314: Chapter 314 Crystal Guidance and the Primordial Origin Realm

Within the Great Primordial Void, absolute darkness and dead silence once again became the only main themes of this vast space.

Zhou Wannian held the dark gold, diamond-shaped crystal between two slender, fair fingers, standing quietly in this piece of void he had just thoroughly purified. His azure robes hung naturally in the airless void, and his entire being exuded an extreme sense of relaxation, as if he had shed all worldly vanities and transcended the material world.

The dark gold crystal was only the size of a palm, and its surface bore no traces of artificial carving, as if it were a treasure naturally conceived by this vast Universe under extremely extreme conditions. Inside the crystal, countless miniature overlapping spaces were constantly changing shapes like a kaleidoscope. With every change, it emitted an extremely ancient, deep, and strange rhythm that completely did not belong to the dimension of this Great Primordial Void.

This rhythm was very weak—so weak that even a Void Lord at the half-step Creator level, having kept it by their side for countless eons, could only use it as an indestructible Formation core and could not glimpse the true secrets hidden within.

However, under Zhou Wannian's perception from his already thoroughly perfected inner universe that had become its own world, this rhythm was as clear as thunder in a silent night sky.

Zhou Wannian lowered his head slightly, and within his eyes, deep as ancient wells, the brilliant golden light of one hundred and eight sets of time dao patterns flowed. His gaze was like two peerless blades capable of dissecting the Dao, penetrating the patina of time on the crystal's surface without any hindrance and probing directly into its core underlying logic.

The Great Perfection Space Law and the Great Perfection Time Reversal Law intertwined into an invisible net in his eyes, beginning to peel back the layers and analyze the Origins of this ancient crystal.

Zhou Wannian looked at the extremely complex folded spatial structure inside the crystal, and an interested smile played at the corners of his mouth.

Zhou Wannian's voice was steady, as if he were admiring a peerless work of art, as he softly commented: "So that's how it is. This is not some naturally formed Ore, but a 'Boundary Marker' used to cross ultimate dimensions. Inside it is inscribed an extremely stable one-way spatial coordinate that can ignore the obliteration force of the Great Primordial Void. Those foolish Void Plunderers actually used a key to a higher dimension as a mere stone to anchor a Formation; it truly is the height of wasting god's gifts."

He had already seen through the essence of this dark gold crystal.

This thing was likely a Coordinate Beacon left behind by some supreme being from a higher dimension while traveling through the Great Primordial Void in the extremely distant Primordial Era. It was like a lighthouse, guiding the holder to the truly prosperous lands hidden in the depths of endless dimensions.

For Zhou Wannian, who had already begun to feel a bit bored in this Great Primordial Void, this was undoubtedly a ticket to a brand new scenic area delivered right to his door.

Zhou Wannian did not hesitate in the slightest; he very casually extended his right hand, holding the crystal, straight forward.

Zhou Wannian said softly in a casual tone: "Since you have pointed the way for me, let me see what kind of world is hidden behind this door. I hope the scenery there will not be like this Corrupted Abyss and stain my eyes."

With a thought, the Great Five Elements Illusory World Art surged within his body.

In his inner universe, that thick and boundless grandmist mother earth continent shook slightly. A drop of extremely pure great sea true water, containing infinite life-giving vitality, surged up from the black ocean, penetrated the void of the inner universe, followed Zhou Wannian's Meridians, and finally gathered at his fingertip.

Zhou Wannian flicked his finger, precisely dropping this incredibly precious drop of great sea true water onto the dark gold diamond-shaped crystal.

"Drip."

An extremely crisp sound of a water droplet, as if it could penetrate the Soul, suddenly rang out in this absolute silence.

An incredible spectacle unfolded before Zhou Wannian's eyes.

The dark gold crystal, which had been silent for an unknown number of eons, the moment it touched the great sea true water, was like a traveler parched for a hundred years in the desert suddenly drinking the sweetest spring water. It abruptly erupted with a piercing golden light that was impossible to look at directly.

Inside the crystal, those countless overlapping miniature spaces, stimulated by the life-giving vitality, began to expand and unfold outward at a frantic speed.

