105: Nine Deaths, Divine Wonders, Lingxiao Heavenly Court
Each of the great leaders was connected to the Profoundly Marvelous and Sacred source of a certain law of the Vast Great Thousand World.
Their individual injuries represented tremors throughout the Vast Great Thousand World... When the Qilin God died, all beasts and demons rose up, but most lost their sanity and attacked wildly.
The scent of blood permeated the Vast Great Thousand World.
When the Earth Master was beaten, it resulted in earth-shattering quakes and earthquakes.
When the Star Mother was beaten, it caused stars to sway, fall, and collide.
The Spirit Saint represented intelligence; losing one's mind and becoming foolish was a manifestation of the Spirit Saint's injury.
The sky shattering, blood rain falling, and thunder indicated Jade Emperor Haotian's plight.
The inverted Weak River and violent storms represented the Water Lord.
When the Fire Ancestor was struck, the fire first cooled, and then it became towering, enraged flames...
The battle lasted for a very long time, and the Vast Great Thousand World was a scene of utter apocalypse, with lives plunged into misery.
However, the descendants of several Divine Beings brazenly gathered various forces, constantly expanding their power.
Of course, this excluded Ursa Major.
The Earth Master's descendant, born in an era of continuous warfare, was naturally belligerent, but this was not a battle he could participate in.
You gave him a dao heart tree seed and sent him off to cultivate and seclude himself properly.
One hundred years after you awoke, the war was still ongoing, the earth was crumbling, the sky was tearing, stars were colliding, living beings were mindless, water and fire were merciless, infernal species arrived on the surface, celestial gods fell into the Underworld, stars were pushed to the edge of the Vast Great Thousand World, and the Vast Great Thousand World was expanding.
But Divine Authority was dispersed.
The Demon Venerable also seemed to have been beaten, as various demonic thoughts and demon spawn ran rampant.
One hundred and fifty years after you awoke.
The Underworld was ground down, the Netherworld shattered, transforming into eighteen large Netherworld fragment worlds, and countless small Netherworld worlds, scattered across the boundless Vast Great Thousand World.
The Duke of the Underworld abandoned his physical body, with only one eye and a head remaining as he returned to the Netherworld.
From then on, the Duke of the Underworld retreated into invisibility.
Yama officially began to take charge of the Underworld, and his first act was to cast all of his foster father's demon spawn into purgatory and hell.
They were subjected to endless torture.
His first step ashore was to stab his foster father!
Subsequently, the Spirit Saint was torn apart!
The Profoundly Marvelous source of intelligence shattered across the Vast Great Thousand World from then on.
All countless spirits felt their minds clear, becoming smarter.
Haotian could not withstand the pressure and merged with the Heavenly Dao!
It was an alternative path to enlightenment, yet without transcendence!
It was a state beyond Divine Marvel, with the Dao Fruit not yet complete.
After his battle power greatly increased, his first act was to strike the Star Mother into eternal oblivion, exiling her true spirit.
Afterward, the Fire Ancestor perished, and the Water Lord sought to merge with the Dao, but dissolved into the Dao and died.
The Demon Venerable was defiant but could not win, so he opened his own demon realm, merging with it and disappearing.
From then on, he no longer appeared in the Vast Great Thousand World, unless it was for the purpose of the demon realm becoming the Vast Great Thousand World, and the Vast Great Thousand World becoming the demon realm, thereby achieving transcendence into the Dao.
The Earth Master was defiant! The Vast Continent crumbled.
Ultimately, the Earth Master merged with the Vast Earth.
Gathering boundless divine power, he transformed into the divine office of the Earth God, neither fully dead nor alive, and also fell into eternal oblivion.
Haotian ultimately was not the victor either, and he also fell into slumber to resist the Heavenly Dao's encroachment on his intelligence.
Before falling asleep, he instructed the Jade Emperor to command all spirits to constantly worship Haotian, with a minor ritual every hundred years, a major ritual every thousand years, and a grand heaven and earth ritual every ten thousand years!
