Lucas said calmly: "That's right! Zhao Gongming already knew the cause of his death, and his question just now was testing me. @Zhao Gongming, I'm not wrong, am I?"
Zhao Gongming: "The Group Leader is wise! You are correct—I was indeed killed by a curse from Daoist Lu Ya. I remember going to the Conferred God Platform after my death, but I can't recall what happened afterward."
Lucas: "In the original future, you were named the God of Wealth after your death."
Senju Hashirama: "What's this about becoming a god after death? If that's the case, death doesn't seem like such a bad thing!"
Lucas: "You lack understanding of the prehistoric world. After you learn the truth about conferring gods, you won't think it's a good thing."
Howard Stark: "It's really not a good thing to be named a god, and that's what the 'Fifty or Sixty Gods' in my world said. If you're confused, you should distinguish between gods of different worlds."
Golden Lion Shiki: "If you put it that way, I understand! The gods in the prehistoric world are different from the gods in our world."
Lucas: "That's right! The Prehistoric World is similar to the world of the Yang God, but its level is much higher. The story of Investiture of the Gods takes place in a relatively chaotic era."
Zhao Gongming wondered: "Chaos? That can't be right! The era I live in is definitely not chaotic."
Lucas: "Chaos and order are both relative. What seems chaotic to lower life forms differs from what seems chaotic to you. For the entire prehistoric world, your era was relatively chaotic."
Lucas: "Although there are six sages and powerful beings between heaven and earth, their ideas completely differ. Since the six sages' ideologies conflict, there will naturally be clashes among their disciples."
Zheng Qizi: "This resembles the ancient times of the Yang God World! Although there were many strong individuals in the human race then, their ideologies weren't aligned. Their conflicts plunged the entire world into relative chaos."
Lucas: "It's somewhat similar. But the prehistoric world has something the Yang God World doesn't—calamities dominated by heaven!"
Hongyun said in shock: "Quantitative calamity?"
Lucas: "That's right, Quantitative Calamity! Whenever karma accumulates too much in the prehistoric world, or its development faces problems, the Leader of the prehistoric world—the Dao of Heaven—will initiate Quantitative Calamity to cleanse the world."
Zhao Gongming: "I remember the Group Leader said that the conferring of gods is indeed a calamity. He wanted us disciples to stay home and avoid the calamity, but who would have expected us to be disobedient? What was the outcome of the confrontation?"
Lucas: "The apostates, those who were arrested, and those placed on the list of gods—apart from Zhunti, none had a good end. In the end, even the mighty Tongtian sect ended in obscurity."
Zhao Gongming was somewhat disbelieving: "How could this be? The Group Leader is the supreme saint! The Tongtian sect is the number one religion in the prehistoric wilderness—how could it exist in name only?"
Hongyun: "This is the Quantitative calamity! Group Leader, the Tongtian sect Leader shouldn't have fallen, right?"
Lucas: "No, he is a saint after all. But his fate wasn't very good. He was brought to Zixiao Palace by Hongjun Daozu and forced into secluded meditation."
Howard Stark: "Group Leader, I just read 'Investiture of the Gods.' My head is spinning—can you explain the story of the prehistoric world?"
Lucas: "The story of the prehistoric world is simple—after Pangu killed the chaotic gods and demons and created the world, he transformed his body into nourishment for the prehistoric world. His primordial spirit became Sanqing, his blood essence became the ancestral witch, and other parts became various elements of the prehistoric world, giving birth to all kinds of creatures."
Lucas: "After the birth of the Great World, life forms appeared one by one. To obtain more resources and power to dominate others, they worked hard to gain strength and establish authority, triggering repeated calamities."
Lucas: "Among these calamities, the Dragon and Han Emperor calamity deserves the most attention. During this calamity, the first saint in the prehistoric world, Hongjun, was born. By defeating Luo Hu who was attempting to prove the Dao, he became the biggest winner of the Dragon Han Emperor Tribulation..."
Hongyun: "As far as I know, the main participants in the Dragon and Han Tribulations were the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans, right? I had just taken form at that time and witnessed the power of these three races. It's a pity that one calamity completely devastated them."
Lucas: "The dragon, phoenix, and qilin families were indeed the main players in that calamity, but the main participants in calamities often don't have good endings. They typically decline completely and exit the stage. Have you heard of any protagonist of an Emperor calamity who hasn't fallen?"
Hongyun said in shock: "This really doesn't exist!"
Lucas: "Pangu and the 3,000 gods and demons were participants in the Kaitian Emperor calamity. Who among them survived? Even Hongjun and Luohu are just Traversers of the primordial spirits of the chaos gods and demons."
Lucas: "The Chaos Gods and Demons have come to an end—this is an unchangeable fact. Even Hongjun and Luohu abandoned their identities as Chaos Gods and Demons when they survived."
Lucas: "No need to elaborate on the subsequent Ferocious Beast Emperor Tribulation. The powerful beasts that once dominated have disappeared. The only evidence of their existence are the descendants of some ferocious beasts with diluted bloodlines."
Lucas: "Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin fared relatively well—at least they haven't completely withdrawn from the Great Wilderness stage. This is because the leaders of these three tribes sacrificed themselves to secure a small survival rate for their people."
Zhao Gongming said with sudden clarity: "Group Leader, I understand! We were the main participants in the conferring of gods and calamities, so the decline of our sect was inevitable. What about the Chan sect and the commoners?"
Zhao Gongming: "The Chan sect and commoners in the god-conferring calamity are like the dragon, phoenix, and qilin clans in the Dragon and Han Dynasty calamity. Since we were all main participants in the calamity, did they also decline?"
Lucas: "Of course! The emperor was demoted to a mere emperor, and the common people's religion didn't suffer major losses. Although the Chan sect's casualties were minor, a group of disciples, including the vice hierarch, collectively apostatized."
Zhao Gongming was stunned for a moment, and then said with glee: "People apostatized from the Chan sect too? They deserved it!"