A journey of survival starting from Zhetian

Chapter 722 [Nine Heavens] and [Nine Netherworlds]

The chaotic axe flashed, and the sound of creation resounded throughout the heavens and myriad realms. The empty shell, which contained nothing, revealed a ray of brilliant color, as if yin and yang had just been separated and the clear and turbid had just begun to be distinguished!

The slowly rising dream, arising from nothing, evolves into countless near-real legal principles, transforming the entire "empty shell" into a vast and majestic heaven.

In an instant, ethereal immortal energy rose, and echoes of Daoist chants resounded. Azure dragons roared, phoenixes soared, unicorns trod the sky, immortal herbs danced with swords, insects swung their fists, and tribulation lightning transformed into emperors.
Countless phantom beasts emerging from the dream, carrying the most immense aura and the most powerful spirit, manifested on this majestic world that reached the infinite heights, seemingly symbolizing a tangible cosmic order, representing various laws of heaven and earth, and fully displaying the brilliance of the immortal path.

As the strange beasts dissipated, countless golden lotuses fell from the sky, blooming in immeasurable numbers. Starlight and rosy clouds swirled across the sky, condensing into a dazzling Dao landscape. Wisps of pure energy fell, intertwining and overlapping, forming array patterns along different legal principles, dividing the entire magnificent world into nine extremely orderly layers.

At this moment, the Chaos Stone Axe in the hands of the Celestial Venerable Dao Shadow dispersed and coalesced, transforming once again into a long banner of chaos resembling both an axe and a sword, ancient to the extreme and powerful to the pinnacle.

With the wave of the Pangu Banner, the true meaning of chaos and infinity soars to the sky, shaking the vast expanse of time, stirring up the boundless destiny, swaying the deep sea of ​​suffering, and drawing upon the great Dao of all the heavens and myriad realms to resonate with this dreamlike and majestic heaven. It also spreads this place of the Dao, which is no longer an "empty shell," with a touch of illusory charm, to the past and the future.

Under the almost bewildered gaze of a group of powerful beings, the "six desires" of the Six Desires Heaven were erased, leaving only the "Heavenly Realm," which was completely transformed into a majestic heaven that existed at an infinite height, spanning the long river of time and destiny, incomparably dreamlike and dazzling, yet also somewhat illusory and empty.

A river god of the Milky Way, his body shimmering with a faint watery light, murmured in shock, "Heavenly Venerable, has this opened up a new 'shortcut to the path'?"

"Instead of using a grand formation of the Other Shore level to create a place that resembles a 'shortcut to the path,' it has opened up a true 'shortcut to the path'?!"

In a daze, the River God of the Milky Way saw an unusually strong aura of the Creation of Heaven and Earth in this Heavenly Venerable, as if this Daoist figure holding the Pangu Banner was the Primordial Heavenly Venerable who had disappeared from all the heavens and myriad worlds.

The River God of the Milky Way, with a hint of hesitation and uncertainty, muttered to himself, "He has become the Primordial Celestial Venerable?"

It wasn't just the River God of the Milky Way who had this idea; other powerful beings also had similar thoughts.

This Heavenly Venerable's Daoist image, manifested in an abstract state, is remarkably similar to the Primordial Heavenly Venerable who once existed in the Jade Void Palace in terms of cause and effect, and in terms of legal principles.

"That's impossible. Even if one could cultivate to the level of 'Yuanshi Tianzun,' one would still need to truly attain the other shore. This celestial being has only cultivated to the weak other shore through a special method and has not yet truly attained the Dao."

"Even if those on the other side can manipulate time and fate at will, it is impossible for someone with great supernatural powers of creation to leave behind not a trace of illusory memories."

"After searching through my memory, apart from the Wood Emperor, no one with great supernatural powers has successfully proven four or more otherworldly phenomena."

"To be more precise, even the Wood Emperor did not complete the entire process of attaining enlightenment. Otherwise, He would have been the first person in this era to successfully attain enlightenment and reach the other shore."

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Each of these powerful beings secretly pondered, hoping to gain a clearer understanding using the methods of divination based on celestial secrets.

However, the more I looked at it and the more I deduced, the more it resembled the Primordial Celestial Venerable who had already disappeared into all the heavens and myriad realms.

Unlike the Kitchen God, who merely carries a trace of the aura of the Moral Celestial Venerable, the Primordial Celestial Venerable possesses, from its very essence, the majestic and awe-inspiring creation of the world.

The expressions of the many powerful beings who possessed great creative abilities changed constantly. One ancient being even whispered, "The Xuanhuang Heavenly Venerable is clearly not the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, yet why does he give me such a similar feeling, as if He truly once responded to the Dao and created the heavens and myriad worlds? More than once!"

