61: Chapter 61: Ever-Changing Changes (This chapter is extremely important)

With this Chaos Divine Stone, the Tianyun Realm ushered in a Breakthrough Opportunity for qualitative change.

To break free from the shackles of the world and shatter the ceiling of cultivation, all the Soul Transformation Stage Cultivators of the Tianyun Realm at that time united their hearts and strength, exhausting the entire world's Origin Foundation, and resolutely embarked on a vast, brutal journey that spanned eternity — World Devouring.

Countless predecessors and powerful beings sacrificed themselves for the Dao, tearing apart the stable Void Realm barriers with their own hands, crossing the cold and silent boundless Void Realm, searching everywhere for those micro or Small Worlds with incomplete Laws, weak Origins, or grades and strength far inferior to the Tianyun Realm.

Every cross-world conquest involved the entire world, exhausting all the elite Cultivators of the world.

Grandmaster Formation masters set up the Heaven-Reaching World-Devouring Formation, using Supreme power to strip and plunder the Foundations of foreign worlds, seizing the core Foundation that sustains the operation of a universe — the World Core.

The World Core is the lifeblood and Origin of a world, carrying the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi Laws, the source of Spiritual Qi, and the Foundation of the territory.

Every foreign World Core that merged into the Tianyun Realm's Origin was a transformation of rebirth.

The vast territory expanded with a roar, thousands of miles of mountains and rivers were reshaped, and a single Fusion could expand the land by millions to tens of millions of miles; the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi surged layer by layer, becoming increasingly pure and dense; the Heavenly Dao Laws were constantly supplemented, tempered, and strengthened, and the Heaven and Earth Dao Rhyme became increasingly thick and vast.

This World-Devouring conquest, spanning hundreds of thousands of years, was soaked in endless blood and sacrifice.

Countless Cultivators were buried in the Void Realm and perished in foreign lands, using their withered bones as ladders and their Divine Soul as fuel, forcefully carving out a path of promotion for the Tianyun Realm.

After eternal slaughter, the Tianyun Realm successively swallowed and refined the World Cores of nine Small Worlds and over a hundred micro worlds, accumulating enough Origin Foundation to completely break through the limits of a Small World and usher in the ultimate transformation that shook the universe.

On that day, the entire Tianyun Realm experienced earth-shattering changes, and the myriad Daos roared.

The continental plates rumbled and trembled, expanding crazily, and the vast territory widened infinitely; the Nine Heavens vault lifted layer by layer, becoming higher, deeper, and boundlessly vast.

The Origin sea beneath the ground surged and churned, and the surging Origin Aura washed over all directions of heaven and earth.

Countless giant floating islands in the world took root, transforming into solid small continents.

Myriad more subtle and higher-level Dao Laws were derived between heaven and earth, with Dao Rhyme circulating and order reborn.

The Tianyun Realm, which had been silent for ten billion years, slowly gave birth to a budding world intelligence under the nourishment of endless Origin, which was called the World Spirit by later generations.

The dust settled, and the universe was reshaped.

The world barrier of the Tianyun Realm was tempered to be stronger than Divine Stone, unbreakable by all Laws, and the inherent cultivation ceiling of Cultivators was completely shattered, with the cultivation limit breaking through from the Soul Transformation Peak to the Divided Soul stage in one fell swoop.

From then on, the shackles that had imprisoned it for ten billion years were completely shattered, and the Tianyun Realm completed its Heaven-Defying leap, transforming from an ordinary small Cultivation World into a medium-sized Cultivation World with complete Laws, deep Foundation, and infinite potential.

The leap in world grade brought about an earth-shaking era of change.

In the past, before the Tianyun Realm was promoted, the Heaven and Earth Laws were simple and singular, and the paths of living beings were limited.

A Cultivator's Spiritual Root and Cultivation Technique were all shackled within systems such as Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Darkness, Ice, etc., with distinct attributes and strict barriers.

Fire Spiritual Root Cultivators found it difficult to cultivate Water-type Cultivation Techniques, and Metal Spiritual Root bodies found it difficult to fuse with Wood-type Laws. Countless Geniuses were limited by their Spiritual Root attributes, their life paths were narrow, and bottom-level Cultivators were locked by their innate Spiritual Root, making it difficult to have a chance for a counterattack.

After promoting to a medium-sized world, the Heaven and Earth Laws were perfect and interconnected, the myriad Daos returned to one, and the barriers of Spiritual Root attributes completely melted away.

