Yang Mei recounted the Primordial World's past
As Jiang Yun sensed the boundless desolation, decay, and impending doom permeating the place, and recalled the former glory of the world in the remnants of the Time Origin, an indescribable sense of sorrow and grandeur arose spontaneously.
No matter how powerful a world is, it cannot escape the fate of its end. This Chaos Ruins is the most direct tombstone of this cruel Laws.
"So that's how it is... World Ruins." Jiang Yun murmured, the information he had gathered earlier connecting at this moment, and everything became clear. "Thank you for your explanation, senior."
As I explored the ruins, just as you said, I gained very little, except for a wisp of raging Time Origin.
"The remaining Time Law?" A hint of surprise flashed in Yang Mei's eyes. "The original Law Origin that can be preserved here must have come from a world of a relatively high level."
"Your Fortune is pretty good."
Jiang Yun smiled wryly:
The meager gains are nothing to mention to the seniors.
The younger generation travels through the Chaos because they feel powerless against the conflicts in the Chaos World Primordial Desolation World and wish to find a way to escape it.
I Primordial World for the past, especially the tumultuous changes of the era of my predecessors, yet I know very little about it.
Could you please enlighten me, senior?
"The act of Hongjun Dao Ancestor with the Union with the Dao... and you, senior... why did you leave the Primordial World?" He carefully chose his words, stopping short of revealing the truth.
Yang Mei's ability to survive from the Hongjun era and even successfully attain enlightenment is itself the most precious and secret history.
Yang Mei remained silent for a moment, his gaze seemingly piercing through the Chaos, returning to that distant era when the Heaven-Opening, the hundred races had just been established, and the secrets of Heavenly Secrets were still in a state of Chaos and ignorance.
In his deep eyes, emotions flowed slowly, including a chilling indifference towards certain existences and a longing for past scenes, ultimately settling into a deep, still calm.
"You want to know about that Primordial Chaos Beginning era, a time of Entangled Grudges?" Yang Mei's voice was soft, yet carried a heavy, penetrating force. "Very well! Meeting a descendant from the Primordial World, I can tell you, so that the truth of that era can continue to be preserved."
He spoke slowly, and an ancient, Chaos Aura seemed to rise and fall with him:
"At the beginning of Heaven-Opening, there were countless Congenital Divine Demons. We, the descendants of the Chaos race who were fortunate enough to survive the Sky-Opening Axe, stood alongside the Congenital Divine Saints born from the Pangu World."
The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Races were at the height of their Fortune, dominating the primordial Primordial World, but internal strife and extravagance were growing daily.
These three races were formed from the flesh and essence of Pangu, embodying the great destiny of Primordial World primordial world. If they could achieve peace and harmony, they would become the pillars of the Primordial Desolation World...
The Yang Mei eyebrows carried a subtle hint of sarcasm in his voice:
"However, at that time there was a being who was extremely skilled at planning and manipulating events from the shadows— Luohou."
He viewed all living beings as pawns and all spirits as firewood, seeking to prove his Way of Destruction.
At the height of the three races' power, he planted seeds of discord, sowed discord, and intensified conflicts, secretly intercepting the immense Fortune of the three races to nourish his own Devil Dao of slaughter.
His methods Gao Ming shrewd and ruthless, and his plans were far-reaching. When the three races finally broke out into a fierce war that swept across the Primordial World, with countless dead and wounded and all living beings suffering, the blood of the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity stained Primordial World prehistoric world. As a result, Luohou's power also surged to its peak!
He believed himself to be the ultimate winner, reaping the benefits of the calamity. He sought to gather the endless killing intent and remaining Fortune that permeated the world after the catastrophe, to prove his Dao through Destruction, and to rule the world as Demon Race!
When the name "Luohou" is mentioned, an aura as cold as the Nine Nether Ice still emanates from Yang Mei, even after countless years; it is a pure killing intent.
"But he miscalculated..." Yang Mei's tone shifted to a deeper complexity, "... that seemingly quiet and inactive Hongjun, who didn't even show his true colors at the time!"
"Hongjun..." Jiang Yun subconsciously held her breath.
The past of Dao Ancestor Hongjun Primordial World long been a taboo subject, almost like mythology, yet today it was recounted by someone who had personally experienced it.
"Hongjun, he is the one hidden behind the deeper shadows, the true controller of the grand scheme!" Yang Mei's voice was resolute. "He understands the fundamental workings of the Primordial World better than Luohou, and he is more aware of the flow of 'general trend' and 'Fortune'."
He had long ago established communication with the Primordial Desolation Heavenly Dao through the Jade Disk of Creation in his hand.
He had been observing Luohou's schemes and the battles between the three races with a cold eye, and even secretly used Luohou's hands to eliminate many of my old friends from the Chaos, including my contemporary and close friends, the Qiankun Ancestor and the Yin-Yang Ancestor!
A storm raged within Jiang Yun's heart.
The Dao Ancestor Hongjun's scheme against Luohou is a story that has been vaguely heard in the Primordial World. However, Yang Mei actually said that Hongjun was using Luohou to eliminate dissidents and clean up the Chaos Demon Gods who had once fought against him!
"When Luohou, believing he had succeeded, appeared on the Western Region Continent with the might of a demon, intending to refine the entire Western ley lines and Spirit Vein to achieve Devil Dao..." A glint of light flashed in Yang Mei's eyes, "Hongjun, along with several fellow Daoists of similar or even slightly weaker Dao Attainment, such as the still-living Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Ancestor Qilin, as well as us powerful figures, under the guise of 'Exterminate Demons and Uphold the Dao,' engaged in a final battle with Luohou at Western Mount Sumeru!"
That battle was so devastating that the heavens and earth trembled, and the Western Region Spirit Vein were almost completely destroyed!
"The result was... Luohou died and his cultivation vanished?" Jiang Yun couldn't help but ask.
"That's right. But Luohou's final detonation of the Western Ancestral Vein and his own backlash also severely injured all the participants at the time."
"In that battle, the ultimate winner was only Hongjun!" Yang Mei's tone carried a mocking glint of understanding the truth. "He not only slew his greatest nemesis, Luohou, but also, with the immense Merit Fortune gathered from this 'Exterminate Demons and Uphold the Dao,' and combined with the aid of the broken Jade Disk of Creation, one of the Three Treasures of Creation of Creation that he had prepared beforehand, he successfully took the final step and became the first Saint after the creation of the Primordial World!"
Jiang Yun felt a chill creep up her spine.
Was Hongjun Dao Ancestor's path to sainthood achieved by treading on the corpses of countless fellow cultivators, utilizing the Calamity Qi brought about by Luohou, and eliminating all potential competitors?
This was even more unsettling than he had previously known.
Yang Mei and looked at Jiang Yun, seemingly seeing through his inner surprise and doubt, and continued:
Having become Saint, Hongjun's power stood at the pinnacle of the Primordial World.
But he did not stop there; the Jade Disk of Creation granted him the ability to almost control the Laws of Heavenly Secrets.
He preached the Great Dao at the Purple Sky Palace, expounding the teachings to three thousand great masters; this was both a transmission of the Dao and a strategic deployment.
"He used the incomplete Three Corpses Proving Dao Method as bait and shackles," Jiang Yun said in a deep voice. This was also the information he had deduced at the time.
Of course, Jiang Yun also had another guess: this matter might be the will of Heavenly Dao rather than simply Hongjun's scheme.