Starlight Anomaly, the Calamity Envoys Appear!
At the edge of the Chaos Sea, in an eternal darkness, starlight suddenly twinkled.
The light was as faint as a firefly, yet it pierced through the endless Hundun, drawing a dazzling trajectory in the void.
Xuanhuang Dao Academy, Chaos, who was eating a candied Hundun, suddenly looked up, his golden and purple pupils contracting sharply.
"Six-Eared Macaque..." he murmured, the candied hawthorn stick between his fingers snapping with a "crack".
Qing Li and Ye Chen came upon hearing the sound, only to see that Hundun's expression was solemn, his gaze piercing through the clouds and looking towards the sky.
"What's wrong?" Qing Li asked.
Hundun did not answer, but instead raised its hand and drew a line in the air, creating a curtain of water that reflected the scene at the end of the Chaos Sea—
A broken star floats in the darkness, its surface covered with cracks, as if it might collapse at any moment.
Above the stars, a familiar figure knelt on the ground, his body wrapped in purple chains. It was none other than the long-lost Six-Eared Macaque!
"He's still alive..." Ye Chen exclaimed in shock.
Hundun narrowed his eyes. "No, that's not the complete Six-Eared Macaque."
As the scene in the water curtain zoomed in, Six-Eared Macaque's right arm had crystallized, while his left half was enveloped in the Chaos Ancestral Blood, barely resisting the erosion of the chains.
Most strangely, a purple fragment was embedded between his eyebrows, constantly devouring his life force.
"A fragment of the Primordial Chaos Dao Seed..." Hundun voice, "That old bastard Void actually planted the source of the Calamity Envoy into his body!"
The following day, Hundun, along with Qing Li and Ye Chen, embarked on their journey to the end of the Chaos Sea.
"At the end of the Chaos Sea lies the ruins of the Primordial Chaos World, where laws are chaotic and spacetime is reversed."
As Hundun walked, he explained, "When Six-Eared Macaque burned his own essence to protect the Dao Seed, he should have perished completely, but now it seems..."
"Could it be that someone forcibly condensed his remnant soul?" Qing Li guessed.
Hundun shook his head. "Not only that, but the aura of my right arm is also present within him."
Ye Chen was stunned. "Your right arm? How is that possible?"
"When I was dismembered, my right arm held the reins of 'balance' in the Primordial Chaos World."
Hundun said in a low voice, "If Six-Eared Macaque found it, then he... might already be a vessel for the power of balance."
The three of them traversed the Chaos Storm and finally arrived at the shattered star.
On the surface of the star, Six-Eared Macaque remained kneeling in the same spot, as if frozen in time.
Only when Hundun drew near did he slowly raise his head, his left eye Hundun, his right eye Purple Light, his voice hoarse and strained. "... Dao Lord... run quickly..."
Hundun crouched down and lightly touched the purple fragment between Six-Eared Macaque's eyebrows with his fingertips.
"Snap—!"
A crack appeared in the fragment, Six-Eared Macaque's body trembled violently. The Chaos Ancestral Blood in the left half of his body surged wildly, fiercely clashing with the amethyst chains in the right half.
"He's using the power of my right arm to fight against the calamity's corruption," Hundun frowned. "But if this continues, he'll be torn apart by the two forces."
Qing Li stepped forward. "Then what can we do?"
After a moment Hundun contemplation, Hun Dun suddenly pulled an iron pot from his pocket. "Cook him."
"Huh? No way, this is the Six-Eared Emperor..." Ye Chen and Qing Li were both stunned.
"Just kidding."
Hundun grinned, then said seriously, "However, 'harmony' is indeed needed— Ye Chen, you have the Purple Vein Dao Rhythm within you, Qing Li has the Xuanhuang Inheritance. If the two of you work together, you might be able to temporarily stabilize his condition."
The two exchanged a glance and simultaneously placed their hands on Six-Eared Macaque's shoulders.
