This isn't a souls-like game at all.

The dung beetle flapped its wings and flew out, picking up a dark blue octahedral gem from the water.

After the death of these two star spirits, they did not drop stardust, but left behind this crystalline gem with the same appearance as crystal stones.

But unlike stones, these crystals have a blue ball of light inside that looks extremely eye-catching and dazzling.

"It looks quite extraordinary, but I don't know what it's used for."

Ye Yiyi muttered and looked at the light curtain.

【Birth Star Octahedron】

Item Description: A powerful Protoss born from the remains of a star.

A special crystal left behind after disappearance.

It is the crystallized manifestation of the spiritual power of the birth star.

One of the materials used to craft props.

It can also be used to make rainbow mist bottles with special effects.

The fallen star fell from the sky and landed on the earth.

The star spirits born from it seem familiar.

It is said that it was once a memory of the past of the surviving celestial beings.

"Memories of the Astral Survivors? What do you mean?"

Ye Yiyi scratched his head, somewhat puzzled.

He knew that stars were the products of the celestial remnants' death, but how were these star spirits related to the celestial remnants?

"Deja vu?"

He shook his head silently, thinking that the two star spirits did look like the star version of "Patrick", but there was no way to explain this sense of déjà vu, right?

Put the two octahedrons into the four-dimensional chrysanthemum and continue moving forward.

This time, Ye Yiyi was more careful and cast concealment magic in advance, so he did not attract other star spirits. Instead, he found them in advance by relying on their conspicuous appearance.

After ambushing and killing many Pai Da's star spirits along the way, the number of octahedrons in his hand reached 12, and the total number of soul echoes reached 59964.

In addition, he found a bluestone brick road above the water.

"It's called the Falling Star Sea, but there's a road on the surface..."

Continuing along the road, although we couldn't find the previous light band, a bluestone ruin half submerged in water appeared in front of us.

"We're at the foot of that building."

He looked up beside a crystal column, carefully examining the magnificent tower that was faintly visible in the misty nebula. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he subconsciously turned his head to look to the side.

A phantom figure clad in black quietly walked through the bluestone ruins not far away.

"A phantom of the past?"

He exchanged a glance with the dung beetle, quietly dismounted, and followed the illusory figure.

Chapter 518: The origin of the star spirit and the burial place of the Moro beast.

Following the footsteps of the black phantom silently, Ye Yiyi successfully sneaked into the bluestone ruins, which were located around the magnificent building and covered an extremely large area.

But for some reason, the number of star spirits in these ruins is unusually large, almost to the point that Ye Yiyi is unable to believe and understand.

At this moment, Ye Yiyi was standing beside a bluestone wall with the dung beetle on his shoulder, silently watching the humanoid star spirit passing by less than a meter in front of him like a sculpture.

He was blessed with many effects such as "silence", "invisible sound", "wandering in the air without support", "inorganic resonance", etc., and successfully transformed into a semi-crystallized bluestone human figure.

Under the blessing of numerous powers, Xing Ling did not notice what was so strange about the human-shaped sculpture next to him.

It turned a blind eye and walked past Ye Yiyi unsteadily, without noticing the danger coming, thus exposing the gap behind it.

"Patrick, I'll take your ASS!"

Ye Yiyi moved his bluestone eyeballs, and a short knife with a wide blade suddenly appeared in his palm. Then he quietly activated the fighting skills he had just bought from the "Notes of the Unrivaled Person".

[Hidden Assassination] (30000 echoes)

Skill consumption: 12.

Attribute correction: Strength C, Skill A, Faith A, Mystic A.

Skill Description: One of the high-level inherited combat skills of the Integrity Church's assassination knights.

A combat technique that can lock onto an unsuspecting enemy and perform an assassination.

It can make the releaser's figure disappear temporarily and move directly behind the other party.

And increases attack damage when undetected.

The Assassin Knights of the Church of Righteousness are famous for their elusive assassination methods.

Therefore, they were surrounded and suppressed during the Holy War of a Hundred Religions and all traces were lost.

Ye Yiyi took a step forward quietly, and the semi-crystallized bluestone body suddenly disappeared.

The next moment, he quietly revealed himself behind Xing Ling, the broad-bladed dagger in his hand flashing with bright cold light, and pierced straight into the opponent's back.

Critical hit on combat skill weaknesses.

Obtain a hunting knife from the Deep Dead, who was once a hunter. Its combat skills have the effect of greatly enhancing backstab damage, and entering a weakened state, reducing defense.

When two combat skills are combined, a short knife can also cause terrifying damage.

The star spirit's body stiffened, and the light of the galaxies in its body dimmed, as if the universe had fallen into silence. Its translucent body, like a colloid, also turned into light and disappeared.

Soul Echo +1610.

Current soul echoes: 33184.

"Stealth Assassination costs 12 mana, Weakness Critical Attack costs 4 mana, plus the Concentration feature returns 6 mana, for a total of 10 mana."

Picking up the dark blue octahedron gem from the ground and putting it away, Ye Yiyi thought about it in his mind, glanced at the simplified light curtain, and then nodded with satisfaction.

"The price/performance ratio is pretty good, and it's totally worth it in this case."

At least if you want to kill the enemy silently with one blow without alerting other Protoss in the ruins, this is the way with the lowest mana consumption.

The only problem is that there are too many Protoss here, and even if he uses up all the blue bottles, he can't kill them all.

Turning his head to look to the right, he saw a dark shadow slowly walking out of the alley, stepping onto the avenue covered with clusters of crystals, and heading towards the left.

Ye Yiyi followed silently, but stopped by the wall at the end of the alley, standing still like a statue.

