Lin Feng speculated that the core of the planet must be something placed by the powerful hand behind that race, something that could sustain soul bodies from disappearing.
After all, without suitable sustenance, soul bodies would either go to the land of death or dissipate into the air.
It seemed his guess was not wrong at all.
This was indeed a cultivation vessel created by a mysterious existence.
To cultivate a race of soul bodies, and observe how this race developed.
As for the purpose behind it, Lin Feng had no way of knowing.
After some thought, Lin Feng sat down on the spot. He was very curious about who had taken the planet's core.
So, he decided to use his time abilities and look into the past.
Of course, Lin Feng had no intention of reversing time to the distant past.
The destruction of the soul body race was too far removed from the present. If he were to rewind time to that era, it would definitely cause major problems.
Lin Feng closed his eyes, extending his senses to encompass the entire planet, and began to sift through past images.
Retreating in units of a century, Lin Feng quickly pinpointed the time when the soul body race existed.
The developmental history of the soul body race played out before Lin Feng like a sped-up movie.
It was similar to the written records Lin Feng had seen in books.
Since the books of the soul body race did not possess the ability of the Dark Magic Book or the Radiant Magic Book to directly manifest written content into images, the words he had seen previously were not as easy to understand as the current visuals.
Some details were even missing from the records.
However, Lin Feng was no longer particularly interested in the development of the soul body race.
He fast-forwarded directly to the period after the race's destruction, to understand why the planet was in its current state and who had taken its core.
Yet, the answer was destined to disappoint Lin Feng.
After the last leader of the soul body race vanished, the planet remained a normal, living world.
But in the very next second, without any warning, the scene shifted to the ravaged planet Lin Feng saw before him.
???
Was something missing in between?
Lin Feng's eyes snapped open.
Someone had erased this segment from the timeline.
Things were becoming more and more interesting.
A book he casually picked up, and it led to such a grand mystery?
The entity that had removed the footage was undoubtedly the mastermind behind the creation of this soul body cultivation vessel.
The reason for removing the footage was clearly to prevent anyone from seeing who had turned the planet into its current state.
But the more this was the case, the more curious Lin Feng became.
If they had shown him, his curiosity would have been quenched, and he would have probably just left.
The more they prevented him from seeing... Lin Feng felt increasingly excited, heh heh heh.
While he couldn't rewind time, he had recently acquired an extraordinary, nameless wall.
Lin Feng sank his consciousness into his mind.
That wall remained there, quietly residing, while his dog system was still analyzing it with all its might.
Lin Feng approached the wall, where images of the past and future of the universe continued to play.
With ease, he followed the coordinates and found the relevant images of the soul body race.
No matter who had removed the footage from the timeline, and no matter how powerful they were, Lin Feng believed they couldn't escape the wall's record.
After all, even an anomaly like himself had his past recorded by the wall.
As Lin Feng searched, he soon found the missing footage.
However, upon seeing the figure that appeared in the image, Lin Feng froze.
What the hell...
Black Robe?
In the footage, the one who extracted the planet's core was none other than Lin Feng's old adversary, the organization Black Robe.
In the image, shortly after the complete extinction of the soul body race, a figure in a black robe appeared near the planet.
With a mere wave of his hand, the planet's core transformed into countless streams of energy and surged outward from within the planet.
The fluid formed by the core, as if it were something that originally belonged to Black Robe, gathered in his hand and eventually took the shape of a key...
Seeing this scene, Lin Feng understood.
So, the deep, bottomless holes on the planet were caused by the extraction of the core.
After the core was extracted, the planet began to wither at a visible rate.
Then, Black Robe emitted a green energy from his hand, grasping at the void. It was unclear what he caught.
After performing these two actions, Black Robe's figure vanished into the universe.
Lin Feng knew that his final grasping motion was likely what removed the footage of his appearance from the timeline.
As expected of Black Robe, always up to shady business. He wondered what scheme this was.
To them, countless lives were like microorganisms in a petri dish, expendable at any time.
The subsequent footage held nothing more of interest. Lin Feng had learned what he wanted to know.
He wasn't sure if his luck was good or bad.
He randomly picked up a book, came to the place described in the book out of curiosity, and unexpectedly got entangled with Black Robe again.
However, it wasn't surprising for Black Robe to appear in this universe.
Wasn't it because of Black Robe's scheme that Lin Feng first came to this universe?
The Black Robe in the footage clearly possessed extraordinary power.
Being able to extract past footage and create a living planet as a cultivation vessel to observe, while seemingly effortless, was something only beings of a multiversal scale, proficient in life and creation, could achieve.
His power was at least at the peak of the second sequence, or perhaps... the first sequence?
Lin Feng withdrew from the footage and headed towards Blue Star.
He had arrived happily, but was returning with a furrowed brow.
When it involved Black Robe, Lin Feng became quite concerned.
Lin Feng also saw the time of the soul body race's appearance and extinction, which was about seven hundred years ago.
And the history of the soul bodies was only three hundred years.
This meant that four hundred years had passed since the extinction of the soul bodies.
Why would Black Robe create such a soul body cultivation vessel?
Lin Feng decided to put this question aside for now. It was unlikely to be related to him.
Four hundred years ago, he probably wasn't even born, nor had he transmigrated to the Marvel universe...
Forget it! Lin Feng shook his head and teleported to the solar system.
It was time for him to return to his own universe. As for now, he would bid farewell to Tony and Doctor Strange the Dark.
In addition, to thank Doctor Strange the Dark for taking him to the Lost City Library, Lin Feng had prepared a great gift that he absolutely wouldn't expect!
"Heh heh, something he wouldn't expect. But I wonder if what I'm doing is right..."
Lin Feng floated outside Blue Star, preparing the gift in advance.
A void-like opening appeared before him. He reached out and gently grasped, pulling out a soul body.
"Since that world is already destroyed, there's no concept of an absolute point in time, right?"