The Hunyuan Path Begins, Shocking Purple Firmament; Three Steps to Purify the Northern Frontier

"Bzzzt..."

Just as that gaze was about to lock onto the origin of Donghua's Dao Fruit, two fragments of the Jade Disk of Creation deep within Donghua's Nascent Soul suddenly shimmered with Clear Radiance. As profound Daoist rhymes flowed between them, they stirred the heavenly secrets into utter Chaos.

In the Purplecloud Palace, Dao Ancestor Hongjun furrowed his brow slightly. The Jade Disk of Creation manifested in his palm, and he was just about to probe further when a familiar emerald-green Daoist rhyme rippled through that Hunyuan aura.

It was the Willow Branch Donghua had obtained from Illusory Daoist in the Extreme North Land. Sensing the probing, the Space Law within it flowed, completely concealing the heavenly secrets.

"Fellow Daoist, is this the contingency you left behind?" Hongjun gazed into the boundless Chaos, his tone tinged with understanding.

At almost the same time, deep in Chaos, the scene was utterly unlike the orderly Primordial Wilderness.

Here, earth, fire, water, and wind had yet to settle. Fragments of laws shot in every direction like shards of shattered mirrors. Now and then, the phantoms of ruined worlds appeared and vanished; more often, enormous corpses and skeletons drifted heavily through the void.

Some corpses were as vast as mountains, with scales still radiating baleful energy capable of tearing through the ages. Others had been frozen by some unknown force into twisted crystals, forever preserving their struggle in the instant before death.

Chaos was not empty. It was a graveyard for countless ancient powerhouses, filled with silent stillness and hidden danger.

At the heart of this chaos, a towering willow tree stood quietly rooted. Its emerald branches swayed gently, calming the raging currents of Chaos wherever they reached and setting the shattered laws in order.

Beneath the willow, a silver-haired Daoist stroked his beard