The Ancestral God devoured the Heavenly Dao by actually siphoning away the origin energy and origin laws of an entire great world. Once deprived of these, the great world would slowly head toward decline.
After the primordial war hundreds of millions of years ago, the Ruins Return had already begun to decline. In fact, deaths of independent worlds had already appeared within the Ruins Return. For example, the Great World of Green Wood, where Yi Yun had obtained the Azure Wood Divine Tree, was already a half-dead world. In another few thousand years, the Great World of Green Wood would completely collapse.
It was not only the Great World of Green Wood. Even the entire Ruins Return could last at most another two or three billion years. After that, the Ruins Return would also slowly fall into eternal silence.
It would gradually lose its Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi. The continents would become barren, the oceans would dry up, and the underground would be filled with World-Ending Smoke. By then, let alone practicing martial arts in the Ruins Return, merely surviving would be difficult.
Originally, two or three billion years could be considered a long time. At least for the martial artists of the current generation in the Ruins Return, they would never live to see that day. The Ruins Return's incomplete Heavenly Dao had merely severed their path to becoming God Kings. As for the Ruins Return's future extinction, that had nothing to do with them.
Unfortunately, several hundred years ago, after the Ancestral God awakened, he devoured the Ruins Return's Heavenly Dao once again. This time, the Ancestral God swallowed it even more thoroughly!
Ninety-nine percent of the Ruins Return's origin energy and origin laws had been seized by the Ancestral God. This could no longer be described