The race pursuing death is mostly information species.
When other races die, they are truly dead. Very few civilized races have multiple life options.
After all, not everyone can be the 4th Celestial Calamity.
And for species on the information side, death has another name—it's called 'version update'.
In the Cyber Test Field, technologies like 'virtual personality' and 'consciousness duplication' can indeed be considered a form of 'version update'.
Such technologies are generally classified as 'forbidden technologies' in most civilizations, also known as 404 technologies, because they involve species transformation.
This is a domain that only Ascension Technology can delve into.
That's why when Gao Gong entered the relic, he speculated it was a relic of an information species.
However, after truly entering the relic, Gao Gong overturned his previous thought.
The blue-skinned, fish-gilled humanoid statue not far away is called Aidan, a standard ocean lifeform.
