"Forget it. At least we made it out. I can't really complain anymore. Let's go—to that Spirit Crystal Land you mentioned. It seems to be the place where the King of the Evil Race was destroyed back then?"
"No. The original Spirit Crystal Land had actually disappeared long ago. At its core, it was merely the combined energy of an Earthly Supreme. Moreover, during the first century after the Dou Qi Continent began transforming into spiritual energy, spiritual energy could not immediately fill the entire Dou Qi Continent. This intensified the exploitation of the existing Spirit Crystals, accelerating their depletion. Within less than a century, they had vanished completely."
"The current Spirit Crystal Land only emerged after Jian Mu took root and spiritual energy became abundant."
"Essentially, when the concentrations of dou qi and spiritual energy become too high, they undergo a fusion reaction, producing Spirit Crystals that are nearly solid. Their value is no different from refined Supreme Spirit Liquid. That is why the newly formed Spirit Crystal Land is no longer beneath Jian Mu's roots, but at the convergence of Zhongzhou's Spirit Veins."
"...So this plane of yours was once invaded by an Evil Race as well."
After setting off again, Lin Jing lowered her head and watched as crystals with strange silver-gray metallic gleams gradually appeared below, growing more numerous by the moment. Unable to help herself, she asked.
"Indeed. It was a race known as the Tunling Clan, which invaded around fifty thousand years ago."
Xiao Se calmly recounted the history he knew. The efforts of their ancestors, the choices made by the previous generation, and the final bloodshed—his mother's biographies had mentioned all of it to some extent.
"I see."
"Theoretically, that is correct. However, I did not personally experience that era. Everything I know