The moment the Bronze Coffin was opened, the entire Chaos Sea fell into an eerie stillness.
The Taichu Profound Yellow Dao Seed trembled wildly in the Purple Mansion, its seventy-two roots piercing through the meridians, each one sending forth excruciating pain.
"That's... me? How is that possible..."
The half-face peeking out from the crack in the coffin bore a striking resemblance to the Taichu.
However, the Daoist pattern between his brows was grayish-black, and the curve of his lips carried a chilling compassion.
Zeus's Thunder Scepter suddenly fell from mid-air, and the jewels on the king of the gods' crown shattered one after another.
He stared incredulously at the coffin. "Father God... this is impossible..."
Odin's single eye shed tears of blood, and the Eternal Spear groaned in his hand.
The phantoms of the Norse gods began to crumble, and they were horrified to discover that their divine essence was flowing uncontrollably toward the coffin.
"Are we... really just nourishment?"
Athena's shield of wisdom cracked, and the truth reflected on the shield shocked her to her core—flowing within the Twelve Main Gods was the essence of evil that the Lord of Eternal Silence had stripped away years ago!
Pangu Qiong's battle axe suddenly burst forth with a dazzling blue light, and the ancient inscriptions on the axe surface lit up one after another:
"So that's what the prophecy left by the first patriarch meant!"
He turned and roared, "Twelve Heavenly Capitals, Blood Sacrifice to Activate the Array!"
As soon as the words were spoken, 120,000 Pangu Warrior pounded their chests simultaneously.
Bronze Sacred Blood gushed from the seven orifices, weaving into a massive array above the Chaos Sea.
At the Array Core, the scene of the First Generation Pangu creating the world reappeared—but this time Taichu saw clearly that after the axe light that split the Hundun, there were two entangled figures!
One is as dazzling as the rising sun, the other as dark as the eternal night.
"Eternal silence and Hundun are two sides of the same coin."
The roots of the Six-Eared Macaque Divine Tree suddenly pierced through the barrier of space and time, pulling out a fragment of memory from the deepest level of the Ruins of Return. "Master, look!"
The scene of the First Generation White Emperor gouging out his eyes is fully presented in the fragments:
He wasn't fighting against an external enemy, but forcibly stripping away the corrupted Eternal Silence Source within his body! His sealed right arm was now slowly writhing inside the Bronze Coffin!
The Taichu Heaven Measuring Ruler suddenly disintegrated on its own, and its 36,000 fragments reassembled in the void, piecing together a fragmented star map.
The Profound Yellow Dao Seed flew out from between the eyebrows and hovered in the center of the star map. The resonance between the two caused the opening speed of the Bronze Coffin to slow down a bit.
"They're stalling for time!"
Zeus suddenly sprang into action, his true form, engulfed in golden flames, lunging towards the Taichu: "Father God, you need the final key!"
The Thunder Scepter pierced through Taichu's chest the instant the roots of Six-Eared Macaque's divine tree wove a net that stretched across the heavens and earth.
Golden threads formed from the Chaos Ancestral Blood bound Zeus's limbs, each one piercing into the core of his divine nature.
"You Western gods are nothing but puppets raised by the Eternal Silence Old Dog!"
A complete Heaven Opening Axe totem appeared behind Six-Eared Macaque's ear, splitting Zeus's brow with a single blow. "See your true nature!"
The moment the God King's crown shattered, countless fragments of memories erupted.
In the Taichu, he saw the scene at the beginning of the primordial chaos:
The Lord of Eternal Silence sealed "Wrath" into Odin, infused "Greed" into Satan's soul, and "Pride" became the foundation of Zeus's divinity...
"Therefore Twilight of the Gods..."
Odin's single eye suddenly dimmed, Eternal Spear turned and plunged into his own chest. "It was always just a ritual of sacrifice!"
The shockwave from the simultaneous self-destruction of the Norse pantheon tore an even larger gap in the vortex of the Guixu Sea Eye.
The lid of the Bronze Coffin moved another three inches, and an arm wrapped in Star Chain slowly extended out.
The mysterious Dao patterns covering his arm were exactly the same as those on Taichu's body!
"It's too late." Pangu Qiong suddenly plunged his battle axe into the top of his head. "Lord of the Realm, please lead my people... to survive..."
The Bronze Sacred Blood poured down like a waterfall, drenching the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Fiends Formation.
