Chaos Seeks, Beings Are Guided

Within the Chaos Void, Xuandu moved through the surging gray-white currents.

The aura marker he had received from Xu was like a faint star.

It continued to pulse within his senses, guiding his way.

The first marker lay deep within a region known as the Gloom Abyss.

The Gloom Abyss was located in the lower reaches of the middle layer of Chaos. Chaos Qi was sparse there, and a faint gray mist shrouded the area year-round.

Fragments of spatial rifts flickered in and out of view within the mist. Occasionally, faint starlight seeped from the cracks, only to vanish in an instant.

Xuandu passed through the gray mist, the radiance of the Chaos Bead silently flowing around him.

It blocked all the faint spatial rifts.

A moment later, he sensed the sleeping aura.

That aura was deep and heavy, yet tinged with stagnation. It was like a colossal beast trapped at a bottleneck, unable to move. Though its foundation was profound, it had never been able to break through that invisible wall.

Following the aura, he arrived at a floating continent deep within the Gloom Abyss and saw a figure seated cross-legged.

The figure was broad and imposing, covered from head to toe in gray-white scales. His features were rugged, his eyes shut tight, and the aura around him fluctuated back and forth at the boundary between Hunyuan Taiji Early-Stage and the middle stage.

This being was attempting to break through his bottleneck, yet he was always just one breath short.

Xuandu landed a hundred zhang before him, neither deliberately concealing his aura nor deliberately releasing it.

He merely stood there with his hands behind his back, waiting for the figure to awaken from cultivation.

A moment later, the figure shuddered and abruptly opened his eyes.

Those vertical pupils were