The Eternal Ancient Stele, which had always appeared simple and unadorned, suddenly erupted with boundless radiant light, flooding the main Tian Domain and even the four core Tian Domains.
At this moment, the Great Heavenly Venerables stationed in the other three core Tian Domains were also startled, gazing toward the main Tian Domain with astonishment.
All the Great Heavenly Venerables were shocked. Donghuang, along with another Half-Step Overlord, also revealed expressions of surprise.
Such a phenomenon from the Eternal Ancient Stele was unprecedented. Even when they had gone to comprehend it, such a mysterious spectacle had never occurred.
"It's Chaos. Fellow Daoist Ye is actually a Half-Step Overlord who cultivates the Chaos Great Dao, and his achievements in the Chaos Great Dao must be extremely high, not inferior to the Tai Sheng Huang of the past, perhaps even surpassing him. Legend has it that the Chaos Sea was most likely opened by an Eternal who had mastered Chaos, and the Eternal Ancient Stele is a prehistoric stele left behind by that Eternal. Therefore, when touched by Chaos power, it fully releases its radiance."
Donghuang spoke solemnly. He was the most ancient and venerable existence in the Primordial Immortal Realm, a supreme figure born shortly after the Primordial Immortal Realm's Chaos was opened. In the distant past, he had been a contemporary of the Immortal Ancestor, so he knew many ancient secrets unknown to others.
Legend said that Pangu, the suspected Eternal who opened the Chaos Sea, was most likely a Grand Perfection master of the Chaos Great Dao.
There were also rumors that the Eternal Heaven Realm was likely brought out by Pangu from the Origin Land.
The so-called Eternal Heart was also Pangu's Eternal Heart.
Of course, these claims had never been verified, for no one had truly seen Pangu, so no one could confirm any of this.
At this moment, Ye Chen was unaware, for the moment his soul force entered the Eternal Ancient Stele, his consciousness appeared within a vast, boundless, brilliantly resplendent space. It was endless, as if within the Chaos Sea, yet not. He saw numerous cosmic celestial bodies and vast, boundless ancient continents floating and sinking.
"Ancient Chaos Universes?"
Ye Chen saw that within this infinite space, there were Ancient Chaos Universes, each one immense and boundless. Even separated by infinite distance, they still gave a feeling of immeasurable vastness, their ends unseen at a glance.
And there were precisely forty-nine such Ancient Chaos Universes.
"Forty-nine Ancient Chaos Universes? Could they correspond to the forty-nine Ancient Chaos Universes born throughout the ages in the Chaos Sea?" Ye Chen revealed a look of astonishment.
However, he quickly dismissed this notion, for these forty-nine Ancient Chaos Universes were completely different from the forty-nine Ancient Chaos Universes of the Chaos Sea as he knew them. At the very least, he did not see familiar ones like the Primordial Immortal Realm, the Alien Ancient Universe, the Pangu Universe, or the Chaos Burial Ground.
"Not the Chaos Sea. Could it be the Origin Land?" Ye Chen speculated. But what the Origin Land was truly like, no one knew. Perhaps only the Origin Sacred Clan knew, for legend said the Origin Sacred Clan was the sacred clan that emerged from the Origin Land.
The forty-nine Ancient Chaos Universes within the infinite space underwent special changes. Some Ancient Chaos Universes disintegrated, transforming into endless cosmic fragments that scattered in all directions.
Some Ancient Chaos Universes suddenly exploded, vanishing just like that.
Others grew increasingly vast and immense, as if developing, expanding and growing larger with the passage of time...
Each of the Ancient Chaos Universes had a different experience.
Before Ye Chen could observe these forty-nine mysterious Ancient Universes further, suddenly, everything changed.
Ye Chen saw all the remaining Ancient Chaos Universes explode together, transforming into terrifying destructive power that submerged everything, surged in all directions, and tore the entire infinite space to shreds.
Subsequently, the infinite space rapidly contracted and condensed. After an unknown number of years, everything ultimately transformed into a special singularity.
This singularity was everything, formed from the condensation of the infinite space.
Outside the singularity, there was only utter nothingness—absolutely nothing, including time, space, the Great Dao... all were absent, only infinite void.
Ye Chen gazed deeply at this singularity. At this moment, a flash of inspiration seemed to pass through his heart, stirring him. He wanted to grasp it, yet could grasp nothing.
He had an intense premonition, as if this singularity would be the origin of everything, the answer to everything.
Boom—
An unknown length of time later, this special singularity abruptly developed a crack.
Immediately after, a second crack, a third crack, a fourth crack... cracks rapidly multiplied, crisscrossing and covering the entire surface of the singularity, as if something was about to break free from a cocoon.
Then it exploded with a roar, transforming into a boundless land of chaos.
"This is... the Chaos Sea?" Ye Chen was astonished. If this wasn't the Chaos Sea, then what was it?
But what did everything before him represent?
Within the vast, endless land of chaos, a majestic and colossal figure appeared. It was unknown where he came from; he simply manifested out of thin air, yet it did not seem abrupt.
That figure was indescribably majestic and immense, even larger than an Ancient Chaos Universe, as if he could prop up the entire Chaos Sea. He was bare-chested, with a robust and powerful physique, holding a simple, ancient giant axe in his hand.
He stood precisely where the singularity had been, at the very center of the Chaos Sea's explosion.
It was he who had cleaved open that special point, allowing everything within to be released, transforming into the Chaos Sea.
The Chaos Sea was undergoing Heaven and Earth Creation, rapidly expanding, boundless and endless.
"Could this be the legendary Great God Pangu who performed Heaven and Earth Creation?" Ye Chen was shocked. He understood now; he realized that everything being demonstrated was likely showing the true origin of the Chaos Sea.
Pangu's Heaven and Earth Creation!
Legend said that Pangu, the only Eternal throughout history, opened the forty-nine Ancient Chaos Universes. It was even said that the Chaos Sea itself was opened by him.
Ye Chen also believed that only a true Eternal could open such a vast, boundless place as the Chaos Sea.
Pangu used all his strength, cleaving the singularity with one axe, opening up the endless Chaos Sea.
But Ye Chen also saw that from Pangu's body, a shower of light rain fell—a rain of blood, Pangu's own blood. Powerful as he was, an Eternal, cleaving the singularity and opening the Chaos Sea had exacted a great price.
This shower of glowing blood rain fell into the Chaos Sea. Clearly visible, each drop of blood contained endless life force and frantically devoured chaotic power, gradually becoming true living beings—Xiantian and powerful, unafraid of the Chaos Sea.
Without a doubt, these were the first batch of living beings in the Chaos Sea, born from the miraculous, world-shaping power of the Chaos Sea's Heaven and Earth Creation and Pangu's blood. They were the Xiantian Chaos Fiends, Xiantian Supremes, immensely powerful.
Of course, they were far inferior to Pangu in strength and possessed only instinctual awareness, requiring long ages to gradually develop intelligence.
Simultaneously, Pangu did not stop there. He was seen brandishing his giant axe to cleave the chaos, condensing infinite chaotic power, ultimately opening up an Ancient Chaos Universe.