Fantasy: I Am the Villain.

Chapter 278 The Heavenly Dao Nirvana Plan

Chapter 278 The Heavenly Dao Nirvana Plan

The mountain and sea realm is divided into four regions: Heaven, Wilderness, Earth, and Sea. The leading sects in these four regions are Heavenly Strategy Palace in Heavenly Region, Wilderness Cliff Mountain in Wilderness Region, Thousand Buddha Temple in Earthly Region, and Tide Gate in Sea Region.

These four extraordinary sects, which dominate their respective territories, have maintained a very close relationship since their inception.

The predecessors of these four major sects also involve the distant Age of the Flame and the Age of Nirvana.

The locations of the four major sects are also incredibly mysterious. If you look down on the Mountain and Sea Realm from outside the starry sky, you can clearly see that the four sects' lands form a rhombus. They echo each other, are linked to each other, and faintly surround a small area of ​​misty land in the middle, forming a great formation.

This is the Four Absolute Formation that forms the boundary between the Heavenly Dao and the Mountain and Sea Realm.

What is the Heavenly Boundary Barrier? This requires discussing the composition of the world.

A complete planetary world consists of world pillars, celestial laws, and boundary walls.

The World Pillars predate the Heavenly Dao. Strictly speaking, they are the embodiment of the planet's origin. Their form is random, but they generally exist in a form without a physical shadow, dormant in the planet's core. Their function is to support the operation of the world and nurture the birth of the Heavenly Dao.

The Heavenly Way is essentially the spiritual embodiment of the planet's will; the pillars of the world nurture the Heavenly Way. The continuous growth of the Heavenly Way signifies the continuous birth of living beings. Therefore, the Heavenly Way's role is to create and nourish living beings, and instinctively establish the world's great principles and laws.

The boundary wall is a shell that slowly forms and envelops the world as the Heavenly Dao is conceived and grows. Its function is to protect the growth of the Heavenly Dao and prevent creatures from other worlds from entering this world.

The small worlds that cultivators usually refer to are those planetary worlds where the Heavenly Dao has just been conceived, the power of the laws is not yet perfect, and the boundary walls have not yet been formed.

The longer the Heavenly Dao grows, the more perfect its laws become, the thicker the boundary walls become, and the higher the realms that restrict entry.

Generally speaking, the weaker the natural order of a small world, the more valuable it is to explore.

However, the world of the Mountain and Sea Realm is an exception. The Heavenly Dao of the Mountain and Sea Realm slowly died out over the thousands of years after the ancient cultivation world disappeared.

This is an incredible thing.

The Dao of Heaven does indeed have a lifespan, but its lifespan is almost equal to that of the universe. An ancient saying goes: "As long as the universe exists, the Dao of Heaven will never perish!"

But the Heavenly Dao of the Mountain and Sea Realm truly dies of old age!

The ancestral cultivators, who rose again from the remains of the ancient cultivation world, witnessed the entire process of the Heavenly Dao's death.

That difficult and confusing period was later referred to as the "Age of Passing on the Torch".

While the powerful beings at the Mahayana stage and above in the Era of the Burning Flame were working hard to rebuild the cultivation world, they could also clearly sense that the aura of the Heavenly Dao was slowly weakening and withering at an alarming rate, and the originally incredibly thick boundary was also slowly being worn away and thinned.

For this, they paid a huge price to deduce the remaining lifespan of the Heavenly Dao—five thousand years.

They panicked!

Once the Heavenly Dao withers and dies, and the boundary wall disappears, the Mountain and Sea Realm will be exposed to the entire universe. Their fate will be to be invaded, enslaved, and destroyed by more powerful planetary worlds!

Who would willingly allow their world to be destroyed and enslaved?

After thousands of years of unremitting efforts and attempts, they finally deduced the "Heavenly Nirvana" plan that could break the deadlock.

