Victory or Defeat in the Gambling Duel (Thank you to Book Friend 160417200126406 for the Reward)

Puff, puff, splat!

A thousand-foot-long Chaos Sword Qi cut through the firmament, severing the earth's mountain ranges, rivers, lakes, and seas. Accompanying the falling sword light was brilliant stardust.

Before the sword Qi split the firmament, it had already eradicated a vast number of cosmic stars beyond the realm. The shattered stars turned into speckles of stardust, scattering downward like snowflakes.

The firmament split open with terrifying rifts, and the Chaos Mist from outside the realm surged in madly. The moment any living beings below the Daluo Realm touched it, they decomposed until not even bone slag remained.

Mountains and seas were collapsing, living beings were weeping, space was fracturing, and time was stagnating. This apocalyptic scene was not happening in just one place; all nine worlds were simultaneously enacting this terrifying picture before them.

The gods currently existing in the nine realms drove divine lights like retrograde meteors of the firmament, passing through the shattered and dim dome to arrive in the outer void, going forth to intercept the terrifying sword Qi crashing down unceasingly.

Pulling the perspective far away,

one would discover that the nine worlds were borne by a gigantic tree.

This was an ash tree towering to the sky; its trunk supported the nine realms, and its roots penetrated the three realms. It symbolized the eternity of life and the cosmos.

People called it the Tree of Life, the World Tree, or Yggdrasil.

The nine worlds, nine races, and nine civilizations were independent yet interdependent.

Norse mythology was brilliant and magnificent, nurturing many powerful gods within the nine realms, yet it was also the most tragic one among all mythological civilizations.

Norse mythology had no reincarnation, only Ragnarok.

All the gods knew how they would die and which gods would not die. The entire mythology was