I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

Chapter 821 [Lullaby]

Tall humans, with technology ahead of their time, fight against pollution in various alien realms, and are even able to seal away Outer Gods and Great Old Ones.

When these elements are combined, they remind Lu Ban of that destroyed civilization.

Realizing this, he felt there was no need to hide it anymore.

Are you from the Glorious Realm?

He asked directly.

"The Brilliant Realm? If you mean the Brilliant Library, then I can only say that I interned there once, and it was a painful yet wonderful time, haha."

Old Song did not admit it.

Lu Ban thought about it and realized it was quite normal. Just like people in ancient times wouldn't say they were from the Tang or Han dynasties, the Brilliant Realm was probably named by people from later generations.

"We are not experimental subjects."

Lu Ban added.

"Not test subjects? That can't be right. Yang did create some little people the size of you. Weren't you the ones he brought along for experiments?"

Old Song frowned slightly and leaned closer. His head was very large, giving people a strong sense of oppression.

“I’m not quite sure who this Yang you’re talking about is, but we, well, we’re your descendants, we’ve come from the future.”

Lu Ban said.

"The future is really interesting. So, Yang's experiment was a success."

Old Song raised a finger and gently rubbed Lu Ban's head before speaking.

"So, you've come from the future to help us?"

"It's not really helpful..."

Lu Ban thought for a moment about how to explain.

He didn't know whether, in the glorious realm that had been destroyed from his perspective, there were still many people continuing to fight against pollution within these time anchors.

For these giants who have fought for seven thousand years, are they still unaware that their homeland has been destroyed?

"We are here to help you."

Xia then interrupted, saying...

"We need to witness something emerging. How are you dealing with the pollution here?"

"bud?"

Old Song rolled his eyes, thought for a moment, and then shook his head.

“I don’t know what the seeds of this are. Our current way of dealing with pollution is very simple: we use some divinely inspired equipment to keep the pollution at extremely low activity levels. As long as we can suppress the concentration, the pollution will not spread.”

"Control pollution?"

Sia was somewhat puzzled. As everyone knows, in the alien realm, only pollution can fight pollution. If people in the Glorious Realm can control pollution, that would be terrifying.

"It's not about controlling pollution, but simply reducing the activity of these pollutants. Strange, since you come from the future, didn't you receive any relevant training?"

Old Song asked suspiciously, but he didn't dwell on these things. Instead, he pointed to the red sky in the center of the island.

"Pollution, or knowledge, has different levels of activity. The highest level of pollution is called the 'Brilliant' level. Only the highest Outer Gods can spread this pollution. This knowledge, or pollution, will spontaneously spread to all places it can spread, devouring other low-activity pollution. In fact, we have not yet found a specific way to deal with the 'Brilliant' level of pollution."

"The pollution at the next level of 'sublimation,' 'alienation,' and 'erosion' becomes less and less active. The most common level of pollution, the 'mortal' level, is knowledge that the library has determined does not require special processing. Even if a normal person actively comes into contact with or reads it, it will not cause serious consequences."

"What we need to do is to make these active pollutants inactive."

He withdrew his hand, and several low rumbles came from ahead, like the rumble of thunder before a storm.

"As for how it becomes inactive, that involves the working principle of the divinely bestowed equipment. I won't go into the specific structure, which may be a kind of contamination to you, but you only need to know one theory: higher-level contamination has a suppressive effect on lower-level contamination. In the presence of higher-level contamination, lower-level contamination will become inert and even less active."

"【Lullaby】, this is a divinely bestowed equipment usually used to control Outer God-level corruption. It can connect to some things you absolutely do not want to know, using the corruption on one side to suppress the corruption on the other."

Hearing Lao Song's explanation, Xi Ya felt even more confused.

"But according to you, you're just introducing one type of pollution to combat another. What if that 'Lullaby' goes out of control?"

"That's the problem."

Old Song snapped his fingers silently, seemingly admiring Xia.

"The lullaby only puts the pollution to a temporary slumber, but it will awaken again one day. What we are now working on is finding a way to completely eradicate the pollution."

Lu Ban remained silent.

This marks the beginning of the glorious history he knew.

In their quest to combat pollution, the inhabitants of the Brilliant Realm traveled to all sorts of alien lands and conducted countless studies. Ultimately, they discovered that the entire world would inevitably sink into the abyss, which led them into the deepest despair and their eventual demise.

Right now, at the point in time where Lao Song is, they haven't yet hit that wall of sighs and are still full of hope for the future.

Lu Ban didn't know whether he should tell the other party about the ending of the Glorious Realm.

This may sound cruel, but Lu Ban felt that if Lao Song and the others gave up here, it could cause a huge change in the history of the island. The pollution brought by an outer god could not be cleansed by pure fire.

