Pangu and Wu both turned their gazes toward Yuan Chu. They too were filled with curiosity about Zhou Ming's origins.
Wu in particular shared an exceptionally unusual connection with Zhou Ming, so he naturally wanted even more to know where it had all begun.
Yuan Chu looked at Zhou Ming, a faint smile appearing on his illusory face.
"You finally asked."
"I thought you no longer cared about where you came from."
Zhou Ming remained calm, his tone open and composed.
"At my current realm, my past identity as a mortal truly no longer matters."
"But that was, after all, the starting point of my journey down this path. I still want to understand why I came here in the first place."
With his hands clasped behind his back, Yuan Chu gave the most direct answer.
"I brought you in from the outside world."
Hearing those words, Zhou Ming drew a deep breath.
Just as he had expected—he had long harbored that suspicion.
In the entire Chaos Sea, aside from Yuan Chu, the True Saint who had left behind the Inner World, there could not possibly have been anyone capable of bypassing every rule and bringing an ordinary mortal from the outside world inside.
Yuan Chu began explaining in detail why he had done this.
"I told you before that I guided Pangu in splitting heaven and earth, and guided the fusion of their worlds, in order to seek an opportunity to break through the Transcendence Realm."
"But after observing Pangu splitting heaven and earth, and observing the development of the Eternal Dao Realm, I gained nothing."
Yuan Chu sighed.
"I guessed that the native beings were constrained by the underlying rules of this Inner World of mine. Their paths would find it difficult to leap beyond the framework of