The Hand That Shrouded Everything

Far from Wu Yuan's Body Refining True Body and Dharma Body, in the eternal darkness, this place was almost utterly devoid of life.

There was no light, no matter, no Xuanhuang Qi, and no fluctuations of the Great Dao. Even the primordial rules were nearly nonexistent... even the very meaning of spacetime seemed to have faded away.

Only eternal darkness and nothingness remained.

This was the Depths of the Domain Sea, beyond the Nine Domains' spacetime—the Domain of Darkness.

Back then, when Houtu Ancestral Witch explored the Depths of the Domain Sea, she had stopped here.

However.

Following a faint, mysterious sense, Wu Yuan's source body arrived at an exceedingly unusual stretch of space not long after entering the Domain of Darkness.

Countless points of light faintly glimmered in the void, like nebulae. These countless nebulae encircled one another, like layer upon layer of overlapping rings, supporting the very heart of the place.

With Wu Yuan's formidable strength and perception, he could easily tell that these points of light were not actually nebulae, but the manifestation of a special set of operating rules.

Moreover.

Through the layers of nebulae, Wu Yuan could easily see a towering, seemingly boundless black tower at the very center.

An immense, boundless fluctuation, seemingly originating from the source of the primordial rules, surged in all directions from the Ancestral Tower.

It was the Ancestral Tower!

The Ancestral Tower itself!

"This is the Ancestral Tower Spacetime." Wu Yuan's source body gazed across the void, his eyes alight as he looked toward the boundless black tower.

It stood there.

It seemed close, yet Wu Yuan felt it was infinitely distant, as though it stood on the opposite shore of the Domain Sea.

"The Ancestral Tower exists alongside the primordial source, and is everywhere." Wu Yuan understood. "No