Primordial Era: I am a treasure trove, full of magical treasures.

Xuanbao gazed at the Chaos in silence for a long time. The Lord of Nothingness's dying words were like a thorn stuck in his heart, impossible to remove—"Beyond Chaos, there is still Heaven and Earth."

In his past life, he had read countless science fiction novels. The Dark Forest Theory, the Great Filter Theory, the sociology of the universe… those concepts flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern. If other civilizations and other worlds truly existed beyond the chaos, then the current situation of the Primordial World was probably ten thousand times more dangerous than when facing the Lord of Nothingness.

"What are you thinking about?" Bai Lu walked to his side and asked softly.

Xuanbao didn't turn around, but slowly spoke: "I'm wondering, if there really is another world beyond Chaos, are they friendly or hostile? Are they stronger or weaker than the Chaos Gods? Do they know of the existence of Chaos? Do they know of the existence of the Primordial World?"

Bai Lu was silent for a moment, then said calmly, "You won't find the answers to these questions even if you rack your brains right now."

"I know," Xuanbao said with a wry smile, "but I don't feel at ease without knowing the answer."

He turned around, his gaze sweeping over the mountains of spoils piled up in the World Tree space—the origins of hundreds of Chaos Gods, the cores of dozens of Great Thousand Worlds, countless Chaos Spiritual Materials, and numerous Spiritual Treasures. In the past, this wealth would have been enough to make him grin from ear to ear for three days and three nights. But now, he felt that these things were far from sufficient.

"I need to speed things up." Xuanbao took a deep breath, a resolute glint in his eyes. "We need to cultivate the Void Mirror, improve our cultivation, and strengthen the defenses of the Primordial World—we must become strong enough to protect ourselves before the beings outside the Chaos discover us."

He paused, then suddenly grinned: "But before that, I need to go to the Ruins of Eternal Silence. The Lord of Nothingness said that there are marks left by Pangu there, recording the way to the outside of chaos. Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated."

Bai Lu frowned slightly: "You just offended more than a dozen Saints from the Ninth Heaven, and now you've offended someone from outside the Lesser Chaos?"

"It's a bit dangerous, but the rewards are huge too." Xuanbao shrugged, smiling innocently. "Besides, think about it, something even a madman like the Lord of Nothingness is so desperate to find, could it be anything ordinary?"

Bai Lu looked at his carefree attitude, remained silent for a moment, and finally just sighed softly: "Whatever. I can't stop you anyway."

"I'll follow you no matter what you do."

Xuanbao chuckled, turned and looked towards the far north of the Chaos, his eyes flashing with a mixture of anticipation and wariness.

……

The most urgent task was to repair the Void Mirror, regardless of other treasures. At that time, he also had some more trump cards at his disposal.

Xuanbao sat cross-legged, surrounded by several grayish-white fragments of the Void Mirror. He held them up with his hands, and a massive amount of magical energy surged from his palms like a tide, enveloping the fragments layer by layer. The moment the magical energy came into contact with the fragments, it emitted a low humming sound, as if a starving ghost had seen a delicious delicacy and immediately began to stir.

Repairing a Chaos Treasure is virtually impossible in the Chaos Realm. Even the Chaos Giants of the Ninth Heaven can only perform simple repairs on damaged treasures. To bring a shattered Chaos Treasure back to life requires not only a massive amount of primordial energy but also a profound understanding of the essence of the laws.

But Xuanbao is different. He possesses the Three Thousand Laws. Although his mastery of each law is not yet at its peak, the three thousand laws corroborate and complement each other, allowing his understanding of the laws to reach an unprecedented level. In addition, the nearly inexhaustible treasure energy accumulated within his body is not impossible for him to repair the Void Mirror, but the timeframe is uncertain.

The precious energy flowed like a warm river, slowly seeping into every crack of the fragment. Xuanbao closed his eyes, immersing his divine sense into the fragment, examining the law patterns of the Void Mirror inch by inch. Those patterns were extremely complex, each containing profound mysteries of the Void Laws. Even though he had mastered the Three Thousand Laws, he needed to concentrate extremely hard to understand their meaning.

