Linear History

Chapter 527 – Changing Skies

Updated up to Chapter: 2446 (More to be revised in the future). *Work in Progress.*

## Ancient Era, Heavens Sect

Humanity had existed with the Origin Progenitor at helms who had created the stellular energy and the Heavens Sect to rule the universe, which also known as the Daosource Sect. It held the Three Realms Six Daos, the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas, and the Twelve Heavenly Gates with humanity at it's peak. Progenitors were encouraged to create their own, unique forms of power, and thus many organizations that did not rely on stellular energy appeared. Peerless experts such as the masters of the Three Realms Six Daos rose to power.

In the boundless universe, there existed the Six Mainlands floating through the heavens. They were connected, but were also located a great distance apart. Each mainland has an extremely vast region, which includes countless planets and galaxies. They are, respectively, the First Mainland, the Second Mainland, the Third Mainland, the Fourth Mainland, the Fifth Mainland, and the Sixth Mainland. Each and every one of the Mainlands has a Daosource Sect, and everyone was under the Daosource Sect's authority as they are a cultivators’ origin and end. There are many parallel universes that had existed with the Heavens Sect was the strongest and oldest alliance in human history. The word 'sect' even originates from it.

The Three Realms Six Dao refers to the sect master of the Six Mainlands, which each contained Dao Monarchs which each had ruled the Six Mainlands. The Mavis family had ruled the Second Mainland, Gui Yizhi had ruled the Third Mainland; Wilderness God had ruled the Fourth Mainland, the Lu Family had ruled the Fifth Mainland, and the Garan family had ruled the Sixth Mainland. There also existed the the Ancient Progenitors such as Destiny, God of Death, Wu Tian who had created alternative than stellular energy such as Destiny who can peer into the past, present and future of fate, the God of Death who created death energy, and Wu Tian who created the Sword Monument.

## Disintegration of the Mainlands, the decline of humanity

The Aeternals had existed alongside the Heavens Sect but were insignificant compared to humanity and the Heavens Sect at it's peak. Due to the plot of the Aeternals, two generations of top experts of the Heavens Sect had been sealed and locked away. With two generations of top experts that had vanished, it created a large gap between cultivation generations, which gave the Aeternals an opening. If humanity had continued to develop normally, then powerful Progenitors would have continued to appear in large numbers, but with the gap in generations, allowed the Aeternals' plot to succeed.

The Second Mainland had been plotted by the Aeternals and the Second Mainland had disintergrated. The Mavis family who had been the rulers of the Second Mainland were the only survivors and were rescued by the Lu family.

There's a river that runs from east to west across the Third Mainland called Turtledove River, and that was the War of Turtledove River, which buried half of the Third Mainland's Progenitors and broke the Mainland apart, splitting it into two pieces. It paved the way for the Third Mainland’s destruction. Progenitor Yōu Ming was a ruthless character, and it was she, not those monsters of Aeternus, who tore Turtledove River apart. At the cost of splitting the Third Mainland in twain, she single-handedly buried an ancient monster, achieving a remarkable victory rarely seen throughout the Human-Aeternus war. Although her victory practically broke the Third Mainland in two, it successfully forced Aeternus's forces back. It's unknown when afterwards, but the Third Mainland's Dao Monarch Gu Yizhi had betrayed humanity and joined the Aeternals and became Ancient God, one of the Seven Skygods, with the Third Mainland also collapsing.

The Fourth Mainland had collapsed and became the Astral Beast Domain and merged with the Fifth Mainland. When the Fourth Mainland had collapsed, many humanoid sourceboxes had flown out from the destruction, as they were cultivators who used the Stone Origin technique to protect themselves.

The first four Mainlands disintegrated and the Daosource Sects in those Mainlands all vanished completely, with only the Fifth Mainland and Sixth Mainland remained.

## Daosource Sect Era

The Daosource Sect Era was after the Dao Chosen of the Fifth Mainland Lu Tianyi and become a Progenitor and was the Lu family contemporary ancestor. The disintegrated Mainlands collapsed and were merged into the Fifth Mainland, where the inheritance of the four remains. The Daosource Sect of the Fifth Mainland held the authority, with the existence the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas still intact. The Nine Mountains and Eight Seas represented the nine Progenitors that the Fifth Mainland had and a title, which in turn represented the Fifth Mainland's Daosource Sect’s greatest land of inheritance.

The Fifth Mainland and the Sixth Mainland had still existed and the Fifth Mainland ushered in a new era of strength. During this time, all Nine Mountains and Eight Seas had been claimed by the Fifth Mainland and Progenitor Chen had monopolized Two Mountains and one Sea. Although far from the heights of the Heavens Sect era, the Daosource Sect era had managed give rise to Progenitors that claimed all Nine Mountains and Eight Seas which even during the Heavens Sect was not fully mastered as the qualifications to become the master of the Mountains and Seas were extremely difficult. The Rune Progenitor, Progenitor Ku, Progenitor Chen, Progenitor Hui, Lu Tianyi, Bai Wangyuan, Wang Fan, and Progenitor Smoke all came from the Fifth Mainland and were masters of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas.

