Boundless Abyss and Wanyan Clash at the Root
As soon as the words were spoken, the four beast-like beings neither formed hand seals nor began to perform any spells, and they didn't even exchange a glance with each other. Four vast Source Dao origin, following the innate patterns beneath their seats, surged together towards the core of the Dao Pivot Crystal Core. The north and south directions were the first to experience a true collision at the primordial level.
The Boundless Abyss Huang is absolute nothingness, Wanyan represent infinite possibilities.
Before the two Dao Source could truly merge into the crystal core, a massive crack running north to south appeared in the center of the Dao Pivot Platform. No light was visible on the south side, Boundless Abyss Huang Origin followed the crack, leaving all traces slowly fading in its wake.
The crystal platform itself did not collapse, but the fact that "there is a pattern here" was gradually becoming lighter and dissipating. The north side was completely different. Once the origin of Wanyan things flowed into the innate pattern, the entire northern crystal platform gave rise to endless branches.
A stream of primordial light split into two, then into four, and continued to evolve towards even more subtle details. In just a moment, the originally few main northern runes were covered by countless silver-white fine lines.
Buzz!!!
The two Dao Source collided for the first time within the Dao Pivot Crystal Core. In an instant, the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth seemed to be pulled toward two completely opposite ends. On the south side, Boundless Abyss Huang did not devour the myriad possibilities derived from Wanyan, but instead continuously stripped away the foundation upon which "possibilities can be born and continue to exist".
Within the crystal core, the Wanyan- evolving silver-white light strings had just branched out when a layer of pale gray mist silently swept over them. The gray mist neither severed the light strings nor erased their form, but the light strings, tainted by this mist, lost the fundamental basis for their continued branching and evolution. If a "what if" was about to deduce countless changes, then that realm would no longer have a complete foundation for its continued expansion.
Wanyan's response was equally swift. He did not attempt to fill the void of Boundless Abyss Huang with all sorts of objects, simply because the Boundless Abyss realm was not an empty space that could be filled.
Wanyan took a different approach. A silver-white light string disappeared into the gray mist, and another one immediately sprang up beside it. One possibility was severed, and another possibility, completely independent of the former, arose spontaneously from nothingness.
Boundless Abyss Huang ceaselessly strips away the foundation of existence, Wanyan ceaselessly generates new premises from the places yet untouched. He does not contend with nothingness for the same territory, but only allows "possibility" itself to transform into an endless process of primordial proliferation.
Tao!!!
A silvery-white tidal wave suddenly surged within the Dao Pivot Crystal Core, with countless "what ifs" unfolding simultaneously. If nothingness swallows this path, there is still another path that remains; if that path is also dissolved, there will be new paths that have never been traveled before waiting to be opened; if all known paths in the world return to Emptiness, then the very thought of "the existence of an unknown path" gives birth to a completely new possibility.
In just a few breaths, countless silver-white light strings have sprung up inside the crystal core. Each string is an independent possibility, which does not need to be connected to each other, nor does it need to depend on the same original premise.
Wanyan fully unfolded the root of his Dao, "The possibility of perpetual evolution." Above the northern sky, countless illusory worlds appeared one after another, with mountains, rivers, stars, all kinds of living beings, and various Dao principles flashing by in different light strings. Each scene lasted only a moment before being replaced by another completely different picture.
That magnificent scene was dazzling and captivating, as if countless universes were born, flowed, and changed their destinies simultaneously under the same sky.
Yet Boundless Abyss Huang remained seated motionless from beginning to end, his expression as calm as ever. The inward-collapsed crack behind the Southern Origin Seat slowly expanded. The next instant, countless silver-white light strings around Wanyan all underwent a strange change.
The string-like form still exists, can still branch, and can still give rise to new "what ifs," but these possibilities have gradually lost their fundamental basis of "why they were evolved."
This time, Boundless Abyss Huang no longer targets a specific possibility, but instead pushes the origin to a deeper level—that is, "All possibilities need a background to support them."
As the gray fog receded beyond the entire string network and into the crystal core, the concept of boundaries began to slowly dissolve. Without boundaries, what constitutes "this possibility"? Without a container, how can "the next evolution" be placed? Without a background to rely on, what will those myriad "what ifs" depend on for their existence?
The Wanyan light strings suddenly trembled violently, clang!!!
A high-pitched and clear resonance of the origin resounded from the depths of the crystal core. The two Source Dao from the north and south finally truly interlocked and struggled at the root of the Dao. Wanyan refused to retreat even an inch, and the light in his eyes grew even brighter.
