After finishing the story of humanity's most ancient age in the First Era, which was also everyone's oldest story, "Teacher" smiled softly and said,
"The Star Spirit's final gift, nurtured in the flesh and blood of humanity's ancestors."
"By your classification of human peoples, perhaps we humans of the First Era could be called the Star Clan."
Jiang Yang and the others nodded. They could imagine what a coincidence the birth of First Era humanity had been.
But hadn't life itself also emerged from coincidence?
Perhaps every coincidence was inevitable!
Teacher continued.
"The most ancient human ancestors died, and the first human ancestors were born."
"There were ten thousand of those first humans who emerged from the flesh and blood of the most ancient ancestors!"
"It was those ten thousand who gave rise to all the humans alive today!"
"Those first humans were born with the same forms and builds as ours."
"At the time, heaven and earth overturned. The entire world was shrouded in foul smoke, volcanoes erupted ceaselessly, and tsunamis devoured everything. Countless lives perished in that unparalleled catastrophe, and every trace of civilization on the land was swept away! Survival was all but impossible!"
"So the first ancestors had no choice but to hide in all sorts of caves and underground, struggling to survive and reproduce."
"Sometimes, the caves and underground caverns could not accommodate too many people. So the people of that time took the names of the ancestors from whom they had been born as their clan names, splitting into more than two thousand clans and living separately as clans."
"They set out from their birthplace and gradually spread throughout the surrounding area."
"But the clan born from the leader of the most ancient ancestors did not migrate any farther, remaining on the land where