Over a hundred thousand years ago, when the Ancient Civilization faced utter destruction, it split into several factions, just as so many novels had described.
The two main factions were naturally the Holdout Faction and the Escape Faction.
History proved that the Holdout Faction really did hold out to the end, and was wiped out to the last.
But they also succeeded in stopping the expansion of the Dark Matter Sea, bringing it to rest.
This region of the universe welcomed a new human civilization over a hundred thousand years later, so they could not be called failures.
As for what became of the Escape Faction, there were many conjectures. In the vast majority, their end was hopeless, even miserable.
This was not a curse born of hatred, but the result of countless calculations using various mathematical models.
Jing Jiu had also made a few simple calculations and found that the Escape Faction's end was indeed bleak.
The boundaries of the universe were difficult to reach, and other galaxy groups were just as difficult to reach, like the Other Shore in mythology.
Even if they departed directly from the edge of the Local Group and headed for the nearest galaxy group, the journey would still be long enough to bring a civilization to extinction.
The Local Group contained trillions of stars and spanned more than ten million light-years, so why could the Ancient Civilization and the present-day humans of the Galaxy Alliance reach most places within it? The reason was actually very simple: both the Ancient Civilization and present-day humanity possessed star charts of the Local Group.
These star charts did not refer to information such as the distribution of star regions or their relative positions, but to the invisible curvature-rate voids between the stars.
Curvature-rate voids were like earthworm