The vast net of strings in the north has all converged, no longer spreading out countless independent scenes. All the myriad "what ifs" have abandoned the external phenomena, stripped away the world, timeline, and all kinds of laws, leaving only the most primal tremor—which can still give rise to a different ending.
This tiny point is indestructible. Boundless Abyss Huang can annihilate the world, erase time and space, and strip away all logical constraints, Wanyan retreats "possibility" to the fundamental impulse of the Dao, guarding only that wisp of "still being different."
Within the Dao Pivot Crystal Core, such a mind-shaking scene appeared. To the south was an endless, inward-collapsed, boundless fissure that stripped away all the foundations that supported it; to the north, only billions of tiny, silvery-white specks of light remained. Within these specks of light, there was no world, no laws, no predetermined future, only gentle tremors that repeated endlessly.
Boundless Abyss Huang slowly raised his eyes, and Wanyan looked at him at the same moment. Neither of them spoke, but the entire Myriad Worlds Graveyard was completely silent.
This clash lacked the earth-shattering roar of ordinary battles, yet its oppressive force surpassed even the fierce duels between previous prodigies. It was a mutual erosion of the very roots of the Great Dao; neither side launched an attack, yet every breath they posed a question to the other, "Your Dao, tracing back to its origin, what remains?"
Within the Chi Lineage camp, Qin Yu sat calmly on a makeshift platform. The wounds to his Fate Soul from the fierce battle with Hua Jingmeng had not yet fully healed, and his face was still somewhat pale. Wisps of warm medicinal power were slowly circulating deep within his Fate Soul.
However, his entire mind was focused on the north and south sides of the Dao Pivot Platform. He did not forcefully dismantle and analyze the two great Daos of the Silent Beginning Ring Master Soul Diagram, nor was he in a hurry to summarize the Source Dao of the Boundless Abyss Huang and the Wanyan into a comprehensible formula. He simply observed silently, occasionally closing his eyes, allowing his Fate Soul, which had just experienced the Absolute Pre-Stillness and the Silent Origin Return to Truth, to carefully savor the profound meaning of these two great Daos.
The Boundless Abyss Huang allowed him to realize the need to relinquish all burdens; the myriad transformations, on the Wanyan, showed him the importance of maintaining leeway. On one hand, he gradually shed all preconditions until there was nothing left to cling to; on the other hand, he abandoned countless concrete forms, guarding only that wisp of the original stirring of "still being different".
Qin Yu was not in a hurry to draw conclusions about the two Great Paths. Instead, he allowed this understanding to slowly settle into his own Fate Soul. Previously, in the Life Silence Return to the Ruins, he had personally touched the boundary before the Silent Origin. Now, observing the Boundless Abyss Huang again, he felt the meaning of "the premise itself gradually losing its significance" more and more clearly.
The faint pulse of possibility that Wanyan still managed to hold onto despite the erosion of nothingness gave him a vague sense that some great paths, when they reach their highest depths, do not necessarily need to rely on a complete closed loop to survive.
Qin Yu slowly exhaled a long breath. There was no sudden enlightenment, nor any new supernatural power, but within his Fate Soul, several originally isolated insights were slowly converging and merging with each other.
He wasn't the only one concentrating intently on comprehending the Dao; more and more cultivators on the outer viewing stands took their seats cross-legged. An elderly man with white hair closed his eyes, focusing his mind, attempting to break free from the shackles of his Fate Soul that had been stagnant for many years within the Boundless Abyss Huang and Wudao intent.
On the other side, several young prodigies specializing in the Dao of Deduction and Proposition had their minds completely focused on the Wanyan and ever-renewing network of strings, hoping to find an opportunity to further extend their own propositional logic from this Source Dao that "always has another possibility".
Even the cultivators who had been arguing endlessly before fell silent. Everyone knew that such a sparring match at the source of the Source Dao was a once-in-a-lifetime event. Even capturing just a wisp of the Dao that resonated with them was enough to loosen the cultivation bottleneck that had trapped them for decades or even centuries.
A strange phenomenon thus arose in the Myriad Worlds Graveyard. At the center of the Dao Pivot Platform, the Boundless Abyss Huang and the Wanyan continued their mutual erosion of primordial logic. The myriad phenomena of the south vanished, while new possibilities emerged endlessly in the north; outside the platform, millions of cultivators...
More and more people are sitting cross-legged in meditation, using this clash of the roots of the Great Dao to seek their own path of cultivation. And this is only the first encounter between the two Source Dao in the first round of confrontation.