Swallowing the Stars: Starting with Optimizing the Five Hearts Towards the Sky

Chapter 690 The Truth Behind the Great Destruction of the Origin World

Time flies.

Another hundred days have passed since Chen Yuan redeemed the "Facing the Origin" reward.

"It's finally over—"

After reverting to the last of the fundamental principles, Chen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and then glanced at the panel.

[Spiritual Index: 5219]

[Innate Great Dao: 2382 (Ultimate Realm) 100 (Second Stage) 517 (First Stage)]

After he stopped suppressing his cultivation of the Fusion Path, his mental index increased by more than a thousand in just one hundred days!

"This is all thanks to those 117 fusion Dao inheritances," Chen Yuan exclaimed.

With Chen Yuan's current comprehension and thinking speed, it is already very fast for him to comprehend the inheritance of the Fusion Dao from scratch, not to mention that he has already cultivated the related Great Daos of Fusion Dao to the ultimate level.

Furthermore, with the acceleration of time in the Primordial World, a hundred days would be enough for him to cultivate the Fusion Dao Inheritance to the ultimate realm.

Of these 117 inheritances, at least 113 were ones he had never cultivated, which directly brought him over a thousand spiritual index points!

This is the reason why the spiritual index has expanded in such a short period of time.

"Unfortunately, there wasn't another chance for such rapid progress."

He shook his head slightly. The inheritance that Yuan had given him was only so much, and he had already cultivated it to the ultimate realm. The next level, the God Emperor realm, would not be as easy as it was now.

It should be noted that his Time and Space Dao also had inherited guidance, but it ultimately took him more than a thousand days to break through to the early stage of God Emperor.

Unlike the clearly defined realm of the God King, the cultivation at the God Emperor level is like groping in the dark.

Even with the guidance of his lineage, Chen Yuan still faces immense difficulties in cultivation.

Even with a perfect match of cheat codes, it would only barely pave a small path for him in the darkness. He would still walk cautiously, and naturally, he could not make rapid progress like someone below the God Emperor realm.

"But there's no need to rush," Chen Yuan thought to himself. "Although cultivation at the God Emperor realm is slow, it also greatly improves one's mental index. Overall, my strength growth rate is still relatively stable."

"If I maintain the same cultivation efficiency in the Fusion Dao, it will take me no more than four or five hundred days to reach the limit of the God Emperor realm and get infinitely close to the advanced Hunyuan realm."

He wasn't in a hurry, because the last missing innate Dao hadn't been found yet!

If the three thousand Great Daos are not found, the future transformation of the Primordial World will forever be incomplete and can never be perfect again.

How could Chen Yuan accept such a flaw?

"The last leg of a journey is the hardest; I've already come 99%. How can I give up because of this last bit of difficulty?"

Although it may seem like there's only one major path to follow, it's actually the difference between perfection and imperfection. Who knows how this slight difference will lead to different outcomes?

Chen Yuan didn't know, but he wouldn't gamble either.

"Since you've decided to do it, then go for it to the end. No matter what the future holds, at least you won't have any regrets."

"No matter how rare this last Great Dao is, I will definitely master it before I reach the advanced Chaos Origin level. At worst, I'll ask Elder Yuan for help."

He refused to believe that a mere innate source, no matter how rare, could possibly stump a Hunyuan Lord.

Chen Yuan has decided to make another trip to the Primordial Desolate Ancient Realm later to ask the administrators there to help contact Yuan and find clues to this last kind of origin.

As for why he didn't leave now, it was naturally because he had more important things to do.

"After a hundred days, the True Spirit Branch is finally nearing completion."

Chen Yuan opened the panel and saw that the section on Virtual Universe Secret Techniques clearly showed that the condensation of the True Spirit Branch had reached 99.99%.

As expected, this crucial step should be completed in just a few minutes.

"Once the True Spirit Branch is complete, let's first fulfill Master Zuoshanke's wish, and then head to the Primordial Ancient Realm to find Xuan Tianzun."

Having finalized the plan, Chen Yuan showed no intention of leaving and simply waited where he was.

Soon, his proficiency with the virtual universe improved slightly, and he took a small step forward in condensing the True Spirit Branch.

"It's perfect!"

Chen Yuan's eyes lit up. At that moment, he could clearly feel that his control over the power of the true spirit was much smoother, and the power after activation had increased more than a hundredfold.

This is how cultivation on the Great Dao works; seemingly insignificant improvements are actually the difference between a Chaos Ruler and a God-King.

That's why Chen Yuancai preferred to wait until all the innate Daos were gathered rather than compromise, fearing that this slight imperfection would lead to drastically different final results.

He activated the power of his true spirit on the spot, and through the perception of this power, he discovered the true spirit imprints scattered throughout the world in the primordial era. These were beings that had died but had not yet been reincarnated.

"There aren't many true spirit imprints in the primordial world. Is it because most life forms have already been reincarnated?"

The true spirit is unique. If a life successfully reincarnates, the true spirit of that person will follow along and naturally will not leave any trace in the world.

Even after reincarnation, if someone tries to resurrect the person's past life by reversing time, they will still fail.

"Wait, I remember that the Origin World doesn't seem to have reincarnation, so if that's the case—"

Thinking of this, Chen Yuan made a thought and came to the Origin Continent. Then he widened his eyes and was full of surprise.

There was no other reason than that, in his perception, the entire Origin Continent was filled with countless true spirits, all crammed together, enough to trigger trypophobia in anyone who saw them.

Compared to the true spirits of the Primordial World, the true spirits of the Origin World are simply countless; even billions of times greater cannot describe the difference in quantity between the two.

"Hiss." Chen Yuan gasped. "As expected, there is no reincarnation in the Origin World. The true spirits of all the dead have left their mark in this world, never to be reborn."

"Although these true spirits can be resurrected by reversing time, the cost is too high. If all the true spirits were resurrected, the energy consumed would probably drain the entire origin of the world!"

"Terrifying, truly terrifying."

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he realized: "I understand now. No wonder every unowned world inevitably enters a state of great destruction; it's because it lacks the ability to deal with true spirits."

Chen Yuan realized that his primordial world was growing by borrowing the essence of the origin world, which in turn extended the date of its destruction.

Theoretically speaking, as long as he continues this behavior of "extracting the source," he should be able to prolong the arrival of the Great Cataclysm indefinitely.

But that's not actually the case.

Because he soon discovered that his actions only extended the Origin World for a few billion epochs before he was powerless to do anything more, and no matter how much origin he extracted afterward, it was useless.

"I see," Chen Yuan murmured. "If we compare the world to a computer, then the expansion of the origin is equivalent to the memory being filled up."

"These true spirits, however, are data, requiring the computing power of the entire world to maintain them, and this computing power component is equivalent to a 'CPU'!"

"So, the essence of the Great Cataclysm is actually—this computer is automatically cleaning up memory and data?"