A Glimmer of Hope, A Trace of Opportunity from the Space Demon God

Ignoring the shock of the Primordial Wilderness cultivators.

At this moment.

The final heaven opened.

Lei Jun let out a light laugh.

His form vanished from where he stood, reappearing in the Middle Heaven.

"Truly worthy of being the founding site of the Heavenly Court—the place in all the Primordial Wilderness closest to the Heavenly Dao!"

The final heaven of the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Was the location where the Heavenly Court was established.

It was also, before now, the last barrier protecting the Heavenly Dao's origin.

But this barrier.

Had now been broken through by Lei Jun.

At this moment.

The final obstruction blocking Lei Jun from reaching the Heavenly Dao's origin vanished without a trace.

With a single thought.

Lei Jun took another step forward.

Arriving at a place of profound mystery.

This place bore some resemblance to the Nine Nether, where the Earth Dao's origin resided.

But it was far more abyssal.

If not for Lei Jun's cultivation realm being what it was, even if he had succeeded in Kaitian, he would not have been able to perceive it.

Because this place was.

The Beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens!

The boundary between the Primordial Wilderness and Chaos!

And also, within the threads of fate.

The location where Hongjun's dojo—Lei Jun Palace—was situated.

At the same time.

This place was even closer to the Heavenly Dao.

Than the Thirty-Third Heaven.

After all.

The Heavenly Dao was right here.

To be precise, the entire Heaven Beyond Heaven was the Heavenly Dao itself!

Having endured countless Eons.

And all manner of schemes.

Lei Jun had finally found the Heavenly Dao's origin!

However.

Unlike the Earth Dao.

The Earth Dao had yet to emerge into the world, so its origin remained visible.

Thus.

It still had a tangible form.

Not so with the Heavenly Dao.

It had long since emerged; its origin had merged into the Heaven Beyond Heaven ages ago.

Otherwise, how could one say it was formless and intangible?

Beyond all grasp?

In truth, not just the Heavenly Dao—even the Human Dao, which had emerged, was the same.

So now, the problem was.

How to extract the tangible Purple Qi of the Heavenly Dao from the formless Heaven Beyond Heaven.

Just as he was pondering this.

Boundless oppressive pressure surged in from every direction.

Lei Jun was enveloped.

This was the pressure of the Heavenly Dao!

And the purest kind, without any energy conversion.

It seemed as if it would crush everything.

In the Heaven Beyond Heaven.

The Heavenly Dao had no need for any restraint.

It could go all out.

Without worrying about causing harm to the Primordial Wilderness.

In an instant.

Boundless, immense force pressed down toward Lei Jun.

Only then.

Did Lei Jun deeply comprehend the might of the Heavenly Dao.

In comparison.

The power the Heavenly Dao could wield in the Primordial Wilderness was less than one ten-thousandth of what it was now.

And even that one ten-thousandth.

Far surpassed a Sage!

If judged by the realms of the Primordial Wilderness, the Heavenly Dao's realm was even above the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin!

One could say.

If Lei Jun before his breakthrough.

Had come here.

He would likely have had no power to resist at all.

Even his thoughts would have frozen!

But now.

Lei Jun could not only withstand the pressure, but even find form within the formless.

That is, that glimmer, the opportunity to seek out the Heavenly Dao Purple Qi!

This opportunity was the flaw in the Heavenly Dao.

Compared to Chaos.

The Heavenly Dao was not perfect; it still had a single flaw.

This single flaw was also a thread of life.

With a stir of his thoughts.

Lei Jun's Dao Body roared.

Then.

A Dao Sound resounded.

"I am Lei Jun, and I shall open a path of life for all beings of heaven and earth!"

That was right.

This thread of life was the Hongmeng Purple Qi!

The Heavenly Dao Purple Qi!

"As expected of Chaos!"

"Boundless and vast!"

"Compared to it, the Primordial Wilderness is countless times smaller!"

"Using the relationship between Earth and the universe to describe it is probably not accurate enough; only..."

"Outside the universe would do!"

At this moment.

Lei Jun, roaming through Chaos with his spirit, suddenly stopped.

Because from the Primordial Wilderness.

He had detected an anomaly.

Not one, but two.

Thus.

Lei Jun let out a sigh.

Originally, he had sent his Yin Spirit out of the Primordial Wilderness to wander through Chaos, just to see if he could find any unexpected discoveries.

After all, to him, the current Primordial Wilderness held almost no secrets.

Everything he wanted to know, he basically already knew.

Staying on in the Primordial Wilderness any longer

was nothing more than wanting to fish, or rather, "wait by the stump for a rabbit."

But the fish weren't biting the bait, and the rabbit was nowhere in sight.

He couldn't just keep waiting forever, could he?

So.

Lei Jun left his Dao Body behind in the Primordial Wilderness, and with his yin-aspect Primordial Spirit, he slipped out of the Primordial Wilderness.

Chaos cannot be described with the word "vast."

Because it actually has no concept of space.

Thus.

It could be said to be infinitely large, boundless and endless, or it could be said to be infinitely small, like a singular point.

Of course.

This is from the perspective of beings

who exist in a higher dimension and can observe Chaos in its entirety.

Standing in different positions, one's perception of Chaos is also completely different.

Only by transcending Chaos

can one view Chaos as a singular point, and with a single thought, survey the entire Chaos!

