Once he had dealt with all that, Sword Venerable casually waved a hand, and a small table and a tea set appeared before Ye Lin.
"Come, have some tea."
Sword Venerable sat before Ye Lin as though nothing had happened, speaking softly.
Ye Lin could not help but admire Sword Venerable.
Now this was what you called courage.
This was true courage.
Worthy of being the number one Primordial Unity Golden Immortal in the Star River Cosmos. Such boldness was beyond him.
"You went to the ancient era as well, so you naturally heard quite a bit."
"A prodigy with Chaos aptitude—even the Divine Beast Clan, with its flourishing fortune, might not be able to produce one. So why was the human race able to give birth to such an unparalleled monster as the Ancient Human Emperor?"
Holding a cup of hot tea, Sword Venerable spoke in a low voice.
Ye Lin frowned slightly.
He had indeed heard of it.
It seemed the human race had overdrawn its fortune, or something like that.
"You are right. Back then, in order to survive, in order to rise to their feet, the human race chose to make a desperate gamble."
"That desperate gamble involved using a secret art passed down from the Chaos era to make a wager with the Heavenly Dao, staking the future of the human race."
"The human forebears wagered the future of the human race—its fortune for tens of thousands of future calamity cycles—and only then did they produce a supreme prodigy with Chaos aptitude."
"And that wager also successfully drained the entire human race's potential. If they lost, the human race would disappear from the Star River Cosmos forever."
"But the human race was lucky. They won the wager. The Ancient Human Emperor was born and led