Chapter 777: Chapter 355: A Sacrifice to the Primal Chaos Beings

Leopard Tail’s fleeting glimpse suddenly reminded Shen Yuan of the chaos in the Netherworld many years later, where Leopard Tail, originally swayed by the Day Wandering God, resolutely chose to side with him despite the favorable situation.

At that time, Shen Yuan was quite puzzled by this and even doubted whether Leopard Tail was a spy planted by the 10th Hall Yama, but Leopard Tail’s loyalty was proven in the subsequent quelling of the chaos in Hell.

Now it seemed that perhaps it was Leopard Tail’s encounter with him in this era that made him resolutely decide to side with him many years later.

However, to Shen Yuan, this was nothing more than an inconsequential episode.

After leaving the Mount Tai Palace, Shen Yuan directly returned to the Great Yin Imperial Capital.

In the very center of the Imperial City, the giant cauldron that was forged from the smelting of Jiu Province’s Mortal Path Heavy Weapon had taken shape, and the firmament above still cast a pale and desolate starlight.

To the naked eye, everything seemed like an illusory shadow, which even cultivators found difficult to defend against the erosion of the Thousand-Eyes Divine Monarch.

This was still the Jiu Province region protected by the Mortal Path Array, and the impact on the 36 Territories beyond Jiu Province was bound to be far greater than this.

If not dealt with soon, even after driving away the Thousand-Eyes Divine Monarch, the entire Primal Chaos Realm would suffer irreparable severe damage.

Under the giant cauldron, the powerful elites had already gathered.

Previously when Shen Yuan announced the commencement of the Great Schism, all the powerful elites revered Shen Yuan’s recent slaying of a Golden Immortal, and no one dared to openly oppose him, but deep down, they all had some reservations about Shen Yuan’s decision.

The Great Schism meant cutting off the Primal Chaos Realm’s connection with other realms, and the trade with various realms involving the Great Yin Imperial Dynasty would inevitably decline.

Moreover, once activated, it was unknown when it could be restored, and these noble families were bound to suffer huge losses, which was the source of their discontent.

However, as the erosion by the Thousand-Eyes Divine Monarch intensified and even cultivators began to be affected by the pale starlight, the civil and military officials of the court gradually realized the terrifying crisis lurking behind it.

If left unchecked, it would be a frightening disaster affecting the entire world, definitely not something that could be controlled by any single family power.

While the Mortal Emperor was alive, they could still hope that the Mortal Emperor, holding great power of the Mortal Path, would fend off external enemies.

Now, with the Mortal Emperor perished and external enemies far outside the world, they could only place all their hopes on Shen Yuan.

In such a situation, all the trade with other realms did not compare to their own lives and family heritage.

Seeing Shen Yuan’s return, Ji Zhaoyang, who was leading the gathering, immediately stepped forward to inquire:

“Everything is ready, please Taoist preside over the matters of the Great Schism.”

Shen Yuan glanced over the pale stars in the firmament, and spoke with authority:

“Commence the ceremony to worship the heavens immediately!”

“We shall obey the Taoist’s decree!”

“We shall obey the Taoist’s decree!”

At his command, all the cultivators within the entire Great Yin Capital City were mobilized.

These cultivators, carrying precious ritual vessels, stood on the nodes of the Mortal Path Array, chanting ancient verses.

Within the Imperial City, the deep bell tolling seemed to be a call from the primordial times, and a huge sacrificial platform rose from beneath the ground.

The platform, made of rock, bore inscriptions of the rise and fall of dynasties, the history of the Human Clan’s prosperity and decline, with boundless humanity fate condensed upon it.

The ceremony to worship the heavens was the highest-level ritual of the Human Emperor Dynasty and was typically reserved for the enthronement of a Mortal Emperor.

The true ceremony of the Great Yin Imperial Dynasty required a hundred years of preparation, with the Mortal Emperor’s envoy traversing the 36 Territories of Jiu Province to arrange the rituals, and when initiated, people of the Human Clan from various realms would enter the Capital City to offer congratulations.

The ceremony would last a full nine years, until after the peak of humanity fate, the Mortal Emperor completed his enthronement, gaining recognition from the heavens and Mortal Path and taking charge as the Lord of the Mortal Path.

The enthronement ceremonies of later Great Xia Dynasty were mere simplified versions of it.

Though it was the peak era of the Great Yin Imperial Dynasty, clearly, the Thousand-Eyes Divine Monarch lurking outside would not give Shen Yuan a chance to prepare the formal rituals, and everything had to be simplified.

However, Shen Yuan held the great power of the Mortal Path, and even if the rituals were incomplete, he could still invoke the might of the ceremony to worship the heavens.

Wearing white robes, Shen Yuan stepped onto the ancient sacrificial platform.

With each step he took, the stirred humanity fate of the Primal Chaos Realm boiled, and a thread of will born from the heavens and earth quietly descended upon the highest point of the platform.

That thread of will born from the heavens and earth was so ancient that it seemed to have existed since the opening of this great chiliocosm.

It witnessed the creation of the world, the era when the Turmoil demons reigned supreme.

It also witnessed the fall of the demons, and the Tao Ancestral Master establishing three thousand great paths.

The birth of the Human Clan was but a trivial ripple in the lengthy passage of time that this will had experienced.

It was the Primal Chaos Intent, the Innate Divinity born within the Primal Chaos Realm.

As Shen Yuan ascended the platform step by step, the Thousand-Eyes Divine Monarch outside the Primal Chaos Realm seemed to sense the threat, and its vast form finally began to shift.

The pale eyes that dotted its entire body like boils flickered and fell from their sockets before rapidly expanding. Three eyes transformed into substantial celestial bodies.

And those pale celestial bodies descended from the Endless Void, becoming great stars that smashed towards the Primal Chaos Realm.

The void trembled, and as the barriers of the great chiliocosm tried to stop these stars, only to see the body of the Thousand-Eyes Divine Monarch writhing, the formidable world barriers were breached by the erosive starlight over several days, opening a portal through which the great stars smashed into the Primal Chaos Realm.

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