"What an exquisite structure..." Xuanbao thought to himself in admiration. As a chaotic spiritual treasure, the complexity of the Void Mirror's law patterns far exceeded his imagination. If the law patterns of an innate supreme treasure are a simple sketch, then the law patterns of a chaotic spiritual treasure are a meticulously crafted fine painting—every stroke is just right, and every line contains the ultimate principles of heaven and earth.

The precious energy flowed slowly through the fragments, reconnecting the broken law patterns one by one. This process was extremely slow and mentally taxing—the connection of each law pattern needed to be precise to the millimeter; the slightest deviation would cause the entire law network to collapse.

A fine layer of sweat appeared on Xuanbao's forehead, but his hands remained steady, and the output of his magical energy remained even. He was immersed in a state of deep integration with the laws, forgetting the passage of time and everything in the outside world. His eyes were only on the broken patterns of the laws, and his heart was filled with the obsession to reconnect them.

One year, two years, ten years...

Time passed quietly within the World Tree space. Bai Lu would occasionally glance over, and seeing that Xuan Bao was still in the same posture, she would silently retreat, not wanting to disturb him.

A century has passed in the blink of an eye.

The fragments of the Void Mirror before Xuanbao were no longer in their dilapidated state. Although the fine cracks were still visible, they were much shallower than before, and the gaps between the fragments were gradually healing under the nourishment of the treasure's energy. The grayish-white light on the mirror's surface was still dim, but it was no longer a lifeless grayish-white; instead, it had acquired a warm luster.

"It'll be soon..." Xuanbao murmured to himself, his voice tinged with weariness, but filled with an overwhelming excitement. "Give me another hundred years, and by then, as long as enough essence is injected, the Void Mirror will be able to reappear in the world."

Xuanbao took a deep breath, preparing to continue activating his treasure energy—

However, at that very moment, something unexpected happened!

The law patterns that had been mostly repaired by the treasure energy suddenly began to operate on their own without warning! They no longer needed the guidance of the treasure, but instead, as if they had their own lives, actively absorbed the surrounding treasure energy, weaving, recombining, and evolving in a way that the treasure energy could not understand at all!

"What's going on?!" Xuanbao suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils contracting sharply.

He tried to retract his precious energy and sever his connection with the Void Mirror, but he found that he couldn't! The patterns of law seemed to be stuck to his precious energy, and no matter how he tried to activate it, he couldn't shake them off. Worse still, he could sense an extremely faint yet incredibly stubborn consciousness awakening from the core of the Void Mirror's laws!

"Lord of Nothingness?! How are you still alive?!"

Xuanbao's voice carried a hint of disbelief. People said the remnant soul of the Lord of Nothingness wasn't dead, but it was practically dead. Originally, Xuanbao had planned to capture his remnant soul and put it into the Human Emperor Banner as a main soul. After all, even though it was just a remnant soul, it was still a genuine Saint's combat power.

However, after that consciousness awakened, it did not try to possess him as Xuan Bao had imagined, but instead uttered a bewildered whisper:

"who I am?"

Xuanbao was stunned.

In that voice of consciousness, there was no anger, no greed, no scheming, only a pure, newborn-like bewilderment. It seemed to have forgotten who it was, where it came from, and even the name "Lord of Nothingness" itself. It simply clung instinctively to the core of the laws of the Mirror of Nothingness, like a newborn infant, filled with curiosity and confusion about everything around it.

"Who...am I?" the consciousness asked again, its voice tinged with a hint of grievance. "I think...I remember some things...but I can't quite recall them..."

Xuanbao was silent for a moment, then tentatively asked, "Do you still remember the Lord of Nothingness?"

"Lord of Nothingness..." The consciousness repeated the name, remained silent for a long time, and then slowly said, "This name... it's so familiar... it seems... to be my name... yet it seems... not..."

Xuanbao frowned. He could sense that the consciousness was indeed the remnant soul of the Lord of Nothingness, but for some reason, it had lost most of its memories during its awakening, leaving only some vague impressions and instincts. It remembered its name, but not what it had done; it remembered that it had once been very powerful, but not how it had perished; it remembered that the Void Mirror was its natal spiritual treasure, but not that it had once wanted to use it to destroy everything.

