From Yun Wuji's understanding, there were two ways to repair the broken laws. The first was to restore them manually and little by little, a painstaking process that needed an extremely deep comprehension of the Law of Nothingness, along with immense cultivation and a powerful soul to sustain the strain.
Aside from Yun Wuji, Yun Wuying could accomplish this as well. However, with her current strength, completing such a task would take an extraordinary amount of time before she could truly succeed.
The second method was far more extreme. It involved resetting everything by using the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword to kill the Heaven's Way itself and return all things to the very beginning. With the destruction of the old Heaven's Way, a new one would be born, and along with it, new laws would be established to stabilize the situation.
However, this method is unimaginably destructive. In fact, it was the very reason the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword was created by the Ancestral Goddess in the first place.
The Ancestral Sword and the Evil Infant Wheel were the two 'correction devices' the Ancestral Goddess left behind for 'Purification of All Creations'. One was meant to purify the turbid souls of the world. The Ancestral Sword was meant to slay a flawed Heaven's Way.
Destroying the Heaven's Way would unleash catastrophic devastation, implicating the vast majority of living beings and wiping most of them out in the process.
This was what the old Sword Spirit told Mo E, words that pushed him to ambush Jie Yuan and banish her from the Primal Chaos, cast his own son into the Abyss, fight Ni Xuan, and split the young and innocent Ni Jie into two.
Yun Wuji possessed both artifacts, but he obviously had no intention of using the Heaven Punishing Sword.
Under the gaze of everyone present, a deep and resplendent golden light burst from his body. The radiance spread outward with him at the center, then surged vertically, linking the ground and the sky as it expanded.
In moments, it formed a massive pillar that connected heaven and earth with Yun Wuji as its core.
The pillar was incomparably thick and blindingly bright, so radiant that it dyed the entire sky gold. It could be seen from an immeasurable distance, so brilliant that the trillions watching from the Eternal Light Divine Kingdom and the surrounding realms were forced to shield their eyes, overwhelmed by its splendor.
Within the pillar of light, Yun Wuji's appearance transformed. His hair turned a deep gold, flowing like liquid sunlight. His eyes remained silver, now carrying a faint golden hue within their depths. He appeared both majestic and regal, his presence pressing down on heaven and earth. Most terrifying of all was his cultivation, which rose at a shocking speed, climbing higher and higher until it finally stabilized at the 8th level of the Creation God Realm.
This was likely the first time he had seriously used Invictus since arriving in the Abyss. In terms of the cultivation realm alone, he had already surpassed the four Creation Gods and the Devil Emperors. As for battle strength, even the Ancestral Goddess at her peak could not match him.
Yun Wuji's eyes were devoid of emotion. All his attention and senses were focused on the task at hand, which was the side effect of Invictus. Golden light continued to expand outward at a rapid pace, quickly enveloping the Eternal Light Divine Kingdom before accelerating further.
In a matter of seconds, the entirety of the Abyss was bathed in deep gold. In this state, Yun Wuji began to perceive the fragile and fractured laws of this world. They were so weak and frail that it was a miracle the process of destruction had not already begun.
By his estimation, it would take at most a few thousand years before the Abyss started to crumble and fall apart.
When the Ancestral Goddess created the world, its foundation was built upon five primary laws: the Law of Water, the Law of Fire, the Law of Wind, the Law of Lightning, and the Law of Earth.
Above them stood the Law of Light, which represented Life, and the Law of Darkness, which embodied Death.
Higher still were the Law of Space, governing Dimension, and the Law of Time, governing Reincarnation. These were the supreme laws of creation, standing above all elemental laws.
Finally, there was the origin of them all, the law that stood above even the supreme laws, the Law of Nothingness. Since time immemorial, only three beings had been able to control it, the Ancestral Goddess, Yun Wuji, and Yun Wuying.
All other laws were derived, directly or indirectly, from these fundamental principles.
The Law of Time was one of the laws the Ancestral Goddess enforced most strictly. When Mo Su created the Cradle, he defied the established order, and that act led to the deterioration of the laws themselves. The first sign of this decay was the rare appearance of the Black Tides of Time, phenomena that distorted the temporal flow between the Primal Chaos and the Abyss, sometimes accelerating it to ten times its normal speed and at other times slowing it down unpredictably.
In the beginning, the Black Tides appeared only once every several hundred thousand years. Later, their frequency increased to once every hundred years.
From Yun Wuji's observation, the Law of Time was the most fragmented and severely damaged of them all. The other laws were also affected, but none had suffered to the same extent as the Law of Time.
When he tried to interact with it, it felt too frail. Yun Wuji had to mend it with extreme care before he could even turn his attention to the other laws. Fortunately, his comprehension of the Law of Nothingness and his power had risen dramatically since arriving in the Abyss. Aside from his own relentless effort, he also had to thank Yun Wuying's 'help'... hehehe.
In Yun Wuji's vision, white gray lines stretched across the entirety of the Abyss, threading through every inch of it. Some were thick and prominent, others were as thin as your wiwi.
These were all fragments of the Law of Time. To remain on the cautious side, he began with the smallest strands; if something went wrong, the damage and repercussions would be limited and manageable.
The process of repairing the first fragment was slow. It lasted more than an hour before he finally completed it, largely because he was proceeding with extreme caution.
Since the moment he was born, Yun Wuji had been preparing for this day, the day he would clean up the shit others had caused so he could finally live in peace. He had long been ready for everything that might follow.
After mending the first thread, with his frightening genius, he gained a deeper grasp of the process. The second thread took less than a minute. The third was completed in a single second.
