Chapter 284 - 283: The Secret History of the Human Race from the Venerable Alliance: The World-Shaking War

Qin Yang searched his memories.

Damn!

Forget seeing it.

After all the time he’d spent slacking off in the library, he’d found zero records on the matter. Not even a single scrap of information....

Massive black holes hung high above everyone’s heads.

Yet everyone had gotten used to them, treating them as a part of daily life. Even the vast ocean of historical records seemed to mislead everyone.

’It’s as if someone... erased that part of history!’

"Heh, isn’t it perfectly normal for there to be no records?"

Upon hearing this, Meng Tianxuan simply chuckled, as if stating a simple fact. He then altered the Star Force projection in his hands.

The next moment.

HUMMM—

The Star Curtain shifted, forming into the nine black holes of the sky.

Countless phantom-like meteors shot out from them, trailing streams of light like comets as they plummeted straight to the ground, shattering entire mountain ranges.

"Back then, these nine black holes in the sky were unstable. The experts from the Alien Race who crossed over from another plane were completely unprepared. During their transit, they suffered a karmic backlash from the Celestial Dao and were all grievously wounded!"

Meng Tianxuan reached out and pointed to one area of the Star Curtain, zooming in on the details for Qin Yang.

Where the meteor had fallen, an oval, fluorescent sac had taken root deep within the mountain before being buried by collapsing rock and soil.

"Their near-death state forced Them to fall into a deep slumber. Meanwhile, we, the native creatures of Earth Star, received a blessing in disguise. This surge of the Power of Stars allowed us to unlock the path of Martial Arts Cultivation... to truly commune with the Heaven and Earth Laws."

"So that’s how it was..."

As Qin Yang listened, he watched the area around the fluorescent sacs. All life was budding and reviving, nourished as if by a whale fall. The world’s creatures were breaking free from their shackles.

The world of man prospered.

"During that time, the Human Race thrived. Countless experts rose, and brilliant talents emerged one after another... But alas, the good times did not last..."

Meng Tianxuan sighed, his brow furrowed with sorrow, and retracted the Star Curtain.

"Five hundred years later, those experts from the black holes awoke once more, bringing with them an absolutely supreme, crushing might.

They intended to enslave and farm the Human Race, even establishing powerful factions! They used Star Force to transform wild beasts, granting sentience to those creatures, all to suppress the Human Race’s momentum and wantonly slaughter us..."

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Qin Yang’s brow furrowed slightly upon hearing this.

"They bullied the Human Race like that? Did they really think we have no backbone?"

"Yes! The ancestors of the Human Race thought the exact same thing!"

Meng Tianxuan gritted his teeth, his fists clenched in anger. "We must fight back! We will never be sacrificial dogs, penned and raised for slaughter!"

He continued in a hoarse voice:

"Qin Yang, do you have any idea... that world-spanning war raged for three whole years? The very mountains and rivers were reshaped, countless Star Martial Artists sacrificed themselves one after another, the land was soaked crimson, and it became a scene of corpse mountains and blood seas."

As Meng Tianxuan spoke,

images flashed before Qin Yang’s eyes.

It was as if he could see that tumultuous, heroic age.

His ancestors, brandishing swords and spears, clashed with the invading experts from the Exotic Realm. The world crumbled around them in a tragic and brutal spectacle.

"After that, the Human Race paid an enormous price. Countless founding sect masters, innumerable peerless geniuses... only through their sacrifice were we finally able to deter those experts from the black holes..."

Meng Tianxuan’s voice was filled with sorrow, his Adam’s apple bobbing. "No one knows how many prosperous ancient kingdoms were caught in the crossfire, annihilated by the aftershocks of the battle.

From that point on, a chasm appeared in the historical record."

As he spoke,

he looked at Qin Yang and said, "If you want to find any historical records now, you’ll only find faint traces of that great war in the ruins of certain dead civilizations. The only other place is within my Venerable Alliance."

As his voice faded,

the air fell silent.

"..."

Qin Yang frowned, deep in thought.

’This is an insane amount of information!

I’ll need some time to digest all this.’

"Then why don’t you spread the word?"

Qin Yang asked in a low voice, "The sacrifices our ancestors made—their stories should be remembered by everyone."

"Spread the word?"

Meng Tianxuan gave a bitter smile. "The issues involved are not so simple that they can just be revealed."

"Think about it, Qin Yang. A world beyond the black holes, with experts above the Celestial Venerable Realm... and They see the Human Race as livestock to be farmed and enemies to be suppressed. If that news got out, what do you think would happen?"

"You mean..."

Qin Yang’s eyelid twitched. "It would cause a worldwide panic?"

"Exactly!"

Meng Tianxuan turned to gaze at the distant, glittering lights of the city. "You have to understand, a millennium has passed. The memory of that war has faded. Our entire social structure is built upon the Power of Stars. In a way... aren’t we and our enemy from the very same source?"

As he spoke,

he displayed the Star Force in his hand.

"The Power of Stars isn’t just the foundation for Martial Artists; it’s the lifeblood countless citizens depend on. From the moment people first learned to channel its power, they became unable to live without it."

Hearing this, Qin Yang looked a little dazed.

’Now I get why the Venerable Alliance suppressed this information.’

’People are all different. Every citizen would see this from their own perspective. Some would resist, others would approve, and the world would fracture. It’d be like a city suddenly losing all its power. The chaos would be unimaginable!’

"But once you suppressed those experts, the situation must have improved, right?"

As his thoughts reached this point, Qin Yang asked, "Surely you could have revealed some of it?"

"Heh, you’re still thinking too simplistically."

Meng Tianxuan shook his head. "Although the experts from the black holes were suppressed.

The organization They founded survived. It was passed down through the generations and evolved into today’s Beast God Sect. And my Venerable Alliance was what our ancestors created to be the countermeasure against them."

"The Venerable Alliance... is the countermeasure?"

At these words, Qin Yang’s expression turned odd. He shot a sidelong glance at Meng Tianxuan, suddenly feeling a wave of pity for the ancestors who had sacrificed everything.

’Unbelievable!’

’They went through hell and high water, gathered the best and brightest, and finally created an organization like the Venerable Alliance.’

’And its lineage was passed down through the ages...’

’Which previous Venerable Alliance Leader wasn’t a man of honor?’

’And look at it now!’

’It gets passed down to Meng Tianxuan’s generation,’

’and he turns out to be a sanctimonious hypocrite!!’

"I truly feel sorry for your Venerable Alliance."

Qin Yang shook his head, staring straight at Meng Tianxuan with a smirk. "TSK, TSK," he clicked his tongue. "To think that your ancestors sacrificed themselves one after another, only for it to fall into the hands of a piece of work like you and end up like this?"

"Never mind you inexplicably bullying my Heaven-Blasting Gang, all you know how to do is throw your weight around, picking on a junior like me. Did a dog eat the Venerable Alliance’s legacy?!"

"You! Do not insult my Venerable Alliance!!"

Meng Tianxuan’s expression flickered. He opened his mouth to retort, but after a moment’s hesitation, he refrained. Instead, he just let out a heavy sigh.

"Young Master Qin, I have no choice! If I don’t do this... the entire future of Earth Star will be ruined!!"