Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 1218: Chapter 594: Dark Sky Abyss

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, over four hundred boundary years have passed.

The Da Xuan World has witnessed four thousand years of spring and autumn. During these four millennia, a significant event occurred: the Nine Nations, which once split because of Chen Mu, experienced continuous disputes and divisions, yet ultimately unified once more.

However, for Chen Mu, whether the Da Xuan World is unified or divided doesn’t carry much weight for him anymore. With his current capabilities, achieving peace in the world is merely a matter of speaking, yet where there are people, there will be disputes. Due to limited resources, there will always be a distinction between the strong and the weak.

The so-called survival of the fittest is precisely this. If all resources were evenly distributed by rules, then the world would lose its vitality and the possibility of ascending transformation.

In fact.

Chen Mu, who has long been comprehending the Mysteries of All Spirits, gradually understands them, and his perspective is vastly different from ordinary people. In fact, this survival of the fittest is inherently a sort of attribution of all spirits.

It is precisely because living beings possess wisdom that there is an ambition for competition and ascension, leading to disputes and even wars. All exist because of all spirits, and Chen Mu is precisely seeking to comprehend the Dao of All Spirits, naturally not intervening in worldly disputes.

The Heavenly Palace has always been the most transcendent power in the Da Xuan World, standing above all.

In these hundreds of boundary years, major events have occurred within the Heavenly Palace. The most significant one is the emergence of the second God Realm existence after Chen Mu, which is neither Chen Yue nor Chen Yao, nor anyone like Qin Mengjun.

After Chen Mu ascended to the God Realm, thousands of years passed in the Da Xuan World, finally birthed the second God Realm being, but it was Chen Mu’s first wife Xu Hongyu. However, she did not enter the God Realm by her own ability.

After going through various events and receiving Chen Mu’s utmost support, Xu Hongyu finally stepped into the Blood Exchange Realm, solidified her soul heart, and trained a bit of Immortal Aura.

By reaching this point, it was practically her limit. To forge an Immortal Soul without external aid was almost impossible, and resources capable of forcibly elevating one’s soul heart to Immortal Perfection were rare in the vast void.

But having solidified a bit of Immortal Aura gives the foundational qualification for directly reaching the God Realm through external force.

Chen Mu specially acquired an Interface Origin for this purpose as a foundation, combined with his understanding of Life Profound Mystery, attempting to directly create a Divine Power True Body for Xu Hongyu.

Even with his realm, mastery of Life Profound Mystery allows him to directly create God Realm-level living beings, but creating a God Realm being from nothing and enlightening another to reach God Realm are entirely different in difficulty.

Creating a God Realm being from nothing does not require consideration of anything else, only using pure divine power, wielding Creation Power and Power of Life, directly solidifying and shaping, resulting in a completely new life.

But enlightening other life forms to the God Realm is different.

To create a Divine Power True Body for Xu Hongyu, Chen Mu must thoroughly refine her body and soul heart into one entity while preserving all her memories and spirit, which is the difficult part.

Like Jianmu Divine Monarch, who can even directly enlighten a common tree, shaping it into an immense tree like Xunmu, its essential level comparable to a Middle Divine Weapon. Such means are far stronger than what Chen Mu can achieve now.

Chen Mu has yet to reach that level.

Even just forcibly bringing Xu Hongyu past the threshold of God Realm is quite challenging, but eventually, he succeeded, and Xu Hongyu became the second being in the Da Xuan World to reach the God Realm, although her entire path of cultivation was almost wholly under Chen Mu’s protection.

As for Chen Yue and Chen Yao, under the tutelage of Chen Mu, they both trained Immortal Souls and Immortal Bodies, capable at any time to reach the God Realm through their own abilities. Precisely because of this, they are not hasty to enter the God Realm. Instead, they both wish to comprehend the Origin Dao Prototypes before stepping into the God Realm, to establish a more profound foundation.

But this step is quite difficult.

In sufficiently prosperous and strong Great Realms, training Immortal Souls and Immortal Bodies isn’t exceedingly difficult.

Because resources are sufficiently abundant, cultivation systems are adequately perfected, and lifespans are sufficiently long... Unless talent and potential are extremely lacking, reaching the pinnacle of the ordinary is quite easy.

However, comprehending the Great Dao of Origin makes the difficulty surge!

Even merely comprehending Origin Dao Prototypes is highly challenging. In the Fan Gu Ancient Domain’s Three Thousand Great Realms, each epoch sees few who comprehend Origin Dao Prototypes before entering God Realm.

Though at this step one can still resort to external aids and resources that facilitate the comprehension of Origin Dao, ultimately, it still hinges on one’s own ability to perceive. If one’s comprehension isn’t enough, then no amount of resources will be meaningful.

With Chen Mu’s intentional nurturing, it isn’t particularly miraculous for Chen Yue and Chen Yao to train to the pinnacle of the ordinary, but it’s quite difficult to comprehend the Origin Dao Prototypes, even with Chen Mu’s guidance, progress is extremely slow.

