The first year they arrived in this world.

They cautiously piloted their spaceship—the Chronicles of Time—secretly exploring here, only to discover that the continent of this world was undergoing a period of massive explosions.

These new life forms, forged through fusion, were not based on Embers but rather another unique entity similar to "Embers"—a mysterious, semi-calcified, semi-metallic active substance, which they named: Gold Embers.

They, too, could merge, awaken, and evolve.

They were greatly astonished and became even more cautious.

Then they discovered something extremely terrifying: it was as if they had been infected by some virus and gradually disappeared between heaven and earth.

It wasn't until after repeated explorations, and their eventual awakening, that they discovered the truth was actually:

This world doesn't permit Embers and other Soul Bodies to survive; at that time, they were Embers, thus they were absorbed.

The second year.

They began to attempt external exploration.

They discovered that this world was desolate with no inhabitants, but there were numerous ruins of prehistoric civilizations—cities, various magical golden towers, massive deserts paved with golden sand, azure crystal canyons... The strange and magnificent world left them in awe.

And it was also at the year's end that they easily found the fragmented flesh of Xian scattered all over the world.

According to their speculation, there had been a sacrificial battle here not long ago, with blood and flesh everywhere.

They managed to awaken unconsciously.

The fifth year.

They continuously studied the ruins of those civilizations, attempting to decipher the history of this world.

From deciphering the languages of the Otherworld, they approximately understood some terrifying truths.

This was a highly developed sandbox world of an unknown, powerful civilization.

Moreover, it was not the first time that a Sacrificial Era had appeared; it was currently at the crossroads of an unknown number of biological explosion cycles!

What frightened them even more was:

Over there in the Nine-State, Jiu Shui, Xin Xichen, Manor Master... these people hadn't started competing to become the new Four Great Divine Beasts of the next Sacrificial Era, creating all things.

The timeline here was somewhat faster, just dividing the outcome of the Sacrificial Era.

The world became ruins, all living creatures died, and were in the process of being reborn.

That mysterious Overlord who ultimately triumphed was probably already creating a new century, becoming the Divine Beast of the new era.

This scared them into hiding; such a powerhouse, sweeping across all strong people, might not be defeated even with the grave in tow!

And.

The history of this world... diverged.

It's like another Parallel World.

In our world, the Xian was worshipped by all things during the Primitive Tribe era, created the Embers Rebirth Technique due to fear of death, but immortality was poisonous, leading to the emergence of the terrifying Soul Shells disaster...

In this world, the Xian also feared death during the Primitive Tribe era, but created the metal rebirth technique... which all turned into a Metal Shell disaster!

Xian seemed to also be the origin of civilization here.

When the origin of Xian differed slightly in a certain world, the direction of that world, the civilization system, would completely differ!

Even.

These Metal Tombs... make our Ember Tombs incapable of surviving here.

The land is full of metal block tombs, possessing some sort of powerful soul absorption feature, rendering the Embers unable to survive in such an environment.

In reality, their Five Elements~Self-Transformation system is built on the pseudo-human brain spiritual root, harboring the Ember virus, so without the twin disasters here, it's impossible for them to form the Five-Body Cycle system.

Simpler explanation.

Pseudo-human Three Flowers = Spirit Root Divine Techniques.

There's no Pseudo-human Calamity here, so there's simply no concept of "Spiritual Root," and this world does not have a Spiritual Root cultivation system.

In this world, a Dharma Aspect, just after an out-of-body experience, would be drained by the widespread metal tombs!

Leaving the Spatial Cave Heaven, the cultivation system of the Nine-State clearly wasn't what the blacksmiths wanted, so they began researching a new indigenous system.

The tenth year.

Using their spaceship—the Chronicles of Time Imperial Mausoleum—as laboratories, they established Civilization Worlds 1~5 within the ship.

And as the supremely revered gods, they attempted to develop various systems.

Now, after countless tests and guided civilizations, they're attempting to construct a unique civilization race during this biological explosion period by fusing their Ember Tombs with this world's Metal Tombs.

Thus, time has come to the present.

They still hide within the "Spaceship," too afraid to go out, as the outside world is too frightening.

