"The ancestral temple was like a beacon, guiding one sacred being after another from our human race who had fallen into the endless river of space-time back home..."
Gu Shaoshang nodded slightly. "So the Great Dao where the ancestral temple stands is completely independent of all the myriad Dao and space-time. It forms a whole unto itself and does not shift with the passage of Vast time..."
"You can be taught."
The old priest stroked his beard and nodded in satisfaction. "Time advances endlessly, space exists without bounds... The ancestral temple lies outside time and within no space, transcending all the myriad Dao."
"Do you know why?"
At last, the old man looked at Gu Shaoshang again.
"The Blood of the Human Ancestor!"
Gu Shaoshang understood inwardly.
"That's right."
The old man smiled. "The ancestral temple is like a beacon, guiding back many sacred beings who have not completely fallen. Whenever one of the ever-burning lamps in the ancestral temple goes out, it means a sacred being of our human race has returned by reversing space-time."
"This was also necessary for the many sacred beings who wished to return after the Human Ancestor and Cang Ancestor's battle shattered Vast reincarnation."
"Reincarnation on the Vast Continent was destroyed in that battle?"
Gu Shaoshang raised an eyebrow slightly. He truly had not known this.
He had only assumed that the Vast Continent had no reincarnation.
"Correct."
The High Priest nodded. "That was the most terrifying war since Vast's creation, after the Chaos Era, the Wild Era, the Mythic Era, and countless other unimaginably long epochs."
"The Cang Clan had been at the height of their power then. They had been the supreme overlords of the Chaos Era, Wild Era, and Mythic Era... On the eve of the Human Ancestor attaining the Dao,