[Wasn't it lying?]
Ming was taken aback. Its thought was—could a liar's words be trusted?
"That's right. The truly advanced kind of lie is telling the truth as if it were a lie," Huo Gu explained.
"For example, over these eight hundred million years since the downfall of the Hui civilization, there had definitely been countless civilizations that wanted to kill the Spirit Venerables. So when it said that no one had destroyed them throughout those long years, that was the truth. Otherwise, it would not be speaking to us like this."
"Many civilizations had also been destroyed by the Great Destruction. That was true as well. We could confirm that from the intelligence of the Seventh Stratum."
After Huo Gu's explanation, Ming basically understood what it meant to "tell the truth as if it were a lie," but it still did not understand what Huo Gu had said before.
[What meaning does this information have for us? It's all information we already knew.]
"That's true, but I was thinking... was there any civilization that had reached our current level?"
"They had also mastered FTL travel, yet they still could do nothing against the Spirit Realm and the Spirit Venerables. They had continuously suffered attacks from the Great Destruction. What we were experiencing now was exactly what they had once experienced."
Huo Gu voiced the concern that had arisen in his mind because of the Spirit Venerables' words. Over eight hundred million years, countless civilizations had emerged. Had there really been no alien civilization like the Amoebas, one that had developed physics to such heights?
If there had been none, that would have been fine. It would mean their odds against the Great Destruction were unknown. But if there had been, then the situation was undoubtedly terrible, because it would