Major Eras

Yellow Sand City resembled ancient desert civilizations in its architecture. The entire city shone with a golden hue, and everywhere one looked there were cultivators entering and leaving the gates.

Seeing such a lively scene, Bai Lan felt somewhat surprised.

Only sects with divine inheritances possessed the tokens required to enter the Void Heaven Realm.

Yet the number of people gathered here was astonishing.

The first layer of the Void Heaven Realm was clearly the most crowded of all the layers.

There were likely hundreds of thousands of cultivators here.

However, this was not surprising.

The Void Heaven Realm had existed long before the Snow Clan was even born.

According to records, the Snow Divine herself had once cultivated within this realm.

That meant the Void Heaven Realm had existed for more than one million years.

In fact, the current age of the Heaven Realm itself was estimated to be around five million years.

Each million years was considered a separate era.

The earliest era was the Primeval Era, the time when the world had just been created.

During this age, only innate beings existed.

These were beings born together with heaven and earth.

For example, the Moon God, who represented primordial Yin energy, was the very first Yin force that appeared in the world.

Likewise, the Sun God was the embodiment of solar energy.

Together, they symbolized the sun and the moon.

Why these two innate deities created the Chaos Body remained a mystery.

After the Primeval Era came the Ancient Era.

During this era, the world was ruled by the Demonic Clan.

The Demonic Clan existed far earlier than humanity.

They had already developed an advanced civilization.

However, their race was extremely aggressive.

Different demonic tribes constantly fought each other.

This endless internal warfare gradually weakened the Demonic Clan.

Humans were also born during this era.

But at first, they were merely a branch of the Demonic Clan and were not yet called the Human Clan.

Humanity was a newly created race.

They were crafted by the innate goddess Nuwa, who used the Yin and Yang energies of heaven and earth to create them.

Their appearance resembled that of the gods.

Because of this, humans possessed great intelligence and wisdom.

After creating humanity, Nuwa became known as the Mother of Creation.

Humanity slowly developed and grew stronger.

By the end of the Ancient Era, they began rising rapidly while the Demonic Clan was weakened by internal conflicts.

The name Human Clan was also given by Nuwa herself.

The human form was considered a reflection of the divine.

Calling them the “Divine Clan” would have been too arrogant.

Thus they were called the Human Clan instead.

At that time, the Demonic Clan was still extremely powerful.

But because they were constantly fighting each other, they failed to recognize the growing strength of humanity.

Humans were still treated as subordinate races under different demonic tribes.

When the Ancient Era ended, the Age of Antiquity began.

During this period, the Demonic Clan declined completely while the Human Clan rose to dominance.

Even when the Demonic Clan realized humanity had become powerful, it was already too late.

Their internal divisions prevented them from uniting against humans.

At the same time, the Human Clan was protected by the innate goddess Nuwa.

She forbade the Demonic Clan from slaughtering humans indiscriminately.

Human civilization began flourishing.

Great heroes emerged one after another.

Interestingly, many human cultivation techniques were originally derived from demonic cultivation methods.

This was because early human cultivation systems were based on techniques learned from the Demonic Clan.

Over time, these techniques were modified and improved until they became perfectly suited for human cultivation.

Another important point was that during the Age of Antiquity, the Six Realms had not yet been created.

Cultivators did not need to ascend to an Immortal Realm.

All gods existed within the same world.

This created chaos.

Demonic gods, ghost gods, devil gods, and many other powerful beings lived together in the Heaven Realm.

Naturally, endless wars broke out.

This chaotic period later became known as the Mythical Era.

During the Mythical Era, countless powerful beings fought each other.

At first, the innate deities remained neutral and did not interfere in these conflicts.

However, near the end of this era, the balance between the innate deities was broken.

The gods began dividing the world.

The first realm to be created was the Immortal Realm.

To restore order, several innate deities cut away one fifth of the Heaven Realm’s land and separated it.

This region became the Immortal Realm, a place reserved only for gods.

At that time, the Heaven Realm was much larger than it was now.

Since many gods had been born in that region, it was designated as their new home.

But not all innate deities agreed with this decision.

As a result, another group of deities separated other parts of the continent.

They created the Heaven Realm, Dark Realm, Spirit Realm, Demonic Realm, and Ghost Realm.

As for the Underworld, it already existed independently with its own laws.

There was also the Devil Realm.

However, the Devil Realm was not counted among the Six Realms.

This was because it did not originate from the Heaven Realm.

Instead, it was a separate continent brought from outside the world by an innate devil spirit.

Its laws were completely different.

After arriving in this world, it naturally connected to the other realms.

By the time the Primordial Era arrived, the structure of the Six Realms had been firmly established.

From that point on, cultivators who reached the peak of the Human Realm had to ascend to higher realms.

The laws of the Human Realm would no longer allow them to remain.

The Primordial Era became the age of humanity.

Some of the Demonic Clan retreated to the Demonic Realm.

Others remained in the Human Realm.

The long-standing conflict between humans and demons began during this era.

Within humanity, the term Ancient Clan referred to the direct descendants of the earliest humans.

These first-generation humans still retained traces of demonic blood.

This was because early humans had lived under demonic tribes and often intermarried with them.

Even so, they were considered the most ancient lineage of the Human Clan.

Without them, later generations of humans would never have existed.

However, in the current era, there was little visible difference between Ancient Clan members and ordinary humans.

The Snow Clan, which Xue Yue belonged to, was not directly created by the Snow Divine.

However, it was clearly a continuation of an ancient clan lineage.

This suggested that the Snow Divine herself might have been a descendant of an ancient clan that had declined.

This theory had been confirmed.

Experts from older and more powerful ancient clans discovered that members of the Snow Clan, Ice Clan, and Cold Clan all possessed a trace of Fox Clan bloodline.

The Fox Clan had been a powerful tribe within the Demonic Clan.

Early humans could intermarry with many demonic races.

This was why many ancient clan bloodlines contained demonic ancestry.

Long ago, the Snow Fox Clan had ruled the snowy regions.

Therefore, the ancestors of the Snow Divine likely belonged to a human branch that had intermarried with the Snow Fox Clan.

Because so much time had passed, these conclusions could only be inferred through bloodline analysis and environmental factors.

One fact, however, was certain.

The Snow Divine was acknowledged as the ancestor of the modern Snow Clan.

All major powers recognized this.

Bai Lan looked toward the distant outline of Yellow Sand City.

Then she glanced at Hunmei behind her.

“Have you thought it through?”

“We’re about to reach Yellow Sand City.”

“Have you come up with something that can reassure me enough to let you go?”

Hunmei’s expression struggled for a moment.

Finally, she lowered her head.

“Fine.”

“You win.”

“I’ll make an oath.”

“I swear I won’t cause trouble for you.”

Hunmei said reluctantly.

They were already close to Yellow Sand City.

She had no time left to continue arguing with Bai Lan.