The Primordial Origin Spirit returned with a darkened face.
Or rather, he had always been here; what descended below was merely a fraction of his power, the might of an Immortal King Giant.
The Primordial Origin Spirit, a Great Tyrannosaurus-level Sacred Ruin Immortal Emperor, suffered no more than a drop in the bucket from the loss of his Immortal King Giant power. He would recover after a few epochs of cultivation.
Ancient Sages who forcibly descended, even if they failed, did not lose much energy.
Lu Ya Daojun, whose cultivation had plummeted to the Heavenly Immortal realm, was naturally no match for him.
Upon his return, the Primordial Origin Spirit grumbled, "The suppression I faced below was too immense! Less than one in a hundred million of my strength remained, perhaps even less than one in a hundred million of a hundred million times, how could I possibly contend with that Outer Realm Heavenly Demon?"
"Le Jingxin, Yu Yu, why didn't you two descend?"
Yu Yu merely chuckled and remained silent.
Yuqing Zixu Miaowu Yuanshi Tianwang Le Jingxin said, "In the Wonderful Heaven, I still have ten lectures to deliver. I am only on the third one, so I cannot depart."
Le Jingxin then held a precious pearl, within which flew a wondrous starlight. Vaguely, one could see the worlds of the Ten Directions Azure Firmament, the Wonderful Heaven among the Thirty-Six Heavens.
The True God, the Exalted High Venerable, the Wonderful Action True Master, the Nine Sages of Qingwei, the Grand Celestial Official, and countless beings entered the wondrous starlight. All heavenly beings, without exception, ascended.
The Primordial Origin Spirit gazed and saw that within the Wonderful Heaven, gods and immortals were divided into nine ranks and three grades: Nine Sages, Nine True Ones, and Nine Immortals.
Sages were of the highest grade, True Ones of the middle grade, and Immortals of the lower grade. Immortals were further divided into nine ranks: Upper Immortal, High Immortal, Grand Immortal, Profound Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, Divine Immortal, Spirit Immortal, and Supreme Immortal.
Those who crossed the threshold into the "True Realm" were served by immeasurable, countless trillions of immortals, following in their wake. The weakest among these immortals possessed cosmic-level strength, while the strongest could cleave through infinite multiverses with a mere thought.
The highest-ranked immortals, those in the Supreme Immortal realm, were equal to the Primordial Origin Spirit's own body, the Great Tyrannosaurus-level Sacred Ruin Immortal Emperor. However, there remained an infinite, truly boundless gap between them and the "True Realm."
The Primordial Origin Spirit could only sigh inwardly that the Wonderful Heaven was but one of the Thirty-Six Heavens, yet it held such splendor. He wondered what transcendence the heavens above it possessed.
Among the Three Pure Ones, Yuanshi was indeed the most revered. It was laughable that the world revered Taiqing, unaware that Yuanshi was the fundamental source.
Yuanshi Tianwang Le Jingxin could not evade his duty.
The Primordial Origin Spirit could only turn his gaze to Yu Yu.
Lingbao Tianzun Yu Yu said softly, "The Way of the Jie Sect also has its legacy; it did not cease after the Investiture of the Gods."
"During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the Four Swords of Zhu Xian were passed to the hands of the Sea Tide Sage of Yunguang Cave."
"During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the lineage of the Jie Sect was transmitted to Jin Bifeng."
"Later generations recorded the demeanor of the Jie Sect Leader in the books 'Feng Jian Chun Qiu' and 'Sui Tang Yanyi.' How can one say that the Jie Sect was annihilated after the Investiture of the Gods, leaving only Tongtian?"
The Origin Spirit understood, "Yu Yu, you mean to send Jin Bifeng?"
The Origin Spirit looked around and noticed that Jin Bifeng was indeed absent among the many Ancient Sages. He assumed Jin Bifeng had already descended.
So, the Ancient Sage Jin Bifeng had already descended?
