Outside Yu Yuan Palace.
Looking at the majestic palace, brimming with exotic charm, Lu Chuan could not help swallowing. "Senior Brother Lu, I heard that Yu Yuan Palace itself is a supreme treasure coveted even by True Kings. Is that true?"
"It is."
Lu Zhao nodded. "Though I do not know much about Yu Yuan Palace, there is one thing I know with absolute certainty: in order to reclaim Yu Yuan Palace, the Feather God Race once launched a massive assault on the human race."
"In that war alone, nearly a hundred True Kings fell."
"As for Ninth Rank Martial Artists, more than ten thousand perished!"
"That war nearly drove both races to extinction, and their rankings among the Ten Thousand Races instantly plummeted beyond a thousandth place."
"Even now, the Feather God Race has yet to recover and still lingers outside the top ten."
"You should know that before that war began, the Feather God Race had been one of the top three mighty races!"
"The treasure the Feather God Race was willing to pay such a price to fight over—one could imagine just how precious it was."
"Unfortunately, only the Feather God Race knows this treasure's exact purpose. Our human race, and even the other races, are still feeling our way through the dark."
Lu Chuan was astonished. He had never expected a single palace to trigger a war of such colossal scale.
It seemed Yu Yuan Palace held quite a few secrets.
"By the way, Senior Brother, I always hear you talking about the rankings of the Ten Thousand Races. What are those rankings based on? And where exactly does our human race rank?" Lu Chuan could not help asking.
"The basis for the rankings is very complicated."
Lu Zhao said slowly, "For example, the number of powerful experts in a race, the number of prodigies it possesses, the depth of its foundations, and so on—all of these affect the rankings among the Ten Thousand Races."
"As for where our human race ranks among the Ten Thousand Races..."
A trace of pride appeared on Lu Zhao's face. "On the surface, we rank seventh!"
"But if a real war broke out, even the Heavenly God Race, ranked first, would not dare make an enemy of us. Do you know why?"
"Why?" Lu Chuan asked obligingly.
"Because our foundations run deep!"
Lu Zhao smiled. "The rankings of the top ten races undergo earth-shaking changes every ten thousand years. For example, the Heavenly God Race, currently ranked first, was merely a weak race under our human race's command ten thousand years ago."
"And no matter how wind and rain battered the world, our human race's ranking has never fallen out of the top ten!"
"This has made our human race's foundations the strongest in the present age!"
"Of course, having deep foundations is not necessarily a good thing."
"The reason our human race is targeted by so many races on the Starry Sky Battlefield is precisely because our foundations run so deep."
"Every race wants to break into Blue Star and seize the human race's foundations, so that they may pursue that mysterious and unfathomable True Immortal realm!"
"Immortals?"
Lu Chuan's expression shifted, and he hurriedly asked, "Do immortals truly exist in this world?"
"No."
Lu Zhao shook his head. "Though every major race has records concerning immortals, not a single person has ever seen one."
"Immortals exist only in legends."
"I see."
Lu Chuan nodded. The simplification of the Grand Profound Art surfaced in his mind. These immortals were likely not groundless rumors.
Perhaps immortals truly existed in this world!
Immortals were too terrifying. Lu Chuan did not want to dwell on them at all.
He quickly changed the subject. "By the way, Senior Brother Lu, from what you said, our human race has a long and ancient history. But why do historical records only go back five thousand years?"
When Lu Chuan had first transmigrated here, he had thought Blue Star's spiritual energy revival had only happened recently.
After learning more, Lu Chuan discovered that Blue Star's spiritual energy had already been revived for five thousand years.
But after hearing Lu Zhao say this, the duration of Blue Star's spiritual energy revival was likely far longer than Lu Chuan had imagined.
"I do not know either."
Lu Zhao shook his head. "It is said that every five thousand years, Blue Star faces a great calamity, causing history to break off and the Age of Dharma Decline to descend."
"Fortunately, when the Age of Dharma Decline descends, Blue Star is enveloped by a miraculous grand formation that protects it. Otherwise, our human race would have been breached by the Ten Thousand Races long ago."
"Now, historians are constantly studying the descent of the Age of Dharma Decline, trying to seek out the truth and unravel their doubts."
"One of the greatest mysteries is that whenever the Age of Dharma Decline descends, everything belonging to the human race returns to its starting point."
"The strong vanish without a trace, while the weak and ordinary people have their memories erased. All records and research are wiped clean."
"Apart from the foundations left behind by the sages of old, as well as a few rare historical books, everything has to begin again from scratch."
"A great calamity every five thousand years?" Lu Chuan frowned tightly. "Then doesn't that mean the next great calamity is not far away?"
"That's right."
Lu Zhao smiled bitterly. "The top experts of our human race have determined that the calamity will certainly descend in as little as two hundred years, or at most several hundred years!"
"Fortunately, we can finally learn what this great calamity truly is."
"Unfortunately, after the great calamity, you and I will both return to dust and earth."
For a time, the atmosphere instantly froze.
The shadow of the great calamity weighed so heavily upon them that both found it hard to breathe.
After a short while, Lu Zhao smiled. "You need not lose heart too much. By now, we have already developed a method to delay the arrival of the great calamity."
"That is to seize Planet Origin and merge it into Blue Star's origin!"
"The richer Blue Star's origin becomes, the later the great calamity will arrive."
"This has been proven!"
"The great calamity was originally supposed to descend ten years ago, but after we merged several Planet Origins, it was delayed by several hundred years."
"As long as we continue merging Planet Origins, it is not impossible to completely eliminate the great calamity."
"Planet Origin?" Lu Chuan looked at Lu Zhao in confusion. "What is that?"
"Planet Origin can also be called the origin of spiritual energy revival. With it, a planet can undergo spiritual energy revival, and its races can embark upon the martial path and join the struggle for supremacy among the Ten Thousand Races."
"The richer a planet's Planet Origin, the higher the limit of the races living on that planet."
"In other words, the richer the Planet Origin, the higher the upper limit of martial cultivation."
"Someone once declared that when the richness of Planet Origin reaches a certain realm, immortals will descend!"
"Thus, the wars among the Ten Thousand Races are wars to seize Planet Origin!"
Lu Chuan's head felt swollen. Having taken in so much information at once, he did not know what to think for the moment.
Seeing this, Lu Zhao smiled. "Do not let your thoughts run wild. If the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up."
"For now, you should still seize the time to raise your strength."
"Who knows? Perhaps our human race will completely eliminate the great calamity because of you."
Lu Chuan narrowed his eyes.
Eliminate the great calamity?
It was not impossible.
No matter how formidable the great calamity was, it could not withstand him cheating his way through.
With the Simplification System, Lu Chuan was confident that he could completely destroy the great calamity!
Even if he could not destroy it, surviving was not impossible either.
Seeing Lu Chuan regain his confidence, Lu Zhao smiled. "Let's go. I'll take you to find Eldest Senior Brother now."
"Alright." Lu Chuan nodded.
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