The light cluster exploded.
The terrifying vitality within it burst out in an instant. For a time, a vast region of the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth was shrouded in a blinding radiance.
Within that light was astonishing vitality—so strong it had reached a frightening level.
The end of life is death; vitality pushed to the extreme does not necessarily bring life. On the contrary, it can bring death.
In this region, there were two incorporeal soul-form beings currently being gestated by the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth. Under the impact of the immense vitality, they rapidly died.
The vitality was like a terrifying tonic—over-supplemented, it kills instead.
And it wasn't just those two unlucky beings being nurtured; the vast amount of Primordial-Heaven Qi in this region was also scattered by the overwhelming surge of vitality.
Then, at the very center of the explosion, there existed a trace of death-power.
That trace of death-power was the source of the great transformation. At the heart of the explosion, it was not destroyed; instead, it became the core.
The explosion shattered space and connected to some unknown spacetime.
Within the blinding light, a great tide of Primordial-Heaven Qi surged out—not the Primordial-Heaven Qi of the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth, but that of a completely new Heaven-and-Earth.
"Opening up Heaven and Earth…"
Lin Moyu murmured under his breath.
"There's nothing wrong with the technique—it really is opening up Heaven and Earth."
The most important thing in the evolution of a Heaven-and-Earth is Primordial-Heaven Qi. Without it, everything is in vain.
The appearance of Primordial-Heaven Qi means that the evolution of a Heaven-and-Earth has begun.
At this moment, by using the technique to detonate the Heaven-and-Earth core shell, he was indeed evolving a Heaven-and-Earth.
Lin Moyu observed the entire process. He saw the explosion; he saw the appearance of Primordial-Heaven Qi.
Yet he still couldn't see where the Primordial-Heaven Qi came from.
It simply appeared, bright and crystalline, and then surged out continuously in astonishing quantities.
If this Heaven-opening explosion had occurred outside of any Heaven-and-Earth, it might indeed have evolved into a brand-new Heaven-and-Earth.
Unfortunately, this was inside the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth.
The Language-God Heaven-and-Earth has its own rules; it's impossible for a second Heaven-and-Earth to evolve inside an existing one. Even if it were possible, there would need to be a medium to link the two.
For example, in the Chaotic Primewild, Lin Moyu himself is that medium—he exists within the Chaotic Primewild while also being connected to the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth.
But this newborn Heaven-and-Earth currently had no medium. It was simply inside the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth. Very soon, it would be constrained by the rules of the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth, unable to complete its final evolution, and even less likely to become a fully independent Heaven-and-Earth.
And that process was precisely the most important part.
Lin Moyu activated the Nine-Heavens Fate Technique, directing the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth to begin absorbing this Primordial-Heaven Qi.
Primordial-Heaven Qi from different Heavens-and-Earth has different properties and normally shouldn't be absorbable by the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth.
But this newborn Heaven-and-Earth had just begun to evolve; it had no rules yet and had not begun to nurture soul-form beings.
Though different, it was still a blank sheet of paper, on which he could scribble as he pleased.
The Language-God Heaven-and-Earth absorbed it effortlessly.
It was not only the Primordial-Heaven Qi—
the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth was also absorbing the origin power of this newborn Heaven-and-Earth.
Everything it possessed was a delicacy to the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth.
As it was absorbed, the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth gradually grew stronger.
Lin Moyu could feel that its very essence was being elevated.
It wasn't that the Heaven-and-Earth's strength was rising; its essence was being raised.
If the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth had originally been able to contain one hundred units of power, now it could contain a hundred and ten.
Its essence was strengthening, but its internal rules could not keep up with that change so quickly.
Lin Moyu took out the rule crystal and merged it into the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth to reinforce its rule-power.
Two-pronged at once—the essence and the rules of the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth both strengthened together.
"Balance."
With a thought, the Calamity Scepter appeared in Lin Moyu's hand, the Balance Gem shining brilliantly.
This time, the power of the Balance Gem acted directly upon the internal rules of the Heaven-and-Earth, no longer limited to any particular region.
The Balance Gem's power caused the rules and the changes in the Heaven-and-Earth to tend toward equilibrium.
For a Heaven-and-Earth, extremity cannot be pursued; absolute balance is perfection.
Achieving that is extremely difficult—absolute balance is almost an ideal state.
In reality, every Heaven-and-Earth has its bias, its emphasis.
The purpose of the Balance Gem is revealed precisely here—it can offset the Heaven-and-Earth's biases and bring it into a state of absolute balance.
Every strand of Primordial-Heaven Qi within the Heaven-and-Earth, every rule, every Dao, maintains absolute balance with one another.
Within each of them, they also maintain internal balance.
At the same time, the rules and Daos still need their own characteristics and emphases—and even those emphases must remain balanced among themselves.
Lin Moyu urged the Balance Gem, channeling his own will into it, personally intervening in the evolution of the Heaven-and-Earth.
In the past, this would have been impossible. But now, with the refined Language-God Heaven-and-Earth working in concert with the Balance Gem, Lin Moyu could realize his intent.
