Origin Altar.
An endless, radiant galaxy floated around Qi Sheng.
With the dual innate traits of Tong Weilai and Precognition in operation, intertwining bright and dark timelines unfolded before his eyes.
Taking the primordial Earth restored through temporal reversal as a fixed starting point, countless branching timelines extended toward the future of the river of time.
Billions of scenes depicting the rise and fall of civilizations cycled through his mind like flowing water.
The iterative history of countless million-year spans throughout this reincarnated spacetime unfolded before his eyes.
In the first generation of Earth's reincarnation, the dual-world space gave birth to its first intelligent race through Bloodstones scattered across the land: the Sacrificial Clan.
They were the first to discover that Bloodstone fragments could continuously produce origin energy. They began gathering every crimson crystal in the world and, relying on this perpetual energy-production system, built the first civilization of the restored Earth. At the time, the examiners still slumbered within the cracks of spacetime, and the world-ending trials had yet to begin. Yet prosperity and stability bred endless struggles for power.
In the end, the race split apart, and war spread across the land.
Before they could grow strong enough to touch the threshold of the trials, the Sacrificial Clan collapsed amid internal strife.
At the end of time, the temporal mechanism activated, and the entire world reset to zero.
Fortunately, the complete cultivation system the Sacrificial Clan had engraved into the Bloodstones remained alongside the Origin Flame, becoming the foundation upon which the next civilization began. The second civilization inherited the Sacrificial Clan's legacy and developed further, its power system steadily improving, only to finally suffer the Blue Lantern Clan's dimensional strike.
It ended before it could ever reach glory.
The third new civilization faced the first round of