From Joy of Life, the Tian Gang is reversed

Chapter 619 The Great Calamity of the Gods: Extracting the Origin
Spacetime Tide Heavenly Martial Fake Warehouse
Taihuangtian's gaze was indifferent, his immortal laws surging like a raging sea, merging with the phantom of the Eternal Divine Furnace to form a sky-covering infernal celestial light, trapping Feng Baiyu and the other elders of the Feathered Ascension Sect. The ultimate killing formation operated incessantly, countless runes flashing like stars, constantly eroding the trapped ones' magical power and spiritual realm. The Heavenly Emperor Mirror above Feng Baiyu's head shone brightly as he desperately resisted, and the three great suns of the Three Saints of Feathered Ascension also radiated boundless light, yet they seemed to be stuck in quagmire, unable to break free.

"Feng Baiyu, there's no need for your futile struggle! Today marks the beginning of the destruction of your Feathered Ascension Sect!" Taihuangtian's voice was icy, carrying an indifferent confidence of certain victory. Beside him, Taihuntian, Taixutian, and other giants of the Taiyi Sect were also fully activating their formations, their killing intent chilling.

Feng Baiyu's eyes flickered twice, but he didn't speak to Taihuangtian, as if he had expected everything that was happening here. Just as he was about to make a move—

"Boom!!!"

An indescribable wave of grandeur, terror, and despair suddenly emanated from the infinite depths of the starry sky beyond the Xuanhuang Great World! It was not a single sound, but a mixture of countless deafening roars as space was forcibly torn apart and shattered, forming a prelude to destruction!
Immediately afterwards, above the Xuanhuang Great World, the sky, which was originally adorned with sunlight, moonlight, and starlight, was torn apart like fragile glass by countless invisible giant hands! Thousands upon thousands, no, billions upon billions of enormous spatial passages, exuding an aura of coldness, order, and superiority, instantly covered the entire sky like hideous scars!

Beyond the passage lay an endless, dark void, and... a massive army of gods, like locusts swarming across the land, densely packed, exuding power far exceeding the Divine Realm! Leading the vanguard were countless Divine Lords of the Divine Realm, followed by Divine Kings and Divine Emperors of the Longevity Realm. Hidden among them were some exceptionally large Divine Emperors, their auras comparable to or even surpassing the Chaos Realm. Their chilling intent swept across every corner of the Xuanhuang Great World like a tidal wave.

This is not the scariest thing.

Deep within those spatial passages, several indescribably enormous shadows could be vaguely seen, emanating an aura that would terrify even a Void Immortal.

"The Great World of Xuanhuang should no longer exist."

A grand, cold, and emotionless will, like a divine decree, resounded deep within the souls of all living beings.

The next moment, outside the Xuanhuang Great World, countless orbiting stars seemed to be grasped by an invisible giant hand, instantly ignited and refined! Towering divine flames, like a celestial river overflowing its banks, surged forth from those spatial passages, burning the sky! The sky was no longer blue, but transformed into a hellish inferno of dark red and ghastly green! Terrifyingly high temperatures descended instantly, the endless ocean evaporating at a visible speed, revealing a dried-up, cracked seabed! The earth cracked, volcanoes erupted wildly, rivers dried up, and forests turned to ash!

In just a few breaths, the once vibrant Xuanhuang Great World was plunged into an apocalyptic scene of boundless darkness and raging flames! The light of the stars was obscured, and only the destructive fire brought by the gods illuminated this dying world.

"The Divine Race's calamity! It's... arrived ahead of schedule! And with such ferocity!" Taihuangtian's expression changed drastically. He could no longer care about surrounding and killing Feng Baiyu and the others, and stared at the sky in horror. He had calculated countless schemes, but he could not have foreseen that the Divine Race would launch a general offensive with such overwhelming force at this moment!

This was completely unexpected and seriously inconsistent with the celestial edict he had received.

The gods shouldn't have launched this great calamity at this time!

Did something happen that he didn't know about?
Feng Baiyu and the other elders of the Feathered Gate were also shaken to their core. They took the opportunity to break away from the battle and looked at the apocalyptic sky with extremely solemn expressions.

As this apocalypse descended, all things withered, and countless living beings cried out in despair, the Xuanhuang Great World seemed to sense a deadly threat, and its deepest primal power was fully activated!
"Boom!!!"

