Before Chaos was divided, heaven and earth were in turmoil; vast and boundless, no one beheld them. Ever since Pangu shattered the primordial mist, opening the world so that clear and turbid were distinguished from then on.
Wang Xuan stood atop a towering peak ten thousand zhang high. Gale winds howled, whipping his robes about him.
Before he could even catch his breath, the Heavens Tower's prompt sounded in his mind.
[Player detected descending into the Primordial World Plot World. Anchoring timeline!]
In the next instant, information about the timeline flooded into his sea of consciousness like a raging torrent.
[First Dragon-Han Calamity—Arcane and devilish forces contended, the Dao Lord and Devil Master fought for the saintly seat...] [Dragon-Han Great Calamity—during the early days after the world's opening, the three innate races multiplied too excessively and monopolized the Primordial World's spiritual veins. Karmic sin piled up to its limit; the Devil Ancestor Luohou secretly sowed discord, escalating the calamity's intensity!] [Investiture of the Gods Calamity—Haotian Shangdi sought to fill the Heavenly Court's divine ranks. Just as the fortunes of the Chan and Jie Sects clashed and the killing calamity descended, Hongjun established the Investiture List, using the killing calamity to answer the great calamity and sending those listed into the Heavenly Court as gods!]
Wang Xuan's eyelids twitched.
An ominous premonition rose in his heart.
Sure enough.
[Timeline confirmed: one hundred thousand years after the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, one thousand years before the next great calamity begins!]
"We're screwed!"
Wang Xuan's mouth twitched.
"What a world-ending opening!"
The most wonderful opening should have been before the First Dragon-Han Calamity, when Dao Ancestor Hongjun had yet to merge with the Heavenly Path.
Though the Heavenly Path stood supreme while the Earthly Path and