Primordial World? Eye of the Heavenly Dao

The Primordial World, the East Sea!

"As expected, abandoning all the laws of the Dao and relying solely on the world's fundamental rules to open up a world has an obvious flaw!"

Ao Changsheng had returned to human form. Standing above the sea, he gazed thoughtfully at the world he held in his palm.

"The extremely chaotic matter and energy are powerful, but they lack the power of the rules of the Great Dao. If this fellow could use even a little of the Great Dao, it wouldn't be so hard for him to endure."

Ao Changsheng looked at the Great Sun Golden Crow being battered by endless matter and energy within the world and shook his head.

With a casual lift of his right hand, he released the world and sent it slowly rising into the sky.

This was different from the world in which he had watched Gonggong last time. That world had itself been a Great Thousand Universe.

Moreover, chaotic, violent matter and energy had filled every corner of that Great Thousand Universe, leaving nowhere to hide and nowhere to escape.

But the world he had hastily opened up was nowhere near as powerful.

In fact, if the one who had entered it had not been the Great Sun Golden Crow formed by the Demon Race's Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation,

but the Quasi-Sage Dijun, or even certain Daluo Golden Immortals entering alone, they would have had a much easier time than they did now.

Even so, Dijun did not dare disperse the star gods of the Great Sun Golden Crow now. Without the support of the billions of stars in the starry sky,

the power of their Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation would not merely diminish by a little, but plummet off a cliff.

If they did not use the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation to bind the entire Demon Race together now, their Quasi-Sages and Daluo demon gods might fare well enough.

But every last member of the Demon Race below the Daluo realm would be utterly unable to survive in such a violent world.

Still, Ao Changsheng's original purpose in using this move had not been merely to open up this world.

The birth of the world was only part of the move's process.

And the final result...

As the world slowly rose, cracks gradually appeared across the fetal membrane surrounding it.

Endless chaotic matter and energy poured madly from the cracks, rampaging through and destroying everything around them.

The fractured fetal membrane could no longer obstruct the gazes of the mighty figures watching this place.

And every mighty figure who saw the state of the world showed a look of shock.

Although its Spiritual Qi and world origin were far from comparable to those of the Primordial World, this world, whose structure resembled the Primordial World's endless starry sky,

was so vast and boundless that they could scarcely imagine it!

And now, within that vast world, endless matter and energy raged and twisted.

They formed enormous chaotic vortices, whose tremendous tearing force pulverized everything within them.

They could even see the Great Sun Golden Crow struggling to fly through the dying world.

Within the collapsing world, even the Great Sun Golden Crow formed from the entire Demon Race was now covered in wounds.

The brilliant sparks that had once surrounded it had been worn away by the violent matter and energy until only a few specks remained.

Run, run! Hurry-

Dijun roared madly in his heart. Flying against the direction of spacetime's collapse, he sped through the world filled with destruction and chaos.

He flew toward the cracks in the world's fetal membrane.

That was... the only chance of survival he could see!

The moment Dijun directed the star-god Great Sun Golden Crow through a crack in the world's fetal membrane, the Great Sun Golden Crow, already at its limit, could no longer hold together and fell apart.

Dijun, Taiyi, and hundreds of demon gods maintained their forms and hovered in midair, every one of them pale.

The various demons, fewer than half their original number but still numbering in the billions, fell scattered into the sea.

"We... we're out!"

In midair, Dijun looked at the world gradually being destroyed above him, his heart full of disbelief.

Apart from the obstacles caused by the world's collapse, he had not encountered a single one of the other obstructions he had imagined might await him.

And just as Dijun controlled the Great Sun Golden Crow to escape from that world, the world in midair did not halt its destruction.

All matter and energy had been torn into their smallest, most fundamental units. Matter was breaking down, energy was being annihilated, and spacetime was collapsing.

That violence!

That intensity!

If the chaotic matter and energy from before could still be deflected or evaded through a Daluo's profound cultivation,

then now... it was all useless!

Within that violent matter and energy, within that collapsing spacetime, lay the purest destruction.

The destruction of a world!

Everything was annihilated, reduced to nothing!

At that moment, all the mighty figures watching the scene held their breath.

With the control those Daluo Golden Immortals and even Quasi-Sages had over spacetime, although they were separated by endless distances, what reached their eyes was little different from seeing it in person.

It was precisely because they could see it so clearly... that the shock was so overwhelming.

The Daluo and Quasi-Sages of the Primordial World were all well traveled and knowledgeable.

But the destruction of a world... especially the shocking sight of the destruction of a world so vast as to be unimaginable, made every Daluo and every Quasi-Sage tremble from the bottom of their hearts.

Even Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who had merged with the Dao and was now within the tightly sealed Purple Firmament Palace in the boundless Chaos, opened his eyes and looked toward the East Sea of the Primordial World.

"So this is... the power of a Hunyuan who walks the Dao of the World?" Neither sorrow nor joy stirred in Hongjun's heart as his will surged directly into the Jade Disc of Creation above his head.

