"The survival of Shen Ni poses a potential threat to the Human Race."
"I will now descend to the deepest part of the earth, into the Endless Abyss! To see if Shen Ni is truly dead, or merely faking his death!"
...
Fang Ming descended, following the underground paths carved out by the Human Race, deep into the primordial earth, further and further from the surface...
Finally, Fang Ming reached the depths of the earth!
Here, he saw many Human Race guards stationed.
And in this deepest part, there was a great gate!
This locked gate was a spatial node opened by the Human Race, leading to the Great Thousand World of the Endless Abyss!
"You all retreat!"
Fang Ming possessed Heavenly Emperor-level combat power, equivalent to a Hunyuan Wuji cultivator, a cultivator at the Heavenly Dao realm.
Naturally, he feared no karma, so he directly ordered everyone to retreat. He alone opened the locked gate and entered the Great Thousand World of the Endless Abyss!
The Endless Abyss...
Though named the Endless Abyss, it was in reality a Great Thousand World!
However, this Great Thousand World filled with karma was impossible for any life to exist within.
No life, no beings who had embarked on the path of cultivation...
This was a Great Thousand World where the Heavenly Dao stored karma...
Fang Ming, having lived through seven lifetimes, though not a Red Dust Immortal, his strength was already earth-shattering.
Karma, in small amounts, was enough to cause the demise of Golden Immortals and Taiyi realm cultivators!
Moderate amounts of karma would make even Da Luo realm cultivators suffer!
Large amounts of karma were enough to threaten seasoned Quasi-Saints and Sub-Saints!
Immense amounts of karma could even make the Heavenly Dao Sages, who claimed to be untainted by karma, feel a prickling sensation on their scalps.
In the primordial world, Heavenly Dao Sages could generally remain unafraid of karma, but if they were to venture into the Endless Abyss, they would realize that claims of being untainted by karma were hollow. This was because the karma descended by the Heavenly Dao had a limit!
Immense amounts of karma existed only in the Endless Abyss. If a Heavenly Dao Sage were to enter this Great Thousand World, they would inevitably be killed by the stored, boundless karma!
But Fang Ming was different...
Fang Ming was already a powerhouse comparable to the Heavenly Dao realm!
What was the difference between the Heavenly Dao realm and the Heavenly Dao Sage realm?
One only needed to look at how Fang Ming, with his cultivation as a Great Emperor who had lived through two lifetimes, killed Taiqing Sage thousands of times in just three hours, to understand!
A Great Emperor who had lived through two lifetimes, though unable to endure as long as a Heavenly Dao Sage, could indeed kill him thousands of times, making him revive thousands of times.
If this was the case for a Great Emperor on the path of nine lifetimes to become an Immortal, how much more so for a Heavenly Emperor-level powerhouse who had lived through seven lifetimes?
The vast difference between a Heavenly Dao Sage and the Heavenly Dao realm where Hongjun Dao Ancestor resided could be seen from this...
Fang Ming, of course, had no reason to fear karma!
Wherever he passed, countless karmic forces would entwine around him, but they were completely suppressed by the aura of Fang Ming's body, which repelled all daos and suppressed all daos!
As he journeyed, his white robes remained unstained by dust, not a trace of karma clinging to him!
Fang Ming spent seven days.
He meticulously explored this Great Thousand World.
Then, he had to admit, he truly could not find any trace of Shen Ni's existence!
It was as if he had truly perished!
"Did he truly perish in the Fierce Beast Tribulation, die in this Endless Abyss, and have no means of returning?"
"No means of resurrection?"
Fang Ming frowned, thinking that if this Shen Ni was faking his death, his methods were truly extraordinary, no wonder he could deceive Hongjun Dao Ancestor!
Hongjun Dao Ancestor, in the Heavenly Dao realm, had also progressed a great distance, at least possessing a strength level of eight lifetimes, very close to nine lifetimes, which was not something Fang Ming could compare to at present.
