[Zzzzz... Warning!]
[Detecting abnormal temperature drop in the star, core activity weakening, entering final cooling phase.]
[Preparing to evolve into other stellar configurations!]
A series of extremely "scientific" synthesized sounds echoed in Lu Jun's ears.
The tone was exactly like the AI explaining the Big Bang in a science museum.
"Huh? Is the museum System glitching? Did the broadcast room cross-channel to a sci-fi program?"
He subconsciously tried to turn his head to find the source, but suddenly froze.
Something's not right!
Why can't he stand up?
He looked down, and wow!
Two... three robust, golden-feathered... bird legs?
He raised his "arms" in alarm, but what met his eyes were a pair of giant wings burning with raging flames!
The flames were incredibly hot, his body was fine, but the heat made him uneasy deep down.
"Holy crap! How did I turn into a bird? And a goddamn roast chicken that's spontaneously combusting!"
Lu Jun's mind buzzed, his CPU practically burned out.
He instinctively tried to flap his wings, but a tearing pain shot through his chest.
Looking down, a giant arrow, emanating an icy chill, was piercing through his chest!
"Drip... drip..."
"Puff... puff..."
Golden blood, like burning liquid flames, gushed down the arrow shaft.
It instantly exploded upon hitting the ground, transforming into destructive golden sparks.
Madly igniting everything around it, even rocks melted into magma amidst their wails!
It was amidst this agonizing pain of impending death and the confusion of "Who am I, where am I, am I going to be roasted?"
that a torrent of memories, vast as a star sea, slammed into his consciousness.
Pangu creating the heavens and earth!
Hongjun lecturing on the Dao!
Nuwa creating the Human Race!
Ten suns scorching the sky!
Da Yi shooting down the suns!
"I... I transmigrated? And became the Sixth Crown Prince of the Golden Crow Clan in the Primordial Era, that unlucky guy also named Lu Jun?"
Lu Jun was dumbfounded, even forgetting the searing pain in his chest.
One second he was in a science museum, explaining to children that "the sun is a star."
The next second, he himself became that "star," the sun itself?
And the version that got shot down by an arrow!
"Just because of the same name? Is this Transmigration mechanism a lottery? That's too careless!"
"And this original body, to save the Tenth Crown Prince, that future Lu Ya Daoist, he actually used his chest to take the fatal arrow Da Yi shot at the Tenth!"
"The Tenth lived, becoming Lu Ya who wandered around in the Investiture of the Gods, but what about me? I'm gone, damn it!"
"Indeed, one shouldn't provoke Sons of Luck! Wang Mang couldn't defeat Liu Xiu, the Son of the Plane, and I, the Sixth, can't defeat the fated Tenth, Lu Ya!"
"If I had transmigrated just five minutes earlier, I would have definitely bolted. Let whoever wants to be a human shield be one!"
Lu Jun was filled with indignation and grief. He was the Sixth, but his actions weren't cunning at all!
He clearly felt the bone-chilling coldness brought by the Profound Nether Ice Arrow, which was extinguishing the Solar True Fire on his body at a visible rate.
This was a struggle between the Great Dao of Ice and the Great Dao of the Sun.
Clearly, the power of Ancestral Witch Xuan Ming directly suppressed his mere Taiyi Golden Immortal self.
The brilliant golden feathers began to show ominous black spots, spreading like deadly sunspots on a stellar surface.
The coldness of death was rapidly devouring his last heat.
Immediately after, his consciousness converged within his mind.
There, text was flickering.
[Preparing to evolve into other stellar configurations!]
Lu Jun instantly grasped at this lifeline!
"Golden Crows are seen as suns... so I'm bound to this 'Stellar Evolution System'?"
"But Golden Crows are Divine Birds! Can they be the same as actual stars?"
"Who cares! It's a Golden Finger, can it be scientific? Existence is reasonable! Evolve! Quickly evolve me!"
[Evolution process initiated, please do not rush, this unit is executing...]
[???]
[Warning! Severe Warning!]
[Detecting abnormal rules in the current world! High-activity life Soul signal detected within the target star! Non-standard stellar model!]
The System's alarm suddenly became sharp and piercing, even carrying a sense of "seeing a ghost" panic.
Lu Jun: "???"
Good heavens!
This System doesn't even know about the existence of me, its host Soul?
Is it a defective second-hand product?!
[Emergency protocol initiated! Emergency protocol initiated!]
[Forcing scan of local Universe underlying rules... rebuilding model and deducing adaptation plan...]
[Deduction complete! Initiating two-phase evolution protocol!]
[Phase One: Stellar body collapse (egg form)]
[Phase Two: Innate Sacred Being form reshaping (Human Race template detected for Soul Origin, locking to humanoid form)]
[Phase One evolution, forced execution!]
As soon as the System's voice fell, Lu Jun felt as if a cosmic singularity had been crammed into the Golden Crow's body, which was in the process of "cooling down and shutting down"!
