Chapter 1229

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

Immediately, Chi Ye began to explain: "In the myriad worlds, the Primordial Ancestor is not a fixed cultivation realm, but a collective term for a certain tier of life.

For demons, only after breaking through the Demon God stage, casting off the shackles of bloodline and the restrictions of laws, and completing a metamorphosis of their life tier, can they be called 'Primordial Ancestor'.

Currently, there are three Primordial Ancestors in total.

The first is the Demon Ancestor, born from the first wisp of demonic qi when heaven and earth first opened.

He is not only the Lord of Myriad Demons, but also the bloodline source of all demon races in the Demon Realm.

The second is the Dragon Ancestor, titled Candle Dragon.

He governs the changes of darkness and light, bringing about the alternation of day and night.

The third is the Dream Ancestor, also known as the Master of West Wing.

It has no fixed form, no fixed territory, not even a fixed timeline.

This Primordial Ancestor exists within the dreams of all living beings, exists in the depths of all illusions, exists upon the boundary of 'seemingly existent yet seemingly non-existent'.

Be it the Demon Ancestor, the Dragon Ancestor, or the Dream Ancestor, all have transcended the category of Demon God, unbound by bloodline, laws, or even time and space."

After listening, Xu Zhangqing finally understood Kong Fang's obsession.

Once one becomes a Primordial Ancestor, it signifies transcending everything.

The other party's predecessor was the Ten Perfections Calamity Lord, the origin of all calamities.

Once becoming a Primordial Ancestor, it would be equivalent to shaking off this curse.

Chi Ye couldn't help but ask: "Master, what business does a human like you have entering the Eternal Night Ruins?"

Xu Zhangqing replied: "There, an opportunity awaits me."

Chi Ye shook his head: "The Eternal Night Ruins is a cage; the inside is extremely dangerous."

Xu Zhangqing smiled slightly: "Rest assured, I have the Dao Zun behind me!"

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As the time for the Eternal Night Ruins to open drew nearer, the environment also underwent changes perceptible to everyone.

The earliest change appeared on the nineteenth day after Xu Zhangqing and the others arrived.

On this day, all cultivators with Wood Spirit Roots simultaneously sensed an incomparably vast Wood Dao Law rising simultaneously from every corner of the myriad worlds.

It rejected no one, nor did it actively nourish anyone.

However, every place it passed through, whether the most remote mortal planets or the Tianyuan Realm of the Floating World Four Domains, the concentration of all Wood Dao Laws and Wood Spirit Qi climbed upward at an unstoppable speed.

All spirit plants sprouted new buds one after another.

The cultivation speed of all Wood Spirit Root cultivators increased by at least three tenths out of thin air.

The Qinghua Flowing Radiance Moment that countless people had waited for had finally arrived.

Xu Zhangqing gazed into the Void through the window.

The naked eye saw no special light and shadow, but in the perception of the law layer, the entire universe seemed to have been lit by a green lamp covering the myriad worlds.

The lamplight transformed into boundless vitality, flowing silently over every planet, every mountain range, every spirit field, and the Qi Sea of every Wood Spirit Root cultivator.

Raising the Wood Dao foundation to an unprecedented height in just a few days.

However, the more brilliant the Qinghua Flowing Radiance, the darker the position of the space folding became.

In the deepest part of the space folding, a black dot the size of a fist to the naked eye formed; the starlight around the black dot would be forcibly twisted when approaching it.

The Wood Dao Laws around the black dot not only failed to rise with the arrival of the Qinghua Flowing Radiance, but were instead being sucked inward by the black dot at an extremely fast speed.

Following the Five Elements is entry; reversing the Five Elements is exit.

And this is the true face of the Eternal Night Ruins entrance.

The black dot rapidly swelled over the next half day.

From a fist it became a skull, from a skull it became a wheel, and then from a wheel it became a black channel suspended in the center of the Void.

The channel's shape was not regular, blurred, chaotic.

Inside the channel, no law fluctuations emanated.

Yet everyone could "hear" a sound.

Tap tap tap~

A footstep sound.

As if something in the depths of the channel was taking steps, walking outward unhurriedly.

Footsteps?

Upon hearing this, Xu Zhangqing only felt a chill rush from his tailbone up his spine to the back of his head, then explode into a layer of goosebumps.

Baili Hong asked with a startled and uncertain expression: "Lao Jiu, what's wrong with you?"

"These footsteps..."

Xu Zhangqing took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Back then, in the time gap of the Chaos Sea, I heard the exact same footsteps."

Baili Hong froze for a moment upon hearing this, because he had been guarding outside the gap at the time, counting as one of the participants: "Lao Jiu, are you sure it's the same footsteps? The one you encountered in the time gap of the Chaos Sea, and the one you're hearing now, are they really the same?"

Xu Zhangqing nodded forcefully: "Absolutely cannot be wrong."

After pondering for a while, Feng Buhui mused: "Lao Jiu, do you think there's a possibility that the source of those footsteps you heard in the time gap...

After some deliberation, Feng Buhui mused, "Lao Jiu, do you think there's a possibility that the source of those footsteps you heard in the time gap is actually..."

Xu Zhangqing raised an eyebrow: "Eternal Night Ruins?"

Lu Wangchuan analyzed: "A time rift is equivalent to a small gap in time."

It can lead to the past, or to the future.

Even places that have long disappeared may appear."

Hearing this, Xu Zhangqing gradually calmed down.

He himself was now at Middle Stage Refining Void.

Elemental Dao perfected, Divine Kingdom Manifest.

Protected by the Return to Origin method, five-colored elemental light could attack and destroy.

In terms of strength, he was no longer the Spirit Transformation stage cultivator who had painstakingly cultivated in the time rift.

Luo Qinghan asked curiously: "Back then, what exactly happened?"

When the Chaos Sea erupted with the universe tide.

I had business at the time, so I didn't participate.

But later, I did hear that this Ninth Junior Brother was lucky, found a time rift, spent some time inside, and raised his cultivation to Early Stage Refining Void.

Xu Zhangqing began to recall: "It was like this..."

From entering the time rift, then searching for a cultivation spot, finally finding a passage.

At first, apart from being a bit strange, there was no other problem inside the passage.

But later, as cultivation time continued to increase, strange things began to appear.

Especially this footstep sound—at first far away, later getting closer and closer.

After hearing this, Luo Qinghan asked further: "Apart from this, did that back view have any other features?"

Did it open its mouth to speak?

Did it release any form of attack?

Did it have law fluctuations of any known cultivation system?"

Xu Zhangqing answered this question with three "nos": "No speaking, no attack, no law fluctuations!"

There was only the footstep sound!

Baili Hong glared: "Hard to say, is the end of that passage the Eternal Night Ruins!"

Hearing this, Feng Buhui thought of a possibility: "Perhaps, these tens of thousands of layers of space folding are not sealing the entrance to the Eternal Night Ruins, but sealing the owner of that footstep sound!"

"What did you say?"

"This..."

"Hiss!"

The surrounding people were all shocked by this guess.

The more Feng Buhui thought about it, the more he felt it was so: "You think about it, if only sealing the entrance, several hundred or thousand layers of space folding would be enough, is there a need to stack up to tens of thousands of layers?"

Perhaps, the meaning of folding tens of thousands of layers of space was never to stop others from entering, but to stop something that neither time nor space could trap from getting out!"