Ye Chen was a Supreme Giant. Even with his aura restrained and speaking calmly, his words carried an authority that brooked no defiance.
He had slumbered and transformed for a hundred thousand years, precisely the most critical hundred thousand years.
During these hundred thousand years, the emergence of the Origin Burial Lord had thrown the Chaos Sea into turmoil. The fall of Supreme Ones, Quasi-Giants, and even Supreme Giants had disrupted the Heavenly Secrets. Even someone as powerful as Ye Chen would need to expend considerable effort to deduce all that had transpired over the past hundred millennia. It was simpler to ask the three Supreme Ones before him.
The three Supreme Ones dared not delay. They hurriedly spoke up, recounting everything they knew about the Chaos Sea over the last hundred thousand years.
Through their account, Ye Chen learned the following.
A hundred thousand years had passed in the Chaos Sea, and it had been a hundred thousand years since the Origin Burial Lord emerged that year. From that year onward, it was called the Blood-Stained Epoch.
Now, it was the 108,000th year of the Blood-Stained Epoch.
Back then, the Origin Burial Lord had indeed successfully emerged. The Dark Universe exploded, and it broke free from the deepest part of the Origin Ancient Path, posing an unprecedented threat to the entire Chaos Sea.
It was a near-Eternal existence, with ten heads and ten tails. Each head was comparable to a colossus from antiquity, and some even rivaled Primordial Giants. It was utterly terrifying.
That battle involved not only the multiple colossi from antiquity who first opened the Origin Ancient Path and the colossi from antiquity of the Origin Sacred Clan, but also, subsequently, one Supreme Giant after another was roused from slumber and emerged, engaging in one of the handful of peak-level battles in the history of the Chaos Sea.
The battle affected past, present, and future, disturbing the past and even stirring the distant Blood-Stained Future.
It was said that a River of Time lingered, and supreme forbidden existences from the Blood-Stained Future attempted to descend several times, harboring special purposes.
From the past timeline, Supreme Giants also descended along the River of Time, gazing at the Origin Burial Lord from afar, intending to take action.
That battle was too terrifying. Past, present, and future were all affected, disturbing far too many supremely terrifying existences.
However, through the combined efforts of the many Giants and Supreme Ones, it was ultimately slain. Its blood stained the boundless Chaos Sea, causing immense upheaval.
Of course, slaying the Origin Burial Lord came at an unprecedented, enormous cost for the Chaos Sea. Multiple colossi from antiquity fell. More than one-third of the participating Supreme Ones and Quasi-Giants perished. It could be called the most tragic battle in the history of the Chaos Sea.
Originally, this should have been a cause for celebration. With the Origin Burial Lord fallen, the Chaos Sea should have returned to its former peaceful times.
But the fall of the Origin Burial Lord brought infinite darkness to the Chaos Sea through its dark blood, polluting untold domains of the Chaos Sea. Countless chaos worlds and heavens were destroyed, with living beings suffering immeasurably.
More importantly, during that battle, the corpse of the Origin Burial Lord was torn into ten parts. Each part included a head and a tail, containing a portion of the Origin Burial Lord's origin. This involved the secrets of eternity and the true secrets of the Origin Land, driving the entire Chaos Sea into a frenzy.
In that battle of yesteryear, while many Supreme Ones, Quasi-Giants, and even colossi from antiquity fell because of the Origin Burial Lord, even more who perished did so due to the struggle over its corpse.
It was precisely because of this that the Chaos Sea ushered in the Blood-Stained Future, which is the current Blood-Stained Epoch.
Darkness descended. The Chaos Sea entered a war-torn period of bloodshed. The various Ancient Chaos Universes went to war. The Chaos Burial Grounds emerged. Even Supreme Giants slumbering in the deepest recesses awoke, triggering continuous, sky-spanning battles.
Most importantly, during this period, not only did Supreme Ones, Quasi-Giants, and colossi from antiquity fall, but even Ancient Chaos Universes collapsed.
