Kaiyuan Returned to the Three Realms, the Great Thousand World's Investiture of the Gods

Above the River of Time, surging temporal power swept along tides of karma, rushing back and forth.

Standing above this vast, boundless river and watching the tides rise on every side, one could see that even the slightest tidal force was enough to overturn an entire world.

Only a Dao-Holding Pure Yang who upheld a Great Dao could gain a foothold here and stand firm.

And now, a Pure Yang Great Sage who upheld the Dao of Eastern Wood Splendor and the Dao of Karma had fallen here.

Wood splendor remained evergreen, yet could not hold back time; karma formed by heaven, yet could not withstand calamity wrought by men.

The Bewitching Mind Illusory Wheel Nine-Tailed Great Sage fell above the River of Time. In mere moments, his Dao Fruit and true spirit were swept into the river, then dissolved within its strange, multicolored undercurrents.

A Dao-Holding Pure Yang had fallen. In an instant, countless Great Daos manifested together, while several others trembled and wailed, mourning the passage of an immortal Pure Yang into reincarnation.

In that instant, a blazing sun rose from the Eastern Region of Chaos, illuminating All Heavens and Myriad Worlds and shining upon their countless living beings.

The beings of every world gazed at the sunlight manifesting in the sky, more brilliant than the Sun Star, and at the five-colored, seven-hued Dao wheel rippling outward.

How alike this scene was to the one thirteen years ago!

As that sun collapsed, as an invisible force tore that multicolored Dao wheel into a streak of celestial essence spanning the heavens and illuminating the myriad worlds, endless Dao arts scattered across the worlds, and heaven wept blood.

At the same time, every fox throughout All Heavens and Myriad Worlds felt grief rise within, wailing without cease.

Within the Yaochi