Thoughts flashed like light and lightning, countless fleeting images passing by, until they finally formed an exquisitely intricate pattern. And if those patterns were magnified, one would eventually see textures as fine as a "circuit diagram."
Yet this circuit diagram existed apart from any body. Each line was like a Dimensional String, displaying some extraordinary principle.
"I..."
The Demon God King desperately wanted to describe it, yet felt that none of it could be put into words.
"I am..."
The Demon God King hesitated.
"I..."
"I am Yuan."
"Yuan!"
Platinum electric light surged through the "circuit diagram" at that moment, as though a fire had been kindled, smelting the whole thing together.
On the other side, the Log on Zhao Cheng's Panel was also refreshing wildly.
Log: Boundless Calamity and Fortune—the calamity drives fortune onward. Through the calamity of the apocalypse, you have locked onto inevitability amid infinite possibilities and touched upon Origin! Log: Creation rises upward, Origin descends below; between above and below, the Dao lies within... Log: You have comprehended Origin. The first karmic bond has been born, and you have glimpsed the path of the Progenitor... Log: ...
The Log continued to refresh. When the Demon God King—or rather, Yuan—spoke his own name, Zhao Cheng also felt something wondrous in the unseen depths of his being. It was strange and profound, beyond words. Creation rose upward, Origin descended below; in an instant, he discovered that his high-dimensional structure had become somewhat more stable.
Yuan's existence had become a kind of supporting force for him.
The concept of Origin was undoubtedly unprecedented for Zhao Cheng. Indeed, he had always been expanding downward before, enlarging the scale of his existence. But compared to rising upward, descending downward was undoubtedly far more difficult. Only now, propelled by the