Nearly ten million years ago.
When Dongguan first entered a Primal Star, he felt boundless curiosity about this "treasure land close to the Universe Origin."
Perhaps it was a kind of habitual thinking.
The greatest treasure on Earth was, in fact, Earth itself.
The greatest treasure in the Star Tower was the Star Tower itself.
The greatest treasure in the Primal Universe was also the Primal Universe itself.
Then the greatest treasure on a Primal Star ought to be the Primal Star itself.
Of course, these so-called treasures of the "thing itself" were never easy to obtain. All sorts of stringent conditions applied.
Dongguan did not aspire to obtain the Primal Star itself, either. Gaining some insight would be enough.
Just as he had modeled his Internal World after Earth when he was there.
He could not obtain the Star Tower, but he had gained some insights from it, too.
The operating laws of the Primal Universe ran through his cultivation from beginning to end.
Searching for "treasures" relied far too much on luck. Setting his sights on the Primal Star itself and seeing whether he could "pry something off" depended more on strength-or rather, things such as talent, comprehension, and ingenuity.
And he had indeed gained something.
The structure of the Primal Star had helped him further perfect his Divine Kingdom,
and modeling his Divine Kingdom's operation after the Primal Star had let him further study that structure.
Gradually, he had discovered some of the Primal Star's "little secrets"-or rather, secrets of the Primal Universe.
Ever since the Dongguan Divine Kingdom had acquired an "Origin World," its Energy Ocean had, in fact, been mostly hidden within that "Origin World."
Yet in the "Star World," there were still living beings who could connect to this Energy Ocean.
Sometimes, "tributaries" would