Covering the Sky: I am the King of Men, and I rule over the rise and fall of all heavens.

In the eternal unknown, there lies a land filled with the rules of the Great Dao.

Jiang Bai sat cross-legged within the Great Dao's rules, his body radiating a soft white light, resisting the erosion of the Great Dao's rules.

The Jade Disc of Creation floating behind him was filled with countless rules, making one want to kneel in worship.

"In the end, I oversimplified the concept of merging with the Dao." After a long while, Jiang Bai opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of Dao Qi.

According to Jiang Bai's initial plan, achieving Dao integration would be a matter of minutes, since he had already tested it with Olga.

Unexpectedly, the process of truly achieving enlightenment was such a long one.

Jiang Bai, distracted and overwhelmed by the will of the plateau, used his last strength to protect Chu Feng and Yao Yao, and his entire consciousness entered this space where myriad rules were everywhere.

That was when Jiang Bai began to enter the state of Dao Integration.

As a result, even now, with Chu Feng dead in battle and Yao Yao's efforts to become the mastermind behind all the heavens, she has not succeeded.

It wasn't that Jiang Bai hadn't tried, but the process was too slow, as if the myriad paths were hindering him.

"Is this a form of resistance because they know they're going to have another father?" Jiang Bai couldn't help but complain.

This wasn't Jiang Bai talking nonsense; rather, it was because, in the process of merging with the Dao over the years, he discovered that he truly transcended all other Daos.

This is completely different from the Dao Integration that Olga and others performed in that universe before.

If we say that Oga and others were corrupted by the myriad paths before they successfully merged with the Dao, then...

Jiang Bai's current state is that he has used the Jade Disc of Creation to erode all the myriad paths, and he himself has surpassed the Jade Disc of Creation and is above all the myriad paths.

Over the years, Jiang Bai has also discovered that the reason he was able to achieve this process lies in the shimmering white light outside his body.

After Jiang Bai's painstaking research, he discovered that the shimmering white light was composed of the thoughts of all living beings.

All beings pray for the existence of the King, for his life, and for him to lead them to a promising future.

Taking a break, Jiang Bai turned his gaze to the heavens.

After three eras, the heavens and the heavens once again prospered.

One after another, immortal kings were born, and one after another, powerful figures became famous throughout the starry sky.

In this glorious era, someone unearthed the stone slab buried by Olga, and through it, deduced the former heavenly court and the existence of a great enemy between heaven and earth.

As the saying goes, curiosity drives people forward, and a group of people began to trace the ancient civilization of the Heavenly Court through the stone slabs.

Gradually, they came to call themselves seekers of history.

They dug deep underground, carving out a world from chaos, searching for the great tomb buried within.

One day, the seekers unearthed a stone tablet inscribed with the words "The underworld is the final resting place of all spirits."

In order to better explore, the seekers established the underworld, believing that this would allow them to bear the consequences of their past actions.

Originally, someone proposed establishing a Heavenly Court, which would be a one-step solution, but this was rejected. The reason was simple: they believed that since the Heavenly Court had been destroyed and was now relying solely on stone carvings to pass on its stories, it was bound to be unable to bear the consequences.

Jiang Bai's thought was, "Brother, the karma of the underworld is not something you can easily bear."

In the years that followed, under the watchful eyes of Jiang Bai and Yao Yao, the seekers found one stone carving after another, using them to uncover secrets of the past.

At the same time, the underworld also became the most powerful force in all the heavens during this period.

This era was even eventually referred to as the Underworld Era.

A million years later, the seekers found a sentence on a stone carving: to reach the pinnacle, one must create one's own cultivation ground. Two million years later, the Lord of the Underworld created a new cultivation method by his own power, and with it, he ascended to a higher realm, entered the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, and became the Dao Ancestor.

At the moment of his ascension, the Lord of the Underworld found the mysterious king hidden among the heavens.

The Lord of the Underworld showed no mercy and killed him. He then searched his soul and found the strange clan.

Subsequently, the Lord of the Underworld, who had reached the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, crossed the Boundary Sea with high spirits to explore new worlds and find the mastermind behind the destruction of the Heavenly Court.

"I want to rid all living beings of the dark forces that are destroying civilization."

All beings in this era cast hopeful glances toward the Lord of the Underworld.

Three hundred thousand years later, the remains of the Lord of the Underworld returned from the Boundary Sea in a small boat, causing all living beings in the heavens to gasp in astonishment.

The shadow of the strange race once again looms over the heavens. Jiang Bai receives countless spiritual forces, which are the spiritual forces of some beings in the heavens hoping that someone can eradicate the strange race.

Upon receiving this batch of psychic energy, Jiang Bai instantly understood.

"No wonder the power of sentient beings' thoughts can control the rules of all paths. It turns out that the hopes and choices of sentient beings are the choices of all paths, the root of all paths' erosion of those who have attained the Dao, and the source of the tasks that those who have attained the Dao receive after attaining the Dao."

"I, on the other hand, intervene between all living beings and the myriad rules, thereby using the power of the thoughts of all living beings to control the myriad rules and thus obtain great power."

Jiang Bai understood, and he also knew roughly when he could successfully merge with the Dao, which would be when the power of all living beings' thoughts reached a point where they could leverage the rules of all Daos.

"The strange race, those who settle accounts with you are never the stronger, but one weak one after another."

"This can be considered a small spark that can start a prairie fire."

Having figured everything out, Jiang Bai suddenly smiled, a very happy smile.

Afterwards, Jiang Bai continued to observe what was happening in the heavens.

The seekers buried the remains of the Lord of the Underworld, hoping that one day he could be resurrected, return to fight the supernatural again, and tell everyone what really happened.

Meanwhile, some powerful seekers also began to set foot on the Boundary Sea, just like the old immortal kings of the era of the Fallen Emperors and the ancient immortal years, trying to do something and leave some truth for future generations.

Therefore, every era has its own heroes.

But an era passed, and the powerful seekers who stepped into the Boundary Sea did not return, nor did any new Quasi-Immortal Emperors emerge, nor did the strange race that everyone feared descend.

For a time, many people gave up searching for the strange race and chose to give up.

As the saying goes, there is no motivation without crisis.

The strange race also discovered this, and they chose to perform sacrifices.

The moment the ritual began, darkness enveloped the entire heavens, and one after another, eerie kings made their moves, destroying one galaxy after another.

In order to instill a sense of crisis in all living beings, the strange race chose the most brutal sacrificial method.

At that moment, the spiritual power of all living beings around Jiang Bai increased wildly, all filled with hatred for the strange race and a desire for their death.

"Although your mental power has enabled me, I still hope that you can rely on yourselves to resist the strange race," Jiang Bai sighed softly.

After the strange race finished their sacrifice, the heavens fell into chaos. Yao Yao left the Cemetery of Gods and Demons and cleaned up the bodies of the resisters, giving them a place to rest in peace after death.

They wouldn't end up wandering like lost souls, their bodies abandoned in the wilderness, becoming food for evil cultivators or wild beasts.

(End of this chapter)