High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

In the deep blue cave, Zhou Wangyue began his narration.

"The third year after the meteorite fell, which is forty-seven years ago."

"The intelligence agencies of twelve major countries around the world have jointly established a secret organization called Origin Point. The sole mission of this organization is to study the origins of meteorites and Origin Spirit Crystals."

Song Chen remained silent.

He leaned against the cave wall, the Heavenly Blade held upright beside him, and reduced the power of his Eye of Truth to its lowest level, focusing all his attention on Zhou Wangyue's words.

"The Source has been operating for forty-seven years, employing the world's top psionic researchers, physicists, linguists, and cryptographers."

"They analyzed the material of the meteorite, the energy wavelength of the source spirit crystal, and the stroke patterns of the characters on the surface of the crystal."

"After forty-seven years, they have come to a definite conclusion."

At this point, he looked at Song Chen.

"This cannot be a coincidence."

Song Chen clenched his fists; he had actually thought about similar questions before.

Zhou Wangyue continued.

"The location of the meteorite impact, the way the psionic particles diffused, the gene loci of awakening in humans and alien beasts, and the ability differentiation of the source spirit crystals."

All of these things combined form an overly complete system.

"It's so complete that it couldn't have formed naturally; it's like a precisely designed program, with each step having a clear purpose."

Song Chen looked down at the dark blue crystal on his chest.

The characters on the surface of the crystal were still slowly moving. Those strokes that he couldn't understand at all, in the vision of the Eye of Truth, presented a kind of extremely precise pattern, which was obviously the result of strict calculation and arrangement.

This is text.

Words need creators.

Naturally formed crystals may have patterns on their surface, but they cannot have systematic characters.

Behind the rules of strokes, the arrangement of strokes, and the different layouts on the front and back, there must be someone who wrote them down.

"Extraterrestrial civilization?" Song Chen asked.

Zhou Wangyue nodded: "This is the most mainstream inference at present."

"Extraterrestrial civilization, or rather, an intelligent being far beyond the current level of human understanding."

"The Source Point spent forty-seven years ruling out all possibilities of natural formation and finally locked in this conclusion: the meteorite, the psionic particles, and the Source Spirit Crystal were sent to Earth by some intelligent being."

Song Chen was silent for a few seconds, then asked, "What's the motive?"

Zhou Wangyue shook his head, answering directly and frankly: "I don't know."

"After forty-seven years of research on the source point, the only thing that can be confirmed is that it could not have been a coincidence. As for the motive, there is no concrete evidence to support any speculation."

He walked to the edge of the cave with his hands behind his back and looked down at the dark blue river.

"Currently, most of the discussions are focused on a few areas."

"First, friendship."

"When a certain advanced civilization was traveling through the universe, it passed by Blue Star and found that life on this planet was still in the era of psionic desert. So it left behind a meteorite and a batch of source spirit crystals to help humans and the creatures of Blue Star complete their psionic awakening."

"This is a pure gift, without expecting anything in return."

Song Chen's face showed a clear look of disbelief.

Zhou Wangyue naturally saw it: "You think it's impossible?"

"Impossible," Song Chen said definitively.

He spoke very quickly, almost as an instinctive first reaction.

Since awakening the Killing System, he has killed tens of thousands of alien beasts, from the plains to the sea, and from the sea to the plateau, from the first rank to the fifth rank.

He understood the nature of power better than anyone else: power is never a gift, but something to be fought for.

Beasts will not bestow psionic energy upon humans, and humans will not bestow territory upon beasts.

If there are civilizations in the universe that are many times more powerful than humans, why would they give gifts?

Zhou Wangyue nodded, offering no comment.

"The second guess is that this is not civilized behavior, but individual behavior."

"A powerful being in a certain universe may not necessarily come from a certain civilization. It may be an independent individual who, by some chance, passed by Earth and did something casually."

"It's like someone passing through a desert and seeing a nest of ants struggling in the drought, so they casually pour a bottle of water for them."

Song Chen thought about it and decided that this was a bit more reliable than the first option.

At least we don't need to assume the goodwill of a civilization, we only need to assume the chance of a powerful being.

But he didn't believe the part about "casually".

Zhou Wangyue lowered his voice by an octave: "The third one."

"Those who do this, they want to do something through it."

"Meteorites and Source Crystals are not gifts, but tools."

"The awakening of humans and beasts is not the goal, but a process. When this process reaches a certain stage, the true goal will be revealed."

Song Chen tapped the handle of the Tianjun Blade lightly with his finger.

He felt this guess was the most reasonable, but it was also the one that sent chills down his spine.

It wasn't out of fear, of course. After killing for so long, fear had become very thin in his neural circuits.

Rather, it's because if the third conjecture is correct, then humanity's awakening over fifty years, the evolution of alien beasts, the establishment of base cities, and the deaths of countless warriors...

All of this is just a process designed by some being, like someone putting a group of ants into a maze and watching them crawl.

"Teacher, which one do you think it is?" he asked Zhou Wangyue.

Zhou Wangyue remained silent for a long time before finally replying, "I don't know."

"Even with intelligence sharing and research results shared among all countries globally, the origin of the problem remains unknown."

He turned around and looked at Song Chen: "But one thing is certain."

"In the past fifty years, no extraterrestrial civilization has made a second intervention on Earth."

"There was no second meteorite, no new source spirit crystals, no signals from the depths of space, and no contact of any kind."

"There was nothing there. That meteorite and those crystals were like a seed thrown into the blue planet. After they were thrown down, the hand that threw them never appeared again."

Song Chen stored this information in his mind, but didn't think about it too much for the time being.

Without sufficient information, guessing will not solve any problems and will only cause unnecessary distress.

He straightened up and shifted his gaze from the crystal on his chest to the dark river beneath his feet.

"Let's put that aside for now and talk about the immediate problem: how do we deal with this underground river?"

Zhou Wangyue's gaze returned to the river surface, and suddenly, he leaped into the dark river.

Song Chen immediately followed behind him.

The two dived back into the deep blue river, simultaneously unleashing their Eye of Truth and Grandmaster Perception.

Zhou Wangyue squatted on the riverbed for a long time. This time, he wasn't looking at the fragments, as he had already seen them, but rather trying to grasp the overall structure.

He stretched out his hand, fingers spread, palm facing the riverbed.

His master-level psychic perception spread outwards from his palm in all directions.

A sixth-level martial artist's mental power is refined to the point that it can resonate with the spiritual energy fluctuations in the water, allowing them to perceive the structure of the entire field through this resonance.

Song Chen stood behind him and saw that Zhou Wangyue's spiritual energy fluctuations resembled a giant spider web, extending from his palm and covering the entire riverbed.

Every thread of the spider web is capturing the blue light spots released by the fragments, tracking their movement, and analyzing the energy connections between the fragments.

Then he saw that the fragments were connected.

Connections at the energy level.

The blue light spots released by each fragment do not move independently; they flow between fragments along an extremely complex trajectory, like blood flowing in a blood vessel.

The size, shape, and location of the fragments determine the direction of this energy channel.

The fragments on the entire riverbed form a complete energy cycle system.

This appears to be a field.