In the process, nearly all the spiritual essence of heaven and earth and the spiritual vitality of fortune accumulated by the entire Ancient Star over countless ages had been drained away, causing spiritual veins across the globe to wither and the Great Dao to fall silent.
What followed was a drastic environmental upheaval, worsening climates, and mass species extinction...
Under the "Great Flood," a glorious cultivation civilization collapsed overnight. Its legacies were severed, while powerful cultivators either quietly passed away amid the depletion of spiritual energy or were forced to flee into the starry sky.
The surviving creatures struggled to live amid the ruins. Only after ages too long to count did they evolve and multiply once more, eventually forming the "primitive" state of the present.
Human civilization in particular had regressed by an unknown number of tens of thousands of years.
From the cultivation era, when people could soar through the skies and travel through the earth, it had devolved into a barbaric stage of eating raw meat and drinking blood. Only after millions of years of evolution and development had it entered this ignorant age, reliant on crude stone tools and knotted cords for record-keeping.
And the source of it all was that Immortal Ascension Ground.
Tens of thousands of years ago, the Feathered Immortal Dynasty had arrived from beyond the heavens and occupied this place.
They continuously drew spiritual vitality from the Outer Domain and even the Big Dipper to repair the Immortal Ascension Ground, intending to restore the glory of the Immortal Ascension Cauldron. This had undoubtedly delayed the planet's overall "spiritual energy revival."
Now, the drastic upheaval at the Immortal Ascension Ground once again stirred the fearful shadow of the "Divine War Calamity" that had caused civilization to break off, buried deep within the bloodline