Primordial Era: The Great Serpent of Yunmeng

Chapter 18 The Essence of the Great Calamity

"Isn't this a bit too extreme? They are living beings too!"

Nuwa found it hard to accept.

But Qi did not agree with Nuwa's words, because this was the fundamental contradiction between the innate deities and the ferocious beasts.

It's extremely difficult for ferocious beasts to gain intelligence; in fact, even without intelligence, they can already be considered overlords of the primordial world.

If they acquire intelligence, given the sheer number of ferocious beasts and their pursuit of power, they will inevitably accelerate the devouring of spiritual energy.

The abundance or scarcity of spiritual energy in the primordial land determines the growth and survival of primordial creatures, creating an irreconcilable contradiction.

If ferocious beasts are rare and have difficulty reproducing, then the creatures of the prehistoric world can tolerate them.

Unfortunately, there are too many ferocious beasts, and reproduction is not difficult.

They also cannot resist the instinct of living beings to become stronger; given their rate of evolution, they can only face destruction.

This is the true manifestation of the great calamity; there is no way or possibility to avoid it.

Before the Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods, all great tribulations were like this, unavoidable.

Only a complete victory for one side can end this; the loser's spine must be broken, or there is no winner, for both are losers!

"So what do you think we should do?"

Pray for a question.

"It shouldn't have escalated to such a catastrophe!"

Nuwa said with absolute certainty.

"The current primordial world can only support the existing life forms; it can no longer bear the future where even ferocious beasts become powerful."

"Letting them go until now is already quite lenient."

"They are growing unchecked and have already affected the entire world!"

Qi retorted.

"They are also part of the world, and also primordial creatures."

Upon hearing this, Qi knew that this was not Nuwa's original intention.

She was probably just bored and wanted to find a reason to argue.

After all, a very rational person wouldn't say something like that.

However, Qi plans to cooperate, otherwise life would be too boring.

"No, they are not. Don't forget, we were born from the blessings of the great god Pangu."

"And they are the remnants of the void demon gods, combined with the earth's turbid resentment."

"There is an inherent contradiction between us, the innate deities, and the primordial beings."

With a smile in his eyes, he knew the outcome of the debate was a foregone conclusion.

Seeing Qi's gaze, Nuwa stopped pretending and seriously considered the matter.

"But is there no place for them in the vastness of the universe?"

It's clear that Nuwa had genuinely considered this problem, but she didn't have a solution.

Because fundamentally, this is a survival dilemma; in this environment, there is only one choice: ferocious beasts or countless ordinary creatures from the primordial world.

No one with a sound mind would betray their principles to choose a ferocious beast.

Heaven and Earth are simply the home of the innate deities, the parents and the homeland, and they can tolerate other creatures living in their home.

But they will not tolerate termites and woodworms damaging the house.

Ferocious beasts advance by constantly consuming the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and various kinds of flesh and blood.

The recovery of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is extremely slow, and the vital energy of blood and flesh is the very foundation of all living beings.

As long as they continue to use this as the basis for their progress, then regardless of whether they possess intelligence, a great calamity will erupt.

Just like the later Lich War, if the Twelve Ancestral Witches had not expanded their clans, then merely accommodating them to feed on the heavens and earth would not have elicited any reaction from the living beings.

After all, there were only twelve of them. No matter how much they ate, they wouldn't turn the wilderness into their pasture.

As they expanded their populations, the losses to all races were immense.

It became so vast that it was unbearable and intolerable, turning the entire primordial wilderness into a pasture for the witch tribe, and all races became prey.

Moreover, they only revered Pangu and not Heaven and Earth, which is a huge contradiction with the innate sacredness.

Although the innate deities revered Pangu, they were ultimately born and nurtured by heaven and earth.

Moreover, living between heaven and earth, the innate deities have been in the highest position in the world since their birth.

Even for patriarchs like Hongjun and Luohou, who each opened up their own path, it is perfectly reasonable for innate deities to address them as fellow Daoists.

Even the Heavenly Dao was born after them. From beginning to end, their status has always been at the pinnacle. Their reverence for Heaven and Earth and Pangu was merely that—reverence.

The Ancestral Witches were also innate deities, yet they regarded Pangu as their father god, which was equivalent to adding another god above heaven and earth.

They also developed incense worship and sacrificial rites.

The gods all know the power of faith. Although it is powerful to them, it is merely an external thing. However, the power of faith can bring back gods who have already vanished.

In particular, the great god Pangu responded to the sacrifice.

This is something the gods cannot tolerate.

One reason is that I don't want an unshakeable mountain to appear above my head.

Secondly, we don't know what the primordial world would be like if Pangu returned.

After all, Pangu transformed into all things. Once he returned, the beginning of a world would disappear, so what would happen to the end?

The gods dared not imagine it, therefore a great calamity was bound to occur.

The demon race did not want to become prey, while the witch race only wanted to eat their fill and expand their population.

However, the shamans did not possess absolute power, and the demon race, with the support of the gods, was itself the overlord of the primordial world, making war inevitable.

The Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods was even more evident.

Firstly, the Heavenly Court was powerless to maintain the order of heaven and earth at that time, and the conferment of titles upon gods was to maintain the order of heaven and earth and peace on earth.

The reason for the great calamity has been found.

Secondly, the difference in the philosophies of the two Heavenly Venerables, Yuanshi and Lingbao, led to a struggle over fortune and the mode of operation of the Heavenly Dao, which was mediated by this.

Thirdly, there is the possibility that the immortal path is attempting to artificially manipulate the great calamity.

The aim was to eliminate the calamity and minimize its impact on all living beings in the world.

Qi thought that Hongjun must have succeeded, since the great calamities that followed were like a joke, and he had no power to overcome them.

By continuously generating minor tribulations to release the calamity energy of heaven and earth, the positions of the saints are stabilized, but this also causes the primordial world to continuously weaken, like stagnant water.

After all, under normal circumstances, if there were no sages, the Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods should have been followed by the Great Conflict of Primordial Chaos.

By increasing the intensity of the Great Tribulation, most living beings are cleansed, and the remaining living beings undergo hierarchical changes, absorbing the fruits of the previous Great Tribulation.

Furthermore, it innovates and expands the world.

The world's primordial power is recycled, and the dead become the driving force for the world's progress, propelling the primordial world to expand and enabling it to support higher realms.

Just like the Three Sovereigns who voluntarily returned to the Void, it was all to allow the world to advance further.

The Great Calamity of Ferocious Beasts is a further means for Heaven and Earth to reclaim their origin.

At this time in the primordial world, there were only a handful of Great Luo Golden Immortals (Luo Tian Venerable Gods) at the very top.

After the great calamity, during the struggle between the three races and the great war between immortals and demons, the top figures were no longer just the Great Luo Immortals!

Qi shared his thoughts with Nuwa, but only within the context of the current calamity of ferocious beasts.

Because the great calamity of ferocious beasts has already occurred and cannot be changed, but the future is still uncertain.

No one can decide what the future of the primordial world will be like, just as no one knows what kind of destruction the northern continent will suffer this time.

The extent of the destruction exceeded everyone's imagination, and it sealed the fate of the northern continent.

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