Chapter 1177

During the Investiture of the Gods Era, because spiritual energy was sufficiently dense, ordinary humans, even without cultivation, possessed remarkably strong physiques and feared no common harsh environments.

Now, however, it is different; without the nourishment of spiritual energy, the human physique has drastically declined.

Many harsh environments have become nearly insurmountable barriers for humanity.

This is one reason why the Land of Earth Immortals is dotted with numerous nations.

The thinning of spiritual energy, after countless Wushuyuan Society cycles of evolution, also led to another matter that is both beneficial and detrimental to ordinary people.

That is, the complete separation between immortals and mortals.

During the Investiture of the Gods Era, extraordinary individuals were not rare, and even immortals were numerous among the officials of the Shang Dynasty.

These cultivators were also one of the factors behind the Shang Dynasty's strength.

But in this era, let alone immortals, even cultivators are exceedingly rare within mortal dynasties.

Most cultivators have hidden themselves within the cavernous blessed lands of great mountains and rivers, for only there is cultivation possible.

Immortals and mortals have been completely separated.

For mortals, this separation is a good thing.

Cultivators are far too powerful; to them, mortals are like ants. A single careless clash between cultivators could easily sweep away tens of thousands of ordinary people.

The separation of immortals and mortals helps ensure the safety of ordinary people.

For ordinary people, it is good; for the entire dynasty, it is not necessarily so.

In the Primordial World, where cultivation is possible, cultivators are the strongest form of productivity and can greatly determine the strength or weakness of a dynasty.

The Primordial World is a realm where power resides within the self; mortals mean nothing before cultivators.

A single cultivator can annihilate tens of thousands of mortals.

Above cultivators are immortals; above immortals are sages.

These are the beings who dwell at the upper echelons of the Primordial World.

The separation of immortals and mortals does indeed ensure, to some extent, the safety of ordinary people.

But it also causes mortal human dynasties to forever remain subject beneath immortals.

Especially when the Way of Humanity is obscure, this becomes even more apparent.

At the beginning of the Journey to the West, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin was haunted by the vengeful spirit of the Jinghe Dragon King.

Know that Li Shimin's status, in earlier times, was equivalent to that of the human emperor Xuanyuan.

The Jinghe Dragon King was merely an ordinary dragon clan member.

The strength of the dragon clan, even compared to the Heavenly Court, is considered weak.

Yet this weak, ordinary dragon clan member could persistently haunt Li Shimin with his residual soul.

Thus, it is clear how far humanity has fallen.

This is why Ancestor Hongjun, in recent years, has largely refrained from interfering in the Way of Humanity and instead focused on consuming the Way of Heaven.

To Ancestor Hongjun, the Way of Humanity has lost all threat.

But Ancestor Hongjun never imagined that Luo Fu had found another shortcut.

Not only Ancestor Hongjun, but no one imagined that one could gather enough destiny to forge the position of a Human Dao Sage through this method.

Whether the Ancestral Dragon, Daoist Yuan Feng, Beginning Qilin, or the Twelve Ancestral Wus, to the great cultivators of the Primordial World, they are already dead, already of the past.

No one expected that Luo Fu would resurrect these long-dead souls and use them to achieve completion.

As Luo Fu previously said, this is Wan Ling's backlash against Ancestor Hongjun.

Those who toy with fate shall be toyed with by fate.

Ancestor Hongjun casually manipulated the fates of the Three Primordial Clans, the Wu and Yao Clans, and humanity; their backlash is one of the many fates Ancestor Hongjun must endure.

"Merge!"

Luo Fu glanced at the five crowns beside him and the vast sea of destiny, and uttered a single word.

All this destiny belongs to Luo Fu.

As the master of this destiny, Luo Fu could freely manipulate it.

Moreover, Luo Fu excels in the Dao of Destiny.

With Luo Fu's mastery of the Dao of Destiny, manipulating this amount of destiny is extremely easy for him.

Luo Fu's words were like golden decrees and jade utterances.

As he spoke, the five crowns began to merge.

In an instant, the five crowns fused into one, and the vast sea of destiny around them began to flow relentlessly into the fused crown.

Boom!

A presence of the Hunyuan layer emanated from the destiny crown.

Under the convergence of vast destiny, a brand-new crown reformed.

Compared to the previous five crowns, the newly formed crown radiated nine-colored light, with nine dragons coiled around it.

Beneath the nine-colored radiance were patterns of countless lifeforms.

These patterns, together with the vast destiny, rendered the crown supremely sacred, majestic, and tyrannical.

As if, the moment this crown appeared, all things in heaven and earth would immediately submit.

Indeed, it was so; compared to the Heavenly Dao Sage's position, whose heavenly might surged and was guarded by the Three Thousand Daos, the Human Dao Sage's position was defined by tyranny.

The Human Dao Sage's position is forged from the accumulated destiny of countless Wan Ling, inherently possessing the power to rule all things.

The power of dominion is the most essential foundation of the Human Dao Sage's position.

Thus, most Human Dao Sage positions are forged by rulers of a clan or a nation, for they alone are favored by the destiny of humanity.

Boom—!

Deep within the Primordial World, a terrifying tremor suddenly echoed throughout the Three Realms.

Splash!

With this tremendous roar, boundless purple qi suddenly surged forth from the depths of the Primordial World.

In the blink of an eye, the entire sky was filled with purple qi.

Amidst the boundless purple qi, all life in the Primordial World saw a great river slowly taking shape.

What flowed within this river was not ordinary water, but the influence of all ten thousand spirits of the Primordial World.

The river taking form was none other than the legendary Dao of Humanity.

After Luo Fu had crystallized the sacred status of the Dao of Humanity, the Dao of Humanity, which had long remained unformed, finally shattered the Heavenly Dao's blockade and began to take shape.

Gazing at the purple qi that blanketed the entire Primordial World, Ancestor Hongjun's face turned grim, his deep eyes brimming with murderous intent.

He had never imagined that all his years of effort had been so easily overturned by Luo Fu.

Through the Heavenly Dao, Ancestor Hongjun clearly perceived that the Dao of Humanity had broken free from part of the chains imposed by the Heavenly Dao.

Otherwise, the miraculous signs of the Dao of Humanity's formation would not have engulfed the entire Primordial World.

Though the Dao of Humanity had not yet fully escaped the constraints of the Heavenly Dao, with its complete formation, that day was finally arriving.

Ancestor Hongjun had a premonition: the day the Dao of Humanity broke free would come sooner than he imagined.

Splash!

The boundless purple qi brought a vast torrent of Dao resonance, like spiritual rain, pouring down upon the entire Primordial World.