At these words, the other twenty-five Elders naturally turned their attention to Ye Muxuan. Ye Muxuan nodded slightly. He knew what the Grand Elder had entrusted to him, and after joining the Virtual Universe Company, he had also begun to make some progress.
"Our people didn't start out living in a secret region. They migrated here from other Universe Kingdoms." Zhong Li began slowly, recounting the hidden history of their people. "Billions of years ago, our people still lived on a blue planet teeming with life. One day, our leader claimed to have encountered a life-and-death crisis. After it dragged on for several thousand years, our leader fell!"
"Our leader had already reached Immortal Level!"
"After our leader fell, many of our people left our Mother Planet in search of a way to survive. Some chose to stay behind."
"But the good times didn't last. Our leader's enemy finally found our Mother Planet and fought a fierce battle against the resources our leader had left behind. In the end, those resources were destroyed, and the Mother Planet was shattered along with them!"
The twenty-six Elders in the great hall all looked grave, and many had tears welling in their eyes. The leader had been an Immortal-level powerhouse, and anyone who could be their enemy was undoubtedly an Immortal too—perhaps even a powerful one among the Immortals. To such powerhouses, a planet teeming with life was incredibly fragile. They didn't even need to attack it directly; the shock waves from their battle could shatter it.
"When the Mother Planet shattered, countless members of our people died. One of them used a World Ring to save many of the weaker members, then fled aboard a spaceship. With the strength of a World Lord, he fled and fought his way through the universe,