Qiu, Hanlin Compiler, Expounds on Zhou Rao
Rumble!
The People's Wishes surged like a tide, Grotto-Heaven!
As the two forces collided and pressed against each other with the sun of the Eye-Bearing Star Lord, the power that created the Spirit Land and entrusted Votive Thoughts gradually changed in nature, bursting forth with destructive power.
This force, due to the control of various parties, did not spread, but its residual effects still radiated around it!
On the ground, Xiao Li and the others were horrified. Their senses and flesh were overwhelmed by the power, and their instinctive fear was suppressed by the aftershocks. Cracks appeared on their flesh and blood, and they were covered in blood!
As a result, they all felt the urge to protect themselves, and the surrounding People's Wishes gathered around them, enveloping them and keeping the aftershocks at bay!
Even so, everyone was still seriously injured. Fortunately, the Qi and Blood mist gathered and filled the wounds, preventing their injuries from worsening.
"What level of power is this?"
Once their injuries had healed, Xiao Li, Feng Zhantian, Ziyun, and the others stared wide-eyed at the sky, their shock beyond words!
Just then, a figure flashing red light suddenly appeared in their hearts, filling their entire hearts. The pressure burst forth, causing them to pause and their minds to go blank!
Puff! Puff! Puff!
The next moment, everyone coughed up blood. The blood flew through the air, taking away their resolve and planting a seed of fear in each of their hearts.
Feeling this terrifying power, they developed a deep sense of dread and fear towards the Eye-Bearing Star Lord, no longer believing they could defeat him, including Xiao Li.
A blank mind and a pervasive sense of fear spread through his heart, causing his firm resolve to crumble and the People's Wishes stirred up by those thoughts to quickly weaken.
This chain reaction caused the People's Wishes fervor that had been rushing towards the Eye-Bearing Star Lord to weaken and begin to decline!
The People's Wishes here have accumulated over countless years, stemming from a massive population and originating from a significant event in the High Antiquity this continent. Even Star Lord would find it difficult to confront such power directly, let alone be caught in a pincer attack.
But removing it is not difficult.
"Since those cultivators are not deliberately hostile because I am Divine Path, as long as we instill fear in them and prevent them from harboring hostility, the People's Wishes they sway will become like water without a source or a tree without roots. They will no longer pose a threat."
Amidst the surging, explosive energy turbulence, the Eye-Bearing Star Lord rode the Red Sun, holding Karma and effect and Fortune in his hands. With divine power and the Incense Faith and the will of the people, he resisted the invasion of the Black Hole and the People's Wishes, and still had the energy to ponder the situation. On his forehead, a slit opened, within which starlight shimmered. It was clearly a third eye!
Even before the eye was fully open, its mere peripheral vision froze the surrounding space, transcending directions, energy, and all sorts of obstacles, capturing Qiu Yan's figure.
"Once we withstand the attack of four Profound Origin cultivators and quell the surging People's Wishes, we'll have secured victory. Then we can use the People's Wishes here to replenish our resources, and that Min Yuan will be unable to escape. As for the sealed deity... hmm?"
As he was thinking, his third eye suddenly jolted, and the starlight within it paused considerably.
"This deity is too powerful. The Embryonic Spirit Land that we created together was completely blocked by him! What should we do?"
On the other side, Dingyue and the other three cultivators were also stirred by the scene before them, and a sense of fear arose in them as they realized just how powerful the deity they were facing truly was!
"Are all the gods from the Outer Continent this powerful? If the gods were to launch a full-scale invasion, how would our Zhou Rao cultivation world resist?"
"Um?"
They had already unleashed all their power, and all they could do now was wait quietly for the outcome. But seeing Eye-Bearing Star Lord was able to resist the combined attack of the Black Hole and the People's Wishes, and even slowly subside the surging People's Wishes, they were still deeply shocked!
"The situation is dire!" The man who created the Black Hole grew increasingly pale, veins bulging on his face. "The Embryonic Spirit Land is about to lose control of him!"
"Pfft!" Dingyue, who had been pierced, managed to break free from the divine arm while the Eye-Bearing Star Lord was being attacked and restrained. However, most of his body had been eroded by divine power, showing signs of aging and decay. He coughed up a mouthful of blood, his face filled with worry. "If this continues, the situation will be dire. If the Dao Ancestor doesn't intervene, I wonder who in the entire Zhou Rao region can withstand this god!"
Anxiety spread through their shared thoughts, but the next moment, their minds suddenly froze. They were shocked to find that their own power was fluctuating uncontrollably, and even their cultivation foundation was shaking and becoming chaotic!
It was as if someone was using some inexplicable method to steal their cultivation!
What's going on?
As if things weren't going to go wrong, the group had been focused on suppressing the Eye-Bearing Star Lord, but now, with this unexpected turn of events, they immediately lost their composure and their minds wavered!
But soon they realized that this force was not merely shaking their foundations, but rather the entire universe—
This expanse of starry sky is where the seal is located. The stars below are manifestations of the gods. Now, the entire Sealed Land is shaking and trembling, and a series of Order, centered Eye-Bearing Star Lord, the Black Hole, and the People's Wishes, are slowly emerging.
These Order are chaotic and disorderly, like tangled threads, intertwined and knotted. Among them are the Order derived from heaven and earth, as well as the rules formed in the human world over thousands of years.
The natural Heavenly Order showed little abnormality; instead, the manifested Human Path Order resembled venomous snakes that preyed on people, twisting and entwining in the air, releasing a dense Sha Qi, with the power to seize everything and shake the foundations of others!
Boom!
Just then, a bolt of lightning appeared from the Domain of Law, streaking across the sky and striking directly into the Sha Qi, creating a gap in the fierce, serpentine Human Path Order!
Then, the lightning flashed and split into more than a dozen Sage Spirit, which took up residence within it!
Zhou Rao Continent's Human Path Order was chaotic and disorderly, while these dozen or so Sage Spirit were the manifestations of Order summarized by many Sages and predecessors after exploration, forming a stark contrast between the two.
However, compared to the unfounded Sage Spirit, the Human Path Order of Zhou Rao clearly had the upper hand, and after a short while, it completely suppressed the Sage Spirit.
The Sage Spirit, when it existed in the East Flower Continent, could cause many changes and even repel supernatural Divine Ability. The root of this was the ability to mobilize the Human Path Order between heaven and earth. Now, the Continent is different, and the Order is completely different. There is no Order for them to mobilize, so it has become just a pure academic thought.
However, upon witnessing the Sage Spirit, the Eye-Bearing Star Lord, who had just rejected the People's Wishes and whose hands transformed into starlight to merge with the Red Sun, resisting the Black Hole and fixing the surrounding spatial rifts and the Human Path Order, suddenly changed his expression.
"So that's how it is. So that's what Min Yuan was planning. No wonder he wasn't flustered when he saw me... Human Path Order, Divine Path People's Wishes —so that's it! What a clever scheme! But how can a god like him mobilize the power of Human Path?"
The moment this thought crossed his mind, the suppressed Sage Spirit suddenly collapsed, flowing like water and infiltrating the Human Path Order of Zhou Rao, seeping in little by little!
The Order suddenly froze, then erupted into chaos again a few breaths later!
Like a fierce torrent, it lashed against the Eye-Bearing Star Lord, causing his Divine Body to sway and his Divine Radiance to dim. A solemn expression appeared on his face!
The Order was disrupted People's Wishes, and the eastern part of the Zhou Rao Continent began to shake. Cultivators, whether meditating, fighting, or refining pills and weapons, all stopped what they were doing, feeling their hearts pounding and their spirits rising, a sense of impending storm filling their hearts.
On the central peak, several great cultivators, led by the white-bearded one, had been waiting for the outcome after inviting the legendary Ancestor Dingyue. Now, they were also shocked by the changes in the Human Path Order, their minds were in turmoil, they could hardly control themselves, and they had a bad feeling.
The entire eastern Continent was plunged into chaos.
Then, driven by Human Path Order, chaos began to spread into the depths of the ocean and the continent.
Boom!
Deep within the endless starry sky, dense and enormous lightning bolts rolled and spread out one after another, like forked branches extending across the starry sky, covering a small part of the starry sky and encompassing countless Continent. Now, several of them suddenly forked and rushed towards the Zhou Rao Continent!
Inside a floating palace on the outer layer of the Zhou Rao Continent.
An elderly man with white hair and beard sat in meditation, his body ethereal, giving the impression of an empty shell. He wore a five-colored Daoist robe and had a serene expression, but suddenly his brows furrowed and his whole body trembled.
In the Void, a vast expanse of consciousness gathered from all corners of the starry sky and slowly returned.
In the Sealed Land, the shifting of the Human Path Order has led to changes in Human Path and influenced many shifts in People's Wishes.
The People's Wishes, accumulated over many years, were entrusted to humanity and were derived from Human Path thoughts. The current Divine Path is also inseparable from the Human Path. It was affected at the first moment of the change in Order, and it roared up and covered the Eye-Bearing Star Lord at the center of the Human Path Order!
The terrifying changes in Human Path are more dangerous than any Divine Ability transformation, especially since the Order in the Zhou Rao Continent is so domineering. If one is not careful and falls into it, one may become a part of the Order, with one's own information and power being completely plundered by the Order!
Even the Eye-Bearing Star Lord could only barely maintain his own balance in the gaps of Order, along with the four top cultivators, the Black Hole they had transformed into, and Xiao Li and the others.
Boom!
With a deafening roar, the Domain of Law was shattered by the fluctuations of the Order of Goodness, and Qiu Yan's Divine Body manifested. He stared at the Eye-Bearing Star Lord, raised his hand and waved, and the connected Sage Spirit drew in, causing ripples of Order to crash onto the Star Lord. The latter had to shift several times to dodge.
Then, Order spread and filled everywhere, leaving only a few places to settle down. Even the sealed gods could barely maintain their own place.
The situation was frozen; no one could move freely, resulting in a stalemate and a looming standoff, with Order seemingly on the verge of collapse.
Time flows on, and years change.
In this process of Human Path change, many mysteries have also evolved, falling into the eyes of Qiu Yan's Divine Spirit Body and reaching the hearts of his Heart Demon Body and flesh and Fleshly Body.
Six months later, in the Great Rui Dynasty of the East Flower Continent, at the Hanlin Academy.
Qiu Yan's physical body arrived at the military pavilion early, spread out paper, picked up a pen, and began to write. In his eyes, scenes rose and fell, depicting the human condition of Zhou Rao. (To be continued...)
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