Memory Battlefield of the Hall of Procreation
At 11:45 AM, the three men sneaked into the cesspool in the west of the city.
Qing Li used her sword energy to create a barrier, Ye Chen used lightning to illuminate the area, and Hundun used half of a spine as a probe.
The excrement separated automatically the moment it touched the bones, revealing the ancient bluestone slab beneath.
"It's actually the Primordial Sealing Stone." Hundun tapped the stone slab and suddenly spoke.
However, the stone slab suddenly flipped over, and a suction force pulled the three of them into the ground!
When the three landed, the stench transformed into a strange sandalwood scent.
In the enormous underground palace, countless bronze chains hung from the dome, wrapped around the pelvic area of a headless skeleton.
Pink Daoist energy flowed between his joints, and wherever he passed, enchanting peach blossoms bloomed on the chains.
"This is..." Qing Li's cheeks flushed slightly.
"The Law of Reproduction," Hundun sighed. "The origin of the reproduction of all living beings in the Primordial Chaos World."
Ye Chen suddenly pressed his temple. "There's a sound... singing over there..."
The three listened carefully and indeed heard a faint female voice coming from the pelvis, the melody lingering and poignant.
However, with each line sung, a section of the chain turned to dust.
Hundun's expression changed drastically. "It's the 'Desire' envoy! She's transformed my pelvis into a love potion!"
As the pink mist filled the air, the scene in the underground palace changed abruptly.
Qing Li saw herself wearing a wedding dress, bowing to heaven and earth with Ye Chen;
Ye Chen seemed to be standing on a cloud peak, with thousands of purple-patterned cultivators kneeling at his feet;
The most outrageous thing about Hundun is that he's being chased by a dozen illusory clones demanding repayment of a debt...
"A trivial skill..."
Hundun slammed his spine into his foot, the excruciating pain shattering the illusion. "Trying to pick up Laozi first?"
Just as he was about to step forward, countless peach branches suddenly sprouted from the ground.
The seventh calamity envoy, "Desire," emerged from the largest peach blossom, her flowing veil and captivating eyes revealing. "The Hundun Dao Lord such a cruel heart~"
Hundun grabbed a spine and smashed it down. "Don't try that on me!"
With Desire laugh, she dodged while simultaneously flicking a strand of pink thread from one hand, aiming it at Ye Chen: "Little sir, come on~"
The blue mark on Ye Chen's forehead shone brightly, and the Dao of Creation automatically countered.
The moment the pink thread touched the skin, the purple lines suddenly erupted!
"Ah--!"
He knelt in agony, amethyst appearing on his left side, while blue vines grew on his right side.
The two Dao principles were locked in a fierce battle within his body, causing his energy to become extremely chaotic.
Hundun tried to rescue them, but was suddenly bound into a rice dumpling by the materialized threads of emotion.
As soon as Qing Li drew her Heaven Measuring Ruler, her wrist was entangled by a peach branch.
"Useless~" Desire licked its lips. "This young man has the mark of the Void Master within him. The more he resists, the harder it is for him to resist, hahahaha..."
However, before she could finish speaking, she suddenly screamed and retreated—what erupted from Ye Chen's body was not purple energy or cyan light, but a wisp of Profound Yellow Qi.
Desire, terrified, retreated rapidly, while Hundun had already carried the two away from the place.
On the North Sea, the cold wind was like a knife. The three stood there, only Hundun looked relaxed.
Hundun stood on the floating ice, his golden-purple eyes scanning the dark sea. "Back then, I sank my skull here because..."
"Because it's the coldest place here, so it can shut you up from your chatter?" Qing Li wrapped her fur robe tighter and interrupted irritably.
Hundun grabbed a piece of ice and threw it. "Because Northern Darkness is the 'Sea of Memory' of the Primordial Chaos World!"
Ye Chen squatted down, and the gray-white Daoist aura seeped into the ice layer.
In an instant, countless fragments of images appeared on the ice surface—the rise and fall of the Primordial Chaos World, the outbreak of the Great Tribulation, the conflict between the three Dao Lords...
"Something is interfering here; many memories have been deliberately erased..." He pressed his temples and rubbed them vigorously, trying to recall more.
"Splash—!"
Suddenly, the seawater parted, revealing an ice crystal staircase leading directly to the seabed.
At the end of the steps, the outline of the Bronze Hall can be vaguely seen.