In many ways, even though the Daosource Sect era was dominated by the masters of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas and had not been humanity’s golden age, it had definitely been the most harmonious.

The Daosource Sect had ruled the Fifth Mainland, and with the masters of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas overseeing everything, no one had dared to act out too much. Each major family and sect had been free to develop on their own, and no one was allowed to casually initiate a war. Many people had lived carefree lives during that era.

During the Heavens Sect era, human civilization had reached its pinnacle, but it was during the Daosource Sect era that humanity had enjoyed peace and prosperity.

## Fifth Mainland and the War against the Sixth Mainland

The Mother Tree was once connected to the Fifth Mainland with the Lu Family that ruled. The Wang family had an elder had betrayed humanity and became the greatest redback of the generation and became one of the triggers to the war which the Fifth Mainland had against the Sixth Mainland. The reason why the Fifth Mainland waged such a brutal war against the Sixth Mainland was also due to the Nan family’s Progenitor Nan. Progenitor Nan who instigated the entire war, and Progenitor Chen had personally refined Progenitor Nan into ashes with his innate ability of Heavens Furnace in front of the Sixth Mainland's Daosource Sect.

The Fifth Mainland had lead the attack against the Sixth Mainland with Progenitor Chen leading the charge, setting off a war between both Mainlands. Unbeknownst of the Sixth Mainland, they were used as a tool by the Aeternals, with most of the Progenitors of the Fifth Mainland had to fend off against the Aeternals' attack at the Daosource Sect.

With the involvement of the Aeternals, the Fifth Mainland had limited power to hold against both the Sixth Mainland and the Aeternals. During the war, Progenitor Chen managed to slay two Progenitor of the Sixth Mainland. The Arrow Progenitor of the Sixth Mainland had fallen within the Fifth Mainland’s Daosource Sect during that war. The ancient bloodline of the colossal giants went to war against the Sixth Mainland and slaughtered many of those during that war, unfortunately for the colossal giants, they have met their end and were at the brink of extinction due to that war. However, the Sixth Mainland’s invasion took up half of the Fifth Mainland’s strength, which was why the Fifth Mainland were defeated by the Aeternals.

### Fifth Mainland's Defeat

The Fifth Mainland suffered a crushing defeat to the Sixth Mainland.

It was believed by those of the Fifth Mainland and the Perennial World that when the Fifth Mainand’s Daosource Sect collapsed the Lu Family and with many of the primeval surnames powers had abandoned the Fifth Mainland, migrated to the Mother Tree to become the Perennial World. Those from the Perennial World regarded those from the Fifth Mainland as stowaways, and the Fifth Mainland as the Forsaken Lands; while those from the Fifth Mainland regarded the powers that left the Fifth Mainland as deserters. Due to the abandonment, the Fifth Mainland hated the ruling parties of the Perennial World which resulted in the persecution of the Primeval Surnames if any were discovered in the Fifth Mainland.

The true history was that Progenitor Hui had created the Ceaseless Impetus as a means to block anyone below the Progenitor realm, provided there was a battlefield to separate them. Lu Tianyi of the Lu family had chosen to take on the eternal infamy and disconnect the Mother Tree from the Fifth Mainland in order to protect the Fifth Mainland. This truth was buried in history, and the Fifth Mainland had regarded the Lu family as abandoning them. The Hall of Honor was created by Arch-Elder Zen with the guidance of the Lu family's ancestor, Lu Tianyi who gave the Tri-Yang Ancestral Technique to Arch-Elder Zen, and the Sky Pillar which held up the Heavens Sect as the new headquarters of Mt. Microcosms in the Neoverse. Although Arch-Elder Zen was grateful towards Lu Tianyi for providing the inheritance for the Hall of Honor, he did not know the truth of the Lu family and the Perennial World's departure from the Fifth Mainland.

Progenitor Chen alongside the Rune Progenitor stayed at the Fifth Mainland to fend off against the Sixth Mainland.

## Sixth Mainland aftermath

With victory at hand, the Sixth Mainland had replaced the Fifth Mainland's sky, preventing the Fifth Mainland from birthing any additional Progenitors in the future. After the war between Daosource Sects, the Rune Progenitor had traveled upstream to challenge the Sixth Mainland with the rune system he had created and an entire civilization that had cultivated with it. Under the Rune Progenitor’s lead, countless people from the Rune Civilization rushed into the Sixth Mainland, dying the Starfall Sea with blood and mountains of corpses. The Rune Progenitor had died in the final clash against the Sixth Mainland, and the Rune Civilization's had decayed away. The Sixth Mainland suffered many casualities from the war again, as a result, no longer had the means to claim victory over the Fifth Mainland and enslave them.

