Vulture Plan

A plan that was devised to destroy Planet Earth.

Or rather, as revealed in a later chapter (1829) Li Yao escaped the net the "thing" purposefully made to lure out the other people involved in the Vulture Plan. As a result of the Vulture Plan, a small hole was made in the dragnet where Li Yao was sent out to the edges of the cosmos, Heaven's Origin sector.

"The furious flames seemed to be a monster with ten thousand tentacles that closely enveloped the entire Earth, draining the vigorous blue planet and reducing it to a dying land mixed with dark red and dim yellow. It was like the vitality of a succulent red apple was pumped out within a moment, and the fruit was forced to wither, constrict, and deteriorate!"

“It is doomed and hopeless now. We don’t even stand one billionth of a chance! It is too strong and too dark. Nobody can destroy it. For thousands of years, nobody has ever escaped its dragnet! This time, we have sacrificed so many people and burnt all our strength to break a tiny gap, allowing us to launch the weakest soul out through the gap. This is already the best we can do!

“It’s impossible! So many magnificent beings have failed. This has been a trap since the very beginning. It intentionally lured us to activate the Vulture Plan so that it could fish us up once and for all!"

- The old man from Li Yao's memories

The Vulture Plan is also the source of Li Yao's 'curse' of sorts where he always ends up in situations which nearly end up killing him.

“You can’t train yourself!” The old man’s voice suddenly became stern. “Didn’t I tell you just now? Launching your soul to the edge of the cosmos is like darting a full balloon into the ocean. The seawater will naturally reject you and try to blow you back!

“Unless the ‘balloon’ is as tiny as a molecule or an atom, you will never have a slim chance of being embraced by the foreign universe!

“Remember my words, Li Yao. Conceal your radiance, abandon your pride, and forget all the impractical illusions. Just live a peaceful life. To some extent, we will have defeated it (where it is the 'thing') if you can do so.”

“I get it now. If I remain the weakest and dimmest form and live under the identity of an ‘ordinary person’, it is possible that I will live in peace with the new world at the edge of the cosmos. But if I begin to ‘expand’ into a huge ‘balloon’, I will be rejected by the foreign universe and even be ‘blown away’, am I right?

“That’s exactly what I want!

“I can train myself with the rejection of the foreign world. The more rejective it is and the more dangers and difficulties it throws my way, the more intense and the faster my training will be, and the more likely I will grow up like you—no, into something that is far beyond you and strong enough to destroy it!”

- Old Man and Li Yao's final conversation, moments before Li Yao is sent out of the net

Another thing that is raised in a later chapter (1922) is

“There are two Earths. The Earth on the surface is the blue planet where countless creatures and six billion people live. Their life is peaceful, unattractive, and they are not in conflict with the rest of the universe, if they can see the rest of the universe at all.

“But in fact, there also exists an ‘interior Earth’, which is the real Earth. That place is likely a den of fiends who are most foul, dark, and powerful. They are probably great threats to the entire universe and will destroy the civilization of mankind.

“Therefore, when part of the people on ‘exterior Earth’ found out the truth, they came up with the Vulture Plan and decided to destroy it no matter the cost!”