Chapter 582 - 243: The Past of the Intelligent Mechanisms, Ancient Dragon Blood

Inside the Earth Core Space, a torrent of lava continued to pour in with a deafening roar.

But at this moment, Lin Ye’s heart was calmer than it had ever been.

He could feel it inside his seemingly chaotic body—the cube-shaped Fire Seed Source, constantly shifting its form, was quietly floating and rotating within.

With a thought.

WHIR—

A deep blue cube materialized out of thin air in his palm, emitting a soft glow.

Lin Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

’Thankfully, it didn’t actually fuse with my body.’

’It’s more like an external accessory that I have the highest authority over.’

After defeating Noah, he had seized the "highest authority" of the Sigma Ruins, which was why he could now summon and dismiss the Fire Seed Source at will.

Lin Ye could clearly feel that as long as the Fire Seed Source remained in his body, streams of pure, vast energy would flow out of it endlessly.

This was a much more advanced and benign symbiotic relationship than Noah’s method of forced fusion—a destructive approach akin to draining a pond to catch all the fish.

Just as Lin Ye was pondering this, his mind suddenly jolted.

It was as if a grand epic, sealed away for eons, had begun to thunderously unfold in his mind.

A holographic structural diagram of the Sigma Ruins, so vast it was unimaginable, surged into his sea of consciousness in an instant, accompanied by a tsunami of information!

The world of lava before him instantly faded, transforming into a boundless, dark cosmos.

A cosmic war spanning across Fixed Star Systems, and even an entire star domain, erupted before his eyes.

Pitch-black, planet-sized battleships fired their bow cannons, each blast unleashing a beam of energy powerful enough to make a star dim in an instant.

On the even vaster battlefield, colossal Mechas as tall as stars battled in the boundless, dark cosmos, wielding giant swords that tore through space itself.

Even more numerous were the members of the Intelligent Mechanism Race, constructed entirely from mechanical parts.

They were so numerous they resembled vast nebulae, swarming around the battleships and Mechas, colliding with, tearing apart, and detonating one another.

Every minor skirmish was enough to annihilate an entire Fixed Star System.

An understanding surfaced in Lin Ye’s mind, as if he were reading a narrator’s text.

The time period was—

[The 17th Cosmic Intelligent Mechanism War]

War Background: The Kesi Faction discovered Second Era Delta Faction ruins in the Melor-7 Star Domain and intercepted a Primordial Obelisk containing a Fire Seed Source with 16.37% of the original source code. This was detected by the Oumicron Faction, and war broke out over the Primordial Obelisk.

The war, which swept through more than half the universe and involved countless star systems, lasted for a full 270,000 years.

In the end, the more powerful Oumicron Faction achieved an overwhelming victory.

For the surrendered Kesi Faction, what followed was not forgiveness, but a bloody, relentless purge that lasted for tens of thousands of years.

Any individual carrying Kesi Faction code was ruthlessly eliminated by the Oumicron’s "Purifiers."

Facing the final crisis of extinction, the last remnants of the Kesi Faction initiated the Fire Seed Project to preserve their civilization.

They selected countless dying planets on the verge of collapse in desolate corners of the universe, secretly infiltrated their cores, and used the planets’ final reserves of energy as fuel to construct massive, ark-class starships.

They uploaded the complete history of the Kesi Faction civilization, along with their bone-deep, endless hatred for the Oumicron Faction, onto independent civilization server terminals, hoping that in the distant future, a spark of vengeance could be rekindled.

The scene before Lin Ye’s eyes shifted.

A lone, grey, decaying dwarf planet floated in a desolate region on the fringe of the universe.

[Warren Border Prison, Sector Ten, Dwarf Planet - Charon.]

Lin Ye understood instantly.

This dwarf planet, Charon, was the Painful Labyrinth.

However, at this point in time, Charon’s surface was still intact; the terrifying chasm that would one day nearly split the planet in two had not yet appeared.

The perspective zoomed in rapidly, penetrating the thick crust.

Outside the core, a large, thick section of the mantle had been completely hollowed out, creating an unimaginably vast subterranean space.

The scorching-hot core was exposed, and countless giant pipes and mechanical structures were plunged deep inside it like parasitic growths, greedily siphoning its energy.

Above the core, the skeletal frame of a massive starship was slowly being constructed.

Countless members of the Intelligent Mechanism Race, in all their various forms, bustled about like industrious worker ants.

These were the remnants of the Kesi Faction, exiled here to take part in the "Fire Seed Project."

Compared to the Destructive Star-class Battleships from the Cosmic War that could vaporize a star with a single shot, the ark being built here seemed incredibly shabby and crude.

Because their only source of energy was the core of this dwarf planet, the construction speed was agonizingly slow.

Several more millennia flashed by in Lin Ye’s consciousness.

Then, disastrous news arrived.

The Fire Seed Project had failed.

Like sharks drawn to blood, the Oumicron Faction’s purifier fleets had precisely located all the other hidden arks, eradicating the Kesi Faction’s last hopes without a single exception.

Only Charon, the most inconspicuous of them all, located on the fringe of the Third World’s universe, remained undiscovered due to its extremely remote location.

On the control console, a tall Intelligent Mechanism leader whose body gleamed with a silvery-white metallic sheen spoke in a cold, synthesized electronic voice.

"As long as the Kesi Faction source code exists within our bodies, it’s only a matter of time before we are discovered!"