Chapter 736 - 47: Higher-Dimensional Contact, Evolution of Heaven and Earth

Chapter 736: Chapter 47: Higher-Dimensional Contact, Evolution of Heaven and Earth

Rumble rumble rumble...

The same scene was occurring not only within the Netherworld, but also in the present world.

When the reflection of that dead and silent world appeared in the sky, everyone, without prior agreement, halted what they were doing.

That was an unnameable thing located beyond the two realms, within the chaos.

Well-informed Pathfinders and Celestial Gods were unwilling to even call it a "world."

Because it had only erected the framework and embryonic outline of a world, and nothing else.

The most crucial point was that that dead world did not merely appear in the sky.

Or, to be more precise, that dead world had appeared upon the outer wall of the world.

It appeared upon the firmament, upon the earth, upon every observable place within the range of sight.

Ordinary people could not see the depths beneath the earth, but Celestial Gods and Pathfinders could.

In their field of vision, the emergence of that dead world affected not only the present world and the Netherworld; even the River of Time was once again shaken by its appearance.

"What... is that?"

Instinctively ceasing all attacks, the smallest Golden Crow let out a cry of alarm.

"Is that... another world?"

Also stopping her actions, Heng’e had, without anyone noticing, quietly appeared above the Great Golden Crow’s head.

Though phrased as a question, when Heng’e asked this, her gaze never once left the Great Golden Crow.

Even now, Heng’e still firmly believed that the Great Golden Crow absolutely held some means of contacting Emperor Hao.

Even if one took a step back, he must at least know what this scene now unfolding truly signified.

"Father, as a Celestial God, has most likely failed in his ascension."

As expected by Heng’e, the Great Golden Crow spoke after a brief silence.

Following close behind Heng’e, Lu Ya also appeared beside the two of them, likewise staring at this scene with a look of sheer horror.

This was the collision of world with world, the contact of high dimension with high dimension.

The higher one’s rank, the stronger one’s perception; and the more terrifying the phenomena one could sense.

Stepping beyond the bounds of the world, standing upon the River of Time, and even higher dimensions to overlook this realm, one could see clearly that three worlds were overlapping in a bizarre fashion.

The present world, the Netherworld, and that suddenly emergent world-embryo...

Yes, in the eyes of most Pathfinders, including Lu Ya, that was merely a world-embryo that might vanish at any moment.

Just as most people were still in a state of confusion, a point of light suddenly shone forth from within that world-embryo.

Whoosh!

That point of light emerged from nothing, from small to vast.

It expanded at an almost inconceivable speed, and very quickly spread throughout the entire world.

Because at this moment the three worlds were overlapping in some eerie manner, that point of light effectively covered all three worlds at once.

Everyone felt heat from that point of light; they felt life.

For that was the radiance of the sun—moreover, the radiance of a sun greater than any before.

One must know that even if that dead world possessed only a single dimension, it was still an enormous world almost beyond verbal description.

For a sun’s light to illuminate an entire world, the magnitude of its body could well be imagined.

Of course, such an immense volume naturally brought about an unimaginable collapse.

At every moment, the core of the sun was collapsing into a black hole that devoured all things, yet it was propped up by a force even mightier.

Before everyone could search for the origin of that force, Emperor Hao’s figure appeared at the very core of that blazing mass.

Whoosh!

Standing within the core of the sun, Emperor Hao had already transformed into a giant who propped up heaven and trod upon earth.

"Head against the sky, feet upon the earth" was, here, no longer a mere figure of speech, but an utterly literal description.

Because his form was simply too immense, his image, reflected into the actual world, presented a scene of majestic grandeur.

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"So, this is the reason you forcibly blocked his path?"

Raising her head to gaze at that dead world, Houtu seemed to understand somewhat why the Lord of the Mansion had returned ahead of time.

This Emperor Hao was truly too mad.

Mad enough to forcibly open up a new world for the sake of his own ascension.

More importantly, the world Emperor Hao was opening was not perfect.

After all, he was not a true creator; being able, in the identity of the Sun God, to perform the Opening of Heaven and Earth and create a world-embryo was already exaggerated enough.

Yet within this world, more Dao paths were still needed to fill it before it could truly begin to operate.

For a world, mere sky, earth, and sun were far from sufficient.

In truth, if Emperor Hao’s goal had not been ascension, he could have entirely followed the example of the Lord of the Mansion back then.

He could have slowly assembled the framework of the world, letting this dead world gradually nurture life like the Netherworld, until it became a truly complete world.

Unfortunately, the time required for this process was far too long.

So long that even a being like the Lord of the Mansion, born at the dawn of heaven and earth, had spent billions of years to bring the Netherworld to its present scale.

Not to mention that, back then, in order to let the Netherworld nurture life, the methods of the Lord of the Mansion had been in no way less cruel than those of Emperor Hao.

The Ancient Gods he slaughtered, the Great Celestial God’s Souls he collected, were all excellent examples.

It was precisely because he had personally gone through it that the Lord of the Mansion understood better than anyone what Emperor Hao now intended.

To hasten the formation of a world, those Pathfinders who had already attained Dao paths were far more useful than those proto-concept incarnations, the Ancient Gods of the past.

Each Pathfinder, each Dao path, was the embodiment of a complete concept.

So long as enough Dao paths were used to fill the new world, that world could directly skip the first billions of years of evolution.

"Emperor Hao is still too impatient..."

With a faint sigh, the Lord of the Netherworld’s enormous face manifested in midair.

"He had already gone farther than I; next, he only needed to proceed in an orderly fashion and await the evolution of heaven and earth, and he could have allowed the new world to naturally brim with life."

"In the words of that Tao Ancestor, ’the Great Dao has been completed, and the Heavenly Dao has just emerged.’"

"What follows—’one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things’—is a process that unfolds as a matter of course; one need only wait in stillness."

At this point, the Lord of the Mansion’s voice paused slightly.

"Yet he could not restrain himself from trying to skip this step..."

"For this, even if it meant incurring boundless slaughter, plundering ten thousand Dao paths, and destroying the future of the Yin and Yang Realms, he did not hesitate."

The Lord of the Mansion’s words were in no way an exaggeration; the large-scale disappearance of Pathfinders from past, present, and future was bound to have an unimaginable impact upon the future River of Time.

Moreover, what Emperor Hao did was not merely to kill the incarnations of those Pathfinders in this era, but to plunder the very foundations of their attainment of Dao, using them to fill the rules of the new world.

"Now... he is paying the price for what he has done..."

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