Clan Cultivation: I Transmigrated With My Smartphone Chapter 959 - 718: Heavenly Dao’s Annihilation of the World (Part 2)

Myriad natural calamities exploded forth, their blasts converging fiercely to demolish surface structures and eradicate countless mortals.

The Purple Mansion World stands as an immortal cultivation realm, featuring myriad mystical elements that endure diverse disasters. When calamities crashed down, cultivators ascended into the skies one by one, dodging the doom; however, base mortals suffered immensely, their existence mirroring Earth's feudal eras, with feeble defenses against natural disasters, all hurtling toward ruin amid the tribulations.

Hua-la!

Torrential rains lashed certain regions from the heavens, ominous clouds smothering the skies, deluging nonstop for ten straight days; elsewhere, the sun scorched with brutal intensity, charring everything in sight, desiccating the soil, and draining rivers dry.

Silvery thunderbolts cleaved from the void, homing in precisely on cultivators.

Facing these disasters, Qi Refining cultivators, Foundation Establishment cultivators, Purple Mansion cultivators, and others met sudden demise.

These cataclysms and chaos raged on for three full months.

Three months later, flora and fauna across the Purple Mansion World plummeted by ninety-eight percent, most mortals marched to extinction, vast arrays of plants and beasts vanished, with only a scant few retreating into grotto-heavens to evade the purge. Beyond mere lowly mortals, hordes of low-level cultivators also fell to celestial tribulations.

Lu Xuanji hovered in the void, surveying the shattered Purple Mansion World—a realm scarred by mass extinction—his formerly frigid heart stirred in that instant, yearning to voice words, yet speech eluded him.

Heavenly Dao annihilates the world!

The Heavenly Dao harbors no emotion, devoid of human feelings; if sentient beings serve its purpose, it nurtures their rise, spawning brilliant civilizations successively; but should they impede it, ruthless world-ending measures follow. The Heavenly Dao knows no sentiment, driven solely by evolutionary hunger and survival instinct!

The Undying Demon Monarch launched a savage incursion, alerting the Purple Mansion World's Heavenly Dao to imminent peril, prompting a massacre of lives, energy withdrawal, and stockpiling for the decisive clash. In this recent purge, innumerable mortals, lowly creatures, and novice cultivators perished.

Sub-Golden Core cultivators largely dissipated, fueling the World Origin.

The realm decays relentlessly, destruction presses onward.

After purging low-level mortals and fledgling cultivators, it shifted to methodically eliminating mid-tier and lower cultivators.

Superfluous masses faced progressive abandonment.

Purple Mansion World's spiritual qi ebbed toward exhaustion, spirit veins withered away, spirit caves turned barren, world laws grew lethargic, heralding the End of Dharma Era and eventual total spiritual void.

With spiritual qi vanishing, Golden Core cultivators wailed in torment, Nascent Soul cultivators shed bitter tears, Divinity Transformation cultivators roared in anguish; their bodily spiritual qi drained away, cultivation bases eroded, flawless Golden Cores, eternal Nascent Souls, undying primordial spirits crumbled, demoting them to Purple Mansion cultivators or even mortals.

Lacking spiritual qi, cultivation crumbles irreparably, reverting fully to mortal frailty.

The instant they became mortals, eternal lifespan shattered; they aged swiftly one after another, expiring on the spot.

In the spiritually depleted Purple Mansion World, every cultivator below Void Refining realm faced total annihilation and dispersal. Only Void Refining realm allowed traversal of the cosmos, absorbing Starlight Power, Power of Sun and Moon, Void Energy, and more, refining them into personal magical power, thereby shattering the Purple Mansion World's shackles and enduring sans spiritual qi.

The world's bindings proved powerless against cultivators surpassing Void Refining realm.

Even the world-culling Heavenly Dao could only eradicate those below Void Refining; higher cultivators escaped to the starry expanse amid crises.

The Heavenly Dao stands impotent.

Buzz!

In that instant, Heavenly Dao invoked its laws, bestowing strands of authority upon Void Refining cultivators, Harmonization cultivators, and Tribulation Crossing cultivators.

