At last, the universe's primordial scene emerged. Chaos reached its extreme, and endless energy storms expanded as if they would never cease.
Amid terrifying, indescribable radiance, the universe at the moment of its birth grew smaller and smaller. All of its "past" and its "destined" future contracted together and silently flowed into the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
"Clang!"
The lid closed, and the radiance vanished.
"Interesting."
Daode Heavenly Venerable suddenly spoke, leaving Golden Horn Boy and Silver Horn Boy utterly baffled. They had no idea why the Great Lord had said that. Wasn't refining every aspect of a universe's past, present, and future into pills just basic procedure?
He ignored the two boys and looked toward the Western Ox Continent below.
"It has no past, and it is different from the other selves of every fellow cultivator."
Daode Heavenly Venerable's eyes were half-open as he looked toward that illusory river spanning the Heavens and Myriad Worlds.
The Demon Buddha threw the world into chaos, demons ran rampant across the land, the Heavenly Court fell, the Demon Lord attacked Heaven, Cheng Tang and Yin Shang rose, the Heavenly Emperor attained the Dao, the Heavenly Court was first established, the beginning of Heaven and Earth's creation...
Daode Heavenly Venerable's eyes opened slightly. He flicked his sleeve, and a speck of golden light fell into the River of Time, altering the past and appearing at a certain point in time.
Weeds grew from the ground, the doors and windows were dilapidated, and even a few scattered bones remained.
The Buddha statue was gray and dim, as if someone had shoved it directly off its lotus pedestal and smashed it into pieces. Its head had rolled to the wall, facing it as though reflecting on its mistakes.
Xuantian and the others surveyed the temple,