Even he could not discover any signs of Shen Ni's existence, let alone Fang Ming!
However, Fang Ming was an anomaly. As long as he took out the Karma Ring, this Chaos Spirit Treasure that had once located three Heavenly Dao Sages in the Chaos...
It belonged to the Karma Demon God, at the peak level of Hunyuan Wuji, ranking among the top ten of the Three Thousand Demon Gods. It was a top-grade Chaos Spirit Treasure, infinitely close to a Chaos Supreme Treasure...
Calculating whether Shen Ni was truly dead or faking his death would not be difficult.
Fang Ming activated the Karma Ring.
The Karma Ring traced the timelines related to Shen Ni in the primordial land...
Tracing the timelines related to Shen Ni, the Emperor of Fierce Beasts!
Shen Ni's past, present, and future, unfolded before Fang Ming's eyes...
Fang Ming severed all the scenes of the past, only seeing the future!
The Karma Ring, using karma threads, peered into the past and future, calculating all past and future!
A flicker of light flashed in Fang Ming's eyes, and a scene appeared...
It was seen:
[The Era of Dharma Decline, more than two hundred billion years after the Witch-Demon Era...
In the Endless Abyss, which seemed to be filled with karma, a will began to awaken, shaking the entire primordial world!
The Endless Abyss, this Great Thousand World, was torn asunder!
A terrifying fierce beast crawled out from the Endless Abyss!
Boundless resentment and malevolent energy filled the entire primordial world. This fierce beast emperor had already recovered his peak Hunyuan Wuji cultivation, even higher than when he was a Chaos Demon God!
His body was surrounded by boundless malevolent energy. Even a thousandth or ten-thousandth of this malevolent energy was enough to kill Heavenly Dao Sages thousands, or even tens of millions, of times!
His figure seemed capable of engulfing the entire primordial world, truly achieving world destruction!
This was—Beast Emperor Shen Ni! The Fierce Beast Emperor, Shen Ni!
"Hongjun! Luohu! Yin Yang! Qian Kun! Yang Mei!"
"You five, you never expected this!"
"You cast me into the Endless Abyss, entangled me with boundless karma, not only did you not completely kill me, but you also allowed me to glimpse the ultimate profundity of karma!"
"All the boundless karma returns to me! I am the one who brings the void, solely to send all beings of the primordial world to their demise, and usurp Pangu's Dao fruit!"
In the eyes of the Fierce Beast Emperor, the Chaos Demon God, Shen Ni, was a burning desire for Pangu's Dao fruit!
During the Fierce Beast Tribulation, he had lost! But he had not truly lost!
After enduring several cycles of tribulations, he finally, in the Era of Dharma Decline, gathered all the karma of the Endless Abyss into himself. From then on, he was the karma of the primordial world!
All the karma of the primordial world was Shen Ni's body!
This was already the strength of the peak Hunyuan Wuji!
Sufficient to contend for the ownership of Pangu's Dao fruit in the Era of Dharma Decline with Hongjun Dao Ancestor, Xuantian Demon God, Wuxing Demon God, and others, and to glimpse the realm of Great Dao Sage!
"This Emperor has returned from resurrection!"
Shen Ni, looking down upon the primordial world, declared!
Behind him were countless fierce beasts born from karma and resentment...
In Fang Ming's palm, the Karma Ring materialized, reflecting scenes of infinite past and future.
He sneered, "Indeed, as I predicted, this Shen Ni was faking his death!"
"Or rather, although he perished! He left behind a contingency for resurrection!"
Heavenly Dao Sages could achieve infinite resurrection through their primordial spirit cores at the Heavenly Dao.
Shen Ni, in his prime, was a Chaos Demon God of the Hunyuan Wuji level. Even if his primordial spirit and physical body were destroyed, as long as a trace of his Dao fruit remained, resurrection would not be impossible.