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

Chapter 695 The Vanished

Yuan glanced around and quickly grasped the situation inside the cave. He nodded and said, "It's ready."

Chen Yuan withdrew all his original power.

"I already know which path you are missing."

Yuan smiled and said, "Brother, you're lucky. The missing Great Dao is right here in my territory, so I don't have to go outside."

"Oh?" Chen Yuan was taken aback, and couldn't help but ask, "But I've clearly explored all the source worlds within your territory, how could there be any I missed?"

"Your method of collecting the origin is to delve into the origin space to comprehend it, right? So it's normal to miss some."

Yuan smiled and explained, "Because this Great Dao does not exist in the Origin Space, but is controlled by a cultivator."

"Coincidentally, this cultivator is a being from the Primordial Desolate Ancient Realm."

"What?"

Chen Yuan was taken aback. "In this world?"

"That's right." Yuan nodded. "This innate Great Dao was actually one of the origins of the Primordial Desolate Ancient Realm. Back then, the Primordial Desolate Ancient Realm didn't have forty-nine Great Daos, but fifty!"

"The important thing is that these fifty sources are very compatible, and under the influence of a certain source, the power of the fifty sources can be combined, and the power exerted can even surpass that of any source world."

"Therefore, the Primordial Ancient Realm has been targeted by naturally occurring chaotic life forms."

At this point, Yuan shook his head, sighed, and continued, "Back then, more than a dozen Primordial Ancestors joined forces with over a hundred world-class Primordial beings to attack the Primordial Ancient Realm."

"That period was quite long ago. There were only three lords in our cultivator camp. The three of us together could barely deal with those Primordial Ancestors of Chaos. We were really powerless to protect the Origin World."

"Fortunately, the Primordial Desolate Ancient Realm at that time had a master, and a very powerful one named Gu Jun," who was a world-class Primordial Being who had mastered the Dao of Yin-Yang Fusion.

Chen Yuan recognized the name; the person was the one who left behind the Yin-Yang Dao legacy and was also the only Source World Lord in the history of the Primordial Ancient Realm.

"Gu Jun—if I remember correctly, he died at the hands of the Primordial Ancestor of Hunyuan?" Chen Yuan said.

There are not many records about this Yin-Yang Dao Master. The last one mentions that in a battle with the Tian Sheng Hun Yuan faction, the opponent died from a sneak attack by the Hun Yuan Ancestor.

It now appears that this war is the one Yuan Shu was referring to.

"Yes." Yuan nodded and sighed, "Back then, Gu Jun was practically invincible among all the world-class Chaos Origin experts, and his defensive capabilities were top-notch."

"Especially with the support of the Origin World, even a hundred world-class experts working together could not break through his defenses. Moreover, even the accidental sneak attack by the Primordial Ancestor of Chaos could not completely kill him."

"Wait, even the Primordial Ancestor's sneak attack couldn't kill him?" Chen Yuan was taken aback. "But the records say—"

"He died from an attack by the progenitor, right?" Yuan shook his head slightly. "The records are correct. Gu Jun did indeed die from a sneak attack by the progenitor of Hunyuan, but it was the third attack."

"Three times?" Chen Yuan gasped. "Doesn't that mean Gu Jun withstood two attacks from a Primordial-level being?"

A world-class Chaos Origin being, able to withstand two blows from the Ancestor without dying, even if he knew that Yin Yang Dao was best at defense, Gu Jun's defensive power was still too terrifying.

"It was mainly thanks to the power of the Origin World," Yuan explained. "The Origin of the Primordial Ancient Realm was extremely abundant at that time. After Gu Jun merged with the Origin of the World, the Yin-Yang Dao he unleashed was already one-tenth the level of the Primordial Ancestor Hunyuan."

"In addition to its massive size, it was able to withstand two attacks from progenitor-level beings."

At this point, he sighed, "Actually, if Gu Jun's weakness hadn't been discovered, he could have withstood seven or eight more attacks without a problem. Unfortunately—"

"Weaknesses?" Chen Yuan blinked. "Does the Yin-Yang Dao also have weaknesses?"

According to his feeling, from a purely defensive perspective, the Yin-Yang Dao's ability is perfect, almost ignoring any material or energy attack. Even such a great Dao has weaknesses.

"Of course there is. There is no perfect Dao in this world." Yuan shook his head. "The soul is the greatest weakness of the Yin-Yang Dao!"

"Although Gu Jun consciously learned soul techniques, he was still far inferior to the progenitor who was skilled in soul techniques."

"At that time, the battle was raging, and the three of us held off the attacks of the seventeen ancestors, preventing them from having a chance to launch a sneak attack. At that time, as long as..."

If they held out a little longer, Gu Jun was actually confident that he could keep those hundred world-class Chaos Origin experts alive.

