Before a major event capable of affecting everyone fully descended, perhaps it was only a topic people casually brought up to relieve their boredom.
The Eighteen Immortal Sects had not completely suppressed the news that the Devil Race would be allowed to remain after the Great Calamity. Instead, they were gradually passing it on to the outside world.
News of something that could determine whether the world would be overturned could not simply be concealed.
People also had to be given enough time and information to accept it and prepare.
When this major matter first began as a rumor, few paid it any attention. Many even thought it was nothing but false news.
Time could not erase memories, but it could wear away the feelings of those who had not been involved.
Only when the Three Great Sects and the Buddhist Sect personally entered the fray in the Western Ox-He Continent and tore into each other did people begin to speculate about whether the news of the Heavenly Demons was true.
Then the sects joined forces, and this world became bustling once more.
Disciples of the Eighteen Immortal Sects, whose shadows would ordinarily be nowhere to be seen, began showing themselves across the world.
Only when the Buddhist Sect swallowed the humiliation dealt by the Three Great Sects.
Only when Bai Xuanling ascended to immortality.
Only when rumors spread that Chu Xingchen had taken up the Heavenly Mandate.
Only when the Eighteen Immortal Sects tacitly acknowledged all the speculation about it.
Only then did people gain a somewhat clearer sense-the Great Calamity really did seem to be coming.
Yet that feeling still could not make everyone take it seriously. After all, the Great Calamity had no definite beginning.
Until-
The Southern Jambu Continent, Dongsheng Shenzhou, and Northern Jambudvipa.
The Demon