296: Understanding fragments, a glimpse into the universe

The moment he was teleported out, the world-shattering spatial collapse outside could no longer stir the slightest ripple in Shen Yuanmo's heart.

All his attention had sunk into his palm.

That [spirit realm law fragment].

It was icy to the touch, yet inside, it radiated a strange warmth originating from the Origin of life itself.

An energy far more Advanced and pure than any Spiritual Qi in this world was flowing from his palm, like a trickling stream, into his limbs and bones.

This energy carried a unique, lofty, and ethereal aura of the Spirit Realm.

The moment it entered his Physical Body, the sitting chaos myriad dao nascent soul within his Dantian Qi Sea suddenly opened its eyes!

In those eyes, it was as if stars were being born and extinguished, and Chaos was being created!

Buzz—!

The Nascent Soul let out a joyous hum, seemingly from primordial times, and the thousands of previously restrained Dao Rhyme halos around its body spontaneously emerged, spinning wildly out of control!

Every halo was like a greedy mouth, frantically devouring this power from the higher world, and its light surged dramatically!

"What pure Law power."

Shen Yuanmo's mind slightly focused, and he immediately noticed the anomaly.

This was completely different from what he had expected.

Within this object, the so-called Law insights were merely dust adhering to the surface.

When his vast Divine Sense, comparable to the Nascent Soul Initial Stage, effortlessly penetrated layers of Law mist and reached the core area of the fragment.

He touched an imprint of will that was ancient, broken, yet filled with supreme majesty!

This will was not a living being; it was more like a forcibly recorded Dao Mark from the distant past, a message spanning endless time and space.

The instant his Divine Sense made contact!

Boom—!

The chaos myriad dao nascent soul inside Shen Yuanmo's Dantian seemed to sense a call originating from the root of his Bloodline and Cultivation Technique, establishing an incredibly profound resonance with that ancient will!

The [Heaven-Defying Comprehension] talent, at this moment, began operating madly on its own, at a terrifying, almost uncontrolled speed!

"This is bad!"

Shen Yuanmo's mind was severely shaken, and he instinctively wanted to cut off this dangerous connection.

But it was already too late.

It was not a suction force that could be resisted, but a craving originating from his own Great Dao!

His consciousness and his Divine Soul were pulled by this resonance, instantly breaking free of the Physical Body's shackles and being violently thrown into a dimension beyond time and space!

In the next moment, Shen Yuanmo's perspective was infinitely elevated!

He left the Heaven-Reaching Secret Realm.

He left the Tianyuan Continent!

His consciousness ascended continuously in the endless darkness, at a speed surpassing light and thought, rising, rising, and rising again!

Soon, he "saw" it.

Below him, a massive sphere wrapped in a pale cyan halo silently floated in the endless dark Void Realm.

On the sphere, the outlines of continents and oceans were distinct, and clouds flowed slowly like white gauze.

He could even clearly recognize that the city on the Central Continent plate, brilliant with golden light and soaring Luck, was precisely the Qiantian Divine Capital!

"This is... the Chiming Realm?"

A thought exploded in his consciousness.

It turned out that the world he was in, the Family he protected, and everything he had experienced, only took place on this solitary sphere of light suspended in the darkness.

However, this was only the beginning.

His perspective continued to be raised, and the massive cyan sphere rapidly shrank in his vision, shrinking further and further.

It transformed from a vast world into a washbasin, then a fist.

Finally, it became an insignificant speck of starlight.

It was at this moment that a truly magnificent scene, one that caused his Divine Soul to pause and tremble, unfolded powerfully before him like a scroll of creation!

Within that boundless, silent, dark Void Realm.

Aside from the cyan speck named "Chiming Realm" beneath his feet, there were countless spheres of light, large and small, of various shapes, emitting different radiances, suspended like the sands of the Ganges River!

Every single sphere of light was shockingly a complete world!

Some were wreathed in Immortal Qi, radiating ten thousand rays of light; within them were Jade Palaces and Towers and soaring Immortal Cranes, and ethereal Dao Sounds and bell chimes crossed the Void Realm, making his Chaos Nascent Soul feel extremely familiar and comfortable.

Some had Spiritual Light soaring to the sky and Laws at Perfection; the density of the Spiritual Qi was tens of thousands of times stronger than the Chiming Realm!

It felt as if one could achieve Ascension instantly just by taking a single breath!

Some were filled with dense Devilish Qi and soaring Resentment Qi; terrifying demonic shadows flashed occasionally on the black spheres, and their silent roars could actually penetrate the Void Realm, transforming into the coldest Divine Soul attacks that stung his consciousness.

He even saw an incredibly strange blue world.

