Eastern Continent, Great Xia, Oceanic Province...
As the most powerful and awe-inspiring nation of this age, and the core region of human civilization, the Eastern Continent—home to countless billions of Hua Clan people—was not only the homeland that every Hua Clan person yearned for, but also the pinnacle of human civilization and power in this era. Whenever historians of the human race spoke of the most important reason humanity had survived after the Great Cataclysm, the trinity of Eastern Continent—Great Xia—Hua Clan was always placed in the most prominent position.
Without the Hua Clan, without Great Xia, humanity would have perished in the first two Holy Wars. This was a consensus acknowledged by nearly every human historian. And anyone with a clear understanding of this age would sigh with the same sentiment—the Black Iron Era belonged to the Hua Clan and Great Xia.
In this age, the survival of the Hua Clan and the strength of Great Xia had become humanity's greatest hope of continued existence.
Without delving into the histories and legends of more distant ages, the human race at present had nearly six thousand years of recorded history. Taking the Great Cataclysm as the dividing point, over five thousand of those years belonged to the era before it, while human history after the Great Cataclysm had not yet reached nine hundred years. Yet throughout those six thousand years of human history, a nation as powerful and prosperous as Great Xia had never appeared. Indeed, in almost all human history textbooks, it was difficult to find a country or alliance worthy of being compared with Great Xia. All those nations and alliances supposedly glorious and powerful in the history books, when set against Great Xia today, were like fireflies vying with the bright moon for radiance, instantly reduced to