Treasure Hunting Among the Remains of a World
"Call..."
A breath imbued with Hunyuan Primordial Chaos Power reverberated outwards, as if expelling all the chaotic energy accumulated in the lungs.
He hovered steadily in the void. Although his Primordial Chaos Dao Body had dimmed slightly, he had ultimately survived this calamity.
Jiang Yun looked around, his eyes serious and wary.
This was no longer the Chaos region he was familiar with; the storm had brought him to an absolutely unfamiliar place.
The Chaos Aura still existed, but it appeared thin and lifeless, as if most of its vitality had been drained away.
What alarmed him even more was the atmosphere of the space itself; it was permeated with a thick, unyielding sense of death and decay.
In the void, there was a fine, visible ash, the tiny particles left behind after the world collapsed.
In the distance, occasionally, distorted, enormous fragments could be seen floating; the foundations of fractured mountains resembled the skeletons of monsters; the frozen fragments of celestial bodies bore the charred marks of the Earth's core; and condensed torrents of energy were sealed within the twisted Spatial Folds...
This is a true remnant of a world, gradually swallowed and obliterated by Chaos!
"This... could it be a great world destroyed by Chaos in some era?" Jiang Yun was filled with a mixture of awe and curiosity.
Judging from the scale of the wreckage and the remaining fragments of life, he concluded that this world had once been absolutely glorious, no less so than the Primordial World.
Jiang Yun roused himself, Primordial Chaos Divine Sense, like an invisible wave, cautiously spread out in all directions to explore this strange and dangerous Ruins.
The wreckage was not entirely devoid of life. He sensed the auras of many Chaos species that had survived the Destruction or been born from the power of chaos, all of which were extremely aggressive.
But he did not disturb them, concealing his powerful presence, and moved forward slowly.
His goal was not to seek novelty, but to find a relatively safe path and use the Dao Derivation Disk to recalculate the possible direction to return to the Primordial World.
The Chaos was too great, and the storm had completely disrupted the original coordinates.
He summoned the Dao Derivation Disk once more, its clear light swirling, attempting to capture a trace of "Daoist essence" from the Primordial World within this chaotic and disordered region.
Just as he was focused on his calculations, an extremely faint yet exceptionally sharp fluctuation, like a needle piercing water, stirred up strong ripples in his Divine Sense!
This fluctuation did not originate from a conscious being, but from some pure and violent source of energy!
It is extremely subtle, yet possesses a terrifying penetrating power, as if it can freeze thoughts and sever time.
At its core, it seems to contain... an unimaginably vast Time Law!
However, this Laws is not the orderly cycle of Reincarnation in the Primordial World Earthly Dao, but rather a Destruction power of time filled with collapse, Nirvana, and the severing of everything!
The vast Chaos space and material debris near it were all tainted and assimilated by this power, turning into a cursed land of temporal distortion, like fragments frozen in amber of time, exuding a chilling sense of danger.
Jiang Yun's eyes lit up, and his mind instantly locked onto the direction of the source.
"This is... the Physical Body and the Law Origin left behind after a living being dies!!!"
Its original energy has survived to this day; the world at its peak was probably far beyond imagination!
Following his senses, he carefully avoided dangerous areas contaminated by the source and lurking Chaos Creatures, heading towards the place with the strongest fluctuations.
Finally, he stopped before an extremely vast and chaotic Spatial Folds.
At the center of the fold, an irregular mass of substance, like pulsating viscous mercury, floats.
It emits a dazzling silver-gray light. Wherever the light reaches, space is cut, frozen, and shattered. The Flow of Time is strangely distorted. You can even see some debris weathering and disintegrating in an instant or solidifying into an eternal form!
The surrounding area is a vast expanse of Chaos, like a boiling pot of oil, protected by raging temporal turbulence.
"What a domineering Time Origin! So violent and chaotic, yet so pure..." Jiang Yun's eyes were solemn.
This primordial energy is a tremendous treasure even for a Hunyuan Chaos expert, but the Destruction Time Law it contains are like an indestructible demonic blade. If one is not careful, one will be devoured by it, cut into pieces by the turbulent flow of time, or forever lost in the collapsing fragments of time.
