"Origin Continent?"
Hearing Rong Xuanqing's answer, Shi Lan couldn't help being shaken. She had never imagined that Rong Xuanqing had once been to the origin of the Great Universe.
"I went there to find a way to stop the Great Universe from perishing." Rong Xuanqing nodded, then let out a soft sigh.
"Back when I entered the Divine Nether Realm, I used a fragment of a source crystal and the aura of the Origin Heavenly Dao within it to send a wisp of my divided soul there by sheer luck."
"Did you discover anything?"
Before he had finished speaking, Shi Lan had already understood from the regret in Rong Xuanqing's expression. If it were easy to solve, it would never have stumped those overlords.
"I wasn't granted the right to speak with the Origin Heavenly Dao, so I came away empty-handed." Rong Xuanqing shook his head helplessly. His only gain was a great leap forward in his own martial path. After returning from the Origin Era, it took him only tens of thousands of years to step directly into the Other Shore domain.
The laws of heaven and earth in the Origin Era were utterly unlike those of the present. Living beings faced almost no shackles or restrictions, and the path of cultivation was smooth sailing. The very notion of tribulations was unheard of. When living beings reached a breakthrough, the Heavenly Dao would even send down source power to help them.
The Origin Continent was a paradise for cultivation beyond the imagination of living beings today. The strongest experts emerged one after another, and its prosperity knew no bounds. Apart from the fact that fate could not be defied and lifespans could not be extended with source power, it was almost without flaw.
Yet the inability to extend one's