After the Eternal Seal was completely reset, the outer airspace of the Wanyan Ancestral Land did not open up instantly.
Qin Yu stood silently before this Space Silence void, stripped of the Yin-Yang Ancient Seal and devoid of the Primordial Treasure. The remaining primordial stardust around him was slowly sinking into the depths of nothingness. The Primordial Origin Supreme Treasure, which once stood beyond the heavens and isolated the path of eternity, had completely lost its sealing power and vanished without a trace.
Just as the last wisp of stardust vanished, a sliver of extremely thin white light suddenly appeared in the Emptiness void ahead, Ji Ran and still.
At first, the light was as thin as a hair, hanging alone at the very center of the former giant ring. Following the ancient outline of the ancient seal, it slowly extended and spread to both sides, like an ancient gate that had been sleeping for countless years, finally finding its most original opening trajectory.
Qin Yu raised his eyes and gazed intently. A sliver of white light slowly tore through the chaotic Emptiness before him, expanding and unfolding layer by layer along the already zeroed-out boundary of the ring. The entrance to this ancestral land, which had long since lost all structure and left no trace, once again revealed a magnificent and vast arc-shaped outline.
A deep, resonant vibration, originating from the deepest part of the ancestral land, emanated, shaking the ancient void. The white light expanded and intensified accordingly. One zhang, ten zhang, a hundred zhang...
In the blink of an eye, the entire airspace that was once occupied by the giant ring was completely outlined and filled with pure, flawless white light.
At this moment, the domain of light was no longer bound by intertwined ancient patterns, the dual yin and yang cores, or the ancient treasures. Only pure, primordial white light remained, seeping from the depths of the ancestral land, crossing the long-dissolved seal boundaries, and slowly spreading towards where Qin Yu stood.
Qin Yu remained standing, his mind clear and lucid. He could clearly sense that this ray of white light contained no hostility, no killing intent, and no restraint.
It is merely an ancient verification—confirming that the eternal seal has been completely broken, and confirming that those who set foot here possess the sole qualification to ascend to the ancestral land.
The first ray of soft light landed on Qin Yu's feet, firmly planted on the ground without causing an inch. The second ray of soft light gently brushed against his robes, warm Wuhen leaving a trace. The third ray slowly climbed up his arm and gently wrapped around him.
More and more pure white light surged in, neither burning his flesh nor invading his Fate Soul, but slowly spreading and enveloping him from the very source of his being. From his ankles to his knees, from his waist to his shoulders, and finally over his fingertips, he was completely enveloped in a clear, pure white.
Within a few breaths, Qin Yu stood within the pure white origin, and all the external scenery began to fade and dissolve layer by layer.
The ancient star remains floating in the distance gradually disappeared, the lightless abyss of the Primordial Grave completely faded away, and the long ancient road that had crossed behind, the broken ancient ruins, and the desolate silence of the Skeleton Star Sea all lost their outlines and returned to nothingness in the pure white light.
Within this primordial white light, Qin Yu could still clearly perceive the origin of his own Fate Soul and could also sense the "Wanyan Ancient Map" floating Anran beside him. Only the external celestial landscapes, spatial coordinates, and the paths ahead and behind had all vanished Wuhen.
The white light grew increasingly intense and Ultimate, obliterating all directional boundaries—front, back, left, right, up, and down—making even the outline of one's own body blurry and indistinguishable.
His vision was finally completely covered by boundless pure white. Qin Yu slowly closed his eyes. There was no spatial tearing vibration, no weightlessness from falling into the void, and Timelessness.
He felt himself being gently lifted up by a vast, ancient, gentle, and profound Source Power, quietly shifting from his original spacetime coordinates. This process was so brief it was almost an instant, yet so long it felt like an eternity.
Time, space, cause and effect, location—all conventional scales lose their meaning at this moment. After a long silence, faint sounds finally reappear in my ears.
Extremely light, extremely far, like an ancient wind sweeping across a primeval wilderness, or like countless Annihilation worlds simultaneously turning a page of dusty ancient history, vague and indistinguishable from reality.
Qin Yu's eyelashes trembled slightly as he slowly opened his eyes. The next instant, his gaze froze. The vast, desolate Skeleton Star Sea and the forbidden darkness of the Primordial Grave had completely isolated him from the world behind him.
This place is the Wanyan Ancestral Land, where Qin Yu stands. His position is extremely high. There are no ordinary mountain bases or suspended palaces under his feet, only an endless platform that stretches across the sky, vast and ancient. Looking into the distance, the entire vast territory of the Wanyan Ancestral Land is spread out before his eyes, without any obstruction.
The first impression is simply: vast. A vast territory of 2.8 million square kilometers stretches out before you, yet its Realm Wheel bear no trace of order or human intervention, but are entirely natural creations, free and unrestrained.
Looking down at the whole landscape, the entire ancestral land resembles a colossal ancient eye that stretches across the ages, silently opening and closing. The central territory is profound, vast, and imposing, while the surrounding terrain extends and spreads in layers, with sharp and abrupt edges or rounded corners, without a fixed shape or constant boundaries.
The strangest thing was that this vast land was constantly pulsating and changing, extremely slow and still, yet never ceasing. Qin Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, observing intently.
