Chapter 539: This is a world where immortals walk everywhere

Three streams of light emerged from the void, forming a small golden pagoda, three gleaming golden pills, and a jade ruyi that looked utterly ordinary.

Gu Yuan happily collected the three items.

Just as he was preparing to continue his inventory work, his gaze unintentionally swept over a pile of broken weapons he had just categorized as pending processing.

His motion paused for a moment.

In the depths of that heap of scrap copper and iron lay a fragment only the size of half a palm, entirely black, like a piece of some creature's bone, lying still.

It had no spiritual aura fluctuations, no residual laws, and looked like an ordinary beast bone that had been burned by fire.

But Gu Yuan's brow furrowed slightly.

For some reason, this utterly ordinary bone fragment gave him a faint sense of familiarity.

It was an uncomfortable feeling.

Gu Yuan reached out; with a thought of his divine sense, the black bone fragment flew out from the rubble and landed in his palm.

It felt cold to the touch and hard in texture.

He brought the bone fragment close to his eyes for careful examination.

The fragment's surface was smooth, without any markings, but its broken edge showed an unnatural crystalline state, as if its internal structure had been completely altered by some force at the moment of fracture.

Gu Yuan attached a wisp of weak true solar fire to his fingertip and lightly touched the bone fragment.

There was no reaction.

He again tried to send a thread of his divine sense into it.

Still, it was like a stone sinking into the sea; the interior of the fragment seemed like a void, sensing nothing.

This was highly abnormal.

With his current Golden Immortal-level divine sense, even a mundane piece of iron would reveal its microscopic structure.

Yet this bone fragment was like a black hole, swallowing all of his probes.

Gu Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, and the Donghuang Bell imprint within his body trembled faintly.

A thread of undetectable chaotic qi followed his divine sense and silently penetrated the bone fragment's interior.

This time, there was a response.

At the instant the chaotic qi entered the bone fragment, it seemed in Gu Yuan's mind as if a long-dormant string had been lightly plucked.

A chilling, lifeless aura filled with connotations of ending and destruction flashed from the deepest part of the bone fragment and vanished.

That aura was extremely faint, like a candle in the wind, about to go out at any moment.

But Gu Yuan's complexion completely changed at that moment.

This is… Extinction Source Qi!

No, that's not right.

Gu Yuan immediately rejected his initial judgment.

He carefully sensed that, although this aura seemed to share the same origin as the Extinction Source Power used by the Zang Tian Ge, its essence was different.

Yet the aura within this bone fragment was older, purer, and also more… chaotic.

But… they are all equally disgusting.

Just touching it makes one not even want this segment of divine sense.

Instantly, a thought that made his hair stand on end began to proliferate wildly in his mind.

The Zang Tian Ge…

Their hands have actually reached into the Primordial?

Gu Yuan's thoughts began to run at an unprecedented speed.

He had always thought that the Primordial World was the top-tier vacation spot in the system's database, with abundant origin, perfect laws, and an untouched virgin land.

But now it seems completely otherwise.

The black hand of the Zang Tian Ge had already silently infiltrated this realm long before countless aeons?

Then, the so-called Witch-Demon Calamity, which swept across the entire Primordial, causing countless mighty beings to fall, making saints' subordinates as insignificant as ants, ultimately shattering Mount Buzhou and leading to the world-shaking war that overturned the protagonists of heaven and earth…

Could this truly be the inevitable result of the operation of Heaven's Dao?

Or perhaps…

From beginning to end, could this be a doomsday script meticulously written and directed by the Zang Tian Ge?

Gu Yuan recalled the methods employed by the Zang Tian Ge in other worlds.

Spreading deviant cultivation methods, stirring internal strife, amplifying greed and hatred among beings, causing a world to begin rotting and collapsing from within.

Finally, they would utterly destroy it at its peak of brilliance, then swoop in like vultures to harvest the most delectable origin left after the world's destruction.

How familiar this procedure is.

The Witch Clan, transformed from Pangu's essence blood, is innately warlike, venerates power, does not revere the Heavenly Dao, and does not worship sages.

The Demon Clan, gathering myriad races, possesses mixed fortunes, harbors boundless ambition, and dreams of using the Heavenly Court to rule the heavens.

These two innate opposites are like two massive powder kegs; a tiny spark could ignite a blaze that consumes heaven and earth.

And the Zang Tian Ge excels at playing the role of the one who delivers the spark.

If this speculation is true, then the task issued by the system is worth pondering.

【At the vortex center of the Calamity, make your choice.】

Aid the Witch, aid the Demon, pacify the Calamity.

No matter which one is chosen, it means plunging into the great vortex known as the Calamity.

As long as one is within it, they will inevitably be swept up by the tremendous karmic force and become a part driving the script forward.

The system is forcing oneself into the Calamity.

Does it intend for one to stop this great calamity, or… to accelerate it?

Or perhaps, the System itself doesn't even know that there is a shadow of the Zang Tian Ge behind this?

It merely, based on database analysis, believes that the calamity is the best way for the host to obtain the world's origin and innate spiritual treasure?

We must do something.

Just as Gu Yuan's thoughts raced, a voice full of majesty and concern rang out outside the treasury.

"Little brother, what are you doing here?"

Di Jun's figure appeared at the treasury entrance.

He had just finished dealing with affairs at the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, and immediately came to look for his younger brother, only to see him alone in the vacant treasury, staring blankly at a pitch-black bone.

"Older brother."

Gu Yuan immediately collected his thoughts, he lifted his head, and on his handsome face appeared just the right amount of confusion and disgust.

"This bone... makes me feel very uncomfortable."

He handed the bone fragment to Di Jun, "It seems... there is a kind of dirty aura on it."

Di Jun received the bone fragment, his Quasi-Sage Peak divine sense swept over it, but found nothing.

"Just a mortal bone."

He said indifferently.

"Not the same."

Gu Yuan shook his head, his acting on point.

His body trembled slightly, his complexion also turned a bit pale, "That aura is disgusting, as if it wants to devour everything."

Seeing his younger brother's state, Di Jun's heart clenched instantly.

He immediately thought of his younger brother's origin deficiency and primordial spirit weakness, which are most susceptible to evil aura.

"Don't be afraid, little brother!"

Di Jun shoved Gu Yuan behind him, his eyes blazing with golden flames, staring fixedly at the bone fragment in his hand.

He didn't care what this bone fragment actually was; as long as it made his younger brother feel uncomfortable, it deserved death!

He extended his right hand, True Solar Fire blazed, about to completely incinerate the bone fragment into ashes.

"Brother, wait!" Gu Yuan hurriedly "stopped" him, "I want to know where this thing came from."