Pangu and Wu both turned their gazes toward Yuan Chu, equally curious about Zhou Ming's origins.
Wu in particular had an unusually special relationship with Zhou Ming, so he naturally wanted even more to know where it had all begun.
Yuan Chu looked at Zhou Ming, a faint smile appearing on his illusory face.
"You finally asked."
"I thought you no longer cared about where you came from."
Zhou Ming's expression remained calm, his tone frank.
"At my current realm, my former identity as an ordinary mortal truly no longer matters."
"But that was, after all, the starting point of my journey down this path. I still want to understand exactly why I came here."
With his hands clasped behind his back, Yuan Chu gave the most direct answer.
"I brought you here from the outside world."
Hearing those words, Zhou Ming drew a deep breath.
So it was indeed as he had suspected.
In the entire Chaos Sea, aside from Yuan Chu, the True Saint who had left behind this inner world, no one could possibly bypass all the rules and bring an ordinary mortal from the outside world inside.
Yuan Chu began to explain in detail why he had done this.
"I told you before that I guided Pangu through World Creation and guided the fusion of their worlds in order to seek an opportunity to break through to the Transcendence Realm."
"But after observing Pangu's World Creation and the development of the Eternal Dao Realm, I gained nothing."
Yuan Chu let out a sigh.
"I guessed that the native beings were constrained by the underlying rules of this inner world of mine. Their paths would find it difficult to escape the framework of my understanding."
"I needed a variable—an outsider variable unaffected by the rules of this