When Eve finished speaking, He Zheng's mind went completely blank, and his body abruptly froze in place.
Only Aroro failed to understand, merely awed by how powerful the creature was. Even Ye Lin stood stunned, unable to believe that the being before him was actually the Jade Emperor of myth!
"Surprised, aren't you?"
"When we discovered this, we found it hard to accept, let alone understand."
Eve gave a bitter smile. Looking at the others, who could not utter a single word, she continued softly:
"But as we uncovered more information, we discovered that they had actually left many traces on Earth."
"According to this civilization's records, they lived near a high-gravity celestial body for a long time. As a result, for an extended period, time flowed far faster for them than in the lower disk of the Milky Way. The approximate ratio was one to three hundred and seventy."
"As I said earlier, the Milky Way resembles a silver disk, with thirty-six nebula bands at different levels within it."
"They must therefore have traveled from the lowest nebula band all the way to the uppermost level of the Milky Way. But when they returned to its lower reaches, their entire civilization suffered a devastating blow."
"We cannot determine exactly what caused their extinction. We can only speculate that the lower reaches of the Milky Way are a low-energy region, while their bodies had long since adapted to high-energy regions. Like a drastic environmental change, like the depletion of oxygen, this ultimately led to their extinction."
Silence filled the hall. Only Eve's voice remained.
If the Buddha and the ascenders had already struck everyone as utterly absurd, the corpse of the Jade Emperor before them left them unable to think at all.
*The Jade Emperor was a dinosaur, and the