Olden Era

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Era 3 of six in Reverend Insanity

Era Order 3

Olden Antiquity Era sits between Remote Antiquity Era and Medieval Antiquity Era. Red Lotus Demon Venerable was a former master of Spring Autumn Cicada.

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Name in the succession

Sources do not agree on the name of the age immediately before the present age.

A Demon Venerable is a rank nine demonic path Gu Master. An Immortal Venerable is a rank nine righteous Gu Master. ch. 383 The difference is one of ideals that has been debated without a settled winner. ch. 460

Demonic and righteous path methods

How demonic path and righteous path differ in practice.

The demonic path acts freely and the righteous path binds itself to rules and customs that distribute benefits inside a force; a demonic path cultivator is a lone individual who takes cultivation resources without that restraint. ch. 1223 ch. 1623

Red Lotus inheritance trails

Fang Yuan obtaining Red Lotus Demon Venerable’s inheritance clues.

Fang Yuan obtains Red Lotus Demon Venerable’s inheritance clues, including a time path inheritance that requires Spring Autumn Cicada. ch. 830

Reckless Savage’s icy plain

Reckless Savage named among Olden’s Demon Venerables, and learning from the icy plain.

Fang Yuan recognises Reckless Savage Demon Venerable as one of the three Demon Venerables of the Olden Antiquity Era. He is named progenitor of strength path and creator of transformation path. ch. 597 True meaning left in the icy plain enters the cultivator who breaks its outer forms, and that is treated as learning from Reckless Savage Demon Venerable. ch. 686

Limitless in an inheritance note

Limitless Demon Venerable in an immortal zombie inheritance discussion.

Limitless Demon Venerable surfaces when an immortal zombie inheritance discussion credits his rule path achievements and an inheritance tied to his name. ch. 937

Paths in Olden Antiquity

Which paths Limitless and Reckless Savage created, and their placement in this era.

In the Olden Antiquity Era, Limitless Demon Venerable created rule path, and Reckless Savage Demon Venerable created transformation path. ch. 1323

Stone lotus inheritance

Fang Yuan accepting Red Lotus’s true inheritance on a stone lotus island.

On a stone lotus island Red Lotus’ true meaning tells Fang Yuan to accept the true inheritance. ch. 1678

Pavilion arrangement

Limitless’s Olden attack on Heavenly Court and the chess arrangement that outlives him.

In the Olden Antiquity Era a million years ago, Limitless Demon Venerable attacked Heavenly Court and arranged a chess game with Star Constellation’s will inside Imperfection Regret Pavilion. After he leaves, Heavenly Court Gu Immortals can at times still see two vague figures inside the pavilion. ch. 1714

Spring Autumn Cicada

Red Lotus as creator of Spring Autumn Cicada.

Duke Long tells Hong Ting that Hong Ting created Spring Autumn Cicada and can rebirth. ch. 1747 Spring Autumn Cicada was refined by Duke Long’s disciple, Red Lotus Demon Venerable. ch. 1918

Era roster and span

Who the three are in order, and how far back Olden Antiquity sits.

Limitless was a Venerable from a million years ago during the Olden Antiquity Era, and Reckless Savage and Red Lotus came after him. ch. 1867

Chess game in the present

The present story’s return to that pavilion game.

Silhouettes of Limitless Demon Venerable and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable are still playing that game inside Imperfection Regret Pavilion. ch. 1935

Ten Venerables by antiquity block

The list of the ten Venerables by era.

Across the ten Venerables listed by era, all three sit under Olden Antiquity at one million years ago: Limitless Demon Venerable, Reckless Savage Demon Venerable, and Red Lotus Demon Venerable. ch. 2085

Limitless in the succession

Limitless named as humanity’s first Demon Venerable in that succession.

Limitless Demon Venerable is humanity’s first Demon Venerable, attacking Heavenly Court in the Olden Antiquity Era a million years ago. ch. 2086

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