The Source of Darkness

"However, I still have to give you a piece of advice: you'd better Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo as soon as possible! Otherwise, you'll regret it more than two hundred years from now!" Zhou Tong shook his head in the end.

"Is the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo that important?" Ye Fan frowned, puzzled.

Zi Xia also asked, "What exactly do you want the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo for? What benefit will it bring you if our child inherits the Dao lineage of the Wu Shi the Great?"

Ye Fan and Zi Xia were truly puzzled as to why Zhou Tong was so obsessed with the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo. Even if he were to be born with the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo, the Wushi Scripture would not be suitable for him to cultivate. Moreover, even if he inherited the Wu Shi the Great's backup plan, he was not the heir!

Zhou Tong sighed, "I don't know whether it's good or bad to tell you about this."

"What exactly is going on? If it's related to the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo, then it's related to my future child. I have the right to know these things," Ye Fan asked in a deep voice.

"Alright, do you know what's deep inside the seven Life Forbidden Zone in the Eastern Wasteland?" Zhou Tong asked.

Ye Fan and Zi Xia shook their heads.

Zhou Tong: "They are things beyond your imagination. Many of the ancient venerables of the Mythological Era, the emperors of the ancient times, and the Ancient Desolate Era are actually still alive; they are slumbering in those Forbidden Zone."

"What!!"

Ye Fan and Zi Xia were shocked. Those legendary Great Emperor and Ancient Emperor hadn't died? They were slumbering in the Forbidden Zone? But why were they slumbering? Wasn't it said that the Divine Source could no longer seal them?

Ye Fan asked the question on the spot.

Zhou Tong, "The Great Emperor's blood and qi are invincible. Not to mention Divine Source, even Immortal Source might not be able to seal them. But what if they cut themselves and fall from the Great Emperor realm?"

For a moment, Ye Fan and Zi Xia stood there dumbfounded. They never expected that such a thing could happen: to cut off his own sword, fall from the Great Emperor realm, and thus survive.

"But what does this have to do with the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo?" Zi Xia asked.

"Those Great Emperor who sever their own lives—once they emerge, they've consumed their own life force. Such beings are almost certain to die the moment they step out of the Forbidden Zone. And if they wish to survive after emerging, there's only one way..."

"Dark Turmoil?" Ye Fan subconsciously thought of this.

Ever since he entered the world of cultivation, he had been hearing the term "Dark Turmoil"Dark Turmoil but never knew what it meant.

"Once a supreme being from the Forbidden Zone emerges, to survive, they must draw a tiny bit of life force from all living beings. In the eyes of the supreme beings within the Forbidden Zone, we are all their food; the stronger the cultivator, the more targeted they are!" Zhou Tong looked at Ye Fan, "How about it, don't you feel hopeless?"

"So you need the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo to inherit the Wu Shi the Great's backup plan to fight against those Dark Supreme?" Ye Fan finally understood Zhou Tong's thoughts in that instant.

Using the contingency plan left behind by the Wu Shi the Great to fight against those supreme beings who feed on all living beings is probably the only glimmer of light in the darkness.

"If those supreme beings were all former emperors and sovereigns, would the Wu Shi the Great's contingency plan really be useful? They were all Great Emperor, so who could be weaker than whom?" Ye Fan shook his head, indicating that he was not optimistic about the methods left behind by the Wu Shi the Great.

After all, those supreme beings were all Great Emperor and Ancient Emperor, and they were even making their true forms. It would be more likely that the Wu Shi the Great would come out in his true form, but could the backup plans he left behind really deal with those supreme beings?

"First of all, those Great Emperor Ancient Emperor who are hiding in the Forbidden Zone are already in their twilight years, and they have even severed their own paths, causing their cultivation levels to drop. When the Void Great Emperor was alive, he killed five or six of them, so those Supreme Beings do not have peak combat power!"

"Secondly, there are a few Great Emperor in history who are the most special. Not to mention the legendary Desolate Heaven Emperor, the Tribulation Crossing Heavenly Venerable, the Emperor Venerable, the Undying Heavenly Emperor, the Divine Emperor, the Ruthless Great Emperor, and the Wu Shi the Great, these six are the most special. Their combat power cannot be measured by ordinary Great Emperor."

"Therefore, even if Wu Shi the Great did not make a move in his true form, the backup he left behind is definitely as powerful as that of an ordinary Great Emperor, so you can rest assured!" Zhou Tong said leisurely.

