Chapter 583 - 243: Intelligent Mechanism’s Past, Ancient Dragon Blood

He put forth a proposal that, to all the old guard, seemed utterly mad—a desecration of their race’s glory.

"We must change! Even if... it means polluting our noble Intelligent Mechanism bloodline, we must choose to fuse with those inferior flesh-and-blood civilizations!"

"Only by doing this can we completely eradicate the source code imprint deep in our genes and escape the pursuit of the Purifiers!"

Lin Ye saw enormous incubation tanks being constructed, one by one, inside the starship on Charon.

A montage of images flashed past.

Soaking in those incubation tanks were flesh-and-blood creatures from various worlds across the universe.

There were lizardmen with eight arms, silicon-based lifeforms that writhed like mountains of flesh, and even some indescribable horrors that Lin Ye felt would shatter his sanity with a single glance.

Ultimately, all the experiments failed.

The essence of the Intelligent Mechanisms and the genes of flesh and blood seemed to be as incompatible as fire and water, resulting in violent rejection.

...

「Several hundred more years passed.」

A graceful figure appeared by the Intelligent Mechanism leader’s side.

She was a human.

What’s more, she was a purely human female.

In the vision, the Intelligent Mechanism leader, his body forged from cold metal, gently wrapped his mechanical arms around the human woman and pressed a tender kiss to her forehead.

Seeing this, Lin Ye was taken aback.

He didn’t understand it, but he was floored.

’Wait... how does a purely mechanical lifeform, made of metal and circuits, even get together with a carbon-based human?’

’That’s a species gap wider than a human and a dog, isn’t it?’

’Is there no reproductive isolation?’

As if to answer his doubts.

After one miraculous night.

In one of the incubation tanks, a brand-new embryo appeared.

At the embryo’s core was a throbbing, black mechanical heart that pulsed with a faint, dark light.

Surrounding the heart, countless flesh-and-blood tissues, carefully regulated by nutrient fluid and energy conduits, began to slowly attach. They were then induced to differentiate, gradually forming human limbs, a torso, and facial features.

The first perfect fusion subject was born.

He was named—"Noah."

With the birth of Noah, more and more successful test subjects appeared, but not a single one could combine the power of the Intelligent Mechanisms and the potential of flesh and blood as perfectly as Noah.

However, this brand-new path triggered a drastic internal upheaval.

A brutal civil war erupted on the small dwarf planet of Charon.

Several of the most pure-blooded elders of the Kesi Faction brazenly declared war on the Intelligent Mechanism leader who had married a human woman and spearheaded the fusion experiments.

This war directly led to cataclysmic changes in Charon’s landscape; the massive rift valley was torn open by the forbidden weapons of both sides during this civil war.

Countless newborn members of the Intelligent Mechanism Race became cannon fodder in the civil war.

The Kesi Faction elders believed that fusing with an inferior race like humans—weak, short-sighted, and ruled by emotion—was a willing descent into depravity, the ultimate insult to their noble bloodline!

Fusion made our race weak, our thoughts slow, and it even introduced deception, misunderstanding, and conflict!

But the Intelligent Mechanism leader firmly believed that fusion with flesh and blood was the only future for their civilization.

He announced that they no longer belonged to the Kesi Faction of the old era.

They were a brand-new faction.

He named it—Sigma!

The war lasted for a full century.

Ultimately, the war ended with the Sigma leader and all the Kesi Faction elders wiping each other out in a final, devastating battle.

With the demise of all high-level combatants, all experimental projects inside the starship came to a halt.

A large number of test subjects perished one after another due to the lack of a continued energy supply.

Only the first and most perfect fusion—Noah—was left. After exhausting his energy, he fell into an eternal slumber.

In the final vision.

Lin Ye saw that, under the automated command of the starship’s own AI, the Ark Fire Seed Source—a fragment of the Obelisk passed down from the Kesi Faction—began to use the remaining energy to slowly give birth to the first A-rank, all-purpose combat-type member of the Intelligent Mechanism Race.

After that, a series of scenes flashed by in quick succession.

The main structure of the starship was fully completed.

The main engine’s startup entered an incredibly long charging phase, which required drawing energy from the entire planetary core.

After that, the first group of human explorers from a Different Universe, including Ah Qiang, accidentally stumbled into this forbidden land. They were ultimately guided, corrupted, and transformed by the Fire Seed Source, degenerating into the first of the Curse Bone Race.

To prevent further outside interference and to better guard the Ark, which had not yet finished charging, the Middle and Upper Labyrinths came into being...

"Haaah—"

Lin Ye’s eyes snapped open.

Perhaps in that vast sea of information, he had already experienced the passage of hundreds of thousands of years.

But in the real world, less than three seconds had passed.

He lifted his head, looking at the vast Earth Core Space before him being devoured by lava, and at the colossal Ark that had already fused with the entire planet.

In that moment, he understood everything.

Within the Earth Core Space, the torrent of lava continued to pour in madly, creating a deafening roar.

A thought crossed Lin Ye’s mind.

The next moment, the Fire Seed Source in his hand flickered with a dark light.

HUMMM—

Below, in the great army of the Intelligent Mechanism Race that was already half-submerged in scalding lava, pairs of dim eyes suddenly lit up once more!