The Impact of War (VI)

Xi Shenlian's blood relative?

Although, in Xarad Coles's own view, he could not be considered one at all.

At least, by the conventional standards of Earthlings, he could not.

A relationship separated by who knew how many generations.

In the eyes of Earthlings, it was truly somewhat distant.

To insist on calling it blood relation.

It genuinely felt somewhat forced.

According to the original views held by many Earthlings.

Those whose blood relation stretched beyond five generations were not so much relatives as, at most, acquaintances.

Bloodlines extending beyond ten generations were often not even enough to make them acquaintances.

Without something like a family tree.

Most of the time, everyone would not even know who the others were.

Relatives?

What relatives, my ass...

But then again.

That was what he thought.

His view could not represent everyone's view.

In the eyes of many beings in the outside world, Xarad Coles was indeed someone who could be considered a blood relative of Xi Shenlian. In fact, all of humanity on Earth could be considered Xi Shenlian's blood relatives...

Ultimately.

As immortal beings, those mere thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of generations of blood relation meant nothing at all when placed against timescales of hundreds of millions or even countless billions of years. Since everyone could naturally produce so many generations of descendants in such a short time, they could be considered blood relatives—close relatives who had appeared in great numbers in the blink of an eye.

It had to be said.

In terms of their views, the gap between them was truly enormous. They could not be said to be completely different, but they were definitely as unrelated as cattle and horses.

At least among Earthlings, no one would dare step forward and claim to have some