Chen Yao fares better; as Chen Mu’s sole blood descendant, her potential is considered the pinnacle of this generation in the Da Xuan World. Although progress is slow, she is still making incremental progress in comprehending the Origin Dao Prototypes. In contrast, Chen Yue has seen hardly any progress.

However, having trained Immortal Souls and Immortal Bodies, while they are not yet truly immortal, their lifespans are sufficiently long, thus neither are in a rush to enter the God Realm, remaining in the Da Xuan World to further settle and accumulate.

On the other side.

Compared to the beings of the Da Xuan World still patiently cultivating, not having ventured beyond their realm yet, Chen Mu, after the calamity of demons, around eight hundred boundary years later, finally began his activities in the Endless Void.

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Fan Gu Ancient Domain border.

Dark Sky Abyss.

This is a secret realm located outside a border of the Fan Gu Ancient Domain, belonging to the rift area between domains.

The rift area is different from the domain itself. Inside the domain, the void layers are distinct, but in the rift area, the void is in a chaotic state; there is no clear stratification of the void here, even if one shatters the void, it won’t present a layered structure, and often it is difficult to break the void here.

These rift areas connect to the deep void, and under the supreme rules, three Origin Dao interact, creating some derivative zones due to ’chaos’, almost every place is extremely dangerous.

Different secret realms have varying levels of danger.

In some secret realms, Divine Realm of the Second or Third Layer Heaven can freely explore, but in some secret realms, even a Divine Monarch may fall!

Among them, the Dark Sky Abyss is considered a relatively dangerous secret realm. Here, the chaos of the Origin Dao creates an endless dark abyss stretching billions of miles, with unknown conditions inside, only known for the extremely chaotic and violent abyssal lifeforms often crawling out.

Since the Dark Sky Abyss is adjacent to the Fan Gu Ancient Domain, once these abyssal lifeforms cross the domain barrier, they will directly intrude into the Fan Gu Ancient Domain. They have almost no rationality, being purely chaotic monsters, willfully devouring and destroying.

Therefore.

In the Dark Sky Abyss, there needs to be a powerful Divine Realm presence guarding, preventing abyssal lifeforms from intruding into Fan Gu Ancient Domain.

Due to the vast expanse of the Dark Sky Abyss, guarding here requires more than one Divine Realm presence. Typically, there are usually two to three Sixth Layer Heavenly Divine Realm, along with several Fifth Layer Heavenly Divine Realm jointly guarding.

In the dim atmosphere.

One sees a dark abyss stretching endlessly across the distant horizon, just a glance gives a deeply unsettling feeling, like a giant mouth of some terrifying exotic beast, ready to swallow everything!

And in the distance of this Dark Sky Abyss, amidst the chaotic aura of nihility, a figure stands, gazing intently at the entire Dark Sky Abyss, observing carefully with serious eyes.

The figure in a cyan robe is none other than Chen Mu!

"So this is the Dark Sky Abyss..."

He gazes at the terrifying abyss in the distance, murmuring softly within his heart.

This is his first time seeing an environmental structure within the Endless Universe, apart from ’worlds’. Compared to the orderly Fan Gu Ancient Domain, the Dark Sky Abyss belongs purely to chaos.

What Chen Mu can perceive here is a myriad of Origin Dao intricately intertwined in an exceedingly mixed manner, including life, all spirits... and even involving creation, void, time!

Just a glance, and Chen Mu has no desire to step into exploration.

Merely the visible parts already reveal chaos in the structure of the void, even the flow of time is scrambled; once entered, what will occur is entirely uncertain.

According to what he knows,

Even Divine Monarch level beings dare not easily enter the Dark Sky Abyss!

Still, just guarding the Dark Sky Abyss isn’t as perilous, for the abyssal lifeforms emerging from within often possess Second or Third Layer Heavenly strength, with only a few reaching Fourth or Fifth Layer Heavenly strength.

Occasionally, a Sixth Layer Heavenly strength abyssal lifeform may appear, but such an occurrence is exceedingly rare, typically over countless epochs, seldom does a Sixth Layer Heavenly lifeform emerge.

Guarding here is a task of Fan Gu Palace.

Chen Mu accepted this task.

His reasons for coming here are twofold: First, among the many tasks of the Fan Gu Palace, this one poses the least danger to him and offers the most Fan Gu Tokens upon completion.

Second is the Dark Sky Abyss itself, bearing various Origin Dao, although entwined in an exceedingly chaotic manner, attempting comprehension isn’t impossible; almost every Sixth Layer Heavenly Divine Realm in the Fan Gu Ancient Domain spends some time guarding the Dark Sky Abyss, trying to comprehend and fuse the Mystical Origin Dao.

Chen Mu’s purpose is also therein.

For now, he has comprehended the complete Life Profound Mystery and Mysteries of All Spirits and has practiced the Spirit Life Divine Method to the Third Layer.