All the chaos and noise of the outside world had become irrelevant to Ian Song. At this moment, he was fully immersed in deducing the Heavenly Dao patterns hidden within the simulated strokes of the Creation Heaven Diagram.
Stroke by stroke, line by line.
He completely ignored the passage of time.
He had no idea how long it had been. At last, Ian let out a heavy breath, his face breaking into a deeply satisfied smile—he had finally deduced all the strokes hidden within the diagram on the first Heaven Stele.
Looking at the diagram again, he noticed a mysterious change in its appearance.
It no longer seemed crude—instead, it was astonishingly beautiful, radiating a natural beauty, the beauty of Heavenly Dao itself.
Suddenly, a golden light shot out from the diagram and plunged into his soul, flooding him with a torrent of information.
When he finished browsing through all that information, he couldn't help but sigh, "So that's how it is!"
"How many years have passed, I wonder?"
After a quick calculation, Ian realized he'd been in seclusion inside the Divine Temple for over thirty years.
"Good, there's still plenty of time!"
Every stroke and line of the Creation Heaven Diagram was like a brick—just as identical bricks can build all kinds of architecture, each unique stroke could be combined to carve out formation diagrams with different effects.
After thirty years of nonstop deduction, even Ian's soul—despite undergoing fifteen metamorphoses—was feeling exhausted.
But precisely because of this intense deduction, his soul had become much more refined.
He could have used Origin Source Power or chaos divine liquid to quickly restore his soul to peak condition, but he chose not to. Instead, he planned to rest for a few days before starting to carve formation disks.
With a single thought,
he shifted over to the world where Redmoon God-King and Joy were cultivating.
With chaos divine liquid as their cultivation elixir, both of them were making rapid progress—especially Joy, who had already reached late mid-segment God-King. Thanks to her Cain bloodline, she was probably invincible among God-Kings by now.
Redmoon God-King, on the other hand, hadn't made much progress lately. She was already at late upper-segment God-King, just a step away from God Emperor. But breaking through to God Emperor was no easy feat—otherwise, out of the billions of Godborn, there wouldn't be only a little over two hundred God Emperors.
"Little bro!"
"Master!"
The moment Ian appeared on the planet, both Redmoon God-King and Joy sensed his arrival. They immediately stopped cultivating and flashed over to meet him.
When the three of them met, of course, there was plenty of affectionate snuggling.
A few days later—
Ian went back into seclusion to begin carving formation disks.
Carving a formation disk was a lot like writing an essay.
Just because you know the words doesn’t mean you can write something beautiful. So trying to combine these Heaven Dao rhythm strokes into a formation disk was far harder than simply using a single stroke to set up an array.
He spent three months.
Ian used over a hundred Heaven Dao rhythm strokes to carve a formation disk.
Once he activated the formation disk—
he discovered its power was actually weaker than a standard god-level array.
That left him feeling pretty disappointed.
But he quickly pulled himself together, searched for mistakes, found them, and kept on carving.
Day after day, year after year.
Five years later—
the formation disk Ian carved erupted with dazzling brilliance, then took shape in the space inside the Divine Temple.
It was a pure offensive array, filled with wild, destructive power. Ian was sure that any God-King who entered it wouldn't last even a second.
With a single thought,
Ian stepped right into the array and controlled it to attack him with just ten percent of its full power.
To withstand it, he unleashed his Primordial Chaos Body at full force.