Things were happening at an unprecedented pace throughout the current Age. If the trend continues, then this Age may be named after the extreme frequency of major events happening. Whereas previously millions of years went by without any major, universal news, now things were happening all within the same century!
Any number of Dao Lords and Immortals would one day exit from their cultivation retreat and find the whole universe a different place from when they went into retreat.
To be clear, the reason things did not happen on a universal scale was because the universe was just too damn big. Moving from realm to realm on its own was too difficult, so for something to affect the whole universe was almost impossible.
