Starting with Growing Mushrooms

The massive eagle seemed to have entered a hunting ground, devouring the starry sky wherever it went.

Only a little over ten days had passed.

To everyone’s astonishment, the second grand Divine Era world was completely devoured alive.

"Already eaten?"

The heavens and earth withered, the world shriveled.

Every form of life was torn apart and swallowed whole.

All that remained was an empty husk, which was rapidly collapsing.

This fierce beast made everyone wary.

"This eagle was born of destiny, and its very existence represents the fate of destruction for parallel worlds!"

"Indeed, it’s fitting for the Goddess of Destiny, who can control the fate of every Divine Object!"

Previously, everyone had a rather abstract understanding of terminal destiny.

But now, after this event, everyone has a clear understanding.

This is parallel + death.

What if it were time + death?

Would a time-devouring Divine Beast, the Snake that Swallows Its Tail, also appear?

What if it were wisdom + death?

Would there be a wisdom-devouring Divine Beast, the Blind Fool Octopus?

"Infinite combinations, endless fates; such an impressive Goddess of Destiny!"

Beside them, Siris quietly pondered, "Her status as a god is indeed incredibly high!"

However, despite her seemingly formidable strength, this Goddess of Destiny is quite vulnerable.

Her terminal destiny can be countered if taken out before it’s unleashed.

Even if she releases terminal destiny, she will experience four side effects, becoming foolish, so there’s still a good chance to eliminate her!

Siris pondered, "It seems this Goddess of Destiny will be their primary assault against that Celestial Divine King!"

At this moment.

Inside the eagle, a group of powerful beings engaged in discussion.

"Just like that, the second Divine Era world is gone."

"This was Surya and Xiangtuo Mo, your homeland!"

"But out with the old, in with the new. The future era may give rise to more new parallel worlds, so let’s not dwell on this!"

"The Goddess of Destiny is truly impressive." The Goddess of Fertility, Lilith, sighed.

Cain retorted, "But the side effects are significant. Fortuna is now babbling foolishly."

Nonetheless.

The rapid consumption is due to the virtual parallel world being in a quantum informational state.

If it were a real, vast world, this immense eagle couldn’t achieve this extent.

Xiangtuo Mo patted his round belly and chuckled, "Ladies and gentlemen, this eagle’s appetite is insatiable."

"Even Fortuna can’t control it; she can only restrain it from attacking us..."

"This giant beast follows its instincts to devour; otherwise, if it obeyed our commands and pursued those fleeing, they’d be dead already!"

A group lingered inside the giant eagle.

Its stomach was like a massive marketplace, following the principle of equal exchange.

To claim the loot inside the giant eagle, one had to offer equivalent goods in return!

This old eagle was essentially a trading post!

The riches of a world, how bountiful are they?

The talents of various life forms after death filled the entire warehouse inside the eagle.

Innumerable ethereal treasures, scepters, crowns, rings, feathers, bones... transformed into drifting stars, exquisitely beautiful.

During this world-destroying fortnight, everyone feasted!

They scoured for materials to craft Divine Artifacts, and as a result, their combat prowess soared.

Yet some were astonished:

"Even after exchanging goods for treasures inside the eagle, its treasures remain abundant, even increasing with each devoured world!"

"In the end, what will this giant eagle do? Will it infinitely expand in size? Seize all the heritage of parallel worlds?"

"Will it become the largest multidimensional bank in the mythical cosmos with its vast treasure hoard?"

"Certainly, the largest marketplace of countless dimensions in the Mythical Era?"

"It’s unclear. Just ask Fortuna."

Beside them, Fortuna was still ’motion-sick,’ her head spinning. Seeing everyone turn to her, she inwardly cursed.

It’s really bothersome. Must they come to me for everything?

Fortuna took a deep breath, "I’ll use my divination to foresee the eagle’s future destiny."

With that, Fortuna turned the scene into her solo performance, peering into the threads of fate.

Soon, she caught glimpses of destiny’s edges.

"Hmm, by devouring world legacies, he accumulates countless treasures inside himself, ultimately nurturing a giant egg inside?"

"Is this reproduction, or something else?"

Fortuna only saw a glimpse, her view unclear.

She shared her vision of the future, leaving everyone puzzled.

This Destiny-born fierce beast seems to have the potential to propagate as a species?

Will it not form a specific cosmic race, specializing in devouring parallel worlds...

A green-haired Ghost Fire God rides a ghostly motorcycle, opening doors all the way, with a giant eagle following, devouring behind?

"The world’s order is hard to comprehend."

"Changes in the world are so mysterious, clearly aligning with some latent rule, that even we gods cannot see through it; that’s what makes it interesting."

They jested, watching the giant eagle begin devouring another Divine Era world.

...

"Those guys, they’ve chased us into the third Divine Era world."

Behind them, Xibo expressed deep apprehension, "Everyone, given their relentless approach, should we endure this?"

"Of course not." A red-haired, emaciated elder smirked, "Our lord went home, and they take this chance to invade our rightful lands."

"Indeed." A middle-aged woman adorned in gold and silver chuckled, "Our lord took the parallel Divine Objects; where can we flee to?"

"We’ve reached the end at the 39th Divine Era; without Divine Objects, we can’t open the 40th; retreating is not an option."

"Well then, let’s show them what we’ve got."

