Chaos Land, great worlds reduced to silence lay piled one atop another.
Wreckage was everywhere. Deathly stillness reigned, destruction aura permeating the air, even forming an extraordinarily peculiar field that prevented chaos itself from encroaching.
Creak—creak—
A strange sound arose from the center of the field.
Upon the ruins of great worlds that were each little more than broken remnants, a humanoid creature squatted. Its crimson fur was luxuriant, exuding an eerie aura.
With two claws larger than mountains, it dug again and again into the remains of a world below that had already been completely hollowed out.
Then it stuffed the contents into its mouth.
The strange sound from before was the sound of it chewing.
"Hungry... hungry..."
It had no name, no surname. It did not even know why it had been born or what it was meant to do.
Everything it knew of this world had been eaten out of the world remnants below, which were practically an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Perhaps because it had eaten enough of them.
As it instinctively fed, it had now begun to occasionally contemplate the nature of its own existence, and the meaning behind its endless actions.
By the normal course of evolution, it might have spent several epochs at this stage.
But today, a dazzling golden light seemed to arrive from the end of chaos, carrying the knowledge of a flourishing cultivation civilization as it burst into its mind!
"Immortal Realm... chaos..."
"The calamity responder chosen by the Heavenly Dao? What... is the Heavenly Dao?"
It lowered its head and looked at the vast stretches of great-world wreckage below, as though it understood something.
At last, after temporarily filling its belly.
It rose to its feet and, following the guidance of the golden light in its mind, slowly headed in a