264: The Dao of Chaos, Reshaping the Foundation

Shen Yuanmo painstakingly extended a wisp of Divine Sense into his embrace.

There, a chaotic colored light cluster quietly floated, constantly changing its form, as if containing the ultimate truth of the birth and death of a Universe.

The heart of chaos origin.

This was his greatest gain from his trip to the Guixu Divine Palace, and his only hope for recovery at this moment.

The moment that wisp of Divine Sense, so weak it was on the verge of extinguishing, trembled and touched the heart of Chaos.

Buzz!

An indescribable, supreme Dao rhythm, as if containing the birth and death of the Universe and the Origin of all Daos, surged directly into his Sea of Consciousness without passing through any Meridians!

At this moment, Shen Yuanmo's Divine Soul felt as if it was forcibly dragged into an incomprehensible dimension by an irresistible mighty force.

He saw it.

Before him was no longer a deserted island, no longer a beach, but an boundless, empty void.

Immediately after, at the center of this void, a singularity, billions of times smaller than a speck of dust, appeared.

That singularity suddenly trembled, and then, it exploded!

There was no sound, no light.

But Shen Yuanmo heard the first cry of the world's birth and saw the first ray of light when Grandmist first parted!

Time and space were born from that singularity.

Earth, fire, water, and wind, the four basic elements, began to rage, collide, and evolve.

Clear Qi rose to form the heavens, and turbid Qi sank to form the earth.

The Yin and Yang Qi circulated, the five elements laws intertwined and formed, and the Dao of Reincarnation of life and death began to be established... The entire process of a complete Major Thousand Worlds, from nothing to existence, from birth to prosperity, and then from prosperity to decline, finally returning to Chaos.

It was all continuously replayed in Shen Yuanmo's Divine Soul, in a way that transcended the concept of time and space, completely, over and over again!

In the face of this unimaginably grand tableau of creation and destruction, Shen Yuanmo felt so insignificant that he wasn't even a speck of dust.

His so-called Half-step Nascent Soul cultivation, his proud sword Dao, and his strength that even a Deity Transformation Stage Mighty One would fear, all seemed so childish and ridiculous in the face of the true Heavenly Dao.

"So... this is the Dao..."

"So... this is how the world is..."

Shen Yuanmo's Divine Soul trembled violently.

Not out of fear.

But a surge of ecstasy and shock from the deepest part of his life's Origin, after glimpsing the ultimate truth!

And at this moment, the Golden Finger, Heaven-Defying Comprehension, under the frantic stimulation of this supreme Dao rhythm, operated wildly with unprecedented intensity!

Shen Yuanmo's understanding of the Dao underwent an earth-shattering qualitative change in this instant!

Previously, his Perfect Deduction of the Great Five Elements Glazed Art, limited by his Realm, knowledge, and other factors, had only grasped a few profound mysteries of the five elements laws.

His comprehension of the Dao of life, death, and destruction was also just lingering at the doorstep.

But now, he had seen it with his own eyes!

He saw how the five elements laws were born from Chaos and how they formed the most basic framework of this world.

He saw that life and death were merely two ends of the same Reincarnation Law, interdependent and mutually originating.

He saw that the end of destruction was the beginning of new life!

Thousands of Daos, though different paths, lead to the same destination, and their ultimate source all points to that Chaos before the heavens and earth were split open!

"I understand... I completely understand..."

Shen Yuanmo's mind was swept by a billion-zhang tidal wave!

Repair?

No!

His broken Physical Body, this already collapsed Dao Foundation, was like a decaying, collapsed thatched hut.

Patching it up, mending it, even if it could shelter him from wind and rain, how long could it last?

Its Foundation was rotten, its limit set, and it would ultimately be difficult to reach a higher level.

What he wanted was not a lingering repair!

It was to tear everything down and rebuild from scratch!

It was to break and then establish! It was to be reborn from Nirvana!

