Chapter 228: The Grand Finale

At the same time, a cold divine voice, accompanied by a terrifying pressure, instantly swept across this region of Chaos.

"Enough!"

"Ignoring the Covenant of the Gods again and again, does Fellow Daoist Yuanshi think my Divine Court is empty of people?"

Under the divine radiance, the gods were all startled upon hearing this, and after sensing that familiar aura, they immediately became joyful and excited.

"Haha, it is His Majesty, Qingtian Dadi!"

A point of golden light swept in all directions with majestic power; the gap between those who have attained the Proof of Rice and those in the Hunyuan realm was visible to the naked eye.

Neither Yuanshi nor Qingtian had descended in their true forms; merely a sliver of their intent and divine (immortal) light possessed a might that the gods and immortals could not rival.

As the divine light gathered, it churned and surged, coalescing into a blurry golden human figure.

Seeing this scene, the gods immediately bowed and called out respectfully.

"We pay our respects to His Majesty, Qingtian Dadi!"

In the distance, the group of Mysterious Gate Immortal Rice practitioners felt their hearts tighten, fearing that this Qingtian Zhizun of the Divine Court, known as the cold-faced Emperor and for being protective of his own, would also slap them.

However, they had overthought it.

It was rather that the pettiness of the Saint Yuanshi far exceeded the imagination of everyone present.

When the divine might of Qingtian Dadi pressed down upon the Mysterious Gate immortals, a Saint's might also rose within the ranks of the immortals, directly blocking the immense divine might of Qingtian Dadi.

Clearly.

The immortal light descended by the Saint Yuanshi also gathered into a mass, transforming into an avatar of intent to confront Qingtian Dadi.

For a moment.

This region of Chaos surged with wind and clouds; the divine might and Saint's might contended and clashed, dividing the area into two interwoven domains and forcing the surrounding Chaos Qi to churn incessantly.

One could see Yuanshi, formed from the gathering of Jade Purity immortal light, looking calmly toward Qingtian Dadi on the side of the Divine Court.

The appearance of Qingtian Dadi was beyond his expectations.

At the same time.

As a Saint of the Heavenly Rice and one of the Three Pure Ones, the reason for this was quickly clarified.

He, Yuqing Yuanshi, had ultimately fallen into the Divine Court's scheme! Those Creation Gods of the Divine Court had grasped his, Yuqing Yuanshi's, temperament perfectly! Thinking of this, the indignation and anger at the situation that should have been in Yuanshi's heart gradually subsided.

Therefore, he said coldly: "In such a situation, isn't this exactly what your Divine Court desired? What is wrong with me adding a little fuel to the fire before the battle!"

Qingtian smiled, but also laughed it off indifferently.

However, the gods like Ziwei nearby were secretly annoyed upon hearing this.

If they had known earlier, they should not have held back.

Yes, before the battle, they had each received secret edicts from the God Kings above.

The goal was to expand the scale of the war, draw as much of the Mysterious Gate's main combat power into the battlefield as possible, and then conduct a decisive battle.

In fact, they had indeed done so. In order to draw as many of the Mysterious Gate's second-generation disciples into the war as possible, they had not used their full strength to kill, just to give those second-generation disciples still watching the battlefield the illusion that "I can do it too!" After all, if the forces controlled by a few second-generation disciples could fight the Divine Court's many pantheons to this extent, wouldn't they be able to win if he joined? Therefore, the three gods Ziwei, Jiujie, and Michael had not lacked a "fishing" attitude on this battlefield.

It was just that they had not waited for the other second-generation disciples, but instead waited for the Mysterious Gate Saint Yuqing Yuanshi to personally enter the field and shamelessly attack them! This was something they had not expected.

However, who knew if the current situation was not a "bright scheme" they were unaware of? A trap to manipulate the Three Pure Ones Saints like Yuqing Yuanshi by not following the rules? Or perhaps a pretext aimed at the Mysterious Gate's Rice Ancestor Hongjun?

"Hmph! Enough talk. If you want to speak to me about the Covenant of the Gods, let's go to the Outer Chaos and have a bout!"

Without dwelling too much on schemes, in the current situation, Yuanshi only trusted the Chaos Banner in his own hands.

Having said that, he no longer paid attention to the gods and immortals in the arena, nor did he care if Qingtian Dadi agreed, and was the first to disperse his projection, leave the Primordial East Kunlun in his true form, and arrive in the Outer Chaos of the Primordial Continent.

