Helier's ruins had still been inhabited over sixty years ago, so some of the ancient structures here remained relatively intact.
But after the Turbid Tide arrived, every civilization had been destroyed for different reasons. According to the surviving Helier people, Helier had shown disrespect to the gods, so the gods had sent down divine punishment. Gods and ghosts from another world had destroyed the entire city.
Zhang Yu did not readily question this claim, because divine punishment from gods was indeed possible. Some powerful alien gods truly possessed such abilities.
And Helier was indeed one of the rare nations that did not worship alien gods.
Yes, Helier did not worship gods. They believed only in their own strength, believing that they themselves could accomplish everything gods could do.
At first glance, this seemed somewhat similar to Celestial Xia's ideals, but in truth, they were not the same thing.
The Helier people did not believe in gods. All their faith was placed in two objects: the "Wish-Granting Box" and the "Jar of Immortality."
The Helier people had come later to these ruins. They had fortunately inherited the knowledge and most of the legacy left behind by the previous era, including these two unfinished objects.
From the knowledge left in the ruins, they had learned that no one could escape the coming end of an era. Thus, they had attempted to complete these two objects in order to evade the destruction destined to arrive.
But judging from the outcome, they had failed to do so.
At that moment, Zhang Yu halted. Before him lay a vast pool, roughly a li across. The statues that had once stood around it were now toppled in every direction, while shattered skeletons littered the ground all around.
The "iron soldiers" who had come through earlier had