"Crack, crack..."

Accompanied by a series of crisp sounds like glass shattering, the palm-sized crystal directly disintegrated in mid-air, transforming into hundreds of millions of dark gold runes.

These runes rapidly interlaced and arranged in the void, locking and operating like the most precise mechanical gears. In just the time of three breaths, a massive space-time gate ten million feet high, exuding an ancient and weathered aura, was forcibly constructed in this void that lacked any concept of space.

This space-time gate had no door panels; within the frame was a slowly rotating, deep purple-black spatial vortex. From the depths of the vortex, a terrifying high-dimensional Law aura, completely different from both the Grand Void Firmament and the Great Primordial Void, faintly emanated.

That aura was extremely heavy—so heavy that even a slight breeze escaping from the vortex caused the surrounding Great Primordial Void to collapse violently, forming countless tiny void black holes.

If a half-step Creator from the Grand Void Firmament were standing here right now, they would likely have their bones crushed and their Dao Heart collapsed just by facing the pressure of the aura emanating from within the gate.

But when this heavy Law, capable of crushing everything, blew against Zhou Wannian's azure robes, it was like a clay ox entering the sea, failing to stir even the slightest ripple.

The translucent dimensional barrier on the surface of Zhou Wannian's body, constructed by the Great Five Elements Illusory World Art, flickered naturally. The chaos jianmu in his inner universe swayed gently, shedding a sky full of divine light of creation, instantly and perfectly assimilating and absorbing this external high-dimensional pressure.

Zhou Wannian stood with his hands behind his back, his chin slightly raised, as his deep gaze quietly watched the slowly rotating purple-black vortex.

Zhou Wannian's tone was steady, carrying a natural relaxation and composure as he calmly commented: "The density and quality of the Laws are at least tens of thousands of times higher than the Grand Void Firmament. This level of pressure can barely be considered the foundation a truly mature Major Thousand Worlds should have. It seems the world behind this door can at least provide me with a bit of the pleasure of taking a stroll."

He did not summon any protective Magic Treasures, nor did he make any redundant defensive preparations.

He simply took steady and relaxed steps, treading on the void as he walked toward that ten-million-foot-tall dark gold space-time gate with composure, step by step.

The moment his body touched that purple-black vortex.

No violent energy collision occurred, nor was there any Soul-tearing pain.

The Great Perfection Space Law automatically paved a flat, smooth road under Zhou Wannian's feet. He was like someone passing through an ordinary curtain of water as his figure merged into that mysterious vortex without any hindrance.

As Zhou Wannian's figure completely disappeared, the dark gold space-time gate also emitted a dull boom before collapsing in mid-air, turning back into countless tiny dark gold dust particles that dissipated into the Great Primordial Void.

This newly purified void returned once again to that eternal, absolute dead silence, as if no one had ever been there.

Meanwhile, Zhou Wannian was already inside a long space-time tunnel filled with violent energy.

The four walls of this tunnel were not composed of ordinary spatial Laws, but were woven from countless multicolored, almost tangible high-dimensional rivers of time. Inside the tunnel, a terrifying storm known as 'Dimension-Shattering Astral Wind' raged.

This astral wind appeared as an eerie purple-red color. It did not blow against the Physical Body or attack the Soul; it specifically targeted the Law Dao Fruits of Cultivators. Every wisp of astral wind was equivalent to the full-strength strike of an Eternal Realm powerhouse. If an ordinary Cross-Realm Giant were to wander into this place, they likely wouldn't last half a breath before their entire cultivation was sliced away by the pervasive Dimension-Shattering Astral Wind, turning them into a complete cripple.

But for Zhou Wannian, this desperate land that would terrify the gods and buddhas was merely a slightly noisy bit of scenery along the way.

He still maintained his posture with his hands behind his back, walking through this tunnel full of hidden dangers with steady, leisurely steps.

When those violent purple-red Dimension-Shattering Astral Winds howled and lunged at his body, before they could even touch the corner of his azure robes, they were directly stopped by the invisible halo of Great Perfection Five Elements Disintegration power on his surface.

"Chi chi chi..."