"Boom—!!!"
An irresistible, terrifying gravitational field, capable of distorting space-time, was generated at his collapsing core!
His vast, sun-like body instantly collapsed inward, forcibly shedding and discarding massive amounts of energy!
The deadly Profound Nether Arrow stuck in his chest was violently shaken off like a toothpick in the face of this primal, deep-seated power of matter!
The source of the fatal Great Dao of Ice power was cut off!
That giant "sun" that once illuminated the Primordial Era instantly collapsed a millionfold!
Within one hundred-millionth of a second, it was compressed into a terrifyingly dense, rapidly spinning, incandescent "egg-shaped" stellar body, surrounded by visible gravitational ripples!
A neutron star egg!
The ultimate form of matter collapse!
An immortal prototype under the rules of the Primordial Era!
"Big Brother! Look! How did Sixth Brother turn into an egg again?"
A voice filled with shock and weakness rang out not far away.
"This... what kind of Divine Ability is this?! Nirvana? Ancestral Return?"
Another voice, equally faint but with unconcealed horror, spoke.
"Big Brother? Second Brother? You're still alive?!"
Lu Jun's consciousness fluctuation spread out, filled with disbelief.
In his memories, the speakers were Bo Huang, the First Crown Prince of the Golden Crow Clan, and Zhong Lang, the Second Crown Prince.
I'm alive because I have a System.
How are you still alive?
Could it be that you're all Transmigrators?
He laboriously "looked" around, seeing eight equally massive, but extremely dim fireballs, their life force like candles in the wind, scattered across the scorched earth.
"It's us! Sixth Brother!" Bo Huang's voice carried deep fatigue.
"My Second Brother and I are Grand Unity Golden Immortals, so we can barely resist a trace of the Ancestral Witch's Great Dao of Ice erosion, but we won't last much longer."
His voice grew weaker and weaker, as if it would extinguish any second.
"So Grand Unity Golden Immortals have a thicker foundation." Lu Jun realized, relieved that it wasn't a group Transmigration.
"Sixth Brother! Don't worry about why we're alive yet!"
"Quickly tell us! How did you do it! Struck by the Ancestral Witch's fatal arrow, you were able to return to your Origin and revert to an egg form!"
Second Crown Prince Zhong Lang's voice suddenly rose, carrying the excitement and ecstasy of a drowning man grabbing a piece of driftwood.
"Yes, Sixth Brother!"
First Crown Prince Bo Huang's dying will seemed to be ignited by this sliver of hope.
The residual flames on his body suddenly brightened for an instant, forcefully pushing back some of the Great Dao of Ice.
"Could it be that our Golden Crow Clan also possesses a supreme Divine Ability similar to the Phoenix's 'Nirvana Rebirth'? As long as we turn into an egg, we have a chance to be reborn?! Quickly tell us the method!"
Lu Jun (egg): "..."
He felt his "eggshell" tingling.
How was he supposed to explain this?
To say that their beloved Sixth Brother was already dead, and now there was a Soul from Earth inside?
And also a slightly idiotic but incredibly powerful System?
This had absolutely nothing to do with Phoenix Nirvana!
Just as he was in immense "egg-pain" and unsure how to explain, the System's cold yet somewhat "finally done" sounding prompt rang out again:
[Ding! Phase One evolution initially complete!]
[Stellar body (egg form) has successfully evolved into "Neutron Star State" (reconstructed based on this world's rules, extreme matter collapse, possessing the ultimate strength of a living being's Physical Body)!]
[Detecting eight dying stars (Golden Crow remnants) within the host's gravitational field range. Host, please select a handling plan immediately:]
[Option One: Accrete!]
[Activate host's core gravitational field, powerfully absorb the scattered energy and residual matter Origin of the eight dying stars, strengthening self.]
[There is a very high probability of pushing the stellar body to continue collapsing from the Neutron Star State, evolving to the ultimate celestial body — "Black Hole State" (reconstructed version for this world).]
[Reward: If Phase Two "Innate Sacred Being Form" evolution is initiated in "Black Hole State," it will directly trigger the "Grand Unity Golden Immortal Tribulation"!]
[Upon successful Undergoing Tribulation, the Innate Sacred Being Form will start at the — Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm!]
[Option Two: Empower!]
[Utilize this System's special protocol, consume part of the host's energy, to stabilize the eight dying stars.]
[Guide them to simultaneously initiate stellar evolution (Phase One: egg state). This operation will help the host deeply understand this System's operating principles and own state.]
[Reward: When the host initiates Phase Two evolution while maintaining the current "Neutron Star Egg" state, the Innate Sacred Being Form will directly possess Physical Body strength comparable to an Ancestral Witch!]
[Option Three: Ignore!]
[Ignore the surrounding eight dying stars, allowing them to completely disintegrate and fall. Host immediately initiates own Phase Two evolution.]
[Reward: None.]
Lu Jun (egg): "!!!"
Holy crap!
This System is really powerful!