"That catastrophe was called the Heaven-Extinguishing Calamity. It is said to have been caused by a mysterious and immensely powerful exotic beast. How that beast appeared, where it came from, or what species it belonged to, I have no idea. After all, back then, I was merely an ant desperately struggling to survive. The powerful beings who fought the exotic beast head-on were either dead or gone, and very few of the surviving creatures ever truly laid eyes on that mysterious beast. As for whether the Sovereign of the Yansheng Realm, the Runt Emperor, perished in the calamity, that remains a mystery. Furthermore, not only the Sovereign of the Yansheng Realm, but the sovereigns of the other four holy realms also vanished after the calamity. Legend has it that all five transcendent saints were devoured by the exotic beast; another legend says they were slain by it; and yet another claims they joined forces to resist the beast, driving it out into the outer cosmos or some other mysterious alternate space. But endless ages have passed, and there has never been any news of the five transcendent saints. I'm afraid their chances of survival are grim. From beginning to end, the Heaven-Extinguishing Calamity lasted nearly one hundred billion years. The powerful of every race throughout the vast cosmos rose up to resist, and though the cosmos was left utterly unrecognizable, fortunately, it was not completely annihilated. As for what happened to that terrifying beast—whether it died, es…
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