Continuous faint sounds of melting rang out around Zhou Wannian.

Those Dimension-Shattering Astral Winds, claimed to be able to cut through all Laws, were like fragile dry wood encountering a world-burning fire the moment they hit the Five Elements Disintegration halo. The high-dimensional destructive Laws they contained were ruthlessly dismantled and crushed by Lu Yuan's even more perfect and Advanced inner universe rules.

The dismantled astral wind lost all its destructive power and turned into the purest high-dimensional energy, which was then swallowed in one gulp by the open, devouring maw of Zhou Wannian's inner universe, like a whale sucking in water.

Zhou Wannian didn't even need to actively circulate his Cultivation Technique; his inner universe was like an insatiable bottomless pit, greedily transforming all the dangers in this tunnel into excellent nourishment for his own Major Thousand Worlds.

Zhou Wannian strolled through the fierce wind with his expression as composed as ever. He even had the leisure to examine the structure of this space-time tunnel.

Zhou Wannian said softly to himself in a casual tone: "Using the river of time to weave a spatial passage is quite an ingenious method. The civilization or individual capable of building this passage has already barely touched the threshold of true creation in their understanding of the Great Dao Laws. This makes me look forward to the world at the end of the passage more and more."

It was unknown how long he had walked in this space-time tunnel.

Perhaps it was a split second in the outside world, or perhaps it was a long span of hundreds of years. In this tunnel woven from the river of time, the passage of time had long since lost its original meaning.

At the end of the multicolored tunnel ahead, a massive and extremely brilliant exit emitting a piercing white light finally appeared.

A terrifying Law pressure, even heavier and more vast than that inside the tunnel, poured down from that exit like a materialized Nine Heavens Silver River.

Zhou Wannian did not stop his steps. Facing the piercing white light, he calmly took a step forward.

Accompanied by an extremely slight spatial fluctuation.

The scene before Zhou Wannian's eyes suddenly opened up, and his tall, slender figure finally fully emerged from that long space-time tunnel, stepping into a brand new, unknown, and vast heaven and earth.

The moment his feet landed on this land.

"Boom."

A terrifying gravity that could not be described in words, mixed with the extremely heavy high-dimensional Laws of this world, pressed down like billions of Ancient Divine Mountains, acting unreservedly upon Zhou Wannian's Physical Body.

The terror of this gravity was such that even the Creation Realm powerhouses who had achieved physical sainthood in the Grand Void Firmament would be crushed into a thin meat pancake within a ten-thousandth of an instant if they stood here unprepared. Every inch of space in this world was filled with an extreme arrogance and hostility that rejected all outsiders.

But when this terrifying pressure, sufficient to crush stars, bore down on Zhou Wannian's body...

Zhou Wannian's body did not produce even the slightest tremor. His seemingly ordinary green long robe did not even gain a single extra wrinkle.

His inner universe let out a low, majestic roar at this moment.

The Great Five Elements Illusory World Art began to circulate automatically.

The massive and boundless grandmist mother earth continent jolted upward, emitting an absolute stability that suppressed the heavens and myriad worlds, perfectly neutralizing and absorbing the terrifying gravity pressing in from the outside. The golden Ore veins constructed from primal geng metal divine iron flickered with an indestructible sharpness, plating the surface of Zhou Wannian's bones with a layer of absolute defense invisible to the naked eye. The chaos jianmu swayed gracefully, showering down infinite creative vitality, allowing his Physical Body to adapt to the Law frequency of this world in an instant.

Zhou Wannian slowly exhaled a breath of turbid qi, and his deep gaze began to survey this brand-new world.

What met his eyes was a vast continent so immense that its end could not be detected with Divine Sense. This continent was not composed of ordinary soil and rock, but was paved entirely with a strange material that emitted a warm white light, resembling the finest jade.

In the distance of the land stood countless giant Bronze Heavenly Pillars, each with a diameter exceeding a million zhang, piercing straight into the clouds. The surfaces of these pillars were engraved with dense, high-dimensional divine patterns that flickered with blinding golden light. Each pillar seemed like a divine needle suppressing the heavens and earth, supporting the incredibly heavy firmament of this world.

