Ouyang, who had transmigrated to this world, would never know. Born into the present age, he knew nothing of the endless purgatory that Heaven and Earth had once endured.
The Immortals of the Elder Ancient Era had fallen and possessed all living beings.
The Great Calamity had naturally descended upon all living beings under Heaven and Earth, and thus came the first Dao-Demon War.
In that war, living beings on every side had been swept into the conflict.
The Human Race's Great Cultivators had died to the last, the Demon Race had lost almost all its Xiantian Demon Gods, and the Devil Race had been slaughtered to the brink of extinction.
Not a single living being had escaped that catastrophe.
Nor had any living being known when that catastrophe, with no daylight ever in sight, would end!
No living being had known whether they would live to see tomorrow's Sun. Even Great Cultivators had not dared guarantee that they could remain unscathed amid the catastrophe.
And before the Seven Azure Cloud Disciples, whose might would shake an entire era, had grown into their own, they had been sheltered by this Grand Ancestor.
They had scraped by in a sea of blood, grown amid a world in turmoil, and climbed to the pinnacle through slaughter.
That was why Dongxu Zi had little fondness for Li Taibai, who had slain an Immortal single-handedly.
Even if what Li Taibai had done was right, he had disregarded all living beings and forcibly slain an Immortal, plunging them into misery and death.
His deed had benefited ten thousand generations, yet for those of them who had lived in that era, it had been a nightmare they never wished to speak of!
Now that they had become the most powerful Cultivators under Heaven and Earth, they