When Other Shore's Boat arrived at the new world, a sacred Golden Bridge that encompassed all things stretched across the pale golden Earth Membrane of the former Great Thousand World. Seated atop the bridge was a young Taoist in azure robes and plain garments—it was Shi Xuan.
Seeing that all surviving living beings had safely departed, Shi Xuan willed it, and the stalled disasters throughout the Great Thousand World erupted anew. Nine stars aligned in a row, geomagnetism fell into chaos, continents froze over, seawater flowed backward, earthquakes struck repeatedly, volcanoes erupted, tsunamis surged in waves, and countless living corpses awoke in the depths of the floods, slaughtering, tearing at, and devouring one another. The sense of being at the end of the road and the aura of destruction gradually thickened.
The Other Shore Golden Bridge no longer suppressed the Earth Membrane. Its pale gold slowly dimmed and began to sway unsteadily. Countless Heavenly Demons seemed to have caught the exquisite scent of destruction wafting from this Great Thousand World. They flew in from every corner of this Chaotic Primordial Era, scrambling over one another and attacking the Earth Membrane without regard for anything else.
Seven-Colored Magic Toads, Unicorn Demon Dragons, He-Transformation-Self-Free Sky Demons, and others swept in, blotting out the sky. There were more than mere billions, and many had even reached the Primordial Spirit stage. If one looked from afar through the void, one would find the Great Thousand World completely wrapped in dense, multicolored Heavenly Demons, with not a trace of its original appearance visible.
Yet these Heavenly Demons turned a blind eye to Shi Xuan, who was not protected by the Life and Death Limitless Transcendence Auspicious Cloud, and directly circled around him.
Amid the densely packed Heavenly Demons, Shi Xuan, seated cross-legged upon the Other