<h4>Chapter 2711: Training for the Divinity Branching Stage!</h4>


    After departing with Long Yangjun, Li Yao wasted no time returning to the Gold Crystal Pyramid.


    He might’ve been suspicious about the Sunspot n and worried over its side effects before the coronation ceremony yesterday, but after the Covenant Alliance invaded the Imperium again and he got a better understanding of Ultimate Benevolence in the Third Research Institute, he was determined to wake up the sunspots that had hibernated for a thousand years!


    In order to defeat the Covenant Alliance, he had to find the most critical Ultimate Benevolence Master.


    In order to find the Ultimate Benevolence Master, he had to project his consciousness to the Covenant Alliance through the Sunspot n.


    In order to project his consciousness to the Covenant Alliance, he had topletely control the Gold Crystal Pyramid and make the first step from the Divinity Transformation Stage to the Divinity Branching Stage!


    In the deepest part of the Gold Crystal Pyramid...


    This was a mysterious area that nobody had ever visited except for Wuying Qi and Li Yao.


    It was also the pivot of the Gold Crystal Pyramid and the best training ce for the Divinity Branching Stage ording to the information left by Wuying Qi 3.0.


    Only after he controlled the pivot could he have 100% control over the Gold Crystal Pyramid and activate more techniques of the Gold Crystal Pyramid without infuriating the sun.


    In the past half a year, Li Yao had been hesitating. He was both worried that Wuying Qi 3.0 had left some traps in it and that he couldn’t pass the test of turning into a vicious dragon from a dragon-yer. So, he had never gone into the ce.


    But he didn’t have a choice now.


    Passing through a long and dark pathway, Li Yao separated himself from the mortal world, leaving a long series of spiritual puppets behind him. They were all the clones of Xiaoming and Wenwen, who kept Li Yao in touch with the outside world and offered him protection through the puppets.


    If anything happened to Li Yao during his training, they would be able to help him as soon as possible.


    Walking for ten minutes in the darkness, Li Yao found a dark gate that was embedded with countless ck beetles. After hundreds of thousands of years, the beetles had been dried and looked like withered eyes.


    The withered eyes stared at Li Yao as if they were scanning Li Yao’s soul prudently.


    “Hum!”


    Very soon, the gate softly trembled and retracted into the rocks nearby in six pieces.


    Leading Xiaoming’s and Wenwen’s clones, Li Yao stepped into the pivot at the bottom level of the Gold Crystal Pyramid.


    This ce was enshrouded by the deepest darkness. Li Yao couldn’t see anything despite his eyesight of the Divinity Transformation Stage, until flickering mes were automatically ignited when something in the corners detected his breaths and brainwaves.


    Those orange mes flowed on the ground like fluids, allowing Li Yao to vaguely see everything around him. Countless ck beetles the size of thumbs were entangled into the most bizarre beasts from one’s worst nightmares.


    Of course, the beetles were long dead, but there were stillplicated runes on their broken shells, identical to those carved on the outer wall of the Gold Crystal Pyramid.


    Those ck beetles were exactly the Houyi n, the builder of the Gold Crystal Pyramid and one of the thirteen strongest carbon-based intelligent lives in the primeval age.


    Li Yao was here hoping to be enlightened by the Houyi n so that the runes on their shells could be imprinted on his soul, making him the real master of the Gold Crystal Pyramid.


    Also, ording to Wuying Qi 3.0, the Divinity Branching Stage differed from the Divinity Transformation Stage in that one had to split his soul into dozens of parts and transform himself from an individual to a collection of countless individuals in the Divinity Branching Stage.


    As individuals, it was hard for human beings to understand the feeling of “one is many”. Even though their strength and wisdom increased significantly, they could still barely get the trick of this new stage.


    At this moment, if they learned a lesson from a collective civilization, it was possible that they would be enlightened with a brand-new significance of their lives.


    Pitifully, most of the carbon-based intelligent lives were individuals. Few swarms of bees, bugs, or ants could develop a civilization.


    In the Pangu alliance, only the Houyi n and the Gonggong n had the distinctive characteristics of a collective civilization.


