Too many people are dying in this chaotic world? Then I'll activate the control panel!

buzzing...

In the boundless, deathly silent depths of the universe,

One by one, forbidden beings that had slumbered since time immemorial slowly opened their eyes.

Their slumber spans far beyond the birth and death of billions of stars, witnessing the rise and fall of countless emperors and the rise and fall of numerous civilizations.

He was originally in a daze, immersed in the contemplation of the Tao.

But at that very moment, an unparalleled and immense power shook the entire space-time continuum, abruptly awakening them from their ancient slumber.

The vast universe, which was forever dark and silent, where even light refused to linger, was suddenly and completely illuminated by dazzling light.

Each ray of light was billions of times more dazzling than billions of suns stacked together. The light was vast and boundless, as if the colossal universe itself was slowly opening its eyes.

These are the gazes of those forbidden beings; they have unleashed their power!

The terrifying, awe-inspiring stream of light, carrying the oppressive power to judge all things, tore through layer after layer of void barriers, crossed endless star rivers, and, like a divine punishment descending from the heavens, enveloped the towering and boundless Mount Buzhou.

In an instant, Mount Buzhou transformed into the most dazzling and singular center in the entire universe.

The gaze of all things, whether living or inanimate, is involuntarily drawn to it, making it the focus of the entire universe.

Beneath the base of Buzhou Mountain lie the bones of countless deceased beings, the remnants of powerful warriors who died in battle, and the myriad wronged souls left behind by destroyed civilizations, all trapped here.

They were suffering greatly from the power of the Great Dao that had escaped from the suppression of civilization by Buzhou Mountain. Their screams and cries rose and fell, echoing back and forth among the mountains.

But the wailing of countless souls could not shake Mount Buzhou in the slightest.

Bathed in dazzling divine light, Mount Buzhou appeared even more magnificent and vast.

The mountain extends upwards in layers, and the rocks are covered with dense ancient Taoist patterns, flowing with an orderly luster of black and white intertwined.

Vast and boundless, blotting out the sky and the sun,

Mount Buzhou seemed to truly want to break free from all constraints and stand at the very pinnacle of the entire universe.

"Jin?"

A deep, ancient thought traveled across the endless void, carrying with it an unbelievable shock.

"Promoted!"

Another thought arose, its tone heavy as a mountain, filled with apprehension.

"Jin".

The third voice fell softly, confirming its presence.

The forbidden beings who awakened used their own Great Dao origins to repeatedly deduce and investigate, finally confirming the fact that made everyone tremble: the Great Dao of "Jin" had truly been proven.

After he finished speaking, the entire cosmic abyss fell into a deathly silence.

For billions of years, countless powerful beings standing at the pinnacle of the universe have devoted themselves to studying the path of the ten realms, deducing time, space, reincarnation, cause and effect, destruction, and creation. Yet, not a single being has ever dared to prove the path of "advancement."

Before this, "promotion" was just a vague and elusive concept.

It is the thought of all living beings seeking upwards, a trend in the evolution of the Great Dao, without form, without origin, and without carrier.

Since no living being has proven its Dao, it will forever remain an illusion, left for countless powerful individuals to explore on their own. Even if the path ahead is uncertain, there is still a glimmer of hope.

But now, Wang Sheng, the former sage, using Mount Buzhou as his foundation, has forcibly pulled "Jin" out of nothingness and transformed it into a real, controllable, and operational supreme path.

Promotion, now tangible!

This presents two cruel choices that leave all taboos in a dilemma.

If one were to kill "Jin", the very origin of this Great Dao would collapse.

From this day forward, all things in the universe will be completely cut off from the possibility of climbing upwards.

No matter how brilliant a genius is, no matter how much blood and sweat they expend, there will be no more opportunities for advancement. The Great Dao becomes solidified, realms are locked, and the entire universe will fall into eternal stagnation, with no hope of progress whatsoever.

But if we don't kill Jin, are we just going to watch him use this Great Dao to suppress one civilization after another, devour countless Dao fortunes, accumulate power step by step, and eventually reach the true pinnacle of the universe, surpassing all forbidden existences?

Suppressing and trapping Jin is extremely difficult.

Jin is already subtly bound to Buzhou Mountain and the rules of the vast universe, and the universe itself is secretly protecting it.

Rumble!!!

Before the group of taboo beings could devise a foolproof plan, another unexpected event occurred.

"Gentlemen, I'm waiting for you to join me!"

Jin, also known as Wang Sheng, stood atop the main peak of Buzhou Mountain.

