As Lu Yan's words fell, numerous golden glows poured down like a celestial river from the heavens above.
This was the recognition of the Apocalypse Celestial Dao, each ray of glow contained the Power of Heavenly Dao Merit, swirling as if billions of stars were shining upon the earth.
The Human Emperor Banner slowly rose amidst this grand phenomenon, surrounded by a mystical purple aura, with countless Dao rhythms flowing within, bestowing blessings upon this newly born Heavenly Dao Merit Treasure.
Lu Yan was not at all surprised by this. Since the Apocalypse Celestial Dao actively intervened in the forging of the Heavenly Dao Merit Treasure, Lu Yan had already understood its purpose.
Forging a Heavenly Dao Merit Treasure that transcends limits, something utterly unique across all versions of realms, even for a realm's Celestial Dao, poses a massive consumption.
Although the Apocalypse Celestial Dao currently has the upper hand in the confrontation with the Supreme Will, the foundations of the Extraordinary of the apocalypse version remain in the hands of the Supreme Will, standing in an inherently invincible position.
For the past few months, Lu Yan slaughtered millions of zombies, saving dozens of survivor enclaves, as if turning the tide of this apocalypse.
Yet all this was limited to this region only. Across the entire apocalypse, there are at least over a billion zombies, and what Lu Yan defeated was not even a tenth of the apocalypse's totality.
The Supreme Will's foundation was intact, and combined with a massive number of zombies at its command, it could regain dominance.
In contrast, the Apocalypse Celestial Dao's control over Transcendents is not as formidable as the Supreme Will's control over zombies, and even its Transcendents are influenced by the Supreme Will.
Lu Yan, in the past month, has killed twelve ninth-tier Transcendents and over a hundred Transcendents above the fifth tier, dealing a significant blow to the power of human survivors.
Although the Apocalypse Celestial Dao holds the advantage, the forces it can mobilize cannot eliminate the disaster of this version's invasion, only dragging the Supreme Will into a protracted battle.
Should the Moonlight Spiritual Qi undergo metamorphosis, the situation could reverse in an instant.
Faced with such a predicament, the Apocalypse Celestial Dao could only place all hopes on Lu Yan, an outsider who twice defeated the Supreme Will.
Especially Lu Yan's performance against the cataclysmic zombie tide reinforced the determination of the Apocalypse Celestial Dao.
Breaking the boundaries of heaven and earth with the hundredth cycle of the Merit Dharma Wheel, and spending great costs to help Lu Yan forge the Heavenly Dao Merit Treasure, was the Apocalypse Celestial Dao demonstrating its sincerity.
Upon receiving the Heavenly Dao Merit Treasure, Lu Yan also understood the intentions of the Apocalypse Celestial Dao, thus he named it the Human Emperor Banner.
In the apocalypse version, the imbalance between yin and yang, with zombies occupying more than half the lands, has become almost the dominant force of the version.
Lu Yan first assisted Enclave 73 in rebuilding civilization, then named the Heavenly Dao Merit Treasure as the Human Emperor Banner, intended to highlight the legitimacy of the human race and as a response to the Apocalypse Celestial Dao. The source of thɪs content is 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡•𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚•𝙣𝙚𝙩
Sweeping across the universe to uphold the way of the human race is precisely the order pursued by the Apocalypse Celestial Dao.
Having received Lu Yan's guarantee, the Apocalypse Celestial Dao once again bestowed a gift.
As the celestial phenomenon gradually receded, Lu Yan felt the great gaze descending with a heavy fatigue.
Grasping the Human Emperor Banner once more, a flood of information surged into Lu Yan's mind, making him realize that this gift of the Apocalypse Celestial Dao lay upon the Soul Continent.
The original Soul Continent was merely a portion of the Soul World created by the Intelligent God, stolen with Heavenly Dao Code by Lu Yan.
Without the Intelligent God's evolutionary order, the Soul Continent was but a massive Soul Creation, used by Lu Yan multiple times to crush enemies, using its immense size to obliterate their Divine Souls.
Undoubtedly, this was the least efficient usage of the Soul Continent.
However, since Lu Yan had not completed the refining of the Soul Continent at that time, he could only use it in such a way.
Now that the Human Emperor Banner has become a Heavenly Dao Merit Treasure, the refining of the Soul Continent has also been completed with the aid of the Heavenly Dao Merit, giving Lu Yan dominion over the Soul Continent.
To further develop the Soul Continent, the foremost task was to transform it from an independent continent into a realm merged within the Soul Banner.
In terms of sheer size, the Soul Continent had already far surpassed most realms, but it was missing one critical thing.
As a realm, there must be rules and order.
The Soul Continent, forcibly stripped as a Soul Creation by Lu Yan, had no rules or order.
Establishing rules and order from nothing would undoubtedly be a tremendously difficult task, something completely impossible with Lu Yan's mere Foundation Establishment Stage strength.
Yet, the final part of the Apocalypse Celestial Dao's gift induced a trace of orderly source within the Soul Continent, through the façade of mysterious Dao rhythms.
The root of this embryonic order was the black giant egg formed from the Apocalypse Celestial Dao's first blessing.
Above the Soul Continent, that black giant egg converging the Supreme Will's Spiritual Light and the Celestial Dao's blessing, akin to a black sun, weaves the rules belonging to heaven and earth as the order germinates.
Though it was merely an embryonic trace, incapable of supporting a complete realm, it marked a breakthrough from nothing to something.
Subsequently, Lu Yan only needed to continue reshaping enough rules and order within this framework to elevate the Soul Continent to a true realm, enhancing the Human Emperor Banner further.
By then, the might of the Human Emperor Banner would not even pale in comparison to the legendary Grotto Heaven Spiritual Treasure, and the false Underworld could possess a genuine Realm foundation.