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"Let me show you what true order is."

Li Xuan looked at him and said solemnly, "Fellow Daoist Chu, if you enter the depths of the spring eye, you will definitely encounter him. When that happens, he will impersonate the Order Dao Ancestor and deceive you in every possible way. You must remember—"

"He is not the Order Dao Ancestor."

"He is merely an impostor."

Chu Ming looked at him and nodded.

"Understood."

He turned and walked toward the spring eye.

Behind him, Li Xuan held the youth and gave him a long, deep look.

Then he tore open the void and vanished with the youth.

Chu Ming stood thirty feet from the spring eye.

Golden light poured from the spring eye, falling over him—warm and pure.

The light seeped into his skin, into his meridians, into his divine soul, nourishing his exhausted body.

He could clearly sense that as long as he stepped within those thirty feet and absorbed enough Order Origin, that membrane would surely shatter.

He raised his foot.

One step.

He stepped within thirty feet.

In an instant, that golden origin surged into his body like a tidal wave!

The origin was unimaginably dense, unimaginably pure—ten times richer than the previous two tides of order combined!

Chu Ming's domain began expanding violently.

Twenty-five star domains, twenty-six star domains—

Its expansion was astonishingly swift, swift as though it were burning!

Twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight—

It expanded with every breath, growing stronger with every breath.

The mountains and rivers within his domain became more spiritually vibrant, the lakes and seas deeper, while the elemental spirits cheered and leapt about, madly absorbing the surging Order Origin.

Twenty-eight, twenty-nine—

Chu Ming closed his eyes, his mind sinking completely into his domain.

He could sense the existence of that membrane.

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