I will use the most indestructible Chaos in this world as my cornerstone, and the myriad Daos as bricks and tiles, to rebuild for myself an eternal divine palace that leads directly to the other shore of immortals and gods!

A thought so insane that it could make any Cultivator's Divine Soul perish, exploded into form in Shen Yuanmo's mind!

He no longer paid attention to his empty Dantian.

Nor did he care about the already dissipated Nascent Soul prototype (embryonic form).

He was going to do something unprecedented and destined to be unrepeated!

Shen Yuanmo wanted to draw upon the power of the heart of chaos origin to reopen a... miniature Chaos within his own body, upon the ruins of his desolate Dantian!

"Come!"

Shen Yuanmo endured the excruciating pain of his Divine Soul on the verge of collapsing, letting out a silent roar.

His remaining, extremely weak Divine Soul will transformed into an invisible hand, resolutely drawing from the heart of chaos origin.

He pulled a wisp of the purest chaos origin qi, ten thousand times thinner than a strand of hair!

Then, without the slightest hesitation, he guided it into the desolate ruins of his Dantian!

This was an utterly insane act!

Chaos Qi is the beginning of all things, and also the end of all things.

It is incomparably overbearing, possessing the terrifying characteristic of assimilating, devouring, and decomposing all matter in the world!

Let alone Shen Yuanmo's current broken Physical Body, even a Deity Transformation Stage Mighty One at their peak, daring to introduce a wisp of Chaos Qi into their body,

would have only one outcome—being completely decomposed from the inside out, turning into the most primitive particles, and returning to Chaos!

Indeed!

The moment that wisp of Chaos Qi entered his Dantian, an indescribable, terrifying pain exploded!

Shen Yuanmo felt as if his Dantian, no, his entire lower abdomen, had been thrown into the core of a collapsing sun!

That wisp of Chaos Qi, like an awakened supreme demon god, began to frantically and greedily assimilate and devour everything around it!

The faint magic power remaining in his Dantian, dissolved from Medicinal Pills, was instantly devoured upon contact with the Chaos Qi, without even a ripple.

His already broken Meridians and shattered flesh were mercilessly decomposed, disintegrated, and returned to Chaos in the face of this overbearing power!

"Ahhh—!"

Shen Yuanmo let out an uncontrollable roar of pain, his body convulsing violently.

On the surface of his skin, hideous bloody gashes silently tore open, as if his body was about to be completely ripped to shreds by this destructive force originating from within!

However, on that face twisted by pain, Shen Yuanmo's eyes shone terrifyingly bright!

It's done!

Guided by Perfect Deduction, and with his own Dao Heart, which had undergone Nirvana in despair and become unprecedentedly pure and resilient, acting as the "Heavenly Dao Will",

he began to painstakingly perform his own "creation of heaven and earth" within this "miniature Chaos" formed by his Dantian!

He no longer tried to control that wisp of Chaos Qi, but rather followed it, guided it!

Let it devour, let it decompose!

He wanted to completely shatter his Acquired mortal Physical Body, utterly returning it to Chaos!

Then, with his immortal will as the guide and this Chaos Origin as the Foundation, he would reshape a truly Innate and indestructible... Dao Body!

On the deserted island, the Spiritual Qi tornado soaring into the sky was still madly pouring in.

But at this moment, this vast Spiritual Qi, enough to explode any Nascent Soul Cultivator, was instantly swallowed by the rapidly expanding "miniature Chaos" the moment it surged into Shen Yuanmo's body.

They were no longer violent energy, but transformed into pure nutrients, absorbed and digested by the nascent Chaos world, becoming the first batch of Origin substances for the birth of this new world.

A brand new cultivation Foundation, full of infinite possibilities, began to slowly gestate within Shen Yuanmo's body.

That was no longer a Qi Sea in the traditional sense.

Nor was it the Dantian that Cultivators painstakingly pursued.

It was a seed.

A chaos dao seed rooted in nothingness, with Chaos as its soil, myriad Daos as its nourishment, and full of infinite possibilities!