"Child of the Stars, that's the hope of the Celestials. As I said to you before, even the gods still have an end to their lifespan. Compared to those stupid old gods, the gods have a greater amount of wisdom. But when they have wisdom, they also have feelings. The Ancient One stood up, and he looked at the orange sun.

"Birth, old age, sickness, death, joy, anger and sorrow. All this is something that we ordinary people must experience. To put it mildly, I have been called the most powerful Supreme Mage of all time. But I still can't escape this cycle of fate. I have love and hatred, I have things I like, things I am attached to. There are also hated and hated. ”

"I used to be terribly afraid of death, because death is unknown. Maybe you've been to Hell and met a Hell Lord like Mephisto. I've seen wandering spirits in hell, but are they really the ultimate form of death?" the Ancient One mage shook his head.

"In fact, no one knows what it really looks like after death. Maybe we come from the singularity and end up back at the singularity. If death were the beginning of another adventure, it would not be so terrible. ”

Li Jie agrees with the Ancient One's statement, because Li Jie knows that the Ancient One is not a person who is afraid of death now. If a person of extraordinary strength like him wants to gain immortality due to the fear of death, he will probably do all kinds of things that threaten the world.

"But letting go of the mind and accepting death is not an easy thing to do. There is an old saying that the only thing to die in the eternal is difficult. This is also appropriate for the gods. In particular, there is one biggest difference between the gods and us. The Ancient One began to point out the crux of the whole thing.

"What's the difference?" asked Li Jie at the right time.

"They have no heirs. To put it simply, the Celestials are not capable of giving birth to offspring. The Celestials were born out of the ancient gods, and when the gods died, they would split out from their bodies what we generally understand as gods, or the prototypes of these gods. However, these people are not descendants of the gods, and some gods even regard these split gods as parasites in their own bodies. ”

"Death is terrible, especially when you have a near-infinite lifespan and think you are immortal with heaven and earth, only to find that you will eventually face death. And tragically, you have unparalleled power, but you can't have your own offspring. As I said before, the gods also have joys and sorrows. Zhang Tiansheng understood all this and found that he would eventually be eliminated. Just like those old gods. What they do will eventually be to make wedding dresses for others, and some gods cannot accept this. ”

Li Jie began to slowly understand the hidden meaning of what the Ancient One Master said.

"So it's like a rich man who has, a lot of wealth. He may have worked hard all his life, but in the end he found that he had earned countless family properties, and in the end, it was a bamboo basket that was empty?" Li Jie interpreted the question about the gods in a way that he understood.

"Yes, you're right. That's probably what it means. Back then, Zhang Heng held a divine spear and talked with the female god for a long time, and everything I knew came from Zhang Heng's manuscript, which was the most confidential document in the Holy Shield Brotherhood. There are some stories about the Godslayer Mecha inside. "The Ancient One passed the story to the godkiller mecha mentioned in Newton's manuscript.

"When the gods found that their life was at an end, it was not the time for them to survive endlessly. The gods were divided into two factions. One faction believes that everything about themselves and others is an explosion that originated from the cosmic fire (singularity). Just like the ancient gods split into the gods after they died, all of this is a natural cycle of the universe. You don't need to worry too much about your own people, there will be life and death, it's just a cycle. These gods of the natural cycle are calmly facing the coming final end. ”

"But some of the gods don't think so, they think they're very powerful. Your own race should be extended. They are not willing to die like this, they are even more unwilling, those intelligent creatures who are obviously weaker than themselves can live longer. They are radicals. ”

"The conflict between the two factions among the gods is becoming more and more intense, and when the ideas do not coincide, conflicts erupt. In the end, the solution to these contradictions is still force. The Circulators of Nature began a long battle with the Radicals. The radicals are looking for a way to live forever, but the natural cycles don't allow them to do so. They believe that this will upset the balance of the universe. The last big war broke out. And the Godslayer Mecha was created at that time. ”

"In Zhang Heng's manuscript, there is no mention of which faction created the godkiller mecha. Maybe Zhang Heng didn't record it, or maybe the goddess didn't tell him about it at all. But one thing is for sure, the Godslayer Mecha is very powerful. Chongqing's gods are as numerous as stars in the universe, and the number of gods in its heyday exceeded one million. But after a war, the Godslayer mechs slaughtered the Celestials down to a few hundred, if not less. Newton went to find the wreckage of the Godkiller Mecha, and he decided to reassemble the Godslayer Mecha and use this super-killer weapon to protect the Earth if necessary. ”

Li Jie frowned slightly: "But didn't Zhang Heng exchange conditions with the female god in exchange for 1 million years of peace on the earth? And what does the son of the stars in the sun mean?"

"1 million years is just Zhang Heng's excuse. Do you know that there is a saying in China? It is called: Our generation is not capable of solving this problem, so we will put it aside for the time being, and leave it to our future generations to be able to solve this problem. ”

Li Jie opened his mouth and found that he couldn't say anything. He really didn't expect that the poor would put aside the controversy, and the rich would have appeared thousands of years ago since ancient times.

"As for the Children of the Stars, that's actually the last resort of the radicals. They finally came up with a way to preserve their offspring. Another name for the Son of the Stars is the Celestial Egg. It lives in the sun and will emerge from its shell in 1 million years. The entire sun, including the solar system, will be its food. Just like a caterpillar or egg will eat all the egg shells when it comes out, that will be their first food. ”

Li Jie somewhat understood what Newton wanted to do, but he still needed to continue to ask: "But in 1 million years, human beings may have already left the earth." Not even set foot in the solar system again. Wouldn't Newton be too radical in what he did?"

The Ancient One mage shook his head, "Radical? no? Actually, the Natural Cyclers did something much more radical. ”

"What?"

"They have cultivated a planetary devourer, to go to the major universes, and devour all the eggs of the gods!Why did the goddess agree to the 1 million years that Zhang Heng said as a condition? Because they need a group of guardians to stand up before the eggs of the gods are eaten. The sun is the light of hope for our humanity. Even if we have advanced in science and technology now, if there is no sun, the earth's civilization will eventually perish. The goddess has put the eggs of humans and gods on the same scale. ”

"That's why Newton needed the Godslayer Mecha. Whether it's dealing with the Planet Eater that might appear, or the Children of the Stars that will break out of their shells in case they happen early. We all need the last strength. ”

The words of the Ancient One Master finally made Li Jie understand everything. And at this moment, he also started to think.

Did Clarke's hometown, the planet where Hyperion live, suffer from all this? The Devourers of Planets, who devoured the Celestial Eggs, were just eating their homeland along the way.

At this moment, Li Jie felt very ridiculous: "Ha! So our civilization is being treated as a pawn? Billions of lives are no better than a so-called egg of the gods?"

The Ancient One Mage was expressionless: "Yes, in the eyes of the gods, it is so. ”

"Hahaha!" Li Jie laughed: "Such absurd and nonsensical things, I will never allow them to happen!"