The first star that passed away extinguished two thousand years ago.
Four hundred years later, the mysterious Calamity of Heavenly Fall destroyed the civilization of the previous era, returning thriving cultures to ignorance.
Since then, stars gradually vanished, the Firmament grew dark and dim, and a new civilization rose from the starless wilderness, flourishing once more.
Yet, what accompanied this were war, death, destruction, and hatred.
The flames once aimed at the Firmament were used to slaughter the people of enemy nations, and the raining clouds once engineered to alter deserts were turned into floods that engulfed the land.
Humans once again began to kill each other for wealth and power... but no one looked up at the sky.
They lost the Guidance of the stars Above the Sky, forgetting the awe of gazing upon the Milky Way.
They were all prisoners.
One thousand six hundred years after the Calamity of Heavenly Fall, a young child awakened memories of his past life.
He wanted to break the Cage, to throw off the shackles.
He wanted to become a star.
To return to Above the Sky.
"I don't care about how the people of this world live, whether they're well-fed or not, whether they can dress warmly or live comfortably, whether they have dreams or hopes. I don't care about their loves and hates."
"I just want to go Above the Sky."
——Ian.

"...So, are the Thousand-Star Beasts now the ones beneath the Terra Continent?"


Ian paused for a moment and couldn't help but sigh as he asked, "It's because the Thousand-Star Beasts stabilized the structure of the Terra Continent that we didn't completely perish in the Calamity of Heavenfall?"


The Huai Guang Swarm replied softly, their tone also filled with emotion: [If it weren't for the Thousand-Star Beasts absorbing most of the energy from the Heavenfall, perhaps the ground beneath our feet would have been shattered and dissolved like the New Moon in the sky]


[But the price was an out-of-control proliferation of the Thousand-Star Beasts for a period of time. If we hadn't, at the last moment, united all of Terra's forces, including many mentors at the time and an Ancestral True Dragon to seal them, Terra might have ceased to exist long ago]


Ian gazed at the pitch-black, shapeless substance before him — this was the body of the Thousand-Star Beasts.


Chapter 1720 - Chapter 330: The Cradle of the Ring World and Embrace Light's Reward