The Eternal Dao Realm!

Zhou Ming did not continue pressing in that direction.

Since Pangu said he did not know, then he truly did not know.

An existence who had once suffered the Great Dao's extinction and walked the path of Dao verification anew had no need to lie about such a thing.

He thought for a moment, set the question aside for now, and instead asked about another matter closely tied to himself.

"Daoist Friend."

His voice calmed.

"Since all systems were made by those outsiders, then... the system that brought me across to the Ninth Chaos must have been made by them too."

"Logically speaking, I should have some connection to those outsiders as well."

"Then why did you leave me alive back then, Daoist Friend?"

This question had been circling in his heart from the moment he learned the truth about systems.

A living being carrying an outsider's system had appeared in the chaos where he was proving the Dao.

By common sense, he should have been eliminated at the first opportunity to sever all future trouble.

But not only had Pangu not acted, he had instead given him shelter.

That did not make sense.

Pangu smiled.

It was the smile of someone who had been through it all recalling old events, carrying a bit of self-mockery.

"You forgot one thing."

"What?"

"Although I had already awakened at the time, I had not yet proven the Dao."

Pangu raised one hand and lifted a finger.

"My memories of the Great Dao realm had not yet fully returned, and many things could not be seen clearly."

"At that time, I was merely an innate living being gestating within the chaos. As for outsiders, systems, the struggles of the Chaos Sea—I knew nothing of any of it."

Zhou Ming was stunned.

Pangu had