East Sea.

Bone Demon Royal City, Imperial Palace.

The words "Between the Bones" are inlaid on the plaque of the Great Heroic Hall. Walking through the door, one sees splendid and magnificent ancient mythological murals.

This is obviously modeled after the layout of the Human Race.

Of course, it secretly mocks the Human Race, who lost their ancestral tomb and National Guardian Divine Artifact.

It's currently early morning.

Though the Four Seas Dynasty is an alliance, a group of Ministers from the East Sea manage their own East Sea territory.

"Matters for discussion, approach; no matters, retreat."

Yan Shuangying, the Grand Steward, shouted solemnly as he stepped forward.

He is very satisfied with these murals on both sides, perfectly mimicking the mural style of the Chronicles of Time from the Human Race.

However, recently, state affairs have been somewhat complicated, grain storage, city construction, weapon storage, citizen registration...

As the person truly in power managing the Dynasty, he still relies on forum keyboard warriors to barely manage the chaotic affairs.

And the netizens have also supplemented the ancient state governance model extensively, even brainstorming improvements themselves.

A beauty in the shape of a red coral stepped forward:

"Emperor, the Imperial Mausoleum of the Longevity Dynasty, it is said that the core has already been excavated because our informants discovered some cultivators coming out with Self-Transformation Realm treasures that only the royal family might possess."

"Thus deducing that the generations of Emperors of Longevity from the entire Imperial Mausoleum have been captured!"

As soon as this news was released, the ministers below immediately started discussing.

"Already found?"

"So quickly?"

The Imperial Mausoleum of the Longevity Dynasty has just been opened for a few days, and someone has already taken the lead? Who could be so ruthless?

Logically, such a large Ancient Tomb, with tens of billions of Embers buried with it, finding the true body isn't simple.

Moreover, being able to defeat those ancient Emperors hiding countless hidden cards is even more challenging!

As the crowd was discussing, Ning Zheng on the throne spoke: "This matter was a joint effort by the leaders of the Human, Demon, and Ghost races."

"Our Four Seas Dynasty King, the Demon Race leader Phoenix Yi, just sent a message saying she also shared some benefits, though the majority, 70% of the profits, were taken by those Ancestor Demon Gods."

The ministers showed a hint of anger.

Personally taking over the tomb, spending unknown efforts, yet only getting 30%?

This 30% probably was gained by looking at others' faces.

Seeing that the ministers were extremely angry, Ning Zheng felt a sudden sense of guilt and shifted the topic while sitting on the throne:

"Even though the Ancient Tomb was taken by our King Phoenix Yi's alliance, there is no share for us in the East Sea; everyone should not think too much."

"Instead, the majority of the tomb being taken means the tomb is much safer, and the subsequent excavation and relocation are basically effortless; we need to expedite personnel arrangements to divide the benefits."

Ning Zheng paused. After having been in court for several days, he had accumulated some authority and intensity, "Yan Shuangying, I leave this matter to you!"

"Yes!"

Yan Shuangying said seriously: "I will accelerate contacting various forces, dispatching a large number of Two-Phase Realm cultivators to divide the benefits and clear out the Longevity Imperial Mausoleum."

This matter seems to be arranged properly.

After all, grave-robbing processes usually follow such procedures.

Once the core master of the tomb is eliminated, there is essentially no danger, and the remaining task is sending large numbers of personnel to move resources.

Ning Zheng's suggestion in front aligns with traditional procedures.

Ning Zheng said: "The matter of the ancient Imperial Mausoleum will stop here for now; do any of you ministers have other issues?"

"Emperor, although the Longevity Imperial Mausoleum is the Nine-State and Four Seas' foremost event, the Embers Disaster has grown increasingly fierce, with numbers multiplying."

The Giant Shell Saint Child, acting as Prime Minister, spoke first: "According to our speculation, we have entered the first stage of the Era of Evolution, the Extinction Stage."

Currently, researchers from various major forces, a group of scholars, have abandoned racial divides to jointly study the evolution virus of the Embers Disaster.

According to their speculation, the Embers Disaster erupts gradually and progressively, divided into the following stages.

1. Extinction Stage.

The extinction of species, ecological chain collapse.