The phantom image of the First Generation Pangu that appeared in the array suddenly solidified a bit.
Then came the second, the third... for a total of thirty-six generations, the will of the Pangu Clan Leader manifested one after another!
Nuwa's Mountains and Rivers State Diagram unfolded automatically, and countless Creation God General flew out from it, each holding a Bronze Ancient Lamp.
In the void illuminated by the lights, the truth buried by the long river of history emerges:
The First Generation Pangu separated heaven and earth not for creation, but for separation!
He split himself and the symbiotic entity with the Lord of Eternal Silence, the purest part becoming the Primordial World, and the polluted part being sealed in the bottom of the Ruins!
"So the Profound Yellow Dao Seed..." Taichu coughed up golden blood tinged with gray mist, "... is it the purified Eternal Silence Source?"
Suddenly, the arm in the coffin stretched out, its fingertips touching the Taichu's brow.
Memories flooded back—he saw his countless reincarnations, each one a struggle against the Western pantheon, each one an attempt to prevent eternal silence from descending...
And in this life, the cycle of reincarnation is about to be completed.
"Six-Eared Macaque!"
Taichu, Tai Chu grabbed the severed arm, and the Profound Yellow Dao Seed surged wildly into the coffin along the point of contact, "Pierce His heart with the Chaos Divine Tree!"
The roots of the Six-Eared Macaque divine tree grew rapidly, and all the golden patterns behind its ears detached and transformed into the Heaven Opening Axe.
He parted the swirling gray mist and saw a heart, half black and half gold, beating deep within the coffin.
The black part is wrapped with the Eternal Silence Dao Pattern, while the golden part is actually of the same origin as the Taichu Profound Yellow Dao Seed!
The moment the axe light struck, the flow of time in the entire Chaos Sea suddenly changed.
Zeus's remaining divine essence let out a final roar, Mount Olympus crashed down from the void;
Satan detonated the nine layers of hell, and the Demonic Qi of the abyss polluted a star field of thirty thousand miles.
In the ruins of Norse Hall of Valor, Valkyrie chanted dirges as they rushed toward their coffins...
Amidst this chaos, Taichu clearly heard a voice resounding in his Purple Mansion:
"To merge, or to destroy."
This is the last message left by White Emperor.
Taichu looked at the withering Chaos Divine Tree, at the Pangu Warrior burning his origin, at the Six-Eared Macaque covered in blood... and suddenly understood something.
I choose...
His voice was interrupted by a sudden, clear phoenix cry.
On the remains of the Chaos Silver Branch, a pure white flower bloomed at some unknown time.
The moment the petals unfurled, the seventy-two Profound Yellow Dao Seed automatically arranged themselves into the Pangu Creation Array.
What emerged at the center of the array was not a method of destruction, but a path never before imagined—
"Symbiosis?"
The roots of the Six-Eared Macaque Divine Tree suddenly wrapped around Taichu's wrist. "Master, this..."
Taichu's pupils contracted violently.
The image displayed by the array overturned all previous understanding:
The First Generation Pangu did not want to destroy eternal silence, but rather to achieve a balance with it!
The existence of the Primordial World is proof of the symbiosis between the two!
"We were all wrong..."
Fragments of the Heaven Measuring Ruler suddenly flew toward the Bronze Coffin, carving intricate patterns on its surface. "Eternal Silence is the shadow of Hundun, which cannot be destroyed, but can only..."
The coffin suddenly opened completely, and a human figure formed from gray mist slowly stood up.
His left hand was wrapped in Star Chain, while his right hand flowed with Profound Yellow Qi;
His left eye was as dark as a lifeless universe, while his right eye was as bright as the rising sun.
The moment the Taichu and His eyes met, the entire Primordial World trembled violently.
The protective array of the Primordial Origin World collapsed layer by layer, and the Chaos Sea stirred up a world-destroying wave. Cultivators from both the East and the West knelt down at the same time.
Their foundation of Tao and their divine nature are undergoing a fundamental transformation!
"The time has come."
The Lord of Eternal Silence's voice was no longer cold and sinister, but instead carried a hint of compassion. "The reckoning of this era begins here."
Suddenly, the withered Chaos Silver Branch sprouted new buds, and on its seventy-two tender leaves, different microcosms of the world appeared.
On one of the leaves, Taichu saw a chilling sight—grayish-white star marks appeared on the foreheads of all the cultivators in the Primordial Origin World, including himself!