Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton
Chapter 1494 - 1055: The Flash Points that Destroy Planes

Chapter 1494: Chapter 1055: The Flash Points that Destroy Planes

Ursman’s words left everyone stunned. The Boundless Grand Hollow is a prison? A prison used to imprison the Ancient Divine Light? If this is true, it would shatter everyone’s understanding and reshape their worldview entirely.

Everything within the Boundless Grand Hollow, for the most part, originates from the Ancient Divine Light. Of course, this refers to the most primordial Primordial Divine Light. Under its radiance, the Ancient Gods came to be, the Planes formed, the Abyss emerged, and life, souls, and everything else were born.

Apart from the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms, nearly all matter, energy, and life originated from the Ancient Divine Light—until five hundred thousand years ago, the moment it gained consciousness.

The Ancient Divine Light exploded. Part of its power was controlled by the consciousness it birthed, while another part transformed into the Chaos Mist, spawning lower-tier Ancient Gods, more souls, and life, ultimately forming everything within the Chaos Plane.

Now, Ursman is claiming that the Boundless Grand Hollow is a prison used to confine the Ancient Divine Light? If it’s a prison, then who locked it inside?

Anthony hesitated to think further because the implications were utterly terrifying. However, he quickly raised a point: "How do you know the Boundless Grand Hollow is a prison? Who told you the Ancient Divine Light is trapped inside? Have you lived long enough to witness this?"

Ursman responded, "I saw it recorded in books and inscriptions. You haven’t denied that the Ancient Divine Light is inside. So you really are people of the Ancient Divine Light."

"Pfft..." Negris spat out a mouthful of blood.

Anthony almost slipped and fell. He said, "What book did you read that in? A knight novel? Where are these inscriptions?"

"They’re in my Spirit Tower. I’ve spent thousands of years researching the Boundless Grand Hollow, collecting all the books, inscriptions, spiritual fragments, and even oral legends and myths I could find. Combined analysis led me to..."

At this point, Ursman paused and said with some disappointment, "Even Shi Gaozhi is dead. My Spirit Tower probably doesn’t exist anymore. Let Shi Gaozhi come. We can ask him whether my Spirit Tower is still there."

Anthony called for Shi Gaozhi. When Ursman learned that the entire Plane had been destroyed and billions of people had died, he froze in place, unmoving for a long time.

Anthony and Negris secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Sentient beings, when faced with a psychological impact that could overturn their worldview, instinctively avoid it. If irrefutable evidence were suddenly thrown at them, leaving them no escape, it would be agonizing—even causing mental collapse.

However, if given some buffer time, with excuses like insufficient evidence or wild speculation, once they calmed down, they could accept the truth more easily. At the moment, Anthony and Negris found themselves in this instinctive state of avoidance.

Neither side felt like speaking. Anthony retreated and whispered to Negris, "How credible do you think his claims are?"

Negris sneered and said somewhat indignantly, "He’s just a being from a Plane. How credible could he be? He’s just like Tyrone and the others, who claim that the Void originated from a massive explosion. How can anyone believe such a hypothesis?"

"Uh, isn’t it?" Anthony asked, dumbfounded.

"Impossible that it’s... that it’s... that it is?" Negris’ voice became smaller and smaller as he spoke because, upon reflection, if the Chaos Plane were considered the entirety of the Void, its origin was indeed linked to the explosion of the Ancient Divine Light. From this angle, Tyrone and the others’ hypothesis wasn’t entirely wrong.

Could beings from a Plane really deduce the formation of the Void based on traces and clues?

Anthony took a deep breath and calmly said, "Setting aside how credible his research is for now, let’s adjust our mindsets. It’s just a prison for the Ancient Divine Light—it was destroyed by Lord Ange anyway. So what’s there to fear?"

Anthony knew how to adjust his mindset. His words immediately steadied Negris’ heart. Yes, the Ancient Divine Light had already been destroyed by Ange, and the prison containing it had been broken through. What was there to be afraid of?

