Chapter 319: Chapter 153: Its Name Is: Shine_1

Looking at the ancient sunrise that had not been seen in this part of the world for thousands of years, the Ground Spider’s central head’s Eyes of Dusk cracked and trembled, as if its eyes were about to burst.

“No! You should be dead!”

Only then did the Ground Spider realize that, when it had ordered the three Great Demon Kings to besiege the Divine Tree, Shen Yuan had already set up a chain of plots.

The decade-long plan to use the Earth’s arteries to destroy the army of a million demons was but the simplest part of the scheme.

If Shen Yuan had remained on the ground after destroying the demon army, even if the Divine Tree had nurtured a sun, there would be no cause for fear.

Only after rising above the Sky High Plateau does the sun qualify to reclaim the seat of the Great Sun and become the master of this world.

The sun on the ground, despite its own formidable power, cannot manipulate the cosmic order.

The sun could indeed ascend to the firmament in the early morning, but this process would take a very long time, and with the Ground Spider’s power, there were ten thousand methods to intercept the sun halfway.

However, after destroying the army of a million demons, Shen Yuan used the arteries of Earth to condense the land of Sky High Plateau, allowing the Divine Tree to connect directly to the heavens above, eliminating the need for the sun to ascend slowly.

If that had been the only step, it would have been fine. The next move Shen Yuan made proved his truly far-reaching foresight.

Shen Yuan walked the Path of Refining Elemental Qi and contemplated the Primal Chaos Energy. Even though he controlled the arteries of this world, Shen Yuan’s cultivation had just barely reached the Spirit Refining True Being Stage and was fundamentally unable to confront the three Great Demon Kings head-on.

Yet Shen Yuan used himself as bait, deliberately luring the three Great Demon Kings to attack, and then summoned the waters of the Heavenly River with the Heavenly General Great Divine Power to suppress the three Great Demon Kings.

At this point, the Ground Spider only had one option left: to disengage from merging with the world and manifest its true form to intervene.

However, Shen Yuan’s Rain Invocation Divine Power still had strength to spare. Shen Yuan, who had planned for over a decade, had long decided to use the Rain Invocation Divine Power as his trump card.

In terms of comprehension of the Rain Invocation Divine Power, he had long since surpassed the rudimentary grasp he had shown against the River Ji Prince.

Moreover, with the scrolls given to Shen Yuan by the Yunmeng Dragon Monarch, containing insights into the Rain Invocation Divine Power, Shen Yuan’s mastery over this Heavenly General Divine Power had already greatly progressed.

Above the Ninth Heavens, the waters of the Heavenly River were numerous: there was the Absolute Spirit Heavenly River that transcended the mundane and eradicated Spirit Energy, the Milky Way that carried the power of countless stars and served as the source of the heavens’ constellations, and the legendary Weak Water, of which only a ladleful could be taken…

The Heavenly River that Shen Yuan had induced this time was a combination of the three great rivers.

It not only nurtured the Great Sun with the power of stars but also used the spirit-eradicating waters to suppress and sever spells and Divine Skills. Moreover, the Weak Water that light feathers could not float upon and birds struggled to cross suppressed the three Great Demon Kings.

With the combination of these three great rivers, Shen Yuan employed the Rain Invocation Divine Power to forcibly suppress the Ground Spider, which transcended the boundaries of this world.

This was the Wind Summoning and Rain Invocation, ranked fifth among the Heavenly General 36 Divine Powers. Even though it was incomplete, it was still far beyond the reach of mundane forces.

As the Ground Spider disengaged from merging with the world, the previously usurped position of the Great Sun became vacant.

If the Ground Spider could, like it did a decade ago, suppress Shen Yuan and destroy the Sky High Plateau with one strike, it could easily decide the victory.

However, the suppression of the three great rivers exceeded the limits of this world and also the Ground Spider’s expectations.

Although they could not kill the Ground Spider, the cataclysmic tide left the Ground Spider incapable of taking action.

If the Ground Spider had maintained its state merged with the world without choosing to act, the water from the Heavenly River could never have killed it unless it engulfed the entire world.

And that ancient sunrise, with the seat of the Great Sun already occupied, also could not become the master of this world. It should have been an unbeatable position.

Unfortunately, in this certain victory, Shen Yuan found the only way to break through.

All plans were interlocked, forcibly restoring the sun to its rightful place in the world.

As the eternal Eyes of Dusk were erased, a Great Sun with the power to illuminate all realms appeared in this world.

The return of the sun determined the cosmic order, and the once chaotic foundation was now steadily repairing itself.

Above the land, the prevailing force of demons began to melt away like snow.

Demon after demon, filled with resentment, basked in the glow of the sun; their reason, which had been eroded by dusk, was being restored.

With a clear light flashing in their eyes, the demons raised their heads to look at the Great Sun which had been missing from the firmament for thousands of years. A primal urge from their souls caused them to burst into weeping.

All things in the world are born from the sunlight below and should enter the cycle of reincarnation after sunset.

There is order to life and death, constancy in reincarnation—such is the great Dao of the heavenly cycle!

While the moon of this world had not yet returned to its place, the brilliance of the Great Sun could also lead all beings into the cycle of reincarnation.

Countless demons slowly dissipated under the glow of the sun, leaving behind a shard of True Spirit to escape into the realm of reincarnation, in the hope of finding a thread of life in the next world.

Between heaven and earth, only Shen Yuan, who had shattered the firmament and summoned the overflowing waters of the Heavenly River, was sending the deluge from the Sky High Plateau down into the world of mortals.

The flood that could extend over thousands of miles in a single breath was bound to be an unimaginable disaster.

But as the brilliance of the sun shone down, the waters of the Heavenly River destined for the mortal world were instead drawn into the roots of the Divine Tree, nourishing the still developing cold moon.

In this re-ordered world, the aura from the Ground Spider that surpassed this world’s limits began to rapidly dissipate, and its rank plummeted as an angry roar erupted from its mouth.

“Fool, do you have any idea what you’ve missed out on?”

“That was the foundation to overcome the upcoming great calamity, a supreme rank that transcends the Primal Chaos Realm!”