Under the threat of the Demonic Calamity, every living being in the Spirit Realm felt uneasy. Any intelligent life understood that twenty years later, a Heavenly Great Tribulation would arrive, one that would sweep across the entire Spirit Realm.
Some apprehensive and terrified beings even began infiltrating the depths of the sea, building cave abodes beneath the ocean and living in seclusion, hoping to evade this Heavenly Great Tribulation.
Some powerful figures who had originally intended to flee to the Tianyuan Continent for refuge also abandoned the idea after seeing that the Tianyuan Continent might likewise be affected by the Demonic Calamity.
However, many human cultivators from the outer seas still rushed to the Tianyuan Continent, choosing to join the human race in hopes of gaining the protection of Mahayana Celestial Venerables.
Naturally, the Dao Palace did not refuse them. It even allocated many unoccupied territories for these outer-sea cultivators to establish cave abodes and residences, or build cities.
With the Demonic Calamity approaching, having more manpower was always beneficial. After all, no one knew what would happen twenty years from now.
The native human cultivators of the Tianyuan Continent naturally felt considerable rejection toward these newly joined clansmen, and even looked down on such behavior.
Yet the Dao Palace did little in this regard. Once they experienced a great tribulation together and faced a common enemy, such exclusionary attitudes would soften in the shortest possible time.
Because of their worries over the Demonic Calamity, these twenty-odd years passed exceedingly slowly. Clearly, for high-level cultivators, this should have been no more than the time it took to snap one's fingers.
But what was meant to come would still come. It would not change because of anyone's fear.
Accompanied by violent tremors in the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth throughout