"Yin Yang, you haven't Dao-transformed?"
The first reaction of the God-Demon of Destruction at this moment was that Yin Yang God-Demon was not dead, or was faking death. This cunning individual had been hiding and lurking for so many years.
"Heh heh..."
Ding Yun chuckled, and without delay, directly activated the strongest attack of the formation, frantically mobilizing the power of heaven and earth, the yin and yang of heaven and earth, to annihilate the God-Demon of Destruction precisely at the center of her formation.
And that Heaven-Swallowing, Earth-Slaying, World-Destroying Sword Formation.
Although the God-Demon of Destruction was not weak, and could unleash Hunyuan-level strength by borrowing the formation, Ding Yun had been just a step away from breaking through to the Hunyuan realm countless eons ago. She had deliberately suppressed her cultivation to become a supreme Hunyuan directly, and only then did she refrain from breaking through.
Not to mention, the exquisite nature of the formation that borrowed the power of heaven and earth far surpassed the power of the formation set up by the four spirit swords.
Therefore, the ensuing battle was a pure annihilation.
Heaven served as the upper grinding disc, earth as the lower grinding disc, and the Innate Yin-Yang Diagram as the core driving force of the grinding disc, jointly grinding down the God-Demon of Destruction in the center of heaven and earth, along with the Heaven-Swallowing, Earth-Slaying, World-Destroying Sword Formation set up by the God-Demon of Destruction.
Then, although the formation was not as fragile as paper, it did not last long.
It was ground to pieces by the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Birth and Death Great Formation.
Revealing the severely wounded and dying Ancestors of the Three Clans within.
Following that was the death of the God-Demon of Destruction, who was annihilated without any time to perform other actions or take the ancestral脉 of the Western Continent with him in a mutual destruction.
At the same time, Ding Yun did not attack the Ancestors of the Three Clans, whom she could easily kill at this moment. Instead, she appropriately activated the rules of merit and karma she had previously inscribed into the world, causing the corresponding rules to instantly envelop the entire world and all life within it, and began to delineate merit and karma. Everyone who was alive had to be delineated.
Including Ding Yun herself.
So, after a while, just as the Ancestors of the Three Clans were still delighted that Ding Yun had not attacked them, and had even disbanded the formation, thinking they might escape, an immeasurable and almost endless karmic force instantly descended upon them, and through them, radiated to all surviving members of the Three Clans.
The purer the bloodline, the deeper the karma. The more evil deeds committed, and the more the world was destroyed, the deeper the karma. Conversely, those weak subsidiary races with low strength, who did not cultivate any fundamental techniques of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans, and had not transformed their own bloodlines into the bloodlines of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans, had very weak karma.
Some, who only killed demons, besieged fierce beasts, and did not cause damage to the world, even had merit bestowed upon them.
As for the reason, it was obvious.
Their three clans had originally made little contribution to heaven and earth. Their past prosperity relied on racial destiny, on going against the will of heaven with the hearts of men. But now, their destiny had been greatly consumed, and they themselves had dispersed much. Coupled with the delineation of merit and karma by the newly integrated merit and karma system into the world's rules, they were naturally being held accountable.
The sins of the past, the evil of killing and destroying the world.
All were calculated and transformed into karma that enveloped them. If they had still possessed abundant destiny, their destiny might have helped them resist a little. But now, with less than a tenth of their destiny remaining, they were naturally unable to resist the influx of karma.
All the karma had to be borne by themselves, by the entire clan.
And the influx of karma was just the beginning, because as karma increased, so did the feedback of evil power, with inner demons arising and karmic fire burning the body being commonplace.
Before long, those members of the Three Clans with the deepest karma and relatively lower cultivation levels began to fall one after another. Their demise, as it were, kicked off the prelude to the mass falling of all members of the Three Clans.
Soon, nearly half of the direct descendants of the Three Clans perished.
They had enjoyed the most benefits during the peak of the Three Clans, and now, with the decline of their racial destiny and the influx of karma,
they naturally had to bear the greatest consequences.
As the saying goes, cause and effect cycle, retribution is not postponed.
Watching their descendants fall one after another, and with immeasurable and vast karma enveloping themselves, Ancestral Dragon and Ancestral Phoenix now had a rough understanding of what had happened, where this karma came from, and that if they were to fall now, the karma enveloping them would likely be instantly redistributed among all their clansmen, leaving few survivors.
It was truly uncertain.
Extinction of the clan was possible!
But at this moment, they were truly powerless. They could only place their last hope on the woman who had suddenly appeared, annihilated the God-Demon of Destruction, and whom the God-Demon of Destruction believed to be Yin Yang God-Demon. With this realization, it was still Ancestral Dragon who was the first to prostrate himself on the ground and plead:
"The Lord of the Dragon Clan implores Senior to save us. We beg you to protect our Dragon Clan from extinction, and we are willing to pay any price!"
Ancestral Phoenix and Ancestral Qilin immediately followed suit.
They were at their wits' end and could only try their luck by following Ancestral Dragon in begging Ding Yun. After all, regardless of anything else, Ding Yun was currently the most powerful God-Demon they knew of who was still alive.
If Ding Yun could not help.
Then others would surely be even more incapable.
"The system of karma and merit, I believe you all understand it now. Karma can only be resolved by merit. With such immeasurable karma, it naturally requires immeasurable merit to offset it, or else, await the death of the clan!"
Since everything was within Ding Yun's plan, she did not deliberately tease the currently dying Ancestral Dragon and the others. After stating that merit could offset karma, she immediately began to explain how to obtain merit:
"The reason you have been subjected to so much karma is mainly because you have turned the originally beautiful and harmonious Eternal World into its current state.
Look at you, you have shattered the fine Eternal Continent into nine main continents and countless fragments. The ancestral脉 of the central continent has been destroyed, and spiritual energy is depleted. The ancestral脉 of the other four continents have also suffered losses to varying degrees. Countless water veins, earth veins, and spirit veins across the world have been damaged, and the concentration of innate spiritual energy has dropped by more than half.
How many ordinary innate beings, and how many innate God-Demons nurtured by heaven and earth, have died at your hands? These are all killings and sins!
What you can do now is to make amends to the best of your ability.
The more perfectly you make amends, the more karma you can offset. Furthermore, I know that you may not have the ability to make perfect amends at this moment, so I will teach you a method: pledge your remaining lives to make amends over an infinite future time. Only then will your three clans have a sliver of hope!"
Although Ding Yun did not teach them directly how to do it, the core points were clearly stated.
As long as they were not foolish, they should be able to understand.