The so-called survivors generally referred to living beings who lived within ruins, remnants that had survived since the Previous Era.
If the ruins were relics of the Witch Era, the survivors within them were generally called witchfolk.
"What exactly do you think ruins like this are?" Xiao Luo Si R suddenly asked.
"You?" Song Ying 2.0 frowned. "Why 'you'?"
She always noticed details that others overlooked. That "you" gave Song Ying 2.0 an indescribably strange feeling.
"I mean scholars like you who study ruins." Xiao Luo Si R replied casually.
Song Ying 2.0 eyed him suspiciously before thinking for a moment. "Generally speaking, we see ruins containing survivors as well-preserved Blessed Lands from the Previous Era. They were independent spaces opened up by the powerful figures of the Old Era... We still don't know why the Previous Era was destroyed, but the excavation of so many ruins seems to suggest something. There's a theory that every era will eventually face an irredeemable calamity. Before such a calamity, even the ancient Primordial Ancestral Spirits couldn't escape. When the great calamity arrived, even the Primordial Ancestral Spirits were insignificant. All they could do was open up one ruin after another, allowing as many of their people as possible to survive."
Xiao Luo Si R said, "According to that theory, wouldn't they just be imprisoning themselves?"
Song Ying 2.0 said, "Look at the ecological environment of this ruin. For the vast majority of the survivors, they probably couldn't reach its edges even after an entire lifetime. If they spent their whole lives living on this land, how would that be any different from living outside? People are born in cages. No matter how high they climb, they're merely jumping from a small cage into a larger one. Cultivators are trapped in the endless