The Heavenly River collapsed, and the Milky River Weak Water scourged the mortal world. Most living beings perished, including all manner of incomparably powerful heaven-and-earth beasts, fiend beasts, and even naturally spawned malevolent entities.
Compared to the vastness of heaven and earth, only a handful of survivors remained.
Yet in truth, there were both drawbacks and benefits.
From the perspective of reproduction, the innate living beings, who found it exceedingly difficult to propagate, would need long ages to restore their population numbers. The acquired living beings, however, who excelled at breeding, would only need several hundred years to replenish their numbers—and might even multiply them severalfold.
"A Heavenly River flood buried the glory of the innate living beings!"
Yang Huai mused inwardly.
From this day onward, the number of innate living beings would plummet.
Without the oppression of malevolent entities, innate living beings, and all kinds of powerful divine beasts, the acquired living beings would swiftly seize the advantage in the struggle between races!
But that had little to do with him.
In a flash, his figure descended into the depths of the Redwater River. He circulated the Heavenly River Secret Manual, absorbing the Milky River Weak Water origin within the Redwater River, while also drawing in the somewhat meager river origin of the Redwater River. Behind him, a vast phantom image of the Heavenly River took shape.
Yang Huai also took the opportunity to deduce the Heavenly River Secret Manual anew!
In his vision, the newly deduced Heavenly River Secret Manual would not merely control the origin of the Milky River Weak Water. It would also embrace a hundred rivers as the sea embraced all streams, containing the origins of mortal rivers and forming the true aspect of the Heavenly River.
If he could achieve that, then as an