The entire Xuanhuang Great World trembled violently. Deep within the earth's veins, thick, desolate, and vibrant Xuanhuang-colored energy surged forth from all parts of the earth like fountains, soaring into the sky! This was the primordial energy accumulated by the Xuanhuang Great World over countless eras, the foundation of the world!

The primordial energy permeated the heavens and earth, falling like sweet rain. All cultivators in the Xuanhuang Great World, regardless of whether they were immortals or demons, regardless of their cultivation level, felt completely refreshed, their magical power surged, and their bottlenecks loosened the moment they came into contact with this primordial energy!

“Buzz!” “Buzz!” “Buzz!”…

The next moment, countless auras erupted across the entire Xuanhuang Great World, breaking through the barriers!

Some cultivators stuck at the peak of the Divine Power Realm instantly condensed their Golden Cores and stepped into the Longevity Realm! Some giants at the first level of Longevity, the Myriad Life Realm, absorbed the Origin Qi, directly comprehended the Laws of Space, and stepped into the Cave Heaven Realm! Even more remarkably, some long-serving elders from major sects such as the Feathered Ascension Sect, the Taiyi Sect, and the Innate Demonic Sect, with the help of this Origin Qi and the pressure brought by the world's impending doom, broke through their bottlenecks and their strength skyrocketed!
This is the world's gift, and also its self-salvation! It instinctively gives rise to the strong to resist this cataclysmic calamity!

……

The Great Li Dynasty, Yuehua Province.

Almost immediately after the arrival of the gods, Li Chengqian and Fang Qingxue appeared above the Li family mansion, tearing through the void.

Looking at the countless menacing spatial tunnels in the sky, the pouring down destructive divine flames, the dried-up seawater, and the cracked earth, Li Chengqian's eyes were icy cold. Although he had known for some time that the calamity of the gods would come, he had not expected it to be so sudden and so violent.

"Cousin, the great calamity of the gods has begun!" Lightning crackled around Fang Qingxue, her cold eyes gazing at the sky with a hint of solemnity. She could sense several terrifying auras descending from the depths of the endless void, auras that even made her heart tremble.

“The eruption of the Primordial Origin is our opportunity and our last buffer.” Li Chengqian made a quick decision. “But a great battle is about to break out, and this place is no longer safe. We must first ensure the safety of our people.”

Without any hesitation, he and Fang Qingxue attacked simultaneously. Li Chengqian and Fang Qingxue's magical worlds unfolded, like a real world descending, instantly enveloping the entire Li family of Yuehua Province and the Fang family of Longyuan Province. Under the powerful spatial force, everyone in the two families, along with their residences and accumulated wealth, was uprooted and safely placed within their magical worlds.

After doing all this, the two looked at each other and their figures merged back into the void.

Instead of heading immediately to the heart of the fiercest battle, they roamed the outer regions of the Xuanhuang Great World like ghosts. Here, countless divine warriors had already descended like raindrops, beginning to cleanse the land, establish strongholds, and slaughter the remaining creatures.

Li Chengqian's target was precisely these scattered gods!

He didn't use the World Tree; its aura was too unique, and large-scale use would inevitably provoke a frenzied attack from the higher-ups of the Divine Race. At this moment, he didn't want to become the target of everyone's attacks. Even so, with his strength at the fourth level of the Longevity Realm (Creation Realm), combined with Fang Qingxue's swift and decisive methods at the third level of the Longevity Realm (Cave Heaven Realm), dealing with these scattered Divine Race forces was like a tiger among sheep!

"Great Collapse Technique!"

"Chaotic Thunder Prison!"

"A divine craftsmanship, a masterpiece of magic!"

"Suppress all Five Finger Mountains!"

Li Chengqian and Fang Qingxue worked in perfect harmony, wielding various divine powers with ease, turning hordes of divine lords into dust; the chaotic thunder domain enveloped them, and divine kings wailed as they turned into charred remains; the phantom of the divine axe swept past, splitting the divine emperor and his celestial abode in two; the Five Finger Mountain pressed down, and all resistance vanished into nothingness.

