From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 991 - 572: Divine Rank Traitor

To clearly observe the space barrier of the Naru Ascension Civilization, Lu Heng flew along the edge, trying to find the boundary.

However, after flying for several days, he still couldn't find the boundary of the space barrier.

This space barrier, stretching across the Chaos Sea, seemed boundless, never showing an end.

Lu Heng wasn't sure if this was infinite expansiveness on a law level or if it was just that he hadn't reached the end on a scale level.

In either case, it indicated that this space barrier was unusual.

How vast must the civilization behind the space barrier be?

What kind of black box does the Abyss want to open?

All these questions are hidden behind this space barrier.

After seven days of flying along the space barrier, Lu Heng encountered a light sphere, resembling a giant luminous sea urchin, with a hint of law aura.

In fact, it wasn't the first time Lu Heng encountered this glowing sea urchin; he sensed similar law auras several times while exploring the space barrier.

However, they never met face-to-face, each going their separate ways.

This time, the luminous sea urchin appeared directly ahead, evidently wanting to communicate.

The luminous sea urchin was massive, with a glow width exceeding a kilometer, suspended in the Chaos Sea like a star emitting light.

Lu Heng took the initiative to speak: "Hello, were you summoned too?"

Luminous Sea Urchin: "Yes."

Lu Heng: "My name is Lu Heng, from the Human World. What should I call you?"

Luminous Sea Urchin: "Yao."

Lu Heng: "In the past few days, we must have passed by each other a few times, but didn't meet face-to-face."

Luminous Sea Urchin: "Right, from the rule layer perspective, there is a strong competitive relationship between gods."

Lu Heng, upon meeting another divine rank being, naturally wanted to gather more information, and after some pleasantries, he began asking the questions he was most concerned about:

"How many times have you been summoned? Do you know the secret of the Naru Ascension Civilization?"

Luminous Sea Urchin: "More times than you know."

Lu Heng raised an eyebrow and asked further: "Do you know what the Naru Ascension Civilization is? Why hasn't this civilization responded?"

Luminous Sea Urchin: "The reason is unknown, but the Naru Ascension Civilization indeed has never issued any response. To be precise, from behind this space barrier, no information has ever been transmitted; spanning tens of thousands of years, it's as if the Naru Ascension Civilization has vanished."

Lu Heng frowned and asked: "Why is that? Our summoning task is clearly to help them."

Luminous Sea Urchin: "Have you considered another possibility, that perhaps the Naru Ascension Civilization has truly disappeared."

Lu Heng was momentarily stunned, but upon reconsideration, it seemed that such a possibility existed, just that...

"If the Naru Ascension Civilization really has disappeared, why does the summoning task still send us to drive away the Abyss Demon Gods?"

Luminous Sea Urchin: "You should feel it; the summoning will resembles more a preset program running consistently based on its content. As for what changes might have occurred in the Star Realm, whether the rules still apply, the program cannot determine."

Lu Heng indeed felt the summoning will was like some kind of program.

If this speculation was true, any program that's been running for a long time, upon environmental changes, could potentially encounter a bug.

If it were a human-written program, maintenance would be needed every so often to correct the bugs.

If no one maintains it, the program would continue running until it errors out and completely stalls.

The summoning will obviously is not an ordinary program, not so easily stalled, but isn't entirely bug-free either.

Actually, for the summoning will to encounter a bug, it only takes certain extreme conditions.

For example, if all intelligent civilizations in the Star Realm were devoured by the Abyss, the summoning will couldn't find a summoning target, and the program would inevitably have problems.

In such a case, the summoning will would likely be stuck in a loop of searching for summoners until the energy runs out, or it might loop infinitely.

Lu Heng understood the meaning of the luminous sea urchin and asked: "Are you suggesting that there is a bug in the summoning intention concerning the Naru Ascension Civilization?"

Luminous Sea Urchin: "The Demon God Battlefield of this Chaos Sea has cycled too many times. Do you think it seems like a bug?"

Honestly, this continuous looping situation does have the characteristics of a bug, but it's not necessarily a bug.

Lu Heng thought of another key point and said: "Then what about the Abyss? Isn't the Abyss also engaged in the same cycle?"

The reason the Demon God Battlefield repeatedly occurs is due to the Abyss continuously issuing tasks, summoning Abyss Demon Gods to attack this space barrier.

And the summoning intention is initiated after the attack behavior of the Abyss Demon Gods occurs.

If you trace the source, it turns out the cycle of the Demon God Battlefield is actually caused by the Abyss.

Luminous Sea Urchin: "Yes, the Abyss has also been continuously repeating the same thing without adjusting its behavior logic at all."

Lu Heng was a bit stunned and asked further: "Are you saying that the behavior pattern of the Abyss guiding the Abyss Demon Gods to attack this space barrier has never changed?"

Luminous Sea Urchin: "Yes, you didn't hear wrong. Every time the number and combat power of the Demon Gods of the Abyss Camp reaches a certain level, the Demon God Battlefield appears here.

