder Embrace Light is so special."

Reaching out, upon touching the core of the Light Essence Furnace, which released endless Aether, the ’Silver Sea’, Ian became fully aware of everything.

Civilizations of the previous era were certainly spiritual cultivation civilizations, but this does not mean they did not find other paths to sublimation.

They created the Voidrealm Machine God, genetically modified their own race, and even, with the help of the True Dragon, completed the ’True Aether Furnace’. Their civilization tended toward unity.

Soul, skill, body, energy, belief.

In these five paths, the civilization of the previous era had already embarked on the correct path... perhaps there are still gaps in the body and skill aspects, and they haven’t found a way to integrate these five paths together, but their high level of technology explains why they were able to create ’Voidrealm Machine God’ and ’Crystal Dragon’ possessing Fifth Energy Level power and potential.

And the prototype of Embrace Light, ’Photosymbiotic Fungus’, is an attempt to use the primal Aether of Star Gods to create a robust body.

This technology initially started too high; without a strong enough will and soul, people cannot withstand the symbiotic fungus modified by Star God’s Aether. Instead, they would be assimilated by Star God’s Aether, becoming a consciousness fusion entity, similar to the ’Silver Sea’ in the Light Essence Furnace, but not exactly the same.

And subsequently, Ian speculates that the Terra People chose to compromise; they used Dragon’s Blood, or the True Dragon’s primal Aether as a substitute, creating a foundation.

This foundation can withstand the bloodlines and power of ’all Aether creatures’, which is the current path of sublimation for Terra civilization.

If it can’t be achieved in one step, they start by using templates developed by other races.

This is a research path with clear traces, and Ian can basically confirm that this is likely the truth.

And the Light Essence Furnace is a right utilization of Star God’s Aether.

It is an unfinished perpetual motion machine borrowed from extraterrestrial legacy, but similarly, the cost of using it is much greater than the Photosymbiotic Fungus.

Indeed, the vast majority of Humans, unless they possess immortality or have themselves comprehended the immortality of the Fifth Energy Level, no human can withstand the result of touching the Light Essence Furnace.

Just like right now.

In the instant of touching the Silver Sea, Ian feels that the part within him belonging to the ’Fae’ is rapidly dissolving, transforming into a pure Aether fluid akin to white orange juice, resonating with the Silver Sea, and the massive form of the Silver Sea constructed by countless Fae fragments and Star God’s Aether begins to violently tremble, rising like tides.

Boiling light flames, surging light tides, the Silver Sea accepted ’Fae’s Ian’.

Then, he sees the origin and end of countless Fae.

At dawn, the bright morning light pierces through the clouds, passing through the gaps, turning into ladders seemingly from the Heavenly Kingdom. A flock of birds glides over the shadowy waves of clouds, the long winds traverse thousands of miles, and the vastness of the universe stretches far.

[Fairy Xiyun] chose to die because such beautiful skies no longer exist in today’s world, and he wanted to use all his power to change the world, thus sending his soul back to the furnace.

The wave undulates, the beach is desolate, schools of fish wander in the transparent sapphire sea, but the urgent sea breeze carries the chilling ice-cold aura, while the distant ice tide is rapidly approaching, with the momentum of heaven collapsing.

[Fairy Qingfeng] chose to die due to living too long, what a bore.

The white cliffs are slowly disintegrating; a severe earthquake releases the wrath of the crustal plates. The beasts have long fled, only the eggs in the skylark’s nest atop the cliff have not hatched. Without their parents, the result can only be one: crushed and extinguished, losing the hope of birth completely. But from destruction emerges new life.

[Fairy Suie] chose to die because he didn’t want to witness the extinction of this kind of bird.

There are many many more.

In the instant of touching the Silver Sea, Ian is inundated with overwhelming information like a tilting sky, instantly knowing the reasons for the birth of over billions and trillions of Fae spanning over centuries, the moment of their consciousness awakening.

And the reasons they chose death, choosing to merge into the Silver Sea, were all understood by Ian.

Information sources vast to this extent, even a brief contact in a mere instant would burn one’s brain and soul. If unlucky, even if lucky, the cognition would be distorted, turning into molecules that only use instinct to express the origin of Fae.