Taking a deep breath, Jiang Yun focused all his attention.
The Dao Derivation Disk above his head shone brightly, fully analyzing the turbulent flow of Time Law laws surrounding this primordial source.
He dared not make direct contact, and first tentatively extended a thread of Divine Sense Dao Charm his own Hunyuan Dao principles.
"Laugh!"
With a flash of silvery-gray light, the incredibly tough thread of Divine Sense was severed instantly, like a hot knife cutting through butter!
A terrifying sense of being cut and a temporal force that seemed to drag the soul into eternal Nirvana surged back from the severed opening!
Jiang Yun groaned, his Sea of Consciousness trembled slightly, and the light wheels of the Laws of Three Ways of Heaven, Earth, and Man within his body shone brightly in response, finally dispelling the corrosive force.
"It was indeed dangerous." Jiang Yun was not discouraged.
He understood that forcibly taking it would be suicidal. He needed to use his own Dao as a guide and unparalleled perseverance as a bridge, constantly comprehending the Laws within the Dao Derivation Disk, in order to gradually penetrate, soothe, and gather this unruly relic.
He began to float cross-legged, his entire aura completely merging with the surrounding Chaos.
The Hunyuan Dao Fruit was operating at full power, and the illusory image of the Inner World of the Purple Mansion appeared and disappeared behind him. The order of the Heavenly Dao, the Reincarnation of the Earthly Dao, and the transformative will of the Dao of Humanity merged and flowed, forming a unique and enormous Dao gravitational field.
"Heaven and earth are ordered as the root, and all things rotate as the bridge..." He uttered the Dao Sound, each syllable containing his understanding of his own Laws. He used his Dao to guide the Time Origin on the other side.
Instead of confronting or suppressing it forcefully, he used the inclusive, enlightened, and resilient characteristics of his own Dao Fruit to slowly approach and penetrate that raging source.
With the aid of the Dao Derivation Disk, he gradually peeled away the fragments of Laws from the Time Origin and reorganized and integrated them. Under his precise control, his own Laws were like the most intricate shuttle, shuttling along the edge of the turbulent currents of Time Law, constantly guiding and sorting out the most violent blades of time.
This is an extremely difficult, exhausting, and dangerous process.
The raging power of time constantly assaulted and eroded his defenses, nearly breaking through his Daoist defenses several times and bringing his soul a brief illusion of "eternal Nirvana".
I don't know how much time has passed, perhaps it was an era in the Chaos years.
The originally violent and pulsating viscous mercury-like source began to dim its light, and its chaotic appearance gradually calmed down. Although the pure power of Nirvana time deep within its core was still cold and terrifying, its violent and rampant momentum was finally suppressed and soothed by Jiang Yun's Primordial Chaos Power and the Dao Derivation Disk.
Finally, when the entire primordial mass transformed into a relatively quiet Treasure Pearls, resembling a flowing silver-gray Stardust, Jiang Yun raised his hands, palms facing each other, and slowly drew a profound Profound Dharma Seal Dao Charm Reincarnation of heaven, earth, Three Powers.
The Hand Seals guided the light of the Dao Derivation Disk, gently enveloping the tamed origin.
"Receive!"
The silver-gray Treasure Pearls trembled slightly, then suddenly contracted inward, transforming into a stream of light that disappeared into Jiang Yun's brow and Purple Mansion.
A powerful force, chilling to the bone yet imbued with the aura of eternity, exploded within Jiang Yun's body in an instant!
Even with his Primordial Chaos Dao Body, he felt a violent shock, as if his entire consciousness had been pulled into a cold river composed of endless fragments of time.
Within the Purple Mansion World, the Good Corpse, the Evil Corpse, and the Self Corpse trembled simultaneously, each mobilizing their primordial power to suppress, organize, and transform this final gift from the Destruction of a distant world— the Time Origin containing the power of Nirvana and purity.
It will become another crucial cornerstone on Jiang Yun's path of "the Dao of All Beings".