When the Wu Shi the Great left behind his contingency plan, he had not yet become an immortal. Furthermore, it wasn't him who personally took action, so the contingency plan couldn't have been excessively powerful.

If it's just two or three Great Emperor, the Wu Shi the Great's backup plan can still withstand it.

However, Zhou Tong was worried about the battle after the Path to Immortality in the original story. There were six or seven supreme beings involved. Wu Shi the Great was not present in his true form, and the backup plan he left behind might not be able to withstand the siege of so many supreme beings.

"According to you, the supreme beings of those Forbidden Zone will definitely emerge more than two hundred years from now?" Zi Xia asked.

"Why were those Forbidden Zone Supreme sealed away? It was for the sake of the Path to Immortality. More than two hundred years later, a time that many supreme beings have deduced, is also the time when the Path to Immortality will open. They will definitely come out."

"Although the Path to Immortality that opened more than two hundred years later may not be the correct one, those supreme beings will still have to try it anyway. So the darkness of the future is inevitable." Zhou Tong shook his head.

Ye Fan and Zi Xia also fell silent.

Ye Fan's mind conjured up endless mountains of corpses and seas of blood, all caused by those ancient sovereigns.

Zi Xia felt a mix of fear and relief. If Zhou Tong hadn't forcibly taken her away, and if Dark Turmoil future had truly occurred, wouldn't her sect have been wiped out?

"You knew all this from the beginning?" Ye Fan looked at Zhou Tong, his heart filled with admiration.

Knowing so much, yet still having the confidence to embark on the path to enlightenment—this kind of self-confidence is far beyond what ordinary people can match.

The higher one's cultivation level, the more likely they are to be targeted by Ancient Supreme.

Many people who know this news will probably be mentally devastated, stop cultivating, or even forcibly reduce their cultivation in an attempt to avoid attracting the attention of the Supreme Being in the darkness more than two hundred years later and thus get away with it.

Zhou Tong nodded.

Knowing all this, he has been making plans everywhere in his spare time from cultivation all these years, in order to deal with the future Supreme Being.

"What the future holds is still uncertain! In short, the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo is a trump card to deal with the darkness of the future. If you can really give birth to such a child, you will surely be blessed by all living beings in the future! No matter what you have done in the past, you will always be heroes and be remembered by people!" Zhou Tong said in conclusion.

"That's right, it's hard to say what the future holds, the important thing now is to live in the present!" Ye Fan and Zi Xia finally relaxed a little.

The previous topic had been too heavy, and the two of them felt somewhat uncomfortable.

"That's right, live in the moment! For both of you, the moment is returning to Earth!"

"Since the Central Plains Ancestral Temple is the key to returning to Earth, I will naturally help you fend off all the hostility!" Zhou Tong pondered for a moment, then said, "Zi Xia, for the safety of your Purple Mansion Holy Land, you'd better not show up and hide in Ye Fan's cauldron."

Zi Xia nodded. In the current situation, she dared not show her face at all. Once her relationship with Ye Fan was exposed, the Purple Mansion Holy Land would undoubtedly become the main target of all the holy lands in the world.

"However... during that trip to the Central Plains Ancestral Temple, there will most likely be Supreme Emperor Weapon appearing. I need to make some preparations. You guys keep an eye on the situation and let me know when the time comes!" Zhou Tong thought for a moment and had a general idea of what was going on.

It is difficult to fight against the Supreme Emperor Weapon, but it is not impossible.

For example, the Great Emperor Array Patterns, the Heavenly Tribulation, and some special methods... As long as they are used well and at the right time, it is not too difficult to fight against the Supreme Emperor Weapon, as long as the one wielding the Imperial Weapon is not a saint...

Of course, Zhou Tong wasn't thinking about that issue, but rather something else entirely.

Even though the news of the Feathered Divine Dynasty's Central Plains Ancestral Temple had already spread, why was the matter of crossing the starry sky mixed in?

Logically speaking, the thing that the Feathered Divine Dynasty used to traverse the Void the Great should be in the core area of the ancestral temple. But no one has actually reached that area yet. Where did this news come from?

"Perhaps it's a trap? But who set this trap? How could they have such a precise understanding of Ye Fan's psychology?" Zhou Tong couldn't help but shift his attention to this point.

Things are different now. In the original novel, Ye Fan's actions had already told everyone that he wanted to leave Big Dipper. But now, Ye Fan has been living in seclusion, so logically no one should know what Ye Fan is thinking.

"Perhaps we need to prepare several contingency plans!"

Zhou Tong also felt a bit gloomy, certain that someone was plotting against him behind his back.