The carving table tools are complete, well preserved, various types of scimitars, sharp knives, flat knives, round knives, triangular knives, square knives and so on have more than 30 kinds. The carving knife was made of metal they had never seen before, and it was silvery white and extremely sharp. The raw material of the rune pillar is also a stone blessed by the power of the stars, which is extremely hard and stiff, and only a special carving knife can leave indelible marks on it.

The rune pillar is only the thickness of a thumb, the length of chopsticks, and the surface area is very compact. All Hadilith had to do was to carve a total of forty-six runes of different sizes in a limited area, with strict geometric configurations and corresponding positions.

Each rune is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Star Seeker, with its own unique shape, unique configuration, and even a different carving knife for each gesture.

Star seekers who are responsible for carving runes are known as carver craftsmen. Starting as an apprentice, he is responsible for working on the engraver, and in the process he is proficient in recording the configuration and function of the runes. The whole process takes about three years, after passing the assessment, start to learn the carving skills, start with the simple outline of the rune, accumulate enough experience, pass the assessment, can officially become the carving craftsman, the process according to personal perception and income, in two to five years.

When you become a carver, you can participate in the work of the Star Seeker civilization, and when your skills in a certain field are perfected, you can only be promoted to a master of carver after the joint assessment of the master of carver.

When a master engraving master has created enough works and gained enough prestige, he will be judged as a true master by the Lord's prior knowledge.

Those who can rise from an apprentice to a master of carving are all geniuses in a thousand. And it is even more rare to become a widely recognized and respected Sect Master of Engraving.

Theoretically, the more elaborate the rune component, the more complex and difficult it is.

In the history of Star Seekers, the limit of a master of carving runes is to be able to carve seventy-two complex runes on a rune pillar the size of a toothpick, and successfully take effect.

Although the Prophets are leaders in rune knowledge, most of them are not involved in the engraving of runes. So, the situation in Hadilith is a bit delicate right now.

The brain told her, "I will!"

But the hand told her, "No, you won't." ”

Rao is so, rich and clear rune knowledge, far better than the apprentice of the carver, as long as her hands are steady enough, with a little practice, she can reach the level of a carver.

Sometimes, under pressure, there are infinite possibilities for human beings.

With the encouragement of Esrena and Iluri, Hadilith dropped her failures, picked up the carving knife and the astroscope again, let go of her anxiety, and focused on carving.

......

Hadilith grapples with a technical puzzle.

Of course, Qin Song was not idle, he was investigating the key creatures about the Fallen Lodir, and it was also the enemy that Hadilis and the others needed to face in the next stage.

Degenerate.

These creatures hidden in underground caves seem to have completely lost their humanity and have been reduced to beast-like existence. But Qin Song keenly discovered that the truth was not so simple.

The remains of Candusosreta Canyon is the place with the highest concentration of degraders. The caves are dotted with each other, running through them vertically and horizontally, and they are connected to each other, forming a honeycomb-like network of activities in the depths of the stratum.

Qin Song's God's perspective can clearly observe their living conditions.

Most of the degraders are very similar, because of the harsh environment, they are not very active, and they basically choose to sleep in everything. However, there are still a small number of degraded people who are active and engaged in a strange activity.

For example, now, dozens of meters deep in the stratum, in a spacious cavern like a hall, there are hundreds of cylindrical containers, about three feet high and one foot in diameter, depicting the familiar surface of the star-seeking rune, which is completely corroded by the green evil energy.

The container was hollow, containing a green viscous liquid, with several tall and thin figures, clearly distinguishing them from the 'degenerates' of other degenerates, and constantly cruising through the gaps of the containers, and the 'people' kept stopping and reaching out their arms into the slime, as if touching some kind of object.

Soon, Qin Song was engaged in what they were touching.

A green sporangia in the shape of a cloth bag, with a faintly embryonic shadow huddled inside. Qin Song saw with his own eyes a degenerate person pick up the sporangia and tear open the afterbirth with his sharp claws, and a freak with limbs flowed out and was grabbed with one hand.

The degenerate then looked at it for a few moments, pinching the freak into a narrow cave. Along with his perspective, Qin Song saw an underground river—an underground river full of green slime.

The degenerate washed the freak in the slime, and some green lines on the freak's skin flashed a few times, and the chest rose violently before finally shriveling.

The degenerate let out an inexplicable growl in his throat, reluctantly threw the freak into the river, and turned away.

Reproduction?

Is this a unique mode of reproduction for degenerates?

The whole process is clearly breeding offspring, but for some reason, the embryos do not survive.

Thinking of the star-seeking runes on the surface of the container, Qin Song had a bold guess in his heart, the reproduction methods of the star-seekers were different from those of humans - their fetuses were not conceived in the womb, but were cultivated in a unique rune container, during which energy infusion was needed to survive.

It's just the food they grow on, and what is it?

With the curiosity in his heart, Qin Song continued to go deeper into the ground.

Deeper down, he found a number of star-seekers that were smaller, or rather incomplete, and had almost retained the proportions of their human bodies, except that their bodies were no longer erect, but they were rickety, and they walked on all fours.

They're doing something else – gathering.

In a network of criss-crossed caverns, dripping with green goo, these 'gatherers' walked through it, digging through it with their sharp claws what looked like pieces of flesh growing on the rock face.

The collected pieces of meat are packed into jars and sent to another cave. Here, Qin Song was surprised to find that some degraded people with the size of five or six-year-old children were kept in captivity in caves, frantically grabbing the pieces of meat thrown by the gatherers.

Now, everything is understood.

Reproduction, access to food, feeding offspring, the basic chain of population reproduction is formed.

According to Qin Song's speculation, the pieces of flesh growing in those caves, like the green slime, should come from the remains of Candusosreta, and become the source of energy for the degraded to survive.

Because of this, they are inevitably corrupted by evil power for generations.

However, when entire continents are falling apart and the surface of the earth is completely destroyed, the degraded can only choose this way to reproduce.

The Temple of Star-Seeking represents the highest honor that the Star-Seeking Civilization has attained, as well as the wisdom they possess.

This represents the end of civilization.

The initiator of it all, Candusleta, an evil demon from another world, destroyed the star-seeking civilization and died here.

The Starseeker retains the shell of the walking dead, the haunting soul of the Prowler of Candusosretta.

Qin Song gradually understood that the world he lived in was far from being as simple as the Kingdom of Tia. Deeper in the universe, there are many more secrets.

His appearance is more like a reincarnation.

End the war between the old gods that involved eons of time.

The star-seeking civilization is like a symbol, Hadilith is the inheritor of civilization, and Qin Song is Hadilys's guide.

The story of Ronlodir and Candusosreta will come to an end.

Only, there is one last doubt.

The soul of Candusosreta will be sealed in the Soul Furnace, so where will the degraded Star Seekers go?

With doubts in mind, Qin Song once again embarked on a journey of cave exploration.

He had a wonderful intuition that the social model of degraded star-seekers, like a beehive and an ant-hive, differentiated into different species.

So, is there a possibility?

Evolved the existence of queen bees and queens?

Ruling over an entire race?

As it turned out, his instincts were correct. Deeper in the cavern, close to a depth of 100 meters, the number of degenerates has become significantly rarer, and the form is becoming closer to that of a human.

That is until he discovers a large stone hall with the iconic Starseeker Rune Arch, and outside the arch are upright Starseeker guards, with dark green complexions and green eyes of light.

The most surprising thing is that they are dressed in rune armor and carry long-handled weapons.

In addition to this, there are also some star-seekers in robes, holding trays and containers in their hands, appearing in the long rune corridor.

The answer lies at the end of the corridor.

The degenerate have evolved into a ruling class, or a wise class.

After all, the star seekers are not ants and bees, they are intelligent civilizations that have created brilliance, and under extremely difficult and harsh conditions, in the evolution of hundreds of millions of years, some of them must embark on another path of evolution.

Wisdom.

Wise individuals obviously have more possibilities and are more likely to become the ruling class than mere bestial individuals.

Since there is wisdom, it is easy to do!

With a strong sense of curiosity, Qin Song came to the end of the corridor, a huge rune arch. Looking beyond the arch, the truth emerges before the eyes.

A standard Hall of Star Seeker Runes, with the same decoration as the Star Seeker Temple, except that the runes are all green. At the far end of the hall, a rune staircase leads to a tall stone wall carved with runes.

Beneath the stone wall, an oval, translucent ovoid crystal vessel with a tall, thin figure in a rich robe, a rune crown on his head, and a metal scepter in his arms.

'He' doesn't seem to have a clear gender distinction, retaining the star-seeker's angular features, slender and well-proportioned body, and slender five fingers. It's just that the skin has turned green, and there are faintly visible green sigils on the neck, and there is a faint green glow in the eyes.

"Venerable Nestra Noshadir, the immortal afterglow of the great prophet Noshadir, the only remaining hope, the mistress of the descendants. The nearest envoy came out of his mouth in an unfamiliar language, but Qin Song could fully understand his true meaning.

"We pray for your awakening, the opening of the doors of the Temple, and the coming of the Day of Prophecy. ”