Soon.
The cultivators of the Three Clans exchanged thoughts through their souls as they watched the sky change.
During the brief pause in the fighting, they began discussing it.
Soon.
A consensus spread.
Although the Three Clans belonged to different factions, none of them disagreed.
This was something none of them could have done.
That raised the question.
If they hadn't done it, then who had?
The Heavenly Dao?
But why would the Heavenly Dao do this?
Could it be...
The Human Dao, which had just come into being?
At that moment.
Even the ancestors of the Innate Three Clans, including Zulong, were utterly bewildered.
Others were just as bewildered.
Hongjun and Yang Mei were among them.
It had to be said,
although their cultivation was higher than Zulong's,
it wasn't by much.
Only Hongjun and Luo Mo were clearly a cut above the rest.
The former had changed his Dharma Gate.
It was the Three Bodies Technique.
The latter had received an opportunity and gotten a "boost."
As for the others,
only Yang Mei was slightly stronger than Zulong.
But if it came to a real fight,
the Innate Three Clans would still be stronger.
After all, they had the weight of their fortune behind them.
So.
Even they had every reason to be puzzled.
Besides.
Everything had happened too quickly for them to divine its cause.
And before their confusion had even subsided,
the scene changed again.
Boom!
Another tremendous crash rang out, and the sky shattered once more!
Then.
Another great realm appeared!
Its scale and spectacle far surpassed the one before.
Next...
Came a third crash, then a fourth...
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Each one was more earth-shaking than the last.
Layer after layer of sky broke open, and one great realm after another appeared.
In the blink of an eye.
Thirty-Two Heavenly Realms had appeared in the Primordial Wilderness for some unknown reason!
At that moment.
If not for the commotion caused by the realms taking shape,
the entire Primordial Wilderness would have been utterly silent.
Everyone was too astonished by the changes.
They couldn't say a word.
At once.
No one had any desire to keep fighting.
The Phoenix Clan reacted quickly.
After all, they were the "Sky Overlords." The instant they came to their senses, they beat their wings and soared into the sky.
They wanted to find out what was going on.
After an unknown amount of time.
When the first Phoenix Clan cultivator reached the First Heaven that had appeared after the sky shattered,
she was stunned.
She saw a towering tree as magnificent as Buzhou—not merely resembling it, but truly capable of supporting heaven and earth!
This Phoenix Clan cultivator was no weakling.
She was an Ancestor-level figure in the Phoenix Clan.
Her cultivation had reached the early stage of the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm.
In her true form, she could stretch across Three Thousand Realms!
Yet beside this tree, she seemed like a mere ant, utterly insignificant.
Looking farther up,
she saw that the tree didn't even reach its top!
She could see only its branches and trunk, not its crown.
"How tall is this tree?!"
The Phoenix Clan cultivator cried out instinctively.
Clearly,
she was beyond astonished.
Soon.
More cultivators arrived.
Even the ancestors of the Three Clans came!
Their cultivation was higher, allowing them to sense more.
But that only made them all the more astonished.
Zulong's eyes widened, his voice filled with shock.
"This tree connects Heaven, Earth, and Humanity!"
"Through this tree, the abstruse and inscrutable Heavenly Dao has become much easier to comprehend!"
"So these Thirty-Two Heavens all appeared because of this tree?"
"But..."
"Why did this tree appear in the first place?"
Yuanfeng and Shi Qilin
were no less shaken.
They couldn't calm themselves.
The same was true of Hongjun and the others.
No matter how they sensed it, all they could perceive was Tongtian Jianmu.
As for why it had appeared, they understood nothing.
There was no helping it.
Their cultivation was nowhere near Lei Jun's.
They were already on entirely different levels.
As long as Lei Jun didn't want them to know,
even if every cultivator in the Primordial Wilderness pooled their strength, they wouldn't uncover the reason.
Nor would they discover Lei Jun's existence.
In truth,
Lei Jun wasn't in the sky.
