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Heaven and Earth began to evolve.
Su Yu merged with Heaven and Earth, taking control of them as he sensed the self-perfection of the many Great Daos he had comprehended.
At the moment when the numerous laws he had perceived intertwined and formed a complete whole—giving birth to a self-sustaining world—his Dao also began to evolve independently.
"My Dao has matured. It can now grow on its own," Su Yu remarked with a sense of awe.
However, shortly after this fleeting moment of emotion, his expression grew serious.
He felt a strong resistance—an oppressive force—a looming sense of annihilation.
The Dao of Fate issued frenzied warnings. A dreadful premonition surged through his heart.
Su Yu's form, fused with Heaven and Earth, reappeared once more as he gazed into the depths of the Chaos.
At that moment, within the sphere of Heaven and Earth's influence, an area of what was once utterly chaotic—devoid of order or concept—began to exhibit structure. It resembled the outer boundary Su Yu had seen when emerging from the previous universe: a buffer zone between a complete world and pure chaos, not yet entirely stripped of form or meaning.
Su Yu's gaze naturally skipped over this buffer zone and turned toward the greater expanse.
Unlike when he had first emerged from the previous universe, he now held a conceptual understanding of chaos.
"Perhaps only by creating my own world do I truly gain the right to exist within chaos—only then do I possess the senses needed to 'perceive' within it," Su Yu thought to himself.
Now, beyond Su Yu's world, chaotic forces churned. Thunderclouds loomed thick in the sky.
Terrifying clouds of tribulation engulfed the region, with the roaring power of thunder being born within.
While Su Yu was busy establishing his world, he had been unaware of all this. Only now did he recognize the ominous spectacle.
"The thunder tribulation is merely my interpretation of it."
This disaster born from creating a world was not necessarily thunder itself—but due to Su Yu's own understanding, the chaos-born catastrophe manifested in the form of lightning.
As chaotic forces gathered, the thunder appeared completely gray-white, laced with a sense of nothingness.
Boom!
The gray-white lightning fell.
Su Yu completely lifted the protective barrier around his world, allowing the thunderbolt to strike directly within.
Rumble—
The world trembled; its rules were shaken.
At that moment, the long river of time within Su Yu's world seemed to fracture slightly. Its flow began to deviate.
"All things retain a thread of hope. But when bound entirely within the river of time—within fixed rules—the potential of this world becomes limited," Su Yu murmured.
He looked at the rift in the river of time but made no effort to repair it.
When the second bolt of lightning struck, Su Yu no longer allowed it to fall upon his world, nor even upon its surface.
Within the chaos—
A lone figure appeared. Not overwhelmingly grand, yet now imbued with a sense of greatness.
He seemed the very embodiment of rules, surrounded by numerous Dao laws that circled around him.
The lightning struck his body and, rather than harming him, was seemingly deciphered and absorbed into him.
In chaos, where no concept exists, everything is disordered.
"In that case, my Dao shall be the order within this disorder—the rule, the law."
Since thunder is merely a manifestation of chaotic force, turning that formless chaos into structure naturally dissolves the thunder.
However, Su Yu had underestimated the Chaos Tribulation.
Chaos lacks rules and form—yet paradoxically, it is itself a kind of rule, a system of operation.
There is no conscious entity like in the universe that governs it. However, the creation and expansion of a world, Su Yu's resistance and analysis—all amounted to the occupation and transformation of chaos.
Chaos instinctively responds with calamity, with rejection.
Boom—Boom—Boom!
The more you counter it, the more chaos resists such methods.
By the time the third thunderbolt fell, Su Yu could no longer analyze it quickly enough. The force of the tribulation penetrated his body, inflicting real injury.
The power of life and death surged through him, and his wounds healed in an instant.
The fourth thunderbolt came, and by then, his ability to weaken it through analysis had almost entirely failed.
Yet, he endured it.
Su Yu's expression grew grim.
"Is this chaos rapidly adapting against resistance?" he wondered.
Su Yu wasn't sure whether this resistance to his analytical methods would continue indefinitely.
If it were limited to just this tribulation, it wouldn't matter much.
But if this resistance became ingrained in the memory of all chaotic forces—etched into the very essence of Chaos itself—then wouldn't future beings trying to create worlds face even greater difficulties?
"As Heaven and Earth evolve, so too must Chaos," Su Yu thought as he looked toward his own world and merged into it.
Heaven and Earth began to expand at a furious pace, and the intensity of the chaotic lightning suddenly surged.
Boom!
The two forces clashed repeatedly.
The fabric of the world started to fracture. What was once a whole and unified Heaven and Earth now gave rise to multiple smaller subsidiary spaces to distribute the pressure.
