What were Ancient Ruins on the Tianlan Continent?
If you casually found an ordinary person in a city and asked them about Ancient Ruins, you would receive all sorts of related stories: some cultivator, pursued by an enemy, accidentally entering Ancient Ruins hidden deep in the mountains and forests, obtaining peerless Cultivation Methods, greatly increasing their strength, then appearing and instantly killing their foe; some faction, built atop the site of Ancient Ruins, vanishing without a trace overnight for no apparent reason; Ancient Ruins appearing in a desolate wilderness and causing every living creature within a hundred miles to perish... and countless other such tales.
That ordinary person might enthusiastically tell you rumors they had no idea where they had heard for an entire day, with delicate details and rich plots, as though they had experienced them personally.
But if you asked them why Ancient Ruins appeared on the Tianlan Continent, they would surely find it utterly baffling that you would even ask such a question.
Because, to them, these Ancient Ruins that appeared from time to time were like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, like the seasons cycling through the year.
They had always existed in this world. There was no need to question them.
Clearly, Anviya understood this.
The dragon girl thought for a moment before giving her answer. "Boss, you can regard Ancient Ruins as a 'natural phenomenon' of this world."
"A natural phenomenon?" As a local resident, this was the first time Yao Ziyan had heard such a description. She looked somewhat bewildered. "Like the normal evolution of the natural environment?"
"Though the wording is slightly different, this is indeed how the intelligent races living in this world define Ancient Ruins." Anviya nodded in agreement.
Anviya's answer came somewhat unexpectedly