He was on the ground.
With his current cultivation, it made no difference where in the Primordial Wilderness he stood.
As long as he wished,
he could produce the same effect even from the depths of the Nine Nether.
His might had already surpassed the constraints of Primordial Wilderness space-time.
He glanced sidelong at the Primordial Wilderness cultivators, who were like ants probing for the cause of the changes.
Lei Jun shook his head.
Just moments ago, he had understood all the changes the Primordial Wilderness had undergone over the years.
What had changed, and what hadn't.
For example, with the fall of the "Lei Jun Heavenly Dao," Zi Ling's cultivation had stagnated. She could barely keep the Fox Clan from going extinct, yet the Heavenly Dao had made the clan shoulder karmic burdens long ago.
For another example,
the Taiyin Star had dimmed.
In that great battle, Wangshu and Youying had damaged their Origins.
They could no longer use the power of the Taiyin to refine Di Liujiang.
They could only struggle to maintain their cultivation.
This made Lei Jun
feel somewhat wistful,
and even more certain that he was on the right path.
"Just as I thought!"
"Mountains crumble, trees sway. In the end, only oneself can truly be relied upon!"
"Little Fox, Youying, Wangshu—all of them depended on the Lei Jun Heavenly Dao to maintain their cultivation."
"Once the Lei Jun Heavenly Dao fell, they didn't die, but their cultivation could no longer advance! Having once opposed the Heavenly Dao, they could no longer comprehend it!"
"In that situation, they could hardly catch up with the Innate Three Clans, who had the Heavenly Dao to study!"
Clearly,
without intervention,
they were ultimately fated to perish.
That was why Lei Jun felt wistful. Cultivation that depended on another wasn't true cultivation.
The same was true of depending on a world!
Didn't Sages exist by relying on the world?
"Fortunately, this was never the path I pursued!"
"I'm only one step away from reaching perfection!"
"Then cultivation will no longer be called cultivation, but... the pursuit of truth!"
"Casting away the false and preserving the true!"
As he thought,
Lei Jun's gaze turned resolute as he looked upward.
Only the final Heaven remained!
As expected, this final Heaven, the "Middle Heaven," would be the hardest to break.
With ordinary methods,
it would surely be impossible to break through.
The Heavenly Dao would undoubtedly gather a massive amount of Primordial Wilderness Power.
If he couldn't break through it in an instant,
and tear open a sufficiently large breach,
the sky would close again.
Then breaking through the final Heaven would become a battle of attrition.
Not merely against the Heavenly Dao, but against the entire Primordial Wilderness.
The outcome would be
either Lei Jun's exhaustion or the destruction of the Primordial Wilderness.
Obviously,
Lei Jun wanted neither.
So.
He had to use his Great Power to break it open in an instant.
It was indeed difficult.
But not impossible.
Lei Jun closed his eyes. When he opened them again,
he had become the Dao!
The Dao of No Self.
Then,
the Dao Sound rang out.
"Pangu came before, splitting heaven and earth with a single axe."
"Today, I, Lei Jun, shall open the Thirty-Three Heavens with a single thought!"
"Open!"
At that moment,
Lei Jun opened the heavens!
The legend of Kaitian
had been widely told for ages.
And
there were many versions.
The most widely known, however, was still Pangu splitting heaven and earth.
The Primordial World
had come into being because of it.
Every cultivator in the Primordial World
knew this.
And aside from that, there had been no other tales of Kaitian in the Primordial World.
At least, not until now.
Until this very moment!
The last of the Thirty-Three Heavens—the Middle Heaven—had been broken open!
It was practically a complete rout.
It hadn't been broken open at just one small spot. Vast swathes of it had shattered.
No matter how much Primordial Wilderness Power was marshaled,
it couldn't be restored!
At that moment,
Lei Jun had become the Dao, opening the heavens with a single thought.
What was the "Dao"?
The Dao was everything!
