"Why?" The Starlight Master was genuinely surprised this time.

Logically speaking, with the divine assistance of the Wei Wo Zheng Sect, their fortune should be flourishing, and talents should emerge continuously over the years. How could they all be gone?

Just from my observation of those cultivating Gu to become gods, each seemed to be outstanding.

In fact, many among them were at the level of Mo Gan Yun and Qiu Yunshang, let alone those like Wu Zhibing and Dongyun Yu, who were even more numerous.

If they're not here, then where have they all gone?

"The upper echelon is turbulent."

The Young Master Xing lamented: "There's been mutual strife, some have died, but the vast majority were... tricked to death by the Dongfang Strategist."

The heart of the Starlight Master suddenly trembled.

Tricked to death by the Dongfang Strategist...

Is this the high-level of the Wei Wo Zheng Sect's term of respect for the Ninth Lord?

Such reverence?

The Young Master Xing gave a bitter smile and said, "Over the years, our Wei Wo Zheng Sect's upper echelon experts were far superior to this side, but did you know there was once a five-thousand-year gap?"

"A five-thousand-year gap? How so?"

The Starlight Master was truly shocked. What was going on?

Why hadn't anyone ever mentioned it?

"This is top secret! Whether on the side of the Guardians or at our headquarters, no one ever speaks of it. Because, it's a world-shattering secret of sorrow and calamity."

"During those five thousand years, although the Wei Wo Zheng Sect continued to have infants born, the vast majority were just ordinary. Regardless of the parents' high abilities, the children born were mediocre. Those with the best innate talent were only at most Level A."

"This situation continued for a full five thousand years. No one knew what was happening. At that time, while we were originally pushing the Guardians back victoriously, the situation of having no successors forcefully halted our expansion, and instead made us retreat."

The Young Master Xing took a deep breath and said, "Perhaps we are still too young to understand the pain of having no successors; but back then, it is said that the nine Vice Grand Masters were enraged daily."

"Yet, the entire sect had no idea where the problem lay, or what was happening. Hundreds of billions of people were having children, and yet not a single Level A was born?"

"One or two years might be passable; but over thousands of years, not a single genius emerged. The pace of the Wei Wo Zheng Sect's sweep across the continent was directly dragged to a halt by this incident."

"Because, without successors, even if we conquered the continent, we would eventually be counter-attacked and suffer even more. The foundation couldn't be sustained."

"One city, one town saying it's poor Feng Shui might be acceptable, but such a vast territory with tens of billions of children born each year, and not a single genius emerging over thousands of years? This includes children born at headquarters. It's simply unbelievable."

"After continued investigation, after thousands of years we finally understood, it was a single devastating scheme by the Dongfang Strategist that directly tricked us to death!"

"It is said that when the Wei Wo Zheng Sect was in a dominant position, the Dongfang Strategist directly used a devastating plan. He ordered the extraction of the innate talent and essence blood from thirty-six thousand five hundred boys and girls, rendering these over thirty thousand geniuses into cripples overnight."

"He simultaneously paid the price of having no descendants for life; laid down the Great Cycle Star Inversion Formation, triggering the power of the stars, and reversed the Heaven and Earth Destiny, inversely channeling all of Wei Wo Zheng Sect's fortune back to Heaven."

"Thirty-six top experts among the Guardians voluntarily sacrificed themselves, their bodies and souls turning to ashes, setting up the Little Star Battle Qiankun Array, aiding in the death extreme Annihilation Array, seizing a sliver of life between heaven and earth, extracting back the fortune that was reversed, and nurturing the Guardian Continent."

"Although they could only extract one or two percent, over such a long span of five thousand years, while there wasn't a single genius on our side, on theirs, they were constantly emerging... And it was those five thousand years that laid the foundation for the Guardians today!"

The Young Master Xing deeply inhaled: "If it weren't for that cruel Annihilation Array of utmost extremity, our Wei Wo Zheng Sect would have already unified the continent. We would have turned the entire continent into the blood food and nourishment for the Celestial Worm God."

The Starlight Master was horrified and felt a chill run through his body.

"Could such a thing truly exist?"

"Absolutely."

The Young Master Xing let out a snort: "Originally, there were no First level families on the continent, but after that there was. It's the Feng Yu Xue families, because such an array must require a bloodline connection to succeed."

"So... those thirty-six pinnacle masters, and thirty-six thousand five hundred boys and girls, were all contributions from the Feng Yu Xue families!"

"Linked by bloodlines, connecting the Celestial Stars. That's how the Guardian Continent as it is today was formed."

"And the Feng Yu Xue families, since then, became the largest families on the entire continent! Even if they were reduced to just one person, they would still be the largest families, and no one can change that!"

"I see... This is too cruel! Too cruel!"

The Starlight Master muttered to himself.

"Yes, truly too cruel." The Young Master Xing sighed as well.

The Starlight Master suddenly scratched his head and said: "But as far as I know, the Feng Yu Xue families are considered second level families."

The Young Master Xing sneered: "Because on this continent, there are simply no First level families! Not a single one! And the Feng Yu Xue families, to avoid the causality too great of being first, claimed themselves from the start as second level. Other families can only rank starting from third."

"...Because there is no first, thus, the second is effectively first. Also, all those who know of this matter acknowledge their three families as the first tier families."

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