Since the island has planted the divine cherry blossoms, Old Song and his team must have achieved some results from their efforts here.

Even for the sake of the history of the island, Lu Ban needs to deceive them to some extent.

What will happen if you fail?

"Sia asked."

"The best-case scenario is that the legion sends another team to anchor it. The worst-case scenario is that they will abandon this alien world, seal it off completely, and destroy everything in it."

As Old Song spoke, he sighed again.

"I love the sea here. It would be such a shame to abandon it."

Xia didn't say anything; she knew that what Lao Song said was actually quite reasonable.

If this alien realm falls, all the creatures here will be mutated into monsters, and the Outer God may open pathways to other alien realms, spreading the pollution to them. In this case, rather than losing several alien realms, it would be better to ruthlessly sacrifice this one.

In their long battle against pollution in the Brilliant Realm, they may have saved as many worlds as they destroyed.

Whether this time will we witness the budding of the divine cherry blossom, allowing He Island to continue, or witness its destruction amidst the roar of the awakening outer god, no one knows.

Chapter 822 Miniature Experiments

Although Lu Ban and Xi Ya have been here for most of the day, from the perspective of external time, they may not have experienced a single second.

Within this time anchor point, seven thousand years is but a fleeting moment in the outside world.

Fortunately, the pollution seemed to have stabilized for the time being, the tremors of the earth subsided considerably, and the ominous red light in the center of the island dimmed a little.

"These pollutants can be spread through the air. You can feel the particulate texture in the wind here because the microorganisms in the wind have mutated under the radiation of the pollutants."

As Old Song spoke, he reached out and grabbed at the void, but there was nothing in his palm.

He thought for a moment, then took out a transparent cover from the equipment's storage box and covered Lu Ban and Xi Ya.

"That way you won't get contaminated."

He smiled in a simple and honest manner.

"Have you succeeded?"

Xia felt the tickling sensation in the air on her throat disappear. The glass dome seemed to really be able to block out pollution. She reached out and touched it; it was icy cold, quite different from real glass.

"Not yet. The situation here is a bit complicated. Normally, we would use [Lullaby] to put those who are about to wake up back to sleep, but the pollution here has already started to leak out, which is very troublesome. We have only basically stabilized the leaking pollution now; the bigger problems are yet to come."

Old Song replied.

"Seven thousand years... and all they did was contain the leaking pollution?"

Sia felt suffocated. Faced with the pollution of the Outer Gods, even these giants who had mastered supreme power needed seven thousand years to fight against it. Other alien realms, those civilizations that had not yet mastered such power, would probably only struggle in that torrent of pollution and eventually drown.

"Time is already the least cost to us, because under the Tavel time anchor, we have almost infinite time."

Old Song waved his hand, telling Xia Ya not to make a fuss.

"You mentioned the experimental subject and Yang earlier. What kind of experiment was it?"

Taking advantage of the fact that Lao Song was still willing to talk, Lu Ban hurriedly asked.

"You came from the future, yet you are unaware of Yang's experiments?"

Old Song was a little confused, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

"That's normal. President Yang has a rich imagination. Maybe he came up with something else later. And even if it wasn't him, someone else would probably have done something similar. That's the inevitability of history."

After stretching his neck, Old Song continued speaking.

"Yang's experiment is very simple: shrink our size to the size of you. On the one hand, this size can reduce the demand for external energy and resources. On the other hand, in many of the alien lands we have discovered, such a small size can also effectively explore those ruins."

"It's that simple?"

After listening, Xia felt that the experiment was neither particularly useful nor entirely useless.

"That's how we scholars are. We focus on our research and sometimes don't care whether it's useful or not. To be honest, I don't understand what's so good about Yang's experiment. It would be nice if we could shrink some exotic creatures and bring them back."

Old Song explained.

Scholars in the Brilliant Realm seem to hold a very high status.

Not only are they core members of the legion, possessing access to many devices, but they can also freely conduct research and learn knowledge in the library.

Of course, by absorbing knowledge, they also absorbed its corruption; and by wielding power, they paid the corresponding price.

No one could have imagined that Yang's research would later become the spark for the continuation of civilization.

The glorious era in which Old Song lived was still active in various foreign lands, fighting against those ancient rulers. They had no idea about their own end.

He quickly returned to the ship to check the equipment's operation, leaving Lu Ban and Xia Ya behind.

Are we going to stay here for hundreds of years?

Xia thought about it and realized that by the standards of people in the Glorious Realm, a few hundred years might not be much. It had taken seven thousand years just to clean up the leaked pollution. To completely seal that Outer God, it would probably take the same amount of time, or even longer.

Lu Ban and Xi Ya didn't know if the flow of time in this time anchor point was normal. If it was frozen, that would be fine. But if it wasn't, then in a few decades, the two of them might have to choose a burial site together.

"Let me see."