After Lei Jun transformed into the "Dao of No Self," he became the embodiment of all laws.
Even his thoughts were the Dao itself.
His power contained intangible laws of the Dao, such as time, space, Karma, Fate, creation, and Destruction.
It also encompassed tangible things, such as blades, swords, fists, feet, and magical treasures.
In short,
this Dao nearly encompassed all matter, as well as every intangible law that depended on matter to exist.
No matter what changes the final Heaven underwent,
or how profound its mysteries were,
he could find a way to overcome them in an instant!
And then...
Every one of the Thirty-Three Heavens
was broken open by Lei Jun.
At the same time,
Tongtian Jianmu surged upward once more!
Its crown reached all the way to the Middle Heaven!
In that instant,
it truly connected heaven and earth!
At the same time,
it seemed to become another Heavenly Pillar between heaven and earth,
capable of holding them aloft!
Furthermore,
it made it impossible for the Thirty-Three Heavens to be restored.
Jianmu's branches and leaves had pierced through every Heavenly Palace. No matter how much Primordial Wilderness Power was dispatched, Jianmu would absorb it all!
Of course,
this Primordial Wilderness Power hadn't vanished.
Nor had it become part of Jianmu.
Instead, it flowed through the trunk and branches, then back out into the Primordial World.
In other words...
Tongtian Jianmu could also channel Primordial Wilderness Power!
Thus,
whether the Heavenly Dao tried to attack Jianmu directly or restore the Thirty-Three Heavens Array,
it couldn't succeed.
That was why Lei Jun had used his magic power to spur Tongtian Jianmu's growth.
To a certain extent,
this tree
could restrain the Heavenly Dao.
And not just the Heavenly Dao—the Human Dao and Earthly Dao as well.
To be precise,
it was a bridge connecting heaven, earth, and humanity!
So
saying Lei Jun was using Tongtian Jianmu to deal with the Heavenly Dao wasn't quite accurate.
This was clearly a restoration!
It was just that, in the past,
the Earthly Dao had been incomplete, and the Human Dao had yet to emerge.
Of the Three Talents of Heaven, Earth, and Man, one and a half were missing.
Even with Jianmu,
it couldn't achieve a similar effect.
Because this was a cycle.
The Heavenly Dao bestowed responsive Merit, the Human Dao comprehended the Dao and put it to use, and the Earthly Dao reclaimed everything through Reincarnation.
Not one of them could be missing.
Though the Earthly Dao hadn't fully emerged,
as a corner of the cycle, it could still serve as Primordial Wilderness Power.
As for
why Jianmu could grow so quickly,
it was naturally related to Lei Jun.
As the first Spirit Root to take root within Lei Jun, it had long since merged with his Past Body.
After Lei Jun's three bodies had merged,
it had also fused with his new Dao Body.
It was fair to say that it had grown alongside Lei Jun's Dao Body!
That
was why this change had occurred.
In the blink of an eye, it had passed from its nascent stage through maturity and reached its complete form,
bringing its ability to span the world
to its utmost potential!
Connecting heaven and earth,
and humanity with them!
And for that reason, the one to undergo a transformation wasn't just Tongtian Jianmu.
The Ancient Star Tree and Chaos Green Lotus
had also changed greatly!
They simply had no need to reveal those changes just yet.
The opening of the Thirty-Three Heavens
had, without a doubt,
once again caused an uproar in the Primordial World.
Those who sensed what had happened
were all in an uproar.
They stared in shock at the Thirty-Three Heavens that had suddenly appeared, so stunned they even forgot they'd been fighting to the death moments earlier...
For a time,
the scene was utterly bizarre.
More importantly,
this Tribulation Period had clearly been nearing its end.
Yet for some reason,
it felt as though the protagonists of the Tribulation Period had changed at that very moment.
It was no longer the Innate Three Clans,
nor Hongjun and Luo Hou.
Instead...
it was Lei Jun and the Heavenly Dao!
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