Treading the Stars
Chapter 4008

The Retreat

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Lu Yin smiled. "That makes things easier. Otherwise, if they reached a consensus and attacked Human Civilization first, we'd be finished. Wangliang has hidden away quite a few spirit treasures. If they joined forces, the Death Universe's Spirit Treasure Formation combined with Master Min's abilities could produce a Spirit Treasure Formation connecting to the Death Universe in a hundred years at most."

Shocking Gate Supreme Lord sneered. "Actually, I hope they join forces. That would mean Human Civilization poses a threat to them."

Lu Yin raised an eyebrow. "They won't join forces because they're both Fishing Civilizations. So, could we join forces with one side to destroy the other? Of course, we know nothing about the Death Universe or The Unknown. It's just an idea."

"Azure Lotus Supreme and the others had similar ideas. The Unknown left a gate in Human Civilization, hoping other civilizations would destroy us. We also wanted to expose The Unknown to the entire universe and have the other civilizations surround it, but..." Shocking Gate Supreme Lord sighed. "We can't. We know nothing about The Unknown, and we don't even know where the other civilizations are. If we tried, we'd expose Human Civilization too. It wouldn't be worth the cost."

"So Mijin Supreme's strategy was to hide. Hiding is best. We hide until we're confident we can face The Unknown head-on, until the day we, too, become a Fishing Civilization."

"Humanity rose through wisdom, and wisdom is infinite."

Lu Yin's eyes lit up. "Wisdom is infinite?"

"Mijin Supreme once said that, in the end, anything the universe laughs off can be achieved through wisdom."

Lu Yin was invigorated. The words weren't imposing, yet they carried immeasurable power.

The universe was rife with things people called impossible. Even Fishing Civilizations had heard countless such claims. Could wisdom

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