Chapter 35: Fish on Another’s Plate
Feng Chutang nodded when he heard the question. “That’s right. To this day, a human is still considered a top-notch sacrifice by the Shamans. They kidnapped at least a million humans for their rituals each year, and this number was even worse back in those days. They would often kidnap entire tribes and sacrifice all of them to their heaven, calling it the Great Consummation. In fact, the Liao had fought countless small and big wars against the Shamans to prevent this kidnapping. The belonging of the human race was also one of the main reasons the two races later entered an all-out war against each other.”
Everyone’s confusion only grew after hearing his answer, and Wei Yuan was no exception. Someone else asked, “In that case, why did the humans allow the Shamans to pass through their borders and cut off the Liao’s retreat on purpose?”
Feng Chutang replied, “The reason behind this wasn’t recorded in history, so I dare not conjecture as to why our ancestors had done this. Instead, I would simply tell you the outcome of this action. If you are interested in studying this part of our history, then you may investigate the relevant history books yourselves.”
He paused briefly before continuing in a measured tone, “After the Shamans’ main force passed through our borders, the Liao’s eastern legion suffered a crushing defeat and lost the Vast North King and Cloud Mountain King. A total of five hundred thousand cavalry troops were killed, and even more were wounded. As a result, the Shamans’ armies were able to advance unchecked for thirty thousand li before the reinforcements mobilized from the Liao’s rear finally showed up and stopped their advance two months later. The Shamans were originally slightly at a disadvantage against the Liao as a whole, but this major victory turned it into a slight advantage instead.
“Three years later, the war came to an end, and the Liao were forced to withdraw fifteen thousand li from their original borders. Just half a year after the war ended, a human True Lord successfully broke through the Heavenly Gate and achieved Ultimate Unity. He would become the first Immortal Lord in our race’s history.”
The scions were aware that the first Immortal Lord of the human race was born from a great war between the Liao and the Shamans, but they didn’t realize that the two events were connected. Now that Feng Chutang had put them side by side, even Wei Yuan, someone who was ignorant of the two events until today, noticed a little something.
The boys and girls exchanged glances with each other and stayed conspicuously silent. Looking purely from a historical standpoint, it wouldn’t be inaccurate to say that the human race was both treasonous and ungrateful. Yet, the emergence of the first Immortal Lord also marked the founding of the human empire.
As for Wei Yuan, he had a feeling that the True Lord who ascended to become an Immortal Lord had obtained the necessary resources from the Shamans.
In any case, this marked the end of their first lesson. Feng Chutang said, “Anyone who is interested in this part of our history may look into it themselves in their own time. However, I should warn you that these historical accounts are scattered across multiple history books. Each book only reveals a fragment of that history, and it is impossible for you to get a clearer picture until you have gone through a certain number. Anyway, that’s all for today’s lesson. In our next lesson, we will be talking about the Shamans. Their feud with our race has spanned over two hundred thousand years as well.”