Although the Sixth Mainland had won the war, it was a tragic victory, and that war is the reason why the Sixth Mainland lost many of their powerhouses. More than half of the Sixth Mainland's Daosource Sect was destroyed, and many of their inheritances were lost. Although the Fifth Mainland was eventually defeated and the Sixth Mainland changed the Fifth Mainland’s sky, all of that happened because of the Aeternals’ manipulations. Progenitor Nan was publicly reviled and condemned as a disgrace to all Progenitors and history of him had been erased.

The Sixth Mainland had been lead astray by the Aeternals and had been cultivating Imprints as their main form of cultivation method. Although it allowed weaker cultivators to imprint their ancestors and stronger Imprinters to strengthen themselves which they could overpower comparable cultivators of the Fifth Mainland's, Imprinters were inferior versions of the visualization technique, and once the Imprinter had died, the Sixth Mainland cultivators would lose their strength as Imprinting requires the Imprinter to be alive. After that war, the senior powerhouses seized most of the Fifth Mainland’s Daosource Sect’s futons and gave them to their disciples to search for destinies. Many of the futons were sent to various powerful clans as well as those who made certain achievements. Quite a considerable number of futons have also been left behind in the Sixth Mainland’s Daosource Sect and used as rewards. After the crushing defeat, the remaining forces left in the Fifth Mainland moved five of the mountains and five of the seas secretly to the Neoverse by senior powerhouses with their unbelievable power, in search for proper inheritors. In order to avoid the Sixth Mainland’s attention, they named those likely inheritors as the Cosmic Children and the Five mountains and Seas as the Astral Tower.

The Three Upper Gates were the gateway between the Perennial World, the Fifth Mainland and the Sixth Mainland. Although the Perennial World had left the Fifth Mainland and establish themselves on the Mother Tree, the Three Upper Gate was on the battlefield behind the Mother Tree in the Perennial World, which the Perennial World powers had guarded the Fifth Mainland from the Aeternals from targeting the Fifth Mainland.

## Perennial World, Lu family Exile

The story begins at the generation of Lu Xiaoxuan, Lu Yin's previous life. The Lu family had still ruled over the Perennial World, and lived at the Higher Realm while the other four families had been subservient to the Lu family. Lu Xiaoxuan was the direct descendant of the Lu family, with the Seven Heroes known as the next generation of young cultivators who had the most talent of the younger generation. At that time, Bai Xian’er was nothing more than an outer disciple that the Celestial Frost Sect had sent over to attend to the Lu family. Bai Xian'er would eventually become Lu Xiaoxuan's wife as they did get married, but that might have been the event plotted the exile of the Lu family. The White Dragon Rolls Over had pushed the Lu family out and exiled them with Lu Xianxuan somehow escaped to the Fifth Mainland with his life restarted and became Lu Yin.

## Trivia

Here are some other honorable historic mentions by the author to slow reveal of the history. Some of these have already been resolved into the linear storyline.

* When he arrived at the deepest point of the island, his pupils constricted when he saw five pikes pinning a dried corpse to the ground, the exact same scene as what he had seen in the centipede’s body. The writing within the Centipede is around the same time as the Daosource Sect of the Fifth Mainland. The person had been tortured.
* During the battle against the Sixth Mainland, a piece of the universe had been exposed to Lu Yin which contained no rune lines. Yuan Shi casually explained that this is the true universe. Star energy originates from the true universe, but what we use is not star energy, but rather stellular energy.
* One of the Seas of the Nine Mountains, and Eight Seas is within the Daosource Sect's ruins.
* Arch-Elder Zen stared at the broken third gate. That pair of bright eyes had disappeared, and after a while, the broken third door closed by itself. Upon seeing that, the Sea King’s laughter abruptly stopped, and his face turned pale. “Why? Why did the gate close?” Arch-Elder Zen let out a sigh of relief. “So they don’t want to have any interactions with us. Alright, it’s alright. The Sea King roared, raised the Sea King’s Trident, and slammed it upon the last stone gate. However without the blood stained cloak, his attack couldn’t damage the stone gate in the slightest.

The sky in this place is false.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 2045
2. ↑ Chapter 2438
3. ↑ Chapter 2048
4. ↑ Chapter 2015
5. ↑ Chapter 2446
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://www.wuxiaworld.com/novel/star-odyssey/so-chapter-626
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://www.wuxiaworld.com/novel/star-odyssey/so-chapter-806
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://www.wuxiaworld.com/novel/star-odyssey/so-chapter-649
9. ↑ Chapter 2147
10. ↑ Chapter 2044
11. ↑ Chapter 1882
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter 1839
13. ↑ Chapter 1368
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Chapter 1779
15. ↑ Chapter 2066
16. ↑ Chapter 2051
17. ↑ https://www.wuxiaworld.com/novel/star-odyssey/so-chapter-854
18. ↑ https://www.wuxiaworld.com/novel/star-odyssey/so-chapter-529
19. ↑ https://www.wuxiaworld.com/novel/star-odyssey/so-chapter-594