Chapter 4

The Bolton Dynasty led the Eight Hundred Tribes and, through constant battles with the world, learned all sorts of strange abilities. These abilities enabled them to better conquer the world.

As The Bolton Dynasty's power grew ever greater, it aroused the dissatisfaction of the Saviors.

Seven Saviors chosen by William Brooks, among whom John Brooks and George Brooks grew old in the long wars, and Thomas Brooks and James Brooks were killed by enemies. Only Samuel Brooks, Henry Brooks, and Charles Brooks remained, all disapproving of The Bolton Dynasty's actions, and began their campaign against him.

The Bolton Dynasty kept retreating, but was forced into battle by Samuel Brooks and Charles Brooks. He and the two Saviors endured thousands of years of arduous and extraordinary battles, finally subduing these two largest tribes, making his own power unprecedentedly strong.

Only the last Savior, Henry Brooks, remained. Through countless battles, he too realized that only by uniting could humanity overcome disasters, and he voluntarily gave up his tribe's power to manage the floods that ravaged the land.

With the efforts of The Bolton Dynasty and countless others, humanity slew all the giant beasts that threatened mankind, and Henry Brooks controlled the floods that endangered humanity. All disasters were conquered one by one.

For the first time, humans could help William Brooks share the burden of the world's destruction. For the first time, there was a mythological world without disaster. For the first time, humans could wield great power and strive to help their own kind.

To reward The Bolton Dynasty, William Brooks made him king of the gods in this mythological world, elevating this legendary world to the Mythic Era.

The Bolton Dynasty became the ruler of the Xuanshang World, and also became a part of human consciousness. He represented authority, he represented wisdom, he represented courage, he represented perseverance—The Bolton Dynasty was almost the embodiment of all that is good in humanity.

The Bolton Dynasty was also the first to step from human status into the realm of divinity.

The Xuanshang Mythic Era became humanity's first barrier.

The Bolton Dynasty, leading his people and his followers, continued to fight for the fate of humanity, constantly entering other mythological and legendary worlds to help the people there.

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Zhou Earth Era——

William Brooks shattered the meteor that was about to destroy the earth and shouldered all natural disasters.

The Bolton Dynasty conquered the harshest lands, making the Xuanshang Mythic Era a paradise, humanity's first barrier.

Freed from these disasters, humanity gradually grew stronger. With their own independent civilization, humans began to fight for personal desires, competing for land, wealth, population—everything that could be fought over.

Humans did not hesitate to let the flames of war consume everything for their own preferences.

The Bolton Dynasty gained great power, but did not keep it to himself. To help humanity, he passed these powers on to the people of the main world, hoping they could use them to make life better. But humanity disappointed him. They used the power passed down by The Bolton Dynasty for strife, for slaughter, for conquering their own kind, for satisfying their own desires, but never to transform the world or make their own lives better.

Human power became so great that it itself became the source of the world's destruction. Endless evil wisdom burst forth, creating countless powerful spells. This was a world where immortals and demons coexisted.

As the struggles grew ever more brutal, humans used their great power to carry out large-scale massacres of their own kind, at one point reducing the population of the main world to a terrifying degree, and even causing human civilization to regress.

Even William Brooks's power was constantly weakened by humanity's self-destruction.

When William Brooks could bear it no longer, he intervened in the main world's wars, interfering with humanity's self-destruction, but he never expected that he would, for the first time, experience defeat.

He was the embodiment of human will, unable to resist the destructive tendencies that also arose from humanity itself.

William Brooks himself was even controlled by those among humans with evil wisdom, using forbidden means to make him a tool of destruction.

When The Bolton Dynasty learned of William Brooks's predicament, he selected a group of his bravest and wisest people to enter the main world, launching a brutal war.

William Brooks represented order, The Bolton Dynasty represented all that is good under order, but the people of the main world gave birth to another kind of thought, which they called "freedom"—believing that people should live freely, do as they please, fulfill all their desires, and not accept any restraints.

This war was not only a war between William Brooks and the main world, but also a clash of two different human ideologies. Both "order and freedom" could gain the greatest recognition from humanity. Everyone liked to live in a world with order, but at the same time longed to break the rules and have privileges.

In the end, those chosen by The Bolton Dynasty freed William Brooks, but still could not solve the problem. Humans remained obsessed with fighting, with enslaving their own kind, craving ever greater power, and caring nothing for the destruction of the world.

Among those chosen by The Bolton Dynasty to enter the main world was a man named Benjamin Brooks. He observed both order and freedom, and invented ritual and music!