If Lu Ping'an had seen these things before obtaining certain information, he probably wouldn't have thought too deeply about them.
It might just be the historical development of an ancient civilization.
They evolved, they reproduced, they prospered… and then, in their final liberation, were coerced by the very "Evil Gods" they had always worshipped, and ultimately fell into complete ruin.
Mortals marched toward extinction, the earth became an ocean, and only the most devout could escape the Grand Apocalypse Flood that washed everything away.
But Lu Ping'an knew that even the so-called Ocean God couldn't possibly create a "Flood" of such magnitude.
Completely changing the topography and indirectly transforming a world's ecology... only one entity could do that, and only that one.
"World's Will..."
Which being guided the ancestors of those Insect People, step by step from "wild animals" in the forest to become intelligent creatures?