A Towering Giant Tree Stands at the Center, That is Precisely... the World Tree!

Southern Region of the Great Desolation World.

Yuan Huang of the Phoenix Clan stood at the edge of the sky, watching the Calamity Qi grow thicker and thicker, her expression turning grave.

"The aura of heaven and earth grows more ominous by the day..." she murmured softly, a vague unease stirring in her heart.

She knew the Phoenix Clan could not stay out of this either—this great calamity would eventually sweep through every race.

Though the Karma the Phoenix Clan had accumulated was still bearable for now, if they continued to meddle too much, they would likely face the backlash of disaster sooner or later.

"Caught in the calamity, no one can escape." Yuan Huang muttered to herself.

All she could do was keep her people as far from slaughter and conflict as possible, to minimize their entanglement with cause and effect, so that when the calamity descended, they would not have to bear an unbearable price.

Eastern Region of the Great Desolation World.

Within a divine mountain, Profound Yellow Qi roiled endlessly, enveloping the entire peak in this form of Innate Spiritual Qi.

This Profound Yellow Qi was astonishingly effective whether used for refining artifacts, alchemy, or tempering the body.

Over the past tens of millions of years, the Great Desolation World had seen no shortage of new powerhouses emerge, and within this divine mountain dwelled an Innate Great Divine Ability User... Profound Yellow Daoist.

Born from Profound Yellow Qi, he had innate mastery over this supreme primordial energy, his strength formidable—though not yet a Sublime Saint, he had stepped to the very edge of that realm.

At that moment, a True Dragon descended upon this place, eyeing the divine mountain with greed, clearly intent on seizing the Profound Yellow Qi for itself.

This True Dragon was no ordinary Dragon Clan member—it was a being at the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal level.

With Ancestor Dragon absent, the Dragon Clan had grown increasingly overbearing and tyrannical, especially in the Eastern Region, Northern Region, and the Endless Sea, where they ran rampant without restraint.

The True Dragon let out a furious roar, its Divine Power shaking the mountain range as it tried to forcibly claim the Profound Yellow Qi.

Within the divine mountain, Profound Yellow Daoist opened his eyes, a flash of boundless killing intent flickering in his gaze.

"Courting death!"

He bellowed in rage, and the vast Profound Yellow Qi surged forth like a tidal wave, directly engulfing the True Dragon.

The True Dragon struggled desperately, barely managing to break free, but its body was torn apart, its dragon scales shattered, blood streaming everywhere in a miserable sight.

"You dare lay hands on me?" The True Dragon glared back, eyes burning with hatred.

Profound Yellow Daoist sneered in reply: "So what if you're a Golden Immortal? You're not the first I've killed!"

Before his words faded, the endless Profound Yellow Qi erupted once more, directly obliterating the True Dragon, its dragon blood staining heaven and earth red.

Before long, the Dragon Clan discovered that a pure-blooded True Dragon at the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal level had met a violent end, and they were enraged.

They, the undisputed overlords, had been provoked—this was absolutely intolerable!

The entire clan mobilized, hunting Profound Yellow Daoist across the land.

Not only that, but the Kirin Clan also had a powerful member killed, by the same method—yet few took notice, dismissing it as coincidence.

Who would suspect that someone was scheming against both of these top-tier races from the shadows?

No one dared to believe it.

But believe it or not, the situation in the Great Desolation World was growing increasingly tense, and an even greater storm was about to break!

Deep within the Chaos.

Long Zang sat cross-legged in the boundless Chaos, the golden light around him slowly fading. His wounds had fully healed, and his strength had quietly risen by one level.

He opened his eyes, a hint of complexity in his expression.

"So this is the power of destiny?" he murmured to himself, flicking his finger as a wisp of golden light appeared at his fingertip.

This light was a fragment of the Destiny Demon God's origin.

Though he had now grasped this power, fully refining it and truly integrating it into himself was still far from enough.

The reason Long Zang had mastered it so quickly was that he had unknowingly influenced the fate of countless beings—destiny's force had long since formed some connection with him.

"To fully control destiny... I still have a long way to go..." He stared at the golden light in his palm and shook his head.

Immediately after, a golden war spear materialized in his hand—the Destiny War Spear!

This was a treasure left behind by the Destiny Demon God, a Chaos Spiritual Treasure. Though inferior to a Chaos Supreme Treasure, it was far superior to any Innate Supreme Treasure.

Long Zang's gaze flickered, and he summoned a heavenly book radiating a mysterious glow—the Book of Fate.

These two treasures—one governing offensive destiny, the other controlling the threads of fate—complemented each other, their power astonishing.

And the final treasure was a true Chaos Supreme Treasure... the Chaos Bead!

This bead could obscure the Heavenly Mechanism and contained a Chaos Small World within it—an exceedingly rare artifact.

But for Long Zang, its most important function was auxiliary. He already possessed a complete Small World of his own; there was no need to use it to create a new world.

He therefore unhesitatingly fused the Chaos Bead directly into his Small World.

Instantly, the Small World's heavenly and earthly barriers grew even sturdier, as Chaos Qi surged in unceasingly, transformed into Innate Spiritual Qi, and nourished the world in an endless stream.

The Small World had already begun to show signs of advancement, only one final step remained... the gestation of true life!

However, creating life was not as simple as talking about it.

It had to be born from the Small World itself, not a puppet crafted by Long Zang's own hands.

"Still far from it." Long Zang frowned, a hint of helplessness in his heart.

His demands for life were too high; he hoped that newborn beings would be able to bear Divine Positions from the moment of birth, like Di Xi and Di Shu, inherently extraordinary.

Precisely because of this, the Small World had yet to truly give birth to new living beings.

In truth, Di Xi and Di Shu were merely ordinary immortals when born into the Small World, but if placed in a world of the Primordial World's caliber, they would at the very least be Innate Divine Demons!

Long Zang rose, and with a single step, Chaos trembled in response.

This journey through Chaos had yielded a bountiful harvest: the Origin Matter of the Chaos Ancient Beast, the origin and Great Dao of the Destiny Demon God, two Chaos Spiritual Treasures, and the Chaos Bead...

It was an utterly overflowing windfall!

"This time, I was truly fortunate... Could it be because of you?" He gazed into the distant end of Space-Time, at the majestic figure seated at the source of time... Pangu!

Perhaps this encounter was no coincidence.

"Sooner or later, I will learn the truth." He murmured, as if the echoes of the conversation between the Destiny Demon God and Pangu still lingered in his ears.

Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly sensed a peculiar fluctuation from a world.

"What is this?" His gaze sharpened.

The next moment, he took a step, crossing countless chaotic spaces, drawing closer to that fluctuation.

Soon, he arrived at the edge of Chaos.

Here was the Land of Nothingness, truly "nothing at all."

And beyond that lay the location of countless All Heavens and Myriad Worlds.

Long Zang hadn't expected to come here.

He stared at the world before him; it was still gestating, yet it already possessed the scale of a Great Thousand World!

He tore through the world's barrier and barged straight in.

Inside this world, no living beings had yet been born.

Between heaven and earth, a towering tree stood at the center—that was the World Tree!

This tree was the very core of the entire world, though not yet fully grown, it already exuded an extraordinary aura.

Long Zang's heart stirred.

This was precisely the "pillar of heaven" that his Small World lacked!

He had been pondering what to use to prop up the heavens and earth of his Small World, and now this World Tree was undoubtedly the best choice.

The Primordial World also had a similar existence... Jianmu.

But Jianmu bore the burden of the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao, so Long Zang dared not touch it.

This World Tree, however, had just been conceived, with no living beings and no karmic ties.

Perfect!