This was to anchor his own intelligence.
The Nine Divine Marvels thus withdrew from the stage of history.
The remaining Divine Beings were also few.
However, there were still many Primordial Creatures who could naturally become gods; the era of gods had not yet disappeared.
The Jade Emperor promoted the Imperial Court to ascend to the heavens, merging with the Heavenly Court, and proclaimed himself the Jade Emperor Haotian Great Emperor!
He usurped the source of worship, becoming the worshipped deity of all beings!
Polaris and Yama took up residence in the Zixiao Heavenly Court; it turned out they had already collaborated before.
Or rather, they were also one of the masterminds behind the Great Divine Marvel War.
Ursa Major was invited to ascend to the heavens because they all came from the same mother.
The first battle of the Zixiao Heavenly Court was to annihilate the Divine Court held by the nine descendants of the Qilin God.
None of the nine Qilin God's sons escaped.
The Jade Emperor and other demigods of the Zixiao Heavenly Court invited many Primordial Sacred Deities to join and issued dissolution orders to the other seven Divine Courts.
Otherwise, they would attack their mountains and destroy their temples.
Several Divine Beings, represented by the Crow God, wished to nominate you as the second-generation Earth Master, to take charge of the Earthly Court.
You quickly refused and advised them to disband immediately, but they refused to listen and tried to forcefully support you.
You quickly packed your bags and ran away.
Forget it!
That's asking for death! The names of several Great Emperors sounded formidable, and how could your peaceful life of sleeping be easily changed!
Absolutely impossible!
Moreover, relying on your previous connections with them, you could remain at peace if you weren't enemies.
If you became enemies, they would turn their backs on the tree!
You took the last legacy bestowed upon you by Big Brother Earth Master and fled overnight.
The Divine Office of Earth Veins!
In your opinion, it was just the divine office of a local Earth God!
However, this initial divine office managed a Vast domain, roughly the geographical Divine Authority of a star-sized area.
You opened up a blessed land and grotto-heaven in an unknown place.
You concealed the Dao of Divinity's laws.
You created a secluded Willow Garden, deciding to take root there and watch the clouds gather and disperse.
You did not choose to sleep immediately.
After all, the Earthly Court consisted of some old friends.
Hmm, friends you had met a few times after waking up... If they were truly stubborn and died, you could at least witness their deaths.
It was impossible to avenge them, and you weren't that close anyway.
As for saving them, that was even more impossible!
How good it would be if they died; they would learn their lesson in the next reincarnation.
However, thankfully, the Crow God and his group were not that stubborn; they surrendered very quickly!
They even held important positions... Indeed, they were trying to trick you!
The Nine Divine Courts became a thing of the past.
The Zixiao Heavenly Court became the sole Divine Court of the Vast Great Thousand World!
It hung high in the supreme heavens, ruling over the Vast Great Thousand World!
However, the current Vast Great Thousand World was in ruins, and the aftermath of the Nine Divine Marvels' demise would require a long time for the Zixiao Heavenly Court to address.
Seeing that the major events after this awakening were basically over, it was time to return to the embrace of sleep!
You hadn't reached your growth limit yet, and it wasn't time to cultivate!
You would talk about cultivation after sleeping your way into becoming a Profoundly Marvelous and Sacred being!
So, you scattered three dao heart tree seeds, letting them drift with the wind, and then entered dreamland.
This time, you wanted to raise the stakes, hoping to watch a few more live movies of the Vast Great Thousand World when you woke up next...
...
Three hundred thousand years later, you felt that your sleep was truly restless, so you awoke.
Upon waking, you calculated that only a little over three hundred thousand years had passed.
This dream was indeed quite short.
You felt that the quality of your sleep this time was not good, and you didn't know why.
However, when you habitually checked the dao heart tree sea for tree seeds.
You discovered that there were already three, and they were all dao heart tree seeds that had been scattered not long ago!
And after you finished examining the stories of the three dao heart tree seed hosts, you knew the reason why...