Chapter 4772: Hongmeng Heaven and Earth
The moment the severed tree root touched the Little Tree, it turned into flowing water and naturally melted away, merging into the Little Tree's body as its aura rapidly began to rise and strengthen.
In just a few breaths, in Lin Moyu's perception, the Little Tree's aura had more than doubled.
The Yu God Heaven and Earth trembled without pause.
As the Little Tree grew stronger, the Yu God Heaven and Earth benefited as well; its laws became thicker and its foundation more solid, and that feeling was different from fusing with other universes there was a clear distinction between the two.
When fusing and absorbing other universes, what grows stronger is the level of the realm.
What the Little Tree brought, however, was a transformation of the foundation itself.
Compared to realm level, foundation is even more important.
As long as the foundation is strong, raising the level is only a matter of time.
The Little Tree continued to grow stronger; that piece of tree root had an extraordinary effect on it.
Lin Moyu could sense that the Little Tree's own foundation was also being enhanced.
More and more roots burst out from the Yu God Heaven and Earth, plunging into the Life Forbidden Zone and drawing out even vaster power.
The Little Tree converted tremendous amounts of Destruction Power, not only strengthening itself but also feeding that power back to the Yu God Heaven and Earth.
Around the Little Tree appeared vortex after vortex, like the Heaven Origin vortices of the Ancient Chaos Wilds.
These vortices opened channels between the Yu God Heaven and Earth and the Life Forbidden Zone, allowing the Yu God Heaven and Earth to actively absorb the power of the Life Forbidden Zone to strengthen itself.
By all rights, before experiencing its first cycle of cosmic life and death tribulation, the Yu God Heaven and Earth should have had no dealings with the Life Forbidden Zone.
But now, this was happening for real.
Even Lin Moyu did not know why this was so, nor whether it was good or bad.
He felt that it probably would not be something harmful, yet nothing in the world is absolute, and it was hard to say.
The Little Tree grew larger and larger.
After half an hour, new branches began to sprout, and both the new and old branches rapidly produced lush green leaves.
The Little Tree became increasingly luxuriant, with surging vitality rolling out in waves and turning into a river of stars that flowed between heaven and earth.
Lin Moyu had an illusion that even all the life force that erupts at the beginning of evolution in an Eight Cycle universe might not be this strong.
He had never seen a Nine Cycle universe, so it was hard to use one as a standard for comparison.
Even so, this still was not the Little Tree's full, peak form, and he had no idea what it would look like once it reached its absolute limit.
Judging from the current situation, though, the Little Tree was feeding power back into the universe, while the vortices were simultaneously drawing power from the Life Forbidden Zone to strengthen the universe itself.
With enough time, even without absorbing the power of any other universes, the Yu God Heaven and Earth would one day inevitably advance to a Nine Cycle universe.
A sufficiently powerful foundation had already paved the way for the Yu God Heaven and Earth's promotion.
In only an hour, the Little Tree had grown four to five times its original size.
It now flourished with branches and leaves, and its roots had plunged into the Life Forbidden Zone for who knew how far.
Its trunk emitted a glazed radiance, exquisitely beautiful, like a supreme treasure in its own right.
Yet even so, Lin Moyu still felt the Little Tree was lacking in some way, as if it were missing something.
Its branches swayed and its shadow rippled, and even the surrounding space of heaven and earth swayed with it, sending out layer after layer of ripples.
Time and space crisscrossed around the Little Tree, as if piercing through to an ancient past.
From within that intersection of time and space, a tiny point of light flew out and landed in front of Lin Moyu.
Lin Moyu sensed no malice at all, but he still did not rashly touch that point of light.
The Little Tree's voice sounded.
"Master, that is for you."
Only then did Lin Moyu send out a thread of soul power to touch the tiny light.
The light exploded and revealed an illusory seed within.
Within the seed was some information, which flowed along the soul power into his soul.
The information was ancient and mysterious, like the murmuring of the universe itself, and between its fragmented phrases it carried meanings that were impossible to speak plainly.
Those meanings could only be comprehended personally.
They could not be explained or put into words.
"Hongmeng Heaven and Earth… above the Nine Cycle Heaven and Earth…"
The information slowly coalesced into something Lin Moyu could understand and recognize.
