The scene before him suddenly changed, and he felt the earth beneath his feet again. When Qin Yu looked up, even his gaze froze for a moment. For in front of him stood an indescribably ancient altar, covering thousands of feet in area, entirely cast from a grayish-white ancient stone, its surface covered with countless ancient inscriptions.
The inscriptions were not carved, but rather seemed to be natural traces of the Dao growing on the stone. Chaos, primordial chaos, cause and effect, time sequence, reincarnation, and countless primordial patterns intertwined with each other, like a huge net of destiny covering the heavens and the earth. The altar had nine layers, each with dozens of huge stone pillars standing at the edge of each layer.
The stone pillars were tens of thousands of feet tall, piercing the void, and at their tops floated fragments of ancient runes, which slowly rotated, constantly releasing a pale white light. Most awe-inspiring was the center of the altar, where a massive vortex, hundreds of feet in diameter, existed. The vortex was not black, but rather a grayish-white color that existed between existence and nothingness.
Countless fragments of space were constantly being born and destroyed within it, as if connected to some unknown world. There was no sound around the entire altar, and even the void seemed exceptionally quiet, as if this place had detached itself from the normal world and become an area independent of the Great Dao. Qian Wenwan slowly stopped in her tracks.
Looking towards the center of the altar, a hint of excitement flashed in her eyes. "Fellow Daoist Qin." "Fellow Daoist Yuan." "We've arrived." She raised her hand and pointed to the central vortex, her voice becoming much more solemn. "This is the teleportation altar that opens the Layered Realm Void. The opportunity we've been searching for for a hundred years is inside." Qin Yu nodded gently.
His gaze swept across the altar, and he could clearly sense that an extremely ancient primordial aura remained there, something no ordinary expert could have left behind. On the other side Yuan Weizhi also narrowed his eyes, clearly observing the altar as well. Qian Wenwan took a deep breath.
She then slowly walked towards the center of the altar, arriving at the core, where there was a huge array core. On the array core, there were three recessed slots arranged in a triangle, clearly corresponding to the three array eyes. With a gentle wave of her sleeve, a storage crystal core slowly flew out.
The surface of the crystal core was covered with dense sealing runes, and inside, countless Supreme Transformation Source Crystal could be vaguely seen piled up like a sea. The extremely rich Taiwu Change Dao rhyme flowed continuously, clearly indicating that a full one hundred million Supreme Transformation Source Crystal were sealed inside. Qian Wenwan looked extremely serious, picked up the crystal core with both hands, and walked step by step toward the central slot.
Then, it was carefully embedded. Buzz—the moment the crystal core fell, the entire altar trembled slightly, and a silver-white light pattern spread out from the center of the array, rapidly extending along the altar's patterns. However, it only lit up a corner before falling silent again. Clearly, all three array eyes had to be activated simultaneously.
Only then can the altar truly function. Qian Wenwan turned around, her gaze fixed on the two. "Fellow Daoists," she said, pointing to the left and right. "Let's begin." "There's a formation eye on each side." "Each of you choose one side." "Then seal one hundred million Supreme Transformation Source Crystal into the crystal core." "Just like me." "Insert them into the slots."
Without wasting words, Yuan Weizhi strode to the left, his robes swaying slightly as he appeared outside the array's opening. Qin Yu, on the other hand, slowly walked toward the right-hand array eye, stepping onto the altar. When he reached the right-hand array eye, his gaze suddenly sharpened slightly, for just as he approached the array eye...
He vaguely sensed that deep within the altar, some extremely ancient Fate Soul fluctuation seemed to have gently trembled, Yuan Weizhi was the first to move.
He stood before the left-hand array eye, his expression remaining largely unchanged, as if the hundred million Supreme Transformation Source Crystal before him were nothing more than ordinary objects. However, when he raised his right hand, his fingertips paused almost imperceptibly for a moment.
The next instant, a wisp of grayish-white divine light spread outward from the palm, and with a boom, the void trembled slightly, and a storage crystal core the size of a fist slowly solidified in mid-air.
The outer wall of the crystal core is entwined with crisscrossing spatial divine patterns, while deep within the core, a dazzling and boundless sea of silver light unfolds. This torrent is not ordinary spiritual power, but the primordial power that is formed by the fusion of a full one hundred million Supreme Transformation Source Crystal.
Even though it was sealed inside the crystal core, wisps of the primordial energy still emanated from it. Yuan Weizhi slowly stepped forward and held the crystal core in both hands. He solemnly inserted it into the slot on the left side. Click—accompanied by a muffled sound, the left array eye suddenly lit up, and countless gray-white Dao patterns seemed to come alive.
The light spread wildly along the altar floor, instantly illuminating a third of the altar. The surrounding stone pillars emitted a low rumble, as if something was slowly awakening. On the other side, Qin Yu had also arrived at the right-side array eye. He looked down at the slot in front of him, his expression calm, and gently waved his sleeve.
The Annihilation Devil Pupil - Final Spirit Core trembled slightly. In the vast and boundless ocean of Supreme Transformation Source Crystal, one hundred million Supreme Transformation Source Crystal gathered on their own, compressed layer by layer, and continuously condensed. Finally, they transformed into a storage crystal core that was entirely silver-white. Within the crystal core, countless regular icosahedral Supreme Transformation Source Crystal could be vaguely seen rotating with each other.
