Abandoning the Origin Dao, Returning to the Beginning

Jianmu paid no heed to the arrival of the town-defending soldiers.

At this moment, He was studying the rules of the Source Devouring Beasts.

He entered the Void Domain—the Hongmeng as it had been known in the past—and had a lowest-level Origin Dao Realm Source Devouring Beast split into over a million lowest-level Source Devouring Beasts for Him to study.

As a "Lord-class Source Devouring Beast," Han Yuan's command was naturally obeyed by this Source Devouring Beast with absolute docility. It revealed even its core without reservation, allowing Han Yuan to study it as He pleased.

Every lowest-level Source Devouring Beast produced through splitting possessed strength equivalent to that of a lowest-level Dao Ancestor. Structurally, they were far simpler than an Origin Dao Realm Source Devouring Beast.

Within the bodies of the split-off lowest-level Source Devouring Beasts, Han Yuan saw worlds of destruction. At the very center of each world lay a single rule serving as its core!

A Dao Ancestor, meanwhile, had its Ancestral Dao as its core. The Ancestral Dao was an exceedingly exquisite Great Dao system, with numerous Great Daos forming the foundational core of a world together. Yet within a Source Devouring Beast, there was only one simple rule!

Without hesitation, Han Yuan dissected the interior of the rule core. Then He saw lines upon lines of text and symbols arranging and combining themselves in patterns!

"This is..."

Han Yuan's pupils constricted.

He had seen something like this before!

Code!

Programs!

Though the Great Dao had ten thousand paths, all leading to the same destination, there was nothing surprising about using code and programs to write rules.

But these rules were far too "human." The traces of deliberate design were glaringly obvious!

Han Yuan frowned.

With a casual grasp, Han Yuan pulled a hostile Dao Ancestor