The Contest of Heaven

The Perfected One, fully resurrected from within the Dao rules, opened his eyes.

But what met his gaze was the perfect Heavenly Path surrounding him.

"Dao Integration?!" he cried out at once, his hands forming seals.

Heaven displayed its patterns, and sages modeled themselves upon them. Heaven did not alter its spring and winter for the sake of long ages; in other words, the Heavenly Path rarely changed its ways, treating all things equally.

So he had a way to resolve the problem of Dao Integration.

But... what he had not expected was—

The perfect Heavenly Path before him changed.

He was instantly dumbfounded.

The Heavenly Path... had changed?

Was this a joke?!

What kind of selfish Heavenly Path was this?!

This defied all common sense!

Still, no amount of shock would help, because Immortal Heaven was fundamentally entirely different from Vast Heaven.

Vast Heaven did not alter its spring and winter for the sake of long ages, treating all living beings equally day after day, year after year. But Immortal Heaven was different.

Everything about Immortal Heaven existed for itself.

In a certain sense, this was also the unique "equality" of the Divine Path.

It equally despised all living beings; all things had to be contained within Heaven.

Behind every double standard lay a single hidden standard.

People did not truly have double standards. They merely made different choices when facing different things. Immortal Heaven was the same.

It had only one standard: everything revolved around itself.

For that, it strangled the civilizations within its world, manipulated them into becoming its nourishment, made use of their advanced intelligence to research countless "possibilities," and then devoured them.

Immortal Heaven was a gluttonous beast that devoured civilizations.

It cultivated one civilization after another within its body, then ate them to make