Ignoring the astonishment of the Primordial Wilderness cultivators.
At that moment.
The final Heaven opened.
Lei Jun gave a soft laugh.
His figure vanished from where he stood, reappearing in Middle Heaven.
"As expected of the place where the Heavenly Court was founded—the place in all the Primordial Wilderness closest to the Heavenly Dao!"
The final Heaven of the Thirty-Three Heavens.
Was where the Heavenly Court had been established.
It had also been the last barrier protecting the Heavenly Dao's Origin.
But this barrier.
Had now been broken by Lei Jun.
At that moment.
The final obstacle preventing Lei Jun from reaching the Heavenly Dao's Origin had disappeared.
With a thought.
Lei Jun took another step.
He arrived at a place of profound mystery.
This place.
Bore some resemblance to Nine Nether, where the Earth Dao Source lay.
But it was much deeper.
Had Lei Jun's cultivation not been so advanced, even succeeding in Kaitian would not have allowed him to discover it.
Because this place was.
Beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens!
The boundary between the Primordial Wilderness and Chaos!
It was also where, along the course of Fate,
Hongjun's dojo—the Lei Jun Palace—had been placed.
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!
After countless Eons.
And all manner of schemes.
Lei Jun had finally found the Heavenly Dao's Origin!
However.
Unlike the Earthly Dao,
The Earthly Dao had yet to emerge, so its Origin could be seen.
Thus.
It still had a form.
The Heavenly Dao was different.
It had emerged long ago, and its Origin had merged into Heaven Beyond Heaven ages ago.
No wonder it was said to be void and formless,
Impossible to fathom.
In truth, the same was true of the Human Dao, which had also emerged.
So.
The problem now was this:
How could he find the formless Heavenly Dao Purple Qi within the shapeless Heaven Beyond Heaven?
As he was thinking,
boundless pressure swept in from every direction.
It enveloped Lei Jun.
This was the pressure of the Heavenly Dao!
And the purest kind, with no energy transformation whatsoever.
It seemed as though it would crush everything.
In Heaven Beyond Heaven,
the Heavenly Dao had no need for restraint.
It could unleash its full power.
There was no need to worry about harming the Primordial Wilderness.
In an instant.
Boundless might bore down on Lei Jun.
Only then
did Lei Jun truly grasp the Heavenly Dao's power.
By comparison,
the power the Heavenly Dao could wield in the Primordial Wilderness was less than one ten-thousandth of what it could unleash now.
And even one ten-thousandth
far surpassed a Sage!
Judging by the realms of the Primordial Wilderness, the Heavenly Dao's realm was even higher than that of a Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal!
It could be said that
if Lei Jun had come here before his breakthrough,
he would very likely have been powerless to fight back.
His thoughts might even have frozen!
But now,
Lei Jun could not only withstand the pressure, he could even find form within the formless.
That was the chance to find the Heavenly Dao Purple Qi!
This chance was the Heavenly Dao's flaw.
Compared with Chaos,
the Heavenly Dao was not perfect; it still had a tiny flaw.
That tiny flaw was also a sliver of hope.
With a thought,
Lei Jun's Dao Body rumbled.
Then.
Dao Sound rang out.
"My name is Lei Jun. I shall open a path of hope for all beings in Heaven and Earth!"
That's right.
This path of hope was the Hongmeng Purple Qi!
The Heavenly Dao Purple Qi!
"Chaos truly lives up to its name!"
"Vast beyond measure!"
"Compared to it, the Primordial Wilderness is countless times smaller!"
"Even describing it as the relationship between Earth and the Universe doesn't seem quite right. Only..."
"Beyond the Universe would do!"
At that moment.
Lei Jun, wandering through Chaos with his mind, suddenly stopped.
Because he had discovered something unusual in the Primordial Wilderness.
Not one thing, but two.
This gave Lei Jun pause.
He had sent his Yin Spirit out of the Primordial Wilderness to wander through Chaos because he wanted to see if he could discover anything unexpected.
After all, as far as he was concerned, the Primordial Wilderness now
held almost no secrets.
He already knew nearly everything he wanted to know.
Staying in the Primordial Wilderness any longer
would amount to fishing—or, as they said, "waiting for a rabbit by a tree stump."
But the fish wouldn't bite.
And no rabbit showed up.
He couldn't just wait forever, could he?
So.
Lei Jun had left his Dao Body in the Primordial Wilderness and sent his Yin Spirit out of it.
Chaos could not be described as "large."
Because it had no concept of space.
So.
It could be called infinitely large, boundless and endless—or infinitely small, like a Singularity.
Of course,
that was how it appeared to beings situated in a higher dimension,
beings who could view Chaos as a whole.
From different positions,
Chaos looked entirely different.
Only by transcending Chaos
could one see it as a Singularity and take in all of it with a single thought!
Lei Jun, for instance,
had not managed to do that yet.
He had only transcended the Primordial Wilderness.
As a result, even though he had been wandering through Chaos with his primordial spirit for years, it was as if he had never moved at all.