There was no Spiritual Qi, no Immortals and Demons, only countless colossal cities cast in steel that reached the sky, with cold lights forming continuous strips like an artificial galaxy.

Furthermore, countless steel torrents without wings or reliance on magic power traversed the dark Universe, carving out cold, precise trajectories... Immortal Realm! Spirit Realm! Demon Realm! Technological World!

Ten thousand worlds, billions of civilizations!

Together, they formed a boundless, unimaginable... Great Universe!

Shen Yuanmo's consciousness fell into a blank state.

He was wrong.

Terribly wrong.

His Chiming Realm, the Shen Family he fought for, the world he inhabited—they were nothing more than an inconspicuous speck of dust in this boundless Universe.

Just as he was lost in awe of this grand and magnificent truth of the Universe.

His perspective shifted once more.

He saw that within the dark Universe Void Realm.

There was a giant whose body was comparable to a star, whose muscles were knotted like mountains that had stood for eternity, bare-chested, carrying a Chaos Stone Axe on his shoulder.

With one step, a decaying Small World beneath his foot was crushed to pieces, turning into the dust of his advance!

There was a white-robed Immortal, possessing the Immortal Demeanor and Daoist Bones, stepping on a Green Edge Immortal Sword that spanned the Star Domain.

He traveled freely between countless worlds; where his sword light flowed, it became a brilliant River of Time, and wherever it passed, all Laws submitted, and the Great Dao retreated!

Furthermore, there was a terrifying Demon God whose size obscured an entire Star Domain, whose body seemed composed of the purest darkness and destruction. He opened his massive maw, capable of swallowing the sun and moon.

In one gulp, He swallowed an entire world full of Death Qi, along with all the living beings within it, turning them into resources for His own growth!

Powerful!

Too powerful!

These were the supreme existences truly standing at the apex of the Universe, walking alongside the Great Dao!

Compared to them, what were the so-called Soul Transformation and Void Return stages of the Chiming Realm? Ants? Or just dust?

A feeling of insignificance and powerlessness that penetrated his very bones instantly drowned Shen Yuanmo's consciousness.

But, in the very next breath!

The chaos myriad dao nascent soul inside his Dantian erupted with unprecedented brilliant light!

Insignificant? Powerless?

No!

That was not insignificance!

That was not fear!

It was the excitement, thrill, and yearning that erupted from the depths of his Soul after witnessing the infinite possibilities of the "Dao"!

The giant carrying the stone axe, the Immortal stepping on the Immortal Sword, the Demon God swallowing worlds... were they not all merely different forms of the Dao?

The Great Dao of Strength! The Great Dao of the Sword! The Great Dao of Devouring!

And his Cultivation Technique was named the Chaos Myriad Dao Returning Origin Scripture!

His Nascent Soul was named the chaos myriad dao nascent soul!

His Dao, from the very beginning, was not a single plank bridge, but the supreme path meant to encompass all Daos and return to Chaos!

This magnificent Great Universe and these existences standing at the pinnacle of the Great Dao did not cause him despair; instead, they served as a testament!

They pointed the way for him!

They proved how correct and how vast his Dao was!

A surge of vigor and heat, powerful enough to ignite his Divine Soul, burst forth from the deepest part of his heart!

"This is my Dao!"

"This is my path!"

This was the scenery he ought to pursue!

This was the end of cultivation he yearned for!

Just then, the ancient will that guided his consciousness exhausted its final strength and began to blur and dissipate.

Yet, the moment before it vanished completely, a piece of intermittent information, every word like a clap of thunder—like the first strand of Dao Sound at the Universe's creation—was fiercely imprinted into the deepest part of Shen Yuanmo's Soul.

"...Great Universe... infinite repository..."

"...Only Void Return... can break the world barrier..."

"...Only then... can one cross the Void Realm... and seek the True Self..."

The message stopped abruptly at this point.

Shen Yuanmo's consciousness was violently repelled from that magnificent cosmic panorama by a massive force!

In the next moment, he suddenly opened his eyes!

The moment his consciousness returned to his Physical Body, the sense of confinement from being squeezed back into a narrow "container" was overwhelmingly strong.

The magnificent painting of the galaxy and the fragmented, yet profound, message still echoed in his mind.

The Void Return stage!

It turned out that Soul Transformation was truly just the beginning.

Only by reaching Void Return and possessing the power to break the World Barrier would he be qualified to step out of this cradle named "Chiming Realm" and witness the true magnificence of the Great Universe!

Shen Yuanmo slowly lowered his head, looking at the stone fragment in his hand, which had lost all its light and become unremarkable.

What this fragment brought him was neither Law insights nor Spirit Realm mysteries.

Instead, it was a brand new goal—one he could look up to for a lifetime, and for which he would gladly risk annihilation!