Chapter 681 Holy Ground Message Board

Whether it was the three great civilizations or the World Tree civilization, they were all empty shells.

Han Xiao exhaled, collected his emotions, and suppressed his feelings, no longer looking at the blank light sphere in front of him.

"This isn't a bad thing either. At least the Star Field isn't a phantom of the past like the Federation of Stars. And considering the time scale of the Federation of Stars, the Star Field is still far from the Great Reboot. I don't even know if I can survive until that day…

Right, if I search for Earth, I wonder if there will be any results."

On a whim, Han Xiao suddenly had this thought.

He looked down at the mark but found that the indexing function didn't respond this time, which made him raise his eyebrows.

"Hmm, no response? Then I might have guessed wrong. My hometown is still in another world and has nothing to do with our iteration…"

Han Xiao shook his head.

He calmed his mind and continued with the task at hand, inputting the information he had read into the storage device.

Although the device was disconnected from the network, its basic functions were still running. He wanted to try to overcome the Sanctuary's memory capacity limit using hardware storage.

Soon, Han Xiao transcribed the technologies he had read into the storage device. Then, he contacted the light sphere again and read the information within. The newly acquired technologies replaced some of the data he had remembered.

At this time, Han Xiao opened the storage device again and glanced at it. He found that some data had also disappeared from the storage device, seemingly coinciding with the part he had forgotten.

"It seems that this method won't work either. It's a bit like the mechanism of the Child of Destiny, but the Sanctuary manifests it in a more advanced way… Whether it's the human brain, mechanical hardware, or something else, as long as it's a medium for recording or transmitting information, it ignores the form of the medium and directly eliminates that part of the information from the source, one of the principles of the high-dimensional information state…"

Han Xiao muttered to himself. Unwilling to give up, he tried different methods a few more times and confirmed that he couldn't be clever. He had to temporarily put this idea aside.

He put away the storage device and stopped making futile attempts. He looked around the Sanctuary space and nodded silently.

The Sanctuary had successfully revived, Jess's claim had been confirmed, he had figured out some of the Sanctuary's operating mechanisms, and his memory capacity had reached its limit. In Han Xiao's opinion, he had basically achieved his goal of entering the Sanctuary. He could leave along the passage.

Just as Han Xiao was about to move, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck him, and he suddenly realized a problem.

"Wait a minute, I seem to have been influenced by preconceived notions. I learned about the Sanctuary's origin from Jess, the contributions of the Savior Civilization and the Sanctuary Civilization, and knew about the generations of inheritance, so I have a clear understanding of the history… But how did the Oathkeeper know so clearly?

If his information only came from reading the light spheres, then there are so many light spheres here, and with the memory capacity limit, the information he has should most likely be incomplete…"

Han Xiao frowned and began to suspect.

The Sanctuary recorded not only the final civilization of one iteration but also all civilizations of each iteration. As long as there had been traces of existence, regardless of strength, they would be included. This was different from individuals.

And this meant that only a very small number of light spheres recorded the Sanctuary's origin and the information about the Great Reboot.

Based on Han Xiao's experience of reading information state light spheres multiple times just now, if he hadn't learned about the history from Jess beforehand, he would most likely not be able to piece together such clear information just by reading the light spheres on his own. The memory capacity limit was the main factor.

And the Oathkeeper's Third Sanctuary authority was far lower than his own. Unless he had stumbled upon a "ultimate civilization," it was basically impossible for him to clearly know the history. Therefore, Han Xiao felt doubtful about the source of the Oathkeeper's information—he didn't believe that this guy was so lucky. Otherwise, why would he need so many years to collect the Sanctuary keys?

Han Xiao pondered secretly. Just as he was doubting the reason for the Sanctuary's existence, an unforeseen event suddenly occurred!

Buzz—

The Sanctuary authority mark on his hand suddenly flickered, blooming with streams of light like silk threads, weaving into a semi-transparent light screen that floated in front of him.

"Hmm? More tricks? What is this?"

Han Xiao perked up and stared intently.

He saw strings of incomprehensible characters appearing on the light screen. It seemed that the text changed every few paragraphs, and Han Xiao didn't recognize any of them.

But in the next second, these characters were all translated into Star Field Common Language.

"The principle of information state that can automatically translate into a language understandable to the reader…"

Han Xiao calmed his mind and started reading from the beginning. He found that the content about the Sanctuary and iterations was at the very top, clearly explaining the history and being basically consistent with Jess's account, except with more details.

As he looked down, the content of each section began to have gaps, and the gaps became more and more as he went down.

After reading for a while, Han Xiao roughly understood what was going on.

"I see, this light screen records the messages of the ultimate civilizations of each iteration. This thing is probably a special message board that passes down the important experiences of the ultimate civilizations from generation to generation.

These messages should be sorted by time. The earliest content at the top is the most important basic information, such as the origin of the Sanctuary and iterations, which is probably the source of the Oathkeeper's information… And the further down, the closer to the current iteration, the more random content is missing. It's probably still related to authority. The higher the authority, the fewer the gaps."

Han Xiao suddenly understood the meaning of the message board, which was to record the order of iterations, allow future generations to quickly understand the origin of the Sanctuary and the Great Reboot without randomly reading light spheres and piecing together the truth, and allow future generations to learn from the experiences summarized by their predecessors and avoid detours.

This message board should be the main platform for the ultimate civilizations of each iteration to pass the baton!

