Chapter 887: All the Treasures of Renimanska!

Xu Zhi's gaze swept across the land.

He was there to see if any remnants of Renimansga remained, especially since the neighboring technological civilization still had surviving fragments of its remains, which had led to the birth of the Iron-based lifeform, the Pillar God. "Perhaps there are some here too, you never know," Xu Zhi whispered.

Although most of the valuable assets from back then had certainly been taken, leaving only insignificant remnants, for Xu Zhi, the "cultivation techniques," "knowledge," and "treasures" that the ninth-tier beings competed for were unimportant. All he wanted was a trace of the iron-based "gene," or rather, a trace of residual active living flesh and blood. Just a tiny bit would be enough. After all, the Pillar God next door had already consumed that portion of flesh and blood, so Xu Zhi naturally had to search again.

"Transforming myself into an iron-based lifeform truly isn't easy... But I believe the people on this land don't know that Renimansga was an iron-based lifeform; they probably just treat it as a valuable meteorite. If there are any remnants, they should still be preserved." Xu Zhi was exceptionally calm. Even the First Sword God of that natural divine system was completely unaware of this, which showed how incredibly hidden iron-based life was. Perhaps only the few ninth-tier beings who personally experienced that legacy war knew about it.

With a gentle movement, Xu Zhi lightly clenched his hand in the void.

"What's happening?"

"Lord of the Manor, are you using Samsara again?"

The Six Paths of Reincarnation world, the Underworld, quickly shook. Under everyone's shocked and horrified gaze, the entire Reincarnation, hanging high in the air, vanished into nothingness, then reappeared before Xu Zhi.

"Super-sensing."

"Karmic link."

"Perception range expanded."

With various talents overlaid on his body, Xu Zhi's eyes were cold, devoid of joy or sorrow. In his vision, the entire world seemed to be permeated by countless connecting lines, drifting and swirling, thread by thread. On the bustling streets, the bloodline connections between fathers and sons, the ties between enemies—even the paths each person had walked and the objects they had touched—all formed subtle, unseen connections. Xu Zhi gently closed his eyes, his spiritual power expanding invisibly.

"The Pillar God must have also discovered this. There might still be residual fragments on the transcendent planet, but it's trapped on the continent and can't come here." It was Xu Zhi who, having learned this information from the Pillar God, arrived a step ahead of it. The Pillar God, having revealed this ultimate secret, could never have imagined that the one it considered Renimansga would actually come here to retrieve "its own" genes.

Streaks of light flowed. Not to mention ordinary higher gods, even supreme gods of law couldn't perceive this vast and hidden aura. After all, Xu Zhi's combat power level was already that of a weak ninth-tier being. These so-called supreme gods, still treading the path of law, were even weaker than the Super Saiyans of the mini-universe back then; they could be easily slapped to death.

"Without realizing it, have I already reached such a height?" Xu Zhi stood still for a long time, sensing the karmic connections in the unseen. Suddenly, he silently perceived a faint connection in the void. "Is it a divine realm?"

Crack.

The void tore open, and Xu Zhi stepped into it.

He found himself in the Dark Divine Realm. Under a dark, gloomy sky and on an oppressive, grayish-black land, skeletons walked. Inside a massive, grim castle, a higher god, cloaked in black—a Skeleton Lord Emperor—sat on a divine throne. Two ghostly flames flickered in his eye sockets. "I'm already VIP7! It's infuriating! Are there really so many people on the waiting list? When will it be our turn in the gods' queue?" This was the annoying part. Even as a god, they had to repurchase to become a VIP8 god to gain the authority to buy bloodlines and cultivation techniques.

A skeleton general next to him said, "Your Majesty, if we could acquire the Corpse Sword Immortal lineage, that ancient cultivation method of 'beheading and wielding a sword,' our warriors of the undead race would surely become incredibly powerful!"

"Indeed, such a bloodline, a peerless cultivation technique," the Skeleton God said. "However, this 'attribute panel' is quite interesting. It can actually materialize our physical data... It's a kind of unseen law, a domain that only universe-level Dao Attainers can delve into..." The Skeleton God rested his chin in his hand.

Snap.

The next second, the Black-Purple Heart Death Scepter in his hand vanished without a trace.

