Even a glance from the Great Heavenly Venerable was doing them an honor

[The four ascending to the Primordial World this time are: Qian Renxue, Xiao Wu, Tai Tan, Ma Hongjun]

[Please prepare. Ascension to the Primordial World will begin in ten seconds]

[Notice: time may flow differently during the merging of the two worlds. Do not panic]

[May you remain safe]

"What? Me?"

Ma Hongjun, who had been watching the excitement, pointed at himself in bewilderment, only to be overcome by panic a moment later.

"No, I don't want to scout ahead! How could that Primordial World place be anywhere near as comfortable as Shrek?"

"Hongjun, be careful out there."

Flender cared a great deal about this disciple of his.

"What are you scared of? I'm jealous of you."

Dai Mubai waggled his eyebrows at Ma Hongjun.

"What's there to be jealous-"

Halfway through speaking, Ma Hongjun suddenly caught on, and a lecherous gleam entered his small eyes.

"You're right! Hahaha! Boss Dai, I'll get a taste of the Primordial World's girls for you fir-"

Elsewhere, Tang San grabbed Xiao Wu.

"Xiao Wu, you..."

Panic filled Xiao Wu's face as she clung tightly to Tang San's arm.

"No, I don't want to go to some Primordial World! I don't want to leave Brother San!"

Seeing this, Tang San hurried to comfort her.

"Xiao Wu, don't worry. I'll go to the Primordial World sooner or later too. Once you get there, find somewhere safe to hide. I'll come find you."

Before they could finish speaking, Ma Hongjun and Xiao Wu turned into streaks of white light and disappeared.

Heaven Dou Empire.

Qian Renxue had already removed her Xue Qinghe disguise, because the images on the screen in the sky had just exposed her.

"Damn it! Something really did go wrong."

Qian Renxue cursed bitterly. This meant all her years of work had been for nothing, but this was not the time to dwell on that.

"You two, return to Spirit Hall immediately. Tell Grandfather not to worry about me."

She had barely managed to leave Snake Lance Douluo those instructions before she turned into white light and vanished.

"Young mistress!"

Snake Lance Douluo cried out in alarm.

"No, what's done is done. The young mistress has been exposed. I must return to Spirit City at once."

On the other side of Heaven Dou City, at the Strength Clan.

As the clan chief, Tai Tan's fierce eyes brimmed with tears.

"Master, this old servant will go ahead and scout the way for you."

Ignoring the clansmen who had come to see him off behind him, he bowed toward the Clear Sky Sect and vanished without a trace.

At the same time, the screen in the sky split into four views, each corresponding to one of the four ascending to the Primordial World.

In the Primordial World, within the Thirty-Three Heavens, a magnificent palace radiated endless brilliance amid swirling clouds and mist.

The South Heaven Gate was the Heavenly Court's most important gateway. Descending to the lower realms from here, the distance was the same no matter the destination.

Besides this, in one corner of the South Heaven Gate was a passage leading to the Myriad Heavens and Realms. Looking down through it, one could observe the scenes within them.

Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Following Ear's daily work was to watch the Myriad Heavens and Realms for signs of demonic corruption.

"Hm? Another small world is merging into the Primordial World. Tsk, let's report it."

Lingxiao Palace stood at the highest point in the very center of the Heavenly Court. It was the center of the Three Realms, a place of supreme authority.

Though called a palace, it was actually a small universe. Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Following Ear strode inside, not daring even to raise their heads.

Immortal light swirled along both sides of Lingxiao Palace, where stood mighty gods neither of them could afford to offend. Even the most ordinary pillars had True Dragons coiled around them.

Li Xuanji sat upright on a cloud couch, methodically handling every matter within the Three Realms, great and small.

He was the ruler of the Three Realms, the Great Heavenly Venerable.

Looking back on his life, Li Xuanji had transmigrated when the Three Pure Ones attained the Dao, and later became a disciple of Jiejiao.

He knew Jiejiao's future fate, so he cultivated desperately. In the end, he truly crossed that threshold and successfully rewrote the original course of history.

The Immortals were more or less the same Immortals, but all of them had entered the Investiture of the Gods in their physical bodies.

