The Tianyuan Sacred Realm is now nothing but emptiness, except for one continent. Previously, if Yuan Hao's divinity hadn't been present, and his power hadn't been reflected outwards, weakening the power of the emptiness surrounding the Tianyuan Sacred Realm to the extreme and preventing it from being invaded by the emptiness, it would have been decomposed into nothingness before Yuan Hao could even meet him.
The only continent in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm is named Tianyuan Continent by Yuan Hao. Tianyuan Continent is a nearly square continent, with a diameter of over a thousand kilometers, and its terrain is a vast plain. The surface of Tianyuan Continent is mostly stone, with only a few places containing soil. Life is extinct here, making it extremely desolate and lifeless.
"The most urgent task now is to upgrade the Tianyuan Sacred Realm from a demiplane to a complete plane. No, with my understanding of the Dao and the accumulation of the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, it should be able to directly upgrade to a minor world. If it weren't for the fact that living beings cannot meet the standards to become a minor world, with that thing, it might even be possible to directly ascend to the middle world."
There are three most important conditions for world upgrading. The first is the comprehension of laws, but this is the simplest for Yuan Hao. What he has comprehended is no longer laws, but something higher: the Dao. With his comprehension of the Dao, absorbing from a few other worlds would be enough to create laws that support the Great Thousand Worlds.
The second point is the accumulation of Source Power. Source Power is the most important force in the evolution of the world, and it is also one of the highest-level forces in all the heavens and myriad realms. However, this is not difficult for Yuan Hao.
The most difficult aspect for him was the third point: the number of living beings and the level of the strong. Even for him, it would take a long time for living beings to grow and evolve. Besides these, there were some secondary factors, including the size of the world, the number of intelligent races, and the order of the universe.
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Chapter Three: Genesis
The first thing Yuan Hao needed to do was to set up a complete world wall for the Tianyuan Sacred Realm. Once the world wall was established, it could not only defend against the power of nothingness, but also slowly absorb the power of nothingness and convert it into source power for accumulation.
After Yuanhao merged with the divine being, the primordial space evolved into the Heavenly Dao Space, which is only found in the Lesser Thousand Worlds.
With a wave of his hand, Yuan Hao unleashed a small stream of Origin Power, numbering approximately a few thousand drops, from the Heavenly Dao Space. This Origin Power spread out, forming chains of laws. These chains of laws interconnected and intertwined, forming a protective shield that enveloped the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm and emitted a faint glow.
Besides the Tianyuan Continent, the world barrier also encloses a vast expanse of nothingness. This nothingness is slowly being assimilated by the world barrier, evolving into the void surrounding the Tianyuan Continent.
Yuan Hao nodded upon seeing this, and a small sapling appeared in his hand. This was one of the few remaining items of Yuan Hao's divinity, and also a divine object that greatly aided the evolution of the world—the World Tree Sapling.
The World Tree, one of the top-tier Chaos Spiritual Roots, possesses unparalleled divine power in aiding the world's evolution.
The World Tree not only helps the world itself to organize the energy of heaven and earth, but also accelerates the evolution of living beings within the world, stores the genetic information of all living beings, and can also play a great role in the creation of life.
This is only a small part of the World Tree's functions. It can also accelerate the absorption of void energy, speed up the condensation of source power, and regulate the connection between its subordinate worlds and space. Externally, the World Tree can also strengthen the protective power of the world barrier, explore the coordinates of other worlds, and receive information from the void.
And this is only a part of the World Tree's power. Of course, the World Tree sapling doesn't have such great power; the extent of the World Tree's power depends on its own growth. The World Tree is extremely difficult to find; often, one can search through several great worlds without finding a trace. It is precisely because of this that it was fortunate enough to become Yuan Hao's treasure.
Yuanhao placed the World Tree sapling into the Heavenly Dao Space and used its source power to help it grow.
After entering the Heavenly Dao Space, the World Tree sapling began to grow in the center of the Source Energy Lake. The sapling extended its roots into the Source Energy Lake and began to slowly absorb the Source Energy.
Before long, the World Tree grew from a seedling of a dozen centimeters to a tree hundreds of meters tall, and its growth rate continued to accelerate.
The World Tree grows so fast not only because it is extraordinary in itself, but also mainly because of the source energy.
Source Power, one of the highest levels of power, even surpasses the Power of Nothingness and the Power of Primordial Chaos by one level. Next comes the Power of Chaos, then the innate Five Elements Yin-Yang Power, the acquired Five Elements Yin-Yang Power, Immortal Qi, and finally, Spiritual Qi. If a few drops of Source Power were converted into Spiritual Qi, this Spiritual Qi would be enough to significantly increase the concentration of Spiritual Qi within a small world for a short period.
Seeing that the World Tree was growing rapidly and would soon be useful, Yuan Hao continued to transform the world.
"Next, we need to fill the void within the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm with the sun, moon, and stars. First, create the sun and moon, then the 365 main stars of the Zhou Tian Star Array. As for the Zhou Tian Star Array, let's condense a phantom image first, otherwise the source energy consumption will be too high."
With a wave of his hand, Yuan Hao scattered a vast amount of Origin Power into the void. Each drop of Origin Power stopped upon reaching a designated location, then began to emit light, eventually evolving into a phantom star. All the stars in the sky combined numbered over 129,000.
