Chapter 1: A Supreme Being Digs Out a Great Treasure
"Space is called yu; time past and present is called zhou."
The so-called universe was formed by the intersection of infinitely vast space and time without beginning or end. In this unimaginable space-time, countless stars were constantly being born and perishing at every moment, countless living beings were thinking and contending, and countless miracles were occurring and coming to an end.
The time was the late Primordial Antiquity period, more than one hundred thousand years after God War.
There were truly far too many dense secrets and miracles in this universe. Even to those Heavenly Venerables and Ancient Emperors who were invincible across the universe, there were far too many unsolved mysteries.
What on earth had happened during the Immortal Ancient and Chaotic Ancient Eras buried by time? From which era did the most ancient Life Forbidden Zones such as the Immortal Mausoleum and the Primordial Ancient Mine emerge, and what kind of secrets were they hiding? And did immortals truly exist...
Throughout the ages, every Dao Prover would strive to explore the history of this universe. Alas, life spans were too short and eras were too long. Amidst the passing of time and the transmigration of living beings, those truths that had been unearthed were buried over and over again, adding layer upon layer of mist to the ancient history of this universe.
Taking the Primordial Ancient Mine as an example, its history of survival surpassed all known historical books. From the essays of certain Heavenly Venerables of the Mythological Era to the residual texts carved on bone fragments and turtle shells prior to the more ancient times, all had mentioned this taboo location known as the Primordial Ancient Mine.
Even those Heavenly Venerables and Ancient Emperors who had slumbered in the forbidden zones for over a million years, beings who could forcefully move the ancient mine to walk across the universe, dared not claim they had completely mastered all the secrets within the ancient mine.
Every slight disturbance of the ancient mine stirred the hearts of countless living beings.
"Rumble!"
Today, however, the Primordial Ancient Mine welcomed a rare and massive tremor. Amidst earth-shaking roars, living beings across the entire ancient star felt strong vibrations.
Soon, at the very periphery of the Primordial Ancient Mine, dazzling light shadows crossed the void and arrived. Every single figure was wreathed in dense Great Dao ripples, their blood Qi piercing the clouds.
Upon closer observation, these figures were quite formidable. Their cultivation auras were actually all above the Saint level, and the vast majority were not of the Human Race. Some grew Qilin horns on their heads, some bore Heavenly God Wings, and others had completely shed their human forms, arriving in Dharma bodies such as peacocks, blood phoenixes, and bulls.
"The Primordial Ancient Mine is changing!"
"What has happened in the Forbidden Zone of Absolute Beginning!?"
"An anomaly in the ancient mine area! Are the supreme beings in the forbidden zone about to make a move?!"
The divine sense fluctuations of the experts of the Hundred Clans spread very widely. Naturally, they did not dare to approach the Primordial Ancient Mine too closely and could only stop at the outermost periphery of the ancient mine, each opening their Dharma eyes and nervously gazing at that taboo location whose praise had lasted through ancient times.
Originally, the Primordial Ancient Mine was an ancient mining area entrenched deep within the earth. Viewed from the outside, there was only a pitch-black mine tunnel whose width was unknown by how many miles. It was so deep that the sun and moon seemed like insignificant sand grains before it, utterly incomparable.
Today, however, the experts of the Hundred Clans could see clearly: in the dark void above the Primordial Ancient Mine, a certain object emerged out of thin air. Daoist rhythms that were powerful enough to suffocate people churned, covering the vault of heaven.
Among the Primordial Myriad Races, many clans practiced eye techniques, and various divine eyes, Dharma pupils, Dao eyes, demon pupils, and other divine abilities all held profound Daoist wonders. Yet as they gazed at the unknown object above the ancient mine area, it was as if a layer of mist had veiled it, illusory and indistinct, making it impossible to see clearly.
In the eyes of some people, behind the Daoist mist seemed to be a humanoid living being. He was of average height, wore an ancient Daoist robe of incalculable value, and sat leisurely cross-legged in the void, chanting scriptures from before ancient times.
Yet others saw that the object was clearly a huge heart, engraved densely all over with Great Dao Runes. It pulsed at the same frequency as the rhythm of the entire universe, corroborating certain eternal and indestructible legal principles.
And in the eyes of others, it was clearly a small tree. It was not tall, yet it was extremely flourishing. Every minute tree grain conformed to the operation of the universe, and every green leaf exhausted the root cause of all things...
Then, in just the blink of an eye, the marvelous anomaly changed, transforming into another completely different sacredness that reflected the origin of the Dao.
Such Daoist wonders naturally caused quite a few saints and sages of the Hundred Clans to linger and forget to return. Many people exerted their divine abilities with all their might, and even though their eyes were pierced to the point of bleeding by the brilliance of that object, they could not bear to leave.
"Rumble!"
Abruptly, a muffled Dao sound interrupted the thoughts of all living beings. A large hand that seemed to be cast from Immortal Gold reached out from the deep black ancient mine tunnel, grabbing straight toward the unknown and constantly transforming strange object above the ancient mine.
