Chapter 4475: Destiny from the Depths of the Ancient Wilderness
The Southern Pole of Chaos and the Central Domain had gone to war. The Northern Pole looked likely to join, and Upper Domain forces were prepared to support the Central Domain.
The chaos of war had erupted. While the Western Pole had no plans to fight the Central Domain yet, they too were preparing fully.
Historically, the Western and Central Poles had fought many times before, with heavy losses on both sides; thus, the West was making its own preparations this time.
"It's likely not just the West even the East should be preparing now too."
"From what is known, conflicts among the Domains usually remain localized. This time, though, it looks different."
In the West, Lin Moyu got precious little real intelligence, nor did he wish to press the locals.
After all, he was originally from the Central Domain; if discovered, it could spell big trouble.
He would rather wait to ask questions after returning to the Central Domain, where he could access everything through the God Alliance.
As he traveled, the population of cultivators increased as he neared the Central Domain's border.
He found the West's cultivators were massing at the frontier the atmosphere had grown tense.
Given the situation, Lin Moyu was even more wary about his identity. He wasn't afraid of being revealed just wary of trouble; it could cost many lives.
After hundreds of teleports, he finally reached the border. He made his final teleport, plunging into chaos and away from the crowds.
Now, he was attuned to the positions of the four cross domain teleportation arrays within the Central Domain, but had no sense for the matching sub arrays in the West.
Thus, he had to guess at the location of the West's sub array based on the location of the Central Domain's main array.
Lin Moyu used the Cause Seeking Ring to lock onto a region; the area was large and searching it would take time.
The West's sub array was hidden in a rift. Even with Catastrophe Supreme's skill, it wasn't easy to find.
Still, with the Cause Seeking Ring, time would yield results.
Lin Moyu wasn't searching alone Little Tree was helping, his command over time space making him the natural choice.
After leaving the transport array, living beings grew rare, until finally they vanished altogether.
Little Tree quietly said, "Master, the aura from the Ancient Wilderness is thicker here."
Lin Moyu had felt the same an emanation from the Ancient Wilderness was several times stronger now, as if something major was coming.
Whatever it was, it hadn't arrived, but its aura had a precursor to disaster, like a storm driven gale before rain.
Lin Moyu suspected that what approached was anything but simple, most likely from the deepest Ancient Wilderness territory unreachable even by Supremes and that it might trigger chaos.
He entered the chosen region; Little Tree sent roots to search layer by layer in the rift. Lin Moyu used his understanding of the teleportation array to analyze potential sites.
His undead spread in all directions, searching not for the array but for people: anyone from the Central Domain would have an array token these led to sub arrays.
Finding one Central Domain person would drastically narrow his search.
The undead fanned out in groups of ten, encountering many beings but all from the West, not his target.
With his Undead Eye, Lin Moyu could easily tell the difference: Central Domain souls were steady like flickering flames, while Western souls owing to their unique Dao were sluggish, slow, subdued.
So it was impossible to mistake a domain soul for a Westerner.
Ten days searching, Little Tree had covered a tenth of the region's rifts with no luck.
There was no use in hurrying; it was a careful, methodical process.
Over those days, Lin Moyu checked the storage space Yin Da was still stabilizing.
His power had grown tenfold from before and needed time to settle.
Seeing that Yin Da was fine, Lin Moyu left him to it.
Thirty days passed, turning over vast swathes of the region.
Lin Moyu muttered to himself, "Next time I go to the South or North, I'll definitely use the Central Domain's array and save myself this trouble."
Chaos Child giggled, "Master, next is the North, right?"
Lin Moyu nodded, "Yes. The South is at war leave it till last. I'll check the North before the fighting starts. But first, I need to retrieve the Five World Domain and split off the Spiritmyst Domain."
Chaos Child added, "Have you noticed, the aura from the Ancient Wilderness grows ever stronger?"
Lin Moyu replied, "Yes much stronger. What on earth is coming?"
Little Tree interjected, "Whatever it is, it's not to be taken lightly. It'll turn the cosmos upside down."
Lin Moyu eyed Little Tree, "Did you sense something more?"
Little Tree explained, "These days searching time space for the array, I've noticed the Ancient Wilderness aura, too. That means whatever it is, it can manipulate time space and could arrive unpredictably.
It may be more than one thing; perhaps not just objects, maybe souls whatever it is, chaos is about to erupt, maybe Ancient Wilderness too."
Chaos Child agreed, "Little Tree's right chaos is inevitable."
Lin Moyu frowned, "Are you hiding something from me?"
Chaos Child shook his head. "Nothing!"
Little Tree thought for a moment. "Ancient Wilderness erupted once before the master should remember."
Lin Moyu realized they'd both survived a past catastrophe: a single flower from the Wilderness once caused most ancient powers to perish.
That greatest disaster ever nearly wiped out all powerful beings in the chaos.
If a similar diaster happened again...
"You mean that flower came from the deepest wilderness?"
Little Tree said nothing confirmation enough.
Because of that one flower, most chaos ancient beings died half a world away.
Now, something else was coming...
Lin Moyu thought, "Last time, as terrible as it was, it laid the groundwork for a new era. Is it happening again?"
Just then, his undead messengers brought word Lin Moyu focused his vision and smiled, "Finally found it."
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