361: Chapter 361 Merging Realms, Beginning!

The Immortal Venerable phantom’s eyes were bright, and his voice carried a solemnity and anticipation that spanned eons:

“Connecting the two realms requires remelting and unifying Yuanguang Realm and Heavenly Demon Realm, these two fragments born from the same Origin! This action requires setting up a Heaven Revolving Realm Fusion Grand Array large enough to encompass the entire Yuanguang Realm. Taking Yuanguang as the foundation, drawing Heavenly Demon as the material, we will reverse the universe and reshape the cosmos!”

Hearing this, Su Mo’s eyes flashed with surprise.

A grand array encompassing an entire realm? This scale is simply astonishing.

“For such a grand array, does it require traveling across the entirety of the Yuanguang Realm to set up the array foundation points one by one?”

“Not so.”

The Great Desire Heavenly Immortal Venerable phantom shook his head slightly, a trace of arrogance flashing across his face:

“Ten thousand years of planning is not achieved overnight. As for this Heaven Revolving Realm Fusion Grand Array, I exhausted my life's efforts long before my demise, silently engraving its array foundations and meridians into the mountains, rivers, and earth veins of the Yuanguang Realm! Now, all preparations are complete, lacking only the final step—activating the array core located at the very heart of the Yuanguang Realm!”

He raised his hand and pointed vaguely in a direction—the deepest part of the Yuanguang Realm's endless firmament:

“The location of the array core is 'Wuji Heaven'!”

“Wuji Heaven?” Su Mo’s gaze sharpened.

That was the highest and most mysterious layer of heaven in the Yuanguang Realm, rumored to be the ultimate Dao field where Peak Taiyi Golden Immortal mighty figures cultivated in solitude, comprehended the Dao, and attempted to touch the threshold of Hunyuan.

“Precisely. Follow me!”

The remnant soul of the Great Desire Heavenly Immortal Venerable transformed into a streak of light. Su Mo and Fu Tianming followed closely behind, tearing through layers of spatial barriers and speeding toward the deepest reaches of the Yuanguang Realm's firmament... Wuji Heaven.

This place was no longer the “firmament” in the ordinary sense, but a strange space-time that seemed independent of the Yuanguang Realm yet intimately connected to its core.

There were no sun, moon, or stars here, only endless, slowly flowing Chaos Qi and the colorful Dao traces manifested by the Heavenly and Earthly Laws evolved to their extreme.

Suspended in the Void Realm were a few ancient, magnificent Dao Palaces or floating islands, exuding an eternal aura, separated by immense distances, never interfering with one another.

Those able to establish themselves here were without exception the beings standing at the very pinnacle among the Yuanguang Realm's countless Cultivators—Peak Taiyi Golden Immortals!

Deep inside one of the oldest and largest Chaos-colored Dao Palaces, a figure wearing a black Daoist robe, with long hair unbound and a face shrouded in hazy Chaos Qi, sat silently on a meditation mat.

The Chaos Qi emanating from his body was pure and vast, perfectly merging with the environment of the entire Wuji Heaven, as if he were a part of the Chaos itself.

He was precisely the currently recognized number one powerhouse of the Yuanguang Realm, the owner of the Innate Chaos Dao Body—Dao Venerable Xuan Qiong!

Suddenly, Dao Venerable Xuan Qiong's body, which seemed undisturbed for ten thousand years, trembled ever so slightly.

The Chaos Qi shrouding his face subtly stirred, revealing a pair of eyes as deep as the endless star abyss, yet occasionally flashing with the scene of Chaos being cleaved open.

He slowly opened his eyes, his brows tightly furrowed.

An indescribable Dao warning seized his mind without any precursor.

“This feeling...” Dao Venerable Xuan Qiong muttered, his voice low like the rumble of Chaos thunder, “It feels familiar... from ten thousand years ago...”

His thoughts involuntarily drifted back to the almost forgotten years of ten thousand years prior.

At that time, there was also a person who proposed a crazy plan—the Fusion of Yuanguang and Heavenly Demon Realms!

That person's name was... great desire heavenly!

He was a man of stunning brilliance, yet also paranoid and insane.

