The Myriad Worlds Recording: A Prelude to Shock Across the Heavens

In the Canglan Realm, high above the clouds.

The sky had been perfectly clear. Then, without warning, sunlight dimmed across the entire world.

No clouds had covered the sun. It was as though some supreme power in the deepest reaches of the universe was forcibly drawing in all the world's light!

Hummm—!!

An indescribable, mysterious resonance exploded deep within the souls of every living being in the Canglan Realm!

Not only in the Primeval Holy Land, but among secluded Ancient Era clans, the demons entrenched in the far northern ice fields, and the supreme masters of the Devil Dao at the bottom of the abyss, all were jolted awake by the immense pressure descending from beyond the heavens.

"What's happening?! Why are the laws of heaven and earth trembling so violently?!"

Atop the Primeval Holy Land's main peak, Ji Changkong, who had just declared Lin Qiye the First Holy Son, snapped his head up, horror filling his eyes.

Beside him, the Heavenly Sword Guest and Perfected One Ten Thousand Laws had gone deathly pale. Before that descending pressure, the laws of the Dao they had cultivated for millennia felt as fragile as candles in the wind.

But something even more terrifying was yet to come.

At almost the same moment the Canglan Realm's sky changed—

In the Ziwei Star Domain, billions of stellar miles from the Canglan Realm.

Across dozens of enormous cultivation planets, countless ancient sect masters and old monsters at the Tribulation stage burst out of seclusion and stared at the sky in terror.

In the Heavenly Demon Great Realm.

Deep within the Nine Nether, several demon emperors who had slept for countless ages opened blood-red eyes larger than planets and roared uneasily.

In the Primordial Demon Realm.

The sky-piercing demon tree thrashed wildly, while ten thousand demons lay prostrate, trembling.

Fueled by the supreme power of twenty thousand Karma Points spent by the system, a vast phenomenon transcending spatial boundaries slowly unfolded in the void, covering three neighboring star domains and dozens of great worlds!

"Wh-what is that?!"

As billions of living beings watched in stunned terror, the entire starry sky seemed to be sliced open by an invisible giant axe!

A rift billions of miles long spread through the depths of the universe. Behind it, a colossal ancient mirror, formed entirely from pure chaos energy and engraved around its edges with endless mythic runes, faintly appeared.

Its size defied imagination. Even a vast cultivation planet looked no bigger than dust before it!

Across the mirror, several dark-gold characters formed from the laws of the Great Dao slowly emerged.

The writing belonged to no world's language. Yet every intelligent being understood its meaning the moment they saw it:

—[Myriad Heavens Mythic Rankings, First Installment: The Ancient Heavenly Court's Thirty-Six Generals and the Calamity of Gods and Demons].

"The Myriad Heavens... Mythic Rankings?!"

In the Ziwei Star Domain, an old sect master at the Tribulation stage who had lived over ten thousand years shrieked, his Dao heart nearly shattering:

"What grade of supreme treasure is this?! Its projection has reached the resonance of the Great Dao across dozens of our star domains at once! Could some supreme existence beyond immortals be projecting this throughout the heavens?!"

"The Ancient Heavenly Court?! What kind of power is this 'Heavenly Court'? I have cultivated for ten thousand years, yet I have never seen that name in any ancient text!" An ancient demon emperor in the Heavenly Demon Great Realm roared deafeningly, unable to hide the fear in his voice.

Within the Canglan Realm, Ji Changkong trembled from head to toe.

He stared at the enormous mirror blotting out the sky, his eyes blazing.

"The Heavenly Court! The Heavenly Court again! And this... is a projection for all the heavens and worlds!"

"Elder Su Chen didn't lie to me! Holy Son Lin Qiye was right too! That fallen Heavenly Court didn't belong to the Canglan Realm alone. It once ruled all the heavens!"

"Today... the supreme mastermind behind this is going to reveal to the entire universe the cruel truth buried for a hundred thousand years!"

In the void, the mirror's surface rippled violently like water.

The first image gradually came into focus.

It showed no gentle passage of history, but an apocalyptic calamity that could drive any god or demon to despair!

The image opened on a boundless starfield.

Dozens of ancient continents, each ten thousand times larger than the Canglan Realm, floated amid endless immortal light. Above the nine heavens, hundreds of palaces cast entirely from immortal gold stood among the clouds. Countless immortals and divine beasts radiating world-destroying power moved through the mist.

This was the Heavenly Court in the flourishing Ancient Era!

"Heavens... the spiritual energy on those continents is so dense it's formed oceans of liquid?!"

"Look at the soldiers guarding those palaces! Every one of them gives off an aura no weaker than a Dao-Slaying expert here!"

"They use Dao-Slaying experts as gate guards?! Just how terrifying is this Heavenly Court?!"

Across the heavens and worlds, countless powerful cultivators stared at the scene, their minds blank. It overturned everything they had ever known.

The Dao-Slaying experts and Tribulation-stage old monsters they regarded as exalted rulers were nothing more than lowly foot soldiers in the Ancient Heavenly Court!

But before they could recover from that suffocating shock, the image changed!

In the deepest reaches of the universe, the once-pure laws of the Great Dao began to rot and decay. An indescribable black tide, laden with endless darkness and strangeness, surged toward the Heavenly Court like a furious wind of destruction!

Stars vanished and the Great Dao collapsed wherever the tide passed.

"Enemy attack—!!"

A desperate cry rang through the stars.

The next instant, thirty-six vast pillars of divine light shot up from the Heavenly Court!

They were thirty-six peerless divine generals clad in heavy immortal armor, each possessing strength beyond comprehension! The pressure radiating from each far surpassed that of a Great Emperor. A casual movement could shatter an entire star system!

