The Era of All Sages, as the opening chapter of the Recent Antiquity Era, left a profound and lasting impact upon The Present World.
So-called "unification of thought" did not mean making everyone's thoughts and ideas converge into one. The differences between people were precisely what embodied the vitality of the Human Race.
What the sages sought was to use a sufficiently great system of learning to contain the philosophies of all schools, cut away internal strife, merge all things into one, and thereby fully explain every question in the universe, so as to explore loftier heights.
In the end, of course, they failed.
The Era of All Sages had already become dust in the winds of history.
Jiang Wang vaguely felt that the Era of All Sages was an era very much worth studying.
After all, it had been the first act of Recent Antiquity, a new chapter for the Human Race after the Human Emperors.
Unfortunately, it was already too far removed from the present age, leaving only scattered fragments to recollect.
"Both the ancient Human Emperors and the archaic Human Emperors died after their origins were damaged in great wars. Only the Middle Antiquity Human Emperor died differently.
"After killing the Dragon Emperor's nine sons to forge the Nine Bridges, and driving the Dragon Emperor into the Cang Sea, the Human Race unified The Present World and became the only voice in this age, reaching the very pinnacle of the era. Yet constrained by the age itself, there was no further path forward. As the common sovereign of all under heaven, bearing the honored title of Human Emperor, if he could not lead the Human Race onward, he would instead devour the Human Race's fortune.
"The great Lieshan Clan divined the heavens, and received this hexagram—'A host