"We just didn't expect that there was still one ancestor in the Tian Sheng Hun Yuan camp who hadn't made a move yet."

"It was he who launched a surprise attack when we were about to win, directly annihilating Gu Jun's soul and causing us to fail at the last minute!"

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Yuan's tone was unusually angry as he uttered the name: "Magos! The Primordial Ancestor of Chaos who was skilled in the path of the soul, it was he who killed Gu Jun and devoured all life in the Primordial Ancient Realm."

"He even took the time to attack the Origin World, shattering the very essence of the Primordial Ancient Realm."

"Even with our best efforts to repair it, we have only managed to mend forty-nine Great Daos. One Great Dao escaped when the Origin World shattered."

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"We only found out afterward that Gu Jun seemed to have foreseen the outcome before the battle and sent his bloodline to an ordinary world in advance."

"And this escaped source eventually fell into the hands of Gu Jun's direct descendant, who then used this source to cultivate into a semi-primordial life form."

Yuan glanced at Chen Yuan: "And this half-chaotic life form is currently in the Primordial Ancient Realm."

"I see." Chen Yuan took a deep breath. He hadn't expected that there was such a story hidden behind this last kind of origin.

No wonder the records about Gu Jun only say that he died in a fierce war, and even the entire Yuanhuang Ancient Realm was once interrupted.

Now it seems that the Primordial Ancestor Mogus swallowed all life in the Primordial Ancient Realm in one gulp, so it would be strange if his cultivation did not break through layers.

"Then, Brother Yuan," Chen Yuan asked earnestly, "what is this escaped source? What are its effects?"

Yuan did not immediately answer the question, but continued telling the story he had just told: "Back then, we found the descendants of Gu Jun and this escaped source, but unfortunately this source was somewhat special, and seemed to have awakened wisdom."

"It is well aware of the reason why the Primordial Ancient Realm was shattered. It was because its power was too strong that it brought disaster. Therefore, it strongly resists returning to the origin of the world."

"Thus, in this resistance of the origin, we lost the best opportunity to mend the origin, causing the origins of the Primordial Ancient Realm to drop from fifty to forty-nine, until today."

Yuan smiled and said, "Looking back now, perhaps the choice made by that source back then wasn't wrong."

"After the Primordial Ancient World fell, its origin was no longer remarkable and would not attract the covetousness of the naturally formed Chaotic Origin faction. In the countless epochs that followed, this Origin World never experienced any war and has developed peacefully to this day."

"Therefore, we three lords gave this escaped origin a name: The One Who Fleed Away."

"It means — a glimmer of hope for all things."

"The One Who Escaped, what a strange name." Chen Yuan shook his head, secretly surprised.

Because of this name—he had heard it in Earth's mythology.

"It's clashing with mythology again. What's the reason for this?"

Many guesses arose in Chen Yuan's mind, but none came to conclusions. He could only ask, "So, Brother Yuan, the name of this Great Dao can be simply called 'The Great Dao of Escape'?"

"I don't know about that. I don't usually concern myself with these things." Yuan shook his head. "In fact, this origin is very special because it possesses consciousness, so it rejects other people's attempts to comprehend it."

"At that time, I had mastered the way of the operation of the Hunyuan rules and felt that this origin would be very suitable for me, but after countless epochs of study, I still couldn't understand anything."

"Perhaps it is the source that resents me for not protecting Gu Jun, or perhaps it is this source world that is rejecting me."

Yuan sighed, "But Gu Jun's descendant has no obstacles in comprehending the origin, and has now become a semi-prime invincible powerhouse."

"If you want to find this origin, you'll have to ask the other party."

Chen Yuan asked curiously, "No problem, but Brother Yuan, who is this descendant of Gu Jun?"

"Her name is Jade Palace Master," Yuan said, "and her Daoist temple is in the Southern Continent. 'The Jade Divination Plates scattered throughout the Yuanhuang Continent now' are formed by her based on that fundamental power."

"The Jade Palace Master? It's actually her!" Chen Yuan was extremely surprised. The secret contained in the Jade Divination Plate was also part of his plan, but he originally intended to consider it after finding all three thousand Origins.

Unexpectedly, these two things were combined.

"You know the whole story now," Yuan said with a smile. "Let's go. I'll take you to the Jade Palace Master to borrow some of her essence. She shouldn't refuse, out of respect for me."

Over the years, many beings have coveted this fundamental source, but without the consent of the individuals involved, no one can comprehend it, not even those who are...

Even if you take it away, this source will come back.

Over time, fewer people coveted it, and the Jade Palace Master was very generous; as long as someone was willing to pay the price, she was willing to lend out her source.

However, the other party naturally wouldn't dare to make the lord pay the price, so Yuan bringing Chen Yuan along this time would save a lot of trouble.

Chen Yuan nodded, and then followed Yuan to the Southern Continent.