Chapter 33: The World Evolves, Now Is the Time for Revenge

There is still one cosmic cycle, and the true decisive battle is about to begin.

Yinglong sighed with a solemn expression.

For now, both sides are still somewhat restrained, with no intention of prematurely triggering the great calamity.

After all, the end time is fixed; prematurely triggering the great calamity would only intensify the war.

The present wilderness bears the Great Dao; the Great Dao is fifty, and there is no sliver of life that has escaped.

Only under the Great Dao can those innate divine beings with perfect and flawless innate Dao fruits be born.

And Cloud Dream Marsh will also begin the five-person Dao discussion.

"Does this formation really not need further reinforcement?"

Fuxi asked curiously.

He felt that there were some aspects of this formation he still did not understand.

Qi explained to Fuxi:

"No need; this formation is a trapping formation, effective inward but not outward. Moreover, I have directed all the dispersed power toward the sky."

Seeing this, Fuxi said no more and entered the formation together with Nüwa.

Di Jun and Taiyi closely followed.

Qi activated the formation and also went inside.

The five exchanged a glance, then helped each other sit on the prepared mats.

They spoke together.

Instantly, flowers rained from the heavens, and omens arose frequently.

But these omens conflicted: a great sun hung in the sky, yet it slowly dissipated.

A Golden Crow fell westward, yet it rose again midway.

All things grew and transformed, yet they were killed by sunlight.

The cosmos evolved, yet it was turned into nothingness.

As soon as this scene appeared, the faces of the five all grew grim.

The Dao sounds began to play, but unfortunately they were chaotic and disordered.

Ignoring it, everyone continued to connect heaven and earth; instantly the celestial phenomena shifted, sometimes serene, sometimes fierce.

The cosmos evolved, vitality emerged, a scene of harmony.

But suddenly a great sun hung in the sky, enduring without extinction, causing vitality to dissipate and the scene to wither.

Suddenly, clear light shone in all directions, turning into clouds and rain, shielding from sun and shade, and the great sun fell silent.

After the clouds and rain dispersed, yin and yang harmonized, and the cosmos evolved within heaven and earth.

Living beings proliferated, yet excess led to ruin; the scene lay broken, and spiritual vitality ceased.

The five's Daos interfered with each other, yet in the process of adjustment they faintly formed a world.

Everyone watched this world emerge from nothingness, endure extreme cold and heat, yin and yang harmonizing, continually evolving until the world teemed with vitality.

At this moment, the atmosphere among them was utterly harmonious, even continually cooperating, intending to advance the world further.

But as time passed, the world began to be unable to bear the burden.

The prosperous scene began to fade gradually, and the five's Daos also began to contend within the world.

Taiyi attempted to govern yin with yang, and for a time the world's recovery was excellent.

But soon after, the world's destruction speed rapidly increased.

After a fierce expansion, the number of living beings then died en masse, as if struck by plague.

The world's environment also deteriorated greatly.

Di Jun took over, regulating yin and yang, taking lesser yang and greater yin as the basis.

The world recovered considerably, yet development was slow, and it gradually died again.

Living beings struggled to reproduce, and the world fell silent and desolate.

Following Qi, excess yin qi dissipated, and yin and yang became harmonious.

But it was too desolate; although the world was peaceful and harmonious, living beings were unwilling to procreate, as if actively exterminating themselves.

Seeing this, Qi was also helpless, and could only pass it on to Fuxi.

Fuxi took charge, fixing everything in the world to proceed according to his will.

Sunrise and sunset, the movement of the stars, droughts, floods, and locust plagues—all were under his arrangement.

The fate of living beings was also arranged by Fuxi, like a vast spiderweb tightly binding them.

At first the world's operation was fine, but over time those living beings would rather die than remain bound.

They went mad, and a large number committed suicide.

Heaven and earth were like a pool of dead water, unchanging, and the world underwent a slow death.

In the end, there was nothing left to do but hand it over to Nüwa.

In Nüwa's hands, the world revived into a scene of teeming vitality.

Living beings were numerous and happy, but soon the duration of this state was even shorter than that under Taiyi.

The world was quite normal and could sustain these living beings, but they themselves ruined themselves.

Constantly warring and enslaving their own kind, their exploitation of resources grew ever more frenzied.

Nüwa destroyed them, yet the newly reborn living beings were still the same.

Indeed, the destruction became even more severe and frenzied.

Thus the world was destroyed as well.

The five-person Dao discussion should have ended here, but everyone fell into contemplation.

Everyone felt that they had no problem.

Qi felt wronged; obviously the balanced yin-yang did not interfere with them, yet they insisted on self-destruction.

Supreme Unity believed that heaven and earth should naturally have flourishing yang to be harmonious; all things need yang to grow, and yin-yang had not lost balance, yet the world's destruction was surprisingly fierce.

Di Jun also could not understand, using the vitality of Lesser Yang to neutralize the stillness of Greater Yin, to repair the world destroyed by excessive yang energy.

Although the yin energy of heaven and earth was heavy, the vitality of Lesser Yang was sufficient, yet living beings struggled to reproduce.

Fuxi did not understand; obviously the path arranged for them was the most reasonable, yet they were unwilling to follow it.

With his wisdom, could the arranged path not be better than the one they chose?

Nüwa was the most depressed; the advantage of the Way of Creation was obvious, yet she never interfered in controlling their thoughts.

The world teemed with vitality, and the environment was also sufficiently suitable for life.

Yet those living beings were enthusiastic about killing and enslaving their own kind.

Moreover, as their strength increased, this phenomenon became increasingly frequent and extreme.

In the pursuit of extravagance, the swelling of desire also became an ever deeper chasm that could not be filled.

Until they themselves completely destroyed the world along with themselves.

"Let's begin discussing the Dao."

Qi's words made the crowd's despondent state somewhat more bearable.

At the same time, everyone also got ready to act at any moment.

This time, their performance was entirely poor.

Although they felt they had no problem, they considered the other side's problem to be great.

Moreover, they believed the other side felt likewise.

The rest is just seeing if we can convince them.

However, this Dao discussion is destined to have no one convinced, because they are all failures.

How could failures possibly use their own failed understanding to convince equally proud people?

Over these tens of thousands of years of world evolution, the conflicts on the Bei Fang continent have been continually intensifying.

The four great feral beasts now suffer injuries almost every day; naturally, this means the three tribes all sustain heavy losses.

The whole Bei Fang continent has already been taken over by the three tribes to nearly one-fifth.

"The great calamity is approaching; it's time to gather the three tribes to discuss how to conquer the northern lands and respond to the feral beasts' counterattacks."

"In the coming time, we must speed up; we must occupy at least half of the Bei Fang continent before the great calamity arrives!"

Azure Dragon's words were resolute; the current losses were still within expectations.

Moreover, within the past ten thousand years, some of the original innate divinities of the northern lands have returned to the Bei Fang continent, respectively joining the three tribes' campaign against the feral beasts,

Now the desolate, ruined Bei Fang continent is, to the three tribes, merely a regrettable heartache.

But for those innate divinities of the northern lands, it is equivalent to a grudge of killing oneself to block the Dao, which cannot be left unavenged.

Previously, lacking strength, they could only endure; now, with the three tribes' assistance, they also have the means to contend against the feral beasts.

If not now, when else?

During their wandering life across several epochs on the vast primordial wilderness, they were constantly reminded to return home and take revenge!

Nowadays, most of them have found the inheritors of the Dao lineage within the wilderness, and their cultivation has also improved somewhat.

With no burden of a severed Dao lineage, their own methods have also found successors.

Now!

This is the time for revenge!

(End of chapter)