Chapter 4187: All Origins Lie in Chaos
According to what Lin Moyu knew, both the two figures in green and white robes should be Grand Sovereigns of Heaven and Earth. They wouldn't need to go through complicated means just a wave of their hand could obliterate the entire world domain. If they desired anything from this realm, again, just a gesture and all within the domain, its power, its beings, would belong to them. Everything Lin Moyu considered, every strength or entity inside the realm, would struggle to resist them.
Yet, those two: one appeared from time to time, leaving many traces throughout history, a notorious figure known to countless powerful beings. The other, the white robed elder, created the Ancestral Water, and was known to others as well.
Thus, after thinking it through, Lin Moyu was nearly certain that the vortex in the heart of the world was not the work of those two. If someone could do such a thing, they probably weren't Grand Sovereigns yet perhaps a Transcendent, or a being from Chaos, or even a domain lord. Only they would go to such lengths.
But with the green and white robed elders in the realm, whoever tampered here would undoubtedly be discovered by them. If they did not intervene, Lin Moyu suspected the culprit might already be another pawn in the schemes of these two. He was a pawn, the other was a pawn, and now even pawns were pitted against each other. Whoever won would survive; whoever lost would perish, which was likely exactly what those old guys wanted to see.
"Such trouble!" Lin Moyu sighed inwardly. It was deeply unpleasant to be anyone's pawn, but he had no options now. Only by gaining formidable power could he jump from pawn to chess player. His gaze became heavy as he murmured to himself, "I've played most of this game already; every trap broken, every challenge met. The step that remains before I leap off this chessboard won't trap me much longer."
"When I break free, just you wait, old men."
Lin Moyu would not let the green robed elder off easy; merely taking his wife was already unforgivable. Whatever the reasons behind it, debts must be repaid.
Multitasking, Lin Moyu pondered these issues while continuing to untangle the strands of rules. The Soulless Beast, under his control, used the world's fortune as a giant hand and had almost finished sorting out the tangled strands of rules. The next stage required even more painstaking work, following each strand to its source, untangling all those already in chaos.
Lin Moyu had patience no rush untangling each chaotic rule one by one. After a hundred days, the rules were no longer confused, at least for now.
He laughed self deprecatingly, "Seems I have a real knack for being a rules administrator."
Boom!
From the core of the world came a rumble; a few divine runes in the very center suddenly lit up. Immediately, threads of world fortune descended upon the Soulless Beast, and countless strands of rule wrapped around it. The Soulless Beast had no soul and had always been unable to bear the world's fortune. But this time was different the world's fortune poured into the Soulless Beast.
Lin Moyu cut off his spiritual control and told the Soulless Beast: don't resist, don't move.
Obediently, the Soulless Beast allowed the fortune to enter its body and the rule strands to wrap it up. Few could perceive rules in this world; aside from Candle Dragon, Lin Moyu was the only one who could see those threads. In everyone else's eyes, the Soulless Beast was just lying there quietly, but Lin Moyu saw it cocooned in countless rule strands. The strands were numerous and intricate, but not chaotic.
To Lin Moyu's amazement, under the combined force of fortune and rules, a spark appeared inside the formerly soul less Soulless Beast. The spark swiftly turned into flame none other than the flame of the soul's birth.
It turned out the world, via fortune and its rules, was granting the Soulless Beast a soul a reward from the world itself, letting it become truly sentient. The process was akin to granting a stone a soul and making it wise.
Lin Moyu didn't dare blink, watching every moment the creation of a soul is the creation of true life, something he had been pursuing all along. This chance was unbelievably rare, and the Soulless Beast's innate link with him allowed Lin Moyu to feel everything clearly.
Layer after layer, the power of the rules, delicate and gentle, wrapped around the Soulless Beast like a mother. The beast clearly enjoyed it, lying peacefully as if in deep sleep.
Slowly, Lin Moyu began to perceive the essence of this process. The fortune and rules contained a seed of the most primitive power. He analyzed: the two powers making up a world were fundamental world force and domain force. The former transformed into all Daos and life within the domain; the latter into the barrier and shell of the world. One worked within, one without these two together formed the entire domain's foundation.
Both fundamental and domain force, Lin Moyu realized, came from chaos. Now, his understanding of the world deepened: these coupled forces cooperated to shape the rules and were infused together within the core of the world, present also in fortune.
Joined together, they returned to their source chaos itself.
The realization dawned: the power of the world, the power to create life, both come from Chaos. It seems chaos is the fundamental source of everything.
To further perceive the process of life's creation, he would have to interact with Chaos. There were two known methods:
Complete the final step, transcend, and enter Chaos.
Complete the final step and, at the same time, become master of a domain, bringing the world itself into Chaos.
Lin Moyu would naturally choose the latter; without the domain as foundation, even in Chaos, understanding life's birth would be difficult. The process of becoming master of the Five World Realms and master of the Great Thousand World was only a matter of steps.
Lin Moyu wanted to know both what and why to understand, and to comprehend the reason.
With his goal clear, he now had to plan how to become the real master of the domain. Meanwhile, the soul in the Soulless Beast was stabilizing, growing under the nurture of the rules, requiring no further intervention from him.
Lin Moyu flew deeper toward the world's core, hoping to investigate its deepest secrets. He didn't disturb the vortex behind the divine runes yet better to let sleeping dragons lie, and revisit it once he had become the true master of the domain.
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