In the courtyard.
Qin Shujian sat facing the Human Emperor.
From the Human Emperor's words, Qin Shujian finally learned many things he had never known before.
The Demon Race's true reserves of strength lay not in the Eastern Continent, but in the other continents.
The demons of the Eastern Continent.
They were merely a remnant of that power.
At the time, the Human Race had just endured a great war and had no strength to spare to purge the demons from the Eastern Continent.
As a result.
The demons of the Eastern Continent took advantage of the Human Race's recovery to launch an attack, dealing them a devastating blow.
What followed was much simpler.
Under the Demon Race's onslaught, the Human Race steadily lost ground.
Their strength had already been exhausted in the war against the Three Great Continents.
However.
The Human Race was still a great race, and powerful cultivators emerged among them one after another during that period.
Though they retreated under the Demon Race's pressure, they managed to preserve their legacy.
For the tens of thousands of years that followed.
The Eastern Continent belonged to the Demon Race, while the Human Race barely survived under their oppression.
Difficult as the situation was.
Compared to complete extinction, it at least preserved a glimmer of hope.
After the Human Emperor finished, Qin Shujian slowly spoke. "Until six thousand years ago, when you rose to power and led the Human Race's experts in a counterattack against the Demon Race, ultimately gravely wounding the Demon Emperor and driving all the demons into the Endless Mountains."
"More or less!"
The Human Emperor nodded and said, "The Demon Race is powerful, and its reserves are scarcely inferior to ours. After the war against the Three Great Continents, the Human Race's strength fell short