The Heavenly Dao is Above! The Sky Shattered!

At this moment.

In this moment.

On the Primordial Wilderness.

Lei Jun couldn't help but think.

"By reason, the Human Dao and the Heavenly Dao are equal, neither higher nor lower."

"I am half the master of the Human Dao, so standing shoulder to shoulder with the Heavenly Dao might be somewhat improper—the seniority would be off."

"It should be higher than the Heavenly Dao to match my status!"

He had to admit.

This thought was even more exaggerated, almost like a joke.

But Lei Jun was serious.

He was now only missing the final strand of Heavenly Dao Purple Qi.

To achieve this goal!

Then the question arose.

How was this Heavenly Dao Purple Qi to be obtained?

In the past.

Lei Jun would only have a headache, because he had no clue.

He could only take it one step at a time.

Seeking opportunities amidst schemes.

The key was.

He might also be seen through by the Heavenly Dao.

Now it was different.

There was a much simpler and cruder method.

Go straight to the door!

At this moment.

The benefits of his elevated realm.

Manifested once again.

Lei Jun no longer had to painstakingly find ways to alter the grand trend to raise his Permission Right and access more places.

First, his realm was sufficient.

Second...

Lei Jun himself was the "grand trend"!

Every move.

Every word.

Every thought.

All had far-reaching influence!

To the point that.

Places Lei Jun couldn't go before, he could now go!

With a thought.

The location of the Heavenly Dao entered Lei Jun's perception.

It was just a bit blurry.

As if blocked by something.

And not just one or two, but many extremely special worlds.

Then.

Lei Jun raised an eyebrow.

Slightly surprised.

"No wonder before, no matter how I searched or sensed, it was hard to find the Heavenly Dao's location."

"So it's not entirely within the Primordial Wilderness?"

"Rather, it's Beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens!"

At this moment.

Lei Jun suddenly understood.

Realizing.

The Thirty-Three Heavens were not a single First Heaven.

Rather, it was literal.

There were thirty-three of them.

However, they were not arranged from bottom to top.

Instead, they were divided into four cardinal directions: east, south, west, and north.

Each direction had eight heavens.

That made thirty-two heavens in total.

Plus one Middle Heaven.

For a total of thirty-three.

That said, although these Thirty-Three Heavens existed independently, they were connected.

Their opportunities were linked to one another.

Their positions differed.

Yet they were like a single entity.

They were also like thirty-three Innate Great Arrays, protecting each other.

In the end, it was only when It appeared on its own.

That cultivators of the Primordial Wilderness had a chance to discover it.

Otherwise.

Relying solely on Di Jun's cultivation, it would have been absolutely impossible for him to enter the Thirty-Three Heavens and establish the Heavenly Court in the Middle Heaven.

To the point where the saying "like the sun at high noon" emerged.

It could be said.

If one's cultivation realm was insufficient.

Forget breaking them open—even discovering them was impossible.

Even with Lei Jun's previous cultivation.

Which surpassed even a Sage...

It was still the same.

Because.

This was a special world, a special great array, directly controlled by the Heavenly Dao.

It was also a barrier protecting Its Origin.

In other words.

To find the Origin of the Heavenly Dao, one had to break through the Thirty-Three Heavens!

That meant a full thirty-three layers of Innate Great Arrays!

What was even more critical.

Was that these great arrays were empowered by the power of the Heavenly Dao!

Thus.

Their difficulty could not even be described by the phrase "harder than reaching the heavens."

This could only be called "opening the heavens."

And not just a single heaven!

For a moment.

Even Lei Jun couldn't help but sigh.

"It truly is quite difficult."

"If My cultivation had not changed, even knowing the location of the Heavenly Dao's Origin."

"I would never be able to reach it."

"But unfortunately..."

"Since I can discover it, I have a way to break it open!"

The next instant.

Lei Jun's Dao Body shone brilliantly.

Boundless Profound Qi overflowed from within him.

And a small sapling sprouted rapidly at his feet.

Nourished by the Profound Qi.

It grew swiftly.

This tree simply cannot be described by height.

Rather, it should be said to pierce through how many worlds.

In an instant.

Boundless great worlds were pierced through by it.

This tree was none other than—

The Tongtian Jianmu!

Nurtured by Lei Jun's Profound Qi, the Tongtian Jianmu passed through its long infancy in a single moment.

And in an extremely short span of time, it grew to its mature stage, standing tall between heaven and earth!

Even reaching its complete stage...

Thoroughly piercing heaven and earth!

Its roots.

Sank deep into the Nine Nether underground, reaching straight to the source of the Earth Dao!

Its trunk.

Spanned across heaven and earth, like a passage.

Also like a pillar.

Able to assist Buzhou in propping up the heavens!

As for its crown...

Under the guidance of Lei Jun's magic power, it touched the edge of the Thirty-Three Heavens!

Lei Jun's current might was beyond imagination.

Able to transcend time.

In an instant, he caused the Tongtian Jianmu to grow from a little sprout into its complete form!

At this moment.

The Jianmu had fully grown!

However.

Relying on this alone, it could not yet break through the Thirty-Three Heavens.

When the Jianmu touched the edge.

It seemed to encounter a great obstruction, unable to grow any further.

A will.

Also at this time.

Appeared near the edge.

Not only that, but boundless thunderclouds brewed forth in an instant.

At this moment.

The Heavenly Dao manifested!

To this.

Lei Jun was not at all surprised, and even let out a light laugh.

His gaze fixed on the First Heaven.

Then.

He gently uttered a single word.

"Open!"

In an instant.

The sky split apart.

Boundless Profound Yellow Qi surged forth.