A moonlit glow flowed within, as if sealing a silver galaxy. Qin Yu looked down for a moment, then slowly raised his hand, sending the crystal core into the slot. The entire process was unusually calm, but the instant the crystal core embedded itself in the array's core—BOOM!!!
The world suddenly fell silent! It was as if an invisible giant hand had reached out from the ancient era and suddenly pressed down on the entire world. The gray-white vortex in the center of the altar instantly expanded a thousandfold! Countless spatial cracks spread towards the sky like a spider web. The nine-layered altar lit up at the same time, and towering stone pillars rose into the sky.
All the ancient runes atop the pillars awakened, and billions of silver beams of light converged wildly from all directions, causing the entire region to tremble violently. The sky was torn apart, the earth split apart, and the void collapsed layer by layer before folding back together—one layer of space, two layers of space, three layers of space, four layers of space... countless dimensions unfolded like pages of a book.
With each page turned, a brand new world emerges: starry rivers, dreams, cause and effect, time, birth and death—countless worlds simultaneously manifest in the void. The entire altar seems to transform into a core hub connecting all worlds.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Transformation Source Crystal among the three crystal cores began to burn at a visible speed, transforming into a vast primal power that poured into the altar. Buzz—In the center of the altar, the gray-white vortex finally stopped expanding, then slowly condensed, eventually transforming into a figure. It was a man, whose appearance, age, and even his specific outline were unclear.
He seemed to stand simultaneously in countless spaces, half his body in the past, half in the future, and the remaining part distributed within billions of dimensional interlayers. He simply stood there, and the world automatically shrank. Qian Wenwan's expression changed drastically. "It's here..." Yuan Weizhi's pupils contracted slightly. "The first trial left behind by the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor."
The next instant, the ancient figure slowly raised its head, and a profound and ancient Daoist voice resounded throughout the heavens and earth. "Those who wish to enter the Layered Realm Void, must first accept my will." Boom!!!
As soon as the words were spoken, an indescribable supreme pressure suddenly swept across the sky. This was not a brute force collision, nor a divine power to suppress, nor an erosion attack on the Fate Soul essence, but a transcendent existence of the highest dimension, looking down on all living beings with pure Daoist thoughts.
It was as if a mortal was facing the heavens and earth, an ant facing the vast sky. A single glance was enough to crush the Fate Soul, and the surrounding space instantly collapsed. A million miles outside the altar sank at the same time, the earth cracked, the mountains and rivers trembled, and even the void began to groan in unbearable pain. Qian Wenwan was the first to act, her expression calm.
She gently clasped her hands together, releasing her ultimate cultivation of the Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme. Streams of warm, gentle Fate Soul essence rose from her body, condensing into a silver-white lotus above her head. The lotus slowly bloomed, its petals continuously dissolving the oppressive force. She simply took a half-step back and regained her footing.
Her expression didn't even change much; clearly, this first test wasn't difficult for her. On the other side, Yuan Weizhi snorted coldly. Her robes fluttered without wind. Boom—a spatial origin unfolded from beneath her feet, countless dimensional fragments rotating around her, and the oppressive force was constantly folded by space.
The energy shifted layer by layer to other dimensions, eventually dissipating into nothingness. Yuan Weizhi only had a few beads of sweat on his forehead, which quickly returned to normal. He had clearly passed through extremely easily. Then, his gaze slowly turned to Qin Yu, and for the first time, a hint of scrutiny appeared in his previously indifferent eyes. In his view...
At the Eternal Silence Realm Initial Stage, facing such a level of pressure, it was already quite an achievement to not be forced to kneel. He was even prepared to lend a helping hand at any moment. However, the next moment, Yuan Weizhi's eyes suddenly froze, because at this moment, Qin Yu was still standing in the same spot, without releasing any supernatural powers, without unfolding any domain, and not even his robes swayed in the slightest.
The supreme pressure, powerful enough to suppress Eternal Silence Realm · Supreme, crashed down, but as soon as it reached three feet in front of Qin Yu, it crumbled and dissipated on its own. It was as if a humble torrent had collided with an unparalleled Dao Source and was invisibly dissolved by the supreme rules.
Qin Yu stood with his hands behind his back, his expression calm and undisturbed, gazing silently at the towering figure in the center of the altar, facing off against him across the distance, their eyes meeting. The aura of the Eternal Silence Realm Initial Stage flowed steadily around him, without the slightest wavering.
But that composure stirred up a ripple in Yuan Weizhi's heart for the first time. "How is this possible..." A look of shock flashed in Yuan Weizhi's eyes. Previously at the Heavenly Secrets Dao Pavilion, he had always thought that Qin Yu was just an investor found by Qian Wenwan, and even if he had some means, he was ultimately only at the Eternal Silence Realm Initial Stage.
At this moment, facing the wisp of power left behind by the Layered Realm Void Great Emperor, Qian Wenwan and Yuan Weizhi both needed to activate their Fate Soul origins to resist this overwhelming pressure that could overturn heaven and earth. Only Qin Yu stood still, walking calmly and leisurely. This great emperor's power, which was enough to shatter mountains and rivers and suppress all things, seemed to be nothing to him, without causing the slightest ripple.
The ancient and ethereal phantom in the center of the altar sensed this unusual anomaly. Its silent body stirred slightly, and its usually empty and blank gaze fell on Qin Yu for a mere instant. With just a glance, the Daoist aura surrounding the entire ancient altar quietly shifted, and at that moment, inexplicable changes quietly arose.