Yu Sheng was not from the Great Void Spiritual Pivot, but he could still hear the heavy emotion in True Spirit Qianji's words—a complex feeling that was difficult to describe in language alone, and could not simply be called nostalgia or relief.
"We of the Great Void place great importance on inheritance and our 'roots,'" True Spirit Yuanling said with a soft sigh, turning to Yu Sheng. "But we differ from the Terra Archaeological Association, which is likewise obsessed with tracing things back to their source. During the Cataclysm of Annihilation, Terra's various races once briefly had a refuge known as the 'Boundless Sea.' During that short respite, Terra's sages, known as the 'Firebearers,' left behind a great deal of heritage and historical records. Those relics were said to have been sealed within the 'Sunken Lake of the Lost.' So Terra's Archaeological Association clearly knows what its objective is—they only need to find the Sunken Lake of the Lost... But we're different.
"The Great Void Spiritual Pivot was 'dug out' of the ashes of the Cataclysm by the Ancient Holy Spirits. More than ninety-nine percent of the civilizations in this universe were dug out in the same way. For us, who had once been reduced completely to ashes, there was only as much as the Ancient Holy Spirits dug out back then. There was no chance of learning anything more. Even if we searched the entire universe, there wouldn't be another corner that recorded anything about the Great Void Spiritual Pivot or the affairs of the old world.
"My senior apprentice brother, Xuan Che's martial uncle, had also held some unrealistic hopes at first, wanting to search for traces of the old world. But after all these years, he found nothing..."
"So now you should understand why I rushed here,"