His eyes suddenly shone with brilliant light.
The Nine Cycle Heaven and Earth was not the limit; above it existed yet another level, called Hongmeng.
Hongmeng again.
Those two characters seemed to carry an inexhaustible magic.
When Lin Moyu first heard the name "Hongmeng Stone," he had already felt something strange.
Later, he obtained a Hongmeng Spirit Tree leaf, allowing the Little Tree to break and then rebuild itself, transforming into the Hongmeng Spirit Tree.
At that time, the Hongmeng Spirit Tree that the Little Tree became was incomplete, still bearing many flaws.
Afterward, Lin Moyu sought out the remains of other universes and used the Heaven Shattering Earth Rending Art to reenact the creation of heaven and earth, letting the Yu God Heaven and Earth absorb the power born in the initial evolution of those universes.
The Yu God Heaven and Earth evolved further as a result, and the Little Tree benefited as well, using that power to mend itself.
Even so, the Little Tree remained difficult to fully restore and still retained defects.
From the great tribulation of the Ancient Chaos Wilds, Lin Moyu obtained the Chaos Tree Root, finally filling in an important missing piece for the Little Tree.
The Little Tree grew stronger and more complete, not only feeding back power to the Yu God Heaven and Earth but also drawing forth crucial information from across an ancient span of time.
That information concerned the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
The Nine Cycle Heaven and Earth was not the final form.
Above it stood the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
To evolve a Nine Cycle Heaven and Earth into a Hongmeng Heaven and Earth, the most crucial condition was possessing the Hongmeng Spirit Tree.
Only the Hongmeng Spirit Tree could support the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
Otherwise, the universe would be too vast to be tolerated by the Life Forbidden Zone and would inevitably collapse.
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After obtaining this piece of information, Lin Moyu's horizons broadened once again, and he updated his goals.
His eyes no longer rested on the Nine Cycle Heaven and Earth but on the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
"With my soul's virtual real unification, plus the support of the Nine Cycle Heaven and Earth, I can already barely remain undying within the Life Forbidden Zone.
"If I can further comprehend the virtual aspect of the flesh and achieve virtual real unification of the physical body as well, then I will be able to roam freely through the Life Forbidden Zone, even walking to the far side of it and obtaining that which the universe points to reaching places no one has ever gone."
"But what role does this Hongmeng Heaven and Earth play, and what within it do I still not understand?"
Where there is existence, there is reason; this principle never changes.
Lin Moyu knew very clearly that since the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth existed, there must be a reason for it to exist.
The reason he did not understand it now was only because he was still not strong enough and had not truly come into contact with that level.
But now, he had the opportunity to reach that level.
If he did not at least try, then the problem would lie with him.
Brilliant light flashed in his eyes as his thoughts churned chaotically, yet amidst the chaos he sorted out a clear line of reasoning.
"The Hongmeng Spirit Tree should originate from the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
That also means that the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth once truly existed.
"I do not know why it later collapsed or why the Hongmeng Spirit Tree shattered.
"Was it because a supreme appeared within that universe, or was it like the Nine Cycle Heaven and Earth, which had no supreme and collapsed when its lifespan ended after too many cycles of tribulation?
"Or perhaps the Great Annihilation came, causing that universe to fall apart.
"At present, only two points can be confirmed.
First, the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth did exist.
Second, the time during which it existed was not the same era as this Great Annihilation.
"The Hongmeng Spirit Tree leaf and the Hongmeng Tree Root both came from the Wall of Heaven and Earth.
From this, one can deduce that the universes within the Life Forbidden Zone have undergone more than one Great Annihilation, yet the Life Forbidden Zone and the Wall of Heaven and Earth themselves still endure, as if they are the truly eternal, undying existences.
"No one can enter the Wall of Heaven and Earth, and no one has ever received guidance from it, yet many supremes have obtained guidance from the far side of the Life Forbidden Zone.
"Viewed this way, the Wall of Heaven and Earth should be the final destination, while the Life Forbidden Zone is merely the path leading to the Wall of Heaven and Earth or rather, the qualification to enter it."
Lin Moyu comprehended.
He connected all causes and effects from beginning to end and finally understood all the key points.