Stepping through the gate, a vast and boundless palace suddenly unfolded before one's eyes. In the center of the palace, a figure sat silently, a woman.
A long, plain white robe flowed like clouds, and her snow-white hair cascaded freely down her back. She sat with her eyes closed, her figure not appearing imposing, yet the rhythm of the entire world seemed to revolve slowly around her.
Not a trace of Source Power emanated from him, nor did any pressure sweep outwards. Yet, with just a distant glance, Qin Yu felt his consciousness suddenly freeze. The boundaries of the surrounding universe dissolved, and distance became indeterminate. The person before him seemed to be sitting there, yet also seemed to have never existed in any space or time.
A vast and boundless Daoist aura, transcending existence and non-existence, birth and death, and the cycle of time, silently filled the entire space. Chi Boqian immediately bowed deeply, his expression more respectful than ever before, and his voice was low and solemn. "Greetings, Supreme Elder. This disciple Chi Boqian, along with our clan's only external ally in this competition, junior Qin Yu, have come to pay homage to the clan's guardian beast, Huang."
As her voice faded, the world returned to silence. A few breaths passed, and the white-haired woman slowly opened her eyes. Her eyes were calm and still, without the slightest ripple. The moment her gaze gently fell on Qin Yu's body trembled violently.
There was no divine sense scanning, no clash of Fate Soul, and no suppression from any force. Yet, with just this one gaze, he clearly perceived that all the causal threads entangled in the origin of his Fate Soul, his past and present lives, and the depths of his Dao foundation were completely pierced through in a single glance.
With no secrets left to hide in his heart, Qin Yu was deeply shaken, his mind reeling. This level of understanding had already surpassed all his previous comprehension.
The white-haired woman gazed at him calmly for a moment, then slowly parted her lips. Her voice was flat and unadorned, yet it resonated deep within his very soul, brooking no escape. "Go in."
As the three words fell, the four directions returned to silence. Qin Yu slowly raised his head and looked at the white-haired woman again. Only now did he truly understand the unfathomable cultivation realm of the other party. The Void Emanation Realm, the Emptiness, the Formless, the boundary between existence and non-existence in the world, all melted into the boundless void.
Neither dwelling in the beginning nor falling into the end; neither clinging to existence nor falling into Annihilation, only the flow of emptiness continues endlessly, transcending all speculation and thought, disappearing into the realm of nothingness.
Qin Yu's eyes narrowed slightly, his mind reeling. What terrifying cultivation! This person standing there was like an endless, unattainable, ancient world.
Qin Yu slowly withdrew his gaze, his heart still unable to calm down. Just now, that senior had seen through his Fate Soul essence with just a single glance. There was no possibility of resistance. For the first time, Qin Yu truly understood the meaning of the three words "Void Emanation Realm".
What does it all mean? At that moment, within the sea of consciousness, the Void Divine Tree quietly took root in the vast sea of consciousness, with countless divine rays flowing slowly down its branches. A petite figure was lazily leaning against a branch, her long blue hair gently cascading down, and her sapphire-like eyes gazing outwards.
It was Xiao Yue. She gently swung her legs, a faint smile playing on her lips. "No wonder." "The Lineage the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain have been able to dominate the entire Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain." "Each Lineage" not only possesses a Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang, to guard it," but also has a Void Emanation Realm expert behind it."
She gazed gently into the distance, a hint of seriousness creeping into her eyes. "Such a foundation is enough to awe the entire Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain for countless eras." At the same time, Chi Boqian continued to stride forward. Qin Yu suppressed his shock and slowly followed. As they ventured deeper, the seal before them grew increasingly ancient.
One layer, two layers, three layers... With each seal they crossed, the surrounding world grew quieter until finally, even the flow of cause and effect slowly subsided. The only sound in the world was the footsteps of the two. Just then, Chi Boqian suddenly transmitted his voice, "Fellow Daoist Qin." Qin Yu raised his eyes. Chi Boqian did not turn around, but his voice slowly entered Qin Yu's Fate Soul.
Looking at the tightly closed palace doors, Chi Boqian spoke slowly, his voice filled with sincere respect. "That person just now was my Chi Lineage's Supreme Elder—Senior Chi Lanyue." "Senior is not from the present era, but was born in the extremely ancient and primordial time."
"Back then, the Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain was rife with chaos, far surpassing what it is today. The four races were constantly at war, ancient sects rose and fell, countless powerful clans rose to prominence, and countless ancient Ancient Clan with a history spanning millennia were wiped out overnight. The world was in constant turmoil, and heaven and earth were in perpetual turmoil."
"Senior Chi Lanyue, it was in that chaotic world of endless slaughter that she stepped through countless paths and ascended to the pinnacle of the Great Dao." His tone became increasingly solemn.
"She single-handedly guarded the Chi Lineage for seven million years, single-handedly withstanding several annihilation calamities, protecting the Chi Lineage's eternal lineage, and safeguarding the foundation of the clan amidst chaos."
