Li Xiaofei took out the book and opened it.

After some careful reading, I was a little disappointed.

This is a sacred book that resembles the scriptures.

The above content is a mixture of theology and history, which has little research value and is obscure.

Li Xiaofei looked at it for a while, and then lost interest.

He rummaged through the crab-headed mage's bag again.

Finally found another book.

It is a booklet that resembles a diary.

The content recorded on it is exactly what Li Xiaofei is interested in.

"There was a problem with Alena's evolution, and the power of the fire element in her body began to get out of control, and the Great Elder went to save her......"

"The flame beasts in the Divine Sea have been moving very abnormally recently."

"One of the priests of the Nine Gods has gone mad and preached to the outside world that we have embarked on the wrong path of evolution and offended the ...... of the gods"

"Yesterday there were more than thirty-one deaths in the city due to the loss of elemental control."

"The favor of the god of evolution is leaving us."

"The Great Elder went to the deepest part of the Divine Lake to search for elemental souls and try to make up for the shortcomings of evolution."

"The Great Elder has gone to meet Master Zhizu."

"The Great Elder died, on the way back, died from the loss of control of the element......"

"The Ancestral Court has decided that our evolutionary path is not going to work."

"We failed."

"I have become the 726th Great Elder of the Jinsu Clan, but everything seems irreparable......

"The backlash is coming, and the silence has found us......"

"Run, you have to get out of here."

"I decided to take my clan to the ancestral court, and the omnipotent Zhizu will definitely be able to solve all the troubles......"

"It's coming, it's coming, it's too late."

"Even if I die, I will send my people away......"

"We failed."

"Under the leadership of the patriarch, we retreated to the Elemental Prison."

"There are too many, there are too many silences, we can't hold ...... at all"

"Many people are dead......

"Our evolution has failed."

"Is it too late for the Elemental Gate to be opened?"

"Can we still escape the Temple of Evolution?"

Seeing the last page, Li Xiaofei already roughly understood what was going on.

It belongs to a royal branch of the Wisdom Reapers, known as the Konsu, who have built temples and cities, and have been using the energy between heaven and earth in their quest for evolution.

Unlike today's Reaper camp, this ancient Reaper royal family did not evolve through expansion and killing, but through some way of 'cultivation'.

Unfortunately, their evolutionary path ended in failure.

If Li Xiaofei understands correctly, the result of the failure of evolution is to be destroyed by an enemy called 'Silence'.

Therefore, when the 'silence' appeared, the Jinsu tribe was on the verge of the end.

They have done a lot of effort and remediation.

But in the end it didn't help.

The person who recorded this history should be this six-armed crab-headed mage.

Eventually, they resisted in the elemental prison and used the elemental portal to escape......

In the end, I don't know if it's a success or a failure.

Perhaps a small number of people managed to escape.

But for a top-level royal family, such a loss is too huge, almost the same as exterminating the clan.

Evolve!

These two words are mentioned the most in the diary.

The Reaper's dedication to evolution can be described as innate.

But the cost of evolutionary failure mentioned here is a bit strange.

What is Annihilation?

Is that kind of bizarre monster that can be resurrected?

In this diary, the last sentence caught Li Xiaofei's attention.

"Can we still escape the Temple of Evolution?"

Escape from the Temple of Evolution, he said?

Li Xiaofei looked at this sentence and began to think about it.

His eyes were closed.

The brain is racing.

More than ten minutes later.

Li Xiaofei opened his eyes suddenly.

"I see."

His eyes were clear, and he finally figured out something.

The Temple of Evolution, not the Temple.

Nor is it a temple.

It's this space.

It's this black wasteland.

The Temple of Evolution that I've been looking for is actually right in front of me.

"Lin Beichen's predecessors can't go wrong."

"He said he was going to send himself to the Temple of Evolution."

"So, when the cave tunnel comes to an end, it's already an evolution temple."

"I'm already in the Temple of Evolution."

"Those monsters that suddenly appear, merge into the earth and disappear after death, are actually the driving force of evolution."

"The Temple of Evolution breeds monsters and promotes the evolution of living beings by exerting pressure from external forces."

"That's why I was able to rapidly improve my combat effectiveness in a short period of time, and my realm continued to soar, because ...... I'm evolving! ”

"The evolution of the Terrans is not the same as that of the Reapers."

"Terrans evolve faster and easier?"

"Once the Reaper fails to evolve, it will be the end of the extinction of the race."

Li Xiaofei figured all this out, only to feel that the fog in his heart had finally dissipated.

But in an instant, his sword eyebrows frowned slightly.

Since the Temple of Evolution is not a temple, but this wasteland, how should I find Sikong Xue's mother and daughter next?

A vast wasteland, endless monsters.