The Hongmeng Stone manifested with a hint of confusion.
"Master, if you do this, the entire Heaven-and-Earth will have no distinguishing traits."
Lin Moyu said, "Why does it need traits?"
The Hongmeng Stone froze. Obviously, it had never considered that question.
"But every Heaven-and-Earth I've seen has its own characteristics. Even those few nine-wheel Heavens-and-Earth have their own traits. Like that seven-wheel Heaven-and-Earth you went to before—it leaned toward the Dao of water."
"I know that each Heaven-and-Earth has its focus," Lin Moyu said, "but that isn't necessarily the correct way.
"I want an absolutely balanced Heaven-and-Earth, one that can encompass everything. Only such a Heaven-and-Earth can absorb the power of other newborn Heavens-and-Earth without falling into imbalance.
"In my understanding, no matter what kind of Heaven-and-Earth it is, no matter what its emphasis, in the end it all returns to the two characters: life and death.
"I take the Undying Dao as my foundation, granting life and commanding death—that's also an expression of this principle."
The Undying Dao was Lin Moyu's foundation. The Technique Domain was also anchored upon the Undying Dao. Now he was using the Undying Dao as one of the foundations of the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth itself.
As the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth absorbed the newborn Heaven-and-Earth, it was also the process of the Undying Dao fusing into it.
After repeated deduction, Lin Moyu felt that what he was doing had no problem.
The behavior of Xunzhi Heaven-and-Earth confirmed his deductions.
Though there were some subtle differences in the process, they had no effect on the overall situation.
Through the Nine-Heavens Fate Technique, Lin Moyu controlled the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth, making countless real-time adjustments.
He could clearly feel the Heaven-and-Earth growing stronger, its foundation becoming more solid; the entire Heaven-and-Earth seemed to grow ever weightier and more substantial.
"My path is not wrong."
Lin Moyu murmured.
Through observing the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth, he further solidified his own ideas.
Another path that no one had ever walked—only by walking roads others had never taken could he surpass those who came before. Otherwise, he would always be walking the paths of others, seeing the endpoint ahead. And that was not what he wanted.
The newborn Heaven-and-Earth continued to evolve, and the power and Primordial-Heaven Qi it produced were continuously absorbed by the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth.
The entire process was extremely smooth.
In the blink of an eye, several years passed, and the newborn Heaven-and-Earth was halfway through its evolution.
By now, Lin Moyu was operating everything with ease, fully at home.
Suddenly, a wave of joy was transmitted to him, followed by a familiar voice.
"Master."
Hearing that familiar voice, Lin Moyu couldn't help but smile.
The little tree had awoken.
He hadn't expected it—the little tree had actually woken up. Alongside the joy, Lin Moyu was a bit surprised.
He had observed the little tree before; it had been in the midst of a transformation and should have needed quite some time before waking. He hadn't expected it to happen so quickly.
Instinctively, Lin Moyu felt it must be related to the strengthening of the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth.
The little tree's excited voice came, "Yes, the Heaven-and-Earth got stronger, so I woke up early."
"How do you feel now?" Lin Moyu asked.
"Fantastic! I've changed at the very root. From now on I'm no longer a Chaotic Ancestral Tree, but a Hongmeng Spirit Tree."
A single Hongmeng Spirit Leaf, combined with all kinds of other conditions, had transformed the little tree from a Chaotic Ancestral Tree into a Hongmeng Spirit Tree.
Even its species had changed. That Hongmeng Spirit Leaf was truly extraordinary.
The little tree said excitedly, "Master, I obtained some information. I need to tell you."
Lin Moyu gave a soft "Mm." "Take your time. I'm listening."
"The Hongmeng Spirit Tree is a tree that transcends Heavens-and-Earth—it's the progenitor of all trees. I'm currently in the juvenile stage of a Hongmeng Spirit Tree and don't have many abilities yet, but I'll be very powerful in the future.
"Each of my leaves can carry an entire Heaven-and-Earth.
"My roots can pierce into the Life-Forbidden Zone and absorb the ruinous power there, converting that ruinous power into vitality to strengthen the current Heaven-and-Earth.
"When I fully mature, I should have even more powerful abilities. Those abilities will need further research and development on my part."
Close to cinnabar and you turn red; close to ink and you turn black—the little tree had been with Lin Moyu long enough that it, too, liked to study all manner of things.
Even without considering what new abilities it might gain after full maturity, the abilities it had now were already outrageous.
He had never heard of anything that could utilize the ruinous power of the Life-Forbidden Zone.
Even the Hongmeng Stone, within the Life-Forbidden Zone, could only remain undying. As for the power there, it could not make use of even a shred of it.
Yet the little tree could absorb ruinous power and convert it into the energy it needed to grow, while at the same time, as before, continuously providing Lin Moyu with soul-power, and even supplying a portion of its strength to the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth to enhance it.
With such abilities, the little tree was a unique, unparalleled treasure.
Hongmeng Spirit Tree, Hongmeng Stone…
Lin Moyu faintly felt that the word "Hongmeng" must have some special meaning.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind.