At that moment, Hongjun's consciousness rose without limit, and his will as a Heavenly Dao Sage became the 'Heavenly Dao'.

The power of the Heavenly Dao surged toward the East Sea.

Above the East Sea.

Under the gazes of the Primordial World's many Daluo and Quasi-Sages, the vast world in midair began to shrink rapidly.

The speed of the world's collapse soared, and all spacetime contracted.

All the collapsing matter and energy became countless streams of particles, spinning as they rushed madly into the very center of the world.

Absolute violence! Savagery!

And... destruction!

Boom!

The instant everything returned to that original point, a brilliant light suddenly burst forth from it.

The next moment, something happened that no Daluo or Quasi-Sage could have imagined.

If the sight of that world's destruction had been despair, then the brilliant light bursting forth now was hope a thousand, ten thousand times greater than that despair.

The dazzling multicolored light shone in every direction. Endless matter came into being, boundless energy surged, space stretched without limit, and time flowed...

"That's..."

Throughout the Primordial World, the Daluo and Quasi-Sages scattered across its lands rose to their feet in shock, holding their breath as they watched the scene before them, at once familiar and strange.

But...

Before they could take a closer look, a heavenly might suddenly appeared over the East Sea, and a pair of cold golden eyes slowly opened in the void.

The next instant, the brilliant, dazzling light, the matter coming into being, the surging energy, and the ever-expanding space all vanished.

The sky above the East Sea was calm and peaceful, and every strange phenomenon had disappeared.

The many mighty figures stared blankly at the pair of cold eyes above the East Sea. Though it was their first time seeing those eyes,

the same name appeared in all their minds at once.

"The Eye of the Heavenly Dao!"

Though scattered throughout the Primordial World, the mighty figures each felt the eyes turn their gaze upon them the moment they saw them, making their hair stand on end.

At the scene itself, Dijun, Taiyi, hundreds of demon gods, and billions of demons trembled all over as they looked at the Eye of the Heavenly Dao above them.

However...

Those eyes were fixed firmly on Ao Changsheng, who stood on the sea below with his back to all living beings.

Ao Changsheng turned and glanced at the 'Eye of the Heavenly Dao' above him. Though the eyes were cold and tinged with gold,

one look was enough for him to recognize them. Whose eyes could that Eye of the Heavenly Dao belong to if not those of the old Daoist Hongjun?

The instant Ao Changsheng turned,

a golden light gathered in the eyes high in the sky and shot down at him.

Seeing this, Dijun, who stood nearby, held his breath and watched with his eyes wide.

Kill him, kill him...

Dijun screamed madly in his heart.

Today's battle was bound to make their Demon Race the laughingstock of the Primordial World. Even if he could not kill him himself, if he could see that dragon killed, he too... he too...

Dijun's eyes suddenly widened.

The golden light that had shot from the Eye of the Heavenly Dao, radiating terrifying heavenly might, had actually been caught by that dragon with a single raised hand.

He looked again.

The golden light was not the attack he had imagined at all, but...

Merit!

A truly enormous quantity of Heavenly Dao Merit!

"This Merit..."

Ao Changsheng looked at the Heavenly Dao Merit in his hand with mild surprise.

"For opening up a world for the Primordial World and strengthening its origin, a reward is due!" Hongjun's cold voice, devoid of the slightest emotion, rang throughout the Primordial World.

Hearing Hongjun's cold voice, Ao Changsheng shook his head, his face full of regret.

"As expected, that world was brought under the control of the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao after all!"

"What a pity. That was the first Great Thousand World I opened up with my own hands!" Ao Changsheng thought regretfully.

'World--Primordial!' was a move Ao Changsheng had created from the insights he had gained when the world within his body had become a Middle Thousand World under the influence of the supreme rules of Chaos all those years ago.

It was the most orthodox path for a world to advance in the vast Chaos!

It could hardly have been more natural for it to strengthen the foundations of the Primordial World.

Ao Changsheng casually put away the mass of Heavenly Dao Merit and glanced once more at the Eye of the Heavenly Dao as it gradually closed and faded above him. Only then did he turn and continue toward his cultivation ground.

As for Dijun, Taiyi, and the billions of demons, Ao Changsheng had, after all, promised Hongjun that he would not take their lives.

Otherwise... they could never have escaped from that world.

Of course, Ao Changsheng believed that, after this experience, Dijun and Taiyi would come looking for trouble with him again.

"To truly perfect this move, I really will have to wait until I have comprehended the Dao of the World in full."

As Ao Changsheng recalled the details of how that world had been opened up, he felt a little displeased.

Although he had long known this would be the result, and had even unexpectedly gained some Heavenly Dao Merit, displeasure was displeasure.

"Only after I have completely perfected the Dao of the World will the worlds I open up bear my own mark. When that time comes, no one will be able to take my worlds away!"

Ao Changsheng muttered to himself, and the instant he stepped into his cultivation ground, he dissipated.