Cui Wenjing could not help but laugh. “Powerful families may have been around for a long time, but not that long. We weren’t there for the transition to the current era, and we are not the descendants of clans from the previous era. As for matters regarding the previous era, everyone, including His Majesty, is in the midst of exploring them. So far, we’ve only been able to gather information from remnants of records and ruins from antiquity. We only know more than other people in the sense that we have a better grasp of the available information.”0

Zhao Changhe listened attentively.0

“The previous era should have been one where demons and gods inhabited the world. They could move mountains, fill seas, and split the world—or so it’s said. Now, descriptions like that are nothing but descriptions, but they should have really been capable of all that in the past. There are theories saying that they were too strong and their battles caused the world to collapse. Or maybe it happened for some other reason. In any case, heaven and earth were shattered in the span of a single night and the myriad gods p...4