Corpse-Born Aberration, Creation Origin, Seed!

Thump—!

A dull, ancient heartbeat echoed again and again through the deathly silent secret realm.

The sound pierced through the ages, striking deep into the soul. It carried not the slightest warmth of life, only a dead, eerie, desolate rhythm.

Standing before the boundless remains of the Demon God, Li Changsheng felt ice run through his body. His scalp tingled, every hair stood on end, and an overwhelming chill of terror swept through him.

This corpse, sealed in death for hundreds of millions of years, had been grievously wounded by Pangu, refined by heaven and earth, and worn away by time. By all reason, it should have long since decayed into nothingness, incapable of retaining even a trace of living breath.

Yet at this moment, this half-remnant body of a God or Devil was pulsing rhythmically, like a living person!

Absurd! Eerie! Utterly beyond comprehension!

Even Li Changsheng, who had inherited the legacy of chaos and learned the hidden truths of the creation of heaven and earth, whose state of mind had long been tempered beyond measure, could not help but tremble inwardly in utter disbelief.

Countless thoughts surged through his mind, and the urge to retreat quietly arose.

This place was far too sinister, far beyond his expectations. If he continued deeper, no one knew what unknown danger he might trigger.

But in an instant, he forcibly suppressed that thought of retreat.

"Since I'm already here, how can I give up halfway?"

Li Changsheng's gaze abruptly hardened, and his mind settled completely.

He had poured his efforts into breaking open the Yingzhou Secret Realm, tempering the dual laws, battling Shen Ni to hone his combat strength, and venturing deep into this forbidden Demon God secret realm—all for this strand of Dao Fruit Origin belonging solely to the Creation Demon God.

This incomparably pure Creation Origin was the crucial opportunity he needed to break through the shackles of the laws and deepen his cultivation and foundation.

He had planned for so long and arranged every step. The Creation Origin before him was his for the taking!

A mere eerie phenomenon was not enough to stop him in his tracks!

With his resolve set, Li Changsheng hesitated no longer. He fully unleashed his foundation and entered a state of complete vigilance.

Buzz!

A stream of black-and-yellow light burst forth, and golden merit radiance illuminated the surroundings. The ancient, weighty Hongmeng Measuring Ruler rested steadily in his palm, suppressing every disturbance in the void.

At the same time, layers of luminous white world-cleansing laws coiled around him. Sacred Dao essence circulated about his body, sealing the endless Sha Qi outside.

Phantom shadows of green lotus leaves descended from the void behind him. Azure and white radiance intertwined, forming an impregnable defense of the Great Dao.

The vitality of creation nourished his body, the World-Cleansing Divine Light slew evil and shattered Baleful Intent, and Pangu's supreme treasure protected him. At this moment, he had revealed the entirety of his peak combat power.

Li Changsheng silently reassured himself.

He was the reincarnation of the Primordial Chaos Lotus's origin, innately immune to all laws and difficult for all evils to taint. Both his flesh and soul possessed foundations among the finest in the primordial world.

Even if the Creation Demon God had truly left behind a remnant spirit and concealed some final contingency, it could never do anything to him with only a half-dead remnant body that had endured through the ages.

More importantly, from beginning to end, he had never believed that a Demon God personally slain by Pangu with the power of creation could truly survive hundreds of millions of years of heavenly seals and temporal erosion.

The power of creation was peerlessly tyrannical. It could slay Gods and Devils, destroy the roots of the Dao, and sever all life force. There was simply no way it could leave a Demon God any chance of revival!

Suppressing all distracting thoughts, Li Changsheng lifted his foot and slowly approached the enormous, boundless remains of the Demon God.

As the distance steadily closed, the ancient heartbeat grew clearer and heavier. It was no longer a distant echo, but truly resounded beside his ears and trembled within his soul.

An eerie force of resonance quietly emerged, invading his body along the Dao essence surrounding him and faintly causing his own heartbeat to pound erratically in response.

One ancient and one present, one dead and one alive—the two heartbeats inexplicably resonated, bringing a bizarre discomfort as though his soul had been displaced and his body and mind torn apart.

Li Changsheng's brow furrowed slightly as he immediately circulated the power of the laws throughout his body.

The dual powers of creation and world-cleansing flowed through him, instantly smoothing his turbulent blood and unsettled mind. His disordered heartbeat immediately returned to normal.

Though the danger had passed without incident, the vigilance in his heart had already risen to its peak.

This secret realm, this remnant body of the Demon God, definitely concealed secrets beyond imagination. It was far from as simple as it appeared on the surface!

He gathered all extraneous thoughts, focused his attention, and finally saw the full appearance of the Creation Demon God's remains before him.

With just one glance, despite having prepared himself mentally, Li Changsheng froze where he stood. His soul shook violently, and his mind went blank!

The sight before him completely overturned everything he knew. It was absurd to the extreme!

Across the half-body of the Demon God's corpse, which stretched through heaven and earth without end, lines of flesh and texture crisscrossed while remnants of chaotic Dao essence lingered without fading.

And at the corpse's very core, within the chest and abdomen where vitality was most concentrated, an embryo suffused with clear azure radiance was quietly gestating!

A God or Devil's corpse from the ages, neither decaying nor rotting, neither living nor dying, should have been nothing more than a dead and silent skeletal remnant. Yet it had now given birth to a living embryo!

It was inconceivable, utterly unheard of!

In the primordial world, it was an eternal law that corpses could never nurture life—let alone the body of a Chaos Demon God that had fallen hundreds of millions of years ago!

Li Changsheng forcefully suppressed the raging waves in his heart and rapidly sorted through his thoughts, analyzing the cause.

Chaos Demon Gods had been born wielding innate Great Daos. Their bodies had long transcended the mortal realm and reached the supreme state of indestructibility and immortality.

During the battle that opened heaven and earth, Pangu's supreme divine power had destroyed countless Demon Gods. With the incomparably tyrannical power of creation, he had utterly erased the Creation Demon God's divinity and soul origin.

Yet the undying bodily foundation the Demon God had rooted in chaos had not completely dissipated.

After hundreds of millions of years of heavenly seals, nourishment by time, saturation by spiritual energy, accumulation of creation, and the intertwining of the endless lingering creation Dao essence within the secret realm, this dead remnant body of the Demon God had, through a twist of fate, produced heaven-defying vitality and nurtured this eerie embryo!

At that thought, Li Changsheng quietly extended his divine sense and carefully probed the embryo's origin.

In the next instant, two incomparably pure auras of the Great Dao flooded into his perception.

The Creation Dao essence was immensely vast, and its endless vitality surged without cease. It was no weaker than the laws of creation he himself had comprehended, so profound that it was difficult to imagine!

"A heaven-bestowed anomaly, born against the heavens!"

A sharp light flashed in Li Changsheng's eyes, and his heart was filled with shock.

This embryo, born from the corpse of an ancient Demon God, was no ordinary thing. It was a supreme treasure forged from intertwined heavenly opportunities and condensed by the creation of time.

If he destroyed it now or allowed it to grow and perish on its own, it would be an unbearable waste, squandering a heaven-defying opportunity rarely seen in all eternity.

With such peerless potential, if he took it for his own use, it would surely become one of his strongest aids in the future!

Without the slightest hesitation, Li Changsheng immediately raised his hand, spiritual light swirling around his fingertips.

A drop of golden essence blood, condensed from his own origin and containing the foundation of the Primordial Chaos Lotus, slowly seeped from his fingertip.

This drop of origin essence blood bore the imprint of his soul and the Dao foundation of the green lotus. It was incomparably precious.

With a flick of his finger, the origin essence blood transformed into a streak of light and landed steadily within the azure embryo.

Buzz—

As the essence blood entered its body, faint golden light flowed once around the embryo's surface. An invisible soul brand quietly took shape, firmly binding this wondrous object of heaven and earth.

From that moment on, this Demon God embryo, born through such an eerie process, belonged completely to him. When it hatched and was born in the future, it would likewise remain under the control of his soul, never leaving nor betraying him.

After finishing this, Li Changsheng felt slightly reassured, while silently noting a hidden danger.

The embryo had been born within the Demon God secret realm and grew from the remains of the Demon God. Faint black Baleful Intent from the creation of heaven and earth still coiled around it.

Once it hatched and took form in the future, it would inevitably be tainted by Sha Qi and develop a vicious nature. When the time came, he would have to use the World-Cleansing Divine Light to purify it completely and eliminate every hidden danger of Sha Qi.

After settling the embryo, Li Changsheng no longer allowed himself to be distracted. His gaze fell fully upon the enormous remnant body of the Creation Demon God.

The ultimate goal of this journey had always been the Demon God's origin!

After a careful examination, Li Changsheng instantly saw the truth.

The lingering essence blood and vitality within this remnant body of the Demon God had long been exhausted.

Most of its origin power and vitality accumulated over the years had been absorbed and devoured by that heaven-defying embryo, transformed into nourishment for its new life.

That was precisely why this embryo possessed such immense and terrifying reserves of creation and vitality.

Following the faint resonance of origin, Li Changsheng's divine sense penetrated the damaged surface of flesh, avoided the thin Sha Qi coiling around it, and probed directly toward the corpse's core.

Before long, a source of light the size of a washbasin appeared in his vision, clear and emerald-green throughout, overflowing with radiant light.

This was the final core origin left behind by the Creation Demon God. It contained the purest innate Great Dao of creation and was the ultimate treasure accumulated by the entire secret realm over hundreds of millions of years!

At this moment, the source was wrapped and sealed beneath layers of heavy Baleful Intent from the creation of heaven and earth, hidden in the deepest part of the corpse. Ordinary great cultivators would never be able to approach it or separate it.

But to Li Changsheng, who commanded the world-cleansing Great Dao, this Baleful Intent was as good as nonexistent.

With a light wave of his finger, luminous white World-Cleansing Divine Light scattered forth, and its gentle yet tyrannical purifying power instantly spread out.

The pitch-black Baleful Intent coiling around the origin collapsed at the slightest touch and melted upon meeting the light. Within only a few breaths, it had been purified completely.

The path ahead was fully clear!

Li Changsheng raised his hand and closed his fingers, firmly grasping this incomparably precious origin of the Creation Demon God in his palm.

Vast and majestic Creation Dao essence instantly swept through his body. Its warm, rich power of the Great Dao nourished his limbs and bones, and even his cultivation showed faint signs of advancing.

Just as delight rose in his heart, his gaze inadvertently swept over the spot beside the source of light, and his pupils suddenly contracted!

Beside the Creation Demon God's core origin, deep within the silent flesh, lay an eerie seed. It was pitch-black throughout, plain and unremarkable in appearance, yet wrapped in wisps of chaotic aura!

No one knew where it had come from, and no one understood its mysteries. It slept quietly within the corpse of the ancient Demon God, lying dormant beside the Creation Origin for hundreds of millions of years!