Ming Zuo kept trying to explain, but Ming Gu wanted nothing more than to kill it. How could he possibly listen? He quickly locked it away, where no one could see it. Most importantly, he made sure Ming Qing couldn't see it.
"Elder, we can't keep letting them dictate the terms," Ming Gu said after locking Ming Zuo away. He then went to find Ming Fan.
Ming Fan said, "Let's leave things as they are for now."
Ming Gu had no choice but to do just that.
Ming Fan glanced into the distance. There was another reason it didn't deal with Ming Zuo, aside from their own reasons. It hadn't told Ming Gu—or anyone else, for that matter. Not even Ming Zuo.
It was afraid.
Not of Ming Qing, but of humanity. It knew all too well how resilient human civilization was. The Nine Fortresses had once shaken it to the core. They were the only civilization to date that had ever had a chance of replacing a Main Dao. The universe had never lacked powerful beings who could challenge a Master, but which one of them hadn't relied on the strength of their entire civilization? Take the owner of that Active Heart, for example. It had drained an entire civilization to reach that level.
Humanity's Nine Fortresses had been different. Not only had they produced Lord Mi, a super expert capable of challenging a Master, but each Fortress Lord had also been a formidable figure. None of them cultivated Life Without Limits, yet they had created Invincible Skills—an utterly terrifying feat.
Without that, Ming Qing would never have proposed rewriting human history. It had been meant to change the very nature of human civilization.
Even the Masters were wary of human civilization.
Now that human civilization had returned, it