Finding two people here is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Li Xiaofei had a headache.

After a little thought, he had an idea in his mind.

"No matter what, you have to look for it."

"Even if I travel all over the mountains and rivers, even if I walk all over the ancient roads of the galaxy, I must find them."

"Yu Gong, the Reaper Ancestral Court sent Sikong Xue's mother and daughter into the Evolution Temple with great fanfare, there must be some conspiracy, so it must be destroyed."

"Yu Private, they are my wives and daughters, even if it takes a lifetime of hard work, I must find them."

Li Xiaofei made up his mind.

He searched for the body of the crab-headed giant mage.

No further clues were found.

And the weapon he held in the palm of his six-armed hand looked good.

Li Xiaofei thought about it and took off these weapons and saved them.

After that, he searched the nine rat-headed mages under the Red Wax Altar.

Good luck.

I actually found a few maps.

"Looks like it's still working."

Li Xiaofei breathed a sigh of relief.

According to the markings on the ground, there are also some evolutionary strongholds of the Reapers.

It's been many years, and I don't know if the reapers in these evolutionary strongholds are still alive, but at least they can be found.

If you can find the 'live' Reaper strongholds, you can get information from them, and maybe you can have clues about Sikong Xue's mother and daughter.

Li Xiaofei breathed a sigh of relief.

He searched carefully in this underground prison again.

Unfortunately, there are no other clues.

And the repeated activities seemed to have set off the power of the law of lightning, and as expected, with countless fine lightning falling, all the corpses around were 'alive'.

They frantically swept towards Li Xiaofei and the Undead Bone Dragon.

Another killing.

It took half a day for Li Xiaofei to successfully kill all the resurrected monsters, including the crab head mage.

Fighting has always been improving Li Xiaofei's strength.

And the undead bone dragon Ao Ying also collected dozens of satisfactory bones as he wished, and inserted them in his body, so that his little chicken-like wings finally grew a little more.

Then, a man and a bone dragon left the underground prison.

For the next month, Li Xiaofei wandered around the Black Wasteland Evolution Temple like a ghost.

He couldn't remember how many monsters he had killed.

I only felt that in the endless battle, his swordsmanship, sword skills and spear skills were all frantically improved, and his combat effectiveness skyrocketed.

And the rank of [Guardian Heart] has also been greatly improved, the tempering has been more perfect, and the fit with Li Xiaofei has also been greatly improved.

The undead bone dragon got its wish and got a pair of huge, windy wings.

But it doesn't seem to fit with him himself.

It can't be bigger or smaller with his heart.

But it stubbornly kept the wings.

After all, it took a lot of effort to collect all the pieces.

Make an appointment with yourself...... The bones of the collection are also inserted into the body with tears.

On the thirty-sixth day.

Li Xiaofei found an evolutionary stronghold marked on the map of the Rat Head Mage.

This is a hill palace complex.

The scale is slightly smaller than the previous palace complex on the island in the middle of the lake.

But also quite brilliant.

In its heyday, at least a few thousand people lived.

It's a pity that it's already ruined.

The tragedy that happened to the Jinsu tribe in the palace group of the island in the middle of the lake was exactly repeated in the case of this mountain tribe harvester.

Attacked by the Evolution Monsters, they also struggled desperately, fought, and tried to escape......

But in the end, they were exterminated.

In the mountainside space below the palace complex, Li Xiaofei found the grave of the mountain tribe, where countless mountain tribe powerhouses were buried.

Their remaining dried corpses have been 'resurrected' by the mysterious power of lightning.

was then killed by Li Xiaofei.

As before, the statues of the gods worshiped by the ancient tribes in the mountains were also completely shattered, turning into fine stones and scattered all over the ground, which could not be restored.

This phenomenon aroused Li Xiaofei's thinking.

Almost all the buildings in the strongholds of the Ksu and Montagnard tribes are intact, and even if there are some traces of battle, they have not caused much damage.

But why were the idols they worshipped completely shattered?

Were they themselves deliberately shattered to avoid the desecration of their gods as they fled, or were they shattered by the Monsters of Silence?

Something strange.

Through searching, Li Xiaofei obtained some ancient reaper's classics and maps, as well as their evolutionary cultivation experience.

The Mountain Ancient Race is a race that cultivates the main school of physical body, and they use the special fire rock of this area as the basis of evolution, trying to use the physical body to decompose the evolutionary energy in the rock, nourish the physical body, and become more powerful.

This is completely different from the cultivation direction of the Jinsu clan.

But in the end, it also ended up in an evolutionary failure.

The texts here have a more explicit description of evolutionary failure.

Many ancient reaper royal families, after choosing the evolutionary route that they thought were most suitable for themselves, would raise their clans to study and cultivate, and go to the end at all costs.

