Vast river of stars, endless constellations.
Before Bai Zhi, the chronicle of ages formed from the stars was rapidly flipping backward.
At the end of the Dark Era, the ultimate darkness that had shrouded the endless void was buried in the World Tomb along with that dark age. But new conflicts ignited between worlds once more.
If the worlds of the Dark Era had been lone wooden boats struggling atop an endless deep sea, each too busy saving itself to care about the others, then when the ultimate darkness shrouding all things receded, the situation instantly became a dark forest. Slaughter and war became the norm between worlds.
During that mad era, who knew how many worlds had been stripped of all their resources, destroyed, and cast into the World Tomb.
—They had not been devoured by the ultimate darkness, but they had effectively become nourishment for the growth of other worlds.
The birth of the [Mechanical Empire] came from the countless corpses beneath its feet... One general's success was built upon ten thousand bones!!
The chronicles of ages rapidly turning before them revealed without concealment the secrets of past eras, as well as the unique cruelty and bloodshed of those times.
A world's strength was closely tied to its [Origin].
And for a world to grow stronger, the fastest method was to seize the Origins of other worlds and integrate them into itself.
The stronger its Origin, the more resources a world could produce, and the higher its limits would become accordingly.
No matter how extraordinarily gifted someone was, they would still be limited by their world.
It was precisely because of this that there had always been so many tales of transcending tribulations and ascending. Only by going to a new and stronger world could that world support