At this moment, the secret council between the Heaven Clan and the Heavenly Fox Alliance was still continuing, both sides repeatedly scrutinizing the tactical layout for the new era's encirclement and suppression of the Sky-Burning Golden Falcon Clan.
During this long consultation and strategic deduction, time quietly slipped by.
In the blink of an eye, a full six hundred million years had passed.
Aside from the forces with the backing of many Starry Sky Great Clans, no one had expected this end-of-era great calamity to last to such a terrifying extent.
Looking across the nearly ten thousand eras since the beginning of the Dimensional Great Era, there had never once been a catastrophe that stretched on for six hundred million years.
When past eras came to an end, most had seen only tens of millions of years of turmoil. Once the disaster receded, new opportunities arose, and star energy once again became vast.
But this apocalyptic reckoning had dragged on to an absurd degree.
For six hundred million years, calamity shrouded the whole starry sky. Vermillion Tears did not fall away, Blood Moon hung suspended, and the entire vast starry sky remained in a state of extinguished star energy, chaotic fortune, and endless disaster.
In every corner of the starry sky, countless living beings died or were wounded. Many small and mid-sized races that had never survived a starry sky's final great calamity were left with barely one in ten.
Even many old-established factions had their foundations damaged, with nearly seventy to eighty percent of all living beings below Ancestor Level destroyed.
Throughout the entire Orion Star Cluster, aside from those with the backing of Starry Sky Great Clans, the other forces were all severely wounded as well.
Even the Sky-Burning Golden Falcon Clan, which had always possessed peerless physiques