Wanyan gazed silently at the Star Wancai Key in Qin Yu's palm for a long time. He did not speak again, because for a Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang wields countless possibilities, his silence at this moment already represented too much. Throughout countless eras, Wanyan had seen too many treasures, including Primordial Spirit Treasure, Primordial Supreme Treasure, and Primordial Dao Supreme Treasure Treasures that could suppress an entire era, supreme divine weapons that carried the origin of heaven and earth, and ancient secret artifacts that could change the rise and fall of a race.
However, there has never been anything that could make his Dao of Wanyan Path willingly give way, nor has there ever been anything that prevented him from seeing its true source. Wanyan slowly stretched out his hand, but did not touch the Star Wancai Key. Instead, he sensed the aura that transcended all other objects from a distance.
"Qin Yu." "Do you know that there was once an ancient legend circulating among our Wanyan Ancient Clan?" Qin Yu's eyes flickered slightly. "Wanyan Ancient Clan?" This was the first time he had heard this name. Wanyan nodded gently, his gaze piercing through countless lines, seemingly looking towards an extremely distant era.
"The Wanyan Ancient Clan is not any race in the present-day Eternal Nonexistence Limitless Domain." "It existed in a much more distant era." "In that era, the world had not yet formed a complete order, and many origins were still in a state of chaotic evolution." "Our ancestors once saw a wisp of special starlight during a primordial Return to the Ruins."
"That ray of starlight had no power." "No pressure." "Not even the aura of any living being or artifact." "But when our ancestor approached it," "all his personal divine weapons," "all his companion spiritual treasures," "all the Dao principles formed by external objects," all fell silent on their own."Qin Yu's eyes narrowed slightly. Wanyan continued, "Our ancestor left behind ancient scrolls."
"It records a sentence: 'All things have a beginning, but the end has Beginningless.' At the time, no one in the clan understood this sentence. Until later, one of our clan's ancestors, Void Emanation Realm expert, while deducing countless possibilities, saw a starry sky that could not be evolved. In that starry sky..."
"There's only one key." "It didn't open any doors." "Yet it rendered all doors meaningless." The Star Wancai Key in Qin Yu's palm trembled slightly. Wanyan noticed this, his gaze becoming even more complex. "From that time on," our clan left behind an ancestral precept. "If one day in the future," the Star Wancai Key reappears...
"The Wanyan clan must find the key holder." "Because that person..." Wanyan paused, not continuing, only looking into the distance... "has a karmic connection with a place of slumber for our clan." Qin Yu frowned slightly. "A place of slumber?" Wanyan didn't answer directly. He only said softly, "It's a place even I can't open." "Not because there's a powerful seal within." "But because..."
His gaze fell upon the Star Wancai Key. "That seal itself repels all external forces. Any force that approaches will be reduced to nothingness. Any rule that attempts to analyze it will lose its meaning."
Qin Yu instantly understood that the seal was likely related to the Star Wancai Key. Wanyan continued, "I've tried countless times. I've used the Dao of Wanyan to deduce. I've searched for a way to break the deadlock through possibilities. But all futures point to the same result. There is only one person who possesses the Star Wancai Key."
Only then could the seal respond. He said this, his voice regaining its calm. "However," he continued, "These are just ancient legends of the clan." "Whether they are true or not, I cannot be completely sure." Qin Yu did not press further. Because he could sense that although Wanyan spoke calmly, the underlying cause and effect was far more complex than that.
... Just then, a sudden change occurred. The Star Wancai Key in Qin Yu's palm suddenly floated up on its own. Buzz—a starlight never before seen flowed slowly from the center of the key. It wasn't light, but rather a primordial mark that transcended the stars. In an instant, the entire Wanyan String Realm and countless "Ifs" strings simultaneously stopped. Then, all the strings began to converge towards that wisp of starlight.
Countless possibilities converged towards that starlight. Wanyan's expression changed drastically. "This is..." The next moment, the starlight fell without destroying anything. Instead, it merged into the Wanyan String Realm. In an instant, Wanyan's Fate Soul violently trembled. His body trembled slightly, and disbelief appeared in his eyes, because at this moment, he felt a sensation he had never experienced before.
His Wanyan Great Dao resonated with the Edict of Returning to Zero hidden deep within the Star Wancai Key, creating a connection that transcended levels.
Boom--
Deep within the boundless web of strings, a vast and ancient ripple slowly spread outwards. Those strings, symbolizing countless futures and endless choices, instantly underwent inconceivable transformations.
Many possibilities that were never meant to be realized and were destined to be illusory Annihilation silently once the starlight gently swept over them;
Countless erroneous paths that led to distortion and inversion of priorities were reorganized and rectified by the new order.
The complex web of entangled, conflicting causes and effects is all brought together and Returning Ring its original cycle.
Wanyan in the void, his mind deeply immersed in the Ultimate shock.
"Reset to zero..."
"It can actually directly touch my Wanyan origins..."
He murmured softly, his emotions churning.
For Wanyan Yan, the essence of his existence is to perpetually generate all possibilities and continuously unfold countless futures. But it was only at the moment that the Edict of Returning to Zero appeared in the world that he truly realized for the first time that his Wanyan Great Dao was not limited to endless outward expansion.