When the Heavenly Dao had three thousand years left to live, the cultivation world had completed its reconstruction, the Age of the Flame had passed, and the "Nirvana Age" had officially begun.

The powerful cultivators of the four regions of Tianhuang, Dihai, and Shiyuan established their own sects and formed an eternal alliance to jointly implement the "Heavenly Dao Nirvana" plan of the Shanhai Realm. This was the predecessor of the four major sects.

The purpose of the "Heavenly Dao Nirvana" project is to ensure that the planet of the Mountain and Sea Realm can still retain the ability to prevent external invasion after the Heavenly Dao dies.

The entire plan consists of four parts: delving into the planet's interior to connect with the world's pillars; forcibly crossing the Heavenly Bridge to collect the remnants of the Heavenly Dao; gathering the faith power of the beings in the Mountain and Sea Realm to store energy; and setting up the core formation to create an artificial boundary wall using the power of the remnants of the Heavenly Dao!

The "Heavenly Nirvana" project took two thousand years to prepare and was completed by our ancestors from the Age of Fire.

The formal implementation period lasted for 2,500 years and was completed through the joint efforts of the four major sects.

Huangyashan was in charge of the first part. After suffering heavy casualties, they finally entered the depths of the planet, met the World Pillar, and reached a consensus with it that the World Pillar would not interfere with the implementation of subsequent plans and would provide assistance in times of crisis.

Tian Ce Palace was responsible for the second part. At that time, the founder of Tian Ce Palace was ranked first in cultivation and strength in the Mountain and Sea Realm. He crossed the Immortal Bridge and arrived at 'that place', where he collected the remains of the Heavenly Dao. However, he was also eroded by the origin of the law and soon passed away.

The Thousand Buddha Temple was responsible for the third part. They first continuously collected the power of faith over two thousand years; then they fused this enormous power of faith with the living Buddha-level relics accumulated within the temple; finally, they gathered enough energy for the core formation.

The Tide Gate was in charge of the fourth part. Their part was also the most complex in the plan. As the final link in the entire "Heavenly Dao Nirvana" plan, they successfully constructed the formation, generation after generation, devoting all their efforts to the construction of the formation.

After ensuring that this sensitive grand formation would not be interfered with by the pillars of the world; after obtaining the most crucial material—the remains of the Heavenly Dao; after gathering enough massive energy to activate the grand formation… on the eve of the Heavenly Dao's death, the formation was finally successfully constructed.

This formation is called the Four Absolute Sealing Formation, also known as the Otherworldly Great Formation.

Each of the four major sects' forbidden areas has a key strategic point, which echoes and links with each other, creating a continuous cycle of life.

After the formation was activated, the Heavenly Dao officially fell silent, the boundary wall collapsed, and an incomparably powerful aura from another world continuously impacted the Mountain and Sea Realm. The instigator was none other than the powerful otherworldly ruler who was eyeing this world with covetous eyes.

Under the impact of the otherworldly aura, a huge black hole appeared in the sky above the four regions. A gigantic hand that blotted out the sky pierced through the outer starry sky and stretched out from the black hole, attempting to forcibly break through the barrier of the laws of this world and create a spatial passage.

An overwhelming pressure emanated from the giant palm, rendering all cultivators from the four regions unable to move under this unprecedented and terrifying pressure.

But at this moment, the formation was fully activated, and the world pillar, in the form of a golden humanoid phantom, traversed space and rushed straight from the depths of the planet towards that giant hand!

The collision of the two caused the sun and moon to regress, and the heavens and earth to tremble!

Countless ancient and obscure runes of law flew out from the great formation, empowering the golden humanoid phantom that was the embodiment of the world's pillar.

Instantly, the phantom, filled with countless law runes, solidified and grew stronger! Finally, it unleashed a world-destroying punch, forcefully suppressing the invincible giant hand back into the endless starry sky.

Then, the phantom of the world's pillar, looking down upon the countless beings of the Mountain and Sea Realm beneath its feet, let out a human-like sigh...