Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan stood side by side before the ancient altar. The altar stood silently, its nine-tiered gray-white structure exuding the vicissitudes of millions of years. Lines resembling the roots of an ancient tree covered the four sides of the altar, as if they were suppressing some existence that could shake the entire world.
Qin Yu slowly raised his right hand, Primordial Hongmeng Great Luo Heavenly Chapter reappeared before him. Pages of ancient books turned on their own, and countless golden ancient characters rose into the air, slowly rotating around the entire altar.
His eyes gradually turned into a deep, chaotic color, Ring Master Soul Diagram slowly rotated within his sea of consciousness. Round and round the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel continuously deduced the structure of the entire altar, and time slowly passed. Suddenly, Qin Yu's gaze sharpened. "Found it." Qian Wenwan immediately looked at him, her expression serious. "Young Master Qin, have you discovered the sealing core?"
Qin Yu nodded slightly, his gaze falling on the countless intertwined root patterns surrounding the altar. "The entire altar is not for suppression," "but for protection." "The true seal is not in the center of the altar," "but within every single root pattern of the altar." As he spoke, the Primordial Hongmeng Great Luo Heavenly Chapter slowly floated up.
Ancient runes continuously descended upon the altar, rules and grammar. Dense golden runes poured into the gray altar, and with each rune entering, a root pattern on the altar slowly lit up.
Immediately afterwards, Qin Yu slowly extended his finger and gently tapped the air, causing golden chains to connect all the patterns on the altar. Boom—the entire altar suddenly trembled violently, and the originally independent nine-layered altar began to slowly rotate, with countless gray-white fragments constantly falling off.
Eighty-one towering divine pillars roared and resounded simultaneously, the deafening roar sweeping across the entire altar. One by one, sealing chains slowly rose from the source of the pillars, their form being chains, their substance being the Dao—pure Source Dao locks forged from the rules of the Great Dao.
They stretched across the heavens and earth, locking the entire altar in place. Qin Yu's eyes remained unmoved. He gently waved his right hand, turning to the final chapter, "Primordial Hongmeng Narrative - Great Luo Heavenly Chapter Outline." The pages slowly unfurled, and an extremely calm voice resounded throughout the entire world. "When you open this book," the world will replay according to the script you wrote.
Buzz— All the sealing chains on the entire altar simultaneously ceased vibrating. In the next instant, all the chains began to transform, bit by bit, into countless golden characters. They were not broken. They... had transformed back into the most primordial rules of writing. Rumble—
As the last chain completely dissolved into text, the ancient altar slowly rose, and beneath it, a light that had slumbered for millions of years shone upon the heavens and earth for the first time. Boom!! The entire underground world trembled violently, the ground cracked open, and countless chaotic rays of light shot into the sky, one after another, pillars of great light pierced through the heavens and earth.
The myriad Daos resonated and roared. Life and death, reincarnation, time and space, destiny, nothingness, and the order of cause and effect—the endless Source Dao intertwined and entwined, giving rise to a dazzling and boundless galaxy of Dao principles. The altar soared into the sky, tens of thousands of feet above the ground. The dust that had shrouded it for millions of years was completely dispelled, and the true hidden world beneath the altar was revealed in its entirety.
The instant the altar fully rose, everything before Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan's eyes suddenly blurred, the heavens and earth spun and space folded. Their figures seemed to have traversed countless eras, and the next moment all the darkness before their eyes vanished, revealing a world so tranquil that it made them forget to breathe.
The sky was crystal clear, and a soft, azure-gold glow spread across the entire world. A gentle breeze blew, and countless wisps of mist flowed slowly between heaven and earth. In the distance, green mountains rose and fell. The mountains and rivers were tranquil, the sea of flowers stretched endlessly, and streams meandered across the land like silver ribbons. There was no killing, no rage here.
There was no malice, nor the suffocating resentment from the Blood Soul Pool. The entire world was filled only with the most primal and pure primordial energy. And in the center of the world, an ancient tree stood quietly. Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan stopped in their tracks at the same time, their pupils completely trembling at that moment.
That ancient tree... its size cannot be measured by words. Its trunk is so thick that it resembles a vast star field, with countless chaotic gray lines flowing across it, each line constantly evolving into a different Dao.
Sometimes it transforms into the purple glow of the primordial chaos, sometimes into golden threads of destiny that stretch through eternity, and sometimes it splits open into a transparent void, as if connecting to the deepest part of the origin. The thick bark is like a history book spanning countless eras, with a complete history of the Great Dao sleeping in every ravine.
The tree canopy has no fixed shape, with billions of branches and leaves covering the endless sky. Each leaf is not an ordinary leaf, but a true source of the Great Dao. Some transform into yin and yang fish that slowly rotate, some transform into fragments of time that flow continuously, some are like gears of reincarnation that mesh with each other, and some evolve into the birth and death of billions of worlds.
Every breath of the ancient tree was evolving into countless paths, and every leaf represented the Ultimate truth of the Great Dao. Qin Yu slowly raised his head, only to find that he could not see the end of the canopy at all. It seemed to penetrate the entire world and extend beyond all realms. But what was truly awe-inspiring was its root system hidden in the void.
Although invisible to the naked eye, Qin Yu's Ring Master Soul Diagram clearly sensed that the endless roots had already penetrated the entire world and penetrated into the bottom layer of all realms. Streams of light composed of symbolic language flowed continuously between the roots, and countless logical rules, original characters, and the long river of history were transformed into nutrients, slowly converging on the entire ancient tree.
What it absorbed... was not the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but the Great Dao of all realms. Just then, a jet-black bolt of lightning, as dark as ink, crashed down from the treetop. But in the instant the lightning struck, countless golden-blue raindrops fell from the sky, representing destruction and rebirth, the end and the origin.