The intertwining of dark yellow and purple energy transformed into a curtain of light that enveloped Six-Eared Macaque.
The fragment between Six-Eared Macaque's eyebrows finally stopped eroding, but the Hundun and Purple Light in his eyes had not yet faded.
"We can only suppress it temporarily," Hundun sighed. "To completely save him, we must first find my right arm."
The three arrived inside a broken star, where they found a huge bronze palace.
In the center of the palace, a section of arm bone, as clear as jade, floats in the air. Hundun Daoist energy flows between the joints, yet it is also bound by purple chains.
"As expected, it's here..." Hundun stepped forward, but was blocked by an invisible barrier.
Crimson runes appeared on the barrier, forming a line of ancient characters:
Those who maintain balance must pay an equivalent price.
Qing Li read the text aloud, then asked in confusion, "What does this mean?"
"The rules of the Primordial Chaos World," Hundun sneered, "If you want to reclaim your right arm, you must exchange it for something of equal value."
Ye Chen looked at Six-Eared Macaque: "So, back then, Senior Six-Eared Macaque..."
"He sacrificed himself," Hundun whispered. "But now, we must try a different approach."
Hundun took out a peach from his sleeve, weighed it in his hand, and then replaced it with a salted fish.
Seeing the Hundun in such a state, Qing Li immediately sighed and rubbed her forehead.
"Dao Lord... can you please be serious?"
"I'm very serious," Hundun said, pursing his lips. "This is a salted fish that's been pickled for 30,000 years—it's good stuff!"
However, the barrier did not react at all.
Hundun sighed and finally took out something—a seed that was half gold and half purple.
"The seed of the Cause and Effect Tree," he said softly, "Contains the Daoist essence of Taichu nothingness. Isn't that enough?"
The barrier trembled slightly and finally cracked open.
Just as Hundun was about to reclaim his right arm, the entire palace suddenly trembled!
The purple chains contracted rapidly, pulling the arm bone into the ground.
At the same time, Six-Eared Macaque's body flew uncontrollably into the depths of the palace!
"A trap!" Hundun grabbed Six-Eared Macaque' ankle. "They deliberately lured us here!"
A chilling laugh echoed from the depths of the earth, "Hundun, you've finally arrived..."
As the rock strata collapsed, three figures gradually emerged.
The first person, whose body was wrapped in blood-red chains, was none other than the Annihilation Elder who had been "stewed" by Hundun, but had now been restored!
The second person was a charming woman with pink flames dancing on her fingertips; she was the seventh calamity envoy, "Desire".
The third person was a fat child with a huge mouth split open on his belly, and the fourth calamity was "famine".
"Are you three trying to scam me together?" Hundun tossed Six-Eared Macaque to Qing Li. "Take him and get out of here!"
Annihilation sneered, "Trying to leave? Too late!"
He raised his hand and waved it, and the entire star began to collapse, distorting spacetime into a vortex.
Qing Li and Ye Chen were instantly frozen in place, unable to move even their fingers.
Only Hundun remained unaffected, sighing, "They really wanted to force me to get serious..."
He snapped his fingers.
"Dinner's ready."
As the words fell, the void cracked open, revealing a gigantic cookbook. As the pages turned, countless phantom images of ingredients flew out—
The raging lightning tribulation entangled and annihilated, the steaming spacetime rift swallowed Desire, and the hungry child... was chased all over the place by a bowl of "diet porridge" cooked by Hundun himself.
"Dao Lord!" Qing Li exclaimed, "Senior Six-Eared Macaque— "
Hundun turned around and saw that Six-Eared Macaque's body was disintegrating, and the purple fragment between his eyebrows completely exploded, turning into a pillar of light that Tongtian!
A blurry figure slowly emerged from within the pillar of light—
It was just a projection of nothingness!
"Long time no see..." The illusory figure chuckled, looking at the Hundun before him with disdain in his eyes.