Taking a deep breath, Anthony continued, "Putting other matters aside, there are only two things that make us uneasy: Who locked the Ancient Divine Light inside? And who created this prison?"

Back before the manuscripts, Anthony repeated Ursman’s questions: "Who locked the Ancient Divine Light inside?"

Ursman replied, "I don’t know. What was the Ancient Divine Light like inside? How did you escape from the Boundless Grand Hollow?"

Anthony shook his head. "The Ancient Divine Light is dead. Who built this prison?"

Ursman said, "That, I also don’t know. According to my research, the prison seems to have formed naturally. Something inside blew up, scattering or obliterating everything, forming a massive hollow. Then, someone repurposed it as a prison to trap the Ancient Divine Light."

Negris and Anthony breathed another sigh of relief. This sounded more reasonable. If there truly existed a being capable of creating such an immense empty expanse, it would be terrifying just to imagine. Thinking about it made their legs weak.

"The Ancient Divine Light must have been trapped by itself. How did you get here? Were you created by the Ancient Divine Light?" Ursman asked.

In this back-and-forth exchange, both sides gradually pieced together a general understanding of the other’s situation.

Before this Plane shattered, Ursman had been its most renowned Wise Man. He was an ordinary human yet lived for over nine thousand years with immense power. However, archaeology had always been his greatest passion.

In his youth, he acquired a piece of metallic fragment inscribed with patterns he didn’t recognize. Being a lone discovery, he couldn’t decipher much, but the fragment’s composition surprised him, prompting him to conduct in-depth research.

That was it for a long time—until many years later, when a student brought him a new fragment discovered in the Abyss Dimension.

This new fragment bore the same inscriptions and material as the one he had before, but it had been found in a different Plane. This immediately piqued Ursman’s interest, and he devoted part of his energy and time to studying them. He also instructed his students to keep an eye out for similar fragments.

By this time, Ursman had reached the pinnacle of success, enjoying unparalleled prestige and influence within his Plane. His countless students quickly turned these fragment studies into a prevailing trend.

The power of collective wisdom is immense. One of Ursman’s students invented an Identification Art capable of accurately determining the age of objects. Through this method, they discovered that these fragments all dated back roughly three million years.

Ursman immediately adjusted his approach, identifying numerous artifacts from around the same era. This led to abundant new discoveries.

As his research deepened, Ursman deciphered portions of the inscriptions and uncovered many artifacts of the same period. Yet he was unsatisfied and began investigating the geological layers from three million years ago.

By mastering Earth Magic, he vertically excavated the layers from around three million years ago, overturning them completely. Countless steles, fragments, and artifacts emerged from his efforts.

After centuries of such work, he exhausted the resources of his Plane and turned his attention to others. His influence even extended to the distant Friel Empire—back when it wasn’t yet called the Friel Empire.

By synthesizing all the ancient artifacts and inscriptions, Ursman concluded that this Void had housed civilizations over three million years ago and that the Boundless Grand Hollow was a prison used to contain a powerful entity known as the Ancient Divine Light.

As for how powerful a being must be to require imprisonment within the Boundless Grand Hollow, Ursman had no concept. He didn’t even know what the Ancient Divine Light was—its mention merely appeared in deciphered inscriptions.

Anthony and Negris, on the other hand, had a clear concept, which is precisely why they were so shocked.

Anthony rubbed his hair and said, "Forget it. Let’s set aside these unverifiable things for now. We..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Ange suddenly lifted his head to look at the Void above. Within the pitch-black Void, an enormous bright spot had somehow appeared.

"W-What’s that?" Negris asked, bewildered.

Boom! A plume of smoke erupted in the sky, manifesting into the figure of Durken descending. Perched on his shoulder, the Sacrificial Mask cried out in panic, "Oh no, oh no! It’s the same kind of bright spot! It’s what destroyed the Plane back then!"