Su Yu made constant adjustments to the structure of his world, preserving the core—the River of Laws.
Amidst the relentless downpour of tribulation lightning, he even split his focus to create a separate realm of the dead.
The cycle of life and death began to turn.
His entire world now became two sides of the same coin.
"Living beings are still necessary," Su Yu murmured.
The rate of self-perfection for Heaven and Earth alone was too slow. Only the presence of life could accelerate the development of the world.
This was the significance of civilization.
With civilization, new things would constantly emerge, driving the world forward step by step.
Just like Su Yu himself—his own rise to this level had, in turn, brought enormous benefits to the universe.
Recognizing the importance of civilization, Su Yu immediately mobilized the laws of his world.
"Let the Dao of Spirit move. Let the Dao of Wisdom awaken."
The spirits of various laws, originally formless manifestations of rules, began to grow and evolve. They broke free from mere abstraction and became true Lords of Law, cultivating themselves and resisting the destructive power left behind each time a tribulation bolt struck the world.
The flow of time inside and outside Su Yu's world began to diverge. Su Yu deliberately accelerated the world's evolution.
This was one of the applications of his Dao of Time.
More precisely, it was an advancement in his use of the Time Dao after realizing the importance of concepts within Chaos—he directly used it to dramatically accelerate the evolution of Heaven and Earth.
Naturally, this also triggered more violent tribulations.
Fortunately, the increased pace of evolution reduced the pressure on him.
The Rule Spirits were merely the first generation of living beings.
As the world continued evolving, spiritual energy began to diffuse and condense on its own.
A single stone gained sentience.
Su Yu remembered that it had fallen through a crack in the world during the first bolt of lightning that struck his realm.
He searched both the River of Time and the River of Fate but couldn't determine the stone's origin.
A stone appearing out of nowhere in the midst of Chaos?
Su Yu stared at the crack in the river but chose not to pursue it further.
After the Stone Spirit came other spirit beings.
They formed physical bodies and became actual life forms.
In such a harsh environment, methods of cultivation gradually emerged as these beings evolved through their innate drive for strength.
As the world progressed, the chaotic energy was slowly absorbed by Heaven and Earth, and at last, material substances began to take shape.
Material life-forms began to emerge.
Heaven and Earth evolved.
Su Yu became immersed in the perfection of his world's laws.
The external chaos tribulations gradually began to feel like mere irritants.
They were nothing more than the instinctual resistance of Chaos. As his world solidified and expanded, this resistance—though still present—could no longer pose a threat to the vast and growing realm.
Perhaps the same could be said for the universe itself. It might constantly endure the pushback of Chaos, but due to its sheer immensity, Chaos could do little to stop it.
This place was already taking the shape of a universe, and even the chaotic energy had begun to adapt.
It was unclear how much time had passed.
When Su Yu's awareness returned, his world had already completed its initial phase of perfection.
Within it, a war of supremacy among myriad races had begun.
Su Yu paid no attention to the internal conflicts between races. He left his world within Chaos and began moving toward the direction of the universe he sensed in the distance.
"Has it really been so little time that we've already drifted this far apart?" Su Yu muttered, straining to make sense of the blurred coordinate readings with a touch of exasperation.
In the midst of Chaos, there was no straightforward way to pinpoint either the world he wished to reach or his own location.
"Is it my inherent concept that's flawed?" he wondered. Perhaps, if he adopted a different paradigm, the distance between himself and the universe wouldn't be so vast.
But he had no time to rebuild his entire spatial framework—nor did he dare risk losing all sense of the cosmos in the process. There were still countless people close to him in the universe, along with unresolved karmic ties.
"Tang San, devouring is taboo!" The God of Destruction's voice rang out as he glared at Tang San, eyes glittering with lethal intent.
斗罗神界 (Douluo Divine Realm)
In this divine realm, Tang San's aura now blazed with unparalleled power. Before him, the assembled Divine Kings exchanged wary glances, each glaring in his direction.
Even by divine standards, years had passed since the great war. The Douluo Divine Realm had emerged victorious, growing from seven Divine Kings to eleven. Among the newly ascended were Su Yu's two chief disciples—Bai Feng and Xiao Huo—as well as Rong Nianbing and Huo Yuhao.
Yet the realm had splintered into two factions. Branded an outlier, Tang San had been locked in a prolonged standoff with the other Divine Kings. And when word came that an alien divine realm had been devoured, all of Tang San's machinations were laid bare.
"True power is the only truth," Tang San proclaimed. In his quest for strength, he had discovered a shortcut: devouring. By absorbing the domains of other Divine Kings—swallowing their rights and fusing them into his own—his power would grow ever greater, perhaps even enough to stand against Heaven and Earth.
