The four directives of the Heavenly Dao's will were like four deeply buried seeds.
They silently took root within the origin veins of the Great Desolation World, the Earth Immortal Realm, the Mountain and Sea Realm, and the Eternal Night Realm.
The power of the first level of the Supreme Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin endowed these seeds with a tenacity and corrosive force surpassing any previous tribulation.
They were no longer vines waiting for the right moment to grow slowly, but burst from the earth across all four realms at once like thunder startling the spring.
Within the Great Desolation World, the earth-vein tribulation aura that appeared first was like a stone cast into a deep pool, spreading outward at tremendous speed.
The crust of a remote mountain range began to tremble faintly. Dark gray mist of laws seeped from its cracks, staining the spiritual energy for a thousand li around with a murky hue.
The ferocious beast remnants slumbering amid the mountains and rivers opened their eyes under the stimulation of the tribulation aura. With low roars, they began gathering toward nearby mortal cities.
Just as the tribulation aura spread to the edge of the mountain range, the golden formation patterns of the Heaven-and-Earth Four Poles Grand Formation suddenly lit up. A gentle radiance covered the region like warm water.
The tribulation aura rapidly dissolved within the formation's glow, like a drop of ink falling into clear water and being diluted away entirely.
Suppressed by the grand formation, the ferocious beast remnants fell back into slumber, and the trembling of the earth veins gradually subsided.
Sensing this, the Heavenly Dao's will did not feel much disappointment.
It knew that with the Heaven-and-Earth Four Poles Grand Formation, Sanqing, and the True Bodies of the Twelve Ancestral Witches