At the same time, Ding Yun also discovered the Gluttonous Beast.
As mentioned before, the Gluttonous Beast eats everything. Many of Ding Yun's base stations were buried within spiritual veins, earth veins, or water veins. A large portion of the spiritual veins, earth veins, and water veins on the Western Continent were devoured and digested by the Gluttonous Beast, leading to the destruction of the base stations hidden within them.
The destruction of a few base stations was normal.
Without Ding Yun needing to worry, the main base station placed at the core would automatically repair or relocate them.
However, it was now clear that more than just a few base stations were destroyed. A small area of the entire Western Continent had gone completely dark. To Ding Yun, this meant that the Heavenly Dao Network, which had been perfectly set up, suddenly had a small dead zone, and the Eternal World Map, used for real-time observation, showed a small dark area in the west.
Such a serious matter.
It was impossible for Ding Yun not to notice.
Upon noticing, it was naturally easy for him to figure out the specific situation. Not only did he understand the specifics of the Gluttonous Beast, but he also thoroughly investigated the God of Destruction behind it, which gave him a considerable headache.
This was because the God of Destruction was truly adept at causing trouble.
And all of it was contrary to Ding Yun's plans.
In fact, it was often the opposite of what he intended.
Based on the existing investigative information and his knowledge of the God of Destruction's past, Ding Yun conducted a comprehensive analysis and quickly gained a general understanding of the entity's life trajectory and its various schemes.
Even if it wasn't guaranteed to be completely accurate,
it was likely to be about eighty to ninety percent similar.
It was difficult to say what happened in the very distant past, when the God of Destruction was first born, or in the short period immediately after its birth. It was also unclear how it befriended gods like Chaos Devourer. The more accurately discernible period of the God of Destruction's life began with the siege of the Yin-Yang God.
Before the siege of the Yin-Yang God, the gods of Destruction, Devourer, and Chaos, among others, were already somewhat notorious. While not universally reviled, most gods were wary of them, and if they encountered them in distress, they would likely be happy to add insult to injury.
Thus, a long time ago, they each left a portion of their origin and true spirit in places they considered safe. Although this would affect their strength, they rarely traveled alone and always relied on group tactics, so they had little to fear.
At that time, when they discovered that the Yin-Yang God intended to thoroughly divide heaven and earth and harmonize yin and yang, the most anxious was the Chaos God. After all, with the complete separation of yin and yang, there would be no more chaotic energy in the world. Its divine authority, which was second only to clarity and turbidity, would naturally be lost.
The God of Destruction, at that time, did not yet have the idea of destroying the world. It merely felt that the Yin-Yang God didn't seem particularly strong, and coupled with brotherhood and other sentiments, it decided to join forces to attack the Yin-Yang God.
Who knew that the Yin-Yang God was playing the lamb, but was actually a wolf in sheep's clothing?
And had set a trap for them.
The result was that good brothers went together, truly achieving the goal of dying on the same year, month, and day.
After the three brothers perished, the origin and true spirit left behind by the Chaos God were slow to recover due to the complete dissipation of chaotic energy in the world. The Devourer God fared slightly better, but its recovery was only at a normal pace.
Only the God of Destruction, due to many subsequent great battles that caused immense destruction to the world, resulting in a considerable concentration of destructive energy, was able to recover at a speed thousands or tens of thousands of times faster than the other two gods.
After dying once, the God of Destruction became somewhat less bold and harbored a hint of resentment towards the Chaos God. After all, if it weren't for the Chaos God,
they wouldn't have needed to ambush the Yin-Yang God.
Furthermore, the God of Destruction later discovered that its own origin and foundation were much weaker than before, making it very difficult to regain its original cultivation. After much deliberation and hesitation, it made the wicked decision to disown the two brothers. It spent considerable time searching for the birthplace of the Devourer God and the Chaos God, and successfully broke through their innate formations, taking their respective origins and true spirits that they had left behind but had not yet recovered.
Of course, it had destroyed their true spirits.
But it kept their origins.
It wanted to see if it could use their origins of Devourer and Chaos to repair its own origin of Destruction.
The results were not optimistic, as the three were difficult to reconcile.
This undoubtedly made the God of Destruction a little regretful, regretting that it had destroyed the residual true spirits of the Devourer God and the Chaos God. However, since their true spirits had already been destroyed,
there was nothing it could do even if it regretted it.
Afterward, the God of Destruction lay low, slowly repairing its own origin with the destructive power generated by the great battles of various innate gods, while secretly stealing the remnants of innate gods or their origins, still stubbornly trying to find origins that were compatible with it.
And it eventually did find several origins.
Origins of Seven Emotions, Six Desires, Slaughter, and a series of other origins could be integrated into its origin of Destruction.
However, these origins were not complete, some were only a wisp or a thread. And after fusion, its origin of Destruction was no longer pure. Although it still called itself the God of Destruction, its origin could no longer be called the origin of Destruction before the end of the ancient innate god wars. In summary, it could be called the origin of Demonic Power, but the concept of Demonic Power at this time was completely different from the concept of a demonic entity in the future.
Gods and demons represented the unity of good and evil, neither good nor evil.
The God of Destruction certainly did not consider itself evil.
After the ancient innate god wars ended and the world's three thousand laws were completely perfected, the God of Destruction keenly sensed that the ancient innate god wars were not pure and that there was likely a promoter behind them. Especially when the Yin-Yang God gathered the Qi of Destiny and successfully broke through, yet instead of becoming the ruler of the world or the ruler of innate gods, it instead became Daoized.
This further confirmed its suspicion.
And it suspected that there might be a problem with the world itself.
And that the Dao of Qi of Destiny was also problematic.
Therefore, the God of Destruction resolutely abandoned the method of achieving Dao through Qi of Destiny. After contemplating for many years, it concluded that perhaps it still had to achieve Dao through the Way of Destruction. As long as it fully practiced the Way of Destruction and annihilated the entire world, it would surely succeed in achieving Dao.
Perhaps it could even encompass the three thousand laws into one.
And become an unprecedented Supreme Master of Laws.
However, it soon discovered that destroying the world personally was too slow and prone to making enemies. Good places were either inhabited by innate races or guarded by some innate gods. To oppose all innate gods and innate races single-handedly was undoubtedly wishful thinking.
It could even be considered courting death.
Considering these factors, the God of Destruction quickly abandoned the plan to destroy the world by itself.
Instead, it began to cultivate its own forces and personnel.
Thus, the items it had collected over the years became useful, and the world subsequently saw the birth of innate demonic races, the Four Fierce Beasts, and a series of other terrifying combat powers.
And there was the World-Ending Plan to instigate the war between the three tribes.
Destroying the world did not necessarily require doing it personally. If others destroyed the world, it would still bring certain feedback, allowing it to absorb some destructive power.
Although these actions clashed with Ding Yun's plans,
and could even be considered to be disrupting Ding Yun's plans,
it was still not the matter that gave Ding Yun the most headaches.