Qing Ling was unfamiliar with the Grand Dao of Destiny, but not with destiny itself.
He had his own destiny; he could lift the Ten Absolute Heavenly Lanterns to divine the fate of heaven and earth, and his mighty calculations and sharp eyes could see through the destinies of ants.
However, the Dao of Destiny bestowed by the God of Destiny was unlike any other.
The White Dragon had planted the Fortune of Destiny, also known as the Opportunity of Fortune, within his Divine Eye of Life and Death!
This Opportunity of Fortune was more precious than the profound mystery of life and death.
For it was unique in all of heaven and earth!
Qing Ling's consciousness sank, comprehending the profound mystery of life and death while simultaneously deducing the Opportunity of Fortune, integrating it into his Divine Eye of Life and Death.
During this period, neither short nor long, the Primordial World fell into silence for ten thousand years.
The Dragon Clan mourned for ten thousand years for the White Dragon Ancestor, offering sacrifices to his spirit and honoring his supreme position.
Ten thousand years later, the Dragon Clan marched!
An endless tide of sea creatures surged onto the land, sweeping across the Primordial Continent like a vast, oppressive blanket!
The Dragon Clan came for revenge, and they also came to dominate the Primordial World.
Revenge gave the Dragon Clan a legitimate reason to wage war, and the Phoenix Clan and Qilin Clan could not refute it.
The Dragon Clan's simultaneous attacks on the Southern Heaven, the Western Mountains, were a testament to their confidence in their strength, and also eliminated any possibility of mutual aid between the Phoenix and Qilin.
The Azure Dragon Ancestor led the great army of sea creatures, advancing from the northeast towards the west. This time, they were accompanied by seven mighty Heavenly Beings, forty-eight Grand Unity Golden Immortals, and countless Golden Immortals and Tai Yi Golden Immortals, their strength far surpassing that of before.
Furthermore, the Patriarch of the Giant Whale Clan, one of the Dragon Clan's hidden supreme mighty beings, also rushed to the Eastern Forest battlefield.
The reason for his previous concealment was that dealing with weaker foes did not require revealing his trump cards. However, against beings like the Three Clan Ancestors, cultivation within the twenty-fifth heaven would not have a significant effect.
The Giant Whale Patriarch, after years of secluded cultivation, had also reached the realm of twenty-two heavens of Grand Unity!
In the Western Sea direction, a Black Dragon opened the Dragon Gate, and hundreds of billions of sea creatures traversed the Western Sea. They were accompanied by fifty-six Grand Unity Golden Immortals, eight mighty Heavenly Beings, and the supreme mighty being of the twenty-first heaven of Grand Unity, the Patriarch of the Chi Ru.
The Patriarch of the Chi Ru was the progenitor of the Chi Ru.
In the Classic of Mountains and Seas written by Zhen Yuanzi, his entry stated: "From it emerges the Ying River, flowing south into the Ze of Ji Yi. Within it are many Chi Ru, which resemble fish with human faces, and their voices are like mandarin ducks. Eating them prevents itching."
The Candle Dragon, on the other hand, headed directly towards the southeast, leading the remaining elite of the Dragon Clan and a thousand subordinate clans, totaling a hundred Grand Unity Immortals, twelve mighty Heavenly Beings, and embarking on an expedition to the Southern Heaven, accompanied by two supreme mighty beings.
One was the Patriarch of the Luo Fish Clan, and the other was the Patriarch of the Ran Yi Clan.
Zhen Yuanzi's Classic of Mountains and Seas had previously commented:
"From Mount Gui, the Meng River emerges, flowing south into the Yang River. Within it are many Yellow Shells; the Luo Fish has a fish's body and bird's wings, its voice like mandarin ducks. Its appearance foretells great floods in the region.
From Mount Yingdi, the Wo River emerges, flowing north into the Ze of Ling Yang. This place is rich in Ran Yi fish, which have fish bodies and snake heads, six legs, and eyes like horse ears. Eating them grants people peaceful sleep and can ward off misfortune."
The Dragon Clan unleashed its full might, and the power of the sea creatures and subordinate clans surged onto the Primordial Continent. All beasts retreated, the mountains and rivers were unobstructed, and not a single mighty being dared to obstruct them.
For a time, the Dragon Clan reigned supreme across the Primordial Continent, and the world submitted.
The Phoenix Clan had fewer forces on land, so they directly abandoned over a hundred subordinate beast clans. The myriad bird clans retreated to the Southern Heaven, using the magma of the Undying Volcano as a barrier. Although they suffered losses, their foundations remained intact.
However, the Qilin Clan was less fortunate.
The Dragon Clan's strategy was to attack the Qilin first, then the Phoenix.
Among the three clans, the Qilin Clan was the weakest in terms of its own forces. Although they had numerous subordinate beast clans, their direct bloodline was too scarce, making it impossible to control the vast number of subordinate beast clans.
Therefore, when the Black Dragon and the Azure Dragon attacked from the east and west, the various subordinate beast clans across the vast Qilin lands surrendered to the Dragon Clan, with little resistance.
Even the White Tiger Patriarch, summoned by the Qilin Clan, could only hold back the Azure Dragon Ancestor. Even with the arrival of the Nine Xuan Patriarch of the Nine-Colored Deer Clan at the Eastern Forest battlefield, they could only barely delay the Azure Dragon army.
The Black Dragon army in the west had no one to stop them.
Even when they deployed their ultimate force, sending out the Qilin Clan's hidden supreme mighty being, the Black Jade Qilin, it was no match for the Black Dragon Ancestor.
In desperation, the Qilin Clan gathered its subordinate clans and dispatched all their supreme mighty beings from the subordinate clans: one was the divine beast Xie Zhi, and the other was the exotic beast Zhen.
It was also recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas by Zhen Yuanzi: "Mount Zhang'e has no grass or trees, but is rich in Yao and Bi. The phenomena there are extremely strange. There is a beast, which resembles a red leopard, with five tails and one horn. Its cry sounds like stones striking, and its name is Zhen."
The Black Jade Qilin, Xie Zhi, and Zhen, these three supreme mighty beings could barely slow down the eastward advance of the Black Dragon army.
Thus, the conquest continued for ten thousand years upon ten thousand years, the fierce battles never ceasing, and the war between the three clans entered its third Yuan Hui.
Qing Ling also emerged from his seclusion after comprehending his divine abilities. After more than a hundred thousand years absent from the Primordial World, the world had changed considerably.
He saw that more than half of the Primordial Continent was covered by blue waters, with the Four Seas having spread inland.
The Phoenix Clan could only hold their ground in the Southern Heaven, and with the Candle Dragon and two other supreme beings slaying their mighty beings one after another, the depletion of over a hundred thousand years had severely wounded the Phoenix Clan.
Looking at the Qilin lands, the territory now held by the Qilin Clan was less than thirty percent.
All subordinate clans had gathered around the Qilin Divine Cliff, relying on the great formation of the land to resist the attack of the sea creatures.
The Qilin Clan had also lost dozens of Grand Unity Golden Immortals, including those from subordinate clans and direct Qilin lineage.
The Dragon Clan's conquest had also resulted in the deaths of many mighty beings.
In the three Yuan Hui of war between the three clans, a total of a hundred Grand Unity Immortals had perished, directly or indirectly.
These hundred Grand Unity Immortals had no possibility of returning.
For they had perished in the Great Tribulation, and the power of the tribulation had robbed them of the possibility of rebirth. The River of Destiny was shrouded by the tribulation, leaving their true spirits with nowhere to go.
Many mighty beings were forced to reluctantly enter the Earthly Dao and re-cultivate the Ghost Dao!
And many more had their primordial spirits and true spirits completely annihilated by supreme mighty beings, truly and utterly perishing.
The hatred between the three clans had become irreconcilable!
After the demise of nearly a hundred Grand Unity Immortals, their Grand Unity Dao Realms were all absorbed by the Heavenly Dao, transforming into minor worlds under the Heavenly Dao!
The power of the Eastern Heavenly Dao had once again been greatly enhanced.
The Western Demonic Dao, too, had expanded significantly by absorbing countless murderous intent, death energy, and tribulation energy.
As the three clans consumed each other, the Dao and the Demon grew together.
However, the war between the three clans still did not cease.
Though the loss of mighty beings was painful, the true arbiters of victory were the supreme mighty beings and the Heavenly Beings below them.
The three clans had been fighting for hundreds of thousands of years, and no Heavenly Being had ever perished, with the exception of the Dragon Clan's White Dragon Ancestor, who was considered an exception.
Even Chi Wu and Chong Ming, who were suppressed by Qing Ling, were only suppressed, not annihilated.
Heavenly Beings, even during the Great Tribulation of the Primordial World, were not so easily destroyed.
However, Qing Ling intended to be the first to kill a Heavenly Being!
For he wished to use a person to test his innate divine ability, which had reached great perfection!
And Chi Wu and Chong Ming, who were suppressed, were the best candidates.
However, he chose Chi Wu between the two, sparing Chong Ming.
It was not out of mercy, nor was he afraid of retaliation from the Phoenix Clan.
Chong Ming was a divine bird of heaven and earth, with enduring fortune and a destiny not yet concluded. He had not been tainted by the tribulation of death, and interfering with him might lead to unforeseen consequences.
On the other hand, Chi Wu, a newly advanced Heavenly Being, had a significantly weaker fortune, and was not a divine beast of heaven and earth, nor did he possess the authority of heaven and earth.
He was the most suitable to test upon!