"We Historians chose not to investigate the stories of the Tribal Era. There was no point.
Perhaps saying there was no point is wrong. Mainly, the risks were simply too great.
That stretch of history was filled with the unknown and the incomprehensible.
It was terrifying. One wrong step, and the whole of Green Mountain might disappear.
I don't know whether you can understand this, but investigating that period serves no purpose.
Historians may seem able to travel through history, to have witnessed countless major events, to be figures of consequence,
but there are beings who found ways to use time and space to isolate certain 'natural phenomena' that posed too great a threat to us. They severed history, cutting it into sections that Historians could inspect in batches. Compared with such truly magnificent power, we Historians are insignificant.
Yet we are also indispensable!
We are their partners.
The trouble you've encountered now—I mean someone trying to possess you with his own Intent—is insignificant. This is not the first time it has happened in history. Ambitious men like Xia Jie are as numerous as fish crossing a river.
As countless as drops of water in the vast ocean.
Ordinarily, something like this alone would not give you a chance to see Green Mountain.
We've seen plenty of such things. Your arts have been imprinted within Green Mountain, so you belong to Green Mountain. But Green Mountain generally does not appear lightly. It cannot appear in normal time and space.
Every time Green Mountain appears, it takes a risk.
The risk of history collapsing.
In theory, history is most fragile in the period before Yin-Shang. The removal of 'natural phenomena' left history there fragile and thin.
Once a 'natural phenomenon' appears, that stretch of history becomes extremely fragile and could be