All the powerful beings who were observing the celestial being's shadow beyond the "heavenly realm" remained silent.

Aside from the Celestial Venerable who holds the Pangu Banner and is clearly a born saint of this era, there is one other person present who, regardless of whether they are newly created beings, has witnessed the Primordial Celestial Venerable creating the world at the beginning of the era more than once in the past. They are not exactly familiar with that ancient and powerful limitless Dao essence, but they are certainly not unfamiliar with it.

Now, as I watch the image of the Heavenly Venerable who guides the laws of all the heavens and myriad realms slowly overlap with the image of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable who exists in my memory.

Just then, the celestial secrets that had been mostly obscured by the weak other shore dispersed and were completely sealed off. Within that newly opened "celestial realm," which was hazy and illusory, one after another, the scenery of the near path appeared, corresponding to one near path place after another in the myriad worlds.

"The opportunity has arrived!"

"So that's how it all happened."

“Our opportunities should lie in those ‘shortcuts’ we’ve occupied in the past, and also in this ‘celestial realm’.”

"Those who had previously been hopeless in their pursuit of the pseudo-other shore will now have the potential to obtain this power. Those who have already attained the pseudo-other shore will also go further, taking advantage of the special environment of this era to first complete the basic characteristics of the other shore and step into the level of the weak other shore!"

"However, this requires giving up one's own 'shortcut to the path' that has been occupied for one or even several eras."

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One by one, the great masters of creation quickly saw through the mystery, and a bright light flashed in their eyes.

Before more powerful beings could make a decision and weigh the pros and cons, a place near the Dao, imbued with the essence of the Five Elements, rose from a corner of the myriad realms and was sent directly to the seventh level of the "Heavenly Realm," filling that near-Dao landscape with strands of legal principles and the spiritual energy of the Five Elements.

In an instant, the three great creators, Deer-like creature, Phoenix, and Whirlwind Turtle, manifested in the seventh heaven, each evolving their own illusory Dao, projecting out all the Dao principles they symbolized, and ultimately merging into the "Heavenly Realm".

"crash"

The ethereal essence of the Dao of Dreams evolved, forming the foundation of all things in this land of the Five Elements, and gradually giving rise to more celestial authority and symbolic power.

The profound mysteries of the Five Elements Dao of all the heavens and myriad realms unfolded before the eyes of these three great supernatural beings, like an incomparably ancient scroll that expounded the subtle meanings of heaven and earth. It revealed the most core principles of certain Great Daos, as well as the profound mysteries of certain principles that were sealed by terrifying powerful beings, and detailed all the extensions of their own cultivation and learning.

The three streams of creative energy that rose one after another reached their peak. Then, with the blessing of time, they directly possessed some of the power of the Other Shore level, transforming into a pseudo-Other Shore.

"The Great Sage of Deer-like Beast, the Great Sage of Phoenix, and the Great Sage of Whirlwind Turtle—these three powerful beings of creation who, at the end of the previous era, were fortunate enough to occupy the near-Dao realm, symbolizing the Five Elements Dao!" "After merging the near-Dao realm into the 'Heavenly Realm,' they actually broke through their cultivation bottlenecks simultaneously, achieving perfect creation, and under the blessing of the near-Dao realm, became pseudo-Other Shores?!"

"Although they are only one step away from perfection, this perfection came too quickly, not even in the blink of an eye!"

"Wait a minute. The Deer-like creature, the Phoenix, and the Whirlwind Turtle—their otherworldly characteristics seem to be starting to 'complete'!"

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Those with great supernatural powers who possessed the shortcut exchanged glances, their eyes sparkling with various possibilities, manifesting illusory futures of many existences.

They now understand why this Celestial Venerable sought the "Six Desires Heaven" and understood the "Six Desires," leaving only the "Heavenly Realm," and used the [Pangu Banner] and the Dreamlike Great Dao to re-establish the "Heavenly Realm"!
This is to obtain all the shortcuts to the myriad realms. The "Heavenly Realm" that has been shaped is a tempting bait to lure out all the very secret shortcuts that have been occupied, refined, and are unknown to others.

"It gives hope to those with great creative abilities to go further, to achieve the pinnacle of creation, and even to reach the pseudo-other shore."

"Give us, the ancient beings of perfect creation, who, having occupied the closest point to the path, have reached the pseudo-other shore where there is nowhere left to go, to 'complete' the characteristics of the other shore within us, becoming a glimmer of hope for the weak other shore."

"What a grand scheme, what an astonishing open conspiracy!"

One by one, the great supernatural beings at the Perfect Creation level sighed inwardly, but without the slightest hesitation, they immediately directed their occupied and refined places of the Dao to swiftly enter the "Heavenly Realm" that was radiating more and more Great Dao brilliance.

