Empress Hongtian had long since grown used to Xu Zimo's confusion.
She said, "This is my Dao—merging my body with heaven and earth."
"I don't understand," Xu Zimo said, shaking his head slightly.
In truth, every Heaven Slayer throughout history, whether himself or others such as the True Martial Great Emperor and the Great Ancient Divine King, had fought against the Heavenly Dao.
They used overwhelming strength to directly destroy the Heavenly Dao, thereby achieving complete and true transformation.
They would no longer be constrained by Nine Domains World in their own development.
But Empress Hongtian had not chosen to resist. She seemed to have embarked upon a path of fusion.
Simply put, if you could not beat them, you joined them.
Or perhaps it was like swapping the crown prince with a civet cat.
At its core, the creation of a world could be divided into two kinds.
One was formed naturally by heaven and earth.
The existence of such worlds involved no interference from any external force.
At first, the world might not even be suitable for living beings.
Later, the world would evolve on its own, giving rise to humans or other races.
If such a world possessed abundant spiritual energy, it would gradually develop into a cultivation world.
If it had no spiritual energy, it would become a technological world.
Such worlds were uncontrollable.
Whether they were destroyed or endured, they had no predetermined ending.
Besides worlds naturally formed by heaven and earth, there was another kind created by people.
Such as Nine Domains World, or the Divine Continent.
These were all worlds created by powerful beings.
Such worlds were filled with far more certainty.
For example, from the very beginning of a world's creation, its founder would determine its future direction.
That was exactly how