At first, this evolutionary path may have been smooth.

Many ancient ethnic groups also developed rapidly.

But once there is an evolutionary stagnation, the situation facing the race becomes difficult.

When the speed of evolution reaches a minimum threshold, the Extinction Monster will appear.

The strength of this monster is similar to that of the ancient reapers, or slightly higher.

They can't kill them all.

Once it appears, there will be more and more.

Constant pressure on the Reapers to survive.

If, under this pressure, the Reaper group is not able to achieve a breakthrough evolution, it means that death and extinction are coming.

The Silent Monster will appear in a blowout manner, quickly appearing, and in the shortest possible time, sweeping through the entire race location.

Eventually, the Reaper race will be completely wiped out.

Then, these Silent Monsters will suddenly disappear.

This is the whole process of the ancient reaper's major royal families pursuing evolution in the temple of evolution.

Only those races that are constantly evolving can survive the danger of death and extinction.

Otherwise, only eternal death awaits them.

This is the price of evolution.

After reading these classic materials, a very strange idea popped up in Li Xiaofei's mind.

How do you feel that the evolution of the Reaper is forced.

The ancient Reaper race was like a pet or an experiment by someone.

They are put here to carry out experiments like raising Gu, constantly evolving and developing, and once the 'experimental data' is not ideal, the existence that controls all this will release the 'virus' and destroy them.

Evolution, is it an experiment?

Leaving the fortress of the Mountain Ancient Clan, Li Xiaofei continued to search in the black wasteland.

Fortunately, there are more maps and documents preserved by the ancient mountain tribes, and the descriptions of the surrounding world are more detailed.

Li Xiaofei relied on these maps and information to constantly search for them.

In the blink of an eye, a year has passed.

During this period, Li Xiaofei found a total of sixteen evolutionary strongholds of the ancient clan.

Killed more than 100 million corpse ancient clan powerhouses.

Got a lot of materials.

The strength is also constantly improving.

Finally broke through the Golden Immortal Realm.

Entered the realm of Da Luo Jin Immortal.

Combat effectiveness soared again.

Li Xiaofei felt like he was swiping a private server server with a super high level and equipment, but when he encountered a real opponent, he couldn't pretend to be forced in front of other players.

It's a little uncomfortable.

In addition, in the major fortress palace complexes, he has collected a lot of information materials about the ancient clan of reapers, and his understanding of reapers has become more and more profound.

This made Li Xiaofei feel more and more that the Reaper race was a little deformed, not like a natural race that had evolved normally.

He thought of what Zhizu had said to Lin Beichen before.

Zhizu seems to want to unite with Lin Beichen to carry out a crucial plan.

But it was rejected by the Terran Sword Immortal.

Thinking about it now, Li Xiaofei seems to be able to vaguely feel a sense of crisis in Zhizu's words and deeds.

This crisis should not come from the Terrans.

It's from something else.

Moreover, all the idols enshrined in the Evolution Base were also shattered.

Without exception.

All of these idols were shattered and reduced to fine stones, which could not be restored, and it was impossible to infer the complete appearance of the idols.

This made the doubts in Li Xiaofei's heart bigger and bigger.

What is the broken idol hiding?

On this day, Li Xiaofei came to another 'fortress of death'.

This is a place where a group of Reapers, known as the Iron Clan, evolved.

Judging from the size of the stronghold, the Iron Group should be the strongest race Li Xiaofei has encountered since entering the Temple of Evolution.

The castle complex stretches for hundreds of miles.

The central shrine stands tall as if it were a huge mountain 10,000 meters high, and all the surrounding buildings and terrain are set off as if they were small rocks and dust.

It is hard to imagine that such a large group of reapers, but it has long been annihilated in the dust of evolutionary history.

Li Xiao ordered the undead bone dragon Ao Ying to search the surrounding cut-through buildings.

And himself, he entered the huge and majestic central temple.

The entire search process lasted a full month.

Li Xiaofei searched a total of 11,100 rooms in the central shrine of the 'Iron Clan'.

Countless living corpses of the Iron Clan died under Li Xiaofei's swords, guns and swords.

In the end, Li Xiaofei saw a complete skeleton that could not be resurrected in the core of the central temple, which was also the highest hall at the top.

It was a silver corpse two meters tall.

Human-like.

But the body line is more slender.

Too slender at first glance.

But if you look closely, you will see that its bones and muscles are perfectly arranged, like a metal weapon, emitting a cold light.

Its head resembles that of a human.

But the face is flattened.

Organs such as eyes, nose, and mouth can be vaguely distinguished, but they are all just against the silver skin of the face, as if a puppet has been slapped in the face by a pan.

"This is the existence that most resembles human beings in the ancient reaper powerhouses found in all the evolutionary strongholds."

