Pangu Did Not Die of Exhaustion

Lu Jun frowned slightly upon hearing this.

As a transmigrator, he considered himself thoroughly versed in the Great Desolation's lore.

"Chaos Gods and Devils? Aren't those just the innate divine demons born within Chaos?"

"Great God Pangu is also the mightiest among them. So... what's so special about that?"

Tai Yi watched Lu Jun's expression, a meaningful smile curling at the corner of his mouth, as if observing a fledgling about to have its worldview shattered.

"Special? Of course they are. Nephew, what you know is merely the surface tale spread across the Great Desolation to pacify the masses."

His voice was low, carrying the power to pierce through veils of mist. "Chaos Gods and Devils, according to the common understanding of Great Desolation beings, are indeed conceived within the Chaos World."

"Chaos is boundless, birthing countless Gods and Devils. Great God Pangu is the strongest among them, the one burdened with the mission to open the heavens."

"What you've heard of the 'Great Tribulation of Heaven Opening'—that is when Great God Pangu, wielding the Heaven Opening Divine Axe, with supreme might, single-handedly fought three thousand Chaos Gods and Devils to carve out the Great Desolation World!"

Tai Yi's voice suddenly turned resolute, carrying the clang of metal and the roar of collapsing Great Daos from Chaos's dawn.

It instantly yanked Lu Jun's Mind and Spirit back to that battlefield of unimaginable carnage.

"That battle shattered Chaos itself and made the Great Daos wail in grief!"

"Of the three thousand Chaos Gods and Devils, whether their strength could shake stars or their might engulf Chaos, nearly all were slaughtered by Great God Pangu!"

"Their colossal remnants, brimming with boundless Chaos Origin and Great Dao Laws, along with Great God Pangu's own majestic, vast divine body—ultimately drained of its Heaven Opening Origin—became the very foundation of this Great Desolation World!"

"Great God Pangu used His own Great Dao as a guide and the Chaos Demon God Bodies as material, tearing Chaos apart by sheer force to forge this Great Desolation Heaven and Earth! That is the true Great Tribulation of Heaven Opening!"

Tai Yi shifted his tone, dropping a bombshell: "However, after opening the heavens, Great God Pangu did not die from exhaustion as the legends claim!"

Lu Jun's pupils contracted sharply, his mind reeling!

This was utterly different from the core lore he knew from his past life!

Pangu didn't exhaust himself to transform into all things?!

"Great God Pangu did it willingly!" Tai Yi declared with absolute certainty, brimming with supreme reverence.

"He used His own remaining majestic body to forcibly suppress the world's components—the remnants of the Gods and Devils, seething with chaotic power!"

"He used His own supreme Great Dao will of Opening of Heaven and Earth to suppress the three thousand Chaos Great Daos represented by those Chaos Gods and Devils—Daos utterly incompatible with the newborn order of the Great Desolation!"

"It was not a passive death from exhaustion, but an active act of 'suppression' and 'sealing,' gradually transforming the three thousand Great Daos within that seal!"

"And it is precisely because of Great God Pangu's willing sacrifice that the Great Desolation World now manifests the Three Thousand Great Daos!"

Tai Yi paused here, pointing at the Sun Star: "My Sun Star is the manifestation of the Great Dao of Yang!"

Lu Jun's mouth fell slightly open: "This... I've never heard such an account before!"

He had read hundreds of Great Desolation novels, yet never encountered such a subversive setting!

Pangu willingly sacrificed himself to "suppress" the world?

Was the truth of the Great Desolation so brutal?

"Uncle, how do you know such secrets?" A new question surfaced in his mind.

Tai Yi glanced at Lu Jun, unsurprised by his reaction, a slight smile on his lips.

"It's normal that you haven't heard of it. After all, you haven't truly traveled back in time to 'see' the truth of the Great Tribulation of Heaven Opening with your own eyes."

"I once used the Chaos Bell to sail upstream along the River of Time, and amidst the endless perilous currents of spacetime, from afar, in a fleeting glimpse, I 'saw' the spectacle of heaven's opening."

"What I just said is all deduced from the fragments I 'witnessed' with my own eyes. Hence, I dare to assert it."