A heavenly realm that had been hidden for who knows how many Eons.

Suddenly revealed itself!

In that moment.

The Primordial Wilderness shook!

During the Dragon-Han Calamity, the Thirty-Three Heavens had not manifested.

Only after it ended.

Did they appear.

However.

Before and after its appearance, the meaning of the Thirty-Three Heavens had changed.

Before.

It was an Innate Great Array, guarding the completeness of the Heavenly Dao's Origin.

It had been this way since the Fierce Beast Tribulation.

After all, before that.

There existed beings in the Primordial Wilderness capable of threatening the Heavenly Dao.

In fact.

Without the Thirty-Three Heavens, Shen Ni might not have failed to accomplish the feat of "Defying Heaven."

But after the Dragon-Han Calamity.

No being in the Primordial Wilderness that could threaten the Heavenly Dao remained.

It also gained a "spokesperson."

That is, Hongjun after he became a Sage.

Moreover.

This was not merely a spokesperson.

It was also a vessel for manifesting its power.

Because whether through pressure or in the form of an avatar, neither was as effective as a Sage.

After all, the Heavenly Dao manifesting power directly caused too much destruction.

Only with a spokesperson could it be more targeted.

Thus.

After Hongjun became a Sage.

The role of the Thirty-Three Heavens diminished greatly.

Its meaning also changed.

It directly evolved into thirty-three heavenly realms!

Symbolizing.

The loftiness of the Heavenly Dao!

Therefore.

It can be said that when there were still beings in the Primordial Wilderness capable of threatening the Heavenly Dao.

The Thirty-Three Heavens had no possibility of appearing.

Let alone being shattered by force like now! BOOM!

A thunderous sound.

Spread across the entire Primordial Wilderness in an extremely short time!

At this moment.

All cultivators were startled.

Before they could recover.

Another sound, like something breaking, came through.

CRACK!

Sensing it again.

They were instantly shocked to the point their primordial spirits trembled, their hearts turning cold.

The word "terror" was insufficient to describe it!

Because what shattered was nothing else.

It was actually...

The sky!

In their perception.

The sky was covered in cracks, as if about to break apart!

Then, in the next instant, the feeling became reality.

The sky truly shattered!

Immediately after.

Boundless Profound Yellow Qi and immeasurable pure energy overflowed from the broken gaps.

Forming an entire world!

Or rather... a single heaven!

At this very moment.

Under Lei Jun's immense power.

The First Heaven of the Thirty-Three Heavens had emerged ahead of its time!

For a time.

Countless cultivators looked up.

Even the Innate Three Clans, as well as Hongjun, Luo Hou, and the others, could not help but cease their dharma combat.

Their gazes were filled with shock.

Even terror.

They stared upward in bewilderment.

And before this, they had already been locked in battle.

Though it seemed Lei Jun had not spent long beneath the Nine Nether.

In truth.

The time he had taken to merge his three bodies.

Was quite lengthy.

By the time he emerged from seclusion, many things had already transpired in the Primordial Wilderness.

The most conspicuous among them.

Was none other than the Tribulation Period.

It had advanced directly by a great stride!

A single seclusion.

Had spanned over half the course of the Tribulation Period.

So much so that now, the Tribulation Period was nearing its end.

One must understand.

Before this, the Tribulation Period had only just begun.

Furthermore.

Under the powerful "inertia" of the great momentum of fate.

Many beings still could not escape their original destined trajectories.

Take the Innate Three Clans, for example.

Though they had suffered grievous losses due to conflict—or rather, their own schemes—

Their foundations were too deep.

Even with their vitality wounded, no other race had the chance to rise up, let alone supplant them.

The only one that might have.

Had been defeated in the struggle against the Qilin Clan.

Near their ancestral lands.

Not only were there few clansmen left.

The land itself was broken and desolate.

A lamentable sight.

Thus, as the Tribulation Period drew to a close, the Innate Three Clans inevitably collided.

An irreconcilable conflict had arisen.

That is—

Who would become the overlord of heaven and earth!

Though the Primordial Wilderness was vast.

To Prove the Dao through qi fortune, one had to become its overlord.

Otherwise.

One would forever be one step short.

Such was the requirement the Three Clans Ancestors had perceived from the Dharma Gate of qi fortune they had comprehended.

Yet.

There was only one Primordial Wilderness.

Or rather, the Innate Three Clans had never considered that beyond the heavens there were other heavens, that beyond the Primordial Wilderness there might exist the Limitless Great Thousand Worlds.

Thus.

This conflict was utterly irreconcilable.

When the three clans had developed to their respective peaks and occupied the Sea, Land, and Sky of the Primordial Wilderness, they sought to Prove the Dao.

Thus, they could only set their sights on the territories of the other two clans.

And so, this great melee began.

From the peak of the Golden Immortal of the Origin down to the Golden Immortal of the Taiyi stage, none were left unmobilized.

All joined the battle.

And whenever one side appeared to have the upper hand, the other two would briefly cease fighting and turn to suppress the dominant faction.

Throughout this process, the Sha Qi of the Primordial Wilderness grew increasingly dense.

Though still incomparable to the Fierce Beast Tribulation, it had thickened to the point of affecting cultivators' sanity, making them more brutal and bloodthirsty.

Thus, the scale of the three-clan war intensified.

Until now.

When a change appeared in the sky, they all stopped.

With awe and bewilderment, they looked up.

"The Heavenly Dao above, what has happened? Why is the sky shattered!"

"Not only that, but another world is revealed!"

"Could it be... that we shattered the sky ourselves?"

"Impossible! If we truly did it, what immense karma would we bear!"

"Besides, do we even have that power?"