Despite receiving a boost to their luck, those beings showed little joy in their eyes. Instead, they gazed toward Chaos with anticipation written across their faces.
The next instant, an indescribable pressure descended without warning from the depths of Chaos beyond the nine heavens, enveloping the entire Primordial Wilderness.
That pressure seemed to hail from the primordial age before heaven and earth had been born, formless and intangible.
Yet it gave every living being the same clear realization.
The Great Dao had arrived.
"The will of the Great Dao." Taiqing looked toward the heavens. His voice was calm, yet carried a rare solemnity.
At his words, everyone was filled with reverence.
The next instant, a dazzling light descended from the sky.
That light transcended time and space, causality and fate, like a luminous ray streaming down from the source of all things.
Within the light, an ancient divine character of the Great Dao slowly emerged.
Its form resembled the character for "approved," shaped at the first opening of heaven and earth.
"Approved!" As the divine character appeared, the entire Primordial Wilderness seemed to hear an ancient, majestic voice.
The divine character hovered at the highest point of the Primordial Wilderness. It trembled slightly, then abruptly burst apart into golden light that filled the sky.
The golden light poured down like rain, like mist, like a surging tide, covering the entire Great Desolation World.
This was no ordinary light. It was Great Dao merit.
Wherever the golden light fell, every being who had participated in constructing the Great Desolation Four Extremes Great Array, regardless of cultivation or the size of their race, felt the warm, rich power of merit seep into their bodies.
Every cultivator who had inscribed array patterns, transported materials, or supplied spiritual power received a gift from the