Naturally, it was both a calamity and an opportunity.
With the Three Thousand Great Worlds at the forefront, countless middle thousand worlds supporting them, and billions of small worlds scattered among them like star sand, a free-for-all battle across the heavens was forcibly unleashed.
The Immortal Venerables and Dao Lords of every realm were forced to participate, the strong assaulting the weak.
World conquered world, domain swallowed domain, each plundering the others' world origins.
The victors seized resources, their worlds rose in rank, their Dao fortunes flourished, and all living beings benefited. The defeated saw their entire domains downgraded, their Heavenly Dao crumble, and their Great Dao perish, becoming nourishment for the victors.
Great worlds attacked one another or plundered middle thousand worlds for resources; middle thousand worlds could also swallow worlds above or below them to advance; and if a monstrous genius arose in a small world and seized opportunities between the cracks, that world could rise in rank as well.
A struggle between worlds meant the lives of billions of beings. Every resource seized through slaughter and plunder ultimately nourished the world origin of one's own realm, sustaining its everlasting glory.
As for when Immortal Emperor Yuanhuang, Ji Huang, had truly made his name, it had been during the previous Battle of the Heavens.
At that time, the Heavenly Origin World had yet to secure its place at the head of the Three Thousand Great Worlds. It had only ranked somewhere in the middle.
Powerful enemies from every world watched hungrily, yet Ji Huang had burst onto the scene with monstrous brilliance!
In that battle, he had overpowered the heavens, slain more than a dozen Dao Lords from other worlds, and seized countless world origins for Heavenly Origin.
In a single stroke, he had established the Heavenly Origin