"In truth, this core truth is not a secret—so long as your cultivation reaches the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm and you have the ability to attempt tracing the source of the River of Time, you are qualified to glimpse a fraction of it."

"To a true Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, this is no classified matter."

Lu Jun's mind churned like a storm, the settings from his past life's novels shredded to pieces.

But new, deeper doubts surged like a tide: "I... I still don't understand!"

"What does Empress Nuwa and the others failing to return have to do with the story you told about Pangu opening the heavens and the Chaos Gods and Devils?"

He pressed urgently—if Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals knew this, then saints surely did too. So why would witnessing the heaven's opening cause them to vanish for three hundred years?

Tai Yi's expression turned gravely serious, his gaze piercing as he stared straight at Lu Jun.

"What I'm about to say next is the most core, darkest secret of the Great Desolation World!"

"This truth—even a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, unless protected by a supreme treasure like I was, can barely glimpse its full scope! Many Quasi-Saint great beings may not even know it all!"

An invisible, oppressive weight, rooted in the very origin of the Great Desolation, instantly enveloped Lu Jun, making it hard to breathe.

He instinctively wanted to retreat: "This... a secret even Quasi-Saints might not know... does your nephew have the right to hear it? If not, I'd rather not know!"

He sensed instinctively that these waters ran far deeper than he could imagine.

I'm a transmigrator. My only goal is to survive.

Secrets like this, tied to the past—better not to know.

Once I know, it'll only bring trouble.

Yet the boundless curiosity at the bottom of his heart made it impossible to refuse.

As the saying goes, hearing the Dao in the morning is worth dying in the evening!

"Hahaha!" Tai Yi let out a hearty laugh, carrying a hint of pride and expectation for the younger generation.

"Fear not! Since I dare tell you this, it proves you bear the Golden Crow Destiny and possess the unfathomable roots of Star Evolution—you already have the right to know!"

"More importantly, understanding the true face of the Great Desolation World a day earlier may help you forge a path entirely different from ours, a true Heaven-Reaching Great Dao of your own!"

"Only by grasping the truth of the Great Desolation World can you understand why Empress Wa and the others, after entering the River of Time, missed the 'present' as an Anchor Point!"

Tai Yi's voice grew heavy again, carrying the solemnity of one who sees through eons and pierces illusions:

"As I said before, the Great Desolation World was forcibly suppressed and sealed by the body and will of Great God Pangu, imprisoning the remnants of three thousand Chaos Demon Gods and their Chaos Great Dao."

"Such a world, in its essence, is an eternal 'battlefield'! A cage where 'suppression' and 'resistance' wage war without cease!"

"The very 'materials' that form the Great Desolation World—the remnants and lingering wills of those Chaos Demon Gods—have never truly submitted!"

"At every moment, driven by instinct and those lingering wills, they madly assault the suppression seals left by Great God Pangu!"

"It is this ceaseless resistance, rooted in the deepest foundations of the world, that gave rise to a critical flaw determining the fate of the Great Desolation."

"The 'strength' and 'stability' of the Great Desolation World have an invisible 'upper limit'! It is not a perfect, eternal world!"

"From the moment of the Opening of Heaven and Earth, this resistance from the foundations has never stopped!"

"Even to this day, it continues unabated!"

"The Calamity Qi and Sha Qi that fill heaven and earth, and even the great kalpas that eventually erupt, are, to some extent, the external manifestations of this 'resistance' accumulating to a certain point and breaking through the 'suppression' seals!"

Tai Yi seemed to recall a grim example: "Each wave of resistance may spawn an 'avatar' of a Chaos Demon God's will, born among the living beings of the Great Desolation, waiting to destroy its foundations!"

"Such as the Demon Ancestor Luohu!" A cold glint flashed in Tai Yi's eyes.

"His origin was forged from the lingering will of the Chaos Demon God Luohu, and Mount Sumeru, formed from his skull, served as the core Anchor Point of his power!"

"And he nearly succeeded! He detonated Mount Sumeru, grievously wounding the Great Desolation Origin! The Western Earth Veins remain withered to this day!"

At these words, Lu Jun was stunned.

This time, he was truly shocked by the revelation.

"Was the Demon Ancestor Luohu's very purpose to destroy the Great Desolation? A revival of a Chaos Demon God's will?"