CHAPTER 1298: CHAPTER 206: THE STAR GOD IS DEAD (12,000 WORDS, MAJOR CHAPTER!)

[Does it sound familiar? Does it remind you of something?]

Ian clenched his fist, and at this moment, he indeed thought of many things.

Not just the Big Bang and the birth of the Star Gods... Ian first thought of the ’Sunbird’ and the ’Fae’!

"Ion life forms living around the sun, super life moving at the speed of light... And, freely manipulating matter to constitute their own material body, the ’non-material life’..."

He murmured to himself, "This isn’t merely a similarity... It’s a deliberate design?"

[Not so, but not far off]

Echoes, sensing Ian’s inner shock and wavering, said: [Star Gods are incarnations of light, they are like light itself; once born, they irresistibly head to distant destinations—even hundreds of light-years, thousands of light-years, tens of billions of light-years away—all places where stars twinkle, there will inevitably be traces of Star Gods]

[Can you imagine? A star emits countless rays, most of which dissipate into the infinitely vast void of the universe, but ultimately some rays illuminate other stars... That’s the exploration and migration of the Star Gods, they wander the vast universe beyond our imagination, following the path of light]

[During this process, the technology and civilization of the Star Gods rapidly developed to levels beyond our current imagination]

[However, the Star Gods felt lost]

Echoes became melancholic upon reaching this point: [Because in this universe, apart from them, there is no other ’life’]

[They only have themselves, only each other. All Star Gods’ wills are connected by light, thus they have no conflicts, yet they also long to seek the ’unknown’]

[Unknown territories, unknown life, unknown souls and wills... They want to see things they’ve never seen before]

[But the universe responds to them with nihility—in addition to themselves, this world has no other life, no new scenes, the birth of the universe is like this, so is its demise, eternity is nihil]

[During that time, Star Gods retreated]

[Endless light receded into stars, they wept, mourned and fell into a never-awakening slumber, completely becoming a beam of light in this universe... The majority of Star Gods perished in that fruitless, nihilistic exploration]

[Yet some Star Gods were not defeated by nihility. They chose another future]

[This is also the beginning to come]

"Creation."

Ian softly said, his voice trembling slightly: "They began to create."

[Yes, creation] Echoes spoke in a tone almost reverent: [Those stubborn Star Gods chose to create the unknown]

[Since this universe hasn’t granted us unknowns to explore, then let’s create things that have ’never existed’!]

[Since this universe hasn’t given us friends to communicate with, let us bring forth infinite life!]

[The remaining Star Gods pushed the bodies of their slumbering compatriots—those who chose slumber departed as light, immersed in the deepest realm of this universe; their Sea of Souls is what we now call the boundless existence ’Sea of Void’, and their residual light was gathered, forged, constructed by the Star Gods into the universe’s initial superluminal pathway ’Hyperspace Netway’]

[That was the nascent form of ’Aether’. The souls of Star Gods can transform the material world, their bodies can directly shape material entities, and this power, when spread across the entire universe at superluminal speed through the Hyperspace Netway, the Star Gods can, with this force later known as ’Aether’, reshape the entire infinite universe]

[Through the Hyperspace Netway and Aether, Star Gods traversed the entire universe. They scattered the seeds of life, using light, heat, and lightning to spread rain between heaven and earth, produced lava, the silent ice become warm, icebound planets were pushed to energy sustainable trajectories, creating ’movement’]

[In this migration of cosmic stars, all unstable multi-star systems were disassembled, all cosmic calamities threatening order were restrained, trillions... no, truly incalculable stars were moved to the most suitable positions]

[Even, Star Gods reforged stars, they let stars emit fragments similar to their light’s ’natural aether shards’... That is what we now called ’Origin Quality’ ’Origin of Life’]

[Thus, life was born]

Echoes quietly narrated, and Ian also saw it.

He saw Origin Quality and Spirit Energy, and Aether, spread throughout the space-time of the universe by the Star Gods; these materials and energies that could accelerate the soul formation, namely the cognitive organs of Star Gods, continually aggregated in the void of nature, affecting matter, greatly increased the probability of ’life in Star Gods’ perception’ being born.

But even so, the birth of life was extremely coincidental and complex... The universe’s situation was too complicated, yet these Star Gods did not give up during the endless waiting but kept persisting.

They waited. Waiting is the greatest virtue in this universe.

Thus, they succeeded in waiting.

When the first large molecular structure began self-replication, when the initial complex rule structure emerged in the deep-sea rift of an oceanic planet, all light in this universe gathered towards it.