The Great Dao Matrix had "sensed" its own presence within the First Origin Point.
Yet there seemed to be some distance between one Great Dao and the other.
And since it was part of itself, they should naturally have merged into one. That distance had no place between them.
So it drew closer to the First Origin Point.
The Great Dao Matrix moved of its own accord. Meng Chuan did not need to seek it out any further; it came to him.
To put it another way, suppose the Primordial Unity Dao and the Great Dao Matrix were a hundred steps apart.
Once Meng Chuan took one step toward it, the Great Dao Matrix would cross the remaining ninety-nine steps itself and arrive before the Primordial Unity Dao.
The Chaos Cycle Seed, together with the Great Dao Prototype, was enough to draw the Great Dao Matrix in.
And the Great Dao was by no means slow. The instant the Primordial Unity Dao extended outward, the Great Dao Matrix made contact with it.
For something as immense as the Great Dao Matrix, contact meant complete coverage.
In an instant, untold amounts of information flooded from the Great Dao Matrix into the Primordial Unity Dao, and the Matrix covered the Dao in its entirety.
Or rather... swallowed it whole.
In that instant, Meng Chuan's will was washed blank. He lost all sense of self.
Will, mind, soul, True Spirit, thoughts, ideas...
Everything was gone. All became blank; nothing remained but the Primordial Unity Dao.
The impact of the Great Dao Matrix and the way it engulfed him were far too overwhelming for Meng Chuan, a living being caught between Near-Limitless and Limitless, to withstand completely.
If Meng Chuan failed to regain consciousness after that first impact, he would never wake again. His