In the beginning of antiquity, it was undoubtedly the era of the Dao Venerable. Yet after the Dao Venerable transmitted the Dao, he vanished from sight. Later still, even the true Great Luo Heaven disappeared, leaving behind only the shell of a Great Luo Heaven.
Such a Great Luo Heaven still possessed immense might, but in the end, it lacked something most crucial.
As for Celestial Venerables, they were among the earliest Eternal Ones.
Looking across the entirety of ancient history, Eternal Ones had actually emerged rather late.
The ages before antiquity could roughly be divided into the Beginning of Antiquity, Desolate Antiquity, Primordial Antiquity, Distant Antiquity, Middle Antiquity, and Recent Antiquity.
The lengths of these eras differed; they were marked according to great turning points in history.
The Beginning of Antiquity was when dimensions first opened and the Great Dao transformed into Spirit Transformation. The earth was boundlessly vast, with no end in sight; the sky was immeasurably high, with no summit visible. There were no sun, moon, or stars—only heaven and earth, along with the Dao Gods born from the Great Dao.
And because dimensional spacetime was still in the stage of One, there were no parallel spacetimes, nor any notion of enlightening alternate selves. The origins of all Dao Gods were "One"; it could be said that they were born possessing a portion of an immortal life essence.
Of course, this was not necessarily a good thing. Being born powerful meant that they were nearly fixed in form from the moment of their birth, losing countless possibilities.
Yet the power of the Dao Gods could not be denied. Born from the Dao, they possessed inexhaustible strength from birth.
The Beginning of Antiquity was an exceedingly long era. Just how long? So long that even those Dao Gods