The cultivation of the Origin Spirit Seed had entered a critical stage. Every day, Shen Hao went to the Enlightenment Hall of the Myriad Origins Pavilion and nourished the embryonic spirit seed with his own Origin Fusion Dao resonance. The seed was gray-green throughout, its surface covered in fine Origin Fusion Runes and Star Sea origin patterns. It radiated gentle, pure energy, like a sleeping life awaiting the moment of awakening.
That day, when Shen Hao injected Origin Fusion Dao resonance into it once more, the spirit seed suddenly erupted with intense light. Within the radiance, a faint gray pattern emerged and violently clashed with the seed's origin energy. This pattern had not come from the Star Sea. It contained a dense aura of Desolate Rules, sharing the same origin as Ku Jue's lingering will, yet it was deeper and far more ancient.
"This is..." Shen Hao was startled. He hastily withdrew his Dao resonance and carefully observed the gray pattern on the spirit seed's surface. Within his sea of consciousness, he compared it with the operating logic of the Desolate Rules and discovered that though the two were similar, they differed at their roots—the Desolate Rules within this pattern were more complete and purer, as though they came from a deeper dimension of the Desolate Realm rather than its surface vanguard.
Why had such a pattern appeared on the spirit seed? Shen Hao sank into thought. The spirit seed was a fusion of Star Sea origin and Origin Fusion Dao resonance; it should have been flawless and pure unless... it had been contaminated by lingering desolation from outside during its cultivation. Yet the Enlightenment Hall was protected by multiple purification formations. No desolate remnants should have been able to enter.
Suddenly, he remembered the Desolate Warrior wreckage recovered after