But Ding Yun immediately understood the crux of the matter.
Without hesitation, she retrieved her Creation Jade Disk from the Sea of World Laws and flung it directly into the mouth of the Heavenly Dao-level Gui Xu fierce beast before her.
Then, she activated the Creation Jade Disk to evolve the Heavenly Dao.
Evolving the Heavenly Dao within the body of that Gui Xu fierce beast.
The Creation Jade Disk contained three thousand laws and was the foundation of the Heavenly Dao network. At the cost of its own destruction, it could forcibly create the Heavenly Dao within that Heavenly Dao-level Gui Xu fierce beast and thoroughly sort out the laws it contained.
Thus, after a short while, the Heavenly Dao-level Gui Xu fierce beast that had swallowed Ding Yun's Creation Jade Disk roared and then perished. Simultaneously, its physical body rapidly expanded, transforming into a world. In a very short period, it evolved into a top-tier boundless world, complete with the three realms, the Gui Xu, and the laws within.
The price was Ding Yun's Creation Jade Disk.
It had become the Heavenly Dao of that world.
The next second, without caring about her loss, Ding Yun waved her hand and pushed the world that had just been born, and which she still controlled, into the Eternal World.
This was to prevent the world from being quickly destroyed and generating an aura of annihilation, thereby strengthening the surrounding Gui Xu fierce beasts.
Then, Ding Yun, following Pan Piao's example, manifested the Dharma Idol of Creation and wielded the Heaven-Opening Divine Sword, forged from the four swords obtained from the Destruction Divine Demons, to engage in a one-on-one battle with the remaining Heavenly Dao-level Gui Xu fierce beast.
However, killing another one at this point was not as easy.
Without the Creation Jade Disk, Ding Yun could no longer mobilize the complete power of the world to empower herself. She could only barely maintain Heavenly Dao-level strength through her remaining authority.
The battle with the Heavenly Dao-level fierce beast was evenly matched.
At the same time, the other Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortals on the sidelines, inspired by Ding Yun and Pan Piao, finally began to form groups and attack the fierce beasts together.
Some specialized in using their Heaven-Opening Dharma Idols to create worlds, and just as the worlds were about to take shape, they extracted the nascent aura from them, focusing it into strikes against the Gui Xu fierce beasts. At this point, the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortals proficient in order-related laws would quickly connect these nascent auras.
And based on them,
They would sort out the laws within the Gui Xu fierce beasts.
Even if one or two attempts might not successfully cause the Gui Xu fierce beasts to perish and evolve into worlds, they could still inflict significant damage or injure them.
Most importantly, Ding Yun and her allies had numbers.
There were less than a thousand fierce beasts, while Ding Yun and the other cultivators who had attained the Dao numbered over ten thousand. With their weaknesses understood, if ten of them could not even tie down and gradually eliminate one, wouldn't that make them too useless?
Afterward, the battlefield situation improved considerably. Ding Yun and her allies gradually gained the upper hand, and the Gui Xu fierce beasts and Universe Annihilation Beasts went from perishing one or two at a time to ten or a hundred at a time.
When about a third of them had fallen, the intelligent Gui Xu fierce beasts and Universe Annihilation Beasts clearly understood that their cause was lost and began to retreat en masse.
If they couldn't win, then they could only run.
What else could they do, stay put and wait to be worn down to death?
However, the Gui Xu fierce beasts had only fled for less than ten thousand chaotic light-years when the reinforcements sent by the General Administration to take over the Eternal World and provide assistance "timely" arrived.
They arrived "just in time" to intercept the fleeing Gui Xu fierce beasts and annihilate them all. The corresponding Gui Xu origins were naturally collected by them.
Ding Yun, finding the timing so "timely," almost rolled her eyes.
However, at this moment, Ding Yun was truly exhausted. She had not fought with all her might for many years. Her Innate Undying True Spirit was severely depleted, and she had no energy to quibble with them about why they hadn't come earlier or later, only showing up when things were almost over. She also couldn't be bothered to continue with the aftermath of the Eternal World.
In the end, she merely handed over matters to the General Administration.
And then immediately chose to end her mission and return.
...
After returning, Ding Yun slept in the Origin of the Universe for several years before recovering from the severely depleted state of her Innate Undying True Spirit. She then began to inquire about the handover of the Eternal World, including the situation after the cleanup,
And whether her remuneration had been credited.
There were no issues with the remuneration; it was all credited within a year of her return. Even the top-tier boundless world she had created by sacrificing her Creation Jade Disk to destroy a Heavenly Dao-level Gui Xu fierce beast was considered Ding Yun's spoils of war and was sent back for her to claim.
In short, her efforts were not in vain, and she had gained a considerable reward.
Although the cleanup work in the Eternal World was not entirely to Ding Yun's satisfaction, there was nothing she could do.
She could only accept it.
The base stations and the heaven-and-earth network she had set up were completely erased. Indispensable elements, such as the Solar Star and the Lunar Star, were re-refined.
This rendered them incapable of functioning as base stations.
Even traces of her own existence were erased.
Additionally, the World Consciousness was completely wiped out and replaced by a top-tier artificial intelligence from the Origin Universe.
The Dao Attainment level existences, including Ding Yun's disciples, were incorporated into the Origin Universe's Forceful Expansion Team. Forceful Expansion, in essence, meant direct assault. Some universes and worlds could be expanded peacefully, while others, which could not, had to resort to force, conquering them through direct assault.
Generally, the Origin Universe would use the "rebellion" of newly born worlds or universes to entice top experts within worlds and universes that had just been brought under control, encouraging them to join the Expansion Team.
Ding Yun's situation was similar to theirs.
Except her home universe had not just recently come under the rule of the Origin Universe but had been incorporated long ago and was now on the verge of extinction.
After understanding these circumstances, Ding Yun did not donate all her gains to her home universe again. Instead, she donated only half, keeping the rest for herself. She then went to the General Administration, collected the top-tier boundless world she was entitled to, resigned, and took the top-tier boundless world to the registration department for registration.
She registered as the Lord of a Top-Tier Boundless World.
Joining the grand family of World Lords.
Subsequently, using that top-tier boundless world as a foundation, she began to evolve life and cultivate talent. Once there were enough usable talents in the world, she applied to open a private expansion studio, using the talents cultivated in her world as employees, having them undertake expansion tasks for remuneration, and she would take a cut.
From then on, she finally escaped the status of an employee.
She no longer had to worry about her extremely long lifespan, living for tens of millions of years, and then having to return to her post to earn Origin because of insufficient world Origin.
As for her home universe, after Ding Yun's final donation of half her earnings, it accumulated enough Origin for rebirth and had long since been reborn, ushering in a new era. During the invited ceremony, Ding Yun successfully integrated many universe laws into the starry sky of her top-tier boundless world. Although this did not cause her world to successfully advance to an Eternal World, it was as if it had one foot across the threshold.
Now, all that remained was for the employees in her studio to work hard and earn Origin to help their home world advance.
Truly, cause and effect cycle, reincarnation never ceases.