"The first move in Great Abyss's game has already gone awry. The calamity tide of this era is even vaster than we once anticipated. Great calamities breed Demon Fetuses—the greater the calamity, the more vicious the Demon Fetus. Yet if we can truly carve calamity into fortune amid such muddy currents, then perhaps our Dao Fruits can truly ripen through this trial and transform into eternity."
A ripple formed from gathered light and shadow conveyed this message.
Though this light and shadow did not even possess a physical form now, in ancient times it had been a truly great figure. At the beginning of primordial antiquity, a Dao Venerable opened the heavens, establishing the sequence of time for heaven and earth and defining the heights and depths of dimensions. Before the Dao Venerable entered reincarnation, he had lectured on the Dao several times, opening the first paths of cultivation for the living beings of that age.
At those lectures, the beings in attendance numbered far more than trillions upon trillions upon trillions. Even so, this light and shadow had been seated in the front row, while the Great Ease Heavenly Devil Master could only linger in a corner.
Indeed, the Dao Venerable had not decreed that only the strong could sit in front. Yet the unspoken rule of heaven and earth in those days was that the weak were meat for the strong. Since the Dao Venerable's fist was the largest, everyone tacitly gave him face and refrained from slaughter. But conversely, that meant that so long as you did not beat someone to death, you could beat them however you pleased.
As time flowed on and calamity tides became endless, cultivation had always meant defying heaven, and dying along the way was perfectly normal. Yet even the weakling Great