In the end, it was he, Xuanqiong, who united almost all the Peak powers of the Yuanguang Realm at the time, paying a heavy price to quell that disaster.

And he completely erased great desire heavenly, nearly extracting the very traces of his existence from history and Karma.

“Could it be...” A thought that even he found absurd surfaced, “that madman, whose Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering destroyed all traces... still has a remnant soul remaining, returning to stir up trouble?”

He immediately focused his mind and calmed his Qi, mobilizing his vast magical power and comprehension of Chaos Heavenly Secrets, attempting to deduce the source of this unease.

However, the moment his Divine Sense probed out, touching the subtle Heavenly Secrets network, it was as if it plunged into a chaotic fog!

Nothing could be seen clearly, nothing could be calculated, only the oppressive feeling of an impending storm and the universe about to collapse grew heavier.

“Heavenly Secrets are in Chaos, shielding everything... such methods...” The solemnity in Dao Venerable Xuan Qiong's eyes reached its Peak.

Ten thousand years ago, when facing great desire heavenly, although perilous, the Heavenly Secrets still left traces to follow.

But the current situation, where everything was completely obscured and disrupted, was unprecedented!

“It seems a major event is indeed occurring, and it is inseparable from that old matter.”

Dao Venerable Xuan Qiong slowly rose. Chaos Qi surged around him, and countless Law runes within the Dao Palace lit up accordingly.

No matter who the newcomer was or what their goal might be, stirring up trouble in the Yuanguang Realm, right under his, Xuanqiong's, nose, was utterly impossible!

He must find the source of this unease and strangle it in the cradle!

...Meanwhile, Su Mo and his group had traversed layers of heavenly gates and arrived at the deepest part of Wuji Heaven, a segment of the Void Realm that appeared utterly empty.

“The array core is right here.” The Great Desire Heavenly Immortal Venerable phantom stopped, his tone carrying uncontrollable excitement.

His hands began to form extremely complex, ancient and profound seals that seemed to contain the ultimate truths of heaven and earth. With every seal struck, a thread of extremely faint Origin Soul Light, homologous to his remnant soul, merged into the Void Realm.

As the seals were struck, this originally peaceful Chaos Void Realm began to undergo strange transformations.

Massive array patterns, crisscrossing, complex, and profound enough to make one dizzy, gradually emerged from the nothingness!

These array patterns flickered with dark golden light, deeply embedding themselves into every crack between the Void Realm and the Chaos.

They were not static; rather, like the Bloodline meridians of a living creature, they slowly pulsed with a certain rhythm, extending in all directions beyond sight, seemingly truly connected to the entire Yuanguang Realm.

And at the central convergence point of all the array patterns, an ancient altar, large enough for only one person to stand on and constructed purely of Chaos energy, slowly rose.

“Young friend, please ascend the altar!”

The Great Desire Heavenly Immortal Venerable phantom became increasingly faint, but his voice was resolute.

“Use the Acquired Chaos Dao Body you possess as the guide, and the Chaos Origin you control as the power, to inject into the core of this array eye! Once the grand array is fully activated, the momentum of the two realms' Fusion will irreversibly begin! This process will inevitably cause violent tremors; Karma and calamity will descend simultaneously. Everything rests on you!”

Su Mo looked at the magnificent, soul-stirring array diagram before him, then at the Immortal Venerable remnant soul whose aura was weak but whose eyes were blazing, and took a deep breath.

He no longer hesitated, stepping forward and landing steadily onto the Chaos Altar.

The instant his feet touched the altar, the entire “Heaven Revolving Realm Fusion Grand Array” violently shook!

All the array patterns simultaneously erupted with dark golden divine light that pierced heaven and earth!

The endless mountains and rivers, the vast oceans, and the billions of living beings of the Yuanguang Realm all seemed, at this moment, to form a mysterious connection with this grand array and with Su Mo on the altar!

Su Mo closed his eyes, sinking his mind into the Perfected Chaos dao foundation within his body.

He slowly raised his hands, palms facing down, aiming at the core of the altar.

“Realm Fusion, Initiate!”