Chaos Dao Resonance, Blade of Annihilation!

Yongye's body disintegrated inch by inch, and fragments of amethyst rained down.

His primordial power transformed into wisps of ghostly light, which were then reabsorbed by the bronze pillar.

The primordial epic that had been altered on the pillar gradually returned to its original form, revealing the figure of the third Dao Lord — Hundun.

Qing Li and Ye Chen stared blankly at the blurry figure, who was looking down at his hands as if getting used to his newborn body.

"So..." Qing Li's voice trembled slightly, "Are you the Taichu Dao Venerable or the Void Dao Lord?"

The figure looked up, and his face finally stabilized—it was an unfamiliar young man's face, with delicate features, but his eyes, one gold and one purple, flowed with completely different Daoist charm.

"I'm the cook who ate the fruit," the boy grinned, his tone light and cheerful, a stark contrast to his earlier demeanor. "Of course, you can also call me— Hundun."

Xuanhuang Dao Academy, amidst ruins and broken walls.

Hundun —or rather, the reborn young man in a blue robe.

He was squatting where the eternal night had dissipated, picking up a pinch of amethyst powder with his fingertips.

The powder reformed in his palm, revealing fragmented images of memories:

Eight figures knelt before the Bronze Giant Wheel, each holding a fragment of a Dao bone...

"The other kidnappers." The boy narrowed his eyes. "They're all still alive."

Ye Chen stepped forward. "You... have regained your memories?"

"Only a portion has been restored..."

The boy stood up, brushed the dust off his Daoist robe, and said, "For example, I remember how to beat someone up, but I've forgotten why I was dismembered in the first place."

He suddenly pointed to Ye Chen's chest, "Your brother has one of my ribs inside him."

Qing Li gasped, "The man in purple is...?"

"The vessel for the second calamity, 'Calamity'," the boy sighed. "My rib has the most explosive temper; no wonder I raised a traitor."

Above the ruins of the Crystal Palace, Hundun stood on purple clouds, looking down at the bronze pillars that had sunk to the bottom of the sea.

"This pillar is formed from my left leg bone." He snapped his fingers, the sea split open, and the Ju Zhu rose with a roar. "There should be more hidden inside..."

The pillar suddenly cracked open, and twelve dragon souls roared out, condensing in the air into the phantom of the Old Dragon King: "Dao Lord! The South Sea Dragon Clan has never betrayed us!"

Hundun scratched his head. "Huh? You know me?"

The Old Dragon King's whiskers trembled. "You personally sealed us into the pillars back then, saying you'd wait for the Twin Fruit..." Before he could finish speaking, the phantom suddenly twisted. "Oh no! They've discovered us—"

"Boom--!"

The dragon soul exploded, and a blood-red blade of light that traversed the void slashed towards Hundun's face!

Hundun dodged to the side, the blade grazing his cheek and carving a deep ravine behind him.

The distant sea was split in two, revealing a bottomless void rift!

"The First Calamity Envoy, 'Annihilation'."

Hundun wiped the bloodstains from his face, his golden and purple pupils contracting simultaneously for the first time. "The old man is still so unethical."

A hunched old man emerged from the void rift, his blood-red blade forged from the cores of countless stars.

With each step he took, islands silently vanished into dust.

"Hundun," the old man's voice was hoarse, "You shouldn't have woken up."

Qing Li's Heaven Measuring Ruler automatically protected its master, but it decayed inch by inch when it got close to the old man.

Ye Chen's lightning was inexplicably extinguished as soon as he unleashed it, as if his power was being suppressed by some kind of rule.

"Step back."

Hundun pushed the two behind him. "This old man's 'Annihilation Law' is specifically designed to counter life force." He suddenly grinned. "Fortunately..."

When the blood-red blade slashed down again, Hundun made an inexplicable move—he pulled a peach from his pocket and threw it at the blade.

"Smack—!"

Amidst the splattering of fruit pulp, the blood-stained knife suddenly rusted and broke off!

The old man retreated several feet, staring incredulously at the rotting blade. "You actually..."

"Didn't expect that, did you?" Hundun proudly waved another peach. "I pickled 'Decay Law' inside this fruit!"

The battle that followed defied everyone's expectations.

Hundun kept pulling out strange and unusual things from his sleeve:

Pickled lightning tribulation, stir-fried stardust, steamed spacetime rift... each "ingredient" contains terrifying Daoist charm.

"This 'Braised Eternal Night' dish was originally intended for that one-armed man."

He looked at the overturned amethyst casserole with regret. "You got a good deal."

The old man of annihilation finally showed fear and turned to flee. Suddenly, Hundun conjured a giant sieve and scooped it up from the void—

"Splash!"

The old man was covered from head to toe, and Qing Yan rose from his body. The four characters "Chaos Cookbook" were clearly engraved on the strainer.

"Done." The old man, having transformed into a black bead, Hundun the strainer. "Add a stew tonight."

After the war, Hundun extracted key memories from the black bead:

Eight bronze pillars were distributed across all realms, suppressing the rest of his Daoist bones.

The calamities are attempting to use these Daoist bones to recast the Calamity Measuring Device, while the true nothingness...

"Sealed inside my skull." Hundun jabbed at his temple. "No wonder my head always hurts."

Qing Li suddenly realized something. "The memories in the 'Cause and Effect Fruit' indicate that Senior Six-Eared Macaque seems to have gone to the end of the Chaos Sea?"

"That silly monkey..."

Hundun sighed, "He must have gone to find my right arm—that arm holds the other half of the Primordial Chaos World."

Ye Chen looked at the purple markings that appeared and disappeared on his body. "So, what's next..."

"Buying groceries, cooking, and finding bones." Hundun counted on his fingers, "And while I'm at it, I'll teach you how to use purple veins to make soup... uh, I mean, cultivate."

Three months later, the rebuilt Xuanhuang Dao Academy had a new plaque that read "Chaos Cafeteria".

In the courtyard, Qing Li practiced fusing the Heaven Measuring Ruler with the purple aura.

Ye Chen then followed Hundun to learn the bizarre technique of "Thunderfire Stirring Star Sand".

The dean in white robes held a handful of freshly picked fruit, gazing worriedly towards the East Sea.

"Dao Lord, breaking news!" A disciple rushed in, "A purple glow has appeared in the East Victory Divine Continent, possibly..."

"The third bronze pillar is about to Present World," Hundun mumbled, biting into a candied hawthorn. "Tomorrow I'll take you guys to dig out my spine."

As night deepened, Qing Li discovered that Hundun was sitting alone on the roof, toying with half a broken bronze wheel in his hand.

"Still worried about the other kidnappers?" She leaped onto the roof.

"No."

The young Dao Lord revealed a rare solemnity, "I'm thinking... if we find all the Dao Bones, should we revive the Primordial Chaos World...?"

He gazed at the starry sky. "Or should we end this great calamity completely?"

"So you're teaching us profound principles for the sake of self-discipline?"

"You noticed that? Not bad. The Chaos Cookbook is actually a complete collection of laws left behind by the first Dao Lord."

"The Hundun is gluttonous, so each dish corresponds to a Daoist principle. How much you can comprehend depends on your destiny..."