"So that was it."
A flash of spirit light passed through his Sea of Consciousness.
Chu Chengqing's brows stirred.
It turned out that this realm had always been plagued by calamities.
Whenever a great calamity erupted, the number of living beings beneath heaven plummeted at a terrifying rate.
Only after a destined savior appeared would the calamity finally draw to a tenuous close.
It could only be called tenuous because every such calamity left behind a land where all life lay devastated.
The terrifying lingering thoughts left by countless slaughtered beings surfaced again and again, cycle after cycle, like reincarnation.
Thus, cultivators in this land were exceptionally prone to falling into demonhood and having their Dao Hearts collapse.
"No wonder they weren't particularly hostile."
After all, their origins lay in those beyond-the-world dojos.
The great calamities deemed worthy of recording were almost all dark ages in their own right.
Each great calamity lasted at least a thousand years.
So although the dates appeared to be ten thousand years ago and six thousand years ago, the calamity ten thousand years ago alone had lasted several thousand years.
Then, before one wave had subsided, another rose.
The undying ghost creatures descended next, ruling countless territories with the same bloodthirsty savagery.
They had been born from calamity and could grow stronger by absorbing the resentment of heaven and earth.
The undying ghost creatures could truly be called undying and imperishable.
Even the Celestial Master who later appeared could not stop them.
He could only perish together with them, sealing himself and them within a single place.
The workings of heaven in this realm were remarkably clear, with few obscure aspects. That was why his divinations had allowed him to see some of the cause and effect within this world so distinctly.
"One,