They had foreseen the calamity long ago; otherwise, they could never have so tacitly extracted the reality of heaven and earth and fallen into slumber.
Before the slumbering mighty ones extracted the reality of heaven and earth as anchors and entered their sleep, these powerful beings had already sensed an immense crisis—and the fortune contained within it.
But the crisis was too terrifying, terrifying enough to reduce even Immortality to dust, to evaporate even eternity, to overturn everything.
Thus, they could only leave the stage in sorrow, taking their lineages and their disciples with them, withdrawing from the grand stage of heaven and earth and leaving the world to the myriad beings.
It was simply because too much of the reality of dimensional spacetime had been extracted that the entire dimension was greatly affected. It became harder and harder for powerful beings to be born.
This was especially true for powerful individual cultivators. Lacking nourishment, they found growth difficult.
Only the path of civilization was somewhat less affected. Yet with civilization's upper limit locked in place, the more it pursued Immortality and eternity, the faster civilizations were destroyed. Thus, in the ages that followed, no civilization attained Immortality again.
And now, even though their slumber had delayed matters and their extraction of the reality of heaven and earth had worsened the cultivation environment, once the waves of calamity rose and began to grow stronger, they utterly refused to follow reason.
This was undoubtedly unreasonable, for nothing could come from nothing.
"The script has changed..."
Jade Origin Daoist shook his head.
In the original script, they would undoubtedly spend over a century accumulating power before receiving the descent of that powerful existence whose name had been erased—the Dao Venerable's eldest disciple, known as Eldest Senior Brother. Then, through him, all powerful