"Hundreds of systems are such a hassle."

"Let's not go through all that trouble, okay?" You're a bit unsettled: "I'll just follow Xiao Guang's 72-set system. After I become an immortal, I can roam freely throughout the universe."

"Otherwise, repeatedly pursuing the highest realm and the most perfect and tangible Dao fruit would be too exhausting. With the 216 system, wouldn't we eventually pursue 360, 720, or 3600?"

"Some things are endless; just get it good enough."

Then, on this day, an incredibly terrifying behemoth surged into the arena of calamity.

The size of the beasts is always considerable, usually measured in millions of miles.

[The most powerful calamity beasts in the past were equivalent to True Immortals at the third or fourth level, with Dao power exceeding a thousand and a body length exceeding a hundred million miles. It would take you several minutes to run from one end to the other at the speed of light in your previous life.]

This colossal beast was a billion miles long!

[Equivalent to a True Immortal at Stage 5, with a Dao power of 40,000!]

"That's it? I thought it was four small goals."

The giant beast was not only incredibly powerful, but its body could also split into numerous smaller beasts, forming an army to attack the Yuantian Realm.

[If we follow the original timeline, even if someone encounters a fortuitous opportunity that leads to a state of explosive comprehension, ten times faster than the normal Dao Integration state... it would still take a full 1000 years for a chosen one like Bei Chenguang to break through 10,000 in Dao power, barely reaching the fifth stage.]

Moreover, they might not even have that kind of opportunity. By the time the aftershocks kill Mo Jiu in 6373, they might only have a few hundred units of Dao power left.

[The original plot was that the ten chosen ones who rose to power and the five ancient immortals would engage in guerrilla warfare, causing the giant beast to continuously split and weaken itself.]

[Deliver the final, fatal blow.]

But it's not that complicated now.

Xiangyang cheered that there was a monster and rushed towards it.

[With a single punch, the giant beast was sent flying light-years away (by your previous life's standards). The dark matter that made up its body became disordered and deformed, scattering countless particles and effectively reducing its size by one-tenth.]

It was as if a world had been blasted away, pushing out countless layers of cosmic matter. When it collided with the force field of the cataclysm, its body deformed like dough being spread out into a pancake.

[He's not dead.]

[The life of a True Immortal-level creature is so tough that even a single attack hundreds or thousands of times stronger cannot kill it. The giant beast had a tenth of its body worn away by Xiang Yang's attack, which is still considered too fragile!]

[Some truly immortal beings are quite absurd. They may only possess 10 Dao Power, yet they can be killed hundreds of thousands of times by Dao Power without dying, and even escape alive. This is because the Dao Laws they control are all of the immortal and regenerative type.]

[His opponent's stats are a thousand times higher, and they also possess a thousand times more knowledge of the principles and mechanisms involved.]

However, none of those mechanisms could counter his immortality, which led to the situation described above.

The methods of the plundering beasts are relatively limited. They only know how to attack, and the only special Daoist skill they can use is Devouring Luck. Their methods are extremely weak.

[Xiang Yang caught up in one step, unleashing another attack. Thousands of units of Dao power, combined with over a thousand times their original essence, exploded onto the beast, creating a blazing sphere over a third of a light-year in size (by your previous life's standards)!]

"Alright, stop making notes all the time. I'm not stupid; I know this is calculated in miles per second."

[This blazing sphere spun and roared, engulfing the colossal beast, then shrank back to a single point, enveloping and melting it away. When it was all over, only a tiny, ash-like crystal remained.]

[This move is a skill specifically modified by Xiangyang after incorporating the principles of Tao. It adds a shrinking and igniting function to the basic effect of the blazing sun engulfing the enemy.]

Otherwise, it would be like when he first developed this technique 160 years ago, with the blazing sun expanding wildly by one or two light-years, almost destroying the Yuantian Realm!

[The Yuantian Realm is truly as fragile as a soap bubble floating in the air compared to these sixth or seventh-level True Immortals!]

If the Primordial Heaven Realm weren't trapped within the cosmic wall, but rather situated among the stars without any fixed anchor, they could easily send this giant bubble hurtling through the cosmos with just a little blowing!

[As an aside, after comprehending certain principles of the Dao to a certain extent, True Immortals can already break through the limitation of 600,000 miles per second in reality.]

However, they are still unable to perceive this principle due to the exponential increase in speed within the shattered void.

"It seems that this rule was set by some Dao Lord."

Yun Shou, resting his chin on his hand, asked, "Was this universal law established to facilitate the travel of the powerful?"

"Hakido, you really know how to think about the powerful beings of the multiverse!"

[The giant beast that looked like a boss appeared for less than ten seconds before being blasted into dust by Xiang Yang in two blows.]

Because the gap in strength between them was too great, even though the giant beast was as powerful as a True Immortal at the fifth level, Xiang Yang never took it seriously.

[It was only after its death that it caused changes unseen in two thousand years (actually in 1970)!]

That is—the calamity force field enveloping the Yuan Tian Realm is fading!

The fading process was extremely slow, taking about a hundred years to completely disappear. However, even with such a low degree of fading, Xiang Yang still noticed the change three seconds after killing the giant beast.

[This is like him blinking and then noticing that his leg hair grew a few nanometers in the 0.2 seconds before and after the blink.]

[Because he has focused on this tribulation force field for far too long over the years, and also because his cultivation level is too profound—even disregarding his essence, it reaches the fourth stage of True Immortal—his attention span is terrifyingly high.]

[In the year 5471, a world-class carnival took place.]

At this time, the beings of the Yuantian Realm were still unaware of the calamity that had occurred beyond their realm.

[Furthermore, it is unknown that the calamity was originally intended to last for two or three thousand years, until the ten chosen ones of heaven all became immortals, and then joined forces with the five ancient immortals, with various fortunes erupting, enlightenment breakthroughs and upgrades occurring, only then could the calamity beasts be wiped out.]

"Oh, and then?"

[Then, during this period, the beings of the Yuantian Realm will experience a continuous decline in fortune, depletion of resources, stagnation in advancement, and a series of misfortunes...]

"Oh, anything else?"

Furthermore, by the time the giant beast leader with 40,000 Dao power was defeated, the entire Yuan Tian Realm had shrunk many times over, and countless Yuan Tian Domains had turned into barren wastelands!