Seeing this, Qingtian Dadi smiled faintly.

He then looked toward the Mysterious Gate side and said indifferently: "Because Fellow Daoist Yuanshi broke his word and crossed the boundary, the Taixuan Dynasty shall be destroyed!"

Having said that, the divine light projection dispersed, to the joy of the gods and the disappointment of the immortals.

At the same time.

In the Taixuan region of the Primordial Land.

In the positions where the Dashang Dynasty was attacking, the Taixuan clan, who had not yet retreated and were preparing for a desperate struggle against the Dashang Dynasty, were immediately struck down one by one by the Qingtian Thunder that descended from thin air.

Their hundreds of millions of subordinate Taixuan soldiers saw this scene and were at a loss, their morale completely shattered! Before long, the Dashang Dynasty had completed its total rule over the East Sea Coast region! Outer Chaos.

Compared to the Inner Chaos near the Primordial Continent, this place lacked the suppression of the Primordial Heavenly Rice; not only was there no time or space, but the Chaos Qi was also far more violent and chaotic than that of the Inner Chaos.

Apart from Chaos creatures, only existences like Saints, Creation Gods, and Hunyuan Daluo could survive for long in the Outer Chaos.

At this time.

In a Chaos region hundreds or thousands of Chaos units away from the Wuxian Da Yuzhou created by Yang Mei and the Great God King Xingchen Laozu, the Saint Yuqing Yuanshi radiated Jade Purity immortal light, with the Heavens' Auspicious Clouds above his head, his expression cold as frost, and his infinite Saint's might suppressing the chaotic Chaos Qi in the surrounding area into stillness.

And in the Chaos region separated by only half a Chaos unit, there was Qingtian Dadi, with divine light flowing around his body and surrounded by many Zhutian Chuangshi Divine Artifact.

One side wreathed in immortal light, the other with divine light flowing.

The confrontation between the monstrous Saint's might and the endless divine might caused many newly born Chaos creatures to flee in all directions, and also attracted the attention of Saints like Taiqing, Shangqing, Jieyin, and Zhunti, as well as Creation Gods like Guangming, Anhei, and Shengling Nüwang.

Since the war of the Human World Dynasty had lasted for nearly One Yuan Epoch, the dispute between the God Race and the Mysterious Gate had finally reached the level of those who had attained the Proof of Rice.

In the past several major battles, the strongest on both sides were only Quasi-Saints and the Zhiga.

Although the main force on both sides was still dominated by the Human World Dynasty's Daluo Sanshou and humans/gods.

But the battle that truly determined the outcome was the battlefield dominated by those who had attained the Proof of Rice, like Yuanshi and Qingtian.

The two seemed to have been confronting each other for a while, but in fact, their mental battle had already clashed countless times across countless spaces and times, disturbing thousands of Chaos regions and inadvertently opening and destroying countless Small Worlds.

Until each believed they had found a suitable point of victory, their "other selves" from countless spaces and times returned to their original bodies.

It was seen.

After Yuanshi pondered for a moment, he opened his eyes, and the immortal light of Rice laws flashed and vanished within them.

Following this, he swung the Chaos Banner in his hand, and endless Chaos sword Qi tore through the Chaos currents; countless Small Worlds rose and fell within it, and Chaos Qi swords swept continuously from the endless chaotic space-time toward Qingtian Dadi.

At the same time.

Qingtian Dadi did not show weakness, and also chose a method beneficial to himself from the virtual space-time of their mental battle.

With a flash of divine light, his form transformed in the blink of an eye into a ferocious, giant Qingtian Dadi eye.

As the will of the Primordial Three Heavens, he possessed a small portion of the authority of Heaven, in addition to his own Gods' Great Will and divine powers.

Therefore, although the Qingtian divine eye he transformed into could not compare to the Heavenly Rice Eye of the Heavenly Rice Will, it was not much weaker.

The authority of Heaven alone was enough to offset most of the Heavenly Rice Power of the Saint Yuqing Yuanshi.

Just as the endless Chaos sword Qi descended upon him, the Qingtian divine eye flashed with divine light; the endless Chaos sword Qi collided with the divine light, and there was no terrifying collision as one might imagine, only silent and soundless dissolution.

Logically speaking.

The combat methods between practitioners improve as their realms increase.

But upon reaching the realm of those who have attained the Proof of Rice, what they compete with are their respective Daos, their respective wills, and their respective foundations.

