138: Chapter 138 Demon Devours Living Beings - Lamentations Everywhere

Jiang Chen was neither a compassionate father nor a mentor. He would not wait for anyone to grow up, nor would he personally cultivate anyone. He gave only two paths: either rise amidst blood and fire, or perish in silence!

This might seem cold and heartless, but compared to the primitive laws of the Honghuang World, it was already the height of benevolence—for he had, after all, given the human race a chance.

Whether they could seize it depended entirely on the human race itself!

Suddenly, Jiang Chen let out a low shout, and a monstrous dark power surged from within him: the resentment of all living beings, the killing intent of the battlefield, the inner demons of cultivation... all sorts of negative sources converged, twisting and blending, finally condensing into a hideous beast of terrifying appearance.

"I bestow upon you the name: Extraterrestrial Celestial Demon. From this day forth, you shall command the Tribulation of Chaos, specializing in the tempering of the human race!" Jiang Chen said indifferently.

"As you command, Master!"

"As you command, Master!"

The giant beast transformed into a sinister-looking old man who bowed deeply, his aura as cold and deep as an abyss.

"Go. There is no need for mercy. Do your utmost to plunge the entire Supreme Great Universe into dark turmoil!"

Jiang Chen waved his sleeve lightly, and the old man immediately turned into a mass of pitch-black clouds, breaking through the atmosphere and flying toward the vast starry sky.

"Jie jie jie—"

An eerie laughter echoed through the All Heavens and Myriad Realms, resonating between every star. Countless living beings suddenly felt a chill in their hearts, as if doomsday were approaching.

The Extraterrestrial Celestial Demon floated in the sea of stars, his ugly face showing a look of greed. His scarlet tongue slowly licked the corner of his lips as he whispered grimly, "Master ordered me to temper you... In that case, let the darkness descend completely."

Roar—!

"Awaken! My children! Follow me to devour the light and ignite the fires of rage!"

Rumble—

In an instant, the Immortal Realm, the Supreme Realm, and the All Heavens and Myriad Domains shook once again. The resentment, baleful energy, and obsessions drifting through the various realms gathered frantically, condensing into Extraterrestrial Celestial Demons of various forms.

Resentment became their soldiers, and malevolence their armor. Every Celestial Demon emitted suffocating waves of evil. Piercing screeches rang through heaven and earth, and billions of living beings turned pale, fleeing in terror.

"What... what are these things!"

"It's flying over! No! Don't come near me!"

"Run away, quickly!"

"Save me! Someone, please save me!"

...

Endless Extraterrestrial Celestial Demons appeared in every major world, slaughtering wantonly and devouring life. Wherever they passed, wails resounded everywhere.

Even Immortal Emperors and Supremes who had been in seclusion for ten thousand years were helpless against these formless and intangible existences. The Celestial Demons had no physical bodies; they would reform immediately after being dispersed. Only by completely annihilating their origin could they be eradicated.

Every single world was infested, and the higher the level of the world, the more powerful the Extraterrestrial Celestial Demons it birthed, possessing monstrous ferocity.

In particular, the Extraterrestrial Celestial Demons that descended upon the Supreme Realm actually possessed terrifying strength comparable to Daluo Golden Immortals.

One must know that the top powerhouses of the Supreme Realm had a cultivation limit of only the Great Perfection of the Taiyi Golden Immortal. When facing these demonic creatures from beyond the heavens, they had no power to resist, only able to flee in all directions or fall on the spot.

Time flew by like a shuttle, and in the blink of an eye, ten thousand years had passed.

During these ten thousand years, nearly half of the life in the entire Supreme Great Universe had perished, and even many existences at the Taiyi Golden Immortal level were not spared.

The invasion of the Extraterrestrial Celestial Demons plunged the world into boundless darkness. For all living beings, this was an unprecedented catastrophe.

However, opportunities were also hidden within the disaster. During this period, the cultivation speed of living beings significantly increased, and many people broke through the shackles of their realms one after another.

Among them, the human race was particularly prominent. All those who broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm would ascend to the Human Race Ancestral Land in the Honghuang World.

