Forging the Divine Kingdom of Creation; Pangu Heavenly King Creates the World; Great Sages Gather

Under the refining divine fire, the province-sized Underworld Fragment grew ever more exquisitely compact, transforming into a yin god deity talisman.

The talisman floated before Ji Hao, constantly drawing in and expelling some unknown substance.

It grew ever more ethereal, ever more weighty, as though it had become the center of the Ninth Heaven.

It was devouring the fortune aura of the Ninth Heaven. As the former heart of heaven and earth, this place naturally possessed boundless mysteries; the Jianmu Fruit had grown here.

But the heart of heaven and earth was now the Underworld. It might not compare to the Jianmu Fruit born at the epoch's zenith, but it surely possessed other wondrous uses.

Yet the Underworld had not been established. The great trend existed, but it had no roots.

Thus, the fortune aura that had once belonged to the heart of heaven and earth remained in the Ninth Heaven.

What Ji Hao was doing now was transferring the fortune aura representing the Ninth Heaven into the Underworld's core fragment.

This was a lengthy undertaking. Even with his Fortune Realm cultivation, he had to proceed slowly, as though drawing silk and peeling away a cocoon.

Thunder rumbled through the Ninth Heaven from time to time, but it was all sound and no harm. Even resistance from the Ninth Heaven's consciousness was futile. Setting aside the immense damage caused by the Heavenly Court's fall, even the Ninth Heaven at its peak could not have resisted, for this was the great trend.

With that thought, Ji Hao silently sat cross-legged in Yaochi, its vast waters sending countless ripples spreading outward.

Yet they could not hold his reflection. Only an inexplicable play of light and shadow appeared, beyond the comprehension of living beings.

One year later.

In Yuxu Palace on Kunlun Mountain,