Spirit Treasures and Divine Artifacts, while capable of increasing combat power, cannot fully dictate the direction of a battle between those who have attained the Proof of Rice.

Of course, this is unless they are Chaos-attribute Chaos Spirit Treasures and Chaos Supreme Treasures.

Yuqing Yuanshi's Yuqing Immortal Light, Rice of Destruction, Rice of Artifacts, Rice of Exposition, and Heavenly Rice; Qingtian Dadi's Rice of Qingtian, Rice of Justice, Rice of Judgment, and Rice of the Divine.

The might of both sides intertwined and collided with one another.

Therefore.

Centered on the Chaos domain where Yuanshi and Qingtian were located, the battle between the two instantly affected hundreds of units of the surrounding Chaos domain.

The entire battlefield contained the Daos left behind by each, as well as the Heavenly Rice Power and Divine Rice Power left behind by each.

This stirred the surrounding hundreds of units of the Chaos domain into even greater chaos.

In the blink of an eye, they clashed hundreds of billions of times; one moment his immortal light lost its luster, the next his divine light grew dim, neither letting the other go.

After this battle, it is estimated that it will take hundreds of great eons to determine a result.

Of course.

This is only because the battlefield is located in the Wai Hun-dun domain, where time on the Primordial Continent has no concept.

Even if Yuanshi and Qingtian have clashed in the Chaos domain for countless years, as long as they wish, they can return at will to the very moment they left the Primordial Continent, or even any time in the future of the Primordial Continent.

Just as Yuqing Yuanshi and Qingtian Dadi were clashing in the Wai Hun-dun.

The two Saints, Taiqing and Shangqing, also recalled their respective subordinates, disciples, and grand-disciples from the Nei Hun-dun.

After all, the interests of the Mysterious Gate on the East Sea Coast had vanished following the defeat of the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty in the war against the Dashang Dynasty.

Now, their primary objective was to clear the Dayu Dynasty from the Shouyang Mountain region as soon as possible, completing the Dazhou Dynasty's total unification of the Human Race in the Shouyang Mountain region.

Their Mysterious Gate had truly fallen more than one step behind in this confrontation.

The foundation of the Mysterious Gate among the Human Race was already weaker than the Divine Court by more than a fraction; if their Mysterious Gate had truly fallen more than one or two steps behind in this confrontation, then at this moment.

With the end of the war between the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty and the Dashang Dynasty, the situation among the Human World Dynasties was thoroughly divided into three superpowers and several minor ones.

The three superpowers refer to the Dazhou Dynasty supported by the Mysterious Gate, the Dashang Dynasty supported by the Divine Court, and the Divine Xia Dynasty supported by the Human Ancestral Land.

The several minor ones are like the Dayu Dynasty, the Jiang Dynasty, and the Long Dynasty.

Of course.

Human Race forces are not limited to the line of Human World Dynasties.

There are countless humans, mixed-blood humans, and so on, on the Primordial Western Continent and within the territories of various major forces.

There are even countless Human Race forces that have migrated into the Shenting Zhutian Shijie.

They are all watching the final outcome of the Human World Dynasty between the Shouyang Mountain region, the Source of the Yellow River, and the East Sea Coast.

Regardless of which side wins, the establishment of the Human World Dynasty is an irresistible trend! Gu Zhangqing's "Heaven, Earth, and Human" Three Divine Ways plan has already perfected two, and the final one, the Human Divine Rice, is currently being gradually perfected.

Once the Human World Dynasty is established, the Human Divine Rice will also be perfected.

Many people, including the immortals of the Mysterious Gate and the majority of the God Race, do not know about Gu Zhangqing's layout for the Three Divine Ways.

Nor do they know what will happen after the Three Divine Ways are perfected.

The Heavenly Divine Rice, or Innate Divine Rice, belongs to the Divine Court and the Rice of Laws, exercising the innate authority of Heaven and Earth.

The Earthly Divine Way, or Earth Deity Divine Path, belongs to the Underworld, covering the netherworld and Earth Deities, exercising acquired human authority.

The Human Divine Rice, or Human God Rice, belongs to the Heavenly Dynasty, covering the Qi Luck of the human world and exercising the laws (authority) of the Human World Dynasty's Divine Officials.

The three each have their own replacements.

The Heavenly Divine Rice replaces the Primordial Heavenly Rice (the Heavenly Court), the Earthly Divine Way replaces the Primordial Earth Rice (the Underworld), and the Human Divine Rice replaces the Primordial Human Rice (all living beings).