"The Demon God Battlefield will continue for a period, or if the quantity and combat power rating of the Abyss Demon Gods fall below a certain threshold, the Demon God Battlefield will end.

"When the number of Abyss Camp Demon Gods recovers to a certain critical value, they will launch another attack on this space barrier.

"This cycle repeats continuously up to now. What I know is it has lasted for tens of thousands of years, but there is no accurate information on when it truly began."

Lu Heng took a deep breath, feeling that the secrets of the Abyss were hidden in front of him, yet elusive.

It seemed that the secrets of the Abyss and the Summoning Will finally converged at a point, with all secrets lying behind this space barrier.

Lu Heng asked, "Has this space barrier ever been opened? Not even once?"

The Glowing Sea Urchin replied, "Based on the information I have, it indeed never has been. Any god who once attacked this space barrier was judged as a Traitor, either killed or forced into hiding."

As Lu Heng digested this information, changes occurred on the task panel.

The original Demon God Battlefield task was solely to expel the Abyss Demon Gods.

Now, a new task [Eliminate the Traitors] has been added.

Lu Heng's expression suddenly changed, looking cautiously toward the Glowing Sea Urchin.

The distance between them was ten thousand meters, and they were communicating through spiritual power.

This distance is not close, but it is not far for a Divine Rank being either.

The Glowing Sea Urchin seemed to perceive Lu Heng's change in expression and proactively asked, "You received the task to eliminate the Traitors."

Lu Heng had already guessed the reason, his right hand slowly clenched as he directly asked, "Are you the Traitor?"

The Glowing Sea Urchin paused for several seconds before answering, "Yes, I am the one who attacked the space barrier and then hid as a Traitor."

Lu Heng indeed heard from other Divine Rank beings that attacking the space barrier of the Naru Ascension Civilization would be judged as a Traitor, leading to attacks by the gods.

However, there might be a point of ambiguity here.

Attacking this space barrier indeed results in being judged as a Traitor, that should be true.

But it doesn't mean all Traitors are due to attacking the space barrier.

There could be other reasons one becomes a Traitor.

Therefore, one cannot believe everything the Glowing Sea Urchin says just based on a few words, after all, he is now in the role of a Traitor.

The Glowing Sea Urchin clearly guessed Lu Heng's thoughts and continued, "I understand your caution, it's alright. We need to maintain vigilance towards each other because I am also afraid you might take action to eliminate the Traitor."

Lu Heng did not relax his guard nor did he delve further into this topic, instead, he said,

"I am willing to trust you. I also hope to obtain more secrets about the Abyss and Summoning Will. We can continue communicating this way."

The Glowing Sea Urchin responded, "Yes, my goal is also to explore these secrets."

Lu Heng then asked, "Do you know what the black box is? Where the Abyss wants to open the underground of the black box? Specifically, what is it?"

The Glowing Sea Urchin replied, "I don't know. All information about the black box comes from the tasks received by the Abyss Demon Gods."

Lu Heng asked, "So you've never seen the black box?"

The Glowing Sea Urchin answered, "I haven't seen, nor have I heard of anyone who has seen it."

Lu Heng pondered and continued to ask, "Then what's behind the space barrier? You said you attacked this space barrier, what's the result? Did you break it?"

This time, the Glowing Sea Urchin fell into a prolonged silence.

Lu Heng prodded once, and the Glowing Sea Urchin finally answered.

The Glowing Sea Urchin said, "That was a strike I prepared for a long time. It indeed broke the space barrier."

Lu Heng hurriedly asked, "What did you see?"

The Glowing Sea Urchin replied, "Nothingness... endless nothingness..."

Lu Heng asked, "Didn't see the Naru Ascension Civilization?"

The Glowing Sea Urchin said, "No, not even a hint of civilization feedback existed. And the space barrier only broke for a moment and closed in an instant. After that, I was pursued by other strong gods and had to hide."

Lu Heng, discerning the truth of this information, asked again, "Didn't see the black box either?"

The Glowing Sea Urchin replied, "No, the backside of the space barrier is only endless nothingness. I am unsure if it's due to attacking the wrong position, resulting in different information seen, or if the other side of the space barrier is what is called the black box."

Lu Heng fell into contemplation, if indeed the other side of the space barrier is nothing but endless nothingness, then why does the Abyss still want to break it?

"There's a lot that's unreasonable about what you've said. If behind this space barrier lies indeed endless nothingness, why does the Abyss still want to open it? Could it be that what the Abyss desires is that endless nothingness?"

The Glowing Sea Urchin said, "This is also something I'm puzzled about. I've investigated for a long time, trying to figure out the reason why the Abyss wants to open the space barrier, but I've never found an answer."

Just as they were conversing, the Glowing Sea Urchin suddenly retreated and quickly disappeared.

Not long after, Lu Heng discovered that other strong gods were approaching.

Then, a root extended from the chaos alongside, conveying the message of the Palm.

The Palm received the task to eliminate the Traitors, so it was coming over here.

Evidently, Lu Heng was not the only one to receive the task to eliminate the Traitors, possibly all summoned Divine Rank beings received this task.