"After her predecessors deciphered the Ultimate Dao Path and entered the supreme realm of Void Evolution, they secluded themselves in the ancestral land and never ventured out into the world again." "In these years, she silently protected the Wanyan Beast Radiance and also silently guarded the foundation of the entire Chi Lineage's fortune."
Chi Boqian sighed slightly, his gaze becoming serious. "This place is the most core forbidden area of our clan. Throughout the entire Chi Lineage, only the clan leader and the elder have ever been able to enter and leave freely. Even though I hold the reins of power in the clan, every time I set foot here, I still feel awe and dare not show the slightest disrespect."
Qin Yu nodded slightly, his heart filled with awe. While the unparalleled cultivation was indeed terrifying, the Ji Ran dedication and perseverance of guarding a clan and protecting the bloodline for countless generations across millions of epochs was far more moving and awe-inspiring than the Great Dao.
The two continued deeper into the area. After an unknown amount of time, the last seal slowly dissipated ahead without a deafening roar or any dazzling divine light. The entire world suddenly became incredibly quiet, so quiet that even thoughts seemed to slowly come to a standstill. Qin Yu took a step forward, and the scene before him made his breath catch in his throat.
There, there are no mountains, no palaces, no earth, no sky, and no concept of space. There is only a vast, boundless world that can never be reached, and within that vastness, there is a string network so large that it cannot be measured by any scale.
The entire boundless network of strings unfolds silently, without center, without boundary, without up or down, without left or right, without front or back. It transcends all directional constraints and traverses the entire void dimension.
The countless Dao strings, crystal clear, formless and intangible, untouched by color, flow with a mysterious rhythm that the world cannot decipher. This is not a fluctuation of Source Power, nor a flow of laws, nor an fluctuation of origin; it is a probabilistic echo that transcends all Daos—"If."
Qin Yu gazed intently, and each delicate Dao string trembled slightly, conjuring up a complete universe out of thin air. Some heavens and earth were ancient and immortal, unyielding through the ages; some heavens and earth were overturned, with star seas collapsing and the sky hanging upside down; some heavens and earth had vastly different Dao Path and completely contradictory systems of the Great Dao; some heavens and earth had reversed time order, with the flow of time at will.
Some heavens and earth are filled with raging flames that give birth to life, and fire is the source of life. Some heavens and earth are filled with flowing water that is engraved with Dao patterns, and rivers carry the Dao. Some heavens and earth are filled with beings who grasp cause and effect from birth, and whose destiny is self-evident. Some heavens and earth are filled with all things constructed from sound and rhythm, where a single thought becomes a sound, and a single sound becomes a realm, with infinite heavens, infinite laws, infinite destinies, and infinite futures.
All trembled slightly with the string net, instantly reborn, instantly Annihilation, endlessly cycling, life after life. Qin Yu's gaze pierced through layers of string light, and in countless evolving heavens, he saw countless versions of himself: one stagnant at the Realm Breaking Realm, one standing proudly at the Mystic Void Realm, and one who had long since stepped into Eternal Silence, overlooking all living beings.
There is him standing alone at the pinnacle, independent amidst the clouds and seas; there is him caught in a deadly battle, fighting bloody battles; there is him sitting in meditation, immersing himself in the Dao, passing the years in silence; and there is him Fate Soul have dissipated, long since returned to nothingness. Thousands of figures, thousands of Dao Path, thousands of endings.
But whenever Qin Yu tried to focus his attention and see the face of any figure clearly, the outline would automatically become blurry and indistinct, as if this world had its own supreme rules that erased all predetermined answers.
Because once the form is fixed, the ending is set, the trajectory is locked, and the future is solidified. But this place is the source of all beginnings and the root of all fruits. No possibility can be completely defined or completely sealed off. Every string is an untraveled path and an unopened "what if".
Each string vibration marks the birth and the end of a new universe.
The heavens are not connected to each other, and their realms are isolated from one another, yet they are interwoven into this vast web that spans endless nothingness and encompasses all destinies through the resonance of countless "possibilities" from the same source.
It has no spirit or nature, yet it is the source of life that gives birth to all living things; it has no consciousness or thought, yet it has been eternally flowing and Wanyan before the birth of all things.
Beginningless Endless, without limit, existing since time immemorial. Just as Qin Yu was lost in his thoughts and gazing upon this supreme origin, a wisp of ancient and distant resonance suddenly resounded from the depths of his Fate Soul's origin.
This subtle rhythm once faintly appeared in the Stele Forest Imperial City, but now it is a hundred times clearer and a hundred times more profound! Ancient, vast, gentle, and boundless.
Like a distant call spanning endless eras, it slowly rippled from the deepest part of his Fate Soul, causing the entire essence of his Fate Soul to tremble and resonate gently. Qin Yu stood rooted to the spot, his gaze unwavering for a long time, his mind completely clear. A boundless, transparent net woven from luminous crystal threads, like a flowing aurora, floated in the darkness, forever trembling gently, constantly emitting a world of luminous bubbles.
At this moment, he finally realized that the supreme string network before him, which evolved into myriad paths, deduced the heavens, and carried all possibilities, was the supreme origin that the Chi Lineage had guarded for countless eras— the Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang, Wanyan.