Due to 50% of all creatures detonating Embers, the massive explosion of Embers will disrupt the entire ecological chain.

Trees, animals, flowers, grass, birds... all living beings in the wild will be struck by the tide of Embers, leading to mass extinction.

This is the grand clearing of biology before the new era.

It is also the foundational accumulation of materials for the life explosion.

It is furthermore the dark long night before the dawn of evolution.

In the Extinction Stage, there is virtually no food left in the wild, not even live creatures.

Yet the Nine-State and Four Seas are vast.

The life surrounding walls of each race only inhabit 1%, while the rest is wilderness; it's imaginable how terrifying the Embers are in the wild.

At this time, major forces, Holy Lands, sects, dynasties can only build [City Shelters] to artificially cultivate meat fields and grow rice within the city to provide food for the population.

2. Mutant Period.

In this stage, the outdoor beings are wiped out, and the Embers after death begin to evolve.

All of the Nine-State's countless Embers, trees, flowers, insects, fish... blend, patch together, heading towards a grand biological mutation!

Bloodlines start to mutate, randomly merge, evolving.

This evolution can be good or bad.

But it marks the initial stage of various unstable species being born.

During this period, a large number of Demon Ghost Kings and various terrifying fusion super Embers will assault various human shelters.

New life forms, like the primordial Earth ocean, are born, appearing as various species prototypes at this time.

Human Royal City, Sea Race Royal City... the old lives hiding in the shelters within these gathering places will witness the most dazzling fireworks of the new era of life!

The sacred and magnificent origin of species will be reactivated at this time, ushering in the next cycle of life and death in the epoch.

All possible, impossible, and mythological species imagined will erupt here, with all things possessing endless possibilities.

3. Great Returning Period.

In this future stage, the wilderness Embers are in wild eruption, evolution already possessing powerful strength.

Some gifted mutant Demon Beasts will possess a one-in-a-billion chance to receive blessings: awakening.

After becoming Ghost Kings, they become stronger by consuming endless Embers, becoming One Heart Realm, even Self-Transformation Realm aggregated Demon Ghost Kings.

Some weak force shelters will be overwhelmed by waves of Ember tides.

This is an ethereal test.

The [New Era] is inherently reckoning the remnants of [Old Era]'s shelter.

Old era's old kind survivors striving to endure this biological explosion will face extreme difficulty.

Only one in ten shelters might survive.

The shelters of various races become increasingly desperate, numbed, and under the threat of death, unprecedented unification occurs, together constructing defensive works, attempting to endure this reckoning day.

Their obsession will completely unify amidst repeated roars of life and death, endless elegies:

[Survive]

When the obsession of survivors across the world unifies, it will possess a key named evolution, unlocking the great mythological legend of prehistory —

The Sacrificial Era.

Returning once more, the explosion of biology officially arrives!

Yet under the unified obsession of [Survive], it also means life has reached the moment of despair.

At this time, it is still almost impossible for anyone to stay alive.

Only when you die, as Embers, can you quickly awaken by devouring Embers with similar obsession.

Even then, the whole world will have no longer any "living" life; their unified obsession will only cause them to directly awaken as Ghost Kings.

At that time, the entire world will be completely doomed.

Since the whole world lacks living creatures, there is no concept of living, no concept of death.

Therefore, dead ones are also living ones.

This is the so-called: Ghost Path No Life.

4. Genesis.

Having no living beings due to unified obsession, the awakened Ghost Kings will start the era of conquest, striving for bodies of Xian, trying to become the original source of evolution of all things.

They shall be the creators, welcoming the splendid dawn of evolution.

Experiencing the fragrance of each new species in the morning, the grass, birds, fish...

They shall create life!

They are akin to the ancient Four Great Divine Beasts, competing as tens of thousands of species ancestors in the grand era of evolution.

They might create mythical Sun Moon, Immortal Beast, rivers...

They create everything, dominate everything.

At this time, the epochal extinction era of biological explosion evolution ends, species evolutionary shackles close anew; the next era of biological civilization begins under their reign.

This is what countless scholars of Nine-State recently deduced as the cycle of life and death, named: Cycle of Evolution Theory.