Unknown Plane, Innate Divine Being

The piercing alarm continued to echo through the monitoring hall.

Gu Xuan's name had completely gone dark. No matter how the monitoring system searched, it could no longer recapture his life signal.

"Bring up the transmission trajectory from just now."

Zhou Ruolan stood before the main firmament, her gaze fixed on the silver trail that had suddenly broken off.

The other forty-six students had all successfully entered Douzhe Continent.

Su Qingxue had descended upon Spirit City, where her Martial Soul and initial identity had been successfully loaded.

The monitoring information for the others was also being updated one after another.

Only Gu Xuan had failed to appear at any descent coordinates on Douzhe Continent.

"This is already the third replay."

The instructor in charge of monitoring quickly adjusted the firmament.

"His passage had originally been fine, and Dingnuo City's coordinates had already been locked. But just before the descent was completed, another spatial fluctuation suddenly intruded."

The footage slowed down.

Within the silver pillar of light surrounding Gu Xuan, a dark ripple, nearly impossible to catch with the naked eye, flashed past.

Immediately afterward, the entire transmission passage broke apart from the middle.

"Can we track that fluctuation?" Zhou Ruolan asked.

"We're trying."

Countless streams of data flowed across the firmament.

A few breaths later, the image that had already dimmed suddenly lit up.

[Abnormal plane fluctuation detected.]

[Searching the myriad planes database...]

[Search complete.]

[This plane has not yet been registered.]

Seeing the final prompt, several instructors in the monitoring hall raised their heads at once.

The real world had been connected to the myriad planes for centuries, and some new planes had been discovered during that time.

Yet the emergence of new planes followed no pattern.

Sometimes, not a single one would be discovered for decades.

No one had expected that after Gu Xuan's transmission failure, the monitoring system would actually detect a plane that had never been registered.

"Could Gu Xuan have been swept into that world?" Zhou Ruolan immediately asked.

"Cannot be determined for the time being."

"The abnormal fluctuation existed for too short a time. We only captured a trace of residual aura and cannot establish complete coordinates."

The information on the firmament changed again.

[Target plane distance unknown.]

[Plane coordinates cannot be locked.]

[Conventional observation failed.]

[Searching for a stable anchor...]

A plane anchor referred to a lifeform or material within the target world that could remain stable for a long period.

Only after finding an anchor could the Monitoring Firmament use it as a center to establish a connection with the unknown plane once more.

An invisible fluctuation followed the aura they had just captured, continuously stretching toward that unrecorded Space-Time.

At the same time.

Primordial World, within Buzhou Mountain.

Pangu's pressure enveloped everything. Countless traces of Great Dao intertwined into naturally formed Innate Grand Formations, completely isolating this place from the outside world.

At the deepest part of the formation, Chaos qi rose and fell.

A damaged gray pearl had lain dormant here for untold ages.

The calamity of opening heaven had shattered it completely, leaving behind only this small fragment and the Origin that had not yet fully dispersed within it.

At that moment, a wisp of True Spirit passed through the Innate Grand Formation and fell into that Chaos Origin.

Gu Xuan's consciousness awakened once more.

He had not arrived in Dingnuo City, nor had he loaded the identity the system had matched for him.

Everything related to Douzhe Continent seemed to have lost contact with him the instant the transmission passage shattered.

Before Gu Xuan could understand his circumstances, the gray pearl that had remained silent for countless years suddenly trembled faintly.

The remaining Origin awakened with it, completely enveloping his True Spirit.

The instant he came into contact with that Origin, an ancient name naturally surfaced in Gu Xuan's consciousness.

Chaos Pearl.

Gu Xuan's mind trembled slightly.

In the Primordial World myths passed down from his previous life, the Chaos Pearl was a Chaos treasure capable of forming a world of its own and concealing the Heavenly Dao's secrets.

But the Chaos Pearl before him had long since shattered.

The complete pearl no longer existed. Only a fragment and the remaining Origin within it were left behind.

There were no lifeforms here that had already taken shape, much less an Innate Dao body waiting for Gu Xuan to occupy.

Before his True Spirit fell into it, this place had contained nothing but the silent Origin of the Chaos Pearl.

Now, Gu Xuan had become its sole consciousness.

Chaos qi gathered around him.

The formless Origin began to slowly converge around Gu Xuan's True Spirit, while a spark of Innate spiritual light gradually emerged from the boundless Chaos.

From that moment onward, an Innate Divine Being rooted in the remaining Origin of the Chaos Pearl began to gestate within Buzhou Mountain.

Inside the monitoring hall.

The firmament, which had been constantly flickering, suddenly stabilized.

[Stable life fluctuation discovered.]

[Meets plane anchor criteria.]

[Establishing connection...]

At the center of the dark firmament, a faint point of light slowly appeared.

At first, only surging Chaos could be seen.

As the image gradually became clearer, an Innate Grand Formation shrouded in endless Dao patterns appeared before everyone.

The scene outside the formation remained utterly indistinct.

The firmament could only project part of the scene within the formation through the anchor.

At the deepest part of that Chaos qi, a mass of Innate Origin that had yet to take on a concrete form was slowly gestating.

New information appeared afterward.

[Connection to unknown plane successful.]

[Plane name: Primordial World.]

[Current anchor: Unknown lifeform.]

[Life level: Innate Divine Being.]

[Current status: Gestating.]

"Innate Divine Being?"

Someone unconsciously read out the unfamiliar title.

None of the many planes Blue Star had discovered had ever contained such a lifeform.

But Zhou Ruolan did not dwell on that title for long.

A lifeform that had not yet truly been born could not have its strength judged from its name alone, much less prove the value of this unknown plane.

What concerned her now was something else.

"Search the anchor's original identity."

"Match it against Gu Xuan."

Since this unknown plane had been exposed when Gu Xuan's transmission failed, they could not rule out the possibility that the anchor before them was related to him.

The monitoring instructor immediately began the comparison.

Gu Xuan's life information stored within the academy was fully retrieved.

A moment later, the firmament produced the result.

[Anchor's original identity cannot be read.]

[No Blue Star life imprint detected.]

[Information match with trainee Gu Xuan failed.]

Zhou Ruolan frowned slightly as she looked at the final prompt.

"A failed match does not necessarily mean there is no connection."

"But this anchor is still in the Innate gestation stage."

The monitoring instructor beside her shook his head.

"Based on the current information, it should be a lifeform native to the Primordial World that is still gestating."

"Gu Xuan's transmission accident was more likely to have briefly torn open the barrier between the two planes, allowing us to unexpectedly capture the Primordial World's aura."

Zhou Ruolan did not answer immediately.

She glanced at the mass of Innate Origin that had yet to take shape on the firmament, then looked toward Gu Xuan's file, which had completely gone dark.

In the end, she withdrew her gaze and said in a deep voice, "Gu Xuan will remain listed as missing. The search must not stop."

"Create a separate plane file for the Primordial World and observe it with this Innate Divine Being as the anchor."

The two sets of information were completely separated.

One belonged to Gu Xuan, the student whose transmission had failed and whose whereabouts were unknown.

The other belonged to an unknown Innate Divine Being in the Primordial World plane that had yet to be born.

Just as the Primordial World file was completed, new prompts appeared on the main firmament once again.

[New unregistered plane detected.]

[Public observation authorization for the myriad planes has been triggered.]

[The Primordial World Firmament will be publicly displayed across Blue Star.]

[All trainees undergoing expeditions will simultaneously receive viewing authorization.]

Zhou Ruolan's gaze sharpened slightly.

The next moment, an enormous golden light screen surged out of the monitoring hall and illuminated the sky above Linjiang Advanced Transcendent Academy.

Then came all of Linjiang City.

One city, ten cities, until it spread across every part of Blue Star.

Whether they stood in bustling metropolises or remote regions, anyone who looked up could see the same golden firmament stretched across the heavens.

Pedestrians on the streets stopped in their tracks.

The major transcendent academies simultaneously suspended their classes.

One trainee after another who had already returned from other worlds also turned their gazes toward the sky.

"A new otherworld has been discovered?"

"Primordial World? I've never heard that name before."

"What kind of lifeform is an Innate Divine Being?"

"The mass of light in the firmament looks like it hasn't truly been born yet."

As discussions began in the real world, the forty-six students who had already entered Douzhe Continent also received a prompt from the expedition system.

[New unregistered plane discovered: Primordial World.]

[Public firmament has been activated.]

[All trainees have received synchronized viewing authorization.]

A golden light screen visible only to trainees unfolded simultaneously within the identity panels of all forty-six people.

Whether they were in Spirit City, the Dou Tian Empire, or the Luoxing Empire, they could all see through the public firmament the Innate Origin gestating within Chaos.

As for the native lifeforms of Douzhe Continent, they could not see any abnormalities.

Across Blue Star, countless eyes gathered upon the image of the Primordial World.

They were curious what kind of world this suddenly appearing Primordial World truly was.

They were also curious what form an existence called an Innate Divine Being would eventually take.

As the plane anchor stabilized, the final prompt appeared before everyone.

[Abnormal time flow detected in the Primordial World plane.]

[Calibrating time...]