I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

However, Lu Ban saw towering buildings, towers that stood taller than the highest mountains on Earth, standing alone on the ground, as if abandoned by the world.

With a thought, Lu Ban immediately moved to the foot of the tower.

Looking up, he saw pale flames burning at the top of the tower.

That was not pure fire, but it was somewhat different from pure fire. At least in terms of the degree of pollution, Lu Ban thought that this pale flame was far inferior to pure fire.

He entered the tower and immediately saw a giant.

The giant was about three stories tall, with long, thin arms and legs, but his body was bulky. He was dirty and covered in orange bloodstains. The giant was dragging a cart with his severed limbs and remains on it.

The giant seemed completely oblivious to Lu Ban, passing right through him and walking out of the tower.

There were also many corpses inside the tower.

These corpses looked like they had been in a battle; they were scattered and broken, and most of them resembled the giant.

Lu Ban looked up, and in an instant, he arrived at the top of the tower.

In the place where pale flames burned, Lu Ban saw that the fuel was corpses.

"Our time is running out."

A voice rang out, and Lu Ban looked behind him. It was a giant wearing a robe, adorned with gemstones. The stones were deeply embedded in his skin, and just looking at them was painful.

From Lu Ban's perspective, the giant was quite handsome, with a melancholy gaze as he looked at the pale flames.

"The fire has almost died out, and the king is nowhere to be seen."

On the other side, an old giant spoke in a low voice.

The old man gazed into the distance.

Lu Ban followed his gaze and saw the same tall tower.

However, the flames burning on that tower were dimmer and weaker than those here, as if they were about to go out.

"The fire in the North is almost out, and the fire here won't last much longer either. When all the fires are extinguished, will our world really come to an end?"

The handsome giant said with concern.

"The city to the west is gone. The rampaging evil has swallowed everything. Without fire, we have no way to resist those monsters."

As Lu Ban listened to their conversation, words flashing with fluorescent light appeared in his vision.

These texts, recording the conditions of this foreign land, flowed into Lu Ban's mind in the form of knowledge.

According to the scholars of the Glorious Realm, this alien world is called esfd-36955. It is a world that is still in the agricultural civilization stage. However, due to some accidents, the Great Old Ones sealed here have fallen into a semi-awakened state. As a result, the pollution of the Great Old Ones has leaked out, affecting the creatures on the planet. Many animals have been mutated and have become the kin of that great god.

These familiars are highly aggressive and attempt to assimilate other creatures, surging like a demonic tide in the Land of Night.

Only fire can stop the invasion of these monsters.

These flames are called Ashfire, and they can only be sustained by burning the corpses of giants. Where the light of Ashfire shines, the power of the Great Old Ones' kin is weakened many times over. It is thanks to the illumination of these flames that this alien realm has been able to survive until now.

However, even so, the world has come to an end.

The giants do not reproduce quickly, and the monsters shrouded in gray fire do not become weaklings. Even in their beastly form, they are powerful enough to cause casualties among the giants.

There is a limit to burning corpses; it only delays the world's destruction.

Just like this tower, fewer than ten giants survived.

Lu Ban can freely travel to any time and any location in this alien world, just as if he had truly descended into this world, reading materials while experiencing their lives firsthand.

He adjusted the time forward, bringing it to the moment when the last wisp of ashes was about to go out.

On the tower, Lu Ban saw the handsome giant, beneath whom lay the corpses of countless companions.

The pale flames illuminated the world; they were the only light that remained.

Looking across the entire planet, it is now filled with the minions of those ancient rulers, digging deep into the earth in an attempt to find their masters. Meanwhile, in this dark world, the only glimmer of light is also in grave danger.

The giants' corpses are burning, but this last giant already knows that their civilization has been destroyed.

Sadness, despair, pain, confusion—all sorts of emotions welled up inside me.

A kind of pollution erupted from within him.

It was a murmur that had been repeated countless times in my ears, a temptation from the Great Old Ones.

At this point, the last giant had no more ambitions.

Besides hatred.

Hatred quickly took over all will, and even the delirious murmurs of the Great Old Ones could not shake it.

He looked at the vast horde of monsters surging towards him, turned around, and threw himself into the pale flames.

In an instant, the pale flames that had faded and dimmed suddenly turned black.

Within those pure black flames, vibrant emotions materialized.

In an instant, all the corpses burst into flames.

The flames engulfed giants, monsters, and planets; even the Great Old Ones were twisted within the flames.

