Chapter 654 - 336: Innate Deity! Lord of the Eighteen Layers of Hell
Of course, now it’s just the beginning.
Zheng Yi’s true intention is to assimilate the Heavenly Dao of the entire Doomsday World, thoroughly transforming this world for his own use, forming his own Divine Dao System.
By then, his Divine Soul would reach great success, his own being equivalent to opening a Grotto Heaven, nurturing a mysterious and grand Magical Power akin to the Palm Buddha Country in the Buddha Realm.
At that time, not to mention any Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator old monster, in his eyes, they would be less than grass; even a Divinity Transformation Divine Venerable would not be a match.
That would truly possess great Magical Power Divine Techniques.
Of course, what Zheng Yi is doing now is just laying the foundation at the very beginning.
Yet it may be considered that he has personally opened a Divine Realm, mastering a small Earthly Divine Kingdom.
At this moment, within the Nine Provinces Divine Realm, Zheng Yi is equivalent to the Sovereign of this Divine Country, with all manner of great power draped upon him, having the power to create a world in this Divine Realm.
However, he is not indulged within it because of his other identity as a Cultivator, so Zheng Yi is well aware that the Divine Power granted by the Divine Realm and Divine Country is illusory, no matter what world-altering abilities he possesses within, it is merely a transformation of consciousness.
It belongs to the Spiritual Soul Path Power, applied to an extremely profound level.
Once it departs the veil of the Divine Realm, it will revert to its original form.
Even now, his Land Divine Kingdom cannot be separated from the dependency on the real-world Laws of the Doomsday World.
His Nine Provinces Divine Realm is like the biggest vampire attached to the entire Doomsday Heavenly Dao, tirelessly sucking blood and nutrients, hoping to grow independently, eventually detaching from the mother body.
It belongs to surviving amidst the struggle between the broken Doomsday Heavenly Dao and the Blood Moon.
Zheng Yi’s gaze leaves the Nine Provinces Divine Realm, descending layer by layer along the peak of the Three Realms, wherever it passes, all beliefs, myriad transformations, nothing can escape his perception.
This is the innate authority possessed by him, as the Lord of a Divine Realm.
Finally, Zheng Yi’s gaze falls further down into the Netherworld.
In a gloomy, cold space representing the breath of death, the massive base and roots of the Tree God penetrate it throughout, still standing there.
The Ancestral Tree God is inherently unique, symbolizing the Celestial Dao Rules of the entire Incense Fire Divine Realm, acting as a pillar supporting the heavens, where it passes, traverses the Three Realms, separating heaven, earth, humans, gods, ghosts, and even demon fiends.
So from any apex of a realm, it projects a grand canopy of branches and trunk beneath the high dome, supporting the barrier of a realm.
The Netherworld is no exception.
Here, the Ancestral Tree God has another name, known as the Death’s End Tree.
It symbolizes the end of all death, and the beginning of reincarnation.
Black clouds churned across the sky, with no intense light penetrating between heaven and earth, the atmosphere was gloomy and silent, the essence of this space.
A cold wind rattles the branches, huge limbs sway gently, forming enormous, deathly Demon Shadows, which add a few more degrees of eeriness to this cold, dead space.
Right above the large tree limbs, numerous black eggs of varying sizes hang, the smaller ones resembling mounds of graves, and the larger as enormous mountains, towering like suspended peaks, yet supported by tiny trunks and branches, standing at the core essence of the Netherworld.
These massive black eggs possess extraordinary Divine Power individually, endlessly emitting mysterious auras, resembling fruits about to ripen, with emanations of various levels.
Some strong, some weak, but relatively speaking, even the weakest of these giant eggs possesses an aura of superiority.
The aura, varying in force, when rippling, offers an overwhelming sense as if gazing upon the Celestial Stars.
Deities.
Innate Divine Wondrousness.
Belonging to the Innate Divine Spirits nurtured after the Nine Provinces Divine Realm formed its system.
The so-called Three Realms, Six Paths, Five Mountains, and all under Heaven, have deities stationed.
This is the product of a Heavenly Dao’s nurture, even the incomplete Land Divine Realm will gradually trend towards it.
Certainly, the deities nurtured by a big world and the Grotto Heaven Land Divine Kingdom opened by Zheng Yi himself differ vastly in strength, a chasm as vast as the heavens and the earth.
But in essence, they are the same.
They are products nurtured by rules.
These nurtured black eggs can also be called ’Divine Spirit Eggs’, since the inception of the Netherworld, coalescing from a million incense sticks, the countless sentients’ minds have appeared leveraging a rules-based system’s strength.
Also, due to this fusion of the Western continent’s body, advancing the Incense Fire Dharma Realm into the Land Divine Kingdom and Nine Provinces Divine Realm forming its system, these sources birthed with the help of the Ancestral Tree God’s form gradually birthing self-consciousness, becoming a new batch of Innate Divine Spirits.
Of which only two places are the most.
One is the Celestial Realm, the core of gathering rules.
The other is the Netherworld, nurturing countless terrifying Ghostly Gods and Yin Spirits.