"It's rather troublesome, the civilization experiment still hasn't made any progress," Jiucai Rong said with a heavy tone, returning from the devastated Civilization Laboratory, wiping his body with a towel, "What's the world like outside now?"

"It's getting increasingly prosperous. After seven hundred years of biological evolution, the outside world has entered the Primitive Tribe era," Night Mad Cultivator said, "If we were the Ember explosion... here, it's a Gold Ember explosion!"

The scattered fragments of metal tombs were continually merging.

Similar metallic shells, metallic vacuoles, they called Gold Embers.

"In the eastern valley outside our Chronicles of Time, the shell race we've been observing has already evolved beings similar to the Five-Body Realm... but they're weak,"

Night Mad Cultivator frowned at this.

The Same Tier of this world seems explosively weak.

According to recent historical surveys, it's been found that this world has already produced beings above the Self-Transformation Realm... Immortals.

Immortals possess the mighty power to traverse worlds.

Based on the described destructive power, they seem only comparable to our Self-Transformation Realm cultivators with twin Immortal Spirit Roots in terms of level.

Is that all?

Is this above the Self-Transformation Realm?

After emerging from the well of the Nine-State world, their vision broadened, and Night Mad Cultivator vaguely felt.

Their world is special, immensely powerful!

Even without Immortals, yet other Immortals dare not invade their Nine-State Four Seas, so there's never been an alien invasion here.

After all.

The Human Ancestor Era, reaching the limit of the Self-Transformation Realm... after so many eras, still the limit of the Self-Transformation Realm.

Now thinking about it, it's quite peculiar.

Caught at that level for so long, they were only now about to break through.

Their system might be very unique, very strong, after all, one cycle, the first cycle can live for 800 years, belonging to the Sheng Shi among mythological Ancient Gods.

"Moreover, it seems that each world has... Xian."

Night Mad Cultivator is someone with a wild imagination,

"There are a few possibilities, 1. We're in parallel space-time, and each parallel space-time has Xian."

"2. We're not in parallel worlds, but each small world has Xian as the origin..."

"Or perhaps, every world itself is a Historical Painting Wall, where some creature put Xian into each..."

"3. Xian could be a Divine Race that rules worlds, like the Angels in Dragon Pearl, creating and ruling... perhaps like the Uzumaki Clan in Naruto, descending as aliens to primitive worlds, guiding and advancing civilizations..."

They kept discussing, only then realizing how they had been sitting in the well watching the sky.

"Talking so much, what's the use?"

Jiucai Rong sighed, "Haven't even seen the true form of that victor from the old era? He should also be creating races and leading his followers, becoming the future Divine Beast Race of the Four Great Divine Beasts."

The period of the Sacrificial Era, they had historical references.

During that time, a biological explosion happened, countless species' ancestors emerged, presenting opportunities to reshape their foundational races.

Simply put, it was a reset, a relogin of [face-pinching and character creation].

The Four Great Divine Beasts of the Nine-State were the four major leaders who won back then, creating their own races and continuing to propagate.

This current winner will likely do the same, become the Divine Beast Race of the new era.

"Don't know where they're hiding."

Night Mad Cultivator blandly said, "What's their stature, how could they casually show themselves? A mere few hundred years is merely a cycle of biological evolution."

"Moreover, estimating from evolutionary population density, they just had a big battle, defeated other bigwigs... likely heavily injured, in a slumber."

"Or maybe, they don't bother about the outside world, letting time pass, waiting for the embryonic seeds to evolve for him to emerge."

"Of course, another possibility is they're too lazy to go out, hiding like us in their laboratory, researching race fusion! Conducting various experiments."

In any case, there are many possibilities.

Now the blacksmiths felt complicated, hoping to see the ruler of this era and gain some information.

Yet also fearing that the ruler of this era might discover these transmigrators and eliminate them.

It's quite contradictory.

What's more, the current situation greatly suggests that they are secretly sharing the victory spoils of others.

What level are we on?

Do we deserve to be among the founders of a race, sneakily creating races with others?

But the benefits are certainly massive too.

By quietly creating races, one of the future "Four Great Divine Beasts" might also be one of our creations.

After all, the world is vast, with races aplenty, if we hide, use the "Spaceship" as a base, sneakily blend in, share the achievements, they won't even know.