Chapter 259: Chapter 244: Chaos Demon God—That’s Us
"The Golden Achievement, God of Rivers and Big Clock... truly an unexpected joy."
Cyan Heaven Ning Xunqiu glanced at his available Fortune within the Immortal Slaying Sword Map.
[Fortune: 15919/&. ]
Ning Xunqiu returned ten thousand Fortune to Li Yanzhi.
After becoming Cyan Heaven, he studied his Golden Finger, the "Celestial Derivation Volume," or rather, its other name, [Daoist Divine Power·Qingxu Heavenly Dao].
Fortune is essentially "existence."
Shedding too much of one’s own "existence" might cause parts of Li Yanzhi’s "past names and deeds" to suddenly vanish at some point.
The consequences would be severe.
Li Yanzhi’s Great Dao would become incomplete, similar to his current state in "Cyan Heaven," which would be extremely difficult to repair.
Each Great Dao Divine has traces of two existences.
One past.
One present.
The deeds, true name, Dao title, and honorifics before attaining Dao exist in the past.
The Great Dao, Dao Lineage, Fortune, and disciples after attaining Dao exist in the present.
Great Dao Divines have no predetermined future.
Once they see a future that is set, it becomes a cycle, which is not a good thing; a cycle represents the prologue to "demise."
The "present" extending out is the "future," which can collapse into "established reality" at any moment.
While the "future" in the next moment is the "present."
For Great Dao Divines, the "past" is almost unshakable and serves as an anchor point of existence, which is why the Cyan Heaven Ancestral Dragon and the Three Saints of Divine Land protect the world.
Cyan Heaven Realm is their "past"!
The source from where it all began.
Without the past, there is no present; at best, the Great Dao remains incomplete, at worst, one perishes.
They exist in Void Chaos without perishing; the past, present, and future must coexist simultaneously for the "world" state to exist.
This highlights the importance of "names and past" before attaining Dao.
Red Flame Heavenly King Zhou Dingtian, Xuan Miao Celestial Emperor Li Yanzhi, Donghuang Taiyi, the Chaos Demon God Yellow Heaven, Wings of Freedom · Ethereum, etc., all belong to the past of Cyan Heaven Ning Xunqiu!
Every life’s name and journey is an anchor point.
The golden achievement in "God of Rivers and Big Clock" is another name given by those Great Dao Divines across the Ten Thousand Realms to the "Immortal Slaying Sword Map" and the "Donghuang Bell."
[Golden Life] is a fragment of "established reality" directly extracted from an "uncertain future" by the Daoist Divine Power·Celestial Derivation Volume.
The reason for obtaining "eight thousand nine hundred Fortune" out of thin air lies in the fact that these Great Dao Divines have existed for countless eons, and just remembering the existence of the "God of Rivers and Big Clock," "Time Demon God," and "Reversed Time" is enough.
The Fortune they can provide is far more terrifying than that of mere beings of a single world.
Every trace of life activity will give birth to a feeble "existence Fortune."
But ordinary means find it challenging to gather scattered Fortunes from other worlds.
——Profound Yellow Merit, Merit, Faith, Telekinesis, Karmic Force, Main God Points, etc., can all be classified as types of "Fortune."
The Main God dispatches apostles to smuggle into worlds, triggering specific tasks, acquiring particular items, or defeating certain figures... what is pilfered is a world’s future.
If one pilfers a stretch of future belonging to a Great Dao Divine, that value is immeasurable.
"...."
Li Yanzhi stared blankly as the "Celestial Derivation Volume" collapsed a "stretch of future" directly into "established reality."
At the moment when Taihua Realm, Star River Bell Civilization, and the Daluo Celestial Immortal were born in the Spring and Autumn Annals!
It might seem like thirty years passed in a glance, but in truth, eons could also pass just like that.
He became Cyan Heaven.
He, too, can presently infer a stretch of the future world and extract it out. But he cannot, like the Celestial Derivation Volume, collapse a certain past, present, or future stretch of life of All Heavens and Myriads of Realms into "established reality."
This equates to continually increasing one’s "past."
"Xuan Miao, Cyan Heaven, do you suppose that within Void Chaos, Chaos Demon Gods can truly be born?"
Donghuang Taiyi, standing by, gazed at the last piece of information emerging on the Celestial Derivation Volume and couldn’t help but frown slightly.
A Great Dao Divine who possesses the ability to reverse the time of "other worlds" similarly means one can erase the past of a Great Dao Divine, having the means to utterly vanquish them, naturally regarded as a taboo.
After transcending Dao in Dongyang Realm, he left all Fortune in the past.
Since leaving the world to travel, he has heard the syllable "Chaos Demon God" not just once.
Beyond the world, in Void Chaos, everything perishes. How could Chaos Demon Gods possibly exist?
Ning Xunqiu pondered for a moment and then spoke, "Perhaps by Chaos Demon Gods, they mean us, only previously, you were quite low-key, and your reputation hadn’t spread yet..."
Donghuang Taiyi was slightly startled and exchanged glances with Li Yanzhi and Ning Xunqiu.
They could exist freely in Void Chaos, capturing other worlds at whim. To the Great Dao Divines who aren’t able to leave their Origin Realm, wouldn’t they just be the "Chaos Demon Gods"?
Especially since "Chaos Demon Gods" enjoy invading worlds and becoming "Lords of the World," starting to cleanse the Great Dao Divines of those worlds.
And those Great Dao Divines, unable to leave their Origin Realm and unaware of the existence of "All Heavens and Myriads of Realms," would only regard Otherworldly Divines as the world-ending Demon Gods spawned from Void Chaos.
But...
Li Yanzhi suddenly said, "First, let’s help Cyan Heaven restore the Celestial Dao, before figuring out how to recover Cyan Heaven’s ’past’."
Donghuang Taiyi hesitated briefly and said no more.
The gaze of the three then fell upon Zhang Wei.
Within the Immortal Slaying Sword Map, the final segment of the "River of Destiny" entered the Taihua Realm.
....
Taihua Realm.
Zhang Wei, after thirty years of traversing time, attained Dao and became a Daluo Celestial Immortal who commands the Ten Thousand Laws.