Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 656 - 044: Era and Destruction

Those entities that mastered Time Power, through expanding timelines, created one parallel Plane after another, existing attached to the Main World.

On the timeline they opened, the opener becomes akin to the Creator God, almost wielding authority over the past, present, and future of the entire parallel Plane.

They refined parallel Planes along the timeline, making breakthroughs in stagnant skill bottlenecks, entering another vast domain.

The Divines holding authority above the starry sky also discovered the benefits of creating parallel Planes. Through parallel Planes on another timeline they opened, using authority comparable to the Creator God, they directly refined entire Planes as Earthly Divine Kingdoms to provide faith for themselves.

Therefore, despite the uniqueness of all realms, no one could create more than one timeline.

But in that Golden Age, endless time,

also accumulated countless experts able to master time.

The torrents of time developed forward, enduring several tens of millions of years,

with the Main World as the foundation, parallel Planes interdependent, forming an extremely prosperous Multi-universe System.

In these various Plane systems, perhaps the intelligent life forms and even Extraordinary Power differ, but due to their fundamentally identical structure, Power Systems are interchangeable.

The Extraordinary Power of parallel Planes could be used in any parallel Plane on another timeline.

As a result,

with the birth of the Multi-universe, numerous Power Systems emerged like bamboo shoots after the rain, and many Postnatal magical creatures evolved from various parallel Planes.

Parallel Planes could traverse and interact, relying on the Main World. Numerous life races, countless Extraordinary Power Systems woven together made that pinnacle of civilization development in the Golden Age!

Then,

war descended.

An unprecedented war,

swept through the entire Multi-universe.

This mighty war engulfed all races of the Main World, along with the Divines above the starry sky, into unending fires of conflict.

Countless beings perished in this war, the blood of intelligent beings sprayed across the battlefield could nearly cover the entire Main World, large sections of parallel Planes shattered, and more of those majestic beings who created timelines withered and fell, only a few escaped the war, but ultimately vanished into chaos, never to be seen again.

Numerous parallel Planes suffered severe damage, the entire Multi-universe System teetered on the brink of collapse.

The Golden Age thus ended.

The battling intelligent beings fought to a near mutually destructive level, on the vast earth, the once prosperous civilization could no longer be seen, only ruin as far as the eye could see.

The land was littered with white bones, the charred, broken earth stretched for miles without a trace of human habitation, narrating the grimness of a war that nearly annihilated the entire Multi-universe.

In the war, countless life races faced extinction; of the once powerful Golden Race existing since the creation, barely one remained out of a hundred, and the survivors of the fierce flames of battle looked out and saw that, whether their kind or enemies, had been buried in the vast land.

Thus, the war quieted down.

The Golden Age ended, the world entered a new stage:

The Silver Era!

The origins of the war that ended the Golden Age were buried in the torrents of history, forever unretrievable.

No one knows why the war erupted, nor does anyone know if something behind pawns pushed everything amidst this war.

All have been buried.

The torrents of time roll forward, the Silver Era slowly begins to unfold.

With the war's end, the Golden Race, with losses beyond measure, retreated from the world's main stage, and silently licked their wounds in the background.

And due to the war, many existences from parallel Planes on opened timelines perished, the parallel Planes they left behind remained unruled but continued to exist attached to the Main World, some contested, some waged war, each following its own path, including the pathways of Extraordinary Power evolving towards the apex.

After their respective chaos, perhaps tens or hundreds of thousands of years passed, Postnatal beings within parallel Planes emerged at the peak after following paths of their native world's Extraordinary pathways, breaking through barriers of their origin world, they arrived at the Main World, reopening channels between the Main World and parallel Planes.

With many Postnatal beings from parallel Planes entering, the Main World flourished once again, and Divines discovered faith as a new kind of Power, starting to cultivate followers among the Postnatal beings.

With warfare restoration gradually unfolding,

The Multi-universe gradually regained Primordial Qi, with the Main World as the trunk, numerous parallel worlds grew and extended like prosperous branches.

Only this time,

The world's protagonist was no longer the Golden Race that spanned realms and wielded such authority they were akin to Divines in the world.

Nor did numerous parallel Planes attached to the Main World have every timeline's parallel Plane possessing a "Creator God", over ninety-nine percent of parallel Planes lost their master, the fate of parallel Planes was no longer controlled by individuals but was in the hands of countless beings on the entire Plane.

Numerous Postnatal beings, through pathways opened by pioneers linking parallel Planes to the Main World, entered to survive in the Main World.

These Postnatal beings born from parallel Planes, although they lacked the endless lifespan of the Golden Race and the inherent easy mastery of authority akin to Divines, they could, through various cultivation routes like Fighting Qi, Magic, Summoning Spirit, Wizard, etc., elevate their Power to the peak, stepping into mythic-like Realms.

Despite the treacherous, arduous path, there remained a glimmer of hope.

Until the Silver Era reached its peak.

Then,

war descended once again.

A war that swept through the entire Multi-universe, across countless parallel Planes, akin to the dreadful war ending the Golden Age, descended upon the world again.

It was a war named the Strife of Ten Thousand Paths.

This was an irreconcilable conflict arising when cultivation paths ideologies proliferated to the apex!

Countless divergent Extraordinary Power Systems brought from parallel Planes, after developing over tens of millions of years, assembled at the terminal ends of pathways, ultimately igniting that unavoidable war.

Fighting Qi, Magic, Wizard, Summoning Spirit, Beast Taming, Primordial Qi, Nebula, Soul Ring... numerous Extraordinary Systems built the pinnacle of prosperity in the Silver Era's civilization but also sowed the seeds for the ultimate destructive war.

Like the conclusion of the last Golden Age, the Silver Era headed towards extinction amidst the great war sparked by the Strife of Ten Thousand Paths.