The earliest memory Tietie had was of living in the mountains.

Her life was simple - hiding in caves during the day and gathering resources at night. She would pick fruits and catch mice and birds every day.

The entire village lived this way.

There was a local tradition where a divine envoy would come to seek a sacrifice. If somebody was chosen, that person would ascend to the Divine Kingdom as a sacrifice and the village that produced the offering would receive the protection of the divine envoy.

One day, the divine envoy arrived at the village where Tietie lived.

He descended from the sky, wearing a gold mask revealing blood-red eyes, long whiskers on his head, and a lengthy tail.

Zhou Yi recognized him immediately.

Golden-faced Guard.

He was a guard of the Heavenly People.

The Golden-faced Guard was holding a Crystal Ball, inside of which was a Gem Fragment.

He tested the children one by one, bringing the Crystal Ball close to each person, causing the White Gemstone inside to emit a localized green light. However, when it was brought near Tietie, the Gem Fragment turned entirely emerald green.

With a gesture to Tietie's forehead, the Golden-faced Guard designated her as the sacrifice.

The villagers were very happy, as this meant that the divine envoy would protect the whole village and monsters would dare not come again. The only ones who were lost were Tietie's blacksmith parents because their daughter was about to leave them.

A decade or so later, Tietie had grown into an adult woman. The Golden-faced Guard came down once again and touched her forehead.

Upon waking up again, Tietie found herself in a Crystal Palace, followed by the transformation conducted by the Heavenly People.

Unlike Li Mo and Heavenly Dog, the transformation they were performing on her involved a Green Gemstone that Zhou Yi had never seen before.

This Green Gemstone was filled with a large amount of liquid and soaked in tree-like glass fibers.

Tietie was transformed into a glass person, and the key to it was this Green Gemstone.

When a section of the glass fiber from the Green Gemstone entered the woman's body, she became transparent, her internal organs gradually disappeared, and glass fibers extended across her body's surface like being frozen.

Eventually, the Heavenly People placed her inside a larger White Gemstone to complete the encapsulation.

...

Zhou Yi then learned that the artificial glass people were made through a special transformation using Green Gemstones, with White Gemstones as containers.

What followed was consistent with what Tietie had said.

She was required to reproduce independently, failed, and was then attached to a gemstone chain.

At this stage, Zhou Yi noticed a detail that Tietie hadn't mentioned.

The gemstone chain was a crisscrossing loop surrounding a pair of giant eyeballs with green pupils - all made of Green Gemstones.

These two eyeballs were both Gemstone Body structures, connected to each other by strands of gemstone, somewhat like fruits growing on a small branch.

But they operated independently from each other.

Each pupil concentrated on different areas, inspecting every artificial glass person on the chains.

Under the gaze of the two gemstone eyes, transformed people like Tietie, fixed within the White Gemstones, appeared like ornaments on display.

"Why didn't you mention this part?" Zhou Yi asked her.

"I forgot..."

"..."

Zhou Yi soon understood.

The Eyes of Gemstones were performing a selection.

They had some special recognition ability; those artificial people who caught their attention would glow all over.

Then, from the darkness, a huge tube-like Gemstone Body would extend and pluck the selected target, sucking it in and transporting it deep into the darkness.

This was similar to what Zhou Yi had seen in the Ruby where juvenile Heavenly People were fed with gemstone tubes.

The ones that remained were the disqualified artificial people.

Tietie and the like would have to work on the Sun Wall, being used purely for menial labor.

The part that Zhou Yi was most interested in was this.

In Tietie's memory, the place she worked at was supposed to be on the outskirts. White Gemstones floated in the air, and she, along with other glass people, needed to pick and use them to piece together the gemstone wall.

Throughout the process, she had to extend her own glass fibers - or what could be called her blood vessels - using her body to secure the gemstones, waiting for a gradual transition from a distance.

Newly installed White Gemstones would gradually turn into Blue Gemstones, and only after the blood vessels completely solidified the connection between the gemstones would she continue to assemble the next one.

This work came with intense physical pain, a cold piercing sensation as if one's own wounds were exposed to freezing weather.

The working glass people became numb.

Tietie became delirious towards the end, accidentally linked three White Gemstones and a Blue Gemstone into a ring during the installation, leading to an energy surge on this side causing an explosion.

She was blasted away by good fortune and didn't die.

The Heavenly People didn't punish her but demoted her instead.

...

When Tietie fell, she had already lost her vision, hearing, and other regular bodily perceptions, replaced by a sense of energy flows.

Her perspective was very similar to those of cross-boundary beings.

The world, composed of black and white, where Tietie herself was white, local life was black, and the background was a light gray. Their shapes were constantly changing, just like shadows transforming under light.

Tietie accurately landed on a Floating Island, which was in fact Firewood Mound, while the bone people in her view were just moving black creatures.