"The Heavenly Court's Thirty-Six Generals stand here! How dare you foul fiends trespass upon our Southern Heavenly Gate?!"

A divine general wielding a Xuanhua Great Axe roared at the heavens. With one swing, he tore through a million miles of space and hacked countless black demonic shadows to pieces!

Another general, clad in scarlet immortal armor, strode forth on flames. Divine fire in his palm became an endless ancient sea of flame, burning away vast swathes of darkness!

Brutal!

Utterly brutal!

The image showed a true fight to the death between gods and demons. Divine blood scattered across the stars, each drop crushing a massive planet beneath its weight. Shards of broken immortal weapons fell toward the heavens and worlds like meteor showers.

The billions watching, whatever their cultivation, shivered as though they were there.

Before this calamity, even the arrogant Tribulation-stage old monsters and ancient demon emperors seemed as insignificant as specks of dust in a storm!

"Dozens of beings beyond Great Emperors?!"

"What are they fighting?! What is that pitch-black darkness?!"

"Can even a Heavenly Court this powerful fail to stop it?!"

Despair and fear spread like a plague through three star domains and dozens of great worlds.

Meanwhile, above the Primeval Holy Land.

Lin Qiye stood with his hands behind his back, staring at the thirty-six blood-soaked generals fighting on the screen.

Suddenly, his gaze froze.

In one corner of the image, amid rubble strewn with the blood of gods and Buddhas, he saw an all-too-familiar figure—

The man wore a pale yellow robe and held a three-pointed, double-edged blade. With the heavenly eye on his forehead wide open, he fought three black overlords as vast as star systems alone!

Though his divine armor had shattered and golden divine blood ran from his mouth, the god still stood proudly above the nine heavens and let out a thunderous laugh:

"I am Yang Jian, the Erlang Manifesting Sage True Lord! Even if I die and my Dao perishes today, I will never let you take a single step into the mortal world!"

At the sight, the Eight-Nine Profound Art within Lin Qiye erupted into turmoil, and the golden mark deep in his forehead blazed with dazzling light that shot into the sky!

"Erlang True Lord..."

Lin Qiye clenched his fists, his eyes red. The shock and fighting spirit in his heart reached their peak!

Beside him, Ji Changkong and the Heavenly Sword Guest looked from Lin Qiye's transformation to the peerless god in the image. Their minds reeled!

"It... it's true!"

Trembling with excitement, Ji Changkong pointed at Yang Jian in the image and roared to the entire sect's elders:

"Do you see him?! That is the Erlang Manifesting Sage True Lord! The supreme god whose legacy our First Holy Son Lin Qiye has inherited!"

"Holy Son Lin Qiye... truly is the agent of the Heavenly Court's war god!"

At those words, the Primeval Holy Land's hundreds of thousands of disciples erupted into boundless fervor!

Until now, they had harbored one last trace of doubt about Lin Qiye "inheriting divine karmic ties." But the mythic ranking spanning the heavens had laid undeniable proof before the entire universe!

The Primeval Holy Land had an agent who had inherited a true god's legacy!

Across the heavens and worlds, countless ancient beings also sensed, through a mysterious resonance of the Great Dao, the faint trace of divine power matching the Erlang True Lord that had leaked from the Primeval Holy Land in the Canglan Realm!

"The Canglan Realm... someone in that broken world has awakened the legacy of the god in the image?!"

"Investigate! Spare no expense! Find that inheritor!"

"These Myriad Heavens Mythic Rankings must be a treasure left by the Ancient Heavenly Court. The Canglan Realm... is about to become the center of a storm across the heavens!"

The old monsters of the great star domains went mad. Divine-sense messages crossed star systems and intersected in the void, while countless massive fleets and ancient warships weighed anchor and set course for the Canglan Realm!

The mythic fire Su Chen had lit had thrown the entire order of the heavens and worlds into chaos!

Inside the Library Pavilion.

Su Chen sat quietly at a wooden desk as the system's glaring notifications exploded in his ears like a raging storm:

[Ding!] [Projection Across the Heavens: Myriad Worlds Image-Recording Mirror] successfully deployed to three star domains and thirty-seven great worlds! The concepts of "Ancient Heavenly Court," "Thirty-Six Generals," and "Erlang Manifesting Sage True Lord" have caused a devastating upheaval in understanding across the heavens!

[Mythic Dissemination surges dramatically!] Dissemination of the "Desolate Ancient Heavenly Court" entry in the Canglan Realm: 25% → 60%! In the Ziwei Star Domain: 15%! In the Heavenly Demon Great Realm: 12%! ...

[Karma Points skyrocket!] Karma Points gained from the heavens and worlds: +120,000! Contribution from the changed understanding of Tribulation-stage old monsters: +45,000! Contribution from the terror of ancient demon emperors: +38,000!

[Congratulations, Host. Total available Karma Points: 211,900!]

"Two hundred and eleven thousand Karma Points."

Su Chen gently set down his teacup. Deep within his warm eyes flickered the absolute detachment and composure of someone looking down upon the heavens.

His plan had finally grown from "shocking one world" into "setting the heavens ablaze."

With over two hundred thousand points at his disposal, he could not only exchange them for even more terrifying mythic identities. He could even begin preparing to manifest, in reality, the structure that would stun the heavens and worlds—the true Southern Heavenly Gate!

"Come on, then. Let's make this show even livelier."

Su Chen smiled faintly, closed his eyes, and entered the next heaven-shaking entry into the system panel—

[Netherworld · Six Paths of Reincarnation].