Just as the Origin Spirit was thinking this, he suddenly saw Yu Yu staring at him with a fierce, dragon-roaring gaze.
He quickly corrected himself, "I misspoke just now. I meant to say, you are the one to attack..."
*Plop!*
The white-clad maiden Wei Yayun punched the Primordial Origin Spirit on the head again.
"You and the Yin Yang Divine Venerable are both foul-mouthed. Can't you change your ways?"
"After just beating up the Yin Yang Divine Venerable, I have to beat you up too? Give me a break!"
...
The Ancient Sage Jin Bifeng descended from the Land of Nothingness.
His forced descent meant that less than one in a hundred million of his strength remained, weakened to the extreme.
Yet, he still possessed the power of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
He used the power of his own Dao fruit to manifest all the beings of a past chaotic epoch, forming a vast and boundless chaos.
Initially, he intended for the beings of all worlds within this chaos, many comparable to Immortal Kings, or even far surpassing Immortal Kings, infinitely close to Quasi-Immortal Emperors, to attack the Human Race Heavenly Court.
But a higher narrative power swept through, infinitely amplifying certain emotions within Jin Bifeng, directly targeting his flaws.
"Five Elements Heavenly Palace..."
"Jie Sect..."
"San Xiao..."
"Ah!"
Jin Bifeng, severely disturbed, fell into the Five Elements Heavenly Palace of Chaos.
After a long while.
Within the Five Elements Heavenly Palace, an elder paid homage to the Sect Master.
"Sect Master, a new region of chaos has been discovered, albeit one only ten thousand universes in size."
"Compared to our own chaos, that region is far too weak, both in terms of powerful beings, size, and cultivation resources."
"It is unlikely to even have a Great Enlightenment True Immortal. What are your instructions, Sect Master?"
Jin Bifeng, holding his head, felt as though he had forgotten something.
He then said, "Since it is a region of chaos so poor in cultivation resources, there is no need to attach great importance to it. Send any Great Enlightenment True Immortal to subjugate all the powerful beings in that region of chaos."
The elder received the order and departed.
The Ancient Sages' level of concern for the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon had been severely diminished...
...
The Human Race Heavenly Court maintained one hundred percent control over the chaos.
Whether it was the Heavenly Net or the Great Dao evolved from the Primordial Fire, both belonged to the Human Race Heavenly Court. With even the Great Dao as their own, the Human Race Heavenly Court was fully aware of everything that happened in the chaos.
Naturally, in the distance, a new region of chaos, a vast chaos tens of millions of times larger than the original chaos of ten thousand universes, was also discovered by the Human Race Heavenly Court.
At the edge of the chaos.
A Human Emperor gazed into the distance and actually saw that new, enormous region of chaos!
Upon that colossal chaos, the auras of powerful beings were innumerable.
Faintly, this Human Emperor seemed to hear certain words.
"Above Grand Unity is Great Enlightenment..."
"Great Enlightenment Immortal!"
"Great Enlightenment Immortal!"
The Human Emperor's expression turned grim.
The edge of the chaos was originally empty, the very end!
There had never been another region of chaos at the edge of the chaos; this was all there was!
And after the Heavenly Emperor had created another region of chaos, a chaos only five thousand universes in size, at the edge of the chaos, there were only two regions of chaos!
To the Human Emperor, these two regions of chaos already constituted the entirety of existence... but how could there be a third region of chaos?
This was fundamentally illogical!
Such an illogical occurrence instantly reminded this Emperor of a certain rumor.
"Ancestor Ren Suiren said that this region of chaos, only ten thousand universes in size, could withstand the Ancient Sage Lu Ya Daojun, and barely the Primordial Origin Spirit, but it could not withstand the descent of stronger Ancient Sages."
"Therefore, if a stronger Ancient Sage than the Primordial Origin Spirit were to descend, they might not descend into the chaos inhabited by the Human Race, but rather create a new chaos to descend into!"
"Who is the descender... which Ancient Sage?"
This Human Emperor's mind was filled with various speculations.