The Chicken Finished Pecking the Rice, the Dog Licked Up the Flour, and the Lamp Burned Through the Lock

"Zhao Xing, what are you talking about? The Supreme Demon God, the Divine Emperor—what's going on?" the Derivation God Palace Master asked.

"As everyone knows, the Chaos Era was the universe's Origin Stage. In that stage, the Great Daos evolved, giving birth to powerful but singular forms of life and matter."

"After I cultivated the Agriculture Dao to the Supreme Realm and comprehended all one hundred layers of the Eternal Dao Diagram, I finally understood why the Dark Demon Gods of the Chaos Era could never be wiped out, and why the Dark Source Realm could not be destroyed."

"The root cause lies in the nature of the universe's Origin Stage—and in the Five Emperors bringing the gods here, one after another."

The others grew more confused. Zhao Xing opened his palm, and a glowing mass of chaos appeared. "Let's use an example. Suppose this ball of chaos in my hand is an embryonic universe."

"Its initial conditions determine how it develops."

"Originally, this stage gave birth only to the Primordial Sea, the Primordial Extreme Star, the Primordial Extreme Continent, and the Cosmic Forest. There were chaotic life-forms, but very few—"

Demon Ancestor Huan Li interrupted him. "What about the Dark Source Realm? Why isn't it there?"

"Good question." Zhao Xing nodded. "According to my Heavenly Evolution Theory, there was no Dark Source Realm in the universe's Origin Stage. At most, it produced a few individually powerful life-forms with chaotic minds."

"But then, at a certain moment—"

Zhao Xing touched the air with a finger of his other hand, sending a ray of light into the ball of chaos.

"Xu Zu traveled upstream through the River of Space-Time and appeared in the Chaos Era."

As he spoke, the Chaos Mist above his palm began to shift.

"The initial conditions changed..."