What made the Chaos Sea shudder was that over the endless ages, the alien Ancient Universes had also completely shifted from stillness to motion. Colossi from antiquity emerged one after another, truly creating a fearsome, immense deterrence.
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Through the words of the three Supreme Ones, Ye Chen gained a general understanding of these hundred thousand years.
He was stunned. He never expected that the near-Eternal Origin Burial Lord had actually fallen.
In a certain sense, aside from Pangu, whose existence as the sole Eternal being was uncertain, the Origin Burial Lord should have been the strongest, peerless existence in the Chaos Sea throughout the ages. Even the Heavenly Emperor, the Primordial Ancestor, the Immortal Ancestor, the Universe Great Emperor, and the progenitor of the Origin Sacred Clan might not have been stronger than the Origin Burial Lord.
Yet such a peerless, strongest existence from antiquity had truly fallen, been slain.
However, upon careful thought, it was also inevitable. After all, that battle had drawn out far too many colossi from antiquity. Whether from this era, the past, or the future, Supreme Giants were disturbed and descended.
That battle alone involved multiple combatants at the Primordial Giant level, such as the Lord of the Ten Thousand Ancient Metropolis, the End Immortal Venerable, Tai Sheng Huang, the Battle Saint Ancestor, the Defying Heaven War Lord, the Longevity Divine Emperor, the Heaven Master of the Origin Sacred Clan, and others. The other colossi from antiquity were also quite formidable.
Such a lineup was enough to sweep through past, present, and future. How could it be withstood?
The fall of the Origin Burial Lord was both unexpected and expected.
The only thing that held true was that it was indeed the source of the Blood-Stained Future, but only the beginning. Its corpse after death was what truly triggered the Blood-Stained Epoch.
The Blood-Stained Epoch, relative to the period before the Origin Burial Lord emerged, could already be considered the Blood-Stained Future.
"What about the Pangu Universe?"
Ye Chen spoke, with a hint of urgency, wanting very much to know the current state of the Pangu Universe.
The alien Ancient Universes had seized the opportunity to act, with colossi from antiquity emerging one after another. This was certainly not simple.
"Apologies, Great One, we do not know."
The three Supreme Ones shook their heads. The place they were in was a Primordial Chaos Great World, located within the Canglan Domain, far too distant from the Pangu Universe.
Moreover, the key domains of the Blood-Stained Epoch were located within the core domains of the Chaos Sea where the Pangu Universe and several other Ancient Chaos Universes resided. Even powerful as they were, they dared not easily enter, fearing they might fall.
The Chaos Sea today was too dangerous, especially within the domains where the various Ancient Chaos Universes were located. It was perilous beyond measure, with colossi from antiquity personally overlooking them. Even Supreme Ones dared not lightly enter these domains.
The slightest misstep carried the danger of falling.
Ye Chen saw the apprehension, even a trace of fear, in the eyes of the three Supreme Ones. Clearly, the danger level of the Chaos Sea domains where the Pangu Universe was located far exceeded that of other domains.
"The Pangu Universe's situation might not be good. I must return to the Pangu Universe immediately."
Boom—
With a thought, a glorious and majestic Chaos Great Path extended beneath Ye Chen's feet, directly piercing through the Chaos Sea, tearing apart layers of chaotic mist, leading straight to an infinite distance away.
His speed was extremely fast, especially since he himself was a Chaos Controller, making him an unprecedented Supreme Chaos Giant. It was astonishing.
With each step, the River of Time seemed to flow backward. His speed reached the extreme. Wherever he passed, the Chaos Sea was directly parted, forming a grand path billions of miles wide.
This grand path stretched across an unknown, vast distance, as if intending to completely pierce through the entire Chaos Sea.
It didn't take very long before Ye Chen returned to the core domain region of the Chaos Sea, where the various Ancient Chaos Universes were located.
Suddenly, Ye Chen saw an Ancient Chaos Universe, immense and boundless, spanning before his eyes.
Yet his pupils constricted.