Chapter 36: Gate: The Convergence of Fate and the Concepts of Yin-Yang and the Eight Trigrams

At the instant the sound fell, complex symbols carrying the meaning of fate emerged one by one from Wei Er's body, constantly shifting and recombining, directly forming a silver-white illusory giant snake.

The giant snake's surface had no scales, but rather numerous complex symbols and densely packed strange patterns, together forming vague designs, just like indeterminate fate.

After the giant snake appeared, it first gazed with awe and longing at the ancient Yellow Clay Altar, then placed its silver-white indifferent snake eyes upon the vortex that seemed about to erupt.

The next moment, the silver-white giant snake's body continually twisted, biting its own tail with its mouth, head to tail joined, forming a perfect ring.

Hum

An inexplicable undulating sound arose, and within the room a faintly illusory long river seemed to appear, bearing the ancient vicissitudes and distant feeling, like the enduring great trend of fate existing between heaven and earth.

With the appearance of the illusory river, everything around first came to a standstill, as if becoming an unchanging scroll.

The next moment, the entire room seemed to have been hit by a rewind button, everything began to revert to its past state, returning to the original condition.

The doors of space opened in the surrounding void closed one by one, the overlapping void slowly dissipated, the living room's door also shut again, and the rotating vortex began to continually disperse.

Everything seemed to be moving backward.

This is the first-order archangel of the Fate Path, the Fate Snake's most miraculous ability, reboot.

It disturbs the trajectory of fate's movement, causing everything to return to its original state.

This is not an influence on time, nor does it alter the flow of time throughout heaven and earth, but rather a reboot of the fate condition of this current area.

However, within the room there are still places unaffected by this fate-rebooting influence.

The first is Feng Yi; his spiritual sense can feel that the surroundings are undergoing a reboot, and his faintly perceptible golden eyes, which can see traces of fate and the great trend, also perceived the changes around him.

However, his own existence is like a steady reef in a stream, unaffected by the surrounding reboot state, and he did not undergo a reboot.

Feng Yi had long suspected this point and was not overly surprised.

This is naturally not due to himself, but because he contains the Fuxi stature and the Yellow Clay Altar connected to his natal destiny.

Speaking of the Yellow Clay Altar, the second thing not affected by the reboot is the altar itself, plus the ancient key forged from starlight that it suppresses, and the strange symbol composed of overlapping doors.

Obviously, the reboot power of the Fate Snake also cannot affect the Yellow Clay Altar.

"Roar!"

Faintly, an angry roar sounded from after the vortex, and Men Xiansheng could no longer maintain his previous calm state.

But before his roar had fully faded, the vortex contracted directly, the illusory door vanished, turning back into firelight and returning to the burning candle.

The candle flame flickered like a bean, constantly jumping with a hint of vagueness, while everything in the room returned to the state before the ritual began, as if what had just happened were an illusion.

Besides the spiritual essence consumed within Feng Yi's body, the necklace that had disappeared on the table, and the extra ancient key seemingly forged from starlight, which had accumulated a great amount of the concept and power of 'Door'.

And gazing at that ancient key flashing with starlight, feeling the complex and profound information contained within, Feng Yi's face showed a hint of satisfaction.

Through this ritual, he ruthlessly plucked a wool from Men Xiansheng, obtaining a large amount of the concept and power of 'Door' from him, which can be used to accomplish his plan.

More importantly, by borrowing Wei Er's Fate Snake reboot ability, Feng Yi also eliminated the fate bond previously formed with Men Xiansheng, returning to the original state, as if he had never interacted with Men Xiansheng, thus essentially getting a free ride on the other's power.

"However, Men Xiansheng, rest assured, I will remember your help; if possible in the future, I will help you clear the pollution, allowing you, this traveler, to truly return home."

With thoughts turning in his heart, Feng Yi directed his gaze toward the Yellow Clay Altar before him, the ancient key forged from starlight, and the symbol composed of overlapping doors.

