Lu Ye walked forward in a daze, not knowing who he was, where he was, or why he came here.
He appeared here as soon as he opened his eyes.
Then he wandered around here aimlessly.
It seemed like there was a void here, vast and boundless, with darkness in all directions.
I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly a light appeared in front of me.
Lu Ye hurriedly walked towards that direction. After a while, he arrived in front of the light and saw clearly that it was a mass of something like a stream of water, with starlight dotted inside.
And right in front of this stream of light, there was a figure sitting upright.
Lu Ye couldn't help but look at him. He saw that the other person was a very handsome young man, dressed in nothing special. He looked at him with a bright smile: "Are you here?"
Lu Ye frowned slightly. He always felt that the young man in front of him looked familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere, but he couldn't remember where.
Nodding slightly: "Yeah."
One question is puzzling, the other answer is as natural as it should be, as if old friends who have not seen each other for many years have agreed to reunite here. There is no need for too much small talk, just a simple greeting, and the old friendship can be resumed.
Lu Ye sat next to the young man, looking at the light quietly.
The young man stopped talking and just stared at the light like him, with a look of distress on his face from time to time.
After a long while, Lu Ye couldn't help but asked, "What is this?"
The young man asked back, "What do you think it is?"
"I'm asking you." Lu Ye glanced at the young man. If he knew, why would he ask?"Well... this is a cosmic embryo." The young man replied.
"The Origin of the Universe?" Lu Ye had never heard of such a thing before. His mind was a little confused at the moment and he found it difficult to understand for a moment.
The young man smiled and said, “You can think of it as a universe that has just been born from chaos.”
"So small?" Lu Ye was extremely surprised. Is this ball of light in front of him a universe?"People will grow up, and the universe will grow too. It has just been born, and it will be very big in the future!" As the young man spoke, he stretched out his hands to indicate that the universe will become very large.
Lu Ye thought thoughtfully: "It must be very big!"
The young man said: "But there is something wrong with this universe."
"Is there a problem?" Lu Ye was puzzled. He looked at the ball of light in front of him and didn't see anything special. "What problem could there be?"
"Take a closer look." The young man raised his hand and pointed at the ball of light.
Lu Ye looked at the ball of light again and used all his eyesight. This time he really saw something different. There were many dots of starlight in the ball of light, but there was a barely perceptible trace of black among them, as if there was a tiny insect swimming in it.
"What is this?" Lu Ye asked humbly.
"deep!"
"deep?"
"Well, there is a giant beast in the chaos, named Yuan, who likes to eat the universe. When the universe is born, it will parasitize a trace of its own power into it and wait for the universe to grow. When the time is right, its power will corrode the entire universe and turn it into its own food!"
Lu Ye couldn’t imagine how such a huge universe could be swallowed up by the Abyss. How big was that Abyss?Too lazy to think about it, he asked, "Is this bug the power he parasitizes?"
"Not bad!" the young man nodded.
"Then why not just catch it?" Lu Ye said as a matter of course. As he said this, he raised his hand and grabbed the ball of light in front of him, and pinched the trace of darkness with extreme ease.
The young man did not stop him, but just smiled and said nothing.
Lu Ye frowned.
After a moment, he withdrew his hand.
"Is this what's bothering you?" he asked, and after trying it himself, he finally discovered the problem.
"Yes." The young man sighed, "Once the power of the abyss is parasitic, it will be closely related to the survival of the entire universe. It is already closely connected with the primordial embryo. If it prospers together, they will prosper together, and if it suffers together, they will suffer together."
This is not something that can be easily caught.
Lu Ye thought for a moment and said, "That's easy. It's just a fetus anyway. Can't we just destroy it?"
The young man said, "But this universe will eventually grow, and many, many, many lives will be bred and born in it. Destroying it now is equivalent to erasing the possibility of those lives existing in the future."
Lu Ye blinked: "What should I do?"
“That’s exactly what I was thinking about.”
After a moment of silence, Lu Ye asked, "Is there no way to resolve this Yuan's power?"
"There is a way." The young man nodded, and before Lu Ye continued to ask, he continued, "The power of the abyss is parasitic in it, and will corrode all living things. When this erosion reaches a certain level, those living things will become its puppets and be at its mercy. However, no matter how many puppets there are, they are of no use to it. Only puppets with a certain level of cultivation strength will promote the birth of its spiritual wisdom. One day, when its spiritual wisdom is completely born, it will come to the world, and then it can be killed!"
"Then keep them." Lu Ye raised his eyebrows, "Just like raising pigs, raise them big and then kill them!"
"Haha." The young man laughed, "It's easy to say, but hard to do."
"How will you know if you don't try?"
"That's right!" The young man nodded. "It seems there is no other way. Why don't we give it a try?"
