"Look how that turned out."
He had meant to shelter the Spirit-Gathering Clan, only to end up dying first himself.
For a moment, Xiao Yan almost felt that the True Flame Emperor (Tou She Ancient God) was not all that reliable either.
"You cannot really blame the True Flame Emperor for this. That war was simply too brutal. The experts from the Dou Qi Continent's lineage alone lost nearly ten Heavenly Sovereigns. They had already given more than enough for the Great Thousand World."
A trace of respect flashed through the Spirit Emperor's eyes. Then he sighed helplessly. "We simply never expected the Extraterrestrial Evil Race to discover the Dou Qi Continent's location and launch another war there. That ultimately shattered the Dou Qi Continent and forced it to conceal itself."
"Thus, ever since Ancient Times, I have almost entirely lost contact with that branch of the Spirit-Gathering Clan. All I could sense was a faint thread of bloodline power."
His words helped Xiao Yan understand even more. No wonder the Spirit Clan had declined so badly. There was a reason behind it after all.
Judging by the sequence of events, the Spirit Emperor before him must have fallen shortly after the Dou Qi Continent was sealed off, no more than ten thousand years after the True Flame Emperor's death.
After this Spirit Emperor fell, the Spirit Clan's source of bloodline power had also been cut off. With tens of thousands more years passing since then, their bloodline power had indeed become pitifully thin. That they could muster even a single Six-Star Dou Sheng was already thanks to their ancestors' lingering blessings and the Spirit-Gathering Clan's bloodline.
No wonder even the Xiao Clan's historical records contained no accounts of a Dou Di from the Spirit Clan.
However, after the Spirit-Gathering