Previously mentioned, the great formations of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin tribes, when gathered, could rival the Hunyuan stage, causing cracks to appear throughout the entire continent. Now, the battles between the tribal ancestors, amplified by their respective tribal formations, have caused the land to completely fracture.
From being a single entity,
It split into nine main continents and countless smaller ones.
The world was severely wounded, its origin heavily damaged, but the tribal ancestors locked in a desperate struggle had no time to attend to it. It was at this moment that Ding Yun finally made her move.
She integrated the system of merit and karma she had deduced, a system that was foundational yet complete, into the world's rules.
Long ago, she had felt that this world was missing something. Performing deeds beneficial to the world, while earning favor and certain advantages, yielded no tangible rewards. At best, one might gain some authority or significantly accelerate the comprehension of laws, but the merit, so common in most worlds, was absent.
Similarly, when performing actions detrimental to the world, it was much the same. The world's aversion did not affect the unparalleled fortune of the three tribes,
Let alone the descent of karmic punishment.
What Ding Yun was doing now was, taking advantage of the time when the three tribes' great battle had severely damaged the heavens and earth, and when the world desperately needed a means to counterbalance the three tribes, she quietly integrated the system of merit and karma into the world's rules. However, it was only an integration, and she was not in a hurry to activate this rule directly.
After all, the strength of the three tribes had not yet been sufficiently diminished.
They still had to wait.
This waiting period lasted for several Yuanhui, not only witnessing the three tribes nearly suffer mutual destruction but also seeing the Destroyer God-Demon, along with the demon race, reappear in the Eternal World. Utilizing the demonic seeds of the demon race, they began to broadly infect the three tribes, bewitching their members, causing them to descend into demonic cultivation and become part of the demon race.
And they continued their tradition of destroying the world.
Speaking of which, we must mention the most widespread cultivation system circulating throughout the entire Eternal World. The most widespread cultivation system currently circulating in the Eternal World can accurately be called bloodline-species cultivation. The cultivation technique passed down by the Dragon race is called the Nine Revolutions True Dragon Art. All races affiliated with the Dragon race, including subordinate aquatic races that do not inherently possess dragon bloodline, can receive a portion of True Dragon aura from the Dragon race to cultivate this technique. As they cultivate, regardless of their original race, they will gradually gravitate towards the Dragon race, acquiring Dragon bloodline. Those who reach the perfect stage can even directly become members of the True Dragon race.
The Phoenix and Qilin tribes are the same.
Even the demon race operates in this manner.
By cultivating demonic arts, one falls into the demon race.
The reason for this is primarily to increase the sense of belonging among the affiliated races and to enhance the cohesiveness of their racial fortune. Since they were unable to establish cultural identification or assimilation, they could only assimilate through bloodlines, ensuring that all affiliated races shared the same main racial bloodline. This naturally increased the sense of identity among the affiliated races, and similar bloodlines greatly bolstered the condensation of racial fortune.
In addition, it provided an advancement channel for the affiliated races, encouraging them to cultivate and fight diligently.
Therefore, the appearance of the Destroyer God-Demon at this time, using the demonic seeds of the demon race to constantly erode the members of the other three tribes, causing them to descend into demonic cultivation and become part of the demon race, was entirely within the scope of normal operations. However, compared to the somewhat gentle operations of the three tribes, his methods were more direct and simple.
By this time, the tribal ancestors of the three tribes had all suffered severe injuries.
But deeply aware that if they did not unite to confront the Destroyer God-Demon now, their respective clans would likely be directly annihilated, they could only reluctantly grit their teeth, temporarily set aside their past grievances, and with their heavily injured bodies, launch a siege against the Destroyer God-Demon.
They believed that as long as the Destroyer God-Demon could be eliminated,
The overall situation could still be controlled.
And the Destroyer God-Demon, of course, would not have acted without preparation. He dared to appear because he sensed that the four innate spiritual swords he had nurtured from the origin of the Four Fiends had been completely perfected, and the corresponding formations had been deduced successfully, giving him the confidence to appear.
Even as the tribal ancestors of the three tribes besieged him, he calmly took out the four spiritual swords and set up the Heaven-Swallowing Earth-Slaying World-Destroying Sword Formation, trapping Ancestral Dragon and the others within the formation to annihilate them. In essence, the situation of the three tribes' great battle had suddenly transformed into a great battle between the three tribes and the demon race.
It became a great battle between the tribal ancestors of the three tribes and the Destroyer God-Demon, with the demon race holding a significant advantage.
The members of the three tribes, who had been fighting for several Yuanhui, were basically depleted in vitality and magic power, even their souls were weak. Meanwhile, the demon race, having recuperated, was in their peak state of spirit, energy, and essence. Consequently, even though the number of demons was still less than that of the three tribes, their combat power far surpassed the three tribes. Furthermore, they could continuously convert members of the three tribes into demons, and even manipulate some members of the three tribes whose minds had already collapsed, causing them to kill each other.
The ultimate outcome was predictable.
Ding Yun still did not act at this time, but she was very busy. She was busy repairing the heavenly network everywhere, because the world had already weakened to a certain extent. Next, she only needed to induce the world to open the sea of world laws.
Then,
She could successfully invade the sea of world laws.
And formally achieve enlightenment.
Before that, naturally, the heavenly network had to be fundamentally complete. This was crucial for whether she could successfully usurp world authority after her enlightenment, becoming either an ordinary Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal or a Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal who controlled a complete heavenly network and most of the world's authority. This could not be neglected.
Several hundred years later, the tribal ancestors of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin tribes, who were on the verge of death, could no longer concern themselves with racial fortune or other matters. They began to frantically burn their racial fortune and engage in a desperate battle with the Destroyer God-Demon.
The Destroyer God-Demon, of course, would not falter at this critical juncture. He quickly burned the fortune of the demon race as well.
Ding Yun had been observing them all along and knew very well that they had reached the climax of their battle and were completely unable to spare any effort for other matters. Therefore, she personally hastened to the shattered Western Continent.
Using the laws of karma and destiny as her sword,
She severed the connection between the Destroyer God-Demon and the ancestral脉 (zu mai - ancestral vein/lineage) of the Western Continent, ensuring that no matter how insane he became, he could not take the entire ancestral脉 of the Western Continent with him in mutual destruction.
Although the Destroyer God-Demon sensed this, he was unable to divert his attention at this moment and thus could not prevent it.
Only after completing this task did Ding Yun finally reveal her true form with relief, stepping out to the exterior of the Heaven-Swallowing Earth-Slaying World-Destroying Sword Formation. She took out the Innate Yin-Yang Diagram and instantly mobilized the core base stations located in the sky and beneath the earth to cooperate. Then, in the next second, the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Life and Death Great Formation, once set up by the Yin-Yang God-Demon, reappeared.
With the cooperation of those core base stations, the power of the entire great formation was no less inferior to the great formation set up by the Yin-Yang God-Demon, and in fact, it was even stronger. After all, when the Yin-Yang God-Demon set it up, the heavens and earth were not yet complete, nor was the world. Now that the heavens and earth had taken shape and the world was complete, the overall power was naturally several times stronger.
When the Destroyer God-Demon sensed the aura of this great formation, his entire being was thrown into disarray. A sense of panic and timidity involuntarily arose deep within his heart.
After all, he had been killed by this great formation before.
Now, sensing its aura again, it was inevitable to be like a person who had been bitten by a snake for ten years and feared wells. Not immediately fleeing for his life was his last act of defiance.