From then on, all living beings in the Tianyun Realm, regardless of their Spiritual Root, could be compatible with all Laws and practice any attribute Cultivation Technique.

The potential of a Cultivator was no longer shackled by attributes, but determined only by the purity, length, and thickness of their Spiritual Root.

This Heaven and Earth change completely rewrote the fate of bottom-level Cultivators and weak factions.

The shackles of birth that had been bound for hundreds of millions of years were broken, ordinary Cultivators were no longer cut off from the immortal path due to partial Spiritual Roots or single Cultivation Techniques, countless bottom-level Cultivators were able to break free from the limitations of destiny, possessing infinite possibilities for cultivation, and the vitality of the entire Cultivation World was completely rejuvenated.

In the myriad worlds of the heavens, the hierarchy is strict, and status is never eternal.

Within the universe system, worlds are divided into five grades, from low to high: Mortal Realm, micro worlds, Small Worlds, medium-sized worlds, and large worlds.

Every level of leap is a qualitative change in the world's Origin, a sublimation of the Heavenly Dao Laws, and an innovation in the paths of living beings.

Outside the Tianyun Realm is the boundless and mysterious Star Domain.

The Star Domain is not a single world, but a Supreme and grand system intertwined with billions of worlds, thousands of dimensions, and infinite Star Domains, encompassing everything and hiding all mysteries.

No one knows how vast the Star Domain is, and no one has explored how many alien beings, ancient races, and ancient Secret Realms are bred within it.

Since the world's promotion, the high-level Cultivators of the Tianyun Realm have become increasingly aware of their own insignificance.

In the depths of the Star Domain, there must exist countless top-tier large worlds far exceeding the Tianyun Realm; those worlds are far away, not even in the same galaxy or star system, hidden in the depths of the vast Void Realm, mysterious and powerful.

It is precisely because of this that generations of high-level Cultivators have never dared to stop their steps of conquest and promotion.

The Laws of the heavens are cruel and ruthless, and the survival of the fittest is the eternal truth.

Weak worlds are the most delicious Origin nourishment in the eyes of strong worlds.

Everyone knows clearly: if the Tianyun Realm stagnates and stops here, one day, it will be discovered by a more top-tier large world, becoming meat on the chopping block in others' mouths, Origin nourishment, and repeating the same mistakes of countless destroyed Small Worlds.

Eternal conquest is for self-preservation, and also for eternity.

Nowadays, after several iterations of the universe and territorial expansion, the seven small ancient continents that the Tianyun Realm only had ten billion years ago have long since completely transformed.

Now they have turned into seven majestic main continents, plus three hundred and sixty-six small continents, with a vast territory of billions upon billions of miles and myriad scenes.

In the authoritative list of the Tianyun Realm's comprehensive combat power, Foundation, and resources, the Tianling Continent where Huangfeng Prefecture is located is ranked 99th among the three hundred and sixty-six small continents, with an upper-middle Foundation; it is not top-tier, but it is by no means a barren land.

The Tianling Continent is vast, surrounded by endless seas on all sides, with vast oceans and misty waves.

Within the territory, two Supreme mountain ranges span across heaven and earth: the Endless Mountain Range runs east-west, and the Tianling Mountain Range runs north-south. The two giant ranges intersect and crisscross, each stretching for tens of billions of miles, with towering mountains and abundant Spiritual Veins, containing endless spiritual materials and Opportunities, supporting the entire continent's cultivation Foundation.

On the continent, there are many experts and strict factions, possessing three major four-star top-tier forces, namely: Tian Jian Sect, Earth Star Pavilion, and Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce.

The force rating of the Cultivation World has strict rules and harsh standards, and it is never fake:

A one-star force has the lowest threshold and needs to have more than five Foundation Establishment Cultivators and more than one hundred Qi Refining Cultivators to guard a small area.

A two-star force needs to have more than five Golden Core Cultivators and more than one hundred Foundation Establishment Cultivators, with a total number of Cultivators exceeding ten thousand, to control a region.

A three-star force dominates a prefecture and needs to have more than five Nascent Soul Cultivators and more than one hundred Golden Core Cultivators, with a total number of Cultivators exceeding one hundred thousand, making it a hegemon.

A four-star force shocks the continent, and the threshold is extremely harsh; it must have more than five Soul Transformation Cultivators and more than one hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators, with millions of Cultivators under its command, possessing monstrous Foundation, and is a top-tier giant sitting on the continent.