These three tiers, bolstered by Heavenly Dao authority, witnessed explosive surges in combat prowess.

Even the frailest among them gained a three-layer enhancement.

Should the physical body's power reach sufficient heights and the primordial spirit prove resilient enough, the boost from Heavenly Dao authority would amplify even further.

High above the boundless void, Lu Xuanji and Qinglian hovered, surveying the world after its destruction, emotions surging within their hearts, as the realm now appeared utterly barren.

Lu Xuanji declared coldly: "The way of heaven detracts from the weak to supplement the strong. Heavenly Dao is truly cunning, outright wiping out cultivators in the first six layers, purging these surplus ones; while sparing those in the final three layers, bestowing Heavenly Dao authority and enhancements. A perfect divide-and-conquer tactic, squeezing out maximum gains—utterly scheming!"

Qinglian responded: "Every gain demands a corresponding loss. The authority we possess originates from nothing but the annihilation of all sentient life."

Lu Xuanji continued: "Heavenly Dao lacks all emotion; to counter the Undying Demon Monarch, it had no choice but to proceed thus! From Heavenly Dao's view, good and evil hold no meaning—slaughtering sentient beings isn't deemed wicked, nor is fostering myriad lives seen as joyous. Judging Heavenly Dao through mortal eyes is utterly ridiculous, profoundly naive!"

With such words, he came across as remarkably magnanimous.

Yet without realizing it, his fist clenched tight, a wave of anxiety flooding his heart.

Heavenly Dao nurtures sentient beings and raises races like Human Race, Demon Race, Monster Race, Barbarian Race, Divine Race, and more, all to advance its own evolution; similarly, to slaughter those beings and shatter individual existences serves its greater evolution.

From Heavenly Dao's perspective, every sentient being—be they low-level cultivators, mid-tier ones, or high-level powerhouses—amounts to mere instruments.

These instruments divide into those of value and those without.

The worthless ones get discarded naturally, preventing any resource waste.

Meanwhile, those at Void Refining, Harmonization, Tribulation Crossing, and beyond count as valuable assets; Heavenly Dao spares them, grants authority, and supplies cultivation boosts. It even unveils portions of its authority, letting cultivators study the laws and grasp their flows more deeply.

Under these conditions, a cultivator's advancement accelerates tremendously.

Heavenly Dao essentially flips on cheats, opening backdoors for cultivators, propelling their cultivation to astonishing speeds.

One day of intense training now rivals ten days of past grueling effort.

In this environment, Lu Xuanji sensed his cultivation surging forward unceasingly.

"Heavenly Dao!"

Lu Xuanji murmured with intricate emotions.

…

Feiyu World.

In the Undying Demon Race's ancestral grounds, colossal arrays activated, formations shifting as runes shimmered, destructive forces linking up. At critical nodes, Void Refining cultivators, Harmonization experts, Tribulation Crossing powerhouses, and others positioned themselves, channeling the arrays.

Myriad supreme arrays roared to life, like an ancient colossal beast stirring awake, poised to swallow all in the blink of an eye.

At the array's heart, the Undying Demon Monarch sat cross-legged, activating profound Secret Techniques; the void twisted, vast spiritual qi rushed in, condensing into misty droplets that cycled before direct absorption into its form.

Its withered frame began plumping up.

Dry qi and blood started revitalizing.

The gravely wounded origin slowly mended.

Sealed away for millennia, the Undying Demon Monarch had endured via mighty Secret Techniques, yet suffered heavy depletion.

Though it clung on now, its core essence neared total exhaustion.

It needed these arrays to swiftly replenish the losses, restoring to peak state in minimal time. Throughout recovery, utmost caution was key—no hidden dangers or lingering injuries could remain. Even the tiniest flaw might demand manifold or even exponential costs later to remedy.

Whew!

Spiritual qi roared like a torrent, Feiyu World's spiritual qi pouring in; half converged fully, devoured by him.

His absorption proved so fierce that Feiyu World’s spiritual qi plunged by fully three layers.