Chu Yuan, Heluo Mebis, and the others who had come from the Heavenly Sect Era were also stunned. How many cultivators did an entire civilization have? Too many to count. Rune Ancestor led the cultivators of Rune Technology into battle with overwhelming power, filling the starry sky in dense ranks.
What kind of hatred could make an entire civilization face death without fear?
Chu Yuan and the others didn't know, but Lu Yin did. The Sixth Continent had stolen the Fifth Continent's sky. From then on, the Fifth Continent could never again produce an Ancestor. It was an immense hatred—one so deep that even Ancestor Hui had calculated across the years to bring about the Sixth Continent's collapse.
Jiu Yao clenched his fists. He hadn't experienced the wars of the Dao Origin Sect Era, but he'd heard this story countless times. Because of this battle, the Sixth Continent had also fallen into decline, and could no longer do anything to the Fifth Continent. Otherwise, they wouldn't have stopped at stealing its sky; they would have enslaved it.
The hatred between the Sixth and Fifth Continents ran too deep. They had never let it go and had always wanted to enslave the Fifth Continent. Yet because of this battle, they had to delay that war until after the Upper Three Gates were breached. If not for Rune Ancestor, how could the Fifth Continent have become what it was today? How could they have had the strength to scheme against the Sixth Continent?
Later generations remembered the tale, but no one understood why Rune Ancestor had challenged the Sixth Continent with an entire civilization. He and all of Rune Technology had sacrificed themselves. Many thought it wasn't worth it. Only the Sixth Continent understood: that battle had knocked out their last fang.