The sky was not blue or black, but a chaotic color of purple-gold. There were no sun, moon, or stars in the sky, only rivers of Laws that seemed substantive, slowly flowing and intertwining amidst the clouds, emitting a supreme majesty that compelled one to worship.

The density of Spiritual Qi here was outrageously high.

What permeated the air was not ordinary Innate Spiritual Qi, but a type of "origin mother qi" that appeared faintly golden. This mother qi was extremely violent; if an ordinary Cultivator inhaled even a single breath, they would explode and die. However, for Zhou Wannian, it was a rare and top-grade tonic.

Zhou Wannian slightly raised his chin and took a deep breath of this golden mother qi, which carried a hint of violent energy.

As the mother qi entered his body, it was instantly crushed and purified by the Five Elements Millstone, turning into wisps of pure Origin that merged into his inner universe.

A faint, satisfied smile appeared on Zhou Wannian's handsome face. His voice was steady, carrying an extremely leisurely sense of relaxation as he softly commented.

Zhou Wannian spoke indifferently, "The gravity is ten billion times that of the Grand Void Firmament, and the stability of space has reached an incredible level. Every stone here, if placed in those lower-dimensional Universes below, would be considered a top-tier Artifact Refining divine material. This world indeed has the qualifications for me to stop for a moment and take a good look at the scenery."

He lowered his head and looked at the place where he was standing.

He was currently standing in the center of an enormous, octagonal, ancient altar made entirely of an unknown dark black Divine Metal.

The surface of this altar was covered with mottled traces of time's erosion, and many places were even overgrown with strange, glowing moss. The Formation patterns around the altar had long since dimmed, clearly not having been activated or used for countless eons.

Just as Zhou Wannian was examining this abandoned altar...

From the distant void, a sudden and extremely hurried sound of breaking through the air, like thunder, rang out.

"Rumble..."

Accompanied by this sound, the purple-gold chaotic cloud layer in the sky was forcibly torn open.

A troop of knights clad in extremely ornate silver heavy armor, their entire bodies emitting a pressure comparable to a Grand Void Dao Ancestor, rode upon strange Divine Beasts that had eight pairs of wings and resembled Ancient Golden Lions. Like a silver tide, they dived down majestically from high in the sky.

The aura of these knights was extremely powerful; their silver heavy armor was inscribed with high-dimensional Divine Seals that flickered with the light of lightning. The spears in their hands spat out sharp edges that tore through space. Under the terrifying gravity of this world, they were still able to maintain such a frightening flight speed, which showed how terrifying their strength was.

There were about a hundred knights in this troop. They were clearly attracted by the sudden burst of spatial fluctuations from this abandoned altar.

The troop of knights came to a steady halt in mid-air about a thousand zhang from the altar. A hundred Golden Lion Divine Beasts roared simultaneously, their roars shaking the heavens and earth, as violent sound waves stirred up visible ripples in the air.

The leading knight was exceptionally burly. His armor was even more intricate and ornate than the others, with a massive Divine Stone emitting a blinding red light embedded in his chest.

He looked down from above at Zhou Wannian, who was standing in the center of the abandoned altar.

When he saw Zhou Wannian's simple green long robe and his aura, which was restrained to the extreme with no detectable Law fluctuations, a flash of extreme contempt and bewilderment instantly crossed his lightning-flickering eyes beneath his helmet.

An adjutant beside him was also full of doubt and reported in a low voice.

The adjutant spoke with a hint of disbelief, "Lord Commander, this 'Ancient Ascension Altar' has been abandoned for three Chaos eons. A spatial fluctuation suddenly erupted just now, and I thought some incredible Prodigy had crawled up from a lower dimension. But this... how does this person not have even a trace of a 'Godhead' aura? He looks just like a Mortal who has wandered here by mistake."

The leading commander snorted coldly, his eyes full of high-and-mighty arrogance and disdain.

In this supreme plane known as the "Taisu Origin World," any being that had not condensed a Godhead was regarded as the lowliest ant, not even worthy of carrying the shoes of members of the God Race like them.

