At this moment, Sheng Chang'an recited the names of countless tribes and factions.
They had all been supreme heroic souls who once fought for the Human Race. They were also those whose place in Immortal Realm history had been altered by the Human Race, those slaughtered by the Ten Thousand Clans.
That was right—they were the ones who had once fled into the various cosmic star seas of the Three Thousand Great Worlds, the so-called Star Sea Remnant Race, those who had followed Shi Rongxian to their deaths that year!
Even after the Heavenly River War ended, they had been treated as traitors to the Great Age. The Human Race had never acknowledged them. To acknowledge them would be to acknowledge the Human Emperor's mistakes, to acknowledge the Human Race's sins. That would strike at the Human Race's spirit. Yet time could bury everything!
But now, in the name of the Human Race Co-Lord and with the Mountains and Rivers Decree as his command, Sheng Chang'an bloodily tore everything open and faced it all head-on.
"Today, I invoke the Human Race Mountains and Rivers Decree to clear the names of our race's heroic souls! They committed no sins, nor should they apologize to the Ten Thousand Clans. They should ride the wind alongside our Human Race and receive our race's offerings as well."
Sheng Chang'an's voice surged to the heavens, shaking the Mountains, Rivers, and Eight Desolations as Heaven and Earth bore witness together.
By a great river.
Bai Mengli had already become a figure of tears. She had once been the Human Race's Great General of the Heavenly Wasteland, someone who would not have furrowed her brow even when fighting to her death. Yet upon hearing these words, tears streamed down her face.
She had waited far, far too