In the end, only a silent, burning planet remained in the cold, desolate universe.

Lu Ban observed that after the planet burned for tens of thousands of years, the scholars from the Glorious Realm finally ended their observations and headed here.

They discovered that the flame could burn everything, even in places where there was nothing, and could continuously incinerate all things.

Except for some things.

Apart from the remains of those giants.

The Glorious Realm used the bones of giants to create containers and carried these flames to some alien lands that served as laboratories.

This is the pure fire.

Chapter 655 Do Not Stare

Just as Lu Ban saw.

The pure fire originates from absolutely extreme emotions; only the deepest emotions, coupled with the despair of this entire civilization, can create such a pure flame.

Similarly, to control the Pure Fire, one must possess an equal level of despair and intense emotion.

The actions of the Kazushima Taisha Shrine and the fates of those shrine maidens were the nourishment for the purification fire.

Use pain to suppress pain, and despair to fight against despair.

This is a true reflection of countless foreign lands.

As for why the Glorious Realm is different from other tombstone-like alien realms, the reason they intervened in this alien realm is that they saw the Pure Fire devour even the Old Ones, and believed that this might be a way to solve their current difficulties.

Unfortunately, after sampling, the Glorious Realm discovered that the Ancient Rulers had not been devoured.

He merged with the pure fire and gained a completely new form.

Of course, after all this commotion, the half-awake Old Ones have fallen into a deep sleep and will not wake up for at least tens of millions of years.

This is why Purifying Fire possesses the powerful ability to eliminate other forms of pollution.

Because it was originally part of the Great Old Ones, it is one of the most powerful sources of corruption.

The countless scattered pure fires are the incarnations of countless Great Old Ones.

And there are many similar things in the Brilliant Realm.

Some of them were things that had not been destroyed after the alien realm was destroyed, some were things that had accumulated a lot of pollution, and some were the research results of the glorious realm itself.

It can be said that no one understands the fight against pollution and the battle against the Old Ones better than the Glorious Realm.

That is why, when they tried everything but still found they could not fight the pollution and could not avoid the inevitable end of the world, these long-lived races fell into the deepest despair.

Lu Ban checked the coordinates of the alien realm that could store the Pure Fire. He did not have the library erase these memories, but instead stored them in his brain.

He knew very well that he would definitely go to the island again. If he could go to those alien realms that contained the Purifying Fire and obtain the remains of the giants before that, then he might be able to create extraordinary items to curb the spread of the Purifying Fire, or use the rules of strange objects to bind it.

Stepping out of the room, Lu Ban saw that Charlotte was still reading documents in another room. She certainly didn't need to worry about contamination. As an incarnation of an Old One, the contamination she carried was probably more than all the contamination present here combined.

Lu Ban looked out the window.

The tombstone-like remains are still densely packed, as if they are paying homage to the library.

Lu Ban suddenly became curious about how exactly the Glorious Realm had been destroyed.

Did they realize the truth of the world and fall into despair? Or did they encounter some disaster that led to their death? Or was it for some other reason?

However, Lu Ban felt it was questionable whether the library in this magnificent realm possessed records of their own apocalypse.

Just as a dead person doesn't bury themselves, the Glorious Realm may not have any records of their doomsday.

Just then, Lu Ban felt that the scene before him was a bit strange.

His eyesight is quite good. With the blessing of [True Vision], Lu Ban is able to see the scenery beyond the horizon and remember most details that ordinary people might not be able to remember.

So, Lu Ban discovered it.

The positions of the corpses of those from the glorious realm have changed.

Lu Ban stared intently at one of the observations and memorized its relative position.

About fifteen minutes later, Lu Ban discovered that the thing had indeed moved.

Furthermore, with Lu Ban watching, its movement speed seemed to increase considerably.

"Still alive?"

Lu Ban quickly dismissed the idea. The Brilliant Realm was a desolate world, and it was impossible for any of its original inhabitants to still be alive.

Then, moving those corpses becomes a problem.

Lu Ban decided to ask Charlotte. Gu Zhao

When in doubt, just turn to the Old Ones who have been in control.

Lu Ban was just a minor Chosen One; he had never seen anything like this before.

He searched several rooms and finally found Charlotte reading data from a previous alien experiment in the Brilliant Realm.

"There's a problem over there."

As soon as Lu Ban opened his mouth, Charlotte placed her finger in front of his lips.