He urged his Golden Lion forward two steps, pointing his lightning spear from afar at Zhou Wannian below.

The commander's voice exploded like muffled thunder above the altar, his tone carrying a supreme majesty that dictated life and death.

The commander shouted harshly, "Ant of the Lower Realm. This is the great Taisu Origin World, the territory of the Canglan Divine Domain. How did your lowly self trigger this abandoned Ascension altar and smuggle yourself into my Divine Realm? Kneel before this Divine General at once and offer your Divine Soul memories for a Soul search. If you dare tell a single lie, this general will immediately strike you, ant, into total annihilation of body and Soul."

This blunt, arrogant rebuke, treating Zhou Wannian like a lamb to be slaughtered, echoed across the vast jade land.

Facing the blockade of these hundred knights emitting the pressure of Dao Ancestors and the lightning spear pointed directly between his brows...

Zhou Wannian's expression remained as calm as water. In his eyes, deep as an ancient well, not even a trace of panic or anger surfaced.

He didn't even look directly at that arrogant Divine General commander.

Zhou Wannian raised his hand with extreme casualness and very slowly dusted the sleeves of his green robe, which hadn't been stained with any dust to begin with.

He slightly raised his chin, his gaze passing over those knights to look at the Bronze Heavenly Pillars in the distance, and a faint, somewhat lazy and easygoing smile played at the corners of his mouth.

Zhou Wannian's tone was steady, as if he were speaking to a noisy stray dog by the roadside, as he spoke indifferently.

Zhou Wannian said composedly, "I just finished praising the scenery of this place, and immediately a few flies that don't know whether to live or die jump out to spoil my mood. What Taisu Origin World, what Canglan Divine Domain. You fellows who call yourselves gods really have the same lack of upbringing in your way of greeting people, no matter which dimension you're in."

As soon as these words, which were arrogant to the extreme and completely ignored the majesty of the God Race, came out...

The hundred silver-armored knights in the sky were all stunned; they simply could not believe their ears. A Lower Realm ant without a Godhead actually dared to insult the elite divine generals of the Canglan Divine Domain to their faces for having a lack of upbringing.

The leading Divine General Commander was instantly furious. Two blinding bolts of lightning shot from his eyes, and he thrust the spear in his hand forward.

The Divine General Commander roared with a distorted face, "You death-seeking lowlife! Since you're in such a hurry to die, I will fulfill your wish!"

The silver heavy armor on his body erupted with ten thousand bolts of lightning. A terrifying fluctuation of magic power, enough to destroy stars, transformed along the spear into a roaring lightning dragon, carrying the terrifying power to tear through high-dimensional space as it lunged down fiercely to slaughter Zhou Wannian below.

Facing such a terrifying lightning strike that could instantly kill an ordinary Dao Lord...

Zhou Wannian still maintained his relaxed posture with his hands behind his back.

He did not bring out any Magic Treasure, nor did he form any defensive mudras.

He just very normally and slightly raised his head, facing the roaring lightning dragon, and blew a very plain breath.

Zhou Wannian spat out a single word in an easygoing tone.

Zhou Wannian said indifferently, "Disperse."

Hum.

The perfect inner universe rules of the Great Five Elements Illusory World Art descended unreservedly upon this abandoned altar in the Taisu Origin World at this moment.

The power of the Great Perfection Five Elements Disintegration turned into a gentle breeze.

The moment that lightning dragon, carrying the power to destroy the heavens and earth, came into contact with this breeze...

No explosion occurred.

Like melting snow under a blazing sun, that violent lightning Law was forcibly dismantled and shattered within a ten-thousandth of an instant, turning into golden specks of light that filled the sky and drifted harmlessly around Zhou Wannian's green robe.

"This... how is this possible?"

The Divine General Commander's distorted face instantly froze, his eyes filled with extreme terror and incomprehension.

Zhou Wannian slowly raised his right hand, his deep eyes looking coldly at the troop of knights in the air.

Zhou Wannian said steadily, "Since you don't know the rules, then I shall teach you what kind of posture you should use when speaking in my presence."

He slightly bent his right index finger and pressed it down toward the sky in a very plain manner.