The Calamity of the Witches and Demons had swept through Heaven and Earth, resetting the entire order, and even then it had only come to rest after three great wars.
The Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, though it affected the various religions, was still far inferior in scale compared with the Calamity of the Witches and demons.
To call only the Investiture of the Gods "a complete tribulation" seemed exaggerated.
But its influence was far-reaching and subtle, and even served as a link between what came before and what came after.
Ever since the decline of the Wu and Yao Clans, seventy to eighty percent of the Primordial Wilderness's luck had gathered in the Mystic Gate. It could be called "the Dao rising as the demons waned."
The Mystic Gate's luck had reached an unprecedented peak.
Yet extreme prosperity declines, and when things reach an extreme, they reverse—this was a supreme principle of Heaven and Earth.
After the peak stage of "the Dao rising as the demons waned," the turning point where "the Dao waned as the demons rose" sometimes began in but an instant.
In the Investiture of the Gods campaign, the Mystic Gate fell into internal strife, the Three Pure Ones turned against one another, ten thousand immortals withered, and its luck was shaken, suffering no small loss.
The entire Mystic Gate had not collapsed, but cracks had appeared. All it lacked was a "pusher" of sufficient weight, and it would fall from its peak stage.
In a corner of the Inner Chaos.
Chaotic currents surged in silence, evolving Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind. At times they gave birth to Dust Worlds, and at times they returned to nothingness.
Beiming opened up a relatively stable independent space. Invisible Space-Time Barriers circulated around it, isolating all the violent Chaos