At this moment, the experts at the periphery of the Primordial Ancient Mine felt a sense of impending death that was intense to the extreme. Although they knew full well that the target of that large hand was not themselves, the Dao law auras entwining it still made their scalps tingle.
For that was the might of Imperial Dao Laws!
"Retreat, quickly retreat! The supreme being in the ancient mine has made a move!"
"It has alarmed the supreme being! Is that an Imperial Dao supreme treasure?"
"Never mind anything else, retreat thirty million li first!"
A crowd of sages from the Primordial Antiquity Hundred Clans retreated at high speed, their heartstrings vibrating violently. A supreme being was making a move; this was not something their tier could participate in. Even if they were affected by the slightest ripple, they would definitely die without a whole corpse.
Among these people, naturally, there was no lack of true powerhouses. Foremost among them was an old man with a full head of blue hair and glowing, bright eyes who was the calmest. He stood at the outermost periphery of the Primordial Ancient Mine area, guarded by azure brilliance around his body, staring fixedly at the terrifying large hand in the sky with surging thoughts in his heart.
His name was Yan Qi, and he was a pinnacle Great Saint of the contemporary Fire Qilin Cave Qilin Emperor Clan, ranking near the top within the Great Saint circles of the entire Big Dipper Ancient Star in this era.
As a Great Saint who had audience with his clan's supreme Qilin Emperor on multiple occasions, Yan Qi deeply understood that only objects at the Imperial Dao level could move the supreme beings within the forbidden zone!
"Dong!"
As his thoughts spun like lightning, the large hand that had protruded from the forbidden zone had already made contact with the unknown strange object in the vault of heaven. Two completely different Dao laws counter-fused, and the vault of heaven was actually annihilating.
Yet the unknown strange object was of unknown material, and its Daoist rhythm was also extraordinary. A brief contact directly dissolved all the Imperial Dao might of the large hand, causing it to disintegrate and transform into the purest heaven and earth origin Qi.
"Oh? What on earth was dug out this time?"
This time, Great Saint Yan Qi clearly heard a low soliloquy coming from deep within the ancient mine-a voice emitted by some supreme and noble being, the emotions within it somewhat complex, curious, surprised, astonished... all at once.
This caused Yan Qi and the rest of the Hundred Clans sages to feel their scalps tingle for a moment. They instantly understood that this was a strange object dug out from the depths of the ancient mine area by some terrifying being!
What on earth was a strange object that could contend with a supreme being!
Thinking of this, Yan Qi could not help but feel curious either. The Primordial Ancient Mine was too mysterious, and things dug out from it could easily shake ancient history at any moment.
Clearly, the ancient entity deep within the distant mine tunnel held the exact same thought. Soon, the large hand protruded from the mine pit once again. This time, it was densely entwined with law runes that were complex, obscure, and contained endless Daoist wonders.
Those were array runes of the Emperor grade; no one could break free.
"Crack!"
Yet what no one expected was that this time, that unknown strange object still neither dodged nor evaded. The void in front of it split open, and a gigantic Stone Coffin rushed out, violently colliding with that giant hand which had fused with Imperial Dao array patterns.
In Yan Qi's view, that Stone Coffin was bound to be a supreme treasure beyond compare. In a struggle between Supremes, the aftermath of Dao principles could obliterate the Big Dipper Ancient Star in an instant, yet the collision between the Stone Coffin and the giant hand from the Ancient Mine once again neutralized the giant hand's mighty power cleanly, failing to cause the slightest bit of damage to the surroundings.
"Interesting, heh-heh-heh, truly interesting!"
Yet this sort of method seemed to completely arouse the interest of some supreme existence deep within the Ancient Mine. Accompanied by the faint, imperceptible cracking sound of an Immortal Source, Dao rhythms that were countless times more terrifying than before rippled outward, and this boundless mighty power gathered together in an instant, suppressing down toward the unknown strange object and the Stone Coffin.
Clearly, in the eyes of that supreme Supreme deep within the mine region, the Stone Coffin before him was an existence worth shattering an Immortal Source for and dealing with personally.
"Clang!"
Facing this kind of pressure, that ancient, heavy coffin vibrated, emitting rumbling, deafening sounds. Then, that coffin lid, sealed for who knows how many ages, was slowly pushed open, and an aura dormant for immemorial ages slowly awakened like a primordial giant beast.
At the same time, upon that coffin lid which had endured long epochs without decaying, two deep, vicissitudinous runes slowly emerged, presenting themselves before the eyes of the world.
Whether it was the ancient Supreme deep within the Primordial Ancient Mine, or Yan Qi and the various sages of the Hundred Clans watching from afar, none of them had ever seen that kind of peculiar rune, but the Great Dao was interconnected, and they instantly understood the meaning carried by those runes.
Yuangeng!
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