For example, Lei Jun.

He had not yet achieved this.

He had merely transcended the Primordial Wilderness.

So much so that even though he had clearly been wandering through Chaos with his Primordial Spirit for several years, it felt as if he had never moved at all.

Even everything around him seemed never to have changed.

Let alone discovering any anomalies.

Earlier, Lei Jun couldn't help but wonder if something had gone wrong somewhere, and he felt regret.

Were the Chaos Demon Gods in Chaos

also like this?

If so.

Then when Pangu performed Kaitian, how did they all discover it, gather together, and rush over to stop Pangu?

Regarding this, Lei Jun was very puzzled.

But one thing he could be certain of:

in Chaos, going from one "place" to another "place" was not a movement in terms of distance.

If one were to shift in space, no matter how fast the speed—

even if it were fast enough to traverse one hundred and eight thousand worlds in an instant—

one still could not reach another "place."

The "place" spoken of here refers to a world like the Primordial Wilderness, a realm with its own heaven and earth.

Of course.

The level of this world might not be as high as the Primordial Wilderness, but it was completely different from Chaos.

This was precisely the anomaly Lei Jun had been trying to find within Chaos over these countless years.

Yet.

After all these years, he had only been "spinning in place."

As for the so-called anomaly, it still originated from the Primordial Wilderness.

"Heh~"

"What trick is the Heavenly Dao pulling now?"

"Not only does it erase my traces, but it also wants to wipe away the opportunity I left to spread the Dao?"

"A pity—the idea is good, but the execution is far too difficult!"

"How could the opportunity I left behind be so easily changed?"

With a soft chuckle.

Lei Jun paid it no further mind.

To be fair.

Though he hadn't paid much attention to the changes in the Primordial Wilderness, whenever he wished to know, a single thought sufficed.

He could learn everything.

Even the current state of Lei Jun Palace!

Not even Hongjun could escape Lei Jun's notice.

Thus.

This anomaly only earned a brief glance from Lei Jun, nothing more than a passing observation.

What truly drew his attention.

Was the second matter.

Because he was "waiting by the tree for the rabbit," Lei Jun had left a sensing mark on the World Membrane of the Primordial Wilderness.

Whether an existence entered from outside the Primordial Wilderness.

Or a cultivator left from within.

He could perceive it instantly.

Just as now.

A cultivator was preparing to exit the Primordial Wilderness.

This person was none other.

Than Yang Mei, the incarnation of Green Willow, one of the Top Grade Innate Spirit Roots.

Without interference.

He would also be the only Top Grade Innate Spirit Root to take form in the Primordial Wilderness.

Quite exceptional.

If that were all, Lei Jun might have glanced once and moved on.

But Yang Mei had another identity.

One that made Lei Jun take notice.

This identity might prove invaluable in unraveling the mysteries of Chaos.

Thinking thus.

Lei Jun acted without hesitation.

His Primordial Spirit's ethereal form emitted an invisible wave, crossing the barrier of countless layers of Chaotic Qi, enveloping Yang Mei in an instant.

Then.

Before Yang Mei could even react, a certain thread of opportunity on his person followed the wave emitted by Lei Jun and fled directly!

Throughout the entire process, Yang Mei remained utterly unaware.

Still standing there in bewilderment.

In the unseen.

He, who had already touched upon Hunyuan, discovered before leaving the Primordial Wilderness a place that even his Dao of Space could not perceive.

To be precise.

It was the fluctuation emanating from this place that caught his attention.

Otherwise.

Even if he probed a hundred times more, he would never have found it.

This place.

Seemed like a heaven yet not a heaven, but more mysterious and elusive than any heaven!

Perhaps...

There was an opportunity?

With a mix of doubt and unease.

Yang Mei decided to investigate this place before departing the Primordial Wilderness—what if he found something?

At this moment.

That thread of opportunity, found from Yang Mei, had already slipped into Lei Jun's Primordial Spirit.

In an instant, Lei Jun gained some understanding.

So Chaos and the worlds within Chaos were two entirely different concepts.

"Like... water and bubbles in water?"

"Chaos is like 'water,' worlds like 'bubbles.' So to open heaven and earth in Chaos, one must bear endless crushing pressure—otherwise the bubble collapses!"

"No wonder I couldn't sense it!"

"Before, I was like swimming in 'water'—water is the same everywhere, so naturally, no matter how I moved, it felt like nothing changed!"

Thanks to the thread of opportunity extracted from Yang Mei, Lei Jun had made a discovery.

It could only be said that Yang Mei, as the Space Demon God and a cultivator rebuilding in the Primordial Wilderness, still held many Secrets of Chaos, even if he no longer bore many demon god traits.

But this alone wasn't enough.

It only let Lei Jun understand the difference between Chaos and the worlds within Chaos, but couldn't let him reach it.

Fortunately, this thread of opportunity still had more to offer.

"All things in heaven and earth can be refined."

"Chaos can also be refined..."

"Why not this thread of opportunity?"

At this moment, Lei Jun intended to use the Three Yuan Dan Technique to "Return to Ancestry" this thread of opportunity—

returning it to the time when the Space Demon God was still alive!

In doing so, he could obtain far more information than now.

Perhaps then, he wouldn't need to wait by the tree for the rabbit; he could directly seek it out—not impossible!

Thinking this, Lei Jun stirred his thoughts and began to refine it.