Chapter 1596: 407: The Weight of Upper Narrative

Ascension Sea. The aftermath of the Ascension Clan’s defeat has yet to dissipate, as an even more ferocious war surge sweeps like a tide.

The Mingwu Clan does not rest; the sea of mist, like a recovering giant beast, pushes on with the evil qi of death words, advancing step by step into the domain where Shuyan resides.

Wherever the mist tide touches, the sea surface follows with towering waves. The next Chapter of this war has already begun.

At this moment, in the deep space of the Shuyan Domain.

Before Shuyan floats a rule imprint bursting with brilliant light: Spirit Root.

Shuyan is no stranger to this rule.

In fact, its understanding of the Ascension Clan far surpasses their understanding of it.

The initial discovery of the Ascension Clan was due to the mysterious disappearance of reader entities within the Cultivation Mini World, capable of producing abundant reading power, cutting off the supply of rule-derived energy to it completely.

Thus began its investigation, uncovering the Ascension Clan’s arrangements in many small worlds,

including the hidden Spirit Root Seeds within the bodies of beings in the Cultivation Mini World.

After comprehensively understanding the Ascension Clan’s warfare model and life structure, it finally decided on the Ascension Clan as its next target force.

In the war with the Ascension Clan, it went from being one-sidedly crushed to gradually gaining the upper hand.

Had it not been for the descent of the Mingwu Clan, it would have devoured the Ascension Clan.

During this time, it preemptively constructed a narrative army framework designed specifically for embedding the "Spirit Root Rules."

Now obtaining the Spirit Root Rules requires no experimentation, no decomposition; it can be used directly.

Shuyan’s will sweeps through the deep space at this moment, controlling penmanship and book operation.

The Rulebook flips silently, each page a distinctly different world system.

Mechanical warfare, the Curse Era, Divine Country Illusion... These stories form the adaptable warfare system under Shuyan’s command.

When the page freezes, it reveals a page entirely radiating golden brilliance.

The text on the page forms flowing immortal seals and spirit vein maps.

Heavenly Dao (Shuyan) decrees, and the grand narrative unfolds accordingly.

A line of text emerges: Ten Thousand Spirits Foundation Establishment·Dao Seed Ascension.

The Book Power activates, and the "Spirit Root Rules" floating before Shuyan suddenly bursts open.

It transforms into countless fine dust-like, colorful light points, containing the complete Spirit Root Rule Power, scattered like seeds upon fertile soil, flying towards the page, merging with the preset story framework.

Simultaneously, in the outer domain space.

The Heroic Spirit Legion and the Screeching Legion, prepared to face the Mingwu Army, collapse spectacularly under Shuyan’s will.

They transform into dense, scattering Ink Power, like splashed ink, pouring wildly over the entire Shuyan Domain.

Beginning to reconstruct everything within the domain based on the content recorded in the pages.

The earth rumbles and rises, transforming into an endless range of Immortal Mountains, with Spirit Veins nurturing from the underground.

Dry riverbeds are filled instantly by the spontaneously emerging Spiritual Spring Water, snaking across the land, nurturing it.

Ancient towering trees break through the soil, their branches and leaves entwining spiritual energy... A complete Cultivation World background is swiftly reformed.

At the center of this newborn world, endless colorful light points converge into a sky-reaching giant pillar: the Spirit Root Divine Pillar.

It is also the core of this story.

Upon its birth, the Spirit Root Divine Pillar sprinkles seven-colored luster containing rule elements onto this world.

The majestic ink-colored narrative energy pours like a heavenly river, colliding, intertwining, and merging with the seven-colored luster.

The torrent of stories atop the pages begins to accelerate its evolution:

[In the beginning was the Dao, the Primal Chaos first opened.]

Maxims appear on the page, the Spirit Root Elements interweave with the Ink Power, settling, separating clarity from turbidness, nurturing spiritual material, and the desolate world begins to show development potential.

Spiritual inspiration suddenly emerges, all things sprouting.

The Spirit Root Divine Pillar trembles slightly, its scattered colorful light merges with the land, birthing the most primitive unicellular algae in the Spiritual Spring, followed by more complex plants, insects, and beasts... In reality, this is not natural evolution; they are beings designed under the rules’ penmanship.

It can also be viewed as the story’s opening setup.

[The spiritual energy tide, sweeping across the eight directions.]

When the population of sentient beings reaches a critical mass, the Spirit Root Divine Pillar’s radiance reaches its peak, and the first world-level "Spiritual Energy Resurgence" erupts with a roar.

The tremendous spiritual pressure sweeps the heavens and the earth, washing over every new life, activating the potential of spiritual roots already inscribed within them.

[Breathing and Refining Qi, the path first appears.]

Some beings (apes, cranes, ancient trees, even stones) baptized by the spiritual tide instinctively begin to mimic the energy rhythm of the Spirit Root Divine Pillar, attempting to breathe and refine spiritual energy, and crude Qi Refinement methods spontaneously emerge.

The process of enlightenment that would take hundreds or thousands of years is compressed into an instant, and the first batch of "cultivators" steps naively onto the path.

[Sects establish banners, the Dao legacy passed on.]

Spiritual Wisdom emerges, gathering around the Spirit Root Divine Pillar, or relying on spirit veins, establishing the first shelters and places of discourse.

Runes are inscribed, simple Arrays are deployed, the embryonic form of Artifact Refining and Alchemy begins to appear.

Scattered cultivation forces start forming into small groups, the rudiments of sects and families begin to take shape.

[Prodigies contend, the contest of a great era.]

The world background is now complete, under the nourishment of abundant spiritual energy, talents emerge in this world, with fortuitous encounters unending.

They wield Magic Artifacts, forming spells with their hands, autonomously opening up the acupoints around them.

In their cultivation exploration, the Spirit Roots embedded within them voraciously absorb the ambient rule spiritual energy, completing Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul...

Potential characters begin to shine, engaging in battles, cooperation, and exploring ruins... The magnificent and harsh Cultivation grand era unfolds like a fast-forwarded epic scroll upon the pages.