Star Abyss Era

"Uh..."

Jin Yi opened his eyes suddenly.

Veins popped out on his forehead, his vision was blurred, and every nerve in his body seemed to be screaming.

As a Xingxuan-level powerhouse, his tenacious will allowed him to suppress the physical pain, but the violent shock caused by the soul's origin still caused him strong discomfort.

"Huh...huh..."

Jin Yi gasped for air.

After a while, as his soul gradually adapted, his vision began to become clearer.

What comes into view is the ceiling painted with semi-old off-white paint.

A single incandescent lamp hangs in the middle.

Outside the window, there is the unique bright sunshine of summer afternoon, passing through the gaps in the curtains printed with light blue small floral flowers, casting bright spots on the floor.

The chirping of cicadas became louder and louder, with a disturbing noise.

This made Ji Yi feel dazed for a while.

"I...I'm not dead..."

He subconsciously wanted to mobilize the source energy.

However, as soon as the thought moved, there was nothing in the body.

Jin Yi's heart suddenly sank.

Then he took a deep breath and slowly looked around at the environment that seemed familiar to him.

Then, Ji Yi stood up silently and slowly walked towards the floor-length mirror in the corner.

A slightly green face was reflected in the mirror.

"I...this..."

Seeing his younger self restored in this mirror, Ji Yi couldn't help but feel a little dazed for a moment.

"I...are alive again?"

Because I know more, I know more about awe.

As one of the few star core-level members of Blue Star Civilization who passed the civilization promotion assessment and entered the ranks of interstellar civilization, Lin Yi was qualified to become a peripheral member of the Space Mercenary Alliance and was able to join the then relatively weak "Leliad" mercenary group.

After more than six thousand years of hard work and hard work, he was promoted to the ninth level of the Star Core level. Under the care and guidance of the leader Lelina, who had already broken through to the Star Level level, he was lucky enough to be promoted to the Star Swirl level.

However, just as he was going to Zichen Star, the capital of the Purple and Gold Star Alliance, which has the jurisdiction of Blue Star, to conduct on-site level certification, so as to apply for promotion of Blue Star from a humble "Resource Star" to an "Administrative Star" that can develop normally.

Just because he accidentally bumped into the Ziles family in the Purple and Gold Star Alliance hunting the rare beast "Casro Horned Beast", he was crushed to death by his star field elders like crushing ants.

Ji Yi still clearly remembers the helpless feeling of despair.

The body that thought it was powerful was wiped out from every basic particle level that made up matter, and collapsed silently.

Consciousness, like a candle in the wind, is gently blown out by an irresistible force of rules.

But just when Ji Yi thought he could only sink into the abyss of death with despair and unwillingness, he suddenly felt an irresistible force, like the giant hand stretched out by the universe itself, grabbing the soul that was about to collapse from the edge of annihilation.

Immediately afterwards, he seemed to be forced into a fragile and inferior container, and the awakening of every cell was accompanied by a tearing protest.

Subsequently, Lin Yi discovered that he was alive again.

Back to...a familiar yet unfamiliar place.

Jin Yi lowered his head and looked at his hands.

Those are a pair of hands belonging to a young man, with slender fingers and healthy skin.

There are no traces of holding weapons on the knuckles for many years, and there are only some thin calluses left by holding a pen.

After a moment of silence, Ji Yi slowly raised his head and looked around carefully again.

In the small room, there was a single bed placed against the wall. There were many books and test papers scattered around on an old desk with a slightly peeling paint. There was also a basketball with its skin peeling off in the corner.

There are several outdated posters of football stars on the wall, as well as a glass photo frame with a photo of a family of three inside.

Ji Yi’s eyes were fixed on that photo.

It was the much younger parents in distant memory, and a young boy wearing a high school uniform with a slightly green smile.

Lin Yi was silent for a while, and then let out a long breath.

Then, he slowly walked to the window and opened the curtains.

The dazzling sunlight poured in instantly, causing him to squint his eyes.

Several old residential buildings surround a small yard, in which are planted several sycamore trees with lush foliage.

There were several semi-old bicycles and electric scooters parked under the shade of the trees, and several children in vests and shorts chased and fought through the downstairs, leaving behind a string of carefree laughter.

Of course, the extremely annoying sycamore catkins are also indispensable.

In the distance, there is the jagged skyline of the city. Several newly built high-rise buildings reflect the luster of the glass curtain walls in the sun.

There is no huge engineering excavation machinery that is always roaring, there is no gray-yellow haze hanging over the Blue Star, and there are no basic material extraction pumps piercing the Blue Star's crust one by one from the star ring...

Everything overlaps with that distant and vague summer afternoon deep in the memory.

The powerful soul source of the Xingxuan class seems to have been thrown into a boiling furnace at this moment.

Countless images that have been washed away and blurred by a long period of time surge out like a flood that bursts a bank.

Jin Yi now clearly knows where he is now.

This was the Blue Star seven thousand years ago...

It was...his home.

Ji Yi slowly took two steps back and leaned his back against the wall.

The cold touch came through the thin T-shirt, but it could not suppress the thoughts surging inside him.

