Now, Yang Jian had the power to protect his younger sister better.
And Yang Jian had already made his decision: he would change the Heavenly Edicts!
Yang Jian's nature was complex and many-sided, but there was no doubt that he cared deeply for the world.
During his time as Lord of Divine Law, he had gradually come to see how corrupt and unreasonable the Heavenly Edicts were. He wanted to change them.
Before, he had lacked the power and could only choose between his love for the world and his love for his family. But any choice would bring pain.
So now, Yang Jian declared, I want both!
For the sake of the world, he would change the Heavenly Edicts.
For the sake of his family, he would rescue his younger sister, Yang Chan.
People said there was no way to have the best of both worlds, but that was merely the lament of the weak.
With enough strength and resolve, a way to have both did exist.
If you wanted something and had the power to take it, you could summon the wind and call down the rain.
That was where Yang Jian stood now.
The Heavenly Dao Sages still loomed above him like a mountain, but as long as he showed restraint and did not charge straight into battle, the Sages would not concern themselves with such trifles.
After all, Yang Jian was a Chan Sect Disciple. He had a Sage protecting him too.
Besides, the Chan Sect's Sage, Yuanshi Tianzun, was famously protective of his own!
Yang Jian had mastered the Eight Nine Arcane Art and possessed the combat strength of a Late-Stage Quasi-Sage. Even among all the Chan Sect's disciples, few could match him.
With such an accomplished grand-disciple, Yuanshi Tianzun could only be delighted. Of course he would protect him well.
In the Investiture of the Gods War, the Interception Sect had lost nine-tenths of its strength. Though the Chan Sect had won, it had suffered grievously too. Even four of the Twelve Golden Immortals had gone over to the Western Sect.
The Grand Primordial Cosmos.
Bai Yu was no longer paying attention to the Multiverse Chat Group. Something more important had happened.
"The World Seeds I scattered have already borne fruit?!"
Bai Yu was quite surprised to see a new set of World Coordinates suddenly appear in the Dimensional Gateway.
The Dimensional Gateway could scatter World Seeds beyond the Chaos. Those seeds could travel through the Chaos Void of the Myriad Heavens, searching for traces of the Myriad Realms and thereby obtaining World Coordinates.
That was no easy task. It took time.
Bai Yu had even prepared himself to gain nothing in the short term. After all, he still had the Multiverse Chat Group, so it was not as though he had no prospects at all.
Yet it had found a world this quickly?
Could that world be near the Primordial Wilderness?
If it really was near the Primordial World, its influence would likely mean that the other world was no weak one.
There was a good chance it was a Grand Cosmos.
Then should he go?
A Grand Cosmos was a powerful world where a Source Great Dao existed.
Laws were utterly helpless before a Great Dao.
Clearly, Bai Yu could not run wild there as he had in the Lotus Lantern World.
In the end, Bai Yu decided to make the trip.
This time, though, he would have to go quietly.
Well versed in the Way of Survival, Bai Yu had already imagined countless things that might happen after he entered that world.
A long while later, with a thought, he summoned a golden gate a hundred zhang tall into the void before him.
Bai Yu stepped forward and entered that world without the slightest hesitation.
It was a world covered in scars.
Beneath an eternal night, everything seemed so silent and cold.
Not a trace of life remained. Only the unchanging Red Moon hung high above, spilling hazy, bone-chilling crimson moonlight that struck fear into the heart.
Beneath the Red Moon, a towering figure shrouded in the divine radiance of laws hid within the Endless Void.
Golden light shimmered in his uncanny, fiery-red eyes. Laws flowed through them as he looked down and observed the world with indifference.
"What happened to this world... How did it... die?"
Curiosity flashed through Bai Yu's eyes. He had been here for a while, and his investigation had revealed that the world's Heavenly Dao had fallen silent, its laws were in chaos, and its Great Dao no longer manifested. Only a wisp of its presence lingered between heaven and earth.
Yes, a trace of the Source Great Dao's presence remained in this world.
When he had first entered, that wisp lingering between heaven and earth had already grown exceedingly faint, almost to the point of vanishing altogether.
Yet the crushing might it gave off had still shaken Bai Yu. The boundless divine radiance of laws gathered around him had been suppressed, then forced into dormancy.
Of course, that was all it could do.
That lingering wisp was not the true Great Dao, after all. Its might could only render Bai Yu's power of laws dormant; it could not crush and annihilate them outright.
Even so, it had frightened Bai Yu.
It was also the first time he had felt the power of a Great Dao so profoundly.
It was a terrifying power that laws simply could not compare to.
Even after comprehending all the Source Laws, before a Great Dao, he could not even withstand one lingering wisp of its presence...
The gulf between them left Bai Yu horrified, but also exhilarated.
After rousing his dormant laws, Bai Yu did not leave the world. Instead, he tore open space and concealed himself within the Endless Void.
Since there was no immediate danger, Bai Yu had no intention of leaving. He wanted to know exactly what had happened to this world.
In the future, though, Bai Yu would never again dare enter a Grand Cosmos without any protective measures.
If this Grand Cosmos had not already died, he would probably have been discovered the moment he entered, and then... well, there would have been no "then."
Bai Yu might not fear death, but he did not want to die in such a careless fashion!
Unfortunately, while the Dimensional Gateway could let him travel between worlds, it could not conceal his presence from heavenly scrutiny.
Otherwise, that lingering trace of the Great Dao would not have taught him a lesson the moment he arrived.
Only a Great Dao could stand against a Great Dao.
Laws were pitifully fragile before one.
Unless he obtained a supreme treasure containing a Source Great Dao, Bai Yu would never set foot in another Grand Cosmos, even if his life depended on it.
A Grand Cosmos with a Source Great Dao was truly terrifying.
This time, Bai Yu had simply been fated to survive.
Perhaps because it had suppressed Bai Yu's power of Source Laws, the wisp of the Great Dao's presence that had barely clung to the world finally dissipated completely.
Seeing this, Bai Yu let out a long breath of relief.
Divine radiance of laws filled his eyes as he began to investigate the world.
The world's wildly chaotic laws were instantly suppressed, then fell directly under Bai Yu's control.
Without a Great Dao to hold him down, this world's laws were no match for him.
"Hmm? What's this?!"
Once he controlled the world's laws, all its secrets lay bare before Bai Yu's eyes.
In the Sunken Sea Ruins, where the laws were at their most chaotic, Bai Yu discovered a Dark Flag that he could not see through.
Wrapped within the flag was an Azure Jade Pearl covered in cracks.
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