After that, he began repairing multiple threads at the same time.
At first, he repaired two at once. Then it became ten, then one thousand, then one hundred thousand, then ten million. The more he repaired, the more skilled and proficient he became, until he was confident enough to divide his attention among all the remaining threads and restore them simultaneously.
While Yun Wuji focused on repairing the broken laws, all the citizens across the entire Abyss, even those who had not attended the Coronation, watched the gigantic pillar from afar. They stared at the sky glowing with deep golden light. Under that radiance, everything appeared to be forged from gold. Their vision perceived only the same regal and luxurious golden color.
The number of threads spreading across the entire universe was terrifyingly uncountable. Even as Yun Wuji's efficiency increased exponentially, it still took him over a week to finish. Throughout the entire process, he did not move a single inch. His face remained impassive and indifferent. Because he stood unmoving, the countless onlookers did not dare to stir. More accurately, they were too focused on what was unfolding to even consider moving or looking away.
They were cultivators, not humans on Earth with severe ADHD and the attention span of a goldfish who could not remain focused for two freaking minutes.
Rumble!
A sudden rumbling shook the entirety of the Abyss, though it lasted only a short moment. When it passed, Yun Wuji finally moved. He raised his hand and pointed toward the sky. A golden vortex appeared above the capital city, slowly expanding until it covered the entire sky above it.
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Rumble! Rumble!
At the same time, back in the Primal Chaos, more precisely within the God Realm of Absolute Beginning.
The God Realm of Absolute Beginning had been created by the Ancestral Goddess to separate the World of Existence from the World of Extinction.
Months had passed in the Abyss, but only a few days had gone by here. During those few days, the Abyss of Nothingness, a place no one dared to step into, had undergone an indescribable and unimaginable transformation. The gray haze that once permeated its vast expanse had completely faded, leaving behind only boundless darkness stretching infinitely ahead.
With the disappearance of the Abyssal Dust, the only remaining threat within the Abyss of Nothingness was its terrifying pulling force, powerful enough to drag even a Creation God, down to the bottom.
"What's going on?"
The Dragon Emperor of Absolute Beginning, the strongest being in the God Realm of Absolute Beginning and its guardian, reacted instantly. He rose into the air, and in the next moment his massive pupils shrank to the limit as he stared at the scene ahead. He was still extremely far from the Abyss of Nothingness, but even from that distance, he could clearly see what was happening.
A vast golden vortex had appeared out of nowhere. It was expanding at an alarming speed. Right before his eyes, it swallowed the space that had once been the Abyss of Nothingness.
The other dragons shot into the air one after another, their expressions mirroring the Dragon Emperor's shock. One of the Dragon Kings could not help but shout out loud.
"What in the Great Emperor is going on?!"
Under the Dragon Emperor's lead, they rushed toward the scene to investigate. At the same time, one dragon broke away and sped toward the Limitless Emperor City. Only the Great Limitless Emperor Yun could deal with whatever the fuck was happening right now, whether it turned out to be a blessing or a disaster.
"Strange, something is coming from this vortex."
When they approached the gigantic golden vortex, the Dragon Emperor opened his massive jaws and spoke in a low voice. A dense aura poured from within, one that felt as though it belonged to a plane far higher than even the highest plane in the Primal Chaos. The longer he stared at it, the more it resembled the vortex that connected the God Realm to the God Realm of Absolute Beginning, only vastly larger in scale.
At first, the aura flowing out of the vortex was dense but slow, like a restrained tide. Soon, its speed began to increase. In a matter of minutes, it flooded the entire surrounding region and continued to spread across the God Realm of Absolute Beginning. Some of it even spilled beyond its boundaries and surged toward the God Realm as well.
Then, as the Dragons of Absolute Beginning watched the vortex with full vigilance, awaiting word from the Limitless Emperor City, a figure suddenly stepped out from within the golden vortex.
"E-Emperor! The Great Emperor!"
The instant Yun Wuji appeared, the Dragons dropped to their knees without hesitation. None of them had forgotten the 'deep' lesson he had carved into their souls when he branded them with the Limitless Agony Soul Mark in the past. Even though he later removed it, how could they ever forget that kind of pain?
"Rise."
Yun Wuji swept them with a casual glance and spoke lightly. He then lifted his head and looked toward the sky, sensing the aura seeping from the vortex as it flowed from the Abyss back into the Primal Chaos.
Even if he extracted every last bit of energy from the Abyss and returned it to the Primal Chaos, it would never return to its peak during the Primordial Era. Still, it would be more than enough to accommodate the people of the Abyss. After all, many of them had reached the Divine Extinction Realm.
As for restoring the energies to their former peak, that would require time. Perhaps a few years. But he would accomplish it. He had once promised his deceased father-in-law, the Primordial Azure Dragon God, that he would make the Primal Chaos great again.
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After instructing the Dragons of Absolute Beginning not to panic, he stepped back into the vortex and returned to the Abyss.
The process of repairing the broken Laws had taken more than a week to complete, but such a feat was inconceivably fast. If it had been someone else, for example, Yun Wuying, it would have required at least hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps even millions. Yun Wuji had accomplished it only because of his frightening genius.
With the restoration of the laws and the opening of a stable channel to the Primal Chaos, Yun Wuji informed everyone that before migrating there, they would need to wait for a period of time. The world on the other side was still extremely fragile and could not withstand the presence of anyone above the Divine Master Realm.
Afterward, the coronation concluded. Yun Wuji returned to his Divine Temple with his wives and did what he did every night... having a freaking orgy!
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