The relief at the end of the college entrance examination, the joy of getting the admission notice from Ivy League University, the joy of his parents mixed with the nagging worries about tuition and living expenses...

And, there is that piece...

His hand subconsciously touched his chest.

The fingertips touched a hard outline under the fabric.

Jin Yi’s heart skipped a beat.

He lowered his head suddenly and pulled it out with trembling fingers.

It was a jade pendant slightly larger than a coin, showing an extremely warm and restrained dark blue color, like a solidified galaxy.

The jade body itself is not transparent, but has a heavy sense of sedimentation, as if it condenses an unimaginable long time. It is pierced by a dark red rope and hangs quietly on his chest.

Ancient jade passed down from family!

The soul origin of the Xingxuan-level powerhouse, which has been accumulated and tempered for a long time, was suddenly activated, like the most sophisticated instrument, starting to search and locate at high speed.

The long river of time of seven thousand years, the long memories of countless battles and wanderings, are compressed into a lightning that tears through time and space, anchored at the current time node with incomparable accuracy.

"This jade..."

Jin Yi murmured in his heart, and he remembered that today, he received the long-awaited admission notice from Ivy League University.

It was also today that his mother, Zhou Jinghua, personally handed over this ancient jade heirloom of the Lin family to him.

At this moment, his mother was preparing to go out after giving him the ancient jade, and he had just hung the jade pendant around his neck and planned to take a lunch break.

He didn’t find anything special about this jade at first.

It was not until later that his strength reached the star core level and his control over the body was greatly improved, that he discovered that it can make people's thinking run a little faster than usual, and it has a slight but real help in learning and understanding some complex things.

At that time, Lin Yi didn't take it seriously, he just thought it was an ordinary treasure.

It wasn't until he was seriously injured when he encountered a powerful enemy that he was shocked to realize that even his protective armor had been torn and shattered, but the ancient jade was not damaged at all.

Since then, Lin Yi has tried various methods to explore its secrets, and even tried to destroy it.

In the end, everything failed. This piece of jade is stronger than imagined.

Lin Yi knew that this must be an extremely precious treasure and did not dare to show it to others easily.

However, he exhausted all means and failed to discover its use.

Over time, he could only regard it as a strange relic with unknown purpose, a reminder of his hometown, and he always wore it close to his body, hoping that one day fate would come and he would discover its purpose.

But now, he, who should have been directly annihilated by the elders of the Ziles family using the power of the rule field, was inexplicably reborn seven thousand years ago.

Jin Yi is very self-aware. With the huge base of the interstellar human race, not to mention the mere Xingxuan level, even the star field level is numerous. How can he come back from the dead?

What's more, the time point for his resurrection was the moment when he first put on the ancient jade.

While he was thinking, his fingertips rubbed the ancient jade habitually.

This is a habit that Lin Yi has developed over the years.

Whenever he needs to understand the rules of the universe, or when he encounters some problem and needs to meditate alone, he will rub the ancient jade.

Not only because it can increase some understanding, but also because it can make him feel that he is not too far away from his hometown.

In an instant, sudden changes occurred.

The indestructible ancient jade that had accompanied him for a long time in his palm trembled slightly without any warning.

Immediately afterwards, an extremely subtle cracking sound was heard.

"Click..."

The sound was as light as an illusion.

Jin Yi's face darkened, he spread his palms and looked attentively.

On the surface of the dark blue ancient jade, a crack as thin as a hair was spread silently.

This is not an ordinary physical break, but more like some kind of structure inside the jade body that has been maintained for an unknown amount of time, and finally comes to an end at this moment.

The cracks spread at an unimaginable speed. In just an instant, the entire piece of ancient jade was covered like a spider web.

The next moment...

Poof!

A very slight muffled sound.

In Lin Yi's solemn gaze, this piece of ancient jade, which could not be damaged even with all his strength, silently turned into a handful of extremely fine cyan powder in his open palm.

The powder is as fine as dust, shining with a restrained and deep shimmer, as if it contains fragments of stars.

The old dark red rope was also broken inch by inch and scattered.

The whole process happened so quickly and so thoroughly that before Lin Yi's palms even had time to feel a change in temperature, the ancient jade that had existed for an unknown number of years had completely turned into ashes.

Only a handful of powder with a strange cold feeling remained in the palm of my hand.

Soon, even the powder slowly disappeared, and the entire ancient jade seemed to have never appeared before.

Time seems to have frozen at this moment.

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, and then sighed in his heart.

"It was you... who saved me and brought me back..."

Then he looked down at his empty hands, remained silent for a few breaths, and then suddenly raised his head.

His gaze penetrated the wall, as if he was looking in a distant direction.

In the end, Ji Yi's eyes were fixed on the old electronic alarm clock in the corner of the desk.

The LCD screen was dimly lit.

[Friday, July 16, 2027, 13:27]

"Now at this time point..."

Jin Yi silently compared and recalled in his heart for a moment, with a serious face.

"Seven days!"

"There are only seven days left until the fateful civilization promotion assessment..."

(There will be updates)