"If one had known what emptiness was from the beginning, there would be no pursuit of meaningless things. Just like humans, entire civilizations may also fall into spiritual dilemmas. If they lack appropriate guidance at critical moments, they can easily fall into extremes. But if a civilization can consistently produce a large number of Philosopher Kings and great thinkers, great practitioners, this civilization would not fall into such situations."
"Then, the critical point arrived."
Shang Lin casually grasped, and the Ancient Gods saw a vast array of "timelines" resembling film strips surging out from the void around Shang Lin. The scenes on those timelines were familiar to everyone; they weren't the planetary history of the real universe, but... the art style was from the game "Civilization."