Finally, Feng Yi fixed his gaze on the burning candle, and, according to his spiritual connection with it, solemnly opened his mouth and said:

"I, Fuxi!"

"I summon in the name of myself, Fuxi."

"A mysterious altar not belonging to this universe."

"I, Fuxi, need your power."

At the moment the incantation fell from his mouth, the flame burning on the candle formed a vortex, continually drawing in Feng Yi's spiritual essence.

At the same time, through the ritual as a bridge, Feng Yi established a faint connection between the spirit of the Fuxi stature he contains and the spiritual essence within the Yellow Clay Altar, and directly issued it an assenting command.

Boom

It seemed to have received Feng Yi's command; the Yellow Clay Altar instantly trembled, and purple-gold divine radiance emerged from within, merging into the starlight key below that holds the concept and power of 'Door', as well as the complex symbol formed of overlapping doors, as if refining and recombining these two items.

The two items also instantly erupted, continually struggling, as if containing their own spiritual essence.

The surrounding space once again became illusory, and the phantom shadows of overlapping doors reappeared.

Moreover, even the spiritual imprint of the original Creator under the power of the Yellow Clay Altar driven by the Fuxi stature is crushed and devoured, let alone the portion of concept and power left by Men Xiansheng.

Almost in an instant, the two items were directly enveloped and dissolved by the purple-gold divine radiance, wearing away the spiritual essence they contained, forming strange runes that, according to their properties, continually recombined.

At the same time, strands of inexplicable crimson force were expelled, gradually forming a red moon, seemingly indigestible impurities.

One after another, innate hexagrams formed by the arrangement of yin-yang lines emerged from the Yellow Clay Altar, continually merging into the purple-gold radiance and combining with the strange runes it contained.

The rule runes of two different worlds, at this moment vaguely felt a certain affinity, continually merging and transforming.

Witnessing this, Feng Yi's pale golden eyes grew ever deeper, with countless pieces of information continually flowing within, making him increasingly confident in a certain suspicion in his heart.

At the same time, he turned his head and directed his gaze toward the Fate Snake beside him.

"Understood!"

Without Feng Yi needing to speak, Wei Er's eyes turned indifferent, looking at the many changing symbols, and calmly said:

"Fate!"

At the moment his voice fell, another kind of rune appeared one by one, directly arranging and combining with each other, seemingly forming a head-to-tail linked rune snake bearing cyclical power, which directly fell into the many changing symbols.

Boom

Three different kinds of runes continually merged and recombined, yet were perfectly encompassed by the purple-gold divine radiance constantly descending from the Yellow Clay Altar, undergoing tremendous change.

After an unknown amount of time, Feng Yi's spiritual sense twitched, and he immediately realized the moment had arrived.

He almost instantaneously drove his internal power to the limit, including his containment of the Fuxi stature concept, gazing at the ever-changing purple-gold light before him, and solemnly shouted: "Condense!"

Boom

Heaven and earth fell silent; everything around seemed utterly stilled by that sound.

Even the Fate Snake Wei Er beside him had a momentary dazedness, as if the surrounding fate trajectory had paused for an instant.

The next moment, all the purple-gold light contracted, all the runes fully fused, forming a cluster of light that continually transformed.

That was a mass of light revealing mysterious and profound qi, having no concrete shape; sometimes it turned into an ancient key, seemingly able to open all seals in the world; sometimes it turned into a tightly shut door, within which seemed hidden mysterious worlds; sometimes it turned into, and again into, a bracelet like a snake biting its tail, carrying the meaning of the cycle of fate; sometimes it turned into a copper coin bearing the eight trigrams imprint, containing profound Dao rhyme.

Door, fate, yin-yang eight trigrams.

Many concepts and rules collided, under the influence of the higher power of the Yellow Earth Altar, forming this miraculous item; it can also be considered the first seal belonging solely to Feng Yi obtained in this realm.

(End of chapter)