All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes-Chapter 1623 - 362: Heavenly Ghost (1/5)

When the tree and abyss were simultaneously pierced, the Heavenly Sea began to boil.

Embracing the Void’s Heavenly Sea stretches across the Ten Continents, and beyond them, there are endless Heavenly Seas, infinite islands and continents. The Heavenly Sea is not entirely sea; it is time, space, the swirling Time Water, and also the Sanmei Divine Wind.

No one has truly reached the deepest part of the Heavenly Sea. Many martial artists, during their explorations, unconsciously reach the Netherworld due to the operation of Great Void Techniques, mistakenly believing the Netherworld is below the current realm — but in fact, the Netherworld is akin to overlapping pages of a book with the current realm, without a top or bottom, but rather front and back.

Thus, few have seen the ’back’ of the pages; few know the bottom of the Heavenly Sea.

But now, everyone has seen it.

At the instant Subdue Evil unsheathed, piercing through the Huai Xu Divine Wood and Huai Xu Saint Demon, the surface of the Heavenly Sea began to boil, for at its deepest part, the sea of endless possibilities was stirring. The dormant tides of chaos were swept by an unprecedented force, beginning to materialize as countless real flames, fierce winds, ice, and thunder.

And more terrifying things.

People believe they live in a solid reality world, like moss clinging to solid rock, but this is not so. The world is chaotic tides, intangible, formless, boundless power. It is the will of the Heavenly Dao that stabilizes chaos, the great axe that opens the heavens, dividing purity from turbidity, transforming into the eyes of the sun and moon, anchoring the heavens and earth with their gaze.

People actually live on solid ice; it is firm indeed, even surpassing solid rock, but if an excessively scorching force melts the ice, causing the heavens and earth to dissolve, then the world itself...

will melt too.

Just like this moment.

The Heavenly Sea, which seemed like seawater, began to boil, turning into steam, enveloping the entire Huai Xu Realm. The Ten Continents of the Huai Xu Realm, and even more expansive areas beyond, the islands and other uninhabited continents, began to converge.

Originally spanning the great continents, it was never mere seawater and distance, but rather the "infinite ambiguity, undetermined possibilities" represented by the Huai Xu Sky Sea. Thus, only the power supported by a Heavenly Venerate could cross it. But now, with all chaos being divided by the Heavenly Sword, naturally, the Ten Continents will converge, reverting to the original Pangu Ancient Land that the first Embracing the Void Great Immortal established upon initially opening the Void Dao Courtyard.

Huai Xu Continent.

[Order to all sects! In the name of the Embracing the Void Great Immortal’s direct transmission, primary line of the Dao Courtyard, ’Shangxuan Central Celestial Axis Law Sect’, all sects possessing Blessed Land and Cave Heaven, fully maintain the sect’s Great Formation. Martial Artists of True Lord level and above, immediately perform Great Heaven’s Sanctification, manifest your Daoist Form, and stabilize a portion of the world!]

As the Ten Continents rapidly approached each other, an urgent call and declaration echoed from the initially opened central land of Huai Xu, Zhongheng Dao Continent: [Protect as many ’lives’ as possible. As long as there is enough wisdom and will in an area, chaos will not erode!]

It’s somewhat lucky because of the Profound Heaven Great Tribulation, and the subsequent rampage of Heavenly Demons, the sects across the Ten Continents had already begun to gather the common people around their Mountain Gate Cave Heaven using Divine Dao skills and calm the heavens with the Faith Method. Now, it is merely a further progression, collecting them beside the Blessed Land and Cave Heaven.

But the unfortunate part is that those folk factions, even those not counted as Lower Sect, are struggling to protect themselves, let alone shield the surrounding populace. With the mist formed by the Heavenly Sea rising and spreading, some places in Huai Xu Ten Continents inevitably get shrouded in fog.

It’s just like certain tales of wonders, towns and regions falling into fog do not immediately face destruction. However, with the fear in people’s hearts, that unease, anxiety, and confusion spreading, monsters begin to appear in the mist.

These monsters are not Heavenly Demons, nor are they normal life forms. Each is bizarrely twisted, seemingly unreal, like curiosities walking out of stories, beginning to attack people.

These peculiar creatures have extremely unique abilities; some only knock on doors. As long as the door is not opened, they are absolutely harmless. But if the door opens, anyone lacking Great Heaven’s Sanctification and the ability to command the Great Heaven will undoubtedly perish—even a Divine Repository True Man can barely remain undying, but if time passes, inevitably will collapse and die.

Some aberrations can alter certain time and space, for instance, a deer on a street. The further it walks, the faster the flow of time, and someone might take only two steps on the road, with the surrounding time seeming frozen but it’s actually the pedestrian’s own time accelerating thousands and thousands of times, and at this point, it’s too late to turn back, accidentally becoming a dry corpse under the gaze of others.

Other oddities can lock time within a certain range into a fixed cycle, repeating infinitely until a remote endpoint that’s out of reach even for them. Anyone who accidentally trespasses becomes part of this cycle, ultimately thoroughly assimilated into an aberration.

This is the ’Chaos Disaster.’

Chaos is infinite possibilities, the Heavenly Dao determines all possibilities, thus strange beings hidden among the gaps lose their soil to manifest. However, if the Heavenly Dao loses power or cannot fulfill its duties, then the power inherent in the ’True Spirit of all beings’ will instead trigger terror from chaos.

In ancient times, these peculiar beings born from the mistake of the ’True Spirit’ were called ’ghosts.’

In some worlds, where the Heavenly Dao is not strong enough or eroded by Heavenly Demons, unable to fulfill its duties, these aberrations are nurtured. These aberrations are not Heavenly Demons; they can even eradicate some Heavenly Demons. What’s even more incredible is that the most powerful aberrations can become a certain order, known as ’Heavenly Ghost,’ the supreme, yet without a doubt, it is a world where countless living beings face suffering and struggle. Countless people will sacrifice to combat these aberrations originating from the Dao, and the final outcome is anything but optimistic. Even if a small number survive, they merely cling by a thread.

Indeed, some worlds ruled by rampant anomalies and Heavenly Ghosts are such that even Heavenly Demons cannot invade, but mutual loss itself is the triumph of Heavenly Demons.

And now, Embracing the Void, too, has momentarily fallen into this chaotic mist.

Only those with Great Heaven’s Sanctification, whose will can command part of the heavens, the Manifest Saint True Monarchs, can temporarily take over the responsibilities of the Heavenly Dao to block these peculiarities.

But the number a True Monarch can shield remains limited. There are still many who remain unprotected, merely watching in fear as the mist envelops them.

Still, no one has died.