    The Houyi n was made of beetles that could absorb sr energy, whereas the Gonggong n was a life-form simr to jellyfish and could share all the information in the waters that they lived in.


    Because of the features of the collective civilizations, they left few heritages and relics behind.


    The reason was simple. When a member of the Pangu n or the Nuwa n reached a high level, their body would be greatly fortified, and it couldst hundreds of thousands of years after they died.


    The experts of the Houyi n, inparison, were made from billions of beetles, which would disperse after the experts died. It was impossible that they used to be an advanced life form that boasted great wisdom.


    As for the members of the Gonggong n, their bodies would be dissolved in the waters into the fundamental elements to nurture other creatures. They did not have any legacies at all.


    So, modern human beings could barely be enlightened by the collective civilizations or understand the mysterious and unbelievable Divinity Branching Stage!


    Li Yao was quite lucky. As an artifact of the Houyi n, the Gold Crystal Pyramid had the remains of countless members of the Houyi n who used to defend it.


    Those remains were basically intact and hadn’t copsed into the tiniest beetles yet, allowing Li Yao to see the connection of different runes on the shells and the ways that the Houyi n unleashed spiritual energy.


    Although the beetles had been dead for hundreds of thousands of years and could not provide any living matter for Li Yao, Li Yao was sure that he could identify the gic parts in his body that the Houyi n left in the primeval age and unlock the gic information that had been sealed for hundreds of thousands of years as long as he could read the runes on the remains of the Houyi n!


    Li Yao spent a whole hour memorizing the runes on the shells of the remains and the connection among them.


    Xiaoming and Wenwen helped him with his training with dozens of super crystal processors.


    Then, Li Yao sat cross-legged at the center of the secret chamber and retrieved tremendous high-purity crystals and marrow crystals from his Cosmos Rings. For his training, he had almost used up all his stock.


    Li Yao remembered how he snuck deep into the cells and activated the primeval memories in the Blood Demon Sector a hundred years previously.


    It would be the same this time, except that he would go further this time. Perhaps he could find the memories of the Houyi n from a million years back when human beings weren’t born yet.


    “Dad, are you sure you’re going to do this?”


    Xiaoming and Wenwen sounded rather anxious in the dark chamber. “We have no doubt that you can activate the genes and find the primeval memories, but you must be careful. If your soul goes too deep, it’s possible that you will consider the memories reality and can’te back!”


    “Rest assured. I know that very well.”


    Li Yao smiled and took a long breath. Ruling out all the irrelevant thoughts in this head, he slightly expanded his vitality field and attracted all the crystals and the marrow crystals to float around him.


    The runes that he remembered and Wuying Qi 3.0’s legacy ran and collided deep in his soul like two rivers, raising huge tides that shattered the reality as well as the crystals.


    The crystals and marrow crystals were crumbled into smithereens without a sound, and the purest spiritual energy in them flooded into Li Yao’s body in colorful streaks of light as fuel, boosting his soul to search his every gene strand for the genes from the Houyi n.


    In a trance, Li Yao’s soul entered the microscopic world. He could not feel the room around him anymore. His body turned into a great universe, and his every cell was a on which countless tombstones were standing. On a closer look, every tombstone was a heap of books, and each book was a gift from the primeval ancestors.


    In the amazing journey into the microscopic world, time and space lost their significance. Li Yao did not know for how long he searched the billions of books on the billions of tombstones on the billions ofs, but suddenly, he sensed that some of the books had subtle reactions to the runes of the Houyi n that he remembered a moment ago.


    Boom!


    Those books, those tombstones, and thoses suddenly exploded. Countless ck beetles swarmed out and enshrouded the whole universe as well as Li Yao’s soul.


    For some reason, Li Yao was neither surprised nor frightened. Instead, he felt warm as if he were returning to his mother’s womb.


    Li Yao’s memories as a human being quickly faded away, reced by feelings that were much more ancient. Hepletely turned into an egg of the Houyi n and was deeply buried in the burning soil together with millions of more eggs.