Continental History

Seeing the Great Golden Roc's clearly increased loyalty, Huang Long smiled faintly.

He wasn't afraid of the Great Golden Roc having low loyalty; he was afraid there would be no way to increase it. That would be troublesome.

"Alright, how long have you lived on this island?" Huang Long asked. Since the Great Golden Roc had already submitted to him, there was naturally no need to be as aggressive as before.

"Clan Chief, I have lived on this island ever since I was born!" The Great Golden Roc bowed, not daring to show the slightest negligence in answering Huang Long's question.

"How much do you know about this island? For example, those Leaves of Life? And anything else?" After hearing the Great Golden Roc's words, Huang Long thought carefully for a while before asking.

The Great Golden Roc froze, then looked at Huang Long in confusion. "Clan Chief, don't you know? Didn't you come from the continent beyond the island? Don't you know what is so unusual about this island?"

"Uh..." Huang Long broke into a cold sweat and smiled awkwardly. "I'm not too sure. Our Night Elf faction was accidentally teleported here, and there was nothing like this in my homeland. There weren't even any islands like this."

Could the Clan Chief be a creature from another continent? The Great Golden Roc wondered.

"There are other continents?" Huang Long asked in surprise, seemingly interested in the other continent mentioned by the Great Golden Roc.

"Oh, according to the inherited memories of our Golden-Winged Roc Clan, one of our ancestors once set out on a journey, flying eastward all the way. No one knows how far it flew, but in the extremely distant east, it discovered another continent. It traveled back and forth several times and only told a few people. However, it never explained the details of that continent clearly, so the matter has always remained a mystery."

"I see." A glint of amusement flashed through Huang Long's eyes. He silently counted himself fortunate and said nothing further.

"So what exactly is going on with this island? You seem to think that outsiders should definitely know about this place."

"This island is called Spirit Island. In truth, to humans from the outside world, this place could be considered a paradise." The Great Golden Roc smiled.

"Oh? Why do you say that?" Huang Long asked with an odd expression.

"Since the Clan Chief comes from another continent, it is only natural that you do not know. The Life Continent has now completely become a world of the undead. It should now be called the Fallen Continent!" A trace of mockery appeared on the Great Golden Roc's face, as though it were ridiculing the humans on the continent.

"How did it become like this? What happened on the Life Continent?" Huang Long hesitated. Although the humans of that continent did not share his origins, they were still fellow intelligent beings. There had to be a reason they had suffered such a calamity.

"Clan Chief, perhaps you do not know the status the elves once held on the Life Continent. Every member of the elven race was an aristocrat of the Life Continent. Magical beasts, humans, humanoids, demi-humans, and other intelligent lifeforms were all under their rule. Back then, every race on the Life Continent cultivated energy filled with dense life force. Although my own power is purely metal in nature, I obtained quite a few Leaves of Life, so I possess a trace of the life attribute as well. In those days, every living race could cultivate life energy, and the source of that life energy was the elves' mother tree, the Ancient Tree of Life."

"Because of this, the elves were exceptional in both talent and appearance. Although they were few in number, at their peak there were only five or six thousand of them, yet they held the power of life and death over every living being on the continent. Their lifespans were also extremely long, reaching thousands of years. Other than magical beasts, which lived more harmoniously with nature and were thus closer to the elves, nearly all living races suffered under elven oppression and rule. The elves also controlled everyone's cultivation lifeline, so there were calls for them to surrender the Ancient Tree of Life and not monopolize it. Of course, these were merely rumors spread by a small group of ambitious people whose goal was to overthrow the noble and gentle rule of the elves."

"At their head was a cruel group of goblins. Every one of them possessed exceptional intelligence, but because of their natural limitations, they were poor at cultivation. The goblins, who were already physically frail, received great protection from the kind elves. Under the elves' care, they discovered their powerful talent for creating machinery. Unfortunately, the goblin race had long been jealous of the elves' beauty. The ugly and wildly ambitious goblins decided to exterminate every elf, and so a conspiracy slowly unfolded."

"About two thousand years ago, the goblin chief at the time, some fellow named Haro-something-sen, somehow gathered every elf together. He then joined forces with the human race and the demi-human race, who ranked among the top three powers on the continent, to surround and suppress the elves. The completely unprepared elves were all hunted down. The few remaining elves no longer dared to reveal themselves. The highest authority on the continent was usurped, and the elven race was exterminated."

"However, something unexpected happened. When the last elven powerhouse died, the Tree of Life collapsed! It shattered into seven fragments that scattered across the eastern continent and became seven islands. This island is one of those fragments!"

"What?" Huang Long frowned upon hearing the Great Golden Roc's words. "But what does this have to do with the undead? How did the undead appear?"

"Clan Chief, don't worry, I'm getting to it. After the Ancient Tree of Life collapsed, it became seven islands, but one section of its roots remained trapped in a deep pool. Relying on their many powerful weapons, the sinister goblins forcibly occupied the territory that had originally belonged to the elves. A thousand years passed like that, until one day, they completely depleted the life energy within that portion of the Tree of Life's roots. By then, there was not a trace of life energy left on the continent, aside from the occasional Leaves of Life people found on the seven Life Islands. And at that moment, an accident occurred..."

"Great Golden Roc, I'm warning you. If you don't finish what you're saying in one breath, I'll show you why flowers are so red!" Huang Long kindly reminded it.

"Understood. When the goblin race exhausted all the life energy, a powerful undead aura instantly erupted from underground, where the Ancient Tree of Life had once stood. A vast undead army immediately flooded the kingdom built by the goblins. The goblin race was buried in an instant, vanishing into dust and clouds forever. Then the undead army swept across the entire continent, so the Life Continent has nearly fallen completely."