Chapter 978: The Guidance Of The Sword Immortal
One of the defining traits of intelligent beings was their capacity for thought and calculation. For humanity, a thinking and calculating enemy was far easier to deal with than one driven purely by animal instinct.
Take the Ancestor of Wisdom, for example. He had created the Reaper civilization and advocated for the humanization of the intelligent faction of the Reapers. In their war with humanity, the intelligent Reapers knew how to weigh options, employ strategy, and, most importantly, consider the balance between cost and gain. They had clear goals.
This gave humanity the opportunity to engage them in a battle of wits. But if the Primal Faction were the ones leading the war, their tactics would always boil down to mutual destruction, launching attacks regardless of cost. The purpose of their attacks would be nothing more than the act of fighting itself.
That kind of warfare would strip humanity of all ability to predict their opponents. All deterrents would become useless, and in the end, they would be dragged into an endless, irrational conflict that offered no meaning, only destruction. The losses would be irreparable.
That was why Lin Beichen had said the Ancestor of Wisdom’s dominance was a good thing for humanity. Between two evils, one must choose the lesser. Moreover, the Ancestor of Strength’s combat strength was simply too overwhelming.
If he ever launched an all-out assault on humanity with no regard for the cost, the fragile balance of power between the two great races would collapse in an instant. The human forces on the galactic front would suffer devastating casualties.
In the end, only a handful of top-tier powerhouses from both sides might remain, while everyone else would become mere cannon fodder in a senseless, apocalyptic war. The Five Human Emperors had no desire to witness such a scenario, but neither did the Ancestor of Wisdom.
“The battle at the Holy Ruins back then was actually a site chosen deliberately by the Ancestor of Wisdom,” Lin Beichen explained. “And the fight wasn’t between me and the Ancestor of Wisdom. It was a joint effort between the Ancestor of Wisdom and me to seal away the Ancestor of Strength.
“But that cunning bastard planned it all too well. He dragged me into it, making me the one who had to stay behind to maintain the seal and keep the Ancestor of Strength suppressed, ensuring he would never rise again.”
Lin Beichen recounted everything that had happened.