“So that’s how it is.”

Su Chen felt extremely enlightened after hearing the Blood Ancestor’s explanation.

Even though the Origin Beasts had successfully expelled the gods, it turns out that they had been forced into hibernation because the gods’ plan to migrate the Origin Realm back to the center of the Origin Energy Sea had failed.

But before then, they had enjoyed a period of relative ease.

Just like the gods who had enslaved them, the Origin Beasts used their might to enslave the thousands of races left behind. For the Intelligent Races, this was the Dark Ages of their history.

Sometimes, suffering would only make an individual harsher instead of compassionate.

“So what is the Eternal Treaty?” Su Chen asked.

“I don’t know,” the Blood Ancestor replied with a shake of its head. “That probably took place after the gods were confined to the Kun territory.”

Su Chen said, “Maybe I should rephrase my question. The gods have been locked up in there for at least a hundred thousand years by now, right? Without any sources of divine power, they should not be able to live for that long. So why are they still even alive? Are there new gods being born, and are the current gods not the same ones that you all fought against?”

The Blood Ancestor immediately replied, “That’s impossible. The Deep Freeze...