The three star spirits walked straight through the black shadow and walked towards the other side of the road in a group.

On the avenue, there were other star spirits walking back and forth, and from time to time, you could see two star spirits walking towards each other suddenly stop.

The light of the galaxies within them flickered, as if they were communicating in some unique way...

They were indeed talking, for these beings appeared to be intelligent and sentient.

By using a limited range of cosmic aura to cover them, it is possible to eavesdrop on the conversations of the Protoss.

For example, the three star spirits that passed straight through the phantom were discussing some weird content in a language Ye Yiyi was familiar with that made his back chill.

Star Spirit 1 (male voice): "Have you read today's Koso newspaper?"

Protoss 2 (Male Voice): "I've seen it. The Twin Stars' Third Light Army has deployed troops on the border of the Sulun Empire. It's said that a conflict has occurred. Many people on the Sulun Empire side have died, and a Shaper tank has been destroyed."

Protoss 1: "The Sulun army is simply courting death. The domestic rebellion hasn't been resolved yet, so how can they afford to go to war with the Twins?"

Star Spirit 3 (female voice): "When did you two become so concerned with politics? Don't you usually just chat about celebrity gossip?"

Star Spirit 1: "Just chatting, what's the big deal? Speaking of which, what about that news about the meteorite crash a while ago?"

Star Spirit 3: "I don't know. It seems to have been confirmed to be a rumor. There hasn't been any news about it recently... Eh? What's that in the sky?"

Star Spirit 1: "It looks... like a meteor?"

Star Spirit 3: "Can you see meteors during the day?"

Star Spirit 2: "Hey, could it be that meteorite?"

The conversation was interrupted, and after a moment of silence...

Star Spirit 3 (in an extremely shocked and angry tone): "XXXX you damn crow mouth!!!"

The conversation ended here, and the three-star spirit left the range of the cosmic spiritual light and staggered away.

But for Ye Yiyi, the content of this conversation was so shocking that he almost couldn't react.

"No, are they still talking about things on this planet?"

Ye Yiyi was stunned and didn't even notice that they had walked away.

He had never heard of things like the Twin Star Kingdom, the Third Light Army, the Sulen Empire, and the Shaper Tank. He felt that they were not of the same style at all.

Although the cosmic spiritual light can communicate with all life without obstacles, some words cannot be translated and understood.

But when it fell into Ye Yiyi's ears, it was no longer the human voice that he could understand, but some words with strange pronunciation and unique meaning.

"Or rather, it's a concept and meaning that doesn't exist, or hasn't appeared yet, and hasn't been defined in my three perspectives as a human being..."

Ye Yiyi had a flash of inspiration and guessed roughly.

"But what exactly is going on with these Star Spirits? Why do they say such outrageous things, as if they were from a completely different worldview?"

He frowned and saw that the dark shadow had gone far away. He quickly flew onto the roof and moved forward silently along the eaves.

On the way, he expanded the cosmic aura to the maximum range close to the limit of resonance, and continued to eavesdrop on the conversations or monologues of other star spirits.

Star Spirit 4: "XXX, why is the light energy tax 400 more this month?"

Star Spirit 5: "The Light Administration has raised the tax rate. Those XX who grew up eating XXX raised the tax rate last month and raised it again this month!"

……

Star Spirit 18: "Boss, our goods were robbed by those wanderers in the border area. I don't know where they got a dark energy gun from, and they killed three of our brothers."

Xingling19: "Damn it, we have to get back at you, XXX, call for help!!"

……

Star Spirit 82: "Look how lush this XXX is growing! It will be another good harvest next year!"

Star Spirit 83: "It's hard to say. XXX's dark energy storms have been getting more frequent lately. They might even affect this area, causing production cuts."

Star Spirit 82: "How could this happen... Then what should we do? Is there any way to prevent it?"

Star Spirit 83: "Alas... I think we should just pray to XXX (voice blocked) to protect us from being affected."

……

Star Spirit 234: "Warning! Warning! The first to third isolation rooms in Area XX have been breached by a cursed entity! The curse is spreading! The curse is spreading!!"

"All registered personnel who have not been infected with the stagnation and darkness, please evacuate immediately! I repeat! Evacuate immediately!!!"

……

Star Spirit 461: "The trajectory of the Zhoujue meteor has been determined. In three days, He will descend upon this land affected by XXX (the voice is blocked)."

"Brothers and sisters, thank you for all your efforts to change the fate of civilization... But now, go home."

"In the three days we have left, let's reunite with our families and say goodbye properly."

……

Watching the black phantom disappear in front of a downward tunnel, Ye Yiyi remained silent. As Star Spirit 461 muttered to himself for the eighth time, he gathered his spiritual light and blocked out all sounds.

Looking at the dung beetle that looked worried and stretched out its little paws to try to comfort him, Ye Yiyi shook his head gently to indicate that he was fine.

Then he turned his head to look at Star Spirit 461, who was squatting in front of the bluestone archway not far behind him, and whispered to himself in his heart.

"So, these Protoss aren't actually talking to each other. What they're discussing might even be the dying memories of individuals from a civilization that perished in a horrific disaster hundreds of thousands of years ago."

"A fallen star descended from the sky and landed on Earth. The spirits born from it seemed familiar. It is said that they were once the memories of the celestial remnants."

"The surviving members of the celestial body..."

He muttered the word softly, and thought again of the item description in the cosmic disk:

“The universe is a vast, empty cemetery. The astronomical disk that records the positions of the stars is the tombstone of the celestial remains and the burial place of their ashes.”

If the neighboring civilization is also destroyed by the stagnation curse, will such a stellar remnant be born?