287: Xuanyuan Supreme

“The passage!” Lin Yuan's spirit was roused.

“Go!” Xuanyuan Wuji suddenly pushed Lin Yuan, then turned around, injecting all his Innate Qi into the time-light compass, frantically activating the power of the Tombstone to fight the Lord of Guixu! “I'm using my Imperial Blood to activate the Tombstone's power, but I can only hold it for a moment! Lin Yuan! Enter the passage! Find His Legacy! Otherwise... all will be lost!”

“You?!” Lin Yuan was stunned.

“Hurry and go!” Xuanyuan Wuji's voice was utterly resolute amidst the Lord of Guixu's roar. “Don't forget the prophecy! Only one of us can live! Now... it's my turn!”

The final Imperial Dao Will erupted around him, briefly merging with the ancient will of the Tombstone. Silver Time Force, like burning flames, tightly wrapped around the gigantic claw the Lord of Guixu extended and the eye of guixu that opened!

Lin Yuan took a deep look at the figure standing tall amidst the Annihilation Light, then hesitated no longer. The Grandmist Authority enveloped his entire body, transforming him into a nine-colored stream of light that rushed toward the Starlight Gate!

The instant his figure vanished into the gate, he heard Xuanyuan Wuji's final roar and the Lord of Guixu's furious bellow from behind. Following that, a terrifying burst of Annihilation Light erupted, completely engulfing that area... The gate closed behind him. Lin Yuan found himself standing on a platform condensed from starlight. The platform floated above a boundless purple ocean. This ocean was not liquid; it was formed by the liquefaction of the purest Chaos Qi! Every drop of “seawater” contained the great power to split heaven and earth, and every rise and fall of the waves seemed to be giving birth to a new world.

In front of the platform stood three gigantic stone steles reaching up to the heavens. The material of the steles was the same as the epoch tombstone in the Mother Sea, but they were more complete and radiated an ancient pressure capable of suppressing eternity.

On the first stele, a massive character “Dao,” formed by streams of Chaos Qi, was carved. Just by gazing at it, Lin Yuan felt his Chaos Great Dao rapidly advance, and his miniature universe frantically expanded!

The second stele was carved with the character “Time,” which flowed like the River of Time. The phantom image of the time-light compass automatically appeared in Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness, and his understanding of the Great Dao of Time deepened at an unprecedented speed!

The third stele was the most unique. It was entirely dark, with no carvings on its surface, only a mirror-smooth crack running horizontally across its body. Within the crack remained a trace of Dark Abyss Force—both familiar and alien—that made Lin Yuan's Soul tremble, and it was of the same Origin as the crack on the epoch tombstone!

A gentle yet weary voice resonated directly in Lin Yuan's heart lake:

“Finally... I have waited for you...”

“Pick up the dao embryo...”

“And then...”

“Sever me...”

Lin Yuan suddenly looked up!

At the top of the third unmarked stele, the Void Realm churned like boiling water, and a blurred figure was struggling to condense into form. That silhouette... was seven parts similar to Xuanyuan Wuji! Yet, it was ancient, like solidified Time itself, permeated with the vicissitudes of countless eras. His eyes were deep, devoid of Divine Light, containing only endless weariness, as if burdened by the crushing weight of eternal Reincarnation, on the verge of extinction.

And the most shocking sight—

A Pitch-Black Broken Sword, condensed entirely from the purest and most defiled Dark Abyss Origin, was piercing straight through His chest! On the sword body, dark purple Defilement Force, viscous and alive, like billions of greedy bone-maggots, was frantically gnawing and polluting His Supreme body, which should have been immortal!

Boom!

Like a Chaos thunderclap exploding in his Sea of Consciousness, Lin Yuan instantly grasped everything!

The terrifying cracks covering the Tombstone and penetrating the Origin—were precisely the scars left by the Pitch-Black Broken Sword's eternal erosion and His own continuously fading power!

The Lord of Guixu's greedy gaze, which pierced through the Heavenly Dao barrier and locked onto the Eternal Flower—its ultimate goal was not the Eternal Flower at all, but the Incarnation of a wisp of the Dark Abyss Plane Heavenly Dao's Origin Will, Sealed here!

This magnificent figure currently dissolving before him... was none other than the Supreme who reached the peak relying on the Chaos Great Dao hundreds of eras ago—Xuanyuan!

