"This fragment..."
Lu Chen's gaze was sharp as a blade, staring fixedly at the grayish-white fragment.
"The same origin... as the Origin Dao Tablet?!"
"No... more than just the same origin!"
"It... it is a part of the Origin Dao Tablet itself!"
"It's a... remnant piece scattered outside after the Origin Dao Tablet shattered!"
When this thought arose, even Lu Chen himself felt shocked!
The Origin Dao Tablet was transformed from the core fragment of the Myriad Dao Sea of Origin and served as the carrier for the inheritance of Dao Master Yuan.
Could it be that... it was actually incomplete itself?
Was it also composed of more fragments?
And the one before him right now... was one of them?
Lu Chen forcefully suppressed the excitement in his heart, trying to reach out his hand to touch and retrieve that fragment.
Yet.
Just as his hand was still about three chi away from the fragment—
Buzz!!!
A sudden change occurred!
The bizarre runes on the nine pitch-black stone pillars surrounding the altar seemed to be instantly activated!
Simultaneously, they erupted with a dazzling gray light!
The light soared into the sky, intertwining and wrapping around each other in mid-air, forming a gigantic gray light web in the blink of an eye!
Like the sturdiest of cages, the light web firmly sealed and protected that grayish-white fragment in the center!
At the same time.
An aura—extreme in terror, vast as a starry sea, and heavy as all heavens...
Coercion!
Burst forth from the depths of the altar with a boom!
Like a Primordial Fierce Beast that had slumbered for hundreds of millions of years, it abruptly awakened!
"Boom—!"
Lu Chen felt as though he had been struck by a mountain, letting out a muffled grunt as his figure uncontrollably retreated three