The second event the two of them mentioned that you remembered was the "Great Darkness Calamity," a topic eagerly discussed by quite a few forces throughout the All Heavens. After that calamity, the Dao Source World Tree, once at the height of its glory, had weakened to the brink of death... Of course, that was merely the earliest version you had heard. After your cultivation had grown stronger, you came across a different account in the Dao Sect's secret records.
According to that secret record inherited by the Dao Sect from the Tianyi Dao Gate, the Great Darkness Calamity had not truly occurred during the Near Ancient era. Rather, it had taken place in the middle of the Ancient Era, after the third calamity, the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, and before Ancient Emperor Huang became active.
There were countless such secret accounts, but you had never regarded them as the truth, only as references. Yet, judging from what the Ink Bone Origin Spirit said, this seemed to be the true face of the matter. The Great Darkness Calamity's real timeline indeed lay in the middle of the Ancient Era...
In this calamity, which both the Ink Bone Origin Spirit and the Paradox Origin Spirit agreed was likely the truth, the true Dao Source World Tree had completely perished. Only a small section of a half-dead branch remained, endlessly wandering between life and death. And in that great war, the Dao Source World Tree had merely been one of the main forces in a battle involving the entire camp's "national fortune." Besides it, there had been several supreme powerhouses whose strength was no less than its own.
The Dao Source World Tree's reputation was the greatest only because the others had likely vanished without even their bones remaining. No one remembered them anymore,