"Try!" Lu Ye nodded.
The young man stopped talking and stared at the ball of light in front of him. He pondered for a long time before raising his hand: "Yuan's power is too powerful. Let's suppress it first."
Lu Ye turned his head and saw nine long needles appearing in the young man's hand. As he moved, the nine long needles turned into nine streams of light and pierced into the light ball in front of him.
Inside the ball of light, the insect-like black line seemed to have sensed the danger and was moving rapidly, but it was impossible to avoid it. Nine rays of light pierced in, blocking all its escape space.
"This is the Nine Heavens Mysterious Strategy Mirror. Although it can suppress it temporarily, it cannot suppress it forever. One day when its spiritual intelligence is fully born, it will escape. At that time, it will depend on whether the strong people in this universe can kill it. If they can, then the universe will be able to restore order. If not, then it will become Yuan's food." The young man spoke slowly.
"You just said that the birth of Yuan Lingzhi is related to the number of strong people that are eroded? How many people do you need to erode?"
"I will use the Nine Heavens Mysterious Strategy Mirror to seal the town, so it needs to erode nine of them."
Lu Ye frowned: "Nine? That's too few. Why not give it a few hundred or a thousand more needles?"
The young man shook his head: "Nine is the maximum number, there can't be any more."
"You can't do it either." Lu Ye said with some contempt.
The young man laughed: "That's how capable you are."
Lu Ye added: "But its power is extremely corrosive, and it can also turn people into puppets. If so, it only needs to corrode enough strong people at that time, and it can control the entire universe from point to surface, and then find suitable talents to train, and it can easily gather nine candidates."
"Then what do you think we should do?" the young man asked him.
Lu Ye scratched his head: "I don't know." Suddenly, he seemed to remember something and said: "Can we find a way to divide this universe into several layers?"
"How many layers is it divided into?" the young man asked without hesitation.
"Yes. When the strength reaches a certain level, it will automatically sink to the next level. In this way, even if the strongest are corrupted, they will not be able to go to the upper level at will. This will undoubtedly greatly delay the birth of Yuan's will."
"That's a good idea." The young man nodded, "You try it."
"Me?" Lu Ye pointed at himself.
The young man gave him an encouraging look: "You are the one who came up with the idea, so it is natural for you to do it."
Lu Ye hesitated for a moment, turned his head to look at the ball of light, and said hesitantly: "I... don't know if it will work."
"OK."
Lu Ye raised his hand and grabbed the ball of light, as if he had grabbed a glowing ball of light, then rubbed it for a while, and after a lot of effort, he smiled with joy: "It really worked, it turns out I can do it, but I can only divide it into three layers."
"Three layers are enough." The young man nodded. "The Abyss is in the innermost layer, but according to your idea, if one's strength reaches a certain level, one will sink to the next layer, so some restrictions will be needed."
"Then I can't." Lu Ye shook his head decisively.
"I'll do it!" The young man smiled, changing the spells in his hands, and constantly pointing at the universe embryo in front of him. For a moment, the embryo was shining brightly, and the young man seemed to have some strange ideas: "The abyss will corrode the strongest sooner or later. The means of the strongest are very powerful. It is better to plant a stronger restriction in the innermost layer to restrain their actions and prevent them from leaving at will."
As he spoke, Lu Ye clearly saw a thin black chain in his hand being thrown into the Yuantai.
He nodded in satisfaction: "This way, once a powerful person is born, he will be locked in the innermost layer."
"That's it!" Lu Ye clapped his hands.
"Not yet." The young man shook his head.
"What's wrong? We two brothers are doing great!" Lu Ye was puzzled.
"One more seed needs to be planted." The young man smiled.
"What kind of seeds?"
"Yuan's power is erosion. The seed must have the ability to deal with erosion. Otherwise, how can it resist Yuan? And how can it kill Yuan?"
"What you said makes sense." Lu Ye agreed, "Then what kind of seeds should be left behind?"
"Let me think about it." The young man raised a finger and tapped the side of his head, seemingly thinking hard for a while, but after just two breaths he said, "I got it, why not plant such a seed!"
He raised his hand again, and a drop of crystal blood oozed out from his fingertips, with something wrapped in the blood.
Lu Ye looked carefully and found that it seemed to be a small sapling.
"This thing looks familiar!" Lu Ye said.
"This is the seed of the Tao tree!" the young man explained. "I made it based on the legacy of a close friend. It's still very fragile now, but I think one day it should be able to grow into a towering tree, protecting the universe from wind and rain."
"I hope so." Lu Ye did not comment.
The young man seemed to have other ideas, and he continuously injected mysterious light into the universe in front of him. The mysterious light contained some wonderful things. (End of this chapter)