In just over ten thousand years, tens of thousands of people had successfully ascended, far exceeding the normal promotion speed of previous long eras.

However, those who could step onto the path of ascension were all those who had struggled out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, having undergone tests of life and death before being able to transcend.

As for the Earth where Jiang Chen and Nuwa were located, after ten thousand years of evolution, humans had long since entered a cultivation civilization. Powerhouses appeared one after another, gradually breaking free from the planet's constraints and stepping into the vast and unpredictable starry universe.

Nowadays, the humans of Earth had completely taken control of the Milky Way. Cultivators riding flying swords were often seen traveling back and forth in the starry sky, a magnificent and shocking sight.

Earth, the summit of Mount Tai.

Jiang Chen slowly opened his eyes, a sharp light flashing through them for an instant.

"Have you gained anything?" Nuwa asked with a smile.

Jiang Chen nodded slightly and smiled calmly: "I have comprehended half a percent, but that is already enough."

During these ten thousand years, he had secretly manipulated the fate trajectories of countless cosmic beings, attempting to glimpse the true essence of the Great Dao of Fate.

Originally ordinary lives had their fates completely rewritten under his intervention, heading toward entirely different paths.

For example, there was a human named Shi Hao, born a monstrous genius with a Supreme Bone, yet he suffered the calamity of having his bone stolen, becoming a crippled person.

According to his original fate, this life was destined to be mediocre.

But with Jiang Chen's intervention, Shi Hao defied his fate, rising from his broken body to become the Emperor Huangtian, who shook the past and present. He suppressed turmoil, annihilated the darkness, and left behind immortal legends, eventually ascending to the Immortal Realm to fight across the heavens...

Shi Hao was only one of them; there was also a shepherd boy named Li Qiye.

His original fate was destined to be a lifetime of herding sheep, dying of old age in the mountains.

Jiang Chen deliberately cast his flock of sheep into a bizarre forbidden land called the 'Immortal Demon Cave,' forcing Li Qiye to go deep in search of his sheep.

In the cave, he was refined by the cave master into a Dark Crow, gaining incredible power.

After hundreds of millions of years of tempering, Li Qiye finally broke free from control, transforming into a supreme powerhouse capable of rivaling Emperor Huangtian.

Existences like Shi Hao and Li Qiye, who should have been obscure, had their fates overturned due to Jiang Chen's intervention, achieving startling legends.

Tampering with fate time and again, and deducing trajectories over and over, hard work finally paid off—Jiang Chen had now touched the threads of the Great Dao of Fate.

As long as he followed this clue, he could follow the vine to the melon and step into the depths of the River of Fate.

This was like a key to open the door of fate; in the past, he had searched for it bitterly, but now it was already held in his palm.

Seeing his composed expression and the smile on his lips, Nuwa also said happily, "Then let's return to Honghuang."

"Good."

Outside the Supreme Great Universe.

The figures of Jiang Chen and Nuwa appeared within the Small Chaos.

"Time really does pass quickly," Nuwa sighed softly, looking at the vast universe before her.

"In ten years, one can observe the changing of spring and autumn; in a hundred years, one can experience birth, old age, sickness, and death; in a thousand years, one can witness the rise and fall of dynasties; in ten thousand years, one can know the shifting of the stars."

"And all of this, in our eyes, is but a fleeting moment," Jiang Chen said calmly.

Nuwa turned her head to look at him and asked in a low voice, "What about us? Are we also just a fleeting moment?"

Jiang Chen was slightly taken aback, then shook his head with a shallow smile: "Perhaps so. Before the Great Dao, everything we experience is like a spark from a flint. Precisely because of this, only by transcending reincarnation and attaining the eternal Dao can we truly escape this 'fleeting' fate."

The Honghuang World.

Since the defeat of the Heavenly Dao in the great battle of the East, both the Eastern and Western Primordial Worlds were taken over by the Pangu Clan.

To stabilize their rule, a large number of Pangu Clan members left the ancestral land and migrated to the East and West to spread their branches and leaves.

Among them, the Three Pure Ones led thirty percent of the clansmen to move into the Eastern Primordial World, using Kunlun Mountain as the center to expand their territory in all directions.