Whoosh!
The moment the embryonic seed appeared, Xuantian's eyes snapped open. His aura turned unfathomable, as though he had merged with heaven and earth. To anyone probing with Divine Sense, there was no one where he sat!
He seemed both present in this world and absent from it, suspended in a state beyond description—almost transcendent, yet not quite.
"I've finally pried open the door to Hunyuan through the Heavenly Secrets Great Dao. I suppose that makes me a half-step Hunyuan."
Xuantian remained calm, his mind clear. As his gaze shifted, universes seemed to collapse and galaxies to turn within it. Countless worlds perished and were reborn in his eyes, while fragments of past and future surfaced in his mind.
Beneath Mount Buzhou, a figure with a human body and a serpent's tail swung the Gourd Vine. Little clay figures took shape one after another, kneeling and crying out to their Holy Mother!
Within a blazing sun, a three-legged Golden Crow could faintly be seen, spreading its wings with boundless ambition.
Endless visions surfaced in Xuantian's mind and vanished again, as though spanning all ages and every corner of the cosmos.
Just as he tried to compress and refine the Dao Seed further, an irresistible force seized his Primordial Spirit and pulled it upward.
His vision blurred. In the next instant, he found himself in an expanse of emptiness!
There flowed a vast, boundless river, its source and destination unknown. It had countless branches, endless variations, and myriad wonders, winding through Hong Huang and innumerable worlds across the multiverse!
It was not his first time here. As his cultivation rose, more of his memories gradually returned, including those of his cultivation and attainment of the Dao before his original self had stripped him of his gains.
The Fate River existed