All the cultivators on the Nine Heavens' side in this universe, including Yuangeng, the Netherworld Venerable, and Emperor Venerable, understood deep in their hearts that fighting the darkness demanded the cruelest methods. Everything connected to it had to be eradicated.
They all knew very well how terrifyingly invasive the darkness was.
Even though they had now slain every Dark Dao Prover, the vast majority of this universe's Life Origin Stars,
Immortal Divine Medicines, immortal gold treasures, and other such things still belonged to the darkness. Ordinary living beings could be contaminated simply by using them.
Even with Yuangeng's current cultivation, he had to focus intently to peel away, little by little, the dark substance rooted deep in every corner of Gou Chen Ancient Star.
Under the watchful eyes of the other Supremes on the Nine Heavens' side, the process took well over a decade before he finally completed his examination of Gou Chen Ancient Star.
Eighteen years later, "Rise!"
A low roar resounded across the entire Gou Chen Ancient Star. Wan Qing, the White-Clothed Female Emperor, and the others stirred, immediately opening their heavenly eyes. They could clearly see faint, pitch-black radiance flickering as it rose from all across Gou Chen Star.
Those pitch-black glimmers were nowhere near as profound as the darkness in the source region at the deepest reaches of the Heavenly Court, but that substance had seeped into every corner of the universe. It poured from the blood, bones, and broken bodies of dead Dark Beings, emerged from mountains, dragon veins, soil, streams, divine metal, and precious jade. Even the myriad Daos split open, revealing hazy, illusory black divine chains.
Under Yuangeng's majestic Imperial Dao will, all that dark substance was guided upward like stream after pitch-black stream flowing toward the heavens, converging above his palm. There,