Digest.

The giant entities continued to grow, incessantly and boundlessly. They instinctively craved slumber, but their sleep required the guidance of heaven and earth. In this void without the Heavenly Dao, they would only grow and expand until they surpassed their limits.

Until, perhaps... they become a new world.

A world that perpetually operates, forges, repairs, and fills, constructed from countless gears and mechanisms, forming a realm of steel.

This is the most powerful of the Hundred Forms of the Red Furnace, still under the control of the Three Realms Alliance.

It devours the embers of worlds, a polymorphic self-constructing structure across time and space.

Tai Sui, Dread God.

"These things are entirely a materialization of An Jing’s activated Divine Skills. The Gate of All Wonders is just an energy mechanism. In reality, these Hundred Forms of the Red Furnace also possess his ’Eternal War Body’ — and now, are they going to develop by themselves and complete the ’Divine Forge’?"

Nian Quan gazed at the Hundred Forms of the Red Furnace named ’Tai Sui’, feeling both helpless and in awe: "Operating the ’Western Extreme True Body’ to shatter world remnants and then repair the Great Void Abyss — this Divine Skill operates flawlessly. Truly, the alliance should lead a group to observe this every year, to inspire the cultivators’ heart on the Path."

Since a year ago, when the Dread God absorbed the power of the Great Wilderness Realm and reached the Heavenly Venerate Realm, Nian Quan no longer needed to personally lead teams every day to sift through world remnants and eradicate the lurking Heavenly Demons. The Dread God would automatically eliminate any Heavenly Demon attempting to infiltrate the Great Wilderness Realm.

Just like now — a crimson line suddenly lit up within Tai Sui’s silver body, resembling emerging lava veins. Enormous power surged and then enveloped a small black point inside its body.

The small point had no chance to struggle; it was instantly incinerated to ashes. Then, at the world wound of the Great Wilderness Realm, a purple-cyan light appeared, a cluster of flames transformed the ashes into Mysterious Primordial Qi, once again strengthening Tai Sui.

Watching this scene, Nian Quan blinked. His helplessness came from Tai Sui doing it too well, leaving him nothing to do but oversee.

In this era, having leisure is not a good thing. Nian Quan would rather spend his days fighting Heavenly Demons as he did decades ago; only then did life feel meaningful. The title of Heavenly River Sword Monarch isn’t just flattery; it’s earned with blood and sword.

However, it’s not that there’s absolutely nothing to do — [Tai Sui, Dread God] is the strongest, directly derived from Anjing Cave Heaven’s Hundred Forms of the Red Furnace, but it also has limits. During its relentless growth, Tai Sui will inevitably split off some excellent yet fundamentally different individuals.

Some of these ’offspring’ would become the best raw materials for Feathered Heavenly Secret Armors of the Three Realms Alliance, some would choose to co-exist with cultivators who suffered incurable injuries, awakening their own Spiritual Wisdom in the process, becoming ’people.’ Some others would choose to follow their mother body ’Tai Sui’s’ path, heading to other Great Void Abysses to heal world wounds.

Nian Quan was responsible for drawing his sword to assist Tai Sui in separating itself, allowing new Hundred Forms of the Red Furnace and new little Tai Sui to be born.

The dignified Sword Monarch has become a — midwife? It’s not to say midwifery is bad. Nian Quan considers it a sacred profession, but it’s not his specialty!

"Perhaps after devouring two or three more pieces of world remnants, another batch of Hundred Forms of the Red Furnace will be born."

Watching Tai Sui’s current operation, Nian Quan nodded slightly, stood up, and prepared to assist with his sword.

Just then, his Divine Sense moved, and he received a message.

"Oh? The Great Wilderness Realm needs support... and you think this anomaly is related to An Jing’s awakening?"

Nian Quan’s eyes deepened as he communicated with the will from the other end of the Great Void: "Actually, you don’t need to bring up An Jing’s name every time. Over the past thirty years, you’ve claimed at least fifty times that An Jing is about to awaken, saying everything in the Great Wilderness Realm is a sign of his awakening — I too wish for his return soon, but it’s only been a hundred years since he began recovering from the backlash of the Harmonization Level. It likely requires several more decades, perhaps even centuries, a rounded lucky number before he truly awakens."

[You jest more adeptly than I do, Nian Quan. If you truly believe it will take that long, why not delegate your duties to others? Tai Sui is quite obedient, always staying near this Great Void Abyss to directly sense the interior of the Great Wilderness Realm. You’re surely more anxious than I am.] 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Bai Qinghan’s will came from that end, and Nian Quan responded with a light laugh: "Miss Bai, please don’t speak out of turn. Of course, my presence here isn’t just to watch over Tai Sui. Ultimately, I am also someone who was bestowed with Swordsmanship by the Evil Suppressing Venerable. Lately, I’ve always been feeling some peculiar resonance..."

"To be honest, I suspect that perhaps there’s another world’s ’Evil Suppressing Sword Master’ being attracted by the Evil Suppressing Body that An Jing possesses in the Great Wilderness Realm."

So saying, the youth-like swordsman, with black hair, raised his longsword. With a casual sweep, Sword Qi surged, bringing forth a grand, tidal-like Cyan River flowing endlessly through the Great Void: "I understand the mindset of Sword Cultivators better than you. To prevent these always irrational fellows from disturbing An Jing, I must block them all."

[I truly have to rely on you for this.]

Bai Qinghan had faith in Nian Quan’s strength. In some respects, he was also considered a chosen one of the Tianyuan Realm: [In any case, we believe that deploying a batch of Hundred Forms of the Red Furnace into the Great Wilderness Realm as reinforcements is the best choice. Although Tai Sui has merits in mending the world’s wounds, it’s not without cost that the all heavens deliberately guide world remnants here for its sustenance. It too must contribute a bit. Otherwise, in the future, should favor turn to near enmity, it might really think it can consume freely forever.]