In the northeastern corner of the ancestral land, the territory that originally extended only a few dozen miles outwards quietly transformed and expanded layer by layer in the blink of an eye. First, the translucent ground texture emerged from the gray and white void, then the outline of the mountain ridge slowly solidified, the dried-up riverbed appeared one after another, and finally, a piece of dilapidated ancient buildings that had been sealed for thousands of years completely solidified from the void.
This landform, Does Not Exist originally, was thus "evolved" out of thin air by the ancestral land, taking root and becoming a region of its own. Meanwhile, a completely opposite change occurred simultaneously on the southwestern border of the ancestral land.
A majestic ancient mountain, which had stood for millennia, suddenly began to fade and dissipate. Its color faded, its texture dissolved, and its substance vanished. In just over ten breaths, the entire mountain transformed into a hazy afterimage, slowly sinking into the surrounding gray-white void.
There was no collapse or roar, no flying rocks, no dissipation of smoke and dust; it vanished without a trace, completely Return to Emanation its origin. Qin Yu's eyes narrowed slightly as he discerned the source.
This territory has no fixed area or constant boundaries.
It rises and falls with the birth and death of countless possible branches, breathing freely, evolving on its own, and returning to its origin. Extending outward is the birth of new possibilities; contracting inward is the return to stillness and extinction. Each inhalation and exhalation is like a supreme and colossal will of the Great Dao, conducting a silent and boundless deduction of the origin.
Even at the outermost edge of the ancestral land, there is no clear boundary between the ordinary world and the outermost realm.
Spreading outwards from the solid earth in the heartland, the colors of the landforms gradually lighten, the outlines of mountains and rivers become increasingly blurred, and the texture of the earth becomes more and more transparent. Further outwards, all things are transformed into shimmering, illusory afterimages, and finally completely melt away and sink into a vast expanse of gray and white.
This gray-white area is by no means ordinary nothingness. Ordinary nothingness still retains the legal definition of "Emptiness," but this gray-white area represents the original state where all things Unborn, the laws have not yet been opened, and possibilities have not yet been realized.
All unborn opportunities, unformed landscapes, and unrealized futures lie dormant here. All that has already manifested can also be gathered back here and return to its origin.
This is the unique secret realm of the Wanyan Ancestral Land – the Land of the Unevolved. Qin Yu looked out from the high platform towards the center of the ancestral land. The entire terrain rose layer by layer from the outer perimeter to the center, gradually becoming higher and farther, completely defying the common sense of the construction of mountains and landforms in the world.
This land appears to be composed of countless layers of transparent, primordial sheets stacked and nested together.
One layer, ten layers, a hundred layers, a thousand layers... layers upon layers, permeating and intertwining with each other, without clear intervals or fixed spacing, coexisting in the same airspace and on the same landform.
Qin Yu's gaze fell on a vast wasteland not far in front of him, and he instantly glimpsed the Ultimate and profound truth of evolution. On the outermost layer of the earth, there was a collapsed dragon-shaped giant ruin that stretched for hundreds of miles, with broken spines intertwined and a scene of desolation and ruin.
Beneath the Dragon Ruins, another distinctly different landscape clearly emerges: an unfinished ancient temple, its foundation firmly laid out, with giant pillars standing halfway up, its construction halted and never completed.
Further down, in the same airspace, lies another clear ancient lake, in which grow strangely shaped primordial giant trees, and in the distance stands the outline of a magnificent ancient city that has never been fully formed.
A myriad of scenes coexist in the same region without conflicting with each other.
They originate from different times, different opportunities, and different possible branches. They are the myriad variables born from the eternal evolution of the ancestral land, and now they are all superimposed on the same land, coexisting and evolving together.
Qin Yu's eyes deepened with a profound meaning. One step here could shatter the order of time, cross boundaries and enter a completely different life path and future branch. Such mystery was confirmed in an instant.
In front of the high-altitude platform, there was a winding, ancient stone staircase leading downwards. It was originally intact, clear, solid, and stable. When Qin Yu took his first step, the stone staircase under his feet was still weathered and had a rustic and heavy feel to it.
As the second step was taken, the stone steps beneath his feet suddenly melted away, and the sensation under his feet changed drastically. He was now standing on a vast, ancient land covered with scorched and cracked earth.
The surrounding high-altitude landscape underwent a simultaneous and dramatic change. In the distant void, a vast, previously Does Not Exist city suddenly materialized. The sky was low and twilight was deep, with countless dark stars hanging outside the city, facing each other from afar. Throughout the entire world, the sounds of an ancient battle, spanning countless ages and boundless distances, faintly echoed.
The change occurred suddenly and subsided in an instant. The next moment—buzz! An invisible, intangible, vast and boundless power of Return to Emanation swept across the entire region from the depths of the ancestral land.
All the strange phenomena that had just appeared faded away. The giant city disappeared, the scorched earth vanished, and the sounds of battle ceased. The steps beneath Qin Yu's feet returned to their original, simple stone steps.
Throughout the entire process, there was no spatial displacement, no change in position, and no deviation in trajectory. The ancestral land merely amplified and manifested a certain latent potential branch briefly, before converging, returning to its original position, and Return to One...