In The Age Of Mythology I Evolved Into A Stellar Behemoth

CHAPTER 84: The Dark Era

Wearing battle armor and carrying heavy weapons, Chen Chu and Xia Youhui stood at the street corner, making them quite conspicuous. Passersby couldn’t help but steal glances at them.

With the Federation having crushed the rebels and suppressed the remaining forces a couple of days ago, Lestrol City had regained a bit of vitality.

For instance, there were noticeably more pedestrians on the street, vehicles occasionally passed by, and some shops and restaurants had opened for business.

However, after the meeting, Xia Youhui's face remained unpleasant.

Chen Chu couldn’t help but ask, “Old Xia, did you have constipation this morning? Why do you look so grim?”

Xia Youhui forced a smile, “The reason I look bad is because of the blood seed issue.”

“Didn’t they say that the blood seeds scattered are all ordinary ones? They can’t break through the three heavens no matter how they develop; what’s there to worry about?” Chen Chu frowned.

“The main point is that the blood seeds remind me of some unpleasant events.”

“What events?”

Xia Youhui’s expression turned serious: “Under normal circumstances, once cultivators step into the first level of heaven, they absorb the extraordinary energy from the heavens and the earth to enhance themselves.”

“But over fifty years ago, when it all began, the energy in the world was even more barren than Keluoya, and cultivators could spend ten years without breaking through to the second level of heaven.”

“Then some people came up with the ‘human-eating’ technique, using as a reference the giant beasts that had first descended.”

“When the new era started, giant beasts often appeared, the most notorious being the world-ending giant python that emerged from the Aohé Sea, which hovered above the city, swallowing hundreds of thousands of people in one gulp.”

“It was said that at that time, the sky was obscured by its massive maw, and countless ordinary people turned into blood mist, shooting into the sky like a blood river.”

“The root cause was that when they came from the ‘high-energy’ world to ours, they couldn’t adapt to the environment and instinctively sought to replenish their energy.”

“From this perspective, some crazed cultivators determined that ‘humans’ were also a form of energy, and they conducted a series of experiments, including refining beef and mutton.”

“I don’t know the specifics, but as the blood refining technique spread, the entire world fell into a five-year dark era.”

“Back then, there were about one hundred and fifty countries in the world with a population of over three billion, but after those innate awakened ones suppressed the chaos and established the global federation, only over two billion people remained.”

Chen Chu suddenly inhaled sharply, feeling an endless stench of blood rushing toward him.

In just ten years, nearly a billion people died unnatural deaths; what a despairing and dark era it was, a mountains of corpses and seas of blood could hardly describe it.

But then Chen Chu furrowed his brow, “Wait a minute, with nearly a billion deaths, why haven’t I seen any information about this online?”

Xia Youhui shrugged, “Of course, it has been erased. Technology was much less advanced back then than it is now, and information wasn’t as developed.”

“In such cases, when incidents of city or town massacres occurred, news would turn into rumors once it traveled a thousand miles away, and most people just treated it as casual talk.”

“Moreover, those who witnessed and experienced it have mostly died, with only a few being soldiers and powerful cultivators sent to suppress the chaos.”

“In this situation, after the official narrative has spent decades downplaying that history, almost no ordinary person remembers those events.”

“Nowadays, people only know that period was chaotic, with giant beasts appearing everywhere, devouring humans, and the military bombarding many people with missiles.”