There was no need to spell it out.
Some among them saw the mention of the Lou Clan in those words and knew something of the inside story.
The person the Lou Clan had offended was no ordinary figure. Though unlike other Dao Lords, that person had indeed attained the Dao and become a Dao Lord. They had simply fallen so quickly afterward that very few later cultivators knew this Dao Lord had ever existed.
For that person had perished almost as soon as they attained the Dao.
It was because of this that the Lou Clan had suffered a backlash from providence.
Since the Lou Clan had suffered such a thing, others had suffered backlashes from providence as well.
Yet why had they never drawn anything like what was before them now?
Thus, they wondered just what heavenly secret the island's former incarnation had glimpsed to bring about this transformation.
"Surely it couldn't have something to do with the Primordial Cataclysm?"
At that thought, someone immediately struck upon a possibility.
Compared with the other possibilities they could deduce,
of all the variables that had appeared in the Primordial Era, the likeliest heavenly secret someone could have glimpsed to provoke such a change was probably none other than the Primordial Cataclysm.
Almost everyone had guessed at this possibility.
"The Primordial Cataclysm? That's certainly possible."
"I've heard of the Primordial Cataclysm. Before the tribulation came, even some renowned masters of Heaven Calculation apparently couldn't predict its arrival. If you look through those old records now, most say that before it came, the heavenly secrets of the primordial world were still utterly calm."
"Quite a few Heaven Calculation cultivators divined that both before and after the tribulation's arrival, the heavenly secrets would remain clear, with no great calamity arising."
"Only later,