Wherever they passed, the divine race was wiped away as if by an invisible cloth, leaving only the pure corpses of the gods and scattered magical treasures and elixirs. Li Chengqian waved his hand and collected all these spoils of war, including the corpses of several god-emperors, which he directly put into his cave heaven, killing them with the World Tree to form divine fruits and longevity fruits.

In just one month, the two traveled hundreds of millions of miles, hunting down countless teams of gods. Within Li Chengqian's grotto-heaven, the World Tree had grown to over a hundred zhang tall, laden with divine fruits, and had even condensed dozens of radiant "Longevity Fruits," containing boundless life essence and fragments of the divine path! Each of these Longevity Fruits was enough to save a Ten Thousand Years Realm giant from thousands of years of arduous cultivation, and might even offer a chance to break through to a higher realm!
Meanwhile, the Li and Fang families within the two's cave also received tremendous benefits. In particular, some of the more talented members of the clan were rewarded with divine fruits by Li Chengqian, allowing them to ascend to the heavens in one step and achieve the Divine Realm.

Meanwhile, the primordial energy of the Xuanhuang Great World continued to erupt, intertwining with the despair and carnage arising from the world's destruction, creating a peculiar cultivation environment. Li Chengqian and Fang Qingxue hunted down the gods while absorbing the power of the Xuanhuang primordial energy and the Longevity Fruit.

With this double boost, their cultivation levels increased at an astonishing rate.

Fang Qingxue broke through first. With the experience of her previous life, she quickly perfected the law of time within the cave and stepped into the fourth level of the Longevity Realm!

Li Chengqian's accumulated power was even more profound. The thirty-three Great Daos, nourished by the Xuanhuang Origin, became increasingly deep, and the energy of dozens of Longevity Fruits was perfectly refined and absorbed by him using the Taiyin Refining Technique. His magical power, spirit, and physical body were all leaping towards a higher level.

On this day, just as he was refining the last Longevity Fruit obtained from a peak God Emperor, it was as if a crucial gate within his body was suddenly burst open!

"boom!"

His aura soared to new heights, and the laws of time within his grotto-heaven became completely integrated. He leaped into the Creation Realm, where he could create things out of thin air, turn stones into gold, and imbue inanimate objects with spirituality. His strength underwent a qualitative leap.

The five stages of immortality lead to the creation of the realm.

Six levels of Longevity, Heavenly Realm, achieved!

Just as Li Chengqian was consolidating his Creation Realm cultivation and feeling an even closer connection between himself and the world, as if he could manipulate all living beings—

"Boom!!!"

The entire Xuanhuang Great World was once again gripped by an unprecedented and violent tremor! This time, the tremor did not originate from an external attack, but rather from within the world itself! It was as if something at its very core had been shaken!

The primordial energy surging from the depths of the earth suddenly became chaotic and violent, even beginning to carry an aura of decay and corruption! The destructive scene in the sky became even more distorted, and the very rules seemed to be collapsing.

"What's going on? The origin of the world... is decaying?" Fang Qingxue sensed the changes in the world and her pretty face changed slightly.

Li Chengqian also frowned deeply. He could feel that the "heart" of the Xuanhuang Great World had been stabbed hard, and its life force was rapidly draining away.

at this time--

"Buzz!"

His brow twitched, and a beam of clear light shot out from the void, transforming into the ancient Azure Mirror that floated before him. The mirror's light was slightly dim, and even its surface bore a few fine scratches, clearly indicating it had endured a fierce battle. It was the spirit of the Azure Mirror, which had been borrowed by the Immortal Venerable Linglong to explore the secret treasure, that had returned!
The moment the Mirror Spirit appeared, before any pleasantries could even be exchanged, it conveyed an extremely urgent and alarming message to Li Chengqian:

The Celestial Venerable Linglong forcibly extracted the origin of the Xuanhuang Great World in order to challenge for the position of Heavenly Monarch!
Extracting the primordial essence of Xuanhuang to challenge the Heavenly Monarch?
What the hell!
This is going to be disastrous!
This is digging up the very roots of the Xuanhuang Great World!
Without its origin, the Xuanhuang Great World will be completely depleted and eventually collapse!
this! !

Just then, an angry roar came from the sky.

"Who, who is it, dares to extract the essence of the Xuanhuang Great World and interfere with my plans?! Who is it?!"

(End of this chapter)