Prologue

"Last Words"

My name is Kevin Walker, a high school graduate about to enter university, and possibly the only human still alive on Mars right now.

I don't want to die yet. I just want to ask you scientists—are you reliable or not? Didn't you say that each ruin would only produce a Primal behemoth once? So why did a second one appear at the Martian ruins?

Damn your whole family's ancestors for eighteen generations...

I just received the "Original True Explanation" from the state. I was counting on cultivating this basic technique, hoping to one day visit the sacred ruin of Kunlun and learn higher-level techniques, to become a peerless war god to fight against the Primal Era!

I don't want to die! I really am talented! My cultivation speed is 1.5 times faster—maybe not a top genius, but a genius nonetheless.

Ah... damn... what the hell is this...

"Global News"

Year 0032 of the Primal Era. Once again, a Primal starry sky behemoth has appeared on Mars, triggering a Primal beast tide. Due to the massive explosion and the eruption of relic civilization power, along with the emergence of super-strong magnetic storms, it is temporarily impossible to enter for cleanup.

Currently, Earth has dispatched fleets and experts, but it will be difficult to land on Mars in the short term. The Primal beast tide is expected to last for some time.

Given the current situation of the Primal beast tide on Mars, there is almost no chance of survivors.

In Earth's major megacities, news of Mars being struck again by a Primal beast tide has become a hot topic. At this moment, a white-haired, white-bearded elder merely glanced at the virtual broadcasts on the buildings.

Then he picked up a paper newspaper—something fewer and fewer people read these days—and muttered to himself, "With the Star Suppressing Emperor absent, the Primal starry sky behemoth naturally won't give up. I wonder if it will be taken away this time..."

Saying this, he picked up the paper newspaper, which already displayed a countdown to shutdown, and began to read.

Ever since the Primal starry sky behemoth appeared on Earth, humanity has successively discovered starry sky passages opened by these behemoths on Earth, Venus, Mercury, and Mars. Once a Primal starry sky behemoth opens a passage, terrifying Primal beast tides will invade, but the Primal aura will also permeate, completely transforming the planet.

Each time a Primal starry sky behemoth opens a passage, it is always at the ruins of a different ancient civilization. Originally, experts believed that, apart from Earth, Venus, Mercury, and Mars each had only one such ruin. No one expected another passage to open on Mars.

Although the behemoth that opened the passage was destroyed at all costs immediately, a massive Primal beast tide still broke out. Five years ago, when a Primal starry sky behemoth appeared on Mars, humanity wiped it out and spent another three years clearing the planet before it was suitable for ordinary people to live, develop, and travel.

Now, the entire planet of Mars has once again been designated an extremely dangerous area, no longer suitable for human habitation, development, or tourism. All global parties have temporarily sealed off all travel to and from Mars until the next cleanup is complete...

Chapter One: Primal Starry Sky Behemoth

"In the Northern Sea there is a fish, its name is Kun. The Kun is so huge, no one knows how many thousand li it is. It transforms into a bird, its name is Peng. The back of the Peng is so vast, no one knows how many thousand li it is. When it flies in anger, its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky."

The words from "Free and Easy Wandering" are enough to make one's heart yearn for that ancient Primal Era, but when the Primal Era truly arrives, reality shatters everyone's fantasies.

Kevin Walker never imagined he would personally encounter a Primal beast tide—at least, he never thought it would happen at his age.

Although he was born in the Primal Era, the Primal beast tide was just textbook knowledge to Kevin Walker.

After all, the first Primal beast tide on Earth happened more than thirty years ago. In the following decade, there were two more Primal beast tides on Earth, but by the time Kevin Walker was old enough to remember, Earth had already stabilized.

When he first entered middle school, he did hear about a Primal beast tide on Mars, because his childhood dream was to visit Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain in the solar system.

So he paid special attention to news about the Primal beast tide on Mars, but to him, it felt just like people in China thirty years ago watching news of wars in African countries—distant and unrelated.

A few hours ago, Kevin Walker held the high school graduation gift from the orphanage director—an interplanetary ticket to Mars—and had just arrived on Mars, full of excitement.

"Our spaceship is about to land. We'll first head to Military Construction Base 0078 for a break. The base has excellent facilities; it was used by the military during the initial cleanup of the Primal beast tide. Now, most of the military has left, and part of the base has been converted for civilian use. Everyone can take a good shower and rest..."

Listening to the tour guide's introduction, the spaceship landed on Mars. For the first time, Kevin Walker saw the Martian landscape with his own eyes from midair...

The most breathtaking sight was undoubtedly Olympus Mons. Before the Primal Era, Olympus Mons rose twenty-two kilometers above the surface—three times the height of Mount Everest, Earth's tallest peak before the Primal Era.

Now, after the arrival of the Primal Era, Olympus Mons is said to be still changing. Its height has already reached nearly fifty kilometers above the surface...