If we reinterpreted Investiture of the Gods, treating it not as a fantasy tale but as history, then there were likely many details within it that we had overlooked.
We had only seen the side of immortals battling each other. But what if those battles were not as mystical as the book described, but instead carried the implications of another advanced civilization? What if the events and scenes were beyond anything we could even imagine?
That was entirely possible.
"So if we truly clash head-on with the Great Barren Tribe People, would we be striking a stone with an egg?" Liu Lan suddenly asked me.
I gave a bitter smile. "If we do not confront them head-on, then compromise is our only remaining path. What do you think would happen if they completely took control of Phantom Sea? It would be one thing if they regarded us humans as their own kind, but what if they did not regard us as the same kind at all? Looking back now, wasn't the so-called slave system also caused by the gap between levels of civilization? When a highly advanced civilization ruled over a lower one, the two could never stand as equals. The greater the gap, the greater that inequality would become. It could even shift from mere rule into enslavement."
Liu Lan fell into thought.
Jiang Ziyan said, "If we do not want to be enslaved, there is only one way: fight them."
Liu Lan raised her head and looked at Jiang Ziyan. This was her first time meeting Jiang Ziyan. Because she had been discussing the book with me earlier, she had not really paid attention to her.
Only after hearing Jiang Ziyan speak did she ask, "And this is?"
"She is from the Manor," I said. "The people there