"I know little of the First Era. Most of what I know is conjecture based on the traces they left behind."
Dao Ancestor Taishang shook his head as he spoke.
"Tai Shang, did you know that, while traveling the All Heavens, I once found traces of someone from the First Era? His name was Huang An..."
Seeing this, Jiang Yang told Tai Shang everything about Huang An.
Tai Shang listened quietly, then nodded and said,
"Someone from the First Era, an Observer? I have encountered such people, and heard of them too."
Smiling, he shifted sideways into a more comfortable position and continued.
"In the countless years since the Immortal Clan entered the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens, we have experienced countless things. Although encounters like these are exceedingly rare, quite a few have accumulated over the long years."
"To my eyes, they are ghosts from the First Era, slumbering within the myriad living beings of the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens. Every ghost possesses special abilities, and a mortal's lifespan."
"And they all come from the prosperous period when the First Era was still in its ground-based industrial age, rather than the glorious future age of interstellar voyaging."
"At every stage of the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens, at special time nodes in every world, such people may appear. They often become their world's saviors, or overthrow its current rulers."
"I suspect this is also one of the contingencies the First Era left behind."
"They are making unknown preparations. Or perhaps these ghosts will truly awaken in the distant future."
Tai Shang smiled, seemingly finding this approach very interesting.
"Supremes can roam the surging Long River. But the final period of the First Era was screened off by a mighty power. Even I cannot learn what exactly happened during