Yuan Hao waved his hand again, and another surge of source energy flew into the starry sky. In the starry sky, this source energy began to split into two larger streams and three hundred and sixty-five smaller streams. They headed towards the sun, the moon, and the three hundred and sixty-five major stars, respectively.
Gradually, the sun began to radiate its scorching rays, and the moon began to emit its cool glow. The 365 stars also began to transform from shadows into solid forms.
"From this day forward! In the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm, there will be sunrise and sunset, and the stars will revolve! Sunrise and sunset constitute one day! Three hundred and sixty-five days constitute one year! Ten thousand years constitute one cycle! One hundred cycles constitute one era!"
A majestic voice resounded throughout the Eternal Continent. Yuan Hao's words became law; the sun, moon, stars, and celestial constellations began to revolve around the Tianyuan Continent along mysterious trajectories. As the stars moved, subtle connections were revealed between them, forming a magnificent star map.
This is the Zhou Tian Star Array set up by Yuan Hao. The Zhou Tian Star Array can strengthen the defense of the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, accelerate the condensation of source energy, and also possesses a powerful suppressive force within.
"From now on, the source energy absorbed and transformed by the Zhou Tian Star Array will be used in four layers to condense stars, four layers to flow into the Heavenly Dao Space, and two layers to be stored. In this way, the stars in the sky will gradually solidify from illusory images, and a large amount of source energy can be stored for future needs."
With the stars in full bloom, Yuan Hao is now ready to give Tianyuan Continent a thorough makeover.
A vast amount of source energy surged forth from the Heavenly Dao Space, spreading to every corner of the Tianyuan Continent. Countless streams of source energy decomposed into mist, merging into the earth below.
The Tianyuan Continent began to expand rapidly, only ceasing its expansion when it reached a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers. This area was already larger than the surface area of the Earth where Yuan Hao had previously resided.
After its area stopped expanding, the thickness of the Tianyuan Continent began to increase, until the earth was divided into seventy-two layers from shallow to deep. As the ground changed, the sky also changed, forming thirty-six heavens.
The surface of Tianyuan Continent also began to change, and the originally flat land began to rise and fall. Gradually, mountains, basins, and rivers and valleys that were not yet filled with water were formed.
A massive mountain range began to take shape, stretching from the north to the south of the Tianyuan Continent, and continued to rise higher. This mountain range was named the Origin Mountain Range by Yuan Hao, and the highest peak of the Origin Mountain Range in the very center of the Tianyuan Continent was named the Origin Sacred Mountain by Yuan Hao.
The Origin Mountain Range stretches from the southernmost point of the Tianyuan Continent to its northernmost point, dividing the continent into eastern and western sections. The Origin Mountain Range is the highest mountain range on the Tianyuan Continent, and several peaks in its central region connect to the First Heaven. The highest peak on the Tianyuan Continent, the Origin Sacred Mountain, extends all the way through the Thirty-Five Heavens, with its summit located in the Thirty-Sixth Heaven.
In the area separated by the Origin Mountain Range, there are only two passages, one to the south and one to the north. These are gaps deliberately left by Yuan Hao, running through the east and west sides of the Origin Mountain Range. The narrowest parts of these two gaps are several hundred meters wide, and the roads are very smooth, making them natural transportation hubs.
On the thirty-sixth day, at the summit of the Origin Sacred Mountain was a prototype platform with a radius of one kilometer, and Yuan Hao stood in the center of the platform. With a wave of his hand, a spring appeared, and beside the spring, a stone dragon about one meter long appeared.
The dragon looked incredibly lifelike, with only its upper body visible, its lower half connected to the mountaintop. The stone dragon's head curved forward, positioned above a pool of spring water. From its mouth flowed a stream of clear water, cascading directly into the spring below.
Before long, the spring water overflowed and began to flow over the summit of the sacred mountain. After the spring water started flowing out, it increased significantly and soon reached the edge of the mountaintop, where it began to flow downwards.
When the spring water flowed down to the position equivalent to the thirty-fifth heaven, the flow suddenly accelerated, and the volume of water increased significantly, turning into a stream. The stream continued to flow downwards, with the volume of water growing larger and the flow rate becoming faster and faster. When it reached the tenth heaven, from a distance, it looked as if the Milky Way was falling downwards.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
From the Origin Mountains, a torrent of water surged in all directions towards the Tianyuan Continent, its towering waves submerging countless peaks. From the sky, the Origin Mountains appeared as an ocean, with only the central Origin Sacred Mountain occasionally dotting the landscape as an island.
An endless flood submerged the Tianyuan Continent. The torrents poured out around the continent, slowly gathering together to form an endless sea surrounding it.
The water flowing from the Origin Sacred Mountain began to diminish, eventually forming a small river that flowed into the foot of the mountain, creating a giant crater due to the rapid cascading of the floodwaters. This place would later become the source of countless water veins on the Tianyuan Continent, and the largest lake on the continent, Origin Lake.
The floodwaters receded slowly, leaving behind a devastated landscape and countless rivers, lakes, and deep pools. The water from the Origin Mountain flowed through the Origin Lake into these rivers and lakes, eventually emptying into the sea, forming a perfect water system sufficient to support the growth of all things.
At the summit of the Origin Mountain Range, on the sacred mountain of origin, Yuan Hao looked at this scene and continued, "There should be wind, rain, thunder, and lightning on the Tianyuan Continent, and the four seasons should cycle."
As clouds gathered and dispersed, different climates began to appear on the Tianyuan Continent due to their different geographical locations.