At this, the expression on the girl's face froze. In the blink of an eye, right before Li Yi's astonished eyes, Hu Qi swallowed it whole.
"Holy crap! Brother Qi, you can't eat that!"
Li Yi finally snapped out of it and rushed to stop him.
But Hu Qi just shook his head, signaling that it was fine.
"It's a small matter. It can't harm me."
Hu Qi said, closing his eyes.
He opened them again a few seconds later.
This crystal was indeed the pinnacle of technology developed by the Noki Civilization. But it was also the Celestial Fate People who founded the Noki Civilization.
As an ordinary person, despite having various life-extending elixirs, their life was nearing its limit after a thousand years.
Upon realizing the physical body could not be eternal,
they changed their approach.
Using a brain interface, they copied and uploaded their consciousness, becoming a super AI to achieve immortality.
And that being, Nuo Star, was the manifestation of that Celestial Fate People's will.