However, under Zheng Yi’s gaze, at this moment, these black eggs varied in size, remarkably wondrous stood silently on the branches, the contained breath seemingly ancient, ever transmitting and flowing through the air.
With the rise of the Yin wind, these black eggs sway gently, the aura they disperse covering this space, forming a massive Chaotic Air Flow.
The raging wind surged like a tide, slapping around, spreading a terrifying aura of death to every corner of the space.
From bottom to top, on the branches hung black eggs, with a dim red glow slowly flickering on their surface. The life being nurtured within absorbs the energy provided by the Tree God.
It is the power of external rules, as well as the support of countless incense breath internally, ultimately mixed with the wondrous power of origin of the divine realm, which eventually forms nourishment.
The Tree God’s roots entrenched deep in the Yellow Springs and Hell, extracted vast amounts of death power from underground, continuously absorbing it into the roots, surging with a torrent of power, ceaselessly flowing upwards into the body of the Tree God.
Then through its branches, this death power is continually released into the black eggs.
Under the nurturing of such mighty power, the surface of the still black eggs gradually began to flicker with dazzling red light, with a faint golden hue flowing on the shell.
As a group of Netherworld Yin Spirits innately nurtured, they are a powerful race surpassing all tribes, regarded as parasites born under the rules, and because they conform to the rule system of the divine realm, they were eventually taken under Zheng Yi’s command, becoming his servants and eyes for managing many mystical places in the three realms of his newly established divine country in the grotto heaven.
Without Zheng Yi’s recognition, it’s equivalent to not having the heavenly dao’s conferment.
Such deities born from the wilderness are known as Wild Gods or Desolate Gods.
However, those granted a divine office by Zheng Yi’s will, giving birth to their own power of the divine dao origin, would be incorporated into the entire system of the Earthly Divine Realm, becoming the origin creatures of the entire divine pantheon power.
They are acknowledged by this land’s divine realm, or rather by the recognition of Zheng Yi, the lord of the divine domain, being endowed with a portion of divine power authority, representing a force of the rules operating in this space to some extent.
They were undoubtedly powerful existences from the moment of their birth.
And now, with the growth of the Ancestral Tree God and the evolution of the Netherworld, through a new round of growth and elimination, the first batch of entities truly controlling this Netherworld has emerged.
The Super Brain Main God operates frantically, its endless deducing abilities representing the myriad changes of the divine realm’s dao. As the lord of the divine realm, Zheng Yi’s mind receives enlightenment.
He knows, today.
The Lord of the Eighteen Layers of Hell will be born!
This is also the reason he focused his attention here.
As the Netherworld space first opened up by the Yin Celestial Monarch’s Dharma Body, with the convenience of the Incense Fire Dharma Realm, Zheng Yi built the main path openly while secretly advancing, cooperating with the Heavenly Dao of this world, assisting it in resisting the blood moon’s pollution.
Yet, with ambitions stirring secretly, he ultimately seized control of the Western Continent, tearing a chunk of the plumpest meat from the vast celestial dao world.
Now, the entire Doomsday World excludes him, not much less than those strange races tainted by the influence of the blood moon.
But a minor ailment can become a major problem.
The Land Divine Kingdom was established, and the Nine Provinces Divine Realm was founded; Zheng Yi has already firmly established his foothold in this Doomsday World.
Similarly, the lordship of the three realms of the divine domain world belongs solely to Zheng Yi.
He is the supreme existence, the highest deity transcending the three realms.
In some sense, Zheng Yi has completely advanced from initially being a pawn placed by the Doomsday World’s Heavenly Dao and Gaia Consciousness against the blood moon’s pollution.
Under the eyes of the two giants, he carved out a path, becoming the third chess player on the entire board.
Even though as a chess player, he is currently much weaker than the other two giants, from the operability of the overall situation, it’s not much different now.
He maneuvers flexibly, surviving in the crevices.
To develop quietly, wait to claim kingship, build high walls, and stockpile food widely.
Therefore, to make the three realms of the Nine Provinces Divine Realm evolve more completely and become a real world, Zheng Yi must absorb more nourishment from the outside.
In other words, the serpent sparrow swallows the dragon and phoenix.
The Doomsday World Heavenly Dao, the centipede does not die even when cut.
The origin of the blood moon in the sky is indescribable and enigmatic.
Although powerful, the stalemate between these two has long turned into a struggle of trapped beasts.
For Zheng Yi, this is an excellent opportunity.
He wants the Nine Provinces Divine Realm to swallow the Doomsday World, thereby completing a counterattack against the blood moon.
To foster the complete integration of the three realms and elevate the status of the entire divine realm rules is Zheng Yi’s objective for reshaping the three realms.
The nurturing of the divine spirit eggs, whether celestial gods or netherworld yin spirits, is one step in this grand chess game.
Incubating the Lord of the Eighteen Layers of Hell is just the first step.
Next are the Black and White Impermanence, Soul Hooker, Ox-headed and Horse-faced, Lady Meng Po, Yin Yang Judge, and the Ten Halls of Yama.
Even leading to Yama Celestial Monarch.
Ultimately, it is undoubtedly a step towards forming and operating the divine spirit system of the netherworld.
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