Once the Three Divine Ways are unified, the Gods' Great Will controlled by Gu Zhangqing will inevitably replace the Heavenly Rice Will to become the orthodoxy of the Primordial World.

And as the first Dachan of Chaos, the Primordial World not only bears the center of Chaos but is also the core of the Heavens and Myriad Worlds of this Chaos.

The remaining universes that have yet to be born, including the Infinite Multiverse opened up by Yangmei Laozu and the Infinite God King Star, will all be Multiverse Dachan with the Primordial World as the core.

Mastering the Primordial World will also mean mastering the direction of this Chaos.

This is of vital importance to the God Race to which Gu Zhangqing belongs.

Ever since the appearance of the Second Chaos, Gu Zhangqing, that is, the World Tree, began his layout in advance.

Because the specific situation of the Second Chaos is unknown, even the Heavenly Rice Hongjun and the Chaos Yang Mei do not know the specific circumstances.

Although they know that too many heterodox Daos have appeared in the God Race recently, the Heavenly Rice Hongjun and the others assume they are heterodox rule Daos born from the Shenzu Zhutian Wanjie.

After all, when any member of the God Race dies nowadays, their true spirit does not return to the Primordial Heavenly Rice source world.

Instead, it returns to their own source world, and the source world of every God Race member belongs to the World Tree.

Coupled with the fact that the God Race members who know of the existence of the Second Chaos are the focus of the Gods' Great Will, the Mysterious Gate and other Immortal Domain forces have no way of knowing the layout and schemes of Gu Zhangqing and the God Race.

Time passed quietly during the long war.

As the struggle between the God Race and the Mysterious Gate became increasingly intense, the wars between the Human World Dynasties also became more frequent, and for a time, the countless major forces in the Primordial World that were still watching also began to be forced to place their bets one by one.

Nearly one hundred thousand years later.

Under the introduction of the gods of the God Race, the Dashang Dynasty merged with the Jiang Dynasty and the Long Dynasty of the northern and southern continents, forming the Divine Shang Dynasty, which, with the Dashang Dynasty as its core, comprised all the peak Human Race forces excluding the Source of the Yellow River and the Shouyang Mountain region! Meanwhile, with the full support of the Three Teachings, the Dazhou Dynasty destroyed the Dayu Dynasty after several wars.

Most of the remaining living forces were absorbed by the Dashang Dynasty, and a small portion was absorbed by the Divine Xia Dynasty.

Over the past nearly 100,000 years, with the support of the Human Ancestral Land at Mount Buzhou and many reclusive first-generation human sages, the Divine Xia Dynasty gathered countless loose cultivator forces of the Human Race who were loyal to their own kind.

What remained was the Dazhou Dynasty, which had obtained the assistance of many Mysterious Gate forces.

And after one Yuan Epoch, that is, after more than 120,000 years.

The Great Shang, Dazhou, and Divine Xia, these three dynasties, almost tacitly expanded outward at the same time.

The Dazhou Dynasty took the Shouyang Mountain region as its center, avoiding the east and Mount Buzhou to expand in the directions where several other Alien Races and barbarian tribes were located.

The Divine Xia Dynasty took the Source of the Yellow River as its center, avoiding the east and west to expand north and south toward the barbarian tribes and Alien Races.

As for the Divine Shang Dynasty, because it had absorbed the Jiang Dynasty and the Long Dynasty, its territory was vast, far larger than that of Dazhou and Divine Xia, so the directions in which the Divine Shang Dynasty expanded were also far more numerous than those of Dazhou and Divine Xia.

If one were to calculate based solely on the territory of the dynasties, the Divine Shang Dynasty would rank first, being four times the size of the Divine Xia Dynasty and three times the size of the Dazhou Dynasty.

If calculated by population (Human Race), the Divine Xia Dynasty would rank first, being 1.5 times that of the Divine Shang Dynasty and more than twice that of the Dazhou Dynasty.

If calculated by the strength of forces, Divine Shang is first, Dazhou is second, and Divine Xia is third.

If calculated by Human Luck, Divine Xia and Divine Shang are about the same, with Dazhou third.

At the same time.

The battle between Yuqing Yuanshi and Qingtian Dadi in the Wai Hun-dun, which had lasted for one Primordial Yuan Epoch, finally ended under the intervention of their respective companions.

However, they did not return to the Primordial World from the Wai Hun-dun before the Yuan Epoch had passed, but returned directly to the current time period of the Primordial World.