Because of this, Li Xuanji outshone Haotian when establishing the Heavenly Court and was personally appointed Great Heavenly Venerable by the Dao Ancestor.

The original Haotian and Yaochi became members of the Four Imperial Lords.

He was rather busy as the Great Heavenly Venerable. Everything had to pass before him, from the tangled grudges of Great Unity and Quasi-Saint cultivators of the various Sages' sects to the amount of rain that fell in the mortal world.

Fortunately, he had his three corpses-benevolent, evil, and self-and the Four Imperial Lords to help him, so life was still very comfortable.

Hearing Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Following Ear's report, Li Xuanji paid it little mind. Or rather, no one in Lingxiao Palace paid it any mind.

The Primordial World was simply too vast. During the Investiture of the Gods, the Sages had engaged in another round of friendly sparring, shattering the Primordial World Continent into the Four Great Continents.

Those shattered fragments scattered, and together with the stray fragments cleaved off when the great god Pangu first split heaven and earth apart, they had given rise to far too many worlds.

Some worlds merging into the Primordial World on their own was a very common occurrence.

Thus, after Li Xuanji finished reading the document in his hands, titled "Proposal for the Journey to the West of Sun Wukong, Golden Cicada, and Others," he spared a moment to cast a casual glance downward.

"Oh? Another familiar world."

Li Xuanji gave a knowing smile, then withdrew his attention.

For a Great Heavenly Venerable like him, even taking a glance was already doing them a considerable honor.

Compared with the Douluo Continent merging into the Primordial World, he was currently far more concerned with how to deal with the tangled grudges between Buddhism and the various other powers.

At this moment, the four people ascending this time had all arrived in the Primordial World simultaneously.

The livestream's views were also primarily centered on the four of them.

The moment Tai Tan landed, he merely took an instinctive breath. The next instant, his entire body trembled with excitement.

"This... what terrifying power!"

As his words fell, the eight Soul Rings on his body appeared beyond his control.

Then, in the blink of an eye, they increased to nine Soul Rings, then ten, while all the Soul Rings turned brilliant gold.

"What tremendous power! Have I..."

Tai Tan put his limited intelligence to work.

"Could I have become a god of legend just like that?"

Overcome with excitement, Tai Tan dropped to his knees and bowed.

"Master, this old servant has become a god! Please come quickly! This old servant is still waiting to serve you!"

At this sight, the entire Douluo Continent watching the livestream erupted.

"What? He became a god just by taking a breath?"

"Brilliant golden Soul Rings? How old would those be?"

At Shrek Academy, Tang San, who had only just been worrying about Xiao Wu, now clenched his fists, his eyes bloodshot as he panted like an ox.

"What right does this dog from who knows whose household have to receive such an opportunity?"

"Why wasn't I chosen? Primordial World, you've already given me cause to put you to death!"

Behind Tang San, Yu Xiaogang was in no better shape, his eyes filled with blood vessels.

"If breathing can make someone a god, wouldn't taking a few more breaths let me break through rank thirty?"

While shocked, the others also looked toward the two of them. After all, those two had just shamelessly declared that the Primordial World should be merging into Douluo instead.

Now, anyone with eyes could see that the Primordial World clearly blew Douluo out of the water.

"Xiaogang, you..."

Flender was a little worried about Flat-top's state of mind.

Yu Xiaogang suppressed the jealousy and excitement in his heart, still standing with his hands behind his back and his usual indifferent air.

"You've only seen the surface."

"Oh? What do you mean by that, Master?"

Ning Rongrong's attention was drawn as well, though mockery lurked in her eyes. By now, Yu Xiaogang looked little different from a clown to her.

Unaware of this, Yu Xiaogang spoke with confident ease.

"Although merely breathing in that Primordial World allows people to break through cultivation realms, anyone raised in such an environment is bound to lack the desire to improve."

As he spoke, Yu Xiaogang shook his head. "What a waste of such a fine environment. I dare say the people of that world would never settle down to study theory."

Tang San supported Yu Xiaogang's words.

"Teacher is right. Even in the Primordial World, Teacher's theories would surely rank first."