Humans are devouring, drawing cards from all realms, starting with Yang Jian.

Qiulongxing, the underground training room of the castle.

Jiang Ming sat cross-legged, surrounded by a faint golden halo.

Suddenly, the silver markings between his eyebrows twitched slightly.

A peculiar fluctuation gently brushed against his consciousness.

The fluctuations were both familiar and strange.

It felt familiar because he had experienced something similar before.

The call that the golden-horned behemoth's egg once sent to him from the depths of the starry sky was this very wave.

It feels unfamiliar because this wave is fundamentally different in nature, more ancient and more profound, as if it came from some distant corner of the universe.

"Divine Beast Affinity has been triggered again."

Jiang Ming opened his eyes, a thoughtful look flashing across them.

This fluctuation was the effect of the divine beast affinity, reminding him that a special life form, or something related to a special life form, was waiting for him somewhere.

Jiang Ming had explored the idea that the affinity with divine beasts would make it easier for him to sense the presence of special life forms, but he still couldn't understand how it was done.

"This distance seems a bit far."

Jiang Ming could sense that the fluctuations coming this time were from a very, very distant place.

However, since it is related to special life forms, Jiang Ming does not intend to give up.

......

Three hours later, a silver-white, pyramid-shaped spaceship quietly rose into the sky from Qiulong Star.

Mechanical spaceship.

This E-class spaceship is one of Jiang Ming's biggest trump cards.

He had never used it before because he was worried that using the mechanical race's spaceship would make people envious, but now that he was in a position of power, he didn't need to care about that anymore.

The spaceship entered the dark universe and sped toward its target at extreme speed.

One day later.

"Master, we are about to arrive at the target area."

Qingli's voice rang out in the control room.

"Escape from the dark universe."

The spaceship shuddered slightly, detached from the dark universe, and appeared in the starry sky of the original universe.

Jiang Ming looks at the starry sky ahead through the outdoor simulation.

Then, he froze.

It was a scene that was both incredibly magnificent and incredibly poignant.

In the starry sky, a shattered world of unimaginable size is slowly collapsing.

Its area is the size of several galaxies!

Even on the scale of the starry sky, it looks like a continent floating in the void.

But at this moment, the continent is falling apart.

Countless cracks covered it, each millions of kilometers wide, from which the last rays of light and energy gushed forth.

The enormous fragments detached from the main body, slowly drifted away under the influence of gravity, and eventually turned into cosmic dust in a very short time.

"This is a secret realm that is being destroyed!"

Byron exclaimed in surprise, his eyes filled with shock.

Although he had lived for millions of years, he had never witnessed the destruction of the secret realm.

Hei Yanhou suddenly appeared in the control room. The reason she stayed on Qiulong Star was to protect Jiang Ming's safety; when Jiang Ming went out, she naturally followed.

"This secret realm dates back to before the founding of the Qianwu Universe Kingdom."

Looking at the collapsing world, Hei Yanhou spoke with a touch of emotion.

"It's been at least several hundred billion years... In an era so ancient it's impossible to trace, powerful beings fought within it, shattering the entire secret realm. Logically, it should have perished long ago, but because the secret realm possesses a certain self-repairing ability, it has continued to exist."

"But now, it has finally reached the end of its lifespan."

Even celestial bodies, or even the universe, have a lifespan, let alone a dilapidated secret realm.

Jiang Ming stared intently at the collapsed secret realm.

He sensed it; the source of the fluctuation was within the secret realm.

Strangely, even with the Heavenly Eye perspective, Jiang Ming still couldn't find the target.

"Qingli, where are you going?"

Jiang Ming inputs a coordinate.

......

The mechanical race's spaceship transformed into a streak of silver light, hurtling towards the depths of the collapsed secret realm.

The surrounding scenery became increasingly astonishing.

Enormous mountains floated in the void, torn to pieces by unseen forces. Many of these mountains were larger than planets.

The entire secret realm was filled with deathly silence, devoid of any life or greenery. From a distance, it resembled a continent of yellow earth and sand.

"After this secret realm was destroyed, the cosmic energy was completely lost, and it could no longer give birth to any extraordinary treasures. Therefore, it has long been forgotten, and even the internal data of the Virtual Universe Company does not record the name of this secret realm."

Hei Yanhou looked at Jiang Ming and said.

In Hei Yanhou's eyes, this place was no different from a desolate star field. Perhaps this secret realm was once glorious, but billions of years had long since washed everything away.

"arrive."

Jiang Ming sensed the fluctuations nearby, and at the same time, Hei Yanhou also sensed something.

"That's strange, I couldn't sense anything before."

Hei Yanhou looked towards the source of the sensation, and she became curious as well, because she had not sensed this aura before.

This had nothing to do with distance; it was as if the fog had been interfering with her senses, and now she suddenly felt as if she had passed through the fog.

Sensing the source of the aura, Hei Yanhou discovered it.

It was a giant egg immersed in an ocean of energy, its entire body a pale gold color, its surface covered with intricate patterns.

But now the energy ocean has long since dried up, and the seabed is nothing but gray soil like cosmic dust.

"This is?"

Hei Yanhou's expression immediately became excited, but the next moment, her face was full of regret.

"Unfortunately... we're too late."

"This egg is dead."

"This should be the last life that this secret realm nurtured by gathering all its energy."

As the head of the Virtual Universe Company's branch in the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, Hei Yanhou was exceptionally knowledgeable and quickly realized what they had encountered.

"The energy in this secret realm is too thin. This egg may have been conceived during the peak of this secret realm hundreds of billions of years ago."

However, because the secret realm was destroyed and cosmic energy was lost, the egg lost its nurturing environment, so even after endless ages, it still could not truly be born.

Hei Yanhou's expression was full of regret and pity.

"If we had come here tens of millions of years earlier and injected external energy into this secret place, we might have had the opportunity to bring it back to life."

Unfortunately, if we had come here tens of millions of years ago, we would have found absolutely nothing.

Even a powerful figure like Hei Yanhou, who had experienced countless years, felt somewhat melancholy when talking about this.

Why?

Jiang Ming asked curiously.

"Because when special life forms are conceived, they are protected by the primordial universe. With this protection, no one can find the special life form that is being conceived."

There was a hint of sighing in Hei Yanhou's tone.

Compared to ordinary life forms, special life forms seem to be the offspring of the primordial universe.

"I see."

Jiang Ming nodded, and his primal force transformed into a large hand, which he used to collect the egg.

Hei Yanhou didn't say anything about this. If it were a living special life form, or even if there was the slightest possibility of it hatching, she might have some thoughts.

But at this moment, even the protection that the primordial universe had given to this egg was gradually dissipating, and she did not believe that this egg still had any chance of survival.