Han Xiao was secretly amazed, and he pinched his chin and murmured, "I feel that this message board function should not be built-in to the Sanctuary but a mutation brought about by subsequent iterations…"

Jess had said that because of the Sanctuary's indestructible nature, many ultimate civilizations had used the Sanctuary as a breakthrough point to carry out various plans, which led to the Sanctuary mutating new functions one after another. Sanctuary revival might have been mutated because the occupation of the revived object was not restricted by the Sanctuary's classification.

And this message board was probably one of the mutated functions. Through his reading just now, he found that many civilizations' plans revolved around the Sanctuary. The initial message writers implied in their words that they were the first to discover the message board function. Before them, there were light spheres of earlier iteration civilizations.

The initial message writers also briefly introduced the basic mechanisms and various functions of the Sanctuary, such as the key requirements for the other Sanctuaries. And, as Han Xiao expected, the Sanctuary fragments were the authority.

Even the occasional enlightenment that Super-A Grade powerhouses received about the Sanctuary was a mutated new function, the purpose of which was to allow the people of that iteration to come into contact with the Sanctuary earlier and have more time to develop.

At the same time, the ultimate civilizations of subsequent iterations still inherited the task of explaining and supplemented the mutated new functions of the Sanctuary on the message board. However, most of them were missing content and could not be seen.

"The overlords of each iteration are paving the way for future generations…"

Han Xiao's eyes flickered, and with a different mood, he scanned the light screen again. Messages appeared before his eyes:

[Tomorrow is the day to implement the ███ plan. I hope everything goes well.]

[Can the ███ plan really succeed? Actually, we don't have confidence…]

[The principle of the Nirvana Plan is ███. According to calculations, our chance of success is about 1.44%. Perhaps our research is not in-depth enough, and we cannot survive the Great Reboot, but the technology of the Nirvana Plan will be recorded by the Sanctuary. I hope future generations can continue to study on our basis. Our civilization's name is ███. Please search for it yourself.]

[We are the ███ civilization. The Great Reboot has already begun. This is not a scam. We are leaving information while there is still time. Our plan is about to fail, proving that using the ███ technology will not work. I hope future generations will not follow our old path. This is a dead end. Remember, remember!]

On the light screen, there were messages full of hope, messages of self-doubt, and messages of serious analysis of their own ideas…

Looking at this information, Han Xiao seemed to be able to feel the emotions of these civilizations when they left their messages—suppressing their anxiety, despair, and panic, and forcing themselves to calm down to leave concise inheritances for future generations…

"This is the true meaning of 'Iteration-spanning Relay'… What a great cause."

At this moment, Han Xiao had a deeper understanding of the name of this mission, and his mood was complicated, giving rise to respect.

"Perhaps one day in the future, the three great civilizations will also leave messages here… Hmm, or maybe the World Tree?"

Han Xiao sighed softly, calmed his emotions, thought for a while, and began to look for messages related to the Federation of Stars.

Because the message board was arranged in chronological order, he could see the order of iterations and find out how many iterations were between the Federation of Stars and the Star Field.

He looked down one by one and suddenly saw the relevant information in the fifth-to-last message.

Because the time was very close, the messages below were basically empty, but he saw the familiar term "Civilization Reboot Plan," which was the Federation of Stars' plan to survive the Great Reboot.

"Fifth-to-last, so the Federation of Stars is at most four iterations away from us, and at least the iteration before us…"

Han Xiao nodded secretly.

Because the same iteration could leave multiple messages, he didn't know whose the several messages in between were. Perhaps they were from other iterations, or perhaps they were from the Federation of Stars itself. He could have used the language as a criterion for judgment. The same language would mean that they were left by the same iteration, so as to clearly distinguish them. However, the message board had been translated into the Star Field Common Language, and Han Xiao tried to convert it back to the original version but couldn't. He didn't know if it didn't have this function or if his own authority was insufficient. He couldn't do anything about it.

And the last few paragraphs were large swaths of blank space. The only valuable information was a section of a sentence interspersed in the last paragraph:

[…Information state transformation is real. This is the correct path…]

Han Xiao scratched his head and didn't know what to say.

"Information state transformation… the Intelligent Plague and the Sanctuary Revival are probably based on this principle, but this message actually directly says that this path is correct… If it really succeeded, how could you have failed?"

Han Xiao sighed helplessly.

After sighing for a while, he tried to leave a message on the light screen but found that there was no response.

"Hmm, speaking of which, this light screen is all civilizations' messages, not individuals. I don't know if it's because my authority is insufficient to leave a message, or if individual messages are not included in the message board?"

Unable to figure out this problem, Han Xiao had to temporarily put it aside and close the message board.

The goal of this trip had been basically completed. In his opinion, the biggest gain was that he had completely recorded the activation methods of the other Sanctuaries with his authority far exceeding that of the Oathkeeper.

Due to the limitations of the information state memory capacity, if he wanted more gains, he would probably have to wait until the next time he entered and gradually "empty" the information inside step by step like the Old Man of the Mountain. (A Chinese parable about perseverance)

"I hope I can go to the other Sanctuaries next time, preferably the First Sanctuary. My initial authority there isn't low either."

Han Xiao muttered to himself and returned to the stable Sanctuary passage.

Reluctantly glancing at the Sanctuary, Han Xiao resolutely turned around and flew into the passage.

When the light filled his vision again and his consciousness was briefly blurred, Han Xiao had only one thought in his mind:

"I stayed in the Sanctuary for at most five hours. I wonder how long it has been in the universe…"