Earth Soul, Participating in Obstructing the Dao (5K)

Deep in Zhang Jian's eyes, intense interest flickered.

His eternal will followed the power of the collapsing spacetime as it extended outward. A moment later, he sensed that thread of eternal will seeming to traverse the ages, as though it had witnessed the ancient era: Divine Lord Mengzhang, the Eastern Azure Dragon of the Four Extremes; Northern Black Tortoise Zhiming Divine Lord; Western White Tiger Jianbing Divine Lord; and Southern Vermilion Bird Lengguang Divine Lord.

These four sovereigns, bearing the divine forms of the Six Symbols, traveled through the Four Netherworlds. Together with the land where the Heavenly Demon Realm lay, they opened heaven and earth using a fragment of the Wilds World. Then, amid a vast expanse of chaos, they drew countless colossal beasts from the chaos beyond the worlds into it, slaughtered them all, and used them to replenish the Heavenly Demon Realm's origin, laying the foundations of the Heavenly Demons.

Afterward, the four ancient gods underwent nirvana, each revealing their true forms and merging into the Heavenly Demon Realm to suppress the Four Extremes for hundreds of millions of years. Two divine lights then transcended beyond, while the other two, as they were about to transcend, were secretly struck down by the ancestors of the gods. Their fate, life or death, remained unknown.

Divine Lord Mengzhang, the Eastern Azure Dragon, had truly "fallen"!

As for whether it had merely shed its dragon form or genuinely fallen, Zhang Jian could not yet tell.

After the Heavenly Demon Realm took shape, that thread of his other self was suddenly drawn in by a portion of the earth ancestral qi and fell into it, where it gave birth to an innate sacred being named Earth Soul.

Earth Soul had been born from earth ancestral qi, a portion of the innate