Di Jiang felt the Yin-Yang Law taking rudimentary shape within him. Its profound Daoist resonance gave him a deeper understanding of how all things worked.
He watched the embryonic Netherworld slowly turn within the Five Elements light sphere, absorbing and releasing energy. A bolder, more ambitious idea came to him.
"Relying solely on the passive nourishment of the Five Elements Power, the Netherworld is still evolving too slowly. Hongjun's lectures are nearly over, and the wheels of Heaven's great momentum are about to turn faster. I don't have much time."
Di Jiang's eyes burned brightly. The Netherworld had to grow faster—and, more importantly, he had to ensure it remained entirely under his control!
He would share some of his own origin and merge it into this unformed world! It was an extremely risky move. His origin was tied to his very foundation; losing any of it could set back his cultivation at best, or cost him his life at worst. But the rewards were just as astonishing! If he succeeded, he would become the future Lord of the Netherworld ahead of time!
Risk and opportunity went hand in hand. Di Jiang had been formed from Pangu's blood essence and bore Heaven-Opening Merit; his bloodline shared the same origin as the Primordial World. Perhaps his origin was exactly the catalyst this nascent Netherworld needed to develop!
Di Jiang took a deep breath and summoned the power of Pangu that lay dormant in the depths of his bloodline. Then, with two fingers held together like a blade, he jabbed them sharply into the ancestral aperture at the center of his brow!
A Daoist chime rang out from within him. A drop of blood essence containing unimaginable energy, along with a wisp of his concentrated Primordial Spirit will and fragments of the Space-Time Law, Five Elements Law, Wind, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning, and other laws, slowly emerged from the center of his brow.
This was no ordinary Ancestral Witch Essence. It was Origin Blood Essence, infused with a trace of Di Jiang's fundamental origin! It was chaotic in color, and countless tiny law runes flickered across its surface, appearing and disappearing. It radiated an ancient, boundless aura that encompassed all things.
As he forced out this drop of Origin Blood Essence, Di Jiang's face instantly paled, and his aura clearly wavered and weakened. The loss was evidently immense.
"Go!"
Di Jiang gave a low shout and formed a Daoist seal with his hand, guiding the drop of Origin Blood Essence as it slowly flew toward the Five Elements light sphere.
The Innate Five Directions Banner seemed to sense the blood essence's kinship with the Primordial World. Not only did it not repel it, but it actively opened a gap, allowing the Origin Blood Essence to merge smoothly into the gray mass at the core—the embryonic Netherworld!
The instant the Origin Blood Essence merged with it, a tremendous boom, like the creation of heaven and earth, erupted in Di Jiang's Primordial Spirit! The embryonic Netherworld, which had been evolving slowly, began to expand and churn violently, as if injected with the most potent catalyst imaginable!
The gray energy of utmost yin surged wildly, and within it, the clear and turbid began to separate distinctly. Di Jiang's Origin Blood Essence transformed into countless fine threads of law, spreading swiftly to every corner of the Netherworld like the world's own veins.
The fragments of his Space-Time Law began stabilizing the space of this nascent world and gave rise to its own unique flow of time. The fragments of the Five Elements Law merged into the earth, forming mountains, rivers, and valleys and laying the foundations of matter. The fragments of the laws governing Wind, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning, wrapped in the energy of utmost yin, became the Netherworld's unique celestial phenomena and energy tides...
More importantly, Di Jiang's bloodline power, inherited from Pangu, was like the most authoritative of passes. It allowed this nascent Netherworld to connect with the main world of the Primordial World on the deepest level, almost without resistance!
The laws of heaven and earth in the Primordial World seemed to have found a natural dependent realm. They began flowing into the Netherworld of their own accord, filling in and perfecting its laws. A process that might otherwise have taken countless eons to unfold naturally now advanced at a visible, frenzied pace, propelled by Di Jiang's origin power!
As his origin spread, Di Jiang's Primordial Spirit will also flowed throughout the entire Netherworld like quicksilver, seeping into every crevice. He felt as though he had become the world itself! The earth was his body, the netherworld energy his breath, and the nascent veins of law his thoughts!
Refine it? There was no need! The moment his origin became the foundation of the world, he had already become the undisputed master of the Netherworld! Absolute authority, as natural and effortless as moving his own limbs, came into being.
"It worked!" Di Jiang's pale face broke into a smile of utter exhaustion and unbridled excitement.
The Netherworld was expanding and stabilizing at incredible speed. With so many fragments of his laws woven into it, its internal laws were far more complete and powerful than those of the purely yin, lifeless world depicted in Heaven's original trajectory! The foundations of the future Six Paths of Reincarnation and the Underworld would be much stronger, and their potential boundless!
Through the Netherworld as an intermediary, he also felt his connection to the entire Primordial World grow closer. It was as if he could clearly hear the gentle warmth that flowed from Pangu through the land of the Primordial World.
"From this day forth, the Netherworld belongs to me; I do not belong to the Netherworld!"
Di Jiang slowly clenched his fist, feeling his weakened origin, now closely connected to the entire nascent realm, and the wisps of refined Daoist resonance flowing back to him as the realm grew!
"Once the time is right, I'll establish Reincarnation, command order, and restore balance to this world!"
Di Jiang's gaze pierced through Pangu Divine Hall, as if he could already see the future Netherworld, where he would govern the reincarnation of Sentient Beings and maintain perfect order. His figure would stand at the very pinnacle of that world!
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