Thus he had merged divine rights and ascended to the rank of Supreme Divine King, convinced his path was clear.
A resigned sigh echoed across the realm—and Su Yu's figure materialized above them.
"Su Yu?" Tang San frowned, his confidence faltering. The one he truly feared was Su Yu. After becoming a Divine King, Su Yu had disappeared into the universe for refinement, and Tang San had long assumed he was stalled in a bottleneck. Rumor even held that Su Yu had obtained the Legacy of the Primeval Phoenix God—clear evidence he'd reached Supreme Divine King status. How could Tang San not dread him?
The moment Su Yu appeared, Tang San sensed an oppressive force—as if Su Yu himself embodied an entire world.
"Tang San, it's time we settled our karma," Su Yu said calmly. "You once blocked my path when I ventured into the heart of the divine realm. That debt must be repaid."
"And your path has gone astray," Su Yu added with a shake of his head.
"No! I'm not wrong!" Tang San snapped, but Su Yu offered no further explanation.
Even supreme Divine Kings like the Dragon God and Phoenix God—though they, too, battled Heaven and Earth for dominion—relied on their own strength to fuse divine rights. Yet every right they absorbed ultimately served to nurture the universe's growth. Unless they consumed every single divine right in existence, they could never truly contend with Heaven and Earth.
That remained the theory. In practice, once a unique divine right reached full maturity, its own evolution became a Dao. And when that right genuinely transformed into the Dragon God's or Phoenix God's Dao, they would no longer need to oppose Heaven and Earth at all.
Su Yu wasn't sure whether his ability to counter and analyze tribulations would persist indefinitely.
If it applied only to this particular calamity, that would be one thing. But if this lesson became embedded in the memories of all chaotic forces, then anyone who later tried to forge a world would face even greater hardship.
"As Heaven and Earth perfect themselves, Chaos will perfect itself too," Su Yu thought, gazing inward at his world.
Immediately, Heaven and Earth expanded wildly—and the chaotic lightning strikes grew far more ferocious.
Boom—
The two forces collided again and again.
The structure of Su Yu's realm began to shatter. What had been a unified Heaven and Earth sprouted countless smaller sub-realms to absorb the mounting pressure.
Su Yu continuously refined his world's architecture, safeguarding the core River of Laws. Even as tribulation bolts rained down, he diverted some of his attention to establishing a separate Nether Realm. Thus, the cycle of life and death began to turn, and his domain became twofold—both living and dead.
"Yet life is still necessary," he murmured. The self-perfection of Heaven and Earth alone was far too slow; only the birth of sentient beings could drive the world's evolution. This was the true power of civilization: with life comes innovation, and with innovation comes progress.
Recognizing this, Su Yu mobilized his realm's laws more fully. "Let the Dao of Spirit flow—let the Dao of Wisdom awaken." The spirits of the various rules—the formless embodiments of cosmic law—began to coalesce, transforming into true Lords of Law. They cultivated themselves and resisted each destructive remnant left by the tribulation strikes.
Inside and outside his realm, time itself began to flow at different rates. Su Yu deliberately accelerated his world's evolution—a new application of his Time Dao, born from his realization that concepts in Chaos could be harnessed to speed cosmic development. Predictably, this provoked even fiercer calamities—but since his realm was evolving ever faster, the pressure on him eased.
The Rule Spirits were only the first generation of life. As his world matured, its spiritual essence naturally diffused and recombined. A lone stone gained sentience—Su Yu remembered it falling through a crack in his realm during the first bolt of tribulation lightning. He scoured both the River of Time and the River of Fate but found no record of its origin. A random stone in Chaos? He chose not to investigate further.
After the Stone Spirit came other spirit beings. They formed bodies and became true life forms. In their harsh surroundings, cultivation methods emerged alongside their drive to grow stronger. As his realm continued to absorb chaotic energy, material substances finally coalesced—and with matter came material life.
Su Yu sank deeper into perfecting his world's laws. The external tribulations from Chaos became nothing more than irritants—instinctual pushback that, though persistent, posed no threat to his vast, evolving domain. Perhaps the universe itself endured Chaos's resistance in a similar fashion: immense and unyielding, it simply continued its expansion.
Time passed, though Su Yu lost all sense of its length. When his awareness returned, his realm had fully completed its initial phase of perfection. Within it, myriad races now vied for supremacy—but Su Yu paid their conflicts no mind. Leaving his world safely within Chaos, he set off toward the distant universe he had sensed all along.
Epilogue
In Chaos, a self-sustaining Heaven and Earth turned and Su Yu's figure drifted onward. "Chaos—what wonders await?" he wondered, looking forward to the journey ahead.
[End]