Inside the underwater palace, the scene was unusually bizarre.
Countless crystal pillars stand tall, each containing a memory.
As soon as the three stepped inside, the nearest pillar lit up—
In the scene, Hundun is placing the skull into a bronze coffin, with a blurry figure standing beside him.
When the man raised his hand to cast a spell, the reflection of his bronze mask was visible through his sleeve!
"The Third Calamity Envoy!" Qing Li exclaimed, "Was he present back then?"
Hundun narrowed his eyes. "Interesting... It seems the 'deception' is more deeply hidden than I thought."
The three continued deeper, and more memory pillars lit up:
The Void nurtures the Calamity Envoy in Secret Chamber, the Taichu One repairs the boundary wall alone, Hundun converses with a mysterious figure... but key moments always become blurred at crucial moments.
"Someone has carefully arranged these memories, as if telling a specific story..." Ye Chen said leisurely, his fingertips tracing the pillar.
In the center of the palace, a complete bronze coffin was suspended.
The seal on the coffin lid had loosened, and wisps of purple mist seeped out from the gaps.
Hundun suddenly stopped the two who were about to step forward to investigate. "Wait... this is too easy, something's not right."
He conjured up a candied hawthorn and gently tossed it toward the coffin.
"Whoosh!"
The candied hawthorn suddenly disintegrated three zhang away from the coffin, turning into countless points of light that were absorbed by the coffin!
"As expected, there was a trap." Hundun sneered. "This isn't my coffin."
"They discovered it so quickly. It really is the Dao Lord Hundun..."
Frivolous voices came from all directions.
The figure of the Third Calamity Envoy, "Deception," flickered among the crystal pillars, each time appearing wearing a different mask.
"The Dao Lord is still as perceptive as ever." He performed an exaggerated Daoist salute. "But are you sure... everything you saw was real?"
Ye Chen suddenly pressed his forehead. "Dao Lord, be careful!"
Before he could finish speaking, the entire palace suddenly flipped over!
The ground beneath their feet transformed into a ceiling, and the contents of the memory pillars completely distorted—
The scene that was originally Hundun placing the skull has been transformed into the scene of him personally killing the Taichu!
"Mean--!"
The Qing Li Heaven Measuring Ruler swept across, shattering several fake memory pillars.
A deceitful laugh echoed through the space, "History is written by the victors, isn't it?"
Hundun stood still, but the Dao patterns on his right arm quietly lit up. "Ye Chen, use your gray-white Dao aura to sense the true skull."
Upon hearing this, Ye Chen immediately felt a gray-white mist spread out, and wherever it passed, the fabricated memories vanished like smoke.
As the fabricated memories dissipate, the real memories gradually become clear.
In the scene, when facing a life-or-death crisis, the Taichu entrusts his power and hope to the skull of Hundun.
They requested Hundun to properly place it to protect the last vestiges of life in the Primordial Chaos World.
Just then, the "fraudulent" envoy, enraged, manipulated the palace's mechanisms to attack the three.
Hundun formed hand seals, releasing powerful Hundun energy to fight against the mechanism.
Qing Li brandished the Heaven Measuring Ruler, deflecting the approaching attacks one by one.
Ye Chen continued to use the gray-white Daoist aura to search for traces of the skull.
However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred, Seven Calamity Envoys appeared all at once.
Hundun was immediately shocked. With his current magical power, he was no match for the Seven Calamity Envoys.
As the seven people attacked simultaneously, the palace began to shake violently, seemingly on the verge of collapse.
The three of them dared not delay and quickly ran towards the palace exit with the skull in their hands.
In the battle at the North Sea, Hundun was severely injured, and the three of them had no choice but to use water magic to escape back to Brocade City.
Beside the outhouse in the west of the city, Hundun, clutching his wounded shoulder, grimaced as he pulled out a copper coin and flicked it deep into the cesspool.
"Thump—!"
The copper coin sank to the bottom, and the sewage suddenly parted, revealing a staircase leading to the earth's veins.
"Dao Lord..." Qing Li pinched her nose, "Are you sure this place is safe from the envoys?"
Hundun grinned. "The most dangerous place is the safest place. Besides..."
He pointed deep into the earth's veins. "Beneath the Brocade City lies the 'seed' of the Primordial Origin World."
Qing Li and Ye Chen exchanged a glance, both utterly astonished. "What? The seed is hidden underground in Brocade City?"