Creating Heavenly Laws

Chapter 408

Consciousness began to awaken. Lin Yuan gradually took control of the Martial Ancestor's golden body.

"Back in the Azure World..." Lin Yuan sent a thread of his spiritual energy into the Demon Tree. "The Ancestor Demon Tree is gravely injured?"

Just a brief scan revealed that the tree's injuries were deep and affected its very core. It was no wonder the message it had sent spoke of life and death for the Azure World.

"But it doesn't matter much," Lin Yuan thought to himself.

When the Martial Ancestor's golden body was being nurtured, the Ancestor Demon Tree had already become less important to him. The golden body had reached the eighth rank as soon as it was formed, surpassing the Ancestor Demon Tree even in its prime. After over 100,000 years of nurturing, the golden body had almost stepped into the ninth rank.

In other words, as long as Lin Yuan had half an hour, he could fully integrate with the Martial Ancestor's golden body.

Once he did, he would possess the basic strength of a ninth-rank being. With his profound understanding of the laws of the universe and his mastery of power, he could sweep through tenth-rank beings with ease. In a desperate fight, where he unleashed all his trump cards, he could even exert eleventh-rank power.

This golden body, nurtured over hundreds of thousands of years, was unfathomably strong. And with Lin Yuan, the creator of the martial path, taking control, he would be able to unleash its full potential.

Together, the combination of Lin Yuan and the golden body far surpassed the sum of its parts.

"Hmm?"

Lin Yuan fully connected with the Ancestor Demon Tree and began to absorb detailed information from the past hundreds of thousands of years.

Although he had received simplified reports from the Demon Tree while in the main universe, they were extremely brief—sometimes just a sentence to summarize major events. This was due to the difficulty of transmitting detailed information across dimensions, even with the Gate of the Myriad Realms as an intermediary.

Now, however, Lin Yuan could grasp every detail that had transpired.

"Hmm?"

"No wonder the Azure World attracted the attention of those two outer-realm evil gods, and why they invaded. No, this wasn't their idea—it was their master's."

With Lin Yuan's incredible processing speed, he absorbed hundreds of thousands of years' worth of information in just a dozen breaths.

He realized that the two evil gods who had attacked the Azure World had used techniques far beyond their strength to seriously injure the Ancestor Demon Tree and tear open the world's barrier. This confirmed that a much stronger evil god was behind them.

Based on the information Lin Yuan had gathered, the most powerful evil god in the nearby void had established a faction known as the "Black Demon Pavilion," and this being called himself the master of the pavilion, ruling over a large number of outer-realm evil gods.

There were, of course, other powerful evil gods scattered across the vast void, each establishing their own domains and factions.

"In the last several hundred thousand years, under my influence, the Azure World's essence has grown at least tenfold."

Through the perspective of the Ancestor Demon Tree, Lin Yuan observed the vast source energy of the Azure World. After replacing the world's heavenly law, he had begun tweaking the flow of its energy, ensuring it circulated more smoothly and efficiently.

After returning to the main universe, Lin Yuan had continued directing the Ancestor Demon Tree to refine the Azure World's energy circulation, modeling it after the main universe itself.

The main universe was incomparably vast, dwarfing both the Azure World and the endless void. Its source energy was managed far more efficiently than that of the Azure World.

The Azure World mimicking the main universe's energy flow wouldn't show results immediately, but over thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, the difference would become apparent.

Now, the Azure World's energy was ten times stronger than it had been hundreds of thousands of years ago. If not for the massive expenditure of energy required to nurture the Martial Ancestor's golden body, the difference might have been dozens or even a hundred times greater.

Such a drastic increase in energy naturally attracted the attention of the surrounding evil gods.

Originally, the Azure World's energy had been weak, and the Ancestor Demon Tree's presence had made it too costly to invade. Even if the evil gods had considered it, the price of conquering the world would have been too high.

But now, with the Azure World's energy tenfold stronger, it was an entirely different story.

The most critical issue was that the master of the Black Demon Pavilion likely wanted to understand how the Azure World had transformed so rapidly in just hundreds of thousands of years.

If this secret could be uncovered, it would significantly improve the efficiency with which they could devour the energy of other worlds.

That was why the Azure World had become a target.

"If it were the old Azure World, it would never have caught the attention of the Black Demon Pavilion's master."

"Although the world has been invaded, its inhabitants have not suffered any major losses."

Using the Demon Tree's perspective, Lin Yuan took on the role of the world's heavenly law, observing every detail of the realm.

The Demon Tree had acted quickly to command the inhabitants to gather around it for protection, preserving the majority of the Azure World's strength.

The entire Azure World trembled as the evil god entered, the land at the edges breaking apart.

On the other side, a second rift opened, as deep as an abyss, and a massive eye, surrounded by wings, began to push through, radiating an eerie, malevolent energy that quickly spread.

On the Crown Continent, within the Martial Hall, Qing Yao's face turned pale.

"This is bad."

She quickly stood up, sensing the terrifying presence of the two evil gods invading the world.

"There's no time to waste."

"We have to begin the sacrifice now."

Qing Yao immediately gave the order. Martial practitioners began gathering outside the Martial Hall, ready to be sacrificed to heal the Demon Tree's wounds.

They had long been prepared for this and were willing to die if it meant saving the Azure World.

"Martial Ancestor..."

"Please, Martial Ancestor, let this work."

Qing Yao was about to leave the hall to oversee the ritual when she turned to glance at the golden body she had revered her whole life.

Although the sacrifice of half the world's beings would heal the Demon Tree, there was no guarantee it would be enough to stop the evil gods.

After all, the Demon Tree had been struck down from its prime by these very gods, using some unknown means that had even torn the world's barrier apart.

However, when Qing Yao looked back, she froze in shock.

The golden body, which had stood in the deepest part of the hall for hundreds of thousands of years, had vanished.

"Where is the Martial Ancestor?"

Qing Yao was thunderstruck. The Martial Ancestor wasn't just her faith; he was the faith of the entire Azure World. His golden body disappearing was like the sky falling.

She staggered backward, ready to rush out and have the entire hall searched to find out who had taken the golden body.

But she stopped in her tracks.

Standing in front of the entrance to the Martial Hall was a towering man, his hands behind his back, looking out into the distance.

"You don't need to sacrifice half the world's beings," Lin Yuan said calmly, glancing at Qing Yao.

He was fully aware of her plan to sacrifice half the world's beings to heal the Demon Tree.

Naturally, he would not allow it. Half the world's beings? How many martial practitioners would that be?

"Martial Ancestor..."

Qing Yao trembled, tears welling up in her eyes.

The Martial Ancestor, the figure the people of the Azure World had worshipped for hundreds of thousands of years, had finally returned.

Lin Yuan, still facing away from her, took a step forward and exited the hall.

On the human world below, countless evil god puppets, which had been rampaging freely, were instantly obliterated. Crushed by an overwhelming force, they all vanished into nothingness, and their remaining essence was absorbed back into the Azure World.

The two evil gods, who had been pushing their way through the rift, suddenly sensed something.

They both turned their attention toward the Crown Continent, their expressions filled with fear. Without a moment's hesitation, they began to retreat, frantically trying to squeeze back through the cracks in the world's barrier.

The Martial Ancestor had left the hall and returned to the human world.

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