560: Chapter 560 The Light of Chaos

[You remained silent for a moment, offering no further persuasion.]

[Turning around, you took a single step forward.]

[A million miles away.]

[The dense crowd behind you instantly turned into a blurred speck.]

[With the second step, you were another million miles away.]

[The third step.]

[The fourth step.]

[Unknowingly, you had already reached the edge of the Chaos Sea.]

[The gray mist surged before you; it had no sound and no shape, yet it made your heart feel as if it were being squeezed by a hand, tightening more and more.]

[You took a deep breath.]

[And stepped inside.]

[No protective spiritual light, no Law protecting your body, not even a struggle.]

[An invisible tidal force surged from all directions, wrapping around you, sweeping you away, and swallowing you whole.]

[You felt like a fallen leaf swept into a whirlpool; like a grain of sand sinking to the bottom of the ocean.]

[The light before your eyes vanished bit by bit.]

[The wind in your ears receded bit by bit.]

[Finally, nothing remained.]

[Only Chaos.]

[The gray, boundless Chaos completely submerged you.]

[The chaos cloak wrapped around you like a thin layer of skin, clinging tightly to every inch of your flesh.]

[When the Chaos Qi surged, the cloak trembled slightly, blocking it out.]

[Only then did you realize—the Chaos Sea is not a sea, it is Qi.]

[It is Chaos Qi so thick it cannot be dispersed.]

[You spread out your Divine Sense—there was nothing.]

[No Laws, no time, no space.]

[Up, down, left, and right, there was only Chaos Qi.]

[Fortunately, with the chaos cloak, this Chaos Qi posed no threat to you.]

[Curiosity rose in your heart—perhaps this chaos cloak originated from the Chaos Sea; if so, how was it taken out?]

[Thinking and anticipating, you transformed into a streak of light and continued deeper.]

[The three hundredth year,]

[You flew aimlessly through the Chaos Sea like a streak of light, the gray Chaos Qi brushing past you silently.]

[There was only Chaos Qi here; with your current strength, you couldn't yet cultivate within Chaos, so you could only keep exploring.]

[The five hundredth year,]

[You didn't know how long you had been flying; you had lost all concept of time.]

[But in all these years, you encountered nothing and discovered nothing.]

[Only the gray mist, surging and rolling, forever the same.]

[The eight hundredth year,]

[You suddenly saw a glimmer of light ahead.]

[It wasn't the light of stars, nor the light of Spiritual Qi; it was a different kind of light.]

[You flew toward that direction, and only as you drew near did you see clearly—]

[It was a fruit suspended in the Void Realm, the size of a fist and entirely blue-white. Its surface had fine patterns like leaf veins or blood vessels, brightening and dimming as if it were breathing.]

[It was a chaos dao fruit.]

[The chaos dao fruit contains the Great Dao's Origin; the original power of the three thousand Laws is within it.]

[You plucked it and consumed it.]

[A cool sensation poured down your throat, rushing straight to the crown of your head.]

[The Law Origin circulated within your body, and you fell into an Epiphany. You immediately sat cross-legged in meditation to comprehend the Law Origin contained within the Dao fruit.]

[The one thousandth year,]

[After an unknown amount of time, you opened your eyes—Body Integration Middle Stage.]

["A single chaos dao fruit actually allowed me to comprehend three hundred more Laws to Perfection?"]

[You were overjoyed.]

[With four hundred Laws now at Perfection, you naturally stepped into the Body Integration Middle Stage.]

[Your spirits lifted, and you continued to fly and search.]

[The two thousandth year,]

[You didn't know exactly how much time had passed, only that it had been a very, very long time.]

[You found nothing.]

[You tried to head back, flying in one direction—ten years, twenty years, fifty years, a century, a millennium—nothing.]

[You realized you could no longer find a way out.]

[You began to panic.]

[After searching for an unknown number of years and changing directions repeatedly, you still achieved nothing.]

[The three thousandth year,]

[You still couldn't find the path to leave.]

[You began to suspect that there was no end to this place at all.]

[The Chaos Sea is a cage without walls.]

[The five thousandth year,]

[You gave up on the plan to leave, sitting cross-legged in the Void Realm. Looking at the surrounding gray mist, you suddenly laughed.]

["I can't get out," you said to yourself.]

[Since you couldn't get out, you would search.]

[Search for Opportunities, search for Heaven And Earth Treasures, search for anything that could make you stronger.]

[The six thousandth year,]

[You found nothing.]

[Only the gray Chaos Qi, surging and rolling.]

[You simply sat cross-legged, closed your eyes, and tried to refine the Chaos Qi here.]

[The Chaos Qi surged into your Meridians like an untamed wild beast, rampaging through them.]

[The Meridians were torn apart and then healed; torn again, and healed again.]

[Each time, the pain made your whole body tremble, but you did not stop.]

[The eight thousandth year,]

[You finally succeeded in refining the first wisp of Chaos Qi.]

[It was very thin, as thin as a strand of hair.]

[That wisp of Chaos Qi sank into your Dantian, turning into a trace of gray power.]

[You tried to activate it—the surrounding mist trembled slightly, as if blown away by the wind, revealing a small pocket of emptiness.]

[You were overjoyed.]

[You didn't know what use this had, but you knew that you had finally found your own path in this void.]

[You continued trying to refine a second wisp.]

[But you found that the difficulty of the second wisp far exceeded the first.]

[You tried countless times, each ending with torn Meridians.]

[You did not force it any further.]

[Since this path was temporarily blocked, you would find another.]

[You stood up and continued exploring.]

[The ten thousandth year,]

[A clear perception suddenly flashed through your mind—your Lifespan was coming to an end.]

[You felt your life Origin like sand in an hourglass, falling grain by grain.]

[Falling faster and faster, more and more urgently.]

[You looked down at your hands—the skin was pale, veins bulging, cracked like withered tree bark.]

[Your Lifespan had reached its limit.]

[Only then did you realize that you had been drifting in this Chaos Sea for nearly ten thousand years.]

[Ten thousand years is the life limit of a Body Integration Cultivator, set in stone by the rules of the Great Dao; no one can change it.]

[Even if you had hidden a drop of essence blood, it would be useless—once the life Origin is exhausted, that drop of essence blood will also wither and dissipate.]

[You did not panic.]

[Instead, you were very calm.]

[You knew you couldn't get out.]

[This time, you no longer drifted aimlessly.]

[You fully activated Void Shift, taking a step that spanned a million miles.]

[One step, two steps, three steps...]

[After an unknown amount of time, you suddenly saw a light in the distance.]

[It wasn't a glimmer in the Chaos; it was true light—bright, warm, like the sun, like the stars, like the brightest thing you had seen in ten thousand years.]

[Your heartbeat quickened violently.]

[You increased your speed, fleeing toward that light.]

[The light grew brighter and larger, almost boundless—like a wall, like a sea, like a window to a new world.]

[As you drew closer, you had an illusion—there was actually Spiritual Qi within that light.]

[That Spiritual Qi was extraordinary, carrying some kind of wondrous energy, as if it had been soaked in something.]

[But although the light grew larger, it was still extremely far from you.]

[You looked at that light which seemed to be right before your eyes and smiled.]

[You knew—though the light looked close, it was still unimaginably distant from you.]

[And then, you collapsed.]

[The last trace of life Origin completely dissipated at this moment.]

[You felt so tired, so tired that you couldn't even keep your eyelids open.]

[You closed your eyes, and consciousness drained from your mind like water, bit by bit, until it was completely gone.]

[You died.]