"Could the civilizations you mentioned be those legendary lost ones?" Zhu Yanyi looked at Yan Aohan with uncertainty. In her past life, she had read rumors about lost civilizations at night, but she had never imagined they actually existed.
Legend has it that Earth was born 15 billion years ago, and life appeared 4.6 billion years ago. Once life emerged, civilizations naturally arose. According to some ruins, modern humans are not the only advanced life forms on Earth. Before our current humanity, other civilizations existed—at least four or five. Thus, modern human civilization is either the fifth or the sixth.
"That is correct," Yan Aohan nodded seriously. "In fact, the Yan family, which protects the nation, inherits directly from the First Civilization."
"Lost civilizations really exist?" Zhu Yanyi asked curiously. "So, which number is our current human civilization?"
Yan Aohan smiled lightly. "If we count strictly, we are in the Fifth Civilization. Actually, the concept of 'civilization' is just a boundary humans draw to mark the stages of past development."
"Your Yan family has existed since the First Civilization?" Zhu Yanyi looked at Yan Aohan in great surprise.
Yan Aohan glanced at the sky. "The First Civilization can be called the Superpower Civilization, or the Supernatural Civilization. Here, we might call it the Immortal Civilization. Back then, due to specific environmental conditions on Earth, people could cultivate and possess supernatural abilities. Some could even ascend. Most people had these powers, and flying around was a common occurrence."
"Immortals really exist?" Zhu Yanyi’s face showed utter disbelief.
"I thought you already believed immortals existed in this world," Yan Aohan said, puzzled by her reaction.
"I do believe it," Zhu Yanyi said seriously. "But I always thought immortals were beings living in four-dimensional, five-dimensional, or six-dimensional spaces. We can’t see them, just as two-dimensional ants can’t see us, yet we can see them. To those immortals, we are invisible to them, but they can see us. Once we shed our physical bodies in this world and leave only our spiritual essence, we can travel to those places."
Yan Aohan chuckled. "Immortals do exist. Including Guanyin you saw, or others you’ve met—they are all real. However, these individuals achieved their status through cultivation in specific environments. The First Civilization was exactly like this. Otherwise, how would stories like Pangu creating the heavens and Nuwa creating humans occur? These are real events from the First Civilization."
Zhu Yanyi stared at Yan Aohan in disbelief. She never imagined such a civilization existed. "So, is your Yan family also a member of that First Civilization?"
"More or less," Yan Aohan smiled faintly, not elaborating further on the Yan family’s history. "As civilization progressed, by the time of the Second Civilization, the humans created by Nuwa gradually developed their own wisdom. They began to cultivate following the methods of the First Civilization. These are what we call post-natal cultivators. This made the people of the First Civilization feel an unprecedented crisis. The newcomers were too diligent and posed a threat."