She tried to open her eyes, but saw nothing at all, which made her feel extremely frightened because she didn't know what she was facing.

However, after being transformed, Tietie is now a super mutant, with all organs modified into a crystalline structure, and the radiation emanating from them alone is enough to kill the Bone Men nearby.

In her fear, she desperately unleashes her radiative power.

"Don't come over! Don't come over, don't come over!"

She screams inwardly.

While reading the memories, Zhou Yi asks Tietie, "So you disrupted the timeline of consciousness for other lives."

"Ah? I don't know."

Tietie says, "I can make others forget my existence, meaning they just can't remember anything to do with me. It works better over shorter spans of time; I call it 'Forgotten'... this is also a power granted by the Heavenly People."

"I was weak after being released, and I was very hungry, so it didn't work well."

Xiao Fu couldn't help but interject: "This is a time-related ability. Consciousness itself cannot be easily erased or altered, but it can be hidden and disrupted through time."

"In certain special environments, this effect can be significant, such as when we later go to excavate the remains of civilizations... For ordinary Bone Men, just the shock to their consciousness is enough to knock them unconscious."

But if Tietie's ability isn't combat-focused, how were the Bone Men killed and their memories wiped?

Zhou Yi is filled with doubt.

He continues to read on.

When Tietie landed at Firewood Mound, two peculiar white shadows appeared in the sky.

They are clearly different from the group of Bone Men on the ground.

Those two white figures, from the perspective of vision, belong to the same category as Tietie. Their shapes are defined, with two whiskers on their head and tails behind them.

Two Golden-faced Guards.

The white light they emitted covered all the black shadows, and then these shadows gradually shattered and disappeared.

Zhou Yi understands.

It was the Golden-faced Guards who silenced the Bone Men on this island.

And then they left.

Zhou Yi relayed the incident to the nearby Bone Man.

Wu Yi was stunned for a moment: "So that's what happened at that time... That means everyone is still dead."

Zhou Yi wanted to say something to comfort him, but in the end, he couldn't find the right words.

"..."

The Bone Man looked at his wristwatch, saying softly, "Actually, I had a hunch and knew they were most likely beyond saving, but I still harbored a sliver of hope and thought I'd give it a shot."

"Resurrection after death is, after all, an impossible thing."

Then Xiao Fu suddenly spoke up: "Da Zhou, you can tell it that resurrection is not impossible. One just needs to enter the Great Holy Spirit, and through the Great Holy Spirit, one can find the consciousness of those who have died."

"I have heard that some civilizations can even define their own order after death, allowing the consciousness to enter a specific area, starting a new leg of their life's journey, building a special inside-out cycle. Memories and knowledge, they can all be preserved and retrieved. These things are possible."

Zhou Yi relayed Xiao Fu's exact words to Wu Yi.

"Really? Chairman?"

"Really."

Zhou Yi told him: "It's all up to us. If you become strong enough, you can make them live again."

"The fact that such a thing can be done..."

The Bone Man's hope was rekindled: "I understand now! Chairman, I need to become even stronger!"

Then Zhou Yi turned his attention back to Tietie.

He continued to read the memories.

Afterwards, the small island-like Firewood Mound evaporated, and Tietie sank further into the Dead Sea.

This part of the memory is short in time but not insignificant in information.

As the Floating Island fell, Tietie's physical damage was extremely severe. She almost instantly learned a lot of things and began to use the surrounding materials to create a Quartz Crystal cocoon to protect herself from further disintegration.

Tietie herself also couldn't quite explain it.

"It's like someone suddenly taught me how to. At the time, I just felt like I was going to die, melting all over... Screaming for help in my heart."

"And then I knew how."

Xiao Fu comments, "It's Firewood Mound. If I'm not mistaken, the Heavenly People precisely dropped her onto Firewood Mound so that she could access the information within it and select what she needed to survive."

"And indeed, that's what happened."

"The two guards sent, they came for her too. They made sure she landed safely and exterminated the witness Bone Men before leaving."

Zhou Yi frowns: "Why? If they valued her so much, why ignore her completely after the drop?"

"Da Zhou, would you care about a sand rat you've released?"

Xiao Fu made an analogy: "In the eyes of the Heavenly People, Tietie and Li Mo are pets they've raised. Whether they're abandoned or released for various reasons, to the Heavenly People, it's just a trivial matter."

"In the eyes of higher beings, low-level life is just that. If there's no connection, they are Barbaric Wild Monsters that can be destroyed on a whim; if they have an interest in rearing or taming them, then they might help."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but think of Li Mo's encounters.

The Heavenly People show a generous pity and kindness towards weak and humble life.

But when facing competitors or rebels like the Reverse Flow, they won't hesitate to destroy and suppress.

It all depends on whether there's a threat.

Zhou Yi immediately orders: "Everyone, return to base."

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