Chapter 134
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Chapter 134: The Great Net of Heaven and Earth Order
Yun Ye felt as if he were leveling up by defeating monsters; he had lost track of time, and before he knew it, dawn was approaching.
What woke him was the sudden appearance of a massive barrier on the horizon.
The barrier was circular and black.
Its height nearly concealed the sky, but he could still see the top.
Yun Ye was about fifty kilometers from Baishi Town, which was incredibly far, yet he could still sense an extremely evil aura emanating from it.
This surprised Yun Ye greatly.
Monsters usually didn’t have a sense of good or evil; even the energy of the undead might not make one feel disgusted.
Yet this black barrier gave off an aura of countless souls wailing and screaming, as if trapped, leaving them worse off than dead—if this wasn’t evil, then nothing could be.
"Is this directed toward Baishi Town? This feeling suggests at least a catastrophic disruption. How could it appear near Baishi Town?"
Yun Ye sensed that something was wrong, immediately halting his hunting and making his way toward Baishi Town.
This action triggered a chain reaction.
As her long black hair flowed in the wind, Tomorrow manifested herself. Her curled-up body expanded as she floated off the ground, watching the distance with her fiery red eyes.
She now appeared much smaller than Yun Ye, fixed at about three or four years old, while Yun Ye had already reached the age of seven.
"Tomorrow?"
Seeing her appear, Yun Ye felt that the situation was likely worse than he had imagined.
Sure enough, Tomorrow spoke with her crisp voice, "Master… the great disaster has arrived. The Dao artifact in Baishi Town no longer has a Dao Domain. When the moment of rotation comes, the corresponding Dao rules will fail, and so will the Dao Domain."
"What? So sudden?" Yun Ye was taken aback; he had only been dead for six months!
Although it was predicted that the great disaster would indeed come after the Crescent Moon Secret Realm, there should have been a buffer of several years. To open the great disaster in just six months meant he didn’t even have the strength to gather the villagers.
This completely disrupted his plans!
He knew that in this life, he had accelerated his growth significantly!
Following the original plan, he would be struggling to protect himself, let alone establish a base for Tomorrow Society.
"The great disaster has indeed come, and it is terrifying! What has Baishi Town done to accumulate such dreadful calamity energy?" Tomorrow’s anger was visible, and the fire lotus on her forehead was sparkling with embers.
"What do you mean? Isn’t the calamity due to the Dao artifact having overly strong rules?" Yun Ye approached Baishi Town, wanting to get to a vantage point to assess the situation.
"Your understanding is not wrong; it’s just incomplete! As embodiments of the road, we ourselves do not possess power. It is the people who identify with the road that grant us strength!"
"The existence of calamities is due to the amount of power taken; one must bear the corresponding responsibility. If one does not take on that responsibility, the calamity will accumulate, ultimately exploding at the moment of rotation in sixty years!"
"The calamity energy in Baishi Town has already reached a great disaster level, and it seems they haven’t resolved even a single calamity in sixty years, instead continually accumulating it! Can’t they see the problem at all?"
Tomorrow crossed her arms, feeling unusually cold and uncomfortable all over.
Calamity energy was lethal to Dao artifacts, continuously eroding them; the more they experienced, the closer they came to collapse!
The moment of rotation was not only a precise moment but also a scar!
If she were the main subject of this Great Disaster Transformation, she wouldn’t be able to withstand the power of the Heavenly Blade’s scar, inevitably leading to permanent wear.
"Power and responsibility, indeed."
Yun Ye silently nodded.
The rules of the Dao artifact became clearer: even with enough resonance and recognition, one must still bear responsibility.
If that’s the case, Baishi Town’s actions seem quite strange.
Why continuously slaughter the surrounding villages?
Such behavior not only avoids responsibility but also appears to be an abuse of power.
Yun Ye shared this with Tomorrow, hoping to understand the situation better.
However, Tomorrow shook her head in confusion.
"I don’t know. This clearly seems to be intensifying the calamity transformation, which would only lead to an increasingly terrifying change…"
"It seems there are hidden truths, but since the Great Disaster Transformation is occurring, our general idea must be correct. Baishi Town has likely made a serious misjudgment or misunderstanding."
Yun Ye didn’t believe that such a simple rule had gone unnoticed by Baishi Town for thousands of years; there must be another reason causing their misunderstanding.
Perhaps someone was maliciously guiding them.
The Luo Dynasty was founded by distributing land to various families for guarding and development.
If Baishi Town’s Dao artifact came from the Luo Dynasty, it was very likely that it had been instilled with incorrect rules, leading to continuous damage to the Dao artifact and eventual collapse.
Dao artifacts could devour each other, especially the source Dao artifacts.
Before long, Yun Ye came within about twenty kilometers; this distance felt close enough, so he didn’t approach any further.
A flash of red light appeared in his eyes as Yun Ye began to observe.
But soon, he showed a look of astonishment.
"I can’t see clearly; even the Eye of Invisible Light cannot penetrate. There’s a special black demonic energy… no, it should be called Resentment?"
"And there’s calamity energy. The demons inside are like avengers born from the calamity transformation; they might be nearing the Great Disaster… Normally, at least several tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, would have to die to give birth to such beings," Tomorrow added.
"What? What exactly is calamity energy? Can any disaster materialize out of nothing?" Yun Ye was shocked.
In truth, he had questioned this long before, as many powerful demons seemed to appear out of thin air. What was the principle behind this?
"No, Master, you should take a look too. It seems difficult to describe…" Tomorrow closed her eyes and began to carefully sense. Meanwhile, Yun Ye suddenly realized that the whole world was fracturing and disintegrating.
He entered a new visual realm.
The visual realm of a Dao artifact!
Humans are three-dimensional beings, only capable of seeing three-dimensional things, but Dao artifacts were clearly not that simple.
Once inside the Dao artifact’s visual realm, Yun Ye saw the world around him completely break down into lines and symbols. At first glance, it seemed chaotic, but upon closer inspection, it appeared to contain a kind of disorderly order.
And these were just the basics. Yun Ye looked up to the sky… well, it could be the sky; he wasn’t sure if it counted, but above this world, there were indeed many chains densely intertwined, stretching across the entire realm, differing in shape and color.
However, Yun Ye couldn’t look for long; after only a few seconds, he found the world becoming unstable, and his mental energy was rapidly depleting.
And just from that fleeting glimpse, Yun Ye understood much about the meaning of the chains, one of which was connected to the black barrier…
—Flying Zombie, a collective of Resentment, born from despair. Upon birth, it could connect to the progenitor of the manifested realm. If it could survive through nine deaths, nine lives, and nine calamities, it could transform into an immortal undead being, achieving longevity with heaven and earth, and returning to its place in the manifested realm.
Just from that one chain, Yun Ye suddenly realized the source of the demons’ power!
"The rules… are inscribed in heaven and earth!"
"A world where one can attain immortality through the Dao relies on the bloodline of the descendants?"
"How ridiculous!"
