The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

"You're going to die?"

"Without the light of the ocean, I would have died long ago. I'm doing all this now just because I don't want to waste these extra years I've lived."

Hearing Zero say this, Song Gua suddenly felt a pang of melancholy.

"If that's the case, when I'm resurrected, all those I know today will have passed away. Even if I live as long as heaven and earth, I'll be all alone. It seems..."

Zero laughed.

"There's no need to be pessimistic. Don't you have clones? They'll come back too."

Song Gua's mood improved.

"Yeah, those noisy bunch."

In an instant, Song Gua's mind flew back to the past.

In the light, he saw an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of Yunshan City, which was the bandits' first headquarters.

Hundreds of clones chattered and formed cliques.

Some were clamoring to rebel.

Some embezzled public funds to hold wine tasting events.

Other activities include alchemy, gaming, patrolling, raising cats, and playing Werewolf.

Finally, there's a newbie cram school where you start with zero frames and then self-destruct your base.

Those figures wearing mahjong headbands and Taoist robes of various colors are still vivid in my mind.

Suddenly, a cold wind blew, and all the figures disappeared.

Song Gua returned to the light and entered his current spiritual state.

"Even for their sake, I must endure the ravages of time and persevere until the day everything returns to normal!"

Zero's voice came through.

"Song Gua, I hope you remember that I help you in the hope that you can help the earth survive the next catastrophe, and I hope you will not waste your endless time and strength in vain."

There's a saying that, though it's a cliché and not necessarily entirely accurate, I still want to remind you of it at the end.

The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

If even you don't want to save Earth, how tragic is this mother of all life on Earth?

Song Gua laughed heartily.

"Don't worry! Didn't you say that when I'm resurrected, I won't die unless the Earth is destroyed? My life and the Earth are intertwined, so how could I not go all out?"

Zero chatted with Song Gua about some things.

Finally, he left the interior of Ocean Light.

At the same time, in order to reduce its consumption, the light of the sky turned into stone statues.

Inside the stone statue, the light of the earth is sealed.

This stone statue will soon fall into a place later known as Songgua Island.

Watching the stone statue fall to Earth, Zero felt that there were still some things he hadn't accomplished.

"After endless ages, will Song Gua still remember who he is? If the body reshaped by the light of the ocean had not encountered the light of the earth and the light of the sky before self-awareness was formed, would that body know who he is?"

A facilitator is needed.

Zero knew that he was the most suitable person to be this guide.

But he will die once he loses the light of the ocean.

However, without surrendering the Light of the Ocean, Song Gua's physical body cannot be rebuilt.

After weighing the options, Zero came up with a compromise.

He left one-tenth of the ocean light to prolong his life.

The remaining nine-tenths are combined with the head of the Song Gua.

One-tenth of the light was not enough to maintain Zero's normal state, so he had to hibernate.

However, after losing one-tenth of the Ocean Light, the reconstructed Song Gua physical body may also have some minor issues.

But rather than letting Song Gua lose his way in the future, Zero felt it was necessary to do so.

He extracted the light of the ocean from his body and merged it with Song Gua's remaining head.

Then, like releasing a message in a bottle, he threw Song Gua's head into the sea.

The ocean light shimmered, protecting the head as it sank into the deep sea.

Afterwards, due to Zero's superior status in China, he naturally received nationwide support when he wanted to obtain hibernation resources.

And so, Zero went into hibernation.

In that void, the Song hexagram condensed two beams of light, struggling against loneliness, time, and inner demons.

……

The image displayed by the crystal ball ends here.

Seeing all this, Song Feng was unable to calm down for a long time.

"So, I am the new body formed from the remains of Zero that were originally placed in the ocean, fused with the light of the ocean..."

The dwarf king nodded slightly.

"Yes, child, you are actually Song Gua. However, as you just saw, Song Gua's self-awareness is sealed in the light of the sky. The physical body reshaped by the light of the ocean did not merge with the light of the sky in time. Therefore, as you grow, you will gradually develop self-awareness."

But in reality, you are the remnant body and soul of the Song hexagram.

You are Song Gua, and Song Gua is you!

Hearing the old king say this, the clones were overjoyed.

"I knew it! Only an old thief could give birth to us. The new old thief is indeed the same person as the old one!"

"I never imagined that the old and new thieves came about this way; it's quite a convoluted story."

"It's because when the old thief died in battle, we were all gone too. Otherwise, we would have had these memories, and Zero wouldn't have had to go through all that trouble to transmit the message across a thousand years."

"Huh? Speaking of which, how did this crystal ball that stores images end up in the hands of the dwarves?"

The old king of the dwarfs then explained the situation to Song Feng.

Originally, Zero was hibernating perfectly well.

Before he went into hibernation, he left an order for the Chinese nation, instructing them to take good care of the Song Gua stone statue and to ensure that it was not damaged.

Anyone who gets close to the stone statue will be killed without exception.

Once the physical body nurtured in the sea is complete, Zero will awaken and, carrying this body, retrieve the light of the sky and earth from the stone statue.

The Song hexagram will allow for a successful revival.

At that time, Zero will have completely completed his mission and can finally pass away.

Because Zero still has a trace of Ocean Light within him, he can know in real time how far the main Ocean Light in the ocean is nurturing his physical body.

No matter what.

People are not as good as the sky.

An accident happened.

The prophecy fulfilled by the Celestial Race a thousand years later appeared in the sky above the Earth shortly afterward.

Amidst global anxiety, another major upheaval is taking place.

Dark Star strikes again!

Numerous spacetime wormholes with characteristics of dark stars have appeared in the sky above Earth.

What emerged from within was not a mutant beast, nor a new dark artifact, nor a royal artifact, nor the Dark Emperor.

They are from another race!

Dark Star, at an unknown cost, managed to open wormholes spanning multiple universes.

Furthermore, the wormhole created this time is large enough for normal life forms to pass through.

In the past, all nine races that had fought against Earth on the battlefield of the ten races rushed in through these wormholes.

The race war has officially begun.

When alien races arrive on Earth, they need a place to live and cultivate.

At that time, the whole world belonged to China, and the Americas disappeared (although they are gradually recovering as an archipelago, their area is definitely much smaller than before).

With too many monks and too little porridge, war was inevitable.

The different races were not united.

While they were fighting with humans for territory, other races were also fighting each other for it.

There is a hierarchy of contempt among different races, making it impossible to unite them all.

The old king took out an old book with a crumpled cover from behind his throne, put on his reading glasses, and began to read it.

"In order to come to Earth, with the help of the Dark Star, we sacrificed the life essence of our own planet. We can't go back; we can only fight for a piece of land on Earth to survive..."