Chapter 1576 — The Calamity of Extinction
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Xiaotianzun held the Primordial Stone in his hand, turning it over and over as he examined it, his eyes holding something that was part sorrow, part joy.
Countless Creators surged toward him. The Creators of the Other Shore Void had been through battle against the Heavenly Court's armies, had stared death in the face time and again, and had grown fierce and battle-hardened.
Moreover, Lord Langwan had pushed through reforms, fusing the crude ancestral methods of divine consciousness cultivation with the God's Treasury Heavenly Palace system, and had even sent Creators to Jingping to absorb the fruits of Jingping's reforms. The Creators of today were immeasurably stronger than those of the ancient era. They too cultivated their primordial spirits, and they had studied the Dao Realm system as well; their strength was exceedingly high, their divine powers exceedingly refined.
Though they still relied chiefly on divine consciousness attacks, their vital essence was likewise immensely powerful. Yet before they could reach Xiaotianzun's side, they saw heavenly palaces materialize one after another behind him, and a force of incomparable power pressed down upon them, leaving them mired as though in mud, unable to move.
The gap was simply too vast. Even the Spirit Ancestor Realm, which could suppress Langwan, was before Xiaotianzun like a sculpture of mud, crumbling and collapsing at a mere raise of his hand — how much less could they withstand him?
Furthermore, the Dao of the Primordial Beginning encompassed both the Innate Qi and divine consciousness. The Innate Qi was the Primordial Vital Essence, a vital essence of the highest order.
Their divine consciousness powers and the powers conjured from vital essence all came at him only to be absorbed by Xiaotianzun, becoming his nourishment. Their divine consciousness had originally been obtained through the Primordial Divine Stone; to Xiaotianzun, it was now simply returning to its rightful owner. The divine consciousness they had cultivated was, to Xiaotianzun, merely the result of lending them the divine stone to cultivate with.
These Creators were, in effect, cultivating divine consciousness on his behalf.
Xiaotianzun paid no heed to the powerful Creators among those charging at him. Instead he raised the raw stone and examined it again and again, the sorrow on his face gradually fading until only joy remained.
His joy deepened, and the Primordial Stone in his hand began to float upward of its own accord. He was attempting to activate the stone using the Dao of the Primordial Beginning, which fused the Innate Qi and divine consciousness.
Behind him, more Creators charged in, only to be frozen one by one in his wake. Those as powerful as clan chiefs and elders found the flow of time around them slowed to an extreme; those of lesser strength were stopped entirely.
The power of the Dao of the Primordial Beginning was evident at a glance! In the very instant Xiaotianzun activated the Primordial Stone, the Water Moon Divine King, nearest to him, began to disintegrate — her physical body crumbling, her primordial spirit scattering, her soul decomposing! She was the most powerful Creator after Langwan, yet before an existence like Xiaotianzun she had no power to resist.
Xiaotianzun was not merely their nemesis — he was also the very origin of the divine consciousness they relied upon!
Facing such an existence, nothing remained in their hearts but deep, shuddering dread. Yet the Water Moon Divine King, after all, had the deepest cultivation.
Even as she gradually decomposed — her body, primordial spirit, and vital essence breaking down into Innate Qi, her divine consciousness stripped away by the Primordial Stone — she could not die in so short a time.
But the other clan chiefs and elders decomposed far more quickly.