Residual Thoughts Strike the Heart

The new foothold was located behind a vast mountain of beast bones. The concentration of Sha Qi seemed slightly weaker than the previous Corpse Mountain Blood Sea, but it was still desolate and lifeless.

The ground was dark red hard soil, scattered with smaller bones and weathered rocks.

Li Su drove his main root deep, drawing on the sparse energy underground while fully operating his cultivation technique to repair the minor damage from his struggle with the strange plant and consolidate his Earth Immortal mid-stage realm.

The Mo Xing Bamboo body swayed faintly, the black light dotted with stars on its surface flickering in and out of visibility, filtering the surrounding Sha Qi, absorbing it, and converting it into pure energy to nourish itself.

The power of the High-Grade Postnatal Spiritual Root was beginning to show. Even in such a harsh environment, his recovery speed was considerable.

His divine sense spread cautiously like liquid mercury, probing the new environment spanning nearly a thousand miles in all directions.

This place seemed to have once been an even more ancient battlefield.

Deep underground, more massive, incomplete bones were buried. Some had a texture that gleamed with metallic or jade-like luster, still containing faint, unsettling energy fluctuations after countless eons.

In the air, besides the familiar fierce Sha Qi, there was also a more ancient, sorrowful, yet dignified remnant will.

As his divine sense brushed past a broken giant finger bone, a chaotic and overwhelming torrent of fragmented consciousness suddenly crashed into him like a burst dam!

It wasn't an attack, but a broken memory imprint!

"...Huangtian... Houtu... protect my kin..." "...Kill! For Father God..." "...Hate! Hate! Hate! Devil Spawn..." "...Buzhou... falls..." "...Tianzun... save..."

Countless shattered shouts, tragic roars, desperate screams, and a heavy sigh that seemed to echo from before the ages intertwined, madly flooding into Li Su's consciousness!

The quality and intensity of these remnants far surpassed those of the Fierce Beast souls he had encountered before!

They were more ancient, carrying an indescribable will and conviction, even faint traces of law!

Li Su grunted, the Mo Xing Bamboo body's light flickering wildly, nearly overwhelmed by the sudden flood of information crashing into his spiritual platform!

He quickly steadied his mind, fully activated the Soul Devouring Origin, and painstakingly digested and filtered these chaotic ancient remnants.

Painful, yet rewarding.

Though broken, these remnants allowed him to glimpse fragments of a distant past:

A giant standing tall between heaven and earth, hideous demonic shadows, a shattered sky, an overturned earth, and figures in ancient garb wielding immense power...

Was this... the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation? Or the ruins of an even earlier war between Gods and Devils?

The willpower contained in these remnants was astonishingly strong, far harder to digest than Fierce Beast souls, but each bit digested brought greater benefits.

Under the grinding pressure of this force, his divine sense became more refined and resilient, granting him a vague understanding of the profound concepts of "will" and "conviction."

[Absorbed Ancient War Soul Remnants. Divine sense strengthened. Evolution Points +0.1... +0.2...]

[Analyzed remnant information fragments. Gained partial ancient knowledge. Comprehension slightly increased.]

The growth in Evolution Points was modest, but the real gains were in divine sense and comprehension.

More importantly, this ancient knowledge greatly broadened his horizons, giving him a view of the Primordial World beyond mere Fierce Beast slaughter.

He carefully absorbed the remnants of this ancient battlefield, like savoring a rich but potent old wine, not daring to go too fast, lest he drown in it.

Several days later, when he had initially adapted to the area and fully healed his injuries, he made a decision—he couldn't just hide and cultivate.

He had to actively understand this world and seek opportunities, especially... cultivation techniques!

Without a systematic method of cultivation, relying only on instinctive devouring and system enhancement would ultimately be a crude path with limited future potential.

The thought of becoming Yuanshi Tianzun's disciple surfaced again. Though still distant, it was no longer a complete fantasy.

How to find him? The Primordial World was endless. Where was Kunlun Mountain?

He recalled that the ancient remnants occasionally mentioned terms like "heavenly secrets," "divination," and "sensing."

Perhaps high-level cultivators had ways to sense fate and deduce heavenly secrets?

He couldn't do it himself, but maybe he could use external help? Like... the "Bedrock Rune" fragment from the giant beast's skull? This object contained a trace of the Great Dao's mark; perhaps it had some mystical property?

Thinking this, Li Su sank his divine sense deep into his Primordial Spirit and carefully observed the dim yet resilient "Bedrock Rune" shadow.

He tried to slowly inject a thread of divine sense, mixed with his intense desire for "seeking the Dao" and "becoming a disciple," into the shadow.

At first, there was no reaction. But as he continued pouring in divine sense, nearly exhausting himself, the "Bedrock Rune" shadow suddenly flickered extremely faintly!

Then, a strange scene flashed before his "eyes":

In a chaotic void, a blurry yet supremely exalted figure sat in the emptiness, radiating a profound Dao resonance that expounded all things and taught all beings.

Before that figure, the phantom of an ancient bronze mirror flickered briefly, its light rippling as if illuminating all heavens, myriad worlds, past and future.

The scene vanished instantly, as if it had never been.

But Li Su's heart shook violently!

That figure... that bronze mirror... Yuanshi Tianzun?!

The Kunlun Mirror?!

Though it was just a fleeting glimpse, blurry and indistinct, the unique Dao resonance vaguely matched his understanding of Yuanshi Tianzun!

And that bronze mirror—could it be the legendary innate supreme treasure, the Kunlun Mirror? Said to be able to perceive heavenly secrets and illuminate all worlds?

Had this "Bedrock Rune" fragment, sensing his intense will, used that trace of the Great Dao's mark to establish an extremely faint connection with that supreme existence through the unseen?

Was it the Kunlun Mirror that had spontaneously illuminated this place, intersecting with this fleeting thought of his?

Li Su had no way of knowing.

But this was undoubtedly an extremely powerful signal—a guiding sign!

He suppressed his surging excitement, carefully savoring the instant the mirror's light had flashed, trying to capture the directional information it contained.

It was very vague, just an ethereal sensation pointing northwest, to an extremely distant place, as if something there was drawing him, calling out to him.

There... was that the direction of Kunlun Mountain?

The flame of hope had never burned so fiercely as it did now.

With a direction came a goal.

Li Su looked toward the northwest, his gaze seeming to pierce through endless spatial barriers.

Kunlun Mountain, Yuanshi Tianzun... he had to go there!

But before that, he needed to become stronger—at least strong enough to cross this boundless Primordial World.

The mid-stage Earth Immortal realm was far from enough.

He sank his mind once more, continuing to absorb the lingering thoughts and Sha Qi of the ancient battlefield to cultivate, while also beginning to systematically use his newly gained power and divine abilities to hunt Fierce Beasts of comparable strength nearby, accumulating Evolution Points and honing his combat skills, preparing as thoroughly as possible for the long and perilous journey westward.

The Mo Xing Bamboo Body stood at the edge of the ancient battlefield, gazing into the northwest, waiting quietly for the wind to rise.