At the final moment of the Great Extinction ten thousand years ago, the safety devices of some Seeds of Life suddenly activated, forcibly sending the already-rampaging Firstborn into hibernation. That was how a small portion of the races in this universe managed to survive. The inhabitants of Planet Horleta were among the survivors. Although Hao Ren had yet to encounter any others, he believed there had to be more planets like Horleta that had survived the Firstborn's Calamity, merely hidden in some corner of the universe, waiting to be discovered.
However, the ones who activated the safety locks on the Seeds of Life back then were neither the seeds' built-in alert mechanisms nor the desperate self-rescue efforts of those Magic Emperors acting by sheer chance. They were the giant before them and some of his brothers and sisters—the Guardians who harbored bitter hatred and had just watched their mother be slaughtered by mortals with their own eyes. These Guardians activated the safety protocol at the control center of the Seeds of Life in the Center of the Universe, thereby protecting a small portion of Mortal Civilization.
In the Guardians' eyes, the very existence of the "mortal races" was the culprit responsible for their mother's death. They no longer trusted the loyalty or morality of any mortal species, nor were they willing to distinguish between good and evil among mortals. This belief was what caused all the Guardians to descend into madness and mutation. Yet the Goddess's final command forced some of the Guardians to retain their sanity. No matter how thoroughly rage and grief filled their minds, they still treated their mother's command as their first principle. That was why the giant before Hao Ren had survived while retaining his sanity.
This was the truth of ten thousand years ago,