Even everything around him seemed unchanged.
So finding anything unusual was even more out of the question.
Earlier, Lei Jun had even wondered if something had gone wrong somewhere.
He had felt disappointed.
Were the Chaos Demon Gods the same way in Chaos?
If so,
how had they discovered Pangu when he opened Heaven and Earth, gathered together, and rushed over to stop him?
Lei Jun was baffled by this.
But there was one thing he could be sure of.
In Chaos, going from one place to another did not mean moving a distance.
Even if one traveled through space,
no matter how fast one went—
even fast enough to cross a hundred and eight thousand worlds in an instant—
one still could not reach another place.
The "places" meant here were worlds with their own Heaven and Earth, like the Primordial Wilderness.
Of course,
such a world did not necessarily rank as high as the Primordial Wilderness.
But it was utterly unlike Chaos.
And it was the kind of anomaly Lei Jun had spent countless years trying to find in Chaos.
However.
After all these years, he had been going around in circles.
The anomaly he had sought
had turned out to come from the Primordial Wilderness.
"Ha~"
"Heavenly Dao is up to its tricks again!"
"Not only did it erase my traces, it even wants to erase the opportunity for me to preach the Dao?"
"Too bad. It's a good idea, but much too difficult to pull off!"
"How could the opportunity I left behind be so easy to change?"
He chuckled softly.
Lei Jun paid it no further attention.
Come to think of it,
although he hadn't paid much attention to the changes in the Primordial Wilderness, whenever he wanted to know something, all it took was a single thought.
And he could know everything.
Even what was happening in Lei Jun Palace at that very moment!
Even Hongjun couldn't escape Lei Jun's notice.
So,
this anomaly had only made Lei Jun take a brief look. He hadn't paid it much attention.
What truly drew his attention
was the second matter.
To "wait for a rabbit by a tree stump," Lei Jun had left a sensory 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 would sense it immediately.
Just as he did now.
A cultivator was about to leave the Primordial Wilderness.
This person was none other
than Yang Mei, the incarnation of one of the finest Innate Spirit Roots, the Green Willow.
If nothing interfered,
he would also be the only top-grade Spirit Root to take human form in the Primordial Wilderness.
Quite an unusual case.
If that were all, Lei Jun would at most have glanced at him and paid him no further attention.
But Yang Mei had another identity.
That identity
also made Lei Jun take a keen interest.
It could very well help unravel the mysteries of Chaos.
As he considered this,
Lei Jun didn't hesitate.
His illusory spirit form sent out an invisible ripple. Crossing layer upon layer of Chaotic Qi, it enveloped Yang Mei in an instant.
Then,
before Yang Mei could react at all, a certain opportunity attached to him fled along the ripple Lei Jun had sent out!
Yang Mei remained completely unaware of the entire process.
He was still standing there, bewildered.
In the depths of the unseen,
though he had already touched upon Hunyuan, before leaving the Primordial Wilderness, he had discovered a place within it that even his Dao of Space couldn't sense.
More precisely,
the place had sent out a ripple, which was why he had noticed it.
Otherwise,
even if he searched a hundred more times, he wouldn't have found anything.
This place
seemed like Heaven, but wasn't. Yet it was even more mysterious and unfathomable than Heaven!
Could it...
contain an opportunity?
Though puzzled and uneasy,
Yang Mei decided to investigate the place before leaving the Primordial Wilderness. What if he found something?
At that moment,
the opportunity Lei Jun had extracted from Yang Mei
had already slipped into Lei Jun's spirit.
In an instant,
Lei Jun understood something.
So Chaos and the worlds within Chaos were two entirely different concepts.
"Like... water and the bubbles in it?"
"Chaos is like 'water,' and worlds are like 'bubbles.' That's why opening Heaven and earth in Chaos means enduring endless pressure. Otherwise, the bubbles would be crushed!"
"No wonder it couldn't be detected!"
"Before, I was as if swimming through 'water.' The water was the same everywhere, so naturally, no matter how I moved, it seemed as though nothing had changed!"
Thanks to the opportunity he had extracted from Yang Mei,
Lei Jun had made a discovery.
Yang Mei truly lived up to his name as a Space Demon God, a cultivator who had rebuilt his cultivation in the Primordial Wilderness.
Even though few traces of his Demon God nature remained,
he still possessed many secrets of Chaos.
But this alone wasn't enough.
It only helped Lei Jun understand how Chaos differed from the worlds within it.
It wouldn't enable him to reach them.
Fortunately, there was still more he could do with this opportunity.
"All things under Heaven and earth can be refined."
"Chaos can be refined, too..."
"And why shouldn't this opportunity be refined?"
At that moment,
Lei Jun intended to use the Three Yuan Dan Technique to "Return to Ancestry" with this opportunity!
To return it to the time when the Space Demon God was still alive!
That way,
he could obtain far more information than he had now.
Perhaps by then,
he wouldn't even need to wait by the tree stump. He might be able to go straight to the source!
As he considered this,
Lei Jun's thoughts stirred, and he began refining it.
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