Sensing the attraction from the rift behind him, feeling his memories, skills, and power accumulated over countless years, and even his newly achieved Void Refinement strength, rapidly vanishing.
Primordial was utterly panicked!
He no longer cared about mocking the Heavenly Dao he had always hated, and now, like a child, he cried out for help:
"Heavenly Dao!! Save me!! Heavenly Dao!!!"
"I am Primordial!! The meritorious official who helped you open the Immortal Dao era!!!"
"Protect! Right, you said you would protect me, didn't you!! Protect me!!!"
In the vast unseen, a grand will quietly descended.
A dazzling, pure white, giant sphere of light appeared in the chaos.
The moment he saw this sphere of light, Primordial understood that this was the manifestation of this world's Heavenly Dao!
His eyes instantly erupted with astonishing ecstasy:
"Heavenly Dao!! Haha! Save me!! Heavenly Dao!!!"
*Hum!*
From within the sphere of light, a white beam shot out towards Primordial.
If Chen Luo were present, he would have noticed that this white beam was a large amount of Great Source power.
However, the omnipotent Great Source power proved quite powerless against the erosion of the middle void.
Or rather, for a void world to release its prey from its grasp, a flawed and weak Great Source of a higher world could not achieve it.
As Primordial's gaze shifted from ecstasy to disappointment, the white beam was completely dissolved by the indescribable attraction from behind.
And after the white beam dissipated, Primordial felt his existence become even more tenuous.
But by this point, he could no longer even cry out.
And in the last trace of Great Source power to dissipate, the Heavenly Dao also revealed all the reasons to Primordial.
In the immeasurable past, when this world was still a barren world, the Great Source was also born due to the prosperity of countless demon races and savage beasts.
But she, in her nascent state, though of extremely high status, was extremely immature. In terms of intellect, she was even inferior to some perfect and mature lower world Great Sources.
Therefore, she could not guide her children towards civilization, nor could she make the entire world better.
If there were no accidents, perhaps it would take hundreds of millions of years, until the Great Source gradually matured, before she could ignite the spark of civilization for this world.
But an accident occurred in the void.
In the middle void, two extremely powerful existences engaged in an astonishing battle!
The aftermath of the battle caused the middle void to tremble, and the then-barren world was merely one of the countless worlds hidden within the middle void, like grains of sand.
When the battle between the two great existences ceased, the middle void would have returned to peace, and the barren world would have remained in its barren state for the next tens of millions of years.
But during the battle, a drop of blood struck the barren world with a roar.
A drop of blood from a great existence was an absolute extraterrestrial anomaly for the nascent barren world.
If left unchecked, the contaminating power within it was enough to completely mutate the entire world.
The Great Source of the barren world, still immature at the time, exhausted all her strength to purify the contaminating power within that drop of blood.
To purify that drop of blood, it caused nearly irreversible intellectual damage to the nascent Great Source and plunged her into an almost eternal slumber.
And that purified drop of dragon blood was eventually obtained by a young ape tribe that had lost its family...
Primordial's eyes widened abruptly upon seeing this!
That young ape tribe was himself from countless years ago!
From then on, the Heavenly Dao was flawed, devoid of consciousness and awareness.
And an ape tribe filled with hatred for savage beasts, terrified of death, and desperately yearning for eternity, began its journey across the entire barren land!
Increasing the number of intelligent races and enhancing the power of the entire world would subtly help the Great Source increase her power.
Conversely, the massive deaths of powerful beings would severely damage the Great Source herself.
During the barren era, Primordial massively increased the number of savage beasts, bringing the slumbering Great Source to the brink of awakening.
But later, he created true dragons and used the Demon Court to suppress all savage beasts in the world, which further wounded the Great Source, nearly irreparably damaging her intellect.
However, the accumulation from the subsequent prosperous era of the demon race brought the entire world to the verge of ascension.
When the world naturally crossed that threshold and became a higher world, the immature Great Source awoke once more.
Immature as she was, she instinctively strengthened the world's barriers, preventing external intrusions and also preventing internal life forms from accidentally entering the deadly void.
She had even paid attention to Primordial's ideas. As the mastermind behind everything, Primordial thought he was in a superior position, but the Great Source, who could perceive all the mysteries of the world, knew everything he did.
However, the Great Source at that time was still immature and damaged. Far from being able to converse, she didn't even possess the ability to think.
But Primordial, who had helped her ascend, instinctively felt a closeness to her. Based on this goodwill, the Great Source fulfilled Primordial's dream.
She actively guided the power of the sun and moon of the origin, modified the rules of this world, gave birth to spiritual energy, and granted all life in the world the qualification to exist eternally.
Even the so-called Great Tribulation of Ascension was a gift to help cultivators achieve a leap in life.
However, the immature Great Source could hardly bear the world's rapid growth. After completing all of this, she fell into slumber once more.
And if there were no accidents, it might take several hundred million more years for the Great Source's intellect to barely recover.
After all, the intellect of a normal higher world Great Source was sufficient to form a personality, and would never be merely an instinctively ignorant Heavenly Dao.
But, accidents happened again.
Her favor and the arrival of spiritual energy made Primordial, who had lived for tens of millions more years, feel constrained!
Even with the greatest power in the world, the greatest influence, and the longest lifespan in the world!
But the inability to achieve eternity was Primordial's greatest demon!
Therefore, he wanted to destroy all living beings! He wanted to weaken the Heavenly Dao! He wanted to break open the heavens and earth and go to the void that could grant him eternity!
But all of this became the cause of his death!
"Ah... ah...!"
From his throat, torn apart by the void, came inhuman cries. Tears mixed with blood flowed from the edges of his remaining eye.
Primordial knew he was finished.
The super-large-scale destruction of all living beings in a short period had weakened the Heavenly Dao to its extreme. That was why the heavens and earth were broken open by him, and why the Heavenly Dao, which should have slumbered for tens of millions of years, awakened in such an ignorant state.
But this greatly weakened Heavenly Dao had already exerted all its effort to stabilize the void rift spanning hundreds of millions of miles. To save him, it was already impossible!
If only he had held back a little when he broke through the heavens and earth!
If only his methods had been gentler when he destroyed all living beings!
But there was no "if." The devouring by the void world made Primordial feel like he was being gnawed by an insatiable giant beast. This was the destruction of existence!
"Heavenly Dao!!! I was wrong!!! Please!!! Forgive this sinner!!!"
In the final moment, Primordial trembling extended his remaining arm and, with his divine sense, shouted towards the pure white sphere of light!
The sphere of light remained silent for a moment, then gently came before the broken Primordial.
A ray of white light slowly extended from the sphere of light and grasped Primordial's outstretched arm:
"I'm sorry... I can't save... you..."
At this moment, the Heavenly Dao was also extremely weak.
The rift that Primordial had torn open had brought the entire world to the brink of destruction.
After exhausting her origin and stabilizing the world, she might fall into an eternal slumber.
But at this moment, for the Heavenly Dao that nurtured all spirits, she was merely losing another child...
Suddenly, Primordial tightly grasped the light extended by the Heavenly Dao, and a chilling grin appeared on his face, which had become like a ghost due to erosion:
"Got you!!!"