Two completely different Great Daos rotated and alternated on the treetop, yet always maintained an absolute balance. A gentle breeze blew by, and countless branches and leaves swayed softly, but there was no sound in the world. The next moment, Qin Yu suddenly felt countless Great Dao True Meanings resounding in his sea of consciousness.
That is not language, but an indescribable epiphany. Every collision of branches and leaves tells a profound truth. Those who lack understanding will be confused just by hearing it, while those who have sufficient understanding will understand their own great truth in that instant.
Qian Wenwan stared blankly at the scene before her, a tear unknowingly sliding down her cheek. She murmured softly, "Could this be the Ancient Tree of Myriad Paths Layered Realm Void Great Emperor Myriad Dao Source Root..."
Qin Yu nodded slowly. His voice also carried a hint of shock. "Yes, that should be it. It doesn't nurture the Great Dao, but is the Myriad Daos themselves." The moment the two stepped into the projection range of the ancient tree, the entire Myriad Dao Source Root Tree trembled slightly, and an ancient leaf radiating chaotic light slowly drifted down from the tree crown, flying towards the two of them.
A leaf from the Source Dao, radiating a chaotic glow, slowly drifted down from the deepest part of the Myriad Dao Source Root Tree. It did not land on the ground, but instead floated quietly between Qin Yu and Qian Wenwan.
There were no patterns on the ancient leaf, but the moment the two people's eyes fell on the leaf, countless Dao symbols spontaneously evolved within it. Countless unprecedented symbolic languages constantly recombined, evolved, dissipated, and were reborn.
The entire world fell completely silent. The Myriad Dao Source Root Tree swayed gently. There was no wind, yet the entire ancient tree slowly emitted a soft radiance that was almost like the origin of heaven and earth. In the next instant, the ancient Source Dao split in two, one flying towards Qin Yu and the other towards Qian Wenwan. The moment the leaf gently touched the two of them between their brows...
Their consciousnesses simultaneously sank into a boundless ocean of the Great Dao. Qin Yu slowly opened his eyes. Before him, there was no heaven and earth, no space, no time, not even himself, only a vast and boundless chaos. Within the chaos, a point of light slowly emerged, and then...
Above the vast void, Hongmeng purple qi arose from the sky, and the first true meaning of creation slowly flowed. Chaos transformed into primordial chaos, primordial chaos gave birth to the Primordial, the Primordial gave birth to the origin of all things, the origin deduced the myriad phenomena of heaven and earth, the myriad phenomena evolved the Great Dao of the heavens, the Great Dao condensed the myriad laws, and the laws established the rules of the world.
Rules intertwine with the logic of heaven and earth, logic gives birth to Dao patterns and symbols, symbols write the history of eternity, history settles the fate of all living beings, fate turns and all living beings are reincarnated, reincarnation differentiates into two extremes, Yin and Yang, Yin and Yang give birth to the five elements of heaven and earth, the five elements construct the universe and time and space, time and space bear the life and death of the world, life and death rush to the end of time, the end returns to the origin of all things, the origin returns to the chaos Wuji.
All of this was not narrated by anyone, but rather the entire Great Dao itself unfolded before Qin Yu's eyes. His Ring Master Soul Diagram slowly appeared, and the Nine-Wheel True Evolution Dharma Wheel rotated on their own. The Wordless Heavenly Book floated silently as the Primordial Hongmeng Great Luo Heavenly Chapter opened on its own.
Even the Supreme Eternal Stillness Seal emitted an unprecedented chaotic radiance at this moment. Qin Yu slowly raised his hand, and a very simple symbol slowly appeared on his fingertip. In the next instant, the symbol transformed into rules, the rules evolved into logic, the logic formed laws, and the laws returned to the original symbol. Qin Yu's eyes became more and more calm.
He finally understood that the so-called Great Dao is not the end point. The true Great Dao is merely the way the origin expresses itself. What truly exists in the deepest part is... the origin before everything was expressed.
On the other side, Qian Wenwan was also immersed in another world. Beneath her feet was an endless sea of flowers, and above her head was a vast galaxy of stars. With each step she took, a flower of a different color would bloom beneath her feet. The first step was life, the second was death, the third was joy, the fourth was sorrow, the fifth was gathering, the sixth was scattering, the seventh was reincarnation, and the eighth Return to One.
Each flower corresponds to a Dao, and after each flower blooms, it transforms back into specks of light, returning to the entire sea of flowers. She finally realized that all Daos are neither high nor low, neither strong nor weak; they are simply different expressions of life. The Compassionate Joy Divine Sword slowly appeared beside her, its blade releasing no sword intent for the first time.
Instead, it gently inserted itself into the sea of flowers, and the entire divine sword began to continuously absorb the true meaning emanating from the Myriad Dao Source Root Tree. Joy and love began to merge. Then, destiny, reincarnation, yin and yang, the five elements, time and space, origin, end, and beginning—all the great Daos—continuously merged into the Compassionate Joy Divine Sword, and the sword body began to become increasingly crystalline.
The naturally formed smile line grew brighter and brighter. Qian Wenwan closed her eyes, a tear slowly sliding down her cheek. She finally truly understood that Compassion and Joy were not the end. True Compassion and Joy is about allowing all things to embrace each other.
Time flowed slowly, perhaps a breath had passed, yet it felt like billions of years had gone by. Suddenly, the entire Myriad Dao Source Root Tree trembled slowly, and an ancient and vast aura slowly awakened from the deepest part of the trunk. Countless Dao patterns began to converge on the tree.