The heavens began from a small hell

Over time, the number and abundance of life on the vast continent have increased, a stark contrast to the desolation that existed when the world was first created.

The Divine Weapon of the Other Shore, the Wheel of Glory, was also forged under such circumstances. What seemed like a short time was actually tens of millions of years on the vast continent.

Since the fall of the sovereign, no second nominal ruler has emerged on this vast land, and no major race or power is willing to allow another to rule.

More than four million years ago, a newborn being was born from the corpse of a primordial spirit. This new being was almost identical to a human, but was a thousand times more powerful.

Unfortunately, there were countless beings stronger than them on the vast continent. With the survival of the fittest, this race was wiped out in less than 30,000 years, becoming a fleeting moment in the long river of history.

A thousand years ago, a powerful individual who explored alternative cultivation methods allowed his innate spiritual light to continuously rise. By chance, he came into contact with an infinitely high place and touched the Daoist temple established by Lin Yang.

Although he couldn't actually enter, the indescribable ancient imagery shocked this powerful figure, along with that strange feeling of being independent of time...

After he regained consciousness, he kept recalling the feeling of looking down from above all things and the wondrous place he finally saw.

He knew he had found a cultivation method that was unprecedented... or rather, unique. Since one person's strength has its limits, he passed on this cultivation method to his relatives and friends, hoping to perfect it with the help of everyone.

He also gave that wondrous place a name—the Outer Heaven.

No secrets stay hidden forever. Tens of thousands of years later, well-informed people in the surrounding areas had already heard the legend of the 'Beyond the Heavens,' and some even asserted that the path the ruler had been searching for his entire life was hidden there.

Upon learning of this, the innate spirit came to demand the cultivation technique, all in order to see the so-called 'Outer Heaven' with its own eyes.

As a result, bloodshed broke out in the world again. Although the powerful figure who discovered the 'Outer Heaven' was quite strong, he could not stop the many innate spirits. Everything he owned was dismembered in the struggle, and his clan was divided and devoured.

The vast continent is boundless and endless. This calamity, which is earth-shattering in the eyes of billions of living beings, seems so insignificant on the whole of the vast continent.

In some more distant places, people don't even know what "the heavens beyond the heavens" are, and in many regions, people are still arguing about where the center of this heaven and earth is.

Previously, there were innate spirits that left their birthplace millions of years ago, but along the way they saw nothing that was repeated, and there were even many powerful beings who did not know the name of the 'ruler'.

This made the primordial spirit realize that the earth was far larger than it had imagined, and it took millions of years to return to its birthplace.

After the sights they had seen along the way were spread, it sparked a debate among the creatures of the surrounding area about where the center of heaven and earth was.

This debate is not without merit. Given the current situation, occupying the "center of heaven and earth" would undoubtedly demonstrate one's strength.

After annexing the surrounding tribes and forces, perhaps one can rise to become the ruler of the land, even if only in name... that would be enough.

In the era when the Sovereign reigned over the land, some perceptive innate spirits discovered that after becoming the nominal ruler of the land, the Sovereign grew stronger at a rate far exceeding that of the past.

This is why many powerful beings want to rule the land; they want to see the scenery that the sovereign saw in his lifetime, and they want to try to surpass the sovereign and become the strongest creature in the history of the vast land. Lin Yang, who observes the changes of the world, is waiting for the right time to begin collecting images of prosperity to decline, and existence to non-existence.

His energy was occasionally focused on the countless universes, where time seemed to pass much faster than on the vast earth composed of matter.

Because time does not exist in isolation, it is affected by matter. The more powerful the matter, the more obvious its influence on the outside world, including on time. This influence often makes time slow down.

Compared to this, time in the starry universe seems to pass much faster.

Some planets, by chance, gave birth to life with simple structures. Although they were vastly different from the later-born creatures on the vast earth, Lin Yang saw that the true spark of civilization began from there.

In the various futures he occupied, these simple life forms gradually became complex, first becoming biological beings, and then, over time, developing intelligence and becoming living beings.

After years of fighting, different races of beings became the dominant races on their respective planets, and then came the rise of civilizations, from planets to the stars.

Until one day, a powerful civilization left its universe and went to the vast continent, celebrating the discovery of various new elements and trying to enslave the natives.

The war that will sweep across all realms will begin, and Lin Yang will also collect the images of the end at that time to prepare for refining the Other Shore Divine Weapon, the World Annihilation Disc.

As time passed, those few innate spirits who obtained the cultivation method of their innate spiritual light were unable to broaden this path, nor were they able to come into contact with the 'Outer Heaven'.

After that, several innate spirits simply abandoned this method of cultivation. To them, the idea of ​​constantly tempering their hearts and strengthening their selves to elevate their innate spiritual light was too bizarre and did not seem like a proper method of cultivation.

The orthodox cultivation method today is the art of "feeding on the clouds and consuming the qi," absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to comprehend the principles of the Dao, which allows one to most directly feel oneself becoming stronger.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of millions of years have passed, and the vast land has experienced dozens of upheavals. The era of dominance has become ancient myths and legends, and the innate spirits rarely show their traces in the world, lest they be captured and refined by the acquired spirits that have risen to power.

Countless universes have passed through even longer periods of time. Some intelligent races born in the 'early universe' have already been able to traverse galaxies, while others have developed the technology to travel through universes. One after another, civilizations with spheres of influence spanning multiple universes have risen from this point onward.

During this period, creatures that were almost identical to humans also appeared, but unfortunately they were not very lucky. Although they have not gone extinct, they are finding it difficult to escape their current predicament.

Barring unforeseen circumstances, until the very end of the era, the 'humans' of this world will be unable to make their voices heard throughout the myriad realms, so that all living beings may know that such a race exists.

Many years later, war broke out between certain forces in the myriad realms and certain forces on the vast earth. Under the influence of the mysterious 'will of heaven,' the number of races and forces affected by the war continued to increase. Many species and civilizations were destroyed in this upheaval. At this moment, Lin Yang extracted an extremely faint image of the end.

As countless billions of years relentlessly passed, and countless lives and civilizations perished in the flow of time, Lin Yang gradually extracted more and more images of the end. At this moment, he could already see the end of the world after a long time.

(End of this chapter)