After long ages, the Mountain and Sea Realm finally completed its fusion with the Great Desolation World.
The web of laws built around the Mountain and Sea Realm gradually lost its original boundaries as the fusion continued, like a tributary flowing into a great river.
On the level of laws, the Mountain and Sea Realm and the Great Desolation World became one.
The instant the fusion was complete, the resentment, baleful energy, and demonic energy that had accumulated in the Mountain and Sea Realm over countless years burst from the depths of that web like floodgates opening at once. They spread in every direction through the Great Desolation World at an unstoppable pace.
Within the Heavenly Dao Origin Space, the Heavenly Dao Will sent the last of its power of laws toward the Western Continent the instant the fusion was complete.
As soon as the spreading resentment, baleful energy, and demonic energy touched the Heavenly Dao Laws, they were guided toward the Western Continent, where they continued to gather.
At the heart of that gathering force, a colossal dark vortex took shape, forming a complete structure woven from Buddhist Laws and Demonic Path Laws.
At the vortex's core, a figure framed in the twin colors of Buddha and demon slowly took form.
As his outline sharpened, he resembled a two-toned mirror catching the light at different angles, reflecting the natures of both Buddha and demon.
His aura climbed steadily higher.
From nothing, it rose to the level of a Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal, then pressed onward until it stabilized at the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal Ninth Heaven.
Before Chaos parted, I already was; when heaven and earth were cleft, I became the demon root.
Buddha's light and demonic energy sprang from one source; resentment and baleful energy tempered