With a thought, the entire Buzhou Mountain trembled violently, its vast divine power soaring into the sky, and its endless pressure extending in all directions of the universe.

Under the very noses of numerous taboo beings, Mount Buzhou launched a massive campaign to suppress the major civilizations.

Those ancient civilizations, with their rich heritage spanning hundreds of millions of years, are facing crises one after another.

Even the most terrifying civilizations that once gave birth to forbidden existences, with territories spanning countless star seas, possess countless defensive formations, deadly imperial artifacts, and life-saving methods passed down through generations, layer upon layer, making them as impregnable as a rock.

However, the territory is simply too vast, with billions of star systems, and it is impossible to have an impenetrable defense. No matter how many precautions are taken, there will eventually be loopholes.

Moreover, Jin's true form was the once world-renowned First Sage.

In terms of scheming, ambush, and strategic planning, his methods are unparalleled in the modern era.

Ordinary top-tier civilizations simply could not withstand his long-planned surprise attack.

Most civilizations were powerless to resist and could only watch helplessly as their own fundamental Dao was absorbed by Buzhou Mountain.

Only a few ancient civilizations with truly profound heritage can preserve some of their inhabitants by relying on taboos that exist within their own tribes.

Seeing civilizations fall one by one, some forbidden beings who could no longer restrain themselves finally chose to take action, forming an alliance and crossing the galaxy to besiege Jin.

But the universe is so vast and boundless, without end.

For a powerful being who has reached the forbidden level, finding a dimensional rift or a fold in spacetime to hide themselves is incredibly easy.

Civilizations in the universe are as numerous as grains of sand in a desert, countless in number.

No one can predict which star system Jin will move Mount Buzhou to next.

The idea of ​​ambushing and holding out in advance is practically a pipe dream.

Even if they were lucky enough to find Jin's whereabouts, they wouldn't dare to fight them to the death when it came to the actual battle.

Those beings who have reached this forbidden stage are only one step away from the ten realms they have always dreamed of.

After millions of years of arduous cultivation, who wouldn't yearn to advance further and glimpse that supreme realm? Once Jin is killed, the path to advancement is shattered, and one's own path forward will be forever severed.

Taking action is not an option, but not taking action is even worse.

A group of forbidden beings are caught in a dead end, filled with suspicion towards each other.

Time flows like water, years pass by in the blink of an eye, and ten thousand years slip by in the blink of an eye.

Wang Sheng has reached the fiftieth step, the tenth realm.

His figure, along with the oppressive aura of Mount Buzhou, has traversed a full one-tenth of the vast universe.

Throughout the universe, all the top civilizations, large and small, are familiar with the mysterious and powerful Buzhou Mountain civilization.

It conquered and devoured everywhere, suppressing one star field after another, its power reaching its peak.

The once high and mighty ninth-order emperors are as insignificant as ants before Mount Buzhou. Even when forbidden beings join forces, they repeatedly fail to stop them.

Panic spread like a plague.

Many civilizations have abandoned their territories for generations of survival, leaving behind a large number of ordinary people, and instead gathering only the elite and powerful within their groups to tear through space and hide away in secret places where no one can find them.

They waited quietly, hoping that one day a powerful being would destroy Mount Buzhou, and only then would they dare to see the light of day again.

In this environment, some taboos persisted, and some harbored ulterior motives.

After much deliberation, they gathered their treasures and primordial artifacts accumulated over countless eras, and carrying these treasures, they voluntarily crossed the vast sea of ​​stars to come and serve, ascending the majestic Mount Buzhou, a mountain that terrified countless beings.

These forbidden beings who came to seek refuge were mostly at a similar level, around the 30th to 40th step of the 10th realm. They had been stuck at this hurdle for hundreds of millions of years, unable to find a breakthrough opportunity.

Ten thousand years ago, Wang Shengcai had just attained enlightenment in Jin.

However, in just ten thousand years, the other party has already made rapid progress and reached the Fifty Steps Ten Realms.

Their rate of improvement was hundreds or thousands of times faster than in their previous cultivation.

They didn't act on a whim.

Over the course of ten thousand years, they searched far and wide for information, secretly observing the repeated failures of various forbidden entities in their hunts. They clearly saw that there was no force in the entire universe that could stop Wang Sheng's rise.

Continuing to resist will only lead to the destruction of one's civilization and the suppression and refining of oneself by Buzhou Mountain.

Rather than facing certain death, it's better to take a gamble and leverage the power of Jin Dao to seek an opportunity for further advancement.

As one powerful forbidden being after another chose to submit, a continuous stream of Dao fortune and cultivation insights flowed into Buzhou Mountain, causing the power of the entire divine mountain to surge once again.

