423: Lu Lao Jiu has three realms: Senior Realm, Fellow Daoist Realm, and Ant Realm!

An aura as deep as an abyss and as vast as a sea of stars spread out naturally, imbuing this lair with a layer of invisible pressure.

He gently raised his right hand, his thoughts stirring slightly.

Above his palm, there was no shining light, yet it was as if he were holding up an invisible universe.

The phantoms of 3,600 Small Worlds flowed and cycled in his mind, while a wisp of "Primordial World Power," condensed to the extreme and containing the essence of world creation and destruction, and the return to Chaos, lingered at his fingertips.

This power was no longer just about destruction; it also contained the rudiments of suppression, creation, bearing, and even... rule-setting!

"3,600 inner Small Worlds... With this as the Foundation, once all 1.296 billion are opened, my power will be endless, and my Dao... will penetrate both reality and illusion!"

"Creating a galaxy within one's palm, with worlds as numerous as the sands of the Ganges being born and dying—the Buddha's method is a truly magnificent path forward!"

Feeling the immense feedback and infinite potential brought by the 3,600 nascent worlds within his body, his eyes shone brightly; from this moment on, he had truly embarked on his own path.

Forging the Foundation of a world-shaking mighty figure.

Just then, a terrifying will, cold, dead, and carrying the implications of absolute order and destruction, swept across the entire Primordial Continent without warning.

This will was high and aloof, indifferent and Emotionless, as if it were the Law itself that had existed since time immemorial. It carried no emotion, only pure scrutiny, judgment, and... the intent to erase an "anomaly"!

It was a Main God!

And it was the gaze of a Dark Main God who held authority over order, destruction, and related domains!

Merely a wisp of will projected from afar caused Lu Jiuyuan's body, which had just achieved a Breakthrough and was at the Peak of its aura, to suddenly stiffen, and the operation of the 3,600 inner Small Worlds within him seemed to slow down by half a beat!

Alarm bells rang in the depths of his Soul; it was an instinctive tremor brought about by the gap in life levels!

The Void Realm of the Primordial Continent twisted like water ripples, and the phantom of a giant eye, composed entirely of dark gray order Divine Power, slowly condensed and appeared!

Lu Jiuyuan did not even have time to mobilize the power of those 3,000 worlds to resist, when in the depths of his Soul, his Golden Finger [Calamity Evasion], which had followed him since the Journey to the West world and seemed of little use, activated on its own at this moment!

The activation of [Calamity Evasion] was silent, like rain moistening things without a sound.

Soften its light, merge with its dust, deep and seemingly existent!

He still stood there, his power undiminished in the slightest, but in the "perception" of that Divine Eye of Order, the thing that should have been "exceptionally clear" and "must be erased" suddenly had its traces of existence become "blurred."

It was like the moon in the water or a flower in a mirror—seemingly present, yet impossible to touch in reality.

The giant phantom of the Divine Eye of Order swept across the Primordial Continent once more.

In the end, just as it had appeared, it silently faded and dissipated into the Void Realm.

The cold will of the Main God also dispersed with it like the wind.

Inside the lair, dead silence returned. Only Lu Jiuyuan remained sitting cross-legged, though a trace of cold sweat had seeped from his forehead.

He slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, feeling the suffocating pressure vanish, his heart surging with waves.

"[Calamity Evasion], what a [Calamity Evasion]!"

"Softening light and merging with dust, concealing Karma... what a [Calamity Evasion]!"

A sharp light flickered in Lu Jiuyuan's eyes. "In this way, as long as I don't actively seek death under the noses of the Main Gods, I can largely avoid being directly targeted by these high and aloof existences!"

This undoubtedly bought him precious time to grow!

He once again felt the 3,600 nascent inner Small Worlds within his body, feeling that immense World Power surging through his Bloodline.

"The hidden danger is temporarily removed, and the Foundation has been established. The next step is to hunt demons, obtain more resources, and accelerate the opening of the remaining particles!"

Lu Jiuyuan's eyes became very intense.

The successful opening of the 3,600 inner Small Worlds not only caused his strength to skyrocket but also allowed him to clearly see the path forward.

1.296 billion particles, and now only 3,600 have been opened; the road ahead is long, but the hope is infinite!

Without hesitation, he moved his body and silently left this temporary lair.

His green robes almost blended into the background under the dark red sky, and like a ghost, he shuttled at high speed across the desolate and bloody land.

This time, his target was no longer the scattered and weak demon tribes on the periphery.

Now he also understood the Rank situation here: the Primordial Rank is roughly equivalent to the Overlord Rank; after Ascension from a Small World or a small plane, one is at this Rank.

The strongest of the Emperor Rank is about the Xu Fu Rank.

The weaker ones of the Emperor Rank are at the Xiao Jingtian Rank, and he had yet to encounter the strong ones. As for the Divine-Grade, this Rank is said to have a huge span; Lu Jiuyuan guessed that Nezha and Erlang Shen from Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons are roughly considered this Rank, and perhaps the monkey who swung that Heaven-Defying staff at the end is also considered this Rank!

Going further up, there is the Supreme Rank! Currently, the Human Race has a total of three! There were originally four, but unfortunately, Great Emperor Xuanyuan has already fallen, so it has become three.

Now that he has the power of 3,000 Small Worlds, the Emperor Rank is cannon fodder, and ordinary Divine-Grade Early or Middle Stage existences no longer pose much of a threat to him.

Now there are only three realms: the Senior Realm (Supreme), the Fellow Daoist Realm (Divine-Grade Peak), and the Ant Realm (Divine-Grade Middle Stage and below!).

After inquiring a little for information, Lu Jiuyuan cast his gaze toward a vast area about 100,000 li away—the "Howling Abyss."

It is a famous dangerous place on the Primordial Continent, a small-scale plane battlefield, with dense Devilish Qi, occupied by numerous powerful abyss races and demon races, among which there is no lack of terrifying existences approaching or even reaching the Emperor Rank Peak.

Ordinary Human Race experts dare not venture deep inside, but for Lu Jiuyuan at this moment, it is the perfect hunting ground to obtain high-quality "resources"!

Lu Jiuyuan concealed his aura, and like a silent gust of wind, he rapidly approached the direction of the Howling Abyss.

About an hour later, a scene whose tragedy and oppression could not be described in words appeared at the end of the horizon.

It was a huge, incomparable canyon rift that seemed to have been torn open by some unimaginable great power, over a thousand li wide and bottomless.

Inside the rift, it was not pure darkness, but rolling, viscous, purple-black Devilish Qi, with countless twisted demonic shadows looming within it, emitting shrieks and roars that made one's Soul tremble—that was the "Howling Abyss"!

What was even more striking was that on the edge of the abyss rift, a gray-white "Great Wall" stretching for a thousand li, though dilapidated, still stood stubbornly, like a scarred Dragon, tightly guarding this rift leading to the hinterland of the Primordial Continent!

A wall of flesh and blood! Built from boulders, skeletons, and skulls.