"Every parallel world has its god... Watch me, the God of Evolution residing in the third Divine Era, demonstrate our divine strength."

The emaciated red-haired elder spoke.

Magaras brought the emperors of four nations.

They are the four great kings of the Time Terrace Kingdom, Time River Kingdom, Time Waterfall Kingdom, and Time Bead String Kingdom.

Each represents the brilliance and zenith of a Time Mythical Era.

The one previously captured was merely the weakest, Mo Xun of the Time Terrace Kingdom.

However, the four of them had just arrived in this world, with their power less than 1%, so naturally, the weakest Mo Xun stayed behind.

So he died, falling into the enemy’s hands.

The three present are much stronger than Mo Xun.

Now that their power has partially recovered, they naturally want to avenge Mo Xun.

Xibo looked at the two eager to try and shouted:

"Do not act recklessly. Our master entrusted this land to us to defend; we should be cautious rather than risk something major."

"But..."

The two showed a hint of anger, "They’ve come to our door, and we just keep retreating? Taking a world today, another tomorrow. We retreat to the 39th Divine Era, and there’s nowhere left to retreat! Isn’t it just waiting for death!"

Xibo’s eyes flashed with depth:

"In any case, do not advance recklessly, even if we need to stop them, we don’t have to do it ourselves to avoid accidents."

"One Mo Xun has already died, our master may not blame us, but if another of you dies, it might be hard to shirk responsibility."

The red-haired elder and the noblewoman were silent for a moment, then suddenly said in unison: "Then we must use that!"

Xibo thought for a moment, "Use that Heaven’s Dao Seed, then? Very well!"

They are from the era of flourishing Divine Artifacts.

In the glorious historical mythology of the Time River’s four nations, there were once 373 unmatched supreme Divine Artifacts.

Each one is a unique, unreplicable masterpiece, capable of destroying all living beings and possessing supreme power.

But with their crossing, most of these treasures couldn’t be brought here.

Only one treasure concerning soul and life, ranked 286th, the Miracle Seed, followed their souls across.

This Miracle Seed was crafted by cherishing several unmatched individuals imbued with 100 Divine Power and the innate talents of the Celestial Will Race.

They initially planned to use the power of the whole nation to create a small Heaven’s Dao.

In those days, an attempt was made to amalgamate the power of various Divine Objects into one being in this way.

Then.

When this Divine Life Artifact was crafted, it produced two seeds.

One had been used for testing before, resulting in failure.

Only giving birth to a Celestial Will Race who can innately merge three Divine Objects.

They now had this one seed left.

"Then use this thing." Xibo said.

"It’s perfectly suitable, parasitic within the belly of that eagle; it’s indeed very fitting, likely to breed a powerful Heaven’s Dao Monster."

With that, they reached out and tossed a green seed into the void.

"This thing won’t be weaker than us, without our full strength recovered yet."

"If even this can’t defeat them, then us going personally would be pointless."

"Let’s test this era of theirs."

...

Time swiftly passed.

Again, dozens of days.

"Where did they run off to?"

"I guess they fled to later Divine Eras."

The gods rode this gluttonous eagle, hunting everywhere, having slain several more worlds.

And what amused them the most.

This eagle, after consuming virtual Wisdom Divine Objects from parallel worlds, had a glimmer of intelligence in its once dull eyes.

It seemed as if it would give birth to wisdom at any moment.

Everyone clicked their tongues in amazement.

If wisdom really emerges, wouldn’t the Goddess of Destiny have an astonishingly powerful Destiny Divine Beast to escort her?

This inevitably provoked jealousy!

But on second thought, this is a divine beast transformed from the ’Ultimate Destiny’ Divine Object; it’s not an additional combat power created out of thin air.

It can only be said that ’Ultimate Destiny’ is indeed very mysterious.

The Ultimate Destiny configuration might result in living entities like Death Butterflies, Epoch Eagles.

It might also produce some Destiny Divine Artifacts like tea bowls, axes, and the like.

Another ten days.

This eagle’s world-devouring speed increased even more.

In just a few dozen days, it devoured the Eighth Divine Era’s world in one go.

Poised to devour the parallel world entirely.

It was precisely at this moment.

This eagle suddenly spoke: "Ma...ster..."

The dozing Fortuna’s heart shook violently, joyful: "You’ve come to life?"

"Mmm..." the eagle called.

"Good, good, good!" Fortuna was overjoyed.

Previously, fearing the loss of intellect would be unsafe, she sealed her Ultimate Divine Object.

But now?

With diminished intellect, this ’Ultimate Divine Object’ eagle was now her bodyguard.

The most crucial thing is.

"Does the shop inside you belong to you?" Fortuna couldn’t help shouting.

"Mmm, it’s mine, no need for equivalent exchange..." The eagle’s voice gradually became more fluent: "Whatever the master wants, you can take for free."

Fortuna’s mind went blank: Have I struck it rich?

According to everyone’s discussion, this is the greatest merchant house in the mythic cosmos’s future.

It’s full of relics from multidimensional civilizations!

The previous cosmic civilization relics were deposited at the bottom of the endless spatial sea.

And now?

The environment of the cosmos is about to be reshaped!

The relics of major cosmic civilizations are all inside this giant eagle, conducting trade and sales.

Fortuna did a happy dance, uncontrollably shouting: "The true line of the God of Merchants is with me, the Goddess of Destiny!"