CHAPTER 2018: CHAPTER 1268: DI JUN MAKES HIS MOVE

"I wonder when Your Majesty will return the spiritual energy?"

Jieyin Saint cautiously asked. It wouldn’t be a problem for the spiritual energy to be withdrawn for several decades, but once time drags on, the entire Heaven and Earth would face issues.

Just like after the Great Ancient, the disappearance of innate spiritual energy led to the rapid deterioration of the heavenly environment, resulting in only Great Luo Golden Immortals emerging in the distant ancient era, with no sign of Taoist Masters.

"When the time is right, it will be returned."

On this matter, Jiang Chen played a riddle. Seeing him remain silent, the crowd didn’t dare to press him, only hoping in their hearts that Jiang Chen would return the spiritual energy to Heaven and Earth soon.

Otherwise, the longer it drags on, the greater the pressure on them. After all, Jiang Chen withdrew the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth after meeting them.

The Heavenly Emperor is supreme, and with such an incident occurring, all living beings dare not blame Heaven and Earth, making them the most obvious targets for venting.

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"What has happened, why has the Heavenly Emperor suddenly withdrawn the spiritual energy? Even if it’s to punish those cultivators, isn’t this too harsh?"

At this moment, within the Supreme Heaven, those strong ones who didn’t rush to the Heaven Court were utterly astonished by this sudden event.

They had long become accustomed to Jiang Chen’s wild ideas. No matter how much they speculated, they couldn’t fathom Jiang Chen’s purpose for doing this.

But they were certain that Jiang Chen did not do this for so-called punishment. If he truly wanted to punish the world’s cultivators, there were numerous ways to do so, no need for such a drastic approach.

If it truly led to the deterioration of Heaven and Earth, it would bury the future of the Prehistoric World.

Faced with Jiang Chen’s sudden move, all the powerhouses were deeply perplexed. Yet, perplexed as they were, none ventured to the Heaven Court to question Jiang Chen’s intentions, choosing instead to ponder slowly on their own.

Their perplexity could not change the transformations occurring in Heaven and Earth. After Jiang Chen withdrew all the innate spiritual energy, the originally abundant cultivation environment gradually became harsh.

For beings above the Taoist Master, even if all the spiritual energy in Heaven and Earth disappeared, it wouldn’t affect them.

But for the cultivators below the Taoist Master, the impact was significant. The sudden absence of dense spiritual energy was tantamount to having rich delicacies turn into plain gruel and vegetables at every meal.

Such a huge disparity was truly something they couldn’t accept. For a time, the heavens and earth were filled with the wails of cultivators.

Unfortunately, their wails couldn’t alter Jiang Chen’s will. Thus, time flowed continuously, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of years passed.

Thousands of years couldn’t really be considered short. Those powerhouses who initially remained on the sidelines gradually began to feel uneasy.

They initially thought Jiang Chen was just putting on a show to scare the cultivators below and would return the spiritual energy in at most a century.

They didn’t expect that after millennia, Jiang Chen remained indifferent, showing no inclination to return the spiritual energy.

Watching their disciples struggle to advance, even those powerhouses who were watching could no longer sit idly by and decided to go to the Heaven Court to plead, hoping Jiang Chen would return the spiritual energy.

Without spiritual energy, the impact was indeed significant. In the past, within a thousand years, even a declining doctrine could give birth to dozens of Immortal Persons.

But nowadays, that number had dropped from dozens to a few, a tenfold decline.

And this was just the beginning. As time passed, if the spiritual energy issue wasn’t resolved, it would become more severe, eventually making it difficult for Immortal Persons to be born.

The doctrines faced the risk of weakening, no wonder the powerhouses of Supreme Heaven grew anxious, all heading to the Heaven Court to plead.

Meanwhile, as they headed to the Heaven Court, Jiang Chen was closely watching the situation on the Chaos Demigods’ side.

Soon after Jiang Chen withdrew the spiritual energy, the event he had long anticipated finally happened. Di Jun began taking action, causing chaos among the Chaos Demigods.

On the other side of the Prehistoric World, a region covered by Chaos surged, where world after world rose and fell, these were the realms governed by the Chaos Demigods, formed from fragments of the Prehistoric World.

However, though they were part of the Prehistoric World, due to being controlled by the Chaos Demigods, they had already been severed from it.

Therefore, when the Prehistoric World ascended to a concept level, they gained no benefits and remained the same.

Yet, under the management of the Chaos Demigods, these worlds quickly grew stronger. Initially, they were merely Universe World, but now they were mostly All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds.

There were even a few that had ascended to become Supreme Worlds.

The reason for such rapid ascension was because the Chaos Demigods were secretly devouring the Chaos Origins.

The situation was now very clear: it was inevitable for the Chaos to be devoured by the Prehistoric World, so the opportunistic Chaos Demigods outright abandoned Chaos, determined to extract its final value to achieve personal greatness.

They used the Chaos Source to strengthen their worlds, and with this, when they eventually merged with the Prehistoric World in the future, they could grasp part of its original source.

The plan was a great one, but at present, there was internal turmoil among the Chaos Demigods.

In the many worlds, one world was rapidly expanding, filled with light. Endless light poured out from this world, radiating in all directions.

The rules of any world touched by this light began to change, slowly integrating into this Realm of Light.

This was the Realm of Light, controlled by the Light Demon.

By devouring surrounding worlds, the Realm of Light had seen tremendous growth these years. Not only did it ascend to a Supreme World, it also became one of the three most powerful worlds among the chaotic lands.