After becoming sages, the Three Pure Ones had spent many years on Mount Kunlun. Naturally, they knew what lay suppressed at the heart of the Ancestral Kunlun Vein—when Pangu created heaven and earth, he had incorporated the remains of the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods into the Primordial World to strengthen the origin of the Primordial True Realm.
The Ferocious Beast Calamity of old had been a calamity wrought by these Chaos Demon Gods' lingering wills, which used their own origins to fashion creatures that would destroy the Primordial True Realm!
The Ferocious Beast Calamity had begun in the west, but swept across the entire Primordial World. Once it ended, most of the Chaos Demon Gods' origins in the west were devoured and refined by the origin of the Primordial True Realm.
They then became part of the Primordial True Realm's reserves!
A great calamity was both a disaster and a supreme opportunity. Precisely because the many Innate Divine Beings had joined forces to quell the Ferocious Beast Calamity and wear down the reserves of those lingering wills, the Primordial True Realm's origin had been able to devour and refine them, ushering in a golden age.
Before the Dragon-Han Calamity descended, the paths of immortals and gods stood side by side. Taiyi and Daluo cultivators emerged in droves, and even Primordial Origin Golden Immortals were far from rare.
To name just one example, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Races alone had over a hundred Primordial Origin Golden Immortals!
At that time, innate spiritual qi gushed forth, and opportunities arose one after another. Chaotic though it was, that had been the Primordial True Realm's most prosperous era.
By the time the Dragon-Han Calamity descended, the lingering wills of the Chaos Demon Gods suppressed beneath Mount Sumeru had largely been transformed into