Yun Yuan sighed, remembering old friends from distant ages past. "Ah, in those days, the Nine Heavens had divine palaces, and the Ten Earths had ancient lineages. What a glorious age it was, when the ten ancient earth lineages stood alongside the Nine Heavens Divine Palaces!"
"The Geng Metal Vast-Heaven Lineage cultivated the metal path of slaughter for generations. The Azure Wood Spiritual Vein possessed unending vitality; they claimed that as long as their lineage endured, ten thousand forests would never die."
"The Biqua Mysterious Vein commanded ten thousand rivers and the four seas; the Scarlet Fire Flame Lineage reigned supreme over the path of fire; the Thick Earth Suppressing Lineage held sway over earth veins, mountains, and rivers. Then there were the Thunderclap Heavenly Lineage, the Wind-North Pure Lineage, the Moon-Soul Nether Lineage, the Starlit Luminary Vein, and the Void Stillness Lineage."
"Each lineage was a cornerstone of the Ten Earths, specializing in a single Great Dao. Their clansmen's bloodline Arts all descended from that same source. Together with the Nine Heavens, they were known as the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, sharing authority over Heavenly Origin equally."
Yun Qing listened, somewhat spellbound. Though he had studied ancient history since childhood, he had not personally lived through those ages. Only now, hearing it from the Second Elder, did he truly feel the magnificent prosperity of the Heavenly Origin Continent of old, where countless paths stood tall and contended for supremacy.
The Second Elder also recalled those glorious years and sighed inwardly. In his youth, he had loved making friends and traveling far afield. How many of those old friends had long since vanished with the smoke and dust?
"When the catastrophe swept through the heavens, the ten earth lineages fought too fiercely. Afterward, they no longer had the strength