The facts were just as Xi Yan had said. Since the previous era, one crisis after another had condemned the Heavenly People Empire of Faith to comprehensive decline.
After the Synthetic Queen was sealed for the first time, the Heavenly People Empire of Faith could no longer contend for supremacy in the Sea of Stars. It changed its name, abandoned its vast territories, and strategically withdrew into the Core Sector, becoming the Heavenly People Holy Guardian Empire.
Back then, the Heavenly People Empire of Faith had led the Star System Defense Alliance in driving away the calamity, then single-handedly spearheaded the postwar mission to rewrite the universe's rules and rebuild the Milky Way Galaxy. Its glory had been unparalleled.
Yet fate dealt blow after blow to this once-glorious empire, which had even saved the star system.
First, to conserve its strength, the Time Worm had been forced to return to the black hole, severing the connection between its spacetime powers and humanity and vanishing from countless timelines in an instant.
Humanity had lost the friend who had accompanied them.
Once the calamity was over, the Sea of Stars rebuilt, and everything settled, the Heavenly People Empire of Faith grew complacent and slowly began to decline.
Not everyone remembered history. Having lost the goal it had always striven toward, the empire seemed to rust, stagnating in every field.
A young civilization, meanwhile, needed very little time to rise. With the knowledge Worm Mom had bundled up for him, Xi Yan had led the Empire through a rapid ascent. Within a mere century of its founding, the entire Empire had surpassed the Lost Empires that had existed for millions or tens of millions of years in every respect.
Even without Xi Yan's knowledge, the Native Nations that had only just taken to