Chapter 1600: Hunyuan Essence: Unity and Extension (4/5, Request Subscription)

"Besides, I'm not fit to be the Lord of Nightmares."

Zhang Taixuan smiled: "This Nightmare Space connects three thousand six hundred minor worlds, three hundred sixty intermediate worlds, and thirty-six great worlds. Doesn't that excite you?"

Tōma Kazusa shook her head: "I'm not excited. These are all Dao Jun's achievements—I can't take them."

"Very well." Zhang Taixuan didn't press her, stowing away the Nightmare Space. "Then I'll provide all the cultivation methods and resources for you to reach Hunyuan Da Luo. This time, using Kazusa as bait? Absolutely worth it."

Tested the Fallen Saint Slash, verified the Hunyuan essence.

Gained a perfect Hunyuan realm Dao Fruit.

Gained nearly four thousand worlds under the Nightmare Space's jurisdiction.

This was by far Zhang Taixuan's greatest gain to date.

"So many?" Tōma Kazusa was stunned.

Zhang Taixuan smiled: "You deserve it. Now, your realms are still weak—return to your own world first."

Komaki Yukina opened her mouth to speak, but realized she wasn't close to Zhang Taixuan and didn't know what to say.

The next instant, the world changed.

Komaki Yukina found herself back in her own world!

And the timeline was still before she entered the Nightmare Space.

She walked to the window, gazing at the playground, where classmates were sweating, releasing the passion of youth.

"Are the dead students all revived?"

"Dao Jun Brother is too miraculous!"

Komaki Yukina's eyes widened, filled with awe.

Yet thinking of the great events in the Chaos, she felt this was only natural.

"Wait—could this be a dream?"

Komaki Yukina, torn between hope and fear, sprinted wildly toward Tōma Kazusa's practice room.

She pushed open the door and saw Tōma Kazusa seated before the piano.

"Master?"

"I told you not to call me Master."

"So you still remember? Then it wasn't a dream?"

Tōma Kazusa smiled: "Of course not a dream. Dao Jun destroyed the Lord of Nightmares and returned all beings of the myriad worlds. We're the only ones who retain memories of the Nightmare Space. Those thousands of worlds have now restored peace～‖."

Komaki Yukina: "Dao Jun is truly great. Master, can I ever meet Dao Jun again?"

Tōma Kazusa's expression froze.

No way?

Is Komaki Yukina going to compete with me for a man again?

This is insane!

Chat group.

Su Xiao: "Has Taixuan Brother gotten home?"

Xiao Mai: "Are you asking if Dao Jun got home? Or are you asking about the Hunyuan essence?"

Su Xiao: "Aren't you curious too?"

Su Xiao: "This concerns our future. If we, like the Lord of Nightmares, attain Hunyuan but don't understand its mystery, won't we easily be ambushed and killed?"

Ye Hei: "Indeed, extremely dangerous."

Yunxiao: "I want to know too. I've attained Hunyuan—I feel immensely powerful, able to suppress even a Pretender Saint. But I still don't understand the Hunyuan essence."

Zhang Taixuan: "I already demonstrated the Hunyuan essence before."

Su Xiao: "??? Did you guys do something behind my back and I didn't notice?"

Xiao Mai: "I feel the same. I should remember vividly if I'd ever demonstrated the Hunyuan essence. Why do I have zero recollection?"

Ye Hei: "??? Did our timelines get messed up?"

Zhang Taixuan: "Uh… your timelines are fine. Didn't many of you visit the Journey to the West: The Sequel world?"

Su Xiao: "You mean that time? Where did you demonstrate the Hunyuan mystery then?"

Xiao Mai: "Exactly. Did you give Biyou Xianzi private lessons and then charge it to us?"

Biyou: "During that time, I didn't ask my husband about his cultivation."

Su Xiao: "You had such a great opportunity and just did those things? What a waste."

Zhang Taixuan: "Cough… less about personal matters. I meant the process of comprehending that world's mystery and refining the Yuan Shi laws."

Su Xiao: "That's the Hunyuan mystery? 【I'm not educated—don't lie to me!】"

Xiao Mai: "??? I only grasped a bit of law. Did I miss a huge opportunity?"

Yunxiao: "I only understood a bit of yin-yang subtlety. This… does my Hunyuan Da Luo Jinxian perception have a problem?"

Zhang Taixuan: "Yunxiao Sister is indeed a bit clueless—picked up sesame seeds but lost the watermelon."

Su Xiao: "Wow, calling her Yunxiao Sister? Aren't you afraid of getting beaten?"

Yunxiao: "Can't beat you, can't beat you. Dao Jun, please explain in detail—I'm completely lost."

Su Xiao: "Bring your little stool, sit properly, class is starting. Zhang Taixuan's Lecture Hall is now in session."

Xiao Mai: "+1"

Zhang Taixuan: "Back then, I manifested yin and yang, Dao and Demon, and all opposing laws. I understood that the essence of Hunyuan is the unification of all paths—no distinction between them."

Zhang Taixuan: "Under this concept, concepts like strong and weak, yin and yang, are the same—opposing yet unified. I fused these opposing laws into one, then extended them to past and future."

Zhang Taixuan: "¨「 Then my past self never existed as weak. Because under Hunyuan's nature, weak and strong are opposing yet unified—there is no such thing as a weak time. Most crucially, this nature is not bound by time, space, or any such concepts."

Zhang Taixuan: "The Hunyuan nature is the return of all laws to the One—no time, no space, no strength or weakness. The concepts of past, present, and future no longer exist. The Lord of Nightmares' claim of severing the River of Time has no effect on me—he cannot find my weak time, because even my weak time was Hunyuan—equally strong as now, even as strong as the future."

Zhang Taixuan: "If the characteristic of Da Luo is to gather the past and the future, to make space-time into a ring, using a single space-time characteristic to construct immortality, then the characteristic of Primordial Chaos is to fuse and refine all manner of dual opposing laws into one, extending outward, so that immortality receives an essential strengthening, and breaks free from the bondage of space-time laws. The method is also different: one is to gather, one is to extend, completely (Li Nuo Hao) opposite."

Zhang Taixuan: "At this realm, a Primordial Chaos powerhouse can actually autonomously obliterate the concept of space-time forming a ring. So, when I saw the Lord of Nightmares sever my space-time concept, I found him laughable. This guy has cultivated all the way to the perfection of Primordial Chaos Da Luo, yet doesn't even know the characteristic of Primordial Chaos, and hasn't even extended the Primordial Chaos characteristic outward! All these years he's just been accumulating magic power — truly muscle has entered his brain, an incurable case, village."

Zhang Taixuan: "You sever the Changhe of space-time of an existence that has extended the essence of Primordial Chaos outward, transcending the space-time concept — it's like cutting a single hair of an ordinary person. What harm could it do to the other party?"

Su Xiaoxiao: "Primordial Chaos returning to one, extending past, future, and present, transcending the space-time concept — that is the essence of Primordial Chaos."

Yun Xiao: "After I attained the Dao and became a Primordial Chaos Da Luo Golden Immortal, I didn't do this either — isn't it too dangerous! Could I also be like Su Xiaoxiao, a watered-down Primordial Chaos?"

Su Xiaoxiao: "Say it then, why drag me into it again!!!"