bacchusnovels Chapter 267 Cangxing Civilization
Chapter 267 Cangxing Civilization
Song Chen carefully examined the batch of documents.
The Great Xia is currently organizing a cleanup operation, which is why Tianhai is having such a difficult time; a large amount of its forces have been allocated to other areas.
"What's the current arrangement for the Beast King's hideout?" Song Chen asked.
Zhou Wangyue pointed to the several inland hideouts above and said, "Right now, the main focus is on clearing out the hideouts within the Great Xia."
Song Chen saw three inland hideouts marked on the map, which had turned green and indicated "being cleared out".
The five border markers are still red.
"Aren't there any arrangements at the border?"
"The Great Xia is under a lot of pressure right now and can't spare enough resources to wipe out the hideouts on the border."
"In that case, I'll take the one at the border."
"All of them?" Zhou Wangyue was taken aback.
Yes, all of them.
Zhou Wangyue glanced at him, then suddenly remembered that his disciple was far superior to him, so he said nothing more.
He patted Song Chen on the shoulder: "Alright, I'll be waiting for your triumphant return."
Then, the detailed coordinates of the five locations were exported from the data panel and sent to Song Chen's personal terminal.
Just as Song Chen was about to leave, Zhou Wangyue called out to him, "Wait, there's one more thing. The Speaker wants to see you."
Song Chen stopped in his tracks: "The Speaker? Isn't he stationed in Shangjing?"
"After receiving the news that you had broken through to the Grandmaster level, the Speaker has already set off and will arrive in two hours."
Song Chen thought for a few seconds, then asked, "Why did he come?"
"I'm sure you can guess it."
Song Chen looked at the giant squid tentacles being hoisted up from the sea surface and nodded.
Indeed, he had guessed some of it.
His breakthrough to the sixth rank was too fast, and the system's storage space had been shown to Zhou Wangyue as an independent space that isolated spiritual energy scanning, so it couldn't possibly be the ability of the Source Spirit Crystal.
Li Qingcang is one of the only sixth-tier high-level cultivators in the Great Xia Dynasty, with 700,000 units of Qi and Blood, making him the strongest human.
He came in person, not to award medals, but to inquire about my background.
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Two hours later, a small shuttle landed at Skysea Harbor.
The ship had no markings on its hull and was about twice the size of the military's standard shuttle, but the engine room was the wrong size, indicating that it had been modified and that its thrust far exceeded that of the conventional model.
As the hatch opened, the steam rising from the gangway created a white mist in the night sky.
Li Qingcang came out.
He stepped off the gangway, his gaze sweeping across the crowd before landing directly on Song Chen.
"Song Chen, let's find a quiet place to talk."
Three minutes later.
Tianhai University President's Office
Zhou Wangyue gave up his room and went to the conference room next door.
Song Chen and Li Qingcang sat down facing each other. There were two cups of tea on the table, which Zhou Wangyue had brewed before he left. The tea was still steaming.
Li Qingcang did not touch the teacup.
He looked Song Chen up and down: "I'll get straight to the point, I think your growth rate is abnormal."
"The Great Xia martial arts system has been established for fifty years. The record for the most talented person to break through to the sixth level is fourteen years. That person is me."
"The fastest record from awakening to the peak of the fifth rank is nine years, and that person is Qi Shanhe."
"How many days did it take you?"
Song Chen did not answer the question immediately. He picked up his teacup and took a sip.
"Speaker, you can just ask directly."
Li Qingcang gave a polite smile, then his expression suddenly turned serious.
"Song Chen, you have something. This thing will allow you to break through from the fifth rank to the sixth rank within a few months."
"This will give the Tianhai Battlefield an additional sixth-tier warrior capable of hunting down the Sea Dragon Clan solo, allowing you to face the Sea Dragon Clan without any support."
"You still have a space that you can control independently, which can isolate you from psionic scans and can be used to load nuclear weapons."
"These abilities of yours are not found in any known genealogy of supernatural abilities, nor in the ability records of any Source Spirit Crystal."
Li Qingcang did not use an interrogative tone, nor did he exert any pressure; he simply stated his judgment calmly.
I'm going to ask you something. You can choose to answer or not.
"I'm not asking this as the speaker, but as a veteran who's fought for fifty years, based on my intuition."
Song Chen thought for a moment and said, "Please ask, Speaker."
Li Qingcang took a deep breath: "Song Chen, did you receive the inheritance of the Cangxing Civilization?"
"Or it could be some kind of relic, some piece of equipment, some kind of knowledge inheritance—any kind of treasure."
"The Azure Star Civilization?"
Song Chen was taken aback; this statement was completely unexpected.
His mind was racing.
The Azure Star Civilization.
Li Qingcang was referring to the Cangxing Civilization.
It's not the vague term "extraterrestrial civilization," but a specific name.
Song Chen had never seen this name in any public information, nor had he ever heard of it from anyone.
The Great Xia Dynasty has never published the specific name of the civilization based on its research results on the Source Spirit Crystal.
Song Chen thought for a while before answering, "Maybe."
He neither admitted nor denied it, leaving room for interpretation without completely avoiding the issue.
Because he knew nothing, and was not even sure if his system came from this civilization.
So he chose a vague answer.
Li Qingcang looked at him for a few seconds, then nodded, as if this answer was exactly what he expected.
Song Chen steered the conversation back on track: "Speaker, what is the Cangxing Civilization?"
Upon hearing this, Li Qingcang looked at Song Chen with some suspicion, and after a long while, he finally spoke: "You really don't know about the Cangxing Civilization?"
Song Chen nodded solemnly: "I really don't know, can you tell me?"
Li Qingcang composed himself and said, "I don't care whether you really don't know or you're pretending not to know, I'll just say it all."
"You should know that the meteorite from fifty years ago was not a coincidence, and you should also know that the Source Spirit Crystal was created by an extraterrestrial civilization."
Song Chen nodded.
"The Great Xia organization has been researching for forty-seven years and has used countless resources to participate in the analysis."
"But too little information remains on meteorites and source spirit crystals. Most of the core information was burned up when passing through the atmosphere or locked by some kind of protection mechanism."
"For forty-seven years, we have only extracted a very small amount of information fragments from the deep structure of the Source Spirit Crystal."
"The information contained therein is insufficient to explain their motives, purposes, or technological level."
"But we've at least figured out one thing."
As he spoke, he looked intently at Song Chen.
"They call themselves the Cangxing Civilization."
"Cangxing," Song Chen repeated.
"The 'Cang' in 'vast ocean,' the 'Xing' in 'starry sky.'"
"This is not the name we translated; it's their own designation. The underlying structure of the Source Spirit Crystal contains the information code of these two characters. We scanned it tens of thousands of times with our mental power and came to this conclusion."
Song Chen didn't speak; he was thinking.
The words "star core" and "Azure Star" juxtaposed in his mind.
The system's product level is Star Core level.
The alien civilization that dropped the meteorite on Earth was called the Cangxing Civilization.
Is it a coincidence that both names contain the character for "star"?
"Besides the name, what else is there?" Song Chen asked again.
"Very few." Li Qingcang shook his head.
"Fragmented information indicates that the Cangxing civilization was an advanced civilization."
"As for their motives for dropping the meteorites, we don't know. We don't know why they chose Earth. We don't know what the psionic particles are. There are speculations, but no definitive conclusions."