The Strength Ancestor

Strength ancestor. In the dead-silent, dark depths of the universe.

Luo Chen's figure suddenly appeared. In his hand, he idly toyed with a black sphere.

It was what had remained after the Dark Ancient Emperor was slain.

It contained the Dark Ancient Emperor's vast, ocean-like inheritance of memories—the proof that the Dark Ancient Emperor had once existed.

The black sphere seemed to be the darkest thing between heaven and earth, boundlessly profound, containing countless laws of darkness.

Luo Chen closed his hand around it and began cleansing the karmic ties upon it.

As he cleansed it, his steps never ceased, carrying him deeper into the universe.

He did this because, when he had just acted to destroy the Dark Ancient Emperor, he had sensed a powerful being secretly watching.

It was neither the Heavenly Gate God nor cultivators from those great worlds.

Rather, it was a figure standing beyond the universe.

Luo Chen lowered the black sphere in his hand, stopped walking, and said, "Fellow Daoist, you have watched for so long. Why not reveal yourself and meet me?"

His karmic warning had given no sign, which meant the other party bore no hostility.

That was precisely what made Luo Chen curious.

As his words fell, an illusory Great Dao manifested in the cosmic void ahead.

A surging river of the Great Dao flowed forth from nothingness, its destination unknown.

A figure sat cross-legged within it, his Dao body scoured by the Great Dao yet remaining immovable as a mountain.

He opened his eyes. His towering body slowly rose, and step by step, he entered the present world.

He appeared to be a middle-aged man clad in a gray Daoist robe, with a head of white hair bound beneath a white jade crown. Treading upon the river of the Great