What Xuanbao found even more incredible was that the consciousness had completely merged with the core of the Void Mirror's laws. It wasn't parasitism, nor dependence, but a true fusion—it was like a spirit naturally born from the Void Mirror, seamlessly integrated with the mirror's body, indistinguishable from it.

"What... what's going on?" Xuanbao scratched his head, looking completely bewildered. "I fixed the Void Mirror, but ended up turning the Lord of Void into a spirit? And he even lost his memory?"

He tried to probe the depths of that consciousness with his divine sense, hoping to find any hidden traps. But no matter how he probed, the result was the same—that consciousness was as pure as a blank sheet of paper, without any disguise or calculation; it was just a newly born artifact spirit, clinging to the Void Mirror in a daze.

"Could it be because my precious energy was too pure, erasing his memories?" Xuanbao stroked his chin, analyzing to himself. "Or perhaps, his primordial spirit was severely damaged when he perished, and he became like this after awakening?"

He pondered for a long time but couldn't come up with a solution. But one thing he was certain of—the Void Mirror now completely belonged to him. The Void Lord who once made the entire Chaos tremble was now the spirit of a magical artifact in his hand, and a spirit as blank as a sheet of paper at that.

"This is truly... an unexpected delight." Xuanbao grinned and reached out to grasp the Void Mirror, which was now mostly repaired.

The mirror's surface felt warm to the touch, with a grayish-white light flowing endlessly across it, radiating a profound and vast aura. Although it hadn't fully recovered to its peak condition, Xuanbao could sense that the mirror had regained its sentience, and was even purer and more controllable than before—after all, its spirit was currently a clueless novice, completely obedient to its master's commands.

"Master..." The spirit's voice echoed in Xuanbao's mind, tinged with a hint of timidity, "What...what's my name?"

Xuanbao thought for a moment, then grinned: "You used to be called the Lord of Nothingness, but you're not anymore. From now on, you'll be called... Little White."

"Little White?" The spirit repeated the name, a hint of confusion in its voice, but it quickly brightened with joy. "Alright! I'll be called Little White! Thank you for the name, Master!"

Xuanbao gazed at the greyish-white ancient mirror in his hand, sensing the pure, blank consciousness of its spirit, and a strange feeling welled up within him. He had originally thought that repairing the Void Mirror would be an arduous battle, requiring him to outwit and outmaneuver the remnant soul of the Lord of Nothingness, and perhaps even pay a heavy price. But he hadn't expected such a dramatic ending—the Lord of Nothingness had become his spirit, and even obediently called him master.

"I wonder what kind of expressions the Fate Demons would have if they knew about this." Xuanbao chuckled, then absorbed the Void Mirror into his body and nurtured it with his own essence.

Bai Lu emerged from the void, looked at his smug expression, and said calmly, "Fixed?"

"Almost there." Xuanbao patted his chest. "Although I haven't fully recovered to my peak condition yet, with Xiaobai's help, I'll be fully recovered soon. And—"

He paused, a sly smile playing on his lips: "The Void Mirror is even more useful now than before. After all, its spirit is one of my people."

Bai Lu was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke: "Aren't you afraid that it will turn against you after regaining its memories?"

"What's there to be afraid of?" Xuanbao shrugged, looking nonchalant. "It's completely fused with the core of the Void Mirror's laws now. Even if it regains its memories, it won't be able to leave the Void Mirror. And the Void Mirror is now my natal spirit treasure. If it dares to turn against me, I'll shatter the Void Mirror again—this time, no one will repair it."

He spoke casually, but Bai Lu could sense that the confidence in his words was not blind. Since Xuan Bao dared to leave behind the remnant soul of the Lord of Nothingness, he must have a means to control it. This seemingly carefree fellow was actually more shrewd than anyone else.

"What are you planning to do next?" Bai Lu asked.

Xuanbao stretched, his gaze drifting towards the chaotic depths beyond the World Tree space, a profound light flashing in his eyes: "First, return to the Primordial World and thoroughly repair the Void Mirror. Then—"

"Play it safe and don't be reckless. The chaos will definitely calm down for a while, so we need to hurry."