"The First Great Calamity was the Black Tide."
"The Second Great Calamity was called Autumn Frost."
"There's no way to verify the specific details of these two Great Calamities anymore. I've spent all these years investigating them, but I could only piece together a rough outline from the traces left behind."
"It wasn't until the Third Great Calamity that there were relatively clear records."
"Some old account books can be dug out of the ruins of the Nether Era, and various records also began to increase. They still aren't systematic, but it's much better than having to guess at everything like we did with the first two."
Yang Ling, once a laboratory technician at the Fertilizer Plant,
then a monstrous old expert of the Daoist Sect,
and now the Great Elder of Tianyu Ancient Village, continued telling the story of the Great Calamities.
"The Third Great Calamity."
"It mainly happened in the Netherworld."
"A strange kind of foam inexplicably appeared throughout the Netherworld."
"It was somewhat fantastical."
"Just like soap bubbles."
"This foam first appeared in the Nether Sea. Later, it gradually spread and submerged most of the Netherworld. Anyone touched by the foam would experience intense suffocation."
"Of course."
"Suffocation wasn't anything serious. There were no ordinary people in the Netherworld, and short-term suffocation was nothing to fear."
"The most terrifying part was that—"
"It carried a terrifying rule."
"If someone was stained by the foam, they would be sucked inside, and afterward, it would be very difficult to escape. It wasn't because the foam was tough. Rather, as soon as the foam burst, the person inside would burst along with it."
"And the stronger someone was, the more obvious the effect."
"Someone tried to use a Ghost Domain to escape. The moment they used it, they burst the