Chapter 492

Chapter 492: Slaying Tentacles, World Evolution

“Ha ha ha! It seems the path of tomorrow is your natural enemy! Mere tentacles, be destroyed!”

Yun Ye gathered the Power of Opening Heaven and Earth, laughing as he swung his sword, easily severing large numbers of black columns that shot toward him, landing on the surface of the black square, and then stabbing down with a reverse grip.

This sword directly pierced the black square, creating a massive void. Yun Ye charged inside, starting to wreak havoc!

With the blessing of two types of Power of Rules, Yun Ye wielded his sword with incredible mastery, slicing through everything!

But this battle also caused the black square to change; it began to deform into all sorts of life forms.

The black square was a tentacle of the World God, a divine entity, and the power it used was entirely the Power of Rules.

Now, the Ming Rihui Sword had accumulated over a hundred million echoes, evolving into a domain-level Dao artifact, yet its power was far inferior to that of this World God’s tentacle. The true name of Dual Slice Strike provided absolute enhancement against this human enemy, allowing it to barely seal it for a hundred years.

But now, the holder was different.

“Ten Heavenly Arts! Opening Heaven and Earth!”

Yun Ye could unleash his powers freely against this opponent; though he put all his might into every strike, he could not fully eliminate the foe, making for an exhilarating fight.

As the battle continued, the black square disintegrated, transforming into countless smaller entities with various forms, each able to exert entirely different powers.

These were entities far older than humanity; although labeled as World Gods, they had no resemblance to humans, or current living beings at all.

Some forms attained incredible speed, tearing through the skies, and with the boost of the Tenth Turn Art, Yun Ye found it difficult to see through their movements, getting his defenses breached time and again.

Others achieved the utmost strength; with a single punch, they could contest against Yun Ye’s Opening Heaven and Earth despite facing obliteration in the process, being gradually worn down by the combined might of the Ming Rihui Sword and the Power of Opening Heaven and Earth. However, using the Power of Opening Heaven and Earth was not without cost for Yun Ye.

Even though Yun Ye’s Ten Heavenly Arts were perfected to the highest degree, nearly forming a flawless world, and were enhanced by True Immortal magic to draw on vast amounts of Void power, this was still a nascent world. Yun Ye’s current realm could only be considered "foundational in the Mystic Realm." The reason it was "foundational" and not "entry-level" was that creating a world bypassed the entry level, reaching a complete self-Mystic Heaven level.

Now, Yun Ye’s techniques were indeed formidable, but the source of energy was not limitless. Maintaining full output would soon deplete the energy reserves of the Heavenly Dry Universe; continuing would lead to a collapse, requiring countless resources for repair.

Thus, in the heat of battle, Yun Ye began using the Power of Opening Heaven and Earth more efficiently, no longer pouring it out recklessly but condensing it around him, truly obliterating everything he touched without letting his power spill over.

The black square, true to being a World God’s tentacle, was incredibly difficult to kill, far beyond Yun Ye’s imagination. What seemed like effective strikes and destruction were, in reality, ineffective; they merely pushed the matter aside without causing real harm.

Only after Yun Ye condensed his powers for annihilation did the battle enter an effective confrontation phase, and astonishingly, he fought for a full decade!

Even with the Power of Opening Heaven and Earth constantly wearing down the World God’s body, it took Yun Ye a full ten years to achieve complete destruction.

In the end, this World God’s tentacle even grew stronger, learning to use battle strategies, forcing Yun Ye to expend more energy.

While recovering power and fighting, the battle extended over time. The only comforting aspect for him was that this World God’s tentacle did not attempt to flee.

Otherwise, given the extensive combat over these ten years, they would have strayed far beyond multiple states, and the tentacle would have had countless chances to escape.

However, in terms of results, Yun Ye gained tremendously.

Killing a tentacle of the World God allowed the Heavenly Dry Universe to grow significantly; what was once a relatively micro-sized planet had now reached the scale of Earth.

Stars in space also underwent complete realignment during this time, forming a complete stellar system.

Apart from the first life planet, a second life planet gradually evolved within the universe, expanding its diversity.

For ten years, Yun Ye continuously accelerated the passage of time in the entire Heavenly Dry Universe.

In the outside world, ten years had passed, while within the Heavenly Dry Universe, a full millennium unfolded. Various life forms thrived and evolved or perished, adapting to their environments.

Of course, since the first planet was too small and its rules were too Earth-like, Yun Ye did not infuse too much spirit energy into the planet; the vast majority was compressed into the sun, lunar body, and the second life planet.

In this situation, the spirit energy accelerated evolutionary processes significantly, allowing species that would typically shift over a million years to emerge branching forms within a millennium, leaning more towards precision and ingenuity rather than energy levels.

If this pattern continued, it was likely that in a hundred thousand years, a completely different new world from the Red Heaven realm would be born.

This was not a common secret realm exception; compared to the ambiguous world rules of various major secret realms, where phenomena often appeared chaotic, the first life planet had meticulously detailed rules, completely simulated from Earth after being replicated by Spirit Law for every detail.

From that day onward, the first life planet would not change in size, maintaining its ecological integrity.

In merely a thousand years, the first star delighted Yun Ye with incredible surprises.

Various demons and monsters had begun to adapt to the ultra-low density of spirit energy, using various methods to conserve it, with efficiency remaining unaffected. Sooner or later, they would realize Yun Ye’s vision, creating beings that could possess a natural awe-inspiring control or spiritual roots, furthering Yun Ye’s progress in the evolution of yin-yang five elements.

As a creator, Yun Ye simply added a special rule: once a species’ evolution stagnated, the strongest species would receive slight enhancements, making them more oppressive against lower-tier species, thereby driving evolution in those species.

This method was effective, turning the first star into a harsh arena of survival, where inferior life forms were eliminated in cycles of a century.

While this timeline seemed long, it was actually very brief in the grand scale of life evolution, with spirit energy interference allowing species evolution to progress at an unprecedented pace. This method of enhancing every hundred years could only be realized through such means.

“Time dilation ratio 1/100; the projected hundred thousand years of evolution still requires nine hundred years to meet the requirements, which feels a bit lengthy.”

Yun Ye traversed space, crossing multiple states as he returned to Dongwang City.

He did not wish to halt his acceleration, but accelerating the whole universe required immense power. The current hundredfold acceleration was already at its limit; pushing further would stifle the growth of the world.

Yun Ye maintained the hundredfold acceleration, allowing the world to grow spontaneously, but if he reached the limit—that critical level of balance—his world would cease to change in scale. This was clearly a case of forsaking the important for the trivial.

His evolution of life aimed to obtain bloodlines useful in the next life, not for what these lives could provide him. Under the scale of the Power of Opening Heaven and Earth, these minuscule life forms on the first star were barely capable of functioning, merely adding a little computational power to the combined universal will.