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Chapter 161: Humans Replacing Heaven
The struggle in late spring and autumn only aroused a tiny bit of interest in Lu Yan.

After he surrendered, Lu Yan looked away, carefully feeling the changes brought about by replacing heaven with man.

Lu Yan's current state is that of a brief transformation in which his will is integrated into the heaven and earth with the help of building the supreme foundation of the Tao, thus replacing the spiritual energy of heaven with his own body.

This replacement is only temporary. The gap in status between Lu Yan and the Heavenly Dao is too great, and he is simply not enough to control the overall situation of the Heavenly Dao.

If you force yourself to maintain your current state, you will only be completely assimilated by the Spiritual Qi Heavenly Dao and become a part of it.

For the vast majority of cultivators, this is the legendary harmony of the Dao, the essence of the Dao that even immortals may not be able to pursue.

But it is obvious that this is not Lu Yan's path.

Abandoning the essence of the unchanging and being assimilated by one side of the heaven's way is undoubtedly putting the cart before the horse.

Therefore, Lu Yan only regarded this brief period of time when man was acting as God as a rare opportunity to attain enlightenment.

In fact, strictly speaking, Lu Yan at this moment is not the Heavenly Dao in the conventional sense, but a living being manifested by the Heavenly Dao.

The two seem to be the same, but in fact they are very different.

Conventional Heavenly Dao is like the Urban Heavenly Dao and the Doomsday Heavenly Dao, which are Heavenly Daos that operate according to established rules.

Before Lu Yan takes the initiative to go against the trend of heaven and earth and change the version of the Heavenly Dao, the Heavenly Dao will not interfere with Lu Yan in any way. They are just the manifestation of this world's order and do not have self-awareness or likes and dislikes in the strict sense.

Take Urban Tiandao for example. Even if He has the means to tamper with the cognition of all mankind, He cannot take direct action against Lu Yan because this is restricted by the rules.

The same is true for the way of heaven in the end times. The process of Lu Yan stripping away the wandering souls of zombies is regarded as saving the world, and he has obtained merits bestowed by heaven. Even if Lu Yan sacrifices the souls later, it will have no effect, because he only needs to comply with the rules of order.

The living being manifested by the Way of Heaven is Lu Yan at this moment, and the intelligent God after Lu Yan completes the ascension of his soul as he guessed.

They have a certain degree of self-awareness and are no longer completely restricted by the rules of order. They can manifest their own power to a certain extent.

Perhaps the immortal heavenly way can also be regarded as a creature of heaven. When Lu Yan took out the photo of Ji Xingyao in the immortal version, he received a warning from heaven.

It’s just that the status of the immortals’ way of heaven is too high, far beyond the comparison of the ways of heaven in cities, apocalypse, and cyberspace, so Lu Yan naturally finds it difficult to be sure.

Of course, these are too far away from Lu Yan and are not what Lu Yan should consider at the moment. What he should really pay attention to is the insights brought by the way of heaven at this moment.

Although he replaced the two great Heavenly Daos through the great change of trends, it was not until he replaced the Heavenly Dao himself that Lu Yan realized how noble the status of the Heavenly Dao was.

All the great rules of the universe were displayed before Lu Yan's eyes. He did not need to comprehend them to any degree. He could understand them all with just one glance.

Above the sky, the Emperor's shadow raised his eyes slightly, and the nuclear bomb fire that had not yet completely extinguished was silently wiped out, and the concept of erasing the extraordinary power also ceased to exist.

He let out a light breath, and a sweet rain fell from the sky within a hundred miles. The people whose pupils were blinded by the bright light felt the heat in their eyes dissipate, and their eyesight was restored.

As soon as the thought moved, the clear sky in the daytime turned into the starry night sky, and the brilliance of the stars in the sky shone to the extreme at this moment.

Lu Yan could even feel that if the spiritual energy in this world had not just begun to revive and many extraordinary laws had not yet truly manifested, the rules of the great Dao that he had glimpsed would be far more than this.

Finally, Lu Yan's will began to feel a little tired. It was too difficult for a mere mortal like him to represent heaven. Even the rituals for ascending to the supreme foundation of Taoism could not exempt him from it.

However, the gains from replacing heaven with man are already huge enough, and Lu Yan does not need to continue to ask for anything more.

There was only one thing he needed to do now. He raised his right hand and swiped his index finger across the air, and the cracks in space began to spread silently.

Behind the tear in space, what is reflected is the vast and boundless soul continent in the soul flag.

This continent is so huge that it covers the sky and the sun and stretches for 800 miles. Even a state cannot contain it.

Above the Federation, all living beings who looked up at the sky saw the Soul Continent. However, amidst the lingering black fog, they could not get a glimpse of the entire Soul Continent.

An incomparable sense of oppression enveloped everyone's heart, as if a magnificent world was falling towards the present world.

The next moment, the earth above Beimang Mountain trembled, and the shadowy hand of the Emperor reached into Beimang Mountain, and in the shocked eyes of everyone, he forcibly stripped the forbidden area shrouded in white mist and brought it to the world.

Afterwards, the Beimang Forbidden Land rose into the sky and returned to the vast soul continent. The incomparable oppression quietly dissipated with the healing of the space cracks.

After doing all this, the Emperor's shadow closed his eyes, and the changed night above the sky returned to the clear daytime sky again. All the principles of Tao returned to the ten directions of heaven and earth, and the Emperor's shadow quietly dissipated at this moment.

All this seems slow, but in fact it only happens in a few breaths.

Everyone looked up at the sky blankly, trying to catch any trace of the Emperor's shadow, but everything seemed like a dream bubble and disappeared without a trace.

Only those people who have regained their sight can clearly realize that what they have just experienced is not false.

Outside Beimang Mountain, representatives from various forces were trying hard to calm the excitement in their hearts at the moment.

If the war between ghosts and gods changed their original understanding of the world, then the appearance of the Emperor's shadow completely rubbed their three views to the ground.

The action of the emperor's phantom taking away the Beimang forbidden land was undoubtedly related to the underworld.

Combining the existing information, everyone quickly restored what they believed to be the truth.

The so-called recovery of the Beimang forbidden area was nothing more than a chance given by the Lord of the Underworld to the Blood God to atone for his sins. The Blood God used the forces of all parties to force the ghosts and gods of Beimang Mountain to stop returning to the world, and fought a great battle with them without a clear winner.

Everything was normal up to this point, but then the United States was bewitched by a supernatural force hostile to the underworld and dropped a nuclear bomb to destroy Mount Beimang.

The nuclear bomb was destroyed, but such actions finally attracted the Lord of the Underworld, the mysterious phantom of the Emperor.

He eliminated subsequent threats and returned the Beimang forbidden area to the underworld.

After figuring out the causes and consequences, various forces began to report the situation to the headquarters.

Outside Beimang Mountain, Mu Chunqiu slowly stood up with the help of He Dongsheng, looking a little dazed.

He vaguely felt that the abnormal thoughts that flashed through his body from time to time seemed to disappear in that fleeting glance.

He also began to realize that there was something special in the air that was constantly flowing into his body, making Mu Chunqiu feel an indescribable boredom.

Almost as if following instinct, he practiced the Changchun Kung Fu that he found on the mural.

The next second, all the shackles on the physical body were broken.

One level of Qi training!
(End of this chapter)