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Chapter 1169 - 818: The Cycle of the World (5K)

At this moment, he had abandoned all the dignity and pride that a demigod should have, pleading with a tone of supplication for Li Changhe to extend a helping hand to humanity.

This touched Li Changhe and his companions deeply.

"What exactly has happened to this world?" After a few seconds of silence, Li Changhe asked, "Since you already know that I am not a human from this world, and I won’t stay for long, what can I do to help you?"

Indeed, this was the situation Li Changhe and Wuji had already discussed.

Players do not stay in this world for long, and while it is possible for players to help the humans of this world, that’s about the extent of it. Unlike Great Tang, the entire civilization here has already shattered. Even if national officials were to go to great lengths to assist this world, the plight of humans would hardly change once the players left.

Then...what could he help with?

"Please...listen to me until the end, now, I will tell you..." the voice of the demigod echoed from the void: "What...has happened to this world."

As his voice spread, certain images flashed before everyone.

’This was originally a world ruled by the snake people, who, a millennium ago, defeated the giants, defeated the god of giants, and became the dominant race that ruled this world. They dominated the entire world.’

In the images, bizarre structures rose from the ground. Bipedal creatures, wearing various strange garments, walked among these buildings.

They resembled lizards standing on their hind legs but had very well-developed limbs. They are the race known as the snake people.

They possessed incredibly strong sensory abilities, and it could even be said that the whole race had a natural talent for spiritual energy.

They were originally a barbarian race hiding beneath the Volcano Peninsula.

Despite their strong talent, they were not taken seriously by the giant civilization at the time.

However, at a certain point in time, the snake people rapidly rose to power, developing tactics and extraordinary strength to target the giants. In just over a decade, they exterminated a vast number of giants, and destroyed the entire civilization of giants, taking over as the rulers.

Back then, humans had no semblance of civilization to speak of. They didn’t even have a writing system.

Their plight was merely changing from being the fodder raised by giants to becoming slaves of the snake people.

In the images, several humans, bare-chested, were carrying litters adorned with bizarre headgear, upon which the snake people rode.

The snake people sat on the litters, occasionally lashing out with a fiery whip, striking nearby humans. Sometimes the force was so strong it split humans in two, the rest of the humans could only drag the corpses away, with no resistance. Some humans, in order to please the snake people, even attacked their own kind.

Then the images flashed to a scene of humans mounting an assault against the snake people.

Hundreds of humans swarmed over one snake person, none of them surviving. The gap in strength was so despairingly vast.

’Back then, most humans lived in great suffering. Of course, there were also some who completely became tools of the snake people, serving them generation after generation. They repressed us and lived fairly well themselves.’ The voice of the demigod was filled with indignation and reminiscence: ’I too was once a slave to the snake people...I’ve felt the lash of their whip, I’ve participated in actions to resist the snake people, but all failed. I simply lived in despair, numbly, becoming a miner in the mines...back then, humans were still unable to defend anything. Until...his arrival.’

The images flashed once more, revealing a man clad in armor, his face wrapped in cloth.

He descended like a deity, accompanied by a number of knights in armor, arriving above a mine.

In the first moment, he killed the snake people nobility there, and slew many human traitors who followed the snake people.

Afterward, he freed the human slaves of the mine, and while taking them away, taught them the written word and extraordinary powers.

In that moment, he stood so tall and majestic. He lit up the hope of humanity. He also lit up the hope of Lanxiu.

This must be the later King of Humanity, just as the legends say, he saved mankind. He developed the extraordinary system that allowed humans to confront the snake people.

’He traveled through city after city under oppression, killing a great number of the snake people, freeing tens of thousands of humans. He became the biggest resistance force at that time.’

’And I, too, started to follow him around that time. I became a soldier transporting food supplies. I studied hard, I trained hard. Perhaps I had better talent. I learned quickly and soon advanced from being just a transport soldier to become one of his knights.’ The voice of the demigod was full of nostalgia: ’That was perhaps the happiest time, people’s eyes were filled with hope, believing their suffering was about to end.’

The rise of the resistance force greatly troubled the Snake People Civilization. They soon dispatched a large number of snake people troops to suppress it.

It was a dangerous war, humans now had the extraordinary system, but the time was too short, and very few among tens of thousands could master extraordinary powers.

In the early stages of the war, the human losses were significant. A large number of humans were brutally killed and hung on city walls as a warning to those trying hard ’this is the outcome of rebellion.’

By then, Lanxiu had become separated from the King of Humanity in the war.

But he did not give up, instead, he led a number of survivors, wandering within the regions controlled by the snake people, continuing to spread the extraordinary system and knowledge of writing.