Thanks to this, Wang Sheng's cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds.

This terrifyingly rapid advancement was witnessed by the other forbidden beings secretly observing from afar, who were filled with a mix of jealousy, envy, and fear.

Time continued to flow, and another fifty thousand years passed in a flash.

Wang Sheng steadily ascended to the Seventy Steps Ten Realms.

Over the course of 50,000 years, waves of forbidden beings came to besiege him, forming massive coalitions to pursue and kill him on several occasions.

The fierce battle shattered vast galaxies and destroyed countless dimensions.

Wang Sheng suffered severe injuries more than once, his physical body shattered and his soul damaged. He was forced into desperate situations several times, and was only a hair's breadth away from his demise.

But whenever he faced a life-or-death situation, all sorts of unbelievable accidents would happen, allowing him to escape death.

Sometimes, an ancient, forbidden being, dormant for billions of years and nearly insane in its mind, awakens without warning, waging war indiscriminately, disrupting the allied forces' formation, and creating an opportunity for Wang Sheng to escape.

Sometimes, a colossal, unprecedented monstrous amalgamation emerges from the depths of dimensional space, bursting out of the dimension, storming into the real universe, and turning its attention to the group of forbidden powerhouses who were surrounding and killing Wang Sheng.

Everyone can see clearly that the universe itself is favoring Jin.

It is not that the universe possesses its own emotions or develops preferences.

This is the inherent rules and procedures at the bottom layer of the universe operating autonomously.

If Jin were to perish, the Great Dao of Ascension would also perish, and the entire universe would stagnate—an outcome that the origin of the universe would never want to see.

Therefore, the universe will mobilize its hidden power and do everything possible to save Jin's life.

"Is there really no other way?"

There's no way.

The other voice was full of helplessness.

"A direct attack would be difficult, with the cosmic rules secretly protecting us, making it hard for us to truly kill Jin. Trapping him would come at a cost none of us are willing to bear alone."

"Jin has been enlightened and born into this world. Perhaps, this is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us."

"An opportunity?" someone immediately retorted, their tone full of concern.

"That's an opportunity at the tenth realm, one that might not come once in billions of years. But if we were to surrender to Buzhou Mountain now, in the end, only Jin would attain enlightenment. We've held out for billions of years, only to be stepping stones for him!"

"By the way, how is that mad, forbidden old man doing?"

"I've figured it out, it is!"

A single, simple word, like an invisible thunderclap, resounded loudly in the depths of this universe.

The entire group of forbidden beings gathered here were deeply moved, their emotions surging and difficult to calm.

"It was him!"

"Senior, haven't you transcended yet?"

"The taboos of the primordial era, when the universe was first born, are still alive today!"

Among these forbidden existences are life and death, the universe that has proven time, the universe that has proven space, the cycle of reincarnation, and the principle of cause and effect, and so on.

Each of these forbidden beings is at least at the Sixty Steps Ten Realms level.

The strongest one is Yuan, who has reached the tenth realm after eighty-nine steps.

The word "渊" means abyss.

The terrifying abyss of the universe was created by Yuan himself.

Yuan has been diligently studying, imitating the dark side of the universe opened up by "Darkness" and the endless dimensional space created by "Illusion", with the sole aim of creating an independent microcosm that is completely his own.

Any being capable of carving out a complete and independent world within the main universe is undoubtedly a top-tier forbidden existence who has reached the level of ninety steps and ten realms.

right now,

Many taboos exist, and upon hearing their names, they all change color.

Yes, it is far, far older than darkness and illusion.

Beings like An and Huan, who are at least at the tenth level of the ninth stage, are almost independent, forming their own universe. They watched Buzhou Mountain with indifference and did not join the pursuit of Buzhou Mountain.

However, there was also an ancient being who had reached the 90th step and the 10th realm.

He did not create a microcosm.

His greatest achievement was restoring the entire universe.

In some ancient time, there was a small debate about whether something or nothing came first.

Some ninth-order beings have been arguing about this for tens of thousands of years without reaching a conclusion.

Then they consulted a forbidden being.

That forbidden being only said, "When nothing appears, the entire universe will cease to exist."

of course,

The veracity of this debate remains unknown.

But what that forbidden being said was true.

If nothingness had appeared first, everything in the universe would have ceased to exist.

Therefore, there must be a precedence. And there must be no subsequent occurrence.

Yes, in an era before it existed, it intervened and saved the universe.

Therefore, people at that time all praised You's merits and honored him as the first and foremost forbidden god!