"Who?!" The Skeleton God instantly froze, a flicker of horror in his eyes, then roared in utter terror, "Who secretly stole our lineage's supreme artifact?!" Even the supreme gods of law couldn't do that. Xu Zhi tore through space and departed.

He was indifferent to those gods. He realized his mindset had changed; there was almost no difference in how he perceived great gods who ruled lands or tiny individual mortals. If he felt like it, he might chat with mortals, like Donna's chubby father, the boss. If he wasn't interested, he wouldn't pay even the slightest attention to these gods.

"When I make friends, I never care who's stronger or weaker, because no one will be stronger than me...?" Xu Zhi's expression grew strange as he recalled a certain profound saying.

Snap.

Xu Zhi plucked the black iron gem from the scepter. "This is it..."

Xu Zhi extended his spiritual power, letting it seep in, and frowned. "It really is just ordinary black iron... nothing different. I can barely make out any cellular structure; it's too fine. Is this what iron-based life is like?" At this moment, a voice sounded in his ear:

"Hero-tier offspring detected. Extract genes, read inherited memories, cultivation techniques, and bloodline?"

Xu Zhi was slightly startled. Hero-tier bloodline? A Zerg hero is five-gene complete, meaning tenth-tier... This iron-based lifeform before him, Renimansga, was actually the descendant of a tenth-tier being?

"Read memories, cultivation techniques, bloodline, inheritance?" Xu Zhi took a deep breath, knowing full well what this implied. It was simply too terrifying! The greatest secret treasure of the ancient Renimansga, within his grasp? Cultivation techniques, bloodline, knowledge! These were all the factors that made up a supreme cosmic existence.

He had always believed that Renimansga's various treasures had long been divided among countless ninth-tier beings over a hundred thousand years ago, with not even a trace left in the cosmic garden. But now, Xu Zhi himself could?!

"I can read inherited memories through genes?" Xu Zhi was stunned, finding the surprise somewhat too sudden.

The Zerg sub-brain replied, "Yes, any higher cosmic lifeform, within its bloodline descendants, possesses inherited memories for its offspring."

Xu Zhi naturally understood this; powerful transcendent races all possessed inherited memories, like the Great Octopus, which had the race's inherited memories.

"Won't the other party notice?" Xu Zhi frowned.

The Zerg sub-brain replied: "Under normal circumstances, any attempt to covet or probe this race's inherited memories, by any means, would be sensed by the unseen tenth-tier being, who would instantly descend and obliterate the intruder."

"Unless the other party has already fallen?" Xu Zhi asked.

"Even if that ultimate tenth-tier being has fallen, it cannot be coveted. In life, it had already distorted the grand cosmic laws in this regard. Even after its fall, the law will still exist, forming a final racial barrier, killing all beings below the tenth-tier to protect its race. This kind of law is like a natural phenomenon, like water boiling at its boiling point; it's a natural rule... unless another existence of equal level twists it back."

Xu Zhi's face darkened. Wasn't he just courting death then? Right, even those ninth-tier beings didn't dare to do this. They only dared to vie for this being's legacy, not daring to covet the race's inherited memories at all.

At the same time, an even more terrifying thought erupted in Xu Zhi's mind: Perhaps at that time, they didn't even know there was a tenth-tier ancestor, so some ninth-tier beings tried to find the inheritance within the genes and were killed as a result... Perhaps the deaths of several ninth-tier beings at that time were caused precisely this way.

"It seems everything that happened on this land over a hundred thousand years ago is becoming clearer?" Xu Zhi felt the weight of history, a wonderful sensation. This was the satisfaction gained from pursuing the truth of a prosperous historical civilization, just as archaeologists are passionate about their work. The moment ancient truths are revealed, the satisfaction is unimaginable.

The Zerg sub-brain's voice came again: "An outsider probing inherited memories would naturally be sensed by the unseen, but internal clan members would naturally not be detected."

"Internal clan members?" Xu Zhi smiled, seemingly understanding the Zerg sub-brain's meaning. Only the Zerg could secretly probe another race's memories without being detected. Because the Zerg could be any race, evading the unseen surveillance of laws, circumventing "heavenly secrets."

"This iron piece in my hand seems very interesting... I might be able to obtain everything from Renimansga: knowledge, bloodline, inheritance, secret treasures." Xu Zhi took a deep breath. "It seems your race can only be revived by me."