Given that there are definitely unknown problems on the other side of the path to enlightenment, and knowing that there is a weaker other side to climb above the false other side, even if we may be plotted against by this celestial being in the future, we must now "offer up" our shortcut.

Moreover, some beings with great supernatural powers have already "donated" their own shortcuts to achieve the perfection of the realm of creation and the "completeness" of the characteristics of the other shore. If these pseudo-other shore beings with the essential position of perfect creation do not keep up, they will inevitably fall behind and fall into the first echelon below the other shore.

It is extremely dangerous to see others make progress while you yourself make no progress at all.

In the foreseeable future, if a powerful being with whom one has a conflict over the Great Dao, through completing the characteristics of the Other Shore Realm, transforms into a weaker Other Shore like the Xuanhuang Heavenly Venerable, and is thus eliminated and completely erased from the river of time and destiny, this is already foreseeable.

No one with great supernatural powers would want to end up like this.

One after another, the ethereal and agile places of near-path within the "Celestial Realm" gradually "returned to their rightful places," with various powers blossoming and illusory paths merging in. The power of each near-path place is strengthening each level of the "Celestial Realm," filling the illusory and void, solidifying it, and transforming it into reality.

Heavy wisps of turbid air, repelled by the forces of various near-paths, fell from the "celestial realm," transforming into an inverted "image." This image was surrounded by negative forces such as darkness, misfortune, and filth, and gave rise to principles of death, the underworld, evil, bloodshed, and chaos. It also gave rise to near-path scenes corresponding to the high heavens, attracting many near-paths belonging to the turbid realm.

In the vast expanse of the Realm, a ethereal heaven hangs high above, shrouded in celestial energy, where countless auspicious omens gather and surround various lofty authorities.

In the vast and deep land of the Realm of Truth, a solid and imposing boundary has been formed in the deepest part of all the heavens and myriad realms. Boundless evil energy permeates the air, and ominousness and terror gather, giving rise to a power already stained with blood.

And within [Nanshan].

The Kitchen God holds the Tai Chi diagram, and a faint, clear, round light rises from behind his head, constantly sensing the rising power of each nearby place, which then returns to the "Heavenly Realm" in the sky and the "Image" deep in the earth.

Once the shortcut between the two was completely filled without any gaps, he raised the divine weapon of the other shore in his hand.

The two poles of heaven and earth began to vibrate, and yin and yang began to operate, causing the "celestial realm" and "image" to gradually embed themselves into the [real realm], transforming the two into two exceptionally large, opposing, yet interconnected places of near-path.

"Boom!"

Various principles of law and illusory great paths manifest within these two realms. Strands of clear light and endless turbid light flow into the human world of the [Real World], generating greater creation and stabilizing the reality of all heavens and myriad worlds. No more great supernatural beings reside within them, and they possess an unusually illusory feeling that the world is empty, all things are void, and all heavens return to nothingness.

The Kitchen God's face was pale as he looked at the two shortcuts in the sky and deep in the earth, with a bright smile in his eyes.

"It's done."

The Kitchen God released the Tai Chi diagram from his hand, and strands of special Dao essence were drawn out from the extremely thin, clear circular light behind his head. The extremely weak, barely formed illusory Dao fruit completely collapsed and transformed back into four illusory Great Daos of perfect creation.

Silently, a wisp of dark yellow light appeared across the river of time and destiny, once again piercing through the beginning and end of this era, suppressing the [Real World], and bearing the responsibility of "half a piece of the foundation of existence".

The Kitchen God sat down cross-legged, and a small pagoda shimmering with golden light slowly descended, releasing wisps of profound merit. A lofty divine will rose, carrying the projection of the "naturally perfect" great supernatural being beneath him, soaring into the sky and ascending to the highest point of the "Heavenly Realm".

"crash"

Strands of Daoist essence, like splashes of water, rose up. Countless laws and principles roamed here. The place near the Dao, which had now completely stabilized, revealed its name.
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【Nine Heavens】

Correspondingly, the surging of various Daoist principles, symbolizing the terrifying realm of "Yin" in all the heavens and myriad worlds, also reflects this, causing its name to spread throughout the vast universe.
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The Nine Netherworld

At an infinite height, looking at the nearby place where everything had "returned to its place," the Heavenly Venerable's Daoist figure slowly released his hand.

In an instant, the Pangu Banner plunged into the river of time and destiny, returning to the chaos before the creation of the world in this era, maintaining everything in the present.

History has changed once again. Since the beginning of this era, all places of near-path have been incorporated into the Nine Heavens and the Nine Netherworlds. They no longer exist independently and are no longer controlled by great supernatural beings of different levels of perfect creation.

Many powerful beings, from the very beginning, used these two places near the Dao, where their own wills had already been born, to pass through the final tribulation of the previous era.

(End of this chapter)