First Arrival in Origin Demon, Ashen Ruins

When Han Yi arrived at the boundary between the two Dao Domains, a full one hundred and thirty years had passed since he left the Dao God Continent.

Over those hundred-odd years, he had advanced from the first step of the Dao Realm to the Dao Fruit Realm. Though his strength could not be called explosively increased, it was no longer what it had once been. When facing outsiders of the Dao, he was no longer powerless to fight back.

After shaking off the outsiders of the Dao from the Immortal Mausoleum, Han Yi began examining the golden egg within his Divine Aperture World. Yet this time, no matter how he investigated it, the egg showed no reaction. When he tried to send his Dao sense inside to see what lay within, he discovered that the egg's surface was covered by an immensely powerful restriction.

This restriction prevented those outside from probing the situation within the egg.

Han Yi tried several times, but could only shake his head and give up.

Back then, after snatching the golden egg from the sea of fire, Han Yi had roughly guessed that the Celestial Venerable who had fallen within that sea of flames was most likely Donghuang Primordial Unity.

Both the sea of fire and this golden egg, which carried the same aura as Donghuang Bu'er, served as evidence for this conjecture.

Moreover.

He recalled what Sui Zhu Dao Ancestor had once said in the Primordial Grand World: Donghuang Primordial Unity had not become a Celestial Venerable through the normal path of attainment. He had taken a shortcut, making him considerably weaker than ordinary Celestial Venerables.

And in truth, he had only become a Celestial Venerable a few thousand years ago—less than ten thousand years. For ordinary cultivators, that was not a short