Yun Ye's manipulation spread like a virus.
Weaving Fate—this was something the weak could not even have heard of, impossible to detect even while holding a Dao vessel unless specific rules were enacted.
Yet why could high-realm cultivators resist the power of Dao vessels?
Naturally, the power of Dao vessels also had limits. As their cultivation grew higher and they grasped more mysteries, cultivators would also draw closer to the rules.
Dao vessels with too few echoes could not bind these high-tier cultivators.
Weaving Fate was precisely a force close to rules, needing to be faced seriously by all Dao vessels, requiring a massive amount of echoes to targetedly resist.
The current Qian Yuan Dynasty could not even suppress Divine Thunder Demon King, let alone power of this sort gained through Open Heaven and Split Earth.
Therefore, starting from a small lineage, Yun Ye manipulated them one after another, then gathered intelligence and sought slightly stronger lineages. Repeating this cycle could be called very cautious, and this Weaving Fate consumed quite a bit of power. It took Yun Ye a full year to complete the comprehensive erosion of the Qian Yuan Dynasty.
To some extent, the efficiency of using Weaving Fate was far inferior to directly fighting one's way to the door. It merely won on safety and being able to obtain a large number of puppets.
These puppets would completely fail to perceive that they were being controlled, acting as usual on ordinary days, and even able to use Dao vessels.
Once Yun Ye issued an order, they would follow their instincts to execute it as if inspired by gods. Pushed to the maximum, they would lose their selfhood and accomplish the order at all costs, even suicide, though in this case the Dao vessel would also fail.
The present Yun Ye had already woven a great net within the Qian Yuan Dynasty, and all realizable futures could be realized under manipulation.
After all, the entire cultivator stratum of the Qian Yuan Dynasty had already been controlled. Even if he merely exerted slight influence, the power of destiny-intersecting echoes was sufficient to burst forth with enormous energy, allowing Yun Ye to display a capacity for destiny interference that could not be exhibited by manipulating a single person.
Under the effects of manipulation, Yun Ye could also easily swallow the power of cultivators who died in battle. Cooperating with the Heavenly Stems Universe, it truly was both terrifying and uncanny.
If another person obtained this power, forming a situation where a single individual ruled the world might not be impossible.
As long as large-scale destiny interference was not carried out, this method bore no burden. On the contrary, the more people manipulated, the more people could be influenced.
A super-enhanced version of a world-class religion, or rather, the Alaya Consciousness...
This was the definition Yun Ye gave to Weaving Fate.
Although after spreading to the world, even with the volume of the Heavenly Stems Universe, large-scale destiny interference could absolutely not be performed, quiet and covert influence was feasible. It was much like a widespread religion and doctrine, imperceptibly making people acknowledge the rules he constructed.
This degree of influence could already be called the collective human unconscious, namely the Alaya Consciousness, becoming the underlying architecture of humanity itself.
In Earth mythology, the entity that became something similar was called Tathagata.
The Red Heaven Realm ought to be Red Heaven; she was the Emperor Path Supreme who first borrowed the human collective consciousness to complete a Dao vessel, and should similarly possess a legal system to integrate consciousness.
The layout is complete, and the ending of Divine Thunder Demon King should also begin to play out.
The World Chessboard appeared before Yun Ye. He played chess together with Tomorrow, interfering in all matters of the Qian Yuan Dynasty just like a game pursuing maximized benefits, guiding the future toward the one he desired.
On this chessboard, all humans were equivalent to losing their personal desires, serving the collective entirely. Walking toward the best ending after countless calculations by Yun Ye and Tomorrow, cultivators constantly died, guiding Divine Thunder Demon King into traps with their own deaths.
True Persons cherished their lives.
Normally, it was impossible to self-destruct for the sake of killing Divine Thunder Demon King.
Yet Yun Ye could exert influence through destiny, allowing these True Persons to suddenly see the light and fight for the greater cause. Yet merely a year had passed, and the interior of the Qian Yuan Dynasty had already become an iron plate... Or rather, an iron plate in Yun Ye's eyes. Even if the real situation still held factional conflicts, Yun Ye could utilize them and unleash the effect of an iron plate.
The war with the demon king, after Yun Ye's manipulation began, gradually turned the tide of victory. The few True Persons also no longer stinted on knowledge, deploying top-tier mystic arrays with mystic realms to encircle and slaughter Divine Thunder Demon King. With the assistance of Dao vessels, they actually achieved a match and even began to counterpress.
Once human potential was completely liberated, it truly was infinite.
In particular, because Yun Ye made his bloodline public, there were actually many geniuses among commoners who possessed the Extreme Spirit Law bloodline. These geniuses were only completely excavated at this time, and once they had knowledge, resources, and talent, humanity actually had no bottlenecks. Increasing energy was even faster than elevating physique.
The Slaughter Rule was a strength-diminishing rule. Once "quality" reached a certain degree, one could only challenge opponents of higher grades, otherwise the gains from slaughter would drop very low.
Yet different cultivation levels only meant an increase in quantity; quality underwent no change, and the decay was much less than forcibly stacking physiques. The sole difficulty was merely lacking methods and falling into major realm bottlenecks.
As the Qian Yuan Dynasty worked with one mind, this barrier was broken, and human potential began to erupt. A large number of cultivators followed the army to battle, advancing straight from mortals to the Dharma Realm in a year. Their growth was astonishingly fast, and many in the Dharma Realm had even forcibly advanced to the mystic realm by relying on the Slaughter Rule to elevate their computing power and physique.
"Rumble!"
"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"
Divine thunder swept across, killing an unknown number of humans and demons. The massive slaughter power immediately surged toward Divine Thunder Demon King, who resembled the god of thunder in the sky.
Its aura had already reached a peak, a mere step away from the realm of the King of Manifest Realm.
"The quality of human cannon fodder has risen drastically recently, hahaha, how exhilarating! It's about to reach the end, and This King can finally step into the manifest realm!"
Divine Thunder Demon King wielded sharp claws, fighting a ball against the three True Persons. Even the dark night was torn apart, and the momentum was extremely grand.
The mystic treasures and Dao vessels of the three great True Persons were used in rotation to suppress Divine Thunder Demon King.
Regrettably, the Ruling Dao had an extremely strong effect on humans, but proved ineffective against demons—diametrically opposed to the Tomorrow Dao, making it difficult to gain an advantage.
Divine Thunder Demon King suddenly roared, displaying its True Body Divine Power. Shockingly, it grew thunder wings that blotted out the sun and sky. With a single flap of its wings, it traversed ten thousand miles and struck a True Person until he coughed up blood.
The injured True Person was greatly alarmed, fighting while retreating, and his combat methods became much more conservative. This allowed Divine Thunder Demon King an even greater advantage, consecutively wounding the three True Persons.
Advancing like a knife through bamboo, Divine Thunder Demon King laughed heartily, fighting to the point of losing itself. The reserve of power stored by demons far surpassed that of humans, and multiple True Persons could not compare to it either. Its power could not possibly be exhausted first, and even if it slaughtered the territory of the Qian Yuan Dynasty, the latter could do nothing to it.
Then, an accident occurred.
A pitch-black barrier suddenly rose, sealing the inside and outside, preventing Divine Thunder Demon King from escaping.
Yet Divine Thunder Demon King was far from alarmed, instead rejoicing. A pair of red pupils matched its body—upon which traces of a bat could still be discerned—and burst forth with boundless evil qi.
"This King was just fretting over how to make you stop running. Come, let the slaughter begin!"
"Heavenly Road Sublimation, Thunder Emperor True Body!"
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