Because Chaos is chaotic and disordered, without time or space.

The concept of time is calculated entirely based on the time of the Primordial World.

Therefore, after dozens of Yuan Epochs had passed.

After most of the Alien Races in the Primordial World were gradually replaced by the Human Race, the Human Race finally spread throughout the entire Primordial World, the whole world! As for the matter of the Earthly Realm Heavenly Dynasty, the three dynasties fought constant small battles, and after dozens of Yuan Epochs, their forces and strength had grown to be comparable to the three clans during the Dragon Han Three Clans period.

At the same time.

Just as the great decisive battle was about to begin, a mysterious fluctuation suddenly came from the endless Chaos, and countless massive, sprawling tree roots swept toward the direction of the Primordial World in a dense mass.

Under the warning of the Heavenly Rice of the Primordial World, the Heavenly Rice Hongjun also learned of this situation.

After seeing those infinite, massive tree roots through the layers of the chaotic void, he felt as if he saw countless worlds surrounding and killing him.

The diameter of each tree root was comparable to the diameter of a Middle Thousand World, and the length was exaggerated to be nearly ten times longer than the diameter of the Primordial Great Thousand World.

Every pattern on the tree roots was comparable to a Small World.

And at the source of these countless tree roots, the Heavenly Rice Hongjun saw a massive tree that was unimaginable and indescribable for an existence like him who had stepped into the Heavenly Rice realm.

Upon seeing the infinite All Heavens and Myriad Worlds on its branches and leaves, Hongjun understood everything in an instant.

For a moment, he could no longer care about the Earthly Realm Heavenly Dynasty or the Wuxian Da Yuzhou. After sending a message to the Three Pure Ones and several other Saints, he flashed his figure and appeared in the Nei Hun-dun outside the Primordial World with a gloomy face.

"Shengling Huang!!!"

"What a God Race, what a Divine Court! This old Daoist calculated everything, but never thought you would have such a scheme!!"

Only to see that in the Wai Hun-dun hundreds of millions of chaotic units away, the God Race's Brightness God King, Shengling Nuhuang, and ten other Creation Gods stood atop the World Tree. Beneath them, in addition to nearly 100,000 God Race Supreme Gods, there were countless Golden Immortals and Supreme Gods from the Second Chaos.

At this moment, they were all looking at the several Saints led by Hongjun with indifferent expressions.

The World Tree slowly projected a figure, which was none other than the avatar of Shengling Huang, and also the World Tree, Gu Zhangqing.

"Fellow Daoist Hongjun, what should you all do about such a scene?"

Under the pressure of the Gods' Great Will, which was far stronger than the Heavenly Rice Will, and the World Tree's All Heavens Supreme Great Will, Gu Zhangqing asked with a faint smile.

Regarding this, the expressions of Heavenly Rice Hongjun, the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, and others were all gloomy and unsightly, and there was no lack of disbelief among them.

After some observation, Heavenly Rice Hongjun withdrew from the Heda mode on his own, and then asked bitterly.

"Has Fellow Daoist stepped out of that step?"

That step, which is the Hunyuan Taiji Daluo, the step of transcendence that the Great God Pangu also wanted to take.

"Hehe!"

Gu Zhangqing smiled slightly and did not respond, but the pressure on his body, which far exceeded the Heavenly Rice Will, explained everything.

Seeing this, Hongjun no longer made any meaningless resistance.

Upon seeing the unknown powerhouses behind Gu Zhangqing and the Great Rice that was different from the Primordial Great Rice, he had already realized something.

Perhaps his opportunity to go further lay with the God Race? After thinking this, he asked calmly: "If the Primordial Great Thousand World joins your World Tree system, how will you treat my Mysterious Gate?"

Hearing this, the Three Pure Ones and others behind him straightened their expressions.

It had only been less than a hundred Yuan Epochs, and they had never thought that the result would be in such a form! At this moment.

Gu Zhangqing waved his hand and scattered several rays of Divine Light, which went straight into the consciousness of Hongjun and the other Saints.

After the few of them digested the information within, they gradually understood the intelligence regarding the Second Chaos, the Multiverse Great Thousand, their own projections (especially the Three Pure Ones), as well as the Multiverse Primordial and the Supreme Primordial.

At the same time, a Boundary Gate flashed behind Gu Zhangqing, and the Three Pure Ones from the Second Chaos slowly emerged.

"A newborn Chaos! And my own counterparts!"

(End of the book!) (End of this chapter)