That gaze caused even someone of Qing Huan's level to feel a slight tremor originating from the Great Dao!
"Remember!"
Rahula's voice became incredibly grand and cold, as if it came from the very end of the Primordial Wilderness era, with each syllable resonating with the remaining laws of the Netherworld.
"In this Primordial Wilderness, no one can kill this ancestor! Not even the Heavenly Dao...!"
The illusory body suddenly erupted with billions of dazzling Destruction demonic lights, each containing the power to tear apart the entire world!
The entire ravaged Netherworld trembled under his terrifying demonic power, and fragments of space fell like rain.
"Young man, this eternal, inescapable, endless Karma, entangled in time and space... you are destined to bear it!"
"Oh no! This Rahula is about to destroy its own origin and detonate its remnant soul!"
Qing Huan's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints, gripped by an unprecedented sense of crisis!
The reaction was incredibly fast; almost as soon as the thought arose, a huge jade Jade Plate, ancient and profound, engraved with the phantom image of the Innate Eight Trigrams, appeared out of thin air— the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, the "Innate Eight Trigrams Disk"!
The Jade Plate swelled in the wind, instantly transforming into a colossal object that blotted out the sky. Eight Chaos Divine Light representing heaven, earth, wind, thunder, water, fire, and marsh erupted, weaving together into a massive net of laws covering billions of miles, attempting to forcibly suppress and seal off the rapidly collapsing and boiling demonic domain of Destruction surrounding Rahula!
However, it was too late!
Rahula's self-inflicted Destruction will, along with his curse sworn by the Great Dao, formed a power that transcended the rules of time and space!
The giant net formed by the divine light of the Eight Trigrams had just taken shape when the Destruction torrent broke through all restraints!
"Boom boom boom boom--!!!"
That wasn't an explosion!
That's the sum of billions of Destruction!
It is the death knell for the end of the Devil Dao Era!
The remnant soul of Rahula transformed into a gigantic, dark red sun that devoured everything, then suddenly collapsed, expanded, and exploded again!
An indescribable shockwave of Destruction, mixed with fragments of the most primordial Devil Dao Law Fragments, swept across the entire Netherworld like billions of giant axes tearing through chaos!
The spatial barrier, already nearing its limit under the fierce battle between the two, was now shattered completely, like a crystal dome struck by a heavy hammer!
The sky was no longer shattered, but transformed into a turbulent spatial storm that swept everything away!
The boundless earth was like a thin layer of ice thrown into boiling water, shattering, disintegrating, and evaporating layer by layer!
Countless massive landmasses were lifted up by the violent energy and thrown into the turbulent spatial currents, where they were instantly torn into the most primordial dust.
The entire Netherworld disintegrated in this cataclysmic self-destruction!
The deathly aura accumulated over countless billions of years, the lingering resentment of all living beings after death, the ancient battlefield's malevolent energy... were completely shattered and annihilated by this power!
As far as the eye could see, there was only a chaotic wasteland composed of raging energy turbulence and flying spatial fragments!
For a long, long time.
The Destruction storm, powerful enough to shatter the primordial spirit of Daluo Golden Immortal, gradually subsided.
Qing Huan's figure reappeared, and the Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit beneath his feet emitted a soft yet resilient chaotic golden light, shielding him from the final shockwave.
Silently withdrawing the slightly dimmed Innate Eight Trigrams Disk, he looked up.
The Netherworld... is shattered!
What came into view was a scene that completely overturned our understanding. The once boundless Netherworld had now transformed into countless islands floating in the turbulent void currents.
Like shards of a broken mirror, they drifted, collided, and shattered into smaller dust particles in a chaotic energy storm.
Between the islands lies a vast, bottomless abyss of void, churning with torrents of dangerous, multicolored energy.
In some areas, the Space Law have completely collapsed, forming bizarrely colored, constantly twisting and writhing "law swamps."
It exudes a chilling, chaotic aura.
The entire space was filled with the mournful cries of Law Fragments left behind after the Destruction, sharp and piercing, like the screams of billions of dead souls.
This is truly "riddled with holes," a severe blow at the level of the Dao and its laws!
What weighed heavily on Qing Huan's mind was that wisps of heavy, viscous, and bone-chilling invisible matter ignored the Golden Lotus's protective divine light and the barrier of space, and coiled around her!
It entwines the primordial spirit, attaches itself to the Dao Fruit, and permeates the depths of the bloodline's origin!
That was the immense karma and immeasurable cause Karma generated from Rahula's self-destruction, from the Great Dao's approval, and from the Destruction of the entire Netherworld!
"Rahula... what a 'self-destruction master'!"
Qing Huan's lips twitched uncontrollably a few times. Even though his mind was as firm as a rock, he felt a great sense of absurdity and heaviness at this moment.
"Truly a madman who kills one enemy while losing billions of his own! This boundless Karma debt... has all fallen on my shoulders?"
Feeling the increasingly heavy entanglement deep within his primordial spirit, he realized it was the shackles of the Heavenly Dao's rules.
Bearing such Karma, let alone comprehending the Great Dao and improving one's cultivation, one will likely be burdened by this shackle for the rest of one's life, facing endless tribulations, and may even be rejected by the Primordial Origin!
This pot, black and heavy, is enough to crush even Sage's spine!
"Never mind..."
Qing Huan closed his eyes and sighed deeply, then suddenly opened them, a trace of unbearable pain flashing in his eyes, but more so a resolute determination like a warrior cutting off his own arm.
"Thank goodness! Thank goodness that the madman Rahula only destroyed the already damaged Netherworld, and did not completely sever the foundation of reincarnation, much less destroy the Western Earth's veins when he self-destructed his true body back then... Otherwise, he would probably have been eternally imprisoned in the Netherworld, filling the earth's veins for the Primordial Wilderness until immeasurable Tribulation!"
Qing Huan no longer hesitated. A Lotus Platform, with its warm golden light and seemingly containing the ultimate goodness of the universe, rose slowly from the Celebration Cloud —a supreme treasure of the Heavenly Dao, the Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit!
Qing Huan formed hand seals, his expression solemn, and chanted incantations before suddenly pointing towards the core of the Lotus Platform!
"Buzz--"
The Golden Lotus trembled violently, as if a portal to the origin of the Heavenly Dao had opened at its heart!
An indescribable torrent of golden light, pure to the extreme, warm to the extreme, possessing the power to Creation all things and quell all calamities, burst forth from it!
The moment the golden light appeared, the chaotic and raging Netherworld Ruins seemed to be paused, and even the turbulent spatial currents paused slightly!
The golden light contained countless Great Dao Runes, the prayers of all living beings, and praises of the utmost benevolence and goodness of Heaven and Earth!
Looking at the vast and dazzling golden light of Heavenly Dao Golden Light of Merit before him, which resembled the Milky Way in the heavens, Qing Huan felt as if his heart was bleeding!
His lips twitched violently a few more times.
"Half... half!"
Qing Huan wailed inwardly.
"This is the wealth accumulated over hundreds of millions of years through the creation of the innate Dao, the establishment of the clan, and so on!"
Now, they're going to lose half their territory in one fell swoop!
This vast and boundless Golden Light of Merit is enough to allow an ordinary person with no foundation to reach the Quasi-Sage realm without any disasters or tribulations along the way!
However, no amount of heartache can change anything.
This Merit is Heavenly Dao's recognition of the most virtuous deeds, a "golden ticket of forgiveness" bestowed by the Primordial Origin, and the only good way to eliminate such Destruction Karma!
"Go!"