In addition to Liu Tianyu, the faces of the other three family heads in the venue, Liu Fengyu, Cheng Yuehu, Yin Zheng, and He Mang, couldn't help but change. The atmosphere in the stadium suddenly became solemn.

It was the first time for Lu Fang and the other participants to hear these four words, and they couldn't help but feel the change in the atmosphere in the venue.

Lu Fang couldn't help but ask: "Uncle, what is the 'Wave of Decline'?" ”

Cheng Yuelong let out a faint sigh, as if he was very reluctant to mention it. After getting Liu Tianyu's permission, he said slowly in a deep voice: "The wave of decline, this is a dark history on the sky and land. It was artificially sealed, all the relevant written and visual records were destroyed, and all those who witnessed it were taboo to mention it, so few people knew about it. Except for a few people in the Yuan Family who have lasted for hundreds of years like our five major families, there are very few people who know this period of history. We all know that after the 'Dawn War' more than 4,000 years ago, the Yuan began to intermarry with humans. More than a thousand years ago, the sleeping bloodlines began to appear. About 500 years ago, the first real case of a declining bloodline appeared. However, at that time, it was still collectively referred to as the sleeping bloodline, because people did not know the difference between the two, and they all thought that even if there was no bloodline awakening for five consecutive generations, the descendants would still have the possibility of awakening.

"Until more than two hundred years ago, a researcher collected the information of all the sleeping bloodline owners of the Tiantian Land and found that the sleeping bloodline that had not awakened the bloodline for five consecutive generations, and none of their descendants had ever awakened the bloodline. He conducted further research on this phenomenon and finally confirmed the scientific and absolute nature of this situation. He wrote a paper on the results of his research, and named the bloodline in which this situation occurred as the Decline Bloodline, which means that the Yuan people who possess this bloodline have declined into ordinary people, and their descendants have no possibility of becoming Yuan Beings anymore. As soon as the paper was published, it immediately caused an uproar.

"Because the Yuan Person, with its superior ability, enjoys the privileges that are far superior to ordinary people, at that time, even if the bloodline in your body was a sleeping bloodline, you could still enjoy the privileges of the Yuan Person. But when the sleeping bloodline is reduced to a declining bloodline, it means that this bloodline has forever lost the possibility of becoming a meta-person, so can the owner of the bloodline still enjoy the privileges of the meta-person? The answer is no. As a result, the Heavenly Land Kingdoms at that time reached a consensus: when a certain branch of the Yuan bloodline has not awakened for more than five generations, it will be recognized as a declining bloodline, and the bloodline owner and his descendants will lose all the privileges of the Yuan.

"When this decision was announced, many of the owners of the Fallen Bloodline fell from heaven to hell, not only were all their privileges far superior to ordinary people withdrawn, but they were even unable to live the life of ordinary people. When the owner of the declining bloodline loses the privileges of the Yuan, the people around them look at them from looking up to looking down at them, and even more so they don't treat them as human beings, and they are extremely discriminatory and insulting.

"If you think about it, from the beginning of the decline of the bloodline more than 500 years ago to more than 200 years ago, it spans more than 300 years, which is equivalent to the lifespan of a dynasty. During this period, the number of people with declining bloodlines born in the whole heavenly land is also a large number. Losing the privileges of the Yuan and the protection of the government, the family with a declining bloodline fell apart; Under the discrimination and insults of ordinary people, the owners of the declining bloodline survived in the cracks, and many of them committed suicide one after another. Within three years after the decision was announced, the owners of the bloodline and their relatives in the entire Tianlu declined, among which there were more than 200,000 suicides, which can be called the largest wave of suicides in the history of Tianlu. ”

"It turns out that this is the so-called 'wave of decline'." Lu Fang said with some sadness.

Cheng Yuelong shook his head, his face was still gloomy, and said, "No, this is just the beginning of the 'declining wave'. ”

"Start? And what about later? Lu Fang asked impatiently. This is also what the people in the venue who don't know about this history want to know.

Cheng Yuelong continued with a solemn expression: "The waves of large-scale suicides have come and gone, making those owners of the declining bloodline who are still alive begin to feel panic and dissatisfaction. In order to avoid being discriminated against and insulted by others, they either live together to help each other, or seek refuge in the family of the Yuan with better relations. Some of them protested to their respective governments to restore the privileges of the Yuan, but all of them were refused.

"In the fourth year of the decision to 'take back the Yuan Privileges of the Declining Bloodline', in our Jiuzhou City, an organization called the 'Declining Wave' was established and began to rise rapidly. The initiator of this organization is named Shao Feilang, and he is the owner of a declining bloodline. He had watched his loved ones and friends commit suicide one after another for the past three years, and decided to change all that. Because at that time, the Internet was at the peak of openness, and anyone could freely express themselves on the Internet anonymously and spread it rapidly. Shao Feilang exposed the tragic situation of the owners of the declining bloodline who were deprived of the privileges of the Yuan under the oppression and discrimination of ordinary people, and called on the owners of the declining bloodline to unite and fight against the government for their own interests. Shao Feilang's remarks were echoed, so the owners of the declining bloodline in Jiuzhou City gathered around him and established the organization 'Declining Wave' in order to fight against the government and ordinary people who discriminated and insulted them, and regain their lost privileges.

"The establishment of the 'Falling Wave' has undoubtedly become the spiritual sustenance of the owners of the almost desperate declining bloodline at that time, and under the impetus of the rapid spread of the Internet, in just one month, branches of the 'Falling Wave' have appeared all over Tianhua Kingdom. In the next three months, the 'wave of decline' swept across the continent. ”

Lu Fang couldn't help but be stunned: "I didn't expect the impact to be so big." ”

Cheng Yuelong nodded and said, "Yes." Looking back now, if the governments of the world had issued that decision at the same time as some compensatory policies to ensure that the owners of the declining bloodlines could live a normal life, perhaps the tragedy that would have been avoided would have been avoided. ”

"What tragedy?" Lu Fang asked impatiently.

