Bai Yu glanced at the Witch-Demon Clans facing off beneath the heavens and at the mighty beings watching the spectacle. He said nothing and entered the River of Time, continuing upstream.
...Hongjun became a Sage...the Dao-Devil War...the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation...the Creation Tribulation...
From within the River of Time, Bai Yu watched in silence as the towering giant, a figure like a god or demon, fell.
He had reached the dawn of this world's creation.
Bai Yu wanted only the five Innate Spiritual Roots. Nothing else interested him—not even this world's Chaos Bell.
He knew full well that this world's Chaos Bell contained only Source Laws.
He could produce treasures containing Source Laws by the batch, so why would he care?
He looked west and reached out. The Bodhi Tree appeared in his palm.
He examined it closely. Its rich Innate Metal Essence was the root, the origin, of all Innate Metal Essence in this world.
Essence origin was unlike Law Source. Each world had only one source of essence; it was vital and irreplaceable.
If Bai Yu had not beaten Hongjun up, why would Hongjun ever have given him something so important?
If Bai Yu intended to stay in this world forever, Hongjun would not have cared what he did with it. As long as the essence origin remained in this world, everything would be fine.
But Bai Yu clearly had no intention of staying.
Losing the Five Elements Essence Origin might not destroy this world outright. Yet with its origin incomplete, the world would have to restore its essence origin before it could advance any further.
And the time and cost of doing that were beyond calculation.
The essence origin of a Greater World would, in fact, suffice to refine the Innate Origin Five Energies.
In the Grand Primordial Cosmos that Bai Yu came from, a Daluo Golden Immortal could already roam the Myriad Realms, let alone a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal.
Creating a world was even quite simple for a Daluo Golden Immortal.
The more complete a world's laws and the higher its level, though, the harder it was to create.
Creating a fully developed, top-tier Greater World might be difficult for a Daluo Golden Immortal, but it posed no difficulty at all for a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal.
Having mastered a Source Great Dao completely, a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal could wield Source Laws as easily as his own limbs. He could even seize and control laws he had never comprehended.
Say a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal created a Greater World, only to find it lacked many Source Laws. What then?
What else? He could capture the missing Source Laws and stuff them in, using his Source Great Dao to control them and force them to merge.
He could even fuse the Source Great Dao he mastered into the world, transforming that Greater World into a Grand Cosmos. Any world that bore a Source Great Dao—even just one—was a Grand Cosmos.
A Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal could create only one Grand Cosmos, however, unless he mastered more than one Source Great Dao.
So for disciples of Sages, obtaining a Greater World's essence origin to refine the Innate Origin Five Energies within them was simple enough. A Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal could create a Greater World with a wave of his hand.
Bai Yu had no such privilege. He had to rely on himself.
He also understood that even if he took this Bodhi Tree back to the Grand Primordial Cosmos and tended it with the utmost care, it could never grow into one of that world's Innate Spiritual Roots, even if they shared the same roots and origin.
After all, the root of a world's essence was unique.
"A little disappointing, but not bad."
Bai Yu was disappointed, yet he knew that forging the deepest foundation and refining a supreme Undying Immortal Body could never be easy.
A foundation forged from the Innate Essence Origin of a Grand Cosmos would be the deepest, and the Undying Immortal Body refined from it would be the finest.
But finding a Grand Cosmos was difficult beyond measure. Even if Bai Yu found one, with his current strength, he probably could not win a fight for its origin...
"Still, it doesn't matter. Once I attain Enlightenment of the Dao and become a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal, I'll create a Grand Cosmos myself..." Bai Yu murmured.
With the system's Dao Comprehension function, Bai Yu could easily comprehend many Source Laws. Once he became a Daluo Golden Immortal, he would be able to comprehend many Source Great Daos just as easily.
For anyone else, comprehending multiple Source Great Daos was all but impossible.
Not for Bai Yu.
Others created a Grand Cosmos and anchored it with the Source Great Dao they had comprehended. But the Grand Cosmos he would create could hold more than one Source Great Dao.
Even the Grand Primordial Cosmos as it stood could not compare to the Grand Cosmos Bai Yu would one day create!
Bai Yu guessed that the current Grand Primordial Cosmos held only forty-nine Source Great Daos.
One day, he would create a Grand Cosmos that contained every Source Great Dao, take its essence origin, and forge himself the mightiest Undying Immortal Body!
Hmm...
As Bai Yu followed that thought, a faint smile touched his lips. In an instant, dazzling golden lotuses bloomed throughout the world.
For now, it was only an idea, but Bai Yu was confident he could make it real.
After collecting the remaining Ginseng Fruit Tree, Peach Tree of Immortality, Fusang Tree, and Yellow Zhongli Plum, Bai Yu did not leave this world immediately.
He entered the River of Time again and arrived at the moment Houtu transformed herself into Reincarnation. As this world's Reincarnation Law reached Perfection, he activated the system's Dao Comprehension Assistance function and began comprehending the Reincarnation Source Law.
Time flew. Before even one Yuanhui Era had passed, Bai Yu had comprehended this world's Reincarnation Source Law to Perfection.
This world's Source Laws fell far short of those in the Grand Primordial Cosmos. But the Reincarnation Law there was currently incomplete, so he had no choice but to settle for comprehending this world's law instead.
It was no great problem. Once Houtu transformed herself into Reincarnation in the Grand Primordial Cosmos and its Reincarnation Great Dao became complete, he could fill in what was missing.
And if he wanted to comprehend Source Great Daos absent from the Grand Primordial Cosmos, he could visit other Grand Cosmoses.
After all, Bai Yu intended to comprehend every Source Great Dao!
With the Reincarnation Law comprehended, Bai Yu had accomplished everything he had come to do.
He took one step and vanished, leaving this world behind.
Sky Beyond Sky, Purple Cloud Palace.
"Finally gone..."
Seated on the cushion at the center of the raised dais, Hongjun lowered his gaze and quietly breathed a sigh of relief. The pressure on him had been immense.
Fortunately, this Extraterrestrial Saint bore no ill will. True, he had taken this world's Five Elements Essence Origin, beaten Hongjun up, and even slashed the Heavenly Dao, but he bore no ill will!
If he had, he probably would have destroyed the world outright...
Hongjun looked at the Destiny Source Law in his hand and fell silent.
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