He had actually used His own Supreme body as the stele to eternally suppress this wisp of the Dark Abyss Heavenly Dao Origin, which was powerful enough to corrupt the Primal Plane!

But at this moment... His energy was depleted, and He had reached His limit!

Buzz—

A torrent of information, spanning endless time and space, filled with blood and fire, violently poured into Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness:

The 553rd Era!

Chaos Supreme Xuanyuan, deep within the Chaos Mother Sea, encountered the Supreme treasure—the primordial dao embryo!

This coincided with the Dark Abyss Plane, a Catastrophe-level power many times stronger than the Primal Plane, invading the Primal Plane from the Chaos Mother Sea!

During that Calamity War that swept across the entire Primal Plane... God Domain Master-level Saint Emperor experts fell like rain, with over a hundred staining the Star River with their blood!

Above the Saint Emperors, two Saint Venerable existences, whose might shook eternity, also perished consecutively! Heaven and Earth mourned together, and the Great Dao wailed!

Across the entire Taichu Divine Continent, only Supreme Xuanyuan remained to hold up the precarious situation!

At that time, Supreme Xuanyuan had only initially refined the primordial dao embryo, stepping into the Supreme Realm—a Realm never before seen in this part of the Chaos Mother Sea—with Divine Might covering the world! Wielding the great power of the dao embryo, He consecutively slew fifteen Dark Abyss Saint Venerables on the battlefield!

However... the Dark Abyss Plane Heavenly Dao Will was enraged! It did not hesitate to tear apart its own Origin, forming a wisp of Malicious Thought, possessing the strongest Saint Venerable of its Plane, allowing him to step into the Supreme Realm!

The Ultimate Battle!

To prevent this Incarnation of Malicious Thought from poisoning the Taichu Divine Continent, Supreme Xuanyuan burned His own Supreme Body in the Chaos Mother Sea outside the Primal Plane, activating the Supreme great power of the primordial dao embryo... and finally, transformed His body into a stele!

He eternally Sealed that Incarnation of Malicious Thought, which contained the Dark Abyss Heavenly Dao Will, along with the body it possessed, deep within the Chaos Mother Sea!

For all eternity thereafter, His residual Will relied on the power of the primordial dao embryo, continuously wearing down the Dark Abyss Heavenly Dao Will within the Solitary Stele of Annihilation... Unexpectedly... the birth of the 903 New Divine Domain this time, its core Origin, accidentally resonated with the dormant Origin of the primordial dao embryo within Supreme Xuanyuan!

Thus, the Hongmeng Divine Domain—a realm founded upon the Supreme Origin of the primordial dao embryo—came into being according to destiny!

However... beneath the glorious and brilliant facade of this New Divine Domain, lay buried a malignant tumor originating hundreds of eras ago!

The Dark Abyss Heavenly Dao Will, which Supreme Xuanyuan had been wearing down with the power of the primordial dao embryo for hundreds of eras, had its most core, most defiled essence of erosion quietly infiltrate and pollute a portion of the Origin of the primordial dao embryo during the long confrontation, acting like a bone-maggot!

It was this “malignant ulcer” hidden deep within the Creation Foundation that acted as the most fatal source of pollution, twisting the pure Heavenly Dao Laws of the nascent 903 Divine Domain!

This was the true root cause for the appearance of Dark Abyss Plane creatures—beings that should have been impossible to naturally conceive at this point in time—the moment this New Pure Land, which should have nurtured infinite possibilities, was born!

Thus, this nascent Hongmeng Divine Domain possessed two great Origins, transforming into an irreconcilable Ultimate Battlefield!

On one side was the Creation Foundation and future hope of this Divine Domain, which “came into being according to destiny”—the Supreme Creation, the Origin of the primordial dao embryo, which was currently regenerating and bursting with infinite vitality!

On the other side was the Incarnation of the Defiled Origin of the Heavenly Dao Will, like a bone-maggot, originating from the terrifying giant of the Dark Abyss Plane deep within the Chaos Mother Sea!

These two forces, like light and eternal night, new life and decay, were inherently in absolute opposition at the highest level!

There was no room for compromise in this “Conflict of Origins,” deeply rooted in the Divine Domain's Creation Foundation!

Only when one side is completely annihilated can this Ultimate War—which spans the life and death of the Divine Domain—be brought to an end!