Cheng Yuelong said: "After the 'Falling Wave' swept through the Heavenly Land, almost all the owners of the Declining Bloodline participated, and even some Yuan Masters who expressed dissatisfaction with that decision also joined in, because they were also afraid that if their descendants fell into the Declining Bloodline one day in the future, they would be treated in the same way. The members of the 'Declining Wave' gathered together and took to the streets every day to rally, preach, and march in various ways to pressure the government to regain the privileges of the Yuan. While the 'wave of decline' is in full swing, some extremists among the general public have also begun to fight against the 'wave of decline'. They also put pressure on the government every day, hoping that the government will strictly implement that decision and never back down. So at that time, such a strange scene would be seen in all parts of the land and earth: at the gate of the local government, the two sides of the 'declining wave' and the anti-'declining wave' confronted each other every day.

"Shao Feilang, the initiator of the 'Falling Wave', may have just wanted to make the owners of the declining bloodline regain the privileges of the Yuan through various non-violent ways to put pressure on the government, and he did not think of achieving this goal through violence. However, the headquarters of the 'Wave of Decline' is in Jiuzhou City, but it is impossible for the branches in Tianlu to be completely under the command and control of the headquarters, and in the process of the gradual growth of the local organizations, the people who are absorbed are naturally mixed, and there will inevitably be some radicals among them. So the 'Wave of Decline' movement began to spiral out of control.

"I don't remember which country, but it's a small country to the west. One day, when the 'Falling Wave' there was confronting the anti-'Declining Wave' forces at the entrance of the government, one of the owners of the Declining Bloodline found that one of the people in the opposite crowd was the murderer who had forced his relatives to death, so he couldn't control his anger and rushed out of his team, rushed into the crowd opposite, grabbed the person and raised his hand to beat him. It was this sudden situation that triggered a full-scale conflict between the two sides, and even the police and special police who were present to maintain order were powerless. By the time the army arrived to quell the dispute, there were heavy casualties on both sides, most of them being trampled to death, and blood was pouring down the walls of the local government.

"But this conflict became the trigger, and violent clashes erupted between the 'wave of decline' and the anti-wave of decline around the world. Governments moved quickly to deploy large numbers of police and military forces in cities where the Decline Wave branch was active, and announced the cancellation of all mass gatherings. However, everything has only gotten worse.

"One night afterward, a village in the central part of the kingdom of Tianhua was hit by a 'wave of decline' and all the villagers were killed. The next day, the central government of Tianhua Kingdom was furious and ordered an all-out crackdown on the 'wave of decline'. Shao Feilang did not know about the massacre, but he understood that all this was out of his control, so he voluntarily surrendered to the Jiuzhou municipal government, and announced in newspapers, television, the Internet and other major media that the 'Wave of Decline' was disbanded and the 'Wave of Decline' movement was over.

"But what he never expected was that his surrender would ignite a full-scale conflict between the 'Wave of Decline' and the anti-'Wave of Decline'. All branches of the Falling Wave launched riots in various regions at the same time, killing people and smashing things when they saw them. Naturally, ordinary people were not willing to sit back and fight, so they also picked up the weapons they could use at hand to fight back. Conflicts have gradually turned into mini-wars, and the streets and alleys have become battlegrounds. Although the members of the 'Falling Wave' are already ordinary people, most of them have been trained in the physique of the Yuan, and their combat effectiveness is far stronger than that of ordinary people, and ordinary people are better than ordinary people, so the two sides are inseparable. In the face of a sudden and widespread violent conflict, the government will naturally not sit idly by and send the army to suppress it. However, because of the large number of places where the conflict took place, and the large number of participants, it was difficult for the army to form an absolute suppression, so the conflict between the two sides began to evolve into a three-way melee. People from all over the land and earth are turning on their backs, bleeding and drifting.

"In this case, the Yuan Associations of various countries, which had been maintaining a wait-and-see attitude, decided to intervene and put an end to this all-day violent conflict through absolute force suppression. Seeing the intervention of the Yuan, ordinary people and some of the owners of the declining bloodline laid down their weapons one after another and withdrew from this conflict. However, there are still some extremist members of the 'declining wave' who have no intention of giving up. Because they thought that they would fall to the point where they are today, and it had a lot to do with the indifference and inaction of the Yuan Association, those extremists began to declare war on the Yuan Association. After a satellite teleconference consultation, the associations of the metaverse of various countries decided to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots. The result can be imagined, the Yuan who has the Yuan power is a one-sided slaughter against the declining bloodline owners who have lost the ability of the Yuan Person. The members of the 'Falling Wave' who participated in this head-to-head confrontation were all killed. At this point, the 'wave of decline' has finally come to an end. Later, some people made a rough statistics and found that in the three years from the beginning of the 'wave of decline' to its complete annihilation, more than 2 million people died as a result of it on the heavens and lands, which is comparable to the First World War.

"After the 'wave of decline' ended, governments and associations around the world came together to hold a meeting and decided to seal this dark and bloody history completely. In order to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future, governments around the world have implemented policies such as online real-name systems, restrictions on freedom of speech and assembly, and cancellation of processions. The most important thing is that the privileges of the Yuan have been modified, stipulating that the privileges of the Yuan can only be enjoyed by the Yuan who have awakened the bloodline, and the sleeping bloodline cannot be enjoyed; However, if the relatives and friends of the Yuan are harmed, threatened, discriminated against, and insulted, the Yuan has the right to fight back within a limited scope. This provision has been in place to this day. ”