There is also a higher-level set of rules that can reorganize and categorize all the possibilities.
This is not a forceful suppression, nor a brutal destruction, but rather the ultimate destiny that all things are born with, originating from time immemorial.
Qin Yu witnessed the scene before him, and his heart was filled with turmoil.
He never actively activated the Star Wancai Key; all the unusual phenomena were simply the key spontaneously triggering a resonance.
Within her sea of consciousness, Xiao Yue stood beside the branch of the Void Divine Tree, her sapphire-blue eyes gleaming softly as she murmured, "Little Qinzi... this key seems to acknowledge him."
Qin Yu did not respond, his gaze quietly fixed on Wanyan.
At this moment, Wanyan slowly closed his eyes, carefully sensing the rhythm of starlight that had seeped into his Fate Soul. After a long silence, he opened his eyes again, his expression towards Qin Yu filled with unprecedented solemnity. "Qin Yu." "It seems that the day foretold in the Ancient Clan's prophecies has finally arrived."
Wanyan before the boundless String Sea, surrounded by countless strings of "what ifs" carrying infinite possibilities, flowing endlessly and shaping the future trajectory of all things in the heavens.
But at this moment, he had long since shed the indifference of the past, looking down upon the ages and observing the world with detachment. The Source Dao Ultimate Beast Huang, who holds the power of all possibilities and witnesses endless birth and death, no longer has a condescending gaze in his eyes, nor any detached aloofness.
His gaze was clear and peaceful, settling steadily on Qin Yu, without a trace of the oppressive aura of a superior, only a solemnity that transcended countless eras, and a complete and unreserved entrustment.
After a long silence, Wanyan finally spoke slowly, his voice gentle yet heavy. "Qin Yu, I have something I would like to ask for your help with. This is also the reason why I specifically asked you to come here." Qin Yu raised his eyes slightly, waiting for him to continue.
"My Wanyan Ancient Clan possesses a forbidden slumbering place, completely sealed off since countless epochs ago." Wanyan gazed into the depths of the void, a complex and weathered look flashing across his eyes. "There lies the most primordial root of our clan, the last vestige of our Ancient Clan's glorious past, the Ultimate source of our Dao Path."
"In ancient times, cataclysmic disasters raged across the land, their calamities unpredictable, and no one could foresee the outcome. To ensure the continuation of the Ancient Clan's lineage, our ancestors sealed their core heritage within a forbidden area, erecting an unparalleled seal."
His tone turned slightly somber as he revealed a shocking secret. "That seal never defends against external enemies, it only protects itself."
Qin Yu frowned slightly, a look of surprise on his face.
"It's because the origin deep within the forbidden land is connected to the primordial Dao root of my Wanyan Ancient Clan, the very foundation of our creation, and the causal relationships it carries are vast and boundless, far exceeding the shackles of the Void Emanation Realm," Wanyan sighed softly. "Even now, if I were to exhaust all my life's power of Dao cultivation, I would not be able to forcibly shake it or open it on my own."
As soon as the words were spoken, the vast and boundless Wanyan String Realm suddenly underwent a strange change.
Deep within the String Sea, a territory suddenly and completely darkened. There were no strings, no laws, no causes and effects, Does Not Exist possibility of evolution, and no trace of the future. It was like a blank forbidden zone, completely severed and permanently forgotten by the entire world.
That is the place where the Ancient Clan slumbers.
Wanyan's gaze turned solemn. "It exists outside the scope of the Dao of Wanyan's deductions. I have exhausted countless years of deduction and calculation, and all the results ultimately point to a single answer—only the Star Wancai Key can break this ancient seal and open the gate to the Ancient Clan's forbidden land."
Qin Yu lowered his eyes to look at the Star Wancai Key floating quietly in his palm. The starlight flowed gently and silently, stirring up a ripple in his heart.
"If you are willing to venture into the forbidden land and retrieve the primordial heritage of my clan, lost for countless ages," Wanyan raised his eyes, his gaze utterly solemn, "I am willing to impart to you all the supreme core primordial divine abilities of the Wanyan Ancient Clan. These are the profound insights into the Great Dao accumulated over countless eras, unparalleled Dao techniques that only those who have received the complete approval of the Wanyan Great Dao can cultivate."
The moment the promise was made, the Star Wancai Key in Qin Yu's palm trembled slightly.
A delicate and pure wisp of starlight slowly flowed out, silently merging into Qin Yu's Fate Soul essence along the meridians in his palm.
Boom! The scene before my eyes suddenly changed.
A vast, ancient, and boundless starry sky suddenly unfolded. Here, there was no heaven or earth, no four directions, no passage of time; it was a primordial void before all things Unborn and before chaos and stillness began. In the center of the starry sky, a blurry, ethereal figure stood silently, holding a key in its hand. Its form and aura were almost identical to the Star Wancai Key in Qin Yu's hand.
Behind the phantom, countless ancient figures knelt silently, each possessing the same Fate Soul essence as Wanyan, all being ancient sages of the Wanyan Ancient Clan. They bowed silently, as if awaiting the Return Path of an era destined to descend, spanning countless ages.