Jiang Nan's heart sank, and his thoughts churned.
You could never know the grandeur and turmoil of a bygone age unless you lived through it yourself.
Jiang Nan hadn't thought about it that way before.
Born in a time of peace, with technology soaring and every industry thriving, everything had seemed only natural.
But was that really the truth?
It wasn't.
Everything they had now had been won through the sacrifices and struggles of countless predecessors.
The present existed because countless predecessors had poured their hopes into it.
Without them, Blue Star wouldn't be what it was today, and this era wouldn't exist.
The Holy Star had attacked Blue Star time and again, trying to turn it into a star ruin.
But every time, it had been driven back empty-handed.
Jiang Nan had always thought the ancients were incredible, standing up to an existence like the Holy Star!
A higher lifeform from an entirely different dimension!
How had they managed to win?
But it wasn't that the ancients had been especially powerful. It was simply that the predecessors had given everything they had, and in return, they had won an outcome they could accept.
They hadn't lost. That was all.
Before, Jiang Nan had only seen the result. He'd never considered what it took to get there.
Just how brutal and arduous had the journey been?
In the era of Ancient Su two thousand years ago, Xiao Di had used Time Reversal 127 times! She had exhausted everything to secure an ending they could accept.
A thousand years ago, Oracle God had slain nine gods in a frenzy, protecting his era.
Even Atlas, who had summoned Skyfall and blasted the entire Ancient Lantis Kingdom to pieces, had only wanted to grow stronger! To win!
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