mtl008 Chapter 1701
Chapter 1701
"What do you want me to do?" Chen Xuan nodded slightly, vaguely guessing the little tower's intention.
"It all depends on whether you have the affinity for this Chaos Dao Fruit," the little tower said. "Go forward and sink into the place where the chaotic aura is most concentrated. Let go of all your senses and use your understanding of the Great Dao to touch the origin of chaos. If you can sense the location of the treasure tree, with my methods, I will definitely be able to break through its illusion."
Chen Xuan was taken aback, then gritted his teeth and nodded—this was the last resort. He was not afraid of death, nor was he afraid of the strangeness of the chaotic core. He immediately picked up the Beiming Sword and plunged into the endless chaos ahead.
“Remember this, boy: if you have fear in your heart and worries in your mind, you will not be able to truly perceive the Chaos.” The little tower’s voice echoed behind him. “Put down all defenses. The Chaos Dao is vast and boundless, containing both life and destruction. Only a pure Dao heart can touch it.”
Upon hearing this, Chen Xuan smiled and not only withdrew the protective water and fire lotus, but also dissipated the Northern Darkness Sword and the three strands of immortal energy around him.
Without these blessings, he was like an innocent child, completely exposed to the cold, chaotic seawater.
"The Chaos Heavenly Dao, huh..." Chen Xuan sat cross-legged on the spot, slowly closing his eyes. "Let me see just how vast and powerful you truly are."
In the instant I became absorbed in the moment, the surrounding darkness and the sea seemed to disappear.
Chen Xuan quickly entered a state of absolute tranquility, his consciousness drifting like a small boat in the churning chaos of the origin.
The Great Dao of Chaos is indeed strange. It is different from the coldness of Taiyin and the heat of Taiyang. Instead, it combines birth and death, reality and illusion, hardness and softness. Sometimes it transforms into the softness of the Dao of Water, sometimes into the fierceness of the Dao of Killing, and in an instant, it evolves into the eternal realm above the Great Dao. It is unpredictable. If Chen Xuan had not comprehended the rotation of Yin and Yang, he probably would not have been able to touch even a trace of it.
Fortunately, his aptitude for enlightenment was extraordinary. He had already mastered nearly three hundred ordinary Great Daos by the time he reached the Void Reversal Realm, and his understanding of the myriad Daos far surpassed that of his peers.
Based on his own insights, Chen Xuan quickly detected a faint yet unique aura—an aura that was constantly changing, yet contained an "unchanging" core, which was the origin of the Chaos Treasure Tree.
He followed the scent deeper and deeper, not knowing how much time had passed—it felt like ten years, or perhaps a hundred.
During this time, his consciousness was distorted by the Chaos Dao several times: he saw illusions of children playing, heard laughter from his youth, and even thought he was a frail old man or a gentle woman several times, and his memories began to blur.
In the outside world, Chen Xuan's physical body also changed accordingly:
Its figure fluctuated in height, its face shifted between that of a boy and an old man, and eventually it transformed into a beautiful middle-aged woman in a light blue dress, her waist-length hair swaying in the sea, and even its voice became gentle and soft.
This is the terror of the Great Dao of Chaos—once the mind identifies with the illusion, the physical body will instantly lose its vitality and be completely annihilated in the chaos.
But Chen Xuan's mind was as firm as a rock. No matter how his consciousness was disturbed, he always maintained a sliver of clarity: "I am Chen Xuan, and I have come here in search of the Chaos Tree."
After an unknown amount of time, his consciousness finally arrived before a dark mountain as thick as the sky.
At this moment, Chen Xuan still appeared as a middle-aged beautiful woman. She (he) leaned against the "mountain wall," panting heavily, her voice filled with barely concealed excitement, yet also revealing a woman's gentle charm: "I've found you... I've finally found you!"
The moment the words fell, the massive, dark mountain trembled violently and shattered like glass!
A blinding light suddenly erupted, and Chen Xuan instinctively closed his eyes.
When I opened my eyes again, the surrounding darkness had vanished.
Above us lies a sky paved with billions of stars, beneath our feet lies soft earth covered with moss, and in the distance, mountains rise one after another, shrouded in ethereal mist like a light veil.
In the center of this fairyland, a colossal tree, entirely black as if carved from a black gemstone, rises from the ground. Its branches, which blot out the sky, extend towards the heavens and intertwine with the stars. Each leaf shimmers with the luster of primordial chaos, so magnificent that it leaves one speechless.
"Heavens... Is this the spiritual root of heaven and earth nurtured by chaos?" Chen Xuan looked up, instinctively spreading his arms, his eyes filled with shock. At that moment, the illusion of the middle-aged beautiful woman on his body receded like the tide, returning him to his original form.
"A human child..."
An ancient and weathered voice suddenly resounded between heaven and earth.