Li Xiaofei observed very carefully.

Based on the residual energy on the corpse, Li Xiaofei could deduce that this silver reaper was very strong during his lifetime, but he was afraid that it was at least about the twelfth order.

It seems that it is precisely because of this energy residue that after death, it can actually fight against the power of the 'resurrection lightning', and it is not activated like other iron reaper living corpses.

And its fatal injuries......

It is an imprint on the location of the heart.

Li Xiaofei looked at this imprint and fell into deep thought.

Because it's a mudra.

A human handprint with fingerprints clearly visible.

This handprint has six fingers.

Six-fingered mudra.

The reason why Li Xiaofei is so sure that this six-fingered handprint belongs to a human is because it is so clear, palm prints, fingerprints, and joint outlines can all be seen.

It's as if the best master carver carved it bit by bit.

"Severed palm?"

Li Xiaofei looked at the handprint and frowned slightly.

The palm print of this six-fingered mudra is a broken palm.

As mentioned earlier, Li Xiaofei had learned all kinds of messy knowledge from one hundred and eight masters before crossing over.

One of them is good at numerology.

I once chatted with Li Xiaofei about some related knowledge in my spare time.

This includes some descriptions of severed palms.

What is a severed palm?

It refers to the intersection of the wisdom line and the emotional line, from one end of the palm to the other, in a straight line across the palm.

There are various theories about severed palms in numerology.

The old man said that once a man breaks his palm, he will soar, and a woman is worthless.

At the same time, the elder father also said that a broken palm represents a person who is motivated and easy to succeed, but the disadvantage is that he is too impatient, and he is vicious, and he is easy to lose the bottom line when doing things.

This knowledge, stored in the depths of Li Xiaofei's memory, was originally useless.

It just so happened that he had observed this palm print in detail just now, so he suddenly remembered it.

But Li Xiaofei is not sure what the six-fingered palm print in front of him can mean.

Behind this silver-colored Iron Clan's strongest man is the idol of the Ancient Iron Clan.

This idol is the only one that has not been completely shattered.

Its lower body is intact.

It's human.

Armor, legs and feet.

Barefoot.

The feet have five toes.

It looked like it was supposed to be some woman.

It's a pity that the position above the waist was still broken and fell to the ground.

Even with the reminder of the lower body, Li Xiaofei still couldn't put the gravel together.

"Among the ancient reapers, there are many branches, all of which are human and beast heads, so this half statue can't explain anything."

"There can't be so many reaper ancient clans, the gods worshipped will be one human race, right?"

Li Xiaofei shook his head and dispelled the absurd thoughts in his mind.

He began to search for the corpse of the Silver Iron Clan's supreme powerhouse.

As the strongest of the Iron Clan, the only existence that can protect his body from being infected and manipulated by the power of silence, there should be some good things on him, right?

Li Xiaofei searched very carefully.

Even those things that were suspected to be storage utensils were carefully observed.

But in the end, it was only in its arms that it received a small doll.

It is a doll in human form.

It is carved by hand little by little.

The lower body is human.

The upper body is dressed in clothes and is humanoid.

Blurred faces.

There are no facial features.

There are traces of palm rubbing on it.

It is conceivable that when this silver-colored iron supreme powerhouse was alive, he must have often held this statue in his hand and played with it.

It's already pulped.

The material of the doll seems to be some kind of white bone.

But it's far heavier than metal.

Li Xiaofei weighed it in his hand, and it weighed at least tens of millions of catties.

"It's very powerful to throw it out and smash people."

Li Xiaofei played around and didn't find anything special.

He put the doll away.

After thinking about it, he also saved the corpse of this silver iron supreme powerhouse.

Then, they entered the library of the Iron Clan.

Yes.

This glorious group of reapers, with its own library and relatively intact preservation, has been relatively well preserved.

Li Xiaofei entered it.

As far as the eye can see, there are huge stone slabs.

There are words and patterns on it.

The ancient Reaper text is no longer very difficult for Li Xiaofei to decipher.

The above is the evolution of the Iron Clan.

This is the evolutionary direction that Li Xiaofei has seen so far that most closely resembles the human cultivation system.

The Iron Clan advocates both internal and external cultivation.

They guide the external forces between heaven and earth into the body, refine the internal organs, pay attention to the inner saints and outer kings, and strengthen the physical body through the cultivation of organs.

They complete this cultivation process by absorbing a force between heaven and earth called 'qi'.

The strong man of the Iron Clan who pioneered this exercise was their ancestor.

In the beginning, the Iron Clan was just a small clan with a population of several hundred.

It is precisely because of taking the right path of evolution that it has developed rapidly, risen brilliantly, and finally became a super race with a population of more than 10 million.