"Little tree, you just said your leaves can carry Heavens-and-Earth?"
"Yes," the little tree answered.
"Then where are those Heavens-and-Earth?"
Sweeping his gaze over, Lin Moyu saw that the little tree had already grown a new branch, on which hung three tender green leaves, brimming with vigorous vitality, looking like jade and extremely beautiful.
He could vaguely sense that the leaves were extraordinary.
These three leaves were not the same as the leaves from when it had been a Chaotic Ancestral Tree; they were more vast and profound, but still slightly inferior to the Hongmeng Spirit Leaf.
At this time, the Hongmeng Spirit Leaf had already merged completely with the little tree and vanished from sight.
The little tree should still be immature; it was a Hongmeng Spirit Tree, but once it fully matured, its leaves should themselves be Hongmeng Spirit Leaves.
While Lin Moyu was pondering, the little tree continued,
"There are many Heavens-and-Earth. I can locate them through my leaves, then establish spatial channels on the leaves.
"Right now I'm not fully grown, so I can only do that much. In the future, I'll be able to place Heavens-and-Earth on my leaves."
Lin Moyu narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Then can you locate Heavens-and-Earth now?"
If they could truly be found, his plans would become countless times more convenient.
He wouldn't need to go into the Chaotic Primewild and search for spatial channels one by one; he could directly go to other Heavens-and-Earth through the little tree.
It felt a bit like playing solo dungeons in a game—that feeling was quite nice, and from the bottom of his heart he found that he really liked it.
"Locating Heavens-and-Earth takes time. I'll start searching now and tell Master when I find them," the little tree said.
"All right. Try to find Heavens-and-Earth of five wheels and above. You know what that means, right?"
"I understand. Don't worry, Master," the little tree replied.
The little tree began searching for Heavens-and-Earth.
Heavens-and-Earth were located beyond the Life-Forbidden Zone, scattered throughout boundless void like countless stars in the sky—many in number, yet separated by immense distances.
Lin Moyu had no idea what method the little tree was using, but that didn't matter. He simply had to wait for the result.
Ten years later, the newborn Heaven-and-Earth finally reached the end of its evolution.
Over those ten years, all of the Heaven-and-Earth power and Primordial-Heaven Qi it produced was absorbed entirely by the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth.
In Lin Moyu's perception, the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth had improved by roughly twenty to thirty percent, with no defects at all.
The entire Heaven-and-Earth remained in an extremely perfect state and, under the influence of the Balance Gem, entered a special state of absolute balance.
The rules and Daos within it were silently changing.
Lin Moyu flipped his hand and took out the seven-story pagoda—this was the Heaven-and-Earth core from a seven-wheel Heaven-and-Earth.
It was also just a shell, but far more powerful than the core from Xunzhi Heaven-and-Earth.
"Heaven-Burst Earth-Rend."
The technique was unleashed; the seven-story pagoda turned to dust, leaving only a cluster of radiance, from which vigorous vitality began to grow.
The power of life turned into great rivers and torrents, pouring in and continually strengthening that vitality.
Vitality is the foundation of all things; the evolution of an entire Heaven-and-Earth requires surging vitality.
This time, the amount of life-power it absorbed was several dozen times more than before, and for certain special reasons, that life-power was multiplied again by tens of thousands of times.
As expected of a seven-wheel Heaven-and-Earth core—it was far more powerful than that of a six-wheel Heaven-and-Earth.
"Absorb. The more you absorb, the better. The more you absorb, the stronger the power that will be born when it explodes to evolve a Heaven-and-Earth, and the more Primordial-Heaven Qi there will be.
"The more the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth will gain, naturally."
When the life-power within the light cluster accumulated to its limit, the vitality contained within it reached a terrifying level.
Even a quasi–Great Venerable wouldn't be able to withstand such vitality; they would be burst apart.
Vitality at its extreme is poison—it can kill invisibly.
In an instant, the power of life transformed into the power of death.
This sudden transformation between life and death triggered a qualitative change.
The light cluster rapidly expanded, swelling dozens of times larger, then quickly shrank until it was no longer visible.
After a hundred breaths, a beam of light bright enough to blind burst forth from the darkness, followed by an endless radiance flooding a vast region.
The roar of an explosion came right on its heels.
A Heaven-opening, world-creating explosion had appeared.
In this great explosion, surging vitality submerged billions upon billions of li of space around it.
In this region, other than Lin Moyu, no living being could have survived.
Dense Heaven-and-Earth power churned violently, and Primordial-Heaven Qi was produced endlessly.
Lin Moyu began his work.
He continued directing the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth to absorb the newborn Heaven-and-Earth's power and Primordial-Heaven Qi.
The Language-God Heaven-and-Earth was like it could never be full, devouring mouthful after mouthful—growing fatter as it ate, and stronger as it grew.
The Balance Gem continued to shine, penetrating into every corner of the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth, keeping it in a state of absolute balance.
A seven-wheel Heaven-and-Earth was far stronger than a six-wheel one.
Lin Moyu felt that after this time, the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth would at least be more than three times stronger than at the beginning.