The Prodigies War

In front of the hut...

Sitting across Chen Xi as they talked over wine, Lin Xun felt very relaxed.

When the pot was finished, Chen Xi put down his cup and sighed in satisfaction. “The last time I had wine was with that swordsman, and it was pretty much a contest. He drained all thirty-nine pots of my treasured wine and somehow that still wasn't enough for him. He clamored for more, but how could I let him have his way? I said I'd treat him again and make sure he'd have his fill next time after he returned from his reincarnation. Since then, many epochs have passed.”

There was melancholy in his eyes as he narrated.

“How about you treat me to a satisfactory drink now?” Lin Xun proposed with a smile.

“Why not? But that will have to wait until this big game is over.” Chen Xi smiled as well and continued, “You have no idea. If that swordsman wasn't about to go into reincarnation to start over, I would never have invited him to have so much fine wine.”

Stunned, Lin Xun then said, “Senior, truth be told, I also have some understanding of the dao of reincarnation, but so far I have not been able to grasp its core mystery. Even till this day, I still do not dare say with certainty that reincarnation really exists.”

Chen Xi flashed him an odd look. “Has no one ever told you that I have mastered the complete knowledge of reincarnation? When that swordsman entered reincarnation, it was me who sent him on his way.”

Lin Xun smiled wryly. “I never knew.”

Chen Xi asked, “What about the River Map, you should know it at least?”

Lin Xun nodded. “I have seen what this treasure is capable of when I was in Fortune Divine City.”

Chen Xi smiled. “The complete dao of reincarnation comes from this River Map. Back in my time, those who possessed the River Map were regarded as Destined Ones. It was only later that I deduced the power of reincarnation came from the River Map.

“Moreover, it wasn't after I arrived at this All-Wonder Dominion that I was finally able to deduce further: the River Map came from somewhere in the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders.”

Lin Xun was astonished. “That’s the same as the Boat of Eternity.”

Chen Xi nodded. “Exactly. Reincarnation involves the secret of life cycle and rebirth, so it should also be counted as a dao of life.”

The new knowledge hit Lin Xun in an enlightening way. Meanwhile, Chen Xi took out a jade slip, the same one that Alpha Origin had just left.

“Young Friend, I am clear about the purpose of your visit. I will pass to you everything I have gained while perceiving the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders over the years shortly.” Chen Xi fiddled with the jade slip. “But before that, how about we take a look at Alpha Origin’s insights and realizations?”

Lin Xun laughed. “I am curious as well.”

Chen Xi got straight to business, sending a strand of his spirit sense into the jade slip. After a while, he finished reading with a strange expression, entering a long silence before he finally said, “You take a look as well.”

He handed the jade slip over to Lin Xun, who followed and sent a strand of his spirit sense into it. Immediately, a variety of understanding flooded in. These epiphanies all came from Alpha Origin who had gained them from studying the aura of the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders during these countless moons.

The content included unimaginable images, but almost all of them were shrouded in chaos and thus appeared blurry and illusory. Like when one tried to see the scenery through a thick fog, it was hard to make sense of. Some of the insights in the slips had actually been derived from these images.

A long time later, Lin Xun retracted his spirit sense with a shaken heart. According to the slip, after what Alpha Origin had fathomed and inferred, he had conceived the notion that the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders held three meanings.

Firstly, it was the origin that birthed the dao of life—a complete dao of life.

Secondly, it was the core of the All-Wonder Dominion, similar to how the river of time was to the Fortune Dominion, how the Five Mountains of the Return Dominion was to the Return Dominion, and how the Sea of Fate was to the Kunlun Dominion.

Thirdly, it was one of the complete ‘chaos’ origins!

The first one was easy to understand. Lin Xun had made a similar deduction before.

The second point was as well when one looked at the interrelationship between the four great dao dominions. The Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders, as the root of the All-Wonder Dominion, was in the same category as the river of time, the Five Mountains of the Return Dominion, and the Sea of Fate.

Only the third point was something Lin Xun had never even thought of. A complete chaos origin! In the eyes of Alpha Origin, the so-called ‘chaos’ contained infinite epochs, encompassed the endless daos, gave rise to countless worlds, and produced endless life.

The Ancient Nebula Road, the Great Thousand Worlds, the Eternal True Realm... All of these planes belonged to the Spirit Martial Epoch and could be viewed as an entire epochal civilization.

Before the Spirit Martial Epoch, there were many more epochs. