Daojun, start from Penglai foundation building

"call"

"call"

Heavy breathing echoed above the dark, cramped cellar.

In the narrow cellar, fifteen-year-old Jiang Huan held his younger brother Jiang Ming tightly, neither of them daring to make a sound.

Even though the air in the cellar was so murky it was almost filthy, the two of them still dared not breathe too loudly.

The two huddled in a corner of the cellar, trembling all over, as the chilling sounds of licking continued to echo above them.

When the heavy climbing sounds faded into the distance, and after a long, dazed feeling, Jiang Huan dared to cautiously peek her head out of the cellar.

Looking at the once familiar village now reduced to ruins, with houses collapsed into rubble and only a few broken walls remaining, Jiang Huan saw scattered limbs and dried, blackened bloodstains through the gaps in the broken walls.
Jiang Huan stared blankly at the ruins and wreckage, frozen in place as if numb. After an unknown amount of time, when his younger brother Jiang Ming, seeing that his brother was not responding, bravely climbed out of the cellar and collapsed to the ground upon seeing the wreckage, Jiang Huan finally came to his senses.

Seeing Jiang Ming lying on the ground, unable to even cry, Jiang Huan suddenly realized that he and his brother were the only living people left in the village!

"Huanzi, you're an adult now, you need to take good care of your younger brother."

"Huanhuan, protect yourself and your brother. No matter what you hear, don't come out!"

"Live well, don't come out, don't come out!"

Recalling the words her parents had given her and her younger brother when they were thrown into the cellar, remembering the chilling gnawing sounds she heard there, and looking at the mangled bodies on the ground and the all-too-familiar coarse cloth clothes, Jiang Huan's eyes welled up with tears: "Father! Mother!"

At only fifteen years old, Jiang Huan, who had always lived in the village and whose greatest dream was to build three houses and marry the neighbor Erni, developed a new dream after experiencing the destruction of her family.

"Father! Mother!"

"Don't worry, I've learned to take good care of my brother, and I will definitely live well!"

"As long as I have the chance, I will definitely avenge you two elders and the villagers!"

Jiang Huan and his younger brother Jiang Ming knelt before a small earthen mound, and the fifteen-year-old boy made a grand vow.

If someone were to look down from a high place at this moment, they would find that all the villages and towns within a radius of thousands of miles have been destroyed into ruins, fields are cracked, rivers are dried up, and forests are withered.
Above the sky, a gloomy, murky mist drifted towards the distant county town.

Perhaps before long, the county town will also become a dead zone.

Jiang Huan was unaware of this; he didn't even know how this natural and man-made disaster came about!

Perhaps Jiang Huan only has some vague memories.

It seems that one day, the once clear sky was covered by black fog, and something extraordinary fell from the sky. After that, the world as Jiang Huan knew it changed.

First, a wandering Taoist priest said that a sacred place had been destroyed. Then, a caravan of nobles fled by and said that demons had appeared. Following that, a large city in the distance was said to have been destroyed by a demon, and the entire population of the city became the demon's food.
Originally, Jiang Huan thought these were all rumors, far removed from her own life.

Until the demons actually arrived and devoured Jiang Huan's parents and the entire village.

Jiang Huan was confused: Where are the Taoist priests? Where are the immortals?
Isn't it said that there are immortals who manage the earth's energy and the heavens, adjust the yin and yang of the four seasons, and maintain peace in the world?
Isn't it said that there are Taoist priests who slay demons and monsters, maintain peace in the area, and protect the common people?
Where did the immortals and Taoist priests go?
Jiang Huan was too insignificant, just a mud-covered child from a village, completely unaware that the Yin-Yang Orthodox Sect had collapsed, and unaware that this world had been corrupted by the Heavenly Demon.

In fact, if it were just the corruption of the Heavenly Demon, it would be fine.

But ever since the Heavenly Evil Ancestor was willing to burn his own Dao source and sacrifice his own life soul to bring a great disaster to all the heavens and myriad realms, countless beings in all the heavens and myriad realms have been corrupted by the Heavenly Evil Ancestor's Dao light.

If they come from a holy land, that's fine, but for cultivators who don't come from a holy land, there's a possibility of them being corrupted as soon as they see the Dao light.

The randomness of this contamination was too great. No one was sure whether they or those around them had been contaminated. Even most of the immortals of the Eastern Heavenly Daoist School were contaminated. Fortunately, the Kaiyuan Daoist Lord arrived and used supreme profound methods to cleanse the evil thoughts of the Heavenly Evil Ancestor.

To some extent, the corruption of the immortals of the Eastern Heavenly Daoist sect may have been intentional on the part of the Heavenly Evil Ancestor, who wanted to annoy the Kaiyuan Daoist Lord.

However, in all the heavens and myriad realms, there are far more cultivators who are randomly corrupted and then fall into a dormant period than the immortals and disciples of the Eastern Heaven Daoist who are corrupted!
Within the Xuanhuang Realm, there are a large number of cultivators whose Dao light has been corrupted by the Heavenly Evil Ancestor.

If the Chaos Dao Lord were still alive, and if the Yin-Yang Orthodox Sect were still around, these corrupted cultivators could be suppressed immediately upon discovery.

However, with the destruction of the Xuanhuang Realm by Tianmo Moxuan, the demise of the Yin-Yang Orthodox Sect, and the fall of Hunxuan Daojun, the Xuanhuang Realm, having lost its pure Yang level and the orthodox Xuanmen Sect, was like a sieve full of holes, unable to suppress the pollution of Tianxie Laozu.

The invasion by the Heavenly Demon Mo Xuan dealt a heavy blow to the Xuanhuang Realm.

Therefore, within the Xuanhuang Realm, there are not only Heavenly Demons corrupted and transformed by Mo Xuan, but also a large number of mad cultivators who have been corrupted by the Heavenly Evil Ancestor after losing the world's suppression.

The former, with its treacherous methods, corrupts heaven and earth, and is thus a demon; the latter, with its frenzied slaughter, wreaks havoc on humanity, and is thus a monster. These monsters, beings that only emerged in the Xuanhuang Realm at the beginning of this Primordial Era, have proliferated and multiplied again in the Xuanhuang Realm after forty thousand years.

At this moment, the Xuanhuang Realm had first lost the pure Yang of the Hunxuan Daojun, then lost the Yin-Yang Orthodox Sect, and finally had a large amount of the world's origin and the essence of heaven and earth absorbed by Mo Xuan. It can be said that the Xuanhuang Realm was extremely weak at this moment.

So weak that it could no longer rely on the rules of heaven and earth to cleanse these scourges, and even the chosen ones could not be conceived.

However, when the world faces calamity, there are always those who are destined to succeed.

On the barren, cracked land, Jiang Huan, holding her younger brother Jiang Ming's hand, the two figures, one big and one small, trekked into the distance.

A mysterious aura clung to Jiang Huan and Jiang Ming, protecting the two children from the demons' senses and allowing them to escape danger and travel westward.

However, the western part of the Xuanhuang Realm has also been conquered by the Heavenly Demons. The Heavenly Demons and evil spirits are rampant here, turning the human world into a ghost realm, and monsters are everywhere.

Jiang Huan and Jiang Ming were unaware of this, but a vague feeling told them that the way out lay in the West.

Between the Nine Provinces Realm and the Xuanhuang Realm, the four Pure Yang Dao Lords used their supernatural powers to open up the two realms and form a passage.

This passage connects the two Xuanmen Daqian worlds, and they appear to be very close together.

In reality, even though one can see the Xuanhuang Realm from within the Nine Provinces Realm, the distance between the two great worlds is still beyond the imagination of ordinary immortals.

Unless one is a being of pure Yang nature, capable of moving the universe in the blink of an eye, even a Mahayana Immortal Lord would face the awkward situation of "looking at a mountain but running to one's death" when faced with such a seemingly close distance.

At this very moment, outside the Nine Provinces Realm, the four great worlds of Tianyuan Realm, Huayang Realm, Xuanhuang Realm, and Xuanhu Realm are colliding. Centered on the Nine Provinces Realm, the surging calamity energy has already swept across the five great worlds.

In the process of all the great forces colliding with the Nine Provinces, time and space have already been distorted.

At this moment, not only did the flow of time differ between the five Great Thousand Realms, but the flow of time within the Calamity Qi vortex and the boundary storm outside the five Great Thousand Realms also differed. The indescribable power of time and Calamity Qi had already enveloped this chaotic universe, causing time and space within it to constantly distort and mutate.

It can be said that the spacetime distortion between the Nine Provinces Realm and the Heavenly Origin Realm, between the Nine Provinces Realm and the Huayang Realm, and between the Heavenly Origin Realm and the Huayang Realm is immeasurable, and the flow of time in each of the three Great Thousand Realms is also not constant.

As for the Xuanhuang Realm and the Xuanhu Realm, these two later Great Thousand Worlds, the spacetime distortion between them and the Nine Provinces Realm is even more severe.

If it weren't for this bizarre spacetime distortion, the Tianyuan Realm and the Huayang Realm, two great worlds that are at least a thousand years away from the Nine Provinces Realm, would not have been able to collide with the Nine Provinces Realm at the same time.

Not to mention that just a few dozen days after the Tianyuan Realm and Huayang Realm collided with them, the Xuanhuang Realm and Xuanhu Realm, two great worlds located directly east and northeast of the Nine Provinces Realm respectively, at least a thousand years away from the Nine Provinces Realm, also collided with them.

This is not something that the two Dao-leading Heavenly Venerables, Qingyan Tianzun and Mingyang Tianzun, can accomplish. In a sense, it is driven by the chaotic universe, the great power of the Great Dao, and an inevitable outcome that has come after millions of years of disintegration of the myriad worlds.

After the three realms representing immortals, Buddhas, and gods—the Mountain and River Realm, the Thousand Sands Realm, and the Panfeng Realm—merged and established themselves at the center of chaos, all the myriad realms were destined to merge.

The Great Calamity of the Mysterious Gate was the first step in the chaotic universe's push to merge all worlds.

Because the Xuanmen contributed the most to the process of establishing the central peak and reshaping the chaos, the Xuanmen calamity will arrive first. The various realms of the Xuanmen will also merge with the Three Realms and the Great Thousand World to recreate the glory of millions of years ago.

This was something that Qingyan Tianzun and Mingyang Tianzun had already realized after they ascended to the position of Master of True Yang with their immense fortune and merit; and Jinque Tiandi and Jinjue Buddha were also aware of it.

The immortals, Buddhas, and gods established their dominion over the three realms, setting up the center of chaos and laying the foundation for the unification of all realms. Each of the three will usher in its own fortune and opportunity, only one after the other.

At this moment, in addition to the Tianyuan Realm, Huayang Realm, Xuanhuang Realm, and Xuanhu Realm, the Xiaoyun Realm, Jiushi Realm, and Zuoshen Realm are also converging on the Jiuzhou Realm.

These three Great Thousand Worlds belong to the East, South, and North respectively, and are at different distances from the Nine Provinces Boundary. However, at this moment, the three Great Thousand Worlds are rushing towards the Nine Provinces Boundary at an astonishing speed. It seems that it will not be long before the three Great Thousand Worlds collide with the Nine Provinces Boundary at the same time.

This is the inevitable force driven by the chaotic universe; this is the overwhelming trend.

Jiang Sheng only had some vague guesses about this grand trend of heaven and earth, but his own perception of it was not very strong.

At this very moment, Jiang Sheng and his fellow Daoists are speeding through the passage between the Nine Provinces Realm and the Xuanhuang Realm.

Jiang Sheng felt that the Xuanhuang Realm was right in front of him, but even with his speed, which was no less than that of a Fifth Tribulation True Monarch, he still hadn't arrived at the Xuanhuang Realm after seven days and nights of speeding.

This shows how long the seemingly short distance between the Xuanhuang Realm and the Jiuzhou Realm is in reality.

Distance and time have lost their basic concepts in the Five Realms.

Jiang Sheng gazed at the end of the passage ahead, which remained unchanged in size, sensing the bizarre and distorted lights on the walls above, below, left, and right. A thought arose in his mind:

"So much time has passed and there's still no change in the distance. Could it be that the timeline between the Xuanhuang Realm and the Nine Provinces Realm has long since diverged?" (End of Chapter)