The six deities each governed the Five Elements and Lightning-Element Law. When the six laws intertwined and revolved, the Chaos Deity gained the ability to encompass all things.
He used the Chaos Deity as a furnace, treating the remnants of that wisp of Spacetime Law as a seed, cultivating it, watering it, and gradually coming to understand it.
This was an exceedingly slow process.
Over ten years, Xu Changqing could only steal moments between handling affairs to comprehend it, and each time, he advanced no more than an inch.
Yet as days and months accumulated, subtle changes gradually arose in the workings of the laws between the six deities.
Time was no longer a straight river.
Space was no longer a sheet of cloth spread flat.
In his perception, spacetime began to display qualities that allowed it to bend, fold, and even be cut away.
Although he remained far from truly mastering the Spacetime Law, the seed had already been planted.
Over these ten years, the landscape of the Heavenly Origin Realm had also quietly changed.
The greatest upheaval had occurred in the Central Region.
After the chaos caused by the Demon God ended, the surviving sect forces of the Central Region lost the protection of Long Yuan and Mu Yunyi. They were gradually devoured by the large number of Demon Emperors and remaining Demon Race forces left behind in the Central Region.
The cultivators suffered defeat after defeat, and in the end, they had no choice but to withdraw, handing the Central Region over to the Demon Race.
Fortunately, because of Demon God Kong Fang's orders, these demons had no strength to expand outward for the time being.
Long Yuan had people establish a line of defense along the borders of the Central Region, temporarily stabilizing the situation.
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