As the alternation of day and night occurred, the sun star's passage across the sky marked daytime, while the moon star's journey signified night.
A full cycle of day and night constituted one day, one diurnal period.
Its concept was then integrated into the River of Time…
Only after all prior tasks were completed did the Tai Yin and Tai Yang Divine Demons publicly announce the temporal attributes of the Tai Yin and Sun stars. Simultaneously, to prevent the anger of the Time Divine Demon and the division of its authority, leading to its revival and subsequent trouble, they also incorporated the concept of the sun and moon's rotation forming a day into the River of Time.
This made it a conceptual branch under the River of Time, which in turn facilitated the River of Time's growth, benefiting the Time Divine Demon, and thus preventing its awakening.
With this, the sun and moon were finally formed.
The vast Sun star blazed with immeasurable light and boundless solar true fire, scattering infinite radiance and warmth downwards. Although its current size was insufficient to illuminate and warm the entire world at once, it could illuminate nearly half of the realm. As the formation centered around it moved, the areas not yet illuminated by the Sun star were gradually bathed in light, completing a full solar cycle.
Following this, the Sun star temporarily receded, and the Tai Yin star emitted immeasurable, gentle radiance, also moving as it illuminated the world, managing to dimly cover the entire realm.
In reality, the process could have concluded at this point.
After all, the sun and moon had returned to their positions.
However, at this juncture, the Tai Yin and Sun Divine Demons discovered that the Tai Yin and Sun stars were constantly elevating, perfecting, and growing stronger. The amount of origin power they gained with each breath was equivalent to thousands of days of their arduous cultivation.
Meanwhile, their connection to the Tai Yin and Sun stars was gradually weakening. If this continued, once the Tai Yin and Sun stars grew sufficiently powerful, they would gain considerable benefits, but would completely lose control over them.
This realization undoubtedly left them unwilling.
Moreover, they feared that the Tai Yin and Sun stars might develop their own sentience in the future, giving rise to new Tai Yin and Sun Divine Demons who would contend for the dominion of laws with them.
Thus, after a brief private consultation, the two Divine Demons could no longer resist the temptation of rapidly enhancing their own origin foundations and perfecting their laws without personal effort. They resolutely decided to directly merge their essence into the origins of the Tai Yin and Sun stars. Instantly, the Tai Yin and Sun stars blazed with light once more, their overall origin power swelling tenfold. The two celestial bodies, which previously held little life force, were imbued with the essence of creation, and the world subsequently expanded further.
As for the Tai Yin and Sun Divine Demons, they had not perished, nor had their Dao dissolved. They had simply integrated themselves into the Tai Yin and Sun stars, hoping to simultaneously partake in the benefits these celestial bodies received, and to ensure their connections were not severed. After countless eons, when the Tai Yin and Sun stars were fully nurtured and perfected, they would still be the masters of these two celestial bodies, controlling their respective authorities.
The only drawback was that they would no longer be as free as before. From their divine demon bodies to their innate indestructible true spirits, they were now confined within their respective celestial bodies. Furthermore, if these celestial bodies were destroyed, they too would perish. However, nothing in this world was perfect; to gain benefits, one naturally had to bear a cost.
Although some Divine Demons were surprised by this, most understood. After all, even the Time Divine Demon, one of the top ten supreme Divine Demons, could not resist the temptation and merged into the River of Time. It was only natural for these two to be unable to resist and merge with the Tai Yin and Sun stars.
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Within the Yin-Yang Grotto-Heaven.
Witnessing the Tai Yin and Sun Divine Demons fully merge with the Tai Yin and Sun stars, the Yin-Yang Divine Demon turned to Ding Yun, whose ethereal projection had appeared beside him, and remarked with emotion:
"You truly foresee everything…
Initially, I was somewhat concerned that if they refused to merge, the completion of the sun and moon might be slower.
But now, it seems my worries were unfounded.
However, while their fusion with the Sun and Tai Yin stars is now effortless, and their cultivation, origin, and law foundations will improve easily, it will be difficult for them to detach themselves in the future.
The Time Divine Demon is likely in a similar situation.
They are all exploring the path forward, unaware of what lies ahead…"
"Actually, if they wish to extricate themselves in the future, it can be easy, depending on whether they understand the principle of give and take. For instance, if the Tai Yin and Sun Divine Demons wish to directly manifest again, using the Tai Yin star or Sun star as their original bodies to shapeshift, that is purely a path to destruction.
Stripping away a large portion of their origin to shapeshift is also a similar folly.
Their best method of escape is to utilize a small portion of the Sun star's or Tai Yin star's origin to nurture a new innate divine demon embryo, or even an innate life form embryo.
Then, reincarnate with complete comprehension of laws.
With complete comprehension of laws, it will be easy to quickly recover their cultivation. It's just that their physical constitution will be slightly inferior compared to their original divine demon bodies.
But there will always be opportunities to compensate in the future.
However, they are likely unwilling to make such sacrifices."
Many innate divine demons now delude themselves into thinking they can easily manipulate the River of Time and River of Destiny after transforming into them, and then shapeshift again. They fail to realize that the moment they merged into the River of Time and River of Destiny, they became targets of the world.
If their true spirits left, or if they reshaped their true bodies with a small portion of their origin, the world might permit it. But if they intended to shapeshift again, bringing the entire River of Time or River of Destiny along, or even the complete sun and moon, that would truly be courting death, and the world would not allow such a thing.
If such thoughts arose.
Even if they were not destined to dissolve into Dao, the world would force them to do so.
Ding Yun understood this point clearly, hence his relaxed and casual response, even with a hint of playful sarcasm.
"The bodies of innate divine demons are not so easily discarded. Never mind, let's not dwell on this matter. Can you bring up that plan schedule again for me to review? Let's see what remains unfinished. When the sun and moon returned, my Yin-Yang laws became somewhat more complete, yet I still feel a lack, a sense of incompleteness. What is it that I'm missing?
Despite having accomplished all the major tasks."
The Yin-Yang Divine Demon wasn't necessarily overly worried about the Tai Yin and Sun Divine Demons; he was merely accustomed to expressing his sentiments. After his sigh, he became preoccupied with his own predicament.
He picked up the plan that Ding Yun had previously laid out and began to meticulously review it.
Logically speaking, the task of harmonizing the world's Yin and Yang was essentially complete, and he could feel that his Yin-Yang laws were indeed approaching perfection. Yet, they remained incomplete, which caused him considerable anxiety.
If there was a significant gap, it wouldn't be as urgent. But to be just a sliver away was truly maddening, making him eager to resolve it immediately. Otherwise, he felt a constant gnawing unease, making it impossible to rest or even calm his mind.