They swept across the primordial cosmos, smelting heaven and earth, darkness and light.
Even those who had pierced the mysteries of life and death, transcended the six paths of samsara, and stood within the eternal cosmos could not escape the upheaval of heaven and earth or the tides of the greater order.
Since time immemorial, the Heavenly Dao had sat high above the nine heavens, governing life, death, and reincarnation. All living beings prostrated themselves beneath it, like ants gazing up at a towering mountain.
Once the Heavenly Dao resolved to destroy the world, all beings could only await death, unable to flee, hide, or resist.
The Six Realms lay shattered, their mountains and rivers overturned. The countless beings still surviving in the world suddenly sensed a world-ending calamity sweeping toward them from the depths of the sky.
"The Heavenly Dao... has decided to destroy the world!"
Countless beings raised their heads to gaze into the sky, their eyes filled with shock and disbelief.
Amid a world strewn with ruins, the aura of annihilation pressed heavily downward, sealing off every avenue of survival. Apocalyptic pressure enveloped all things, making their very souls tremble.
At this moment, the Heavenly Dao, which had always governed reincarnation without emotion or attachment, finally sensed a long-forgotten fear in the rising tide of living beings within Chen Nan's source world.
It panicked.
And so the Heavenly Dao abandoned its facade of impartiality. It frantically plundered this world's essence, drained the spiritual vitality of its mountains and rivers, and sucked the life from its earth, seeking to extinguish the spark of resistance by destroying everything.
Yet its brutal pillaging finally enraged the world itself and ignited the rebellious spirit of every surviving being.
"Even ants desire to live, let alone the countless beings of this world!