"What happened after that?"
Yuan Yu smiled, then said heavily, "Naturally, we tried to find a way to survive certain death."
"The Black Tide was driven back."
"But a few of the tunnels could no longer be closed."
"We exploited the Deities' instinct to repair the world and paid an enormous price to establish a balance between them and the Black Tide. With them occupied blocking the tunnels, they naturally had no time to bother with us."
"And in that battle..."
"Almost all our strongest fighters fell."
"Five Deities..."
"Fell as well."
"Several top factions, including the Daoist sects, were also virtually wiped out."
"We no longer stood out so much."
"So we were naturally less likely to draw the Deities' attention."
"Our descendants..."
"Could live on and multiply."
"Heh."
Yuan Yu gave a self-mocking laugh.
"But I just watched some images in the River of History. The Deities spared us, but that Green Lotus Holy Mother didn't. She hunted down our homeland's descendants to the last."
"She's afraid too."
"Even though she's become a Deity, that karmic debt still frightens her."
"Heh."
So that was it...
Jiang Qiao suddenly understood a little more.
Why the surviving descendants of the hometown civilization deep in the underworld had ultimately all perished. Even that stretch of history had been erased, leaving only the name "nether era."
Then another thought struck him.
Another question arose. "Is she under some kind of restriction?"
"She's already a Deity."
"Why does she hardly ever show herself?"
"She even used indirect methods to wipe out the remnants of that civilization deep in the underworld. When I've seen other Deities exterminate an organization, they just reach out and erase it."
"They don't even need to reach out."
"Just passing nearby is enough to kill everyone."
*That didn't make