Danger or Fortuitous Encounter

—A five-thousand-character chapter. What I owed yesterday and today will all be made up over the weekend.

Shi Xuan cautiously spread out his Immortal Awareness and probed into that patch of chaos. The moment it made contact, his mind jolted. It was as though he saw a slaughtering green lotus and a world-destroying force striking toward him. The danger was incomparably terrifying, as if his Primordial Spirit would be shredded and destroyed in an instant.

Fortunately, he had been prepared. Shi Xuan made a prompt decision and hurriedly severed that portion of his Immortal Awareness, only then escaping the sensation. Yet his Primordial Spirit suffered backlash, becoming several degrees more illusory, and his injuries worsened somewhat.

When he looked with his naked eyes, that patch of chaos remained tranquil, without the slightest ripple. Only an extreme sense of danger leaked from it. Recalling how merely probing it with Immortal Awareness had nearly left him dead and his Dao extinguished, Shi Xuan thought with lingering fear, This looks like the Dao-Lost Chaos described in the records. Could this be the Chaotic Primordial Era?

Dao-Lost Chaos was chaos in the course of evolution, before the Three Thousand Great Daos had fully formed. It came in many varieties. In some, several Great Daos held the upper hand; in others, mutually generating and restraining Great Daos had lost their balance and battled one another with mad ferocity; in still others, only similar Great Daos remained. All in all, because Dao-Lost Chaos directly manifested attacks from the Great Daos, apart from Golden Immortal Dao Ancestors and Lords of Creation, even Half-step Golden Immortals who fell into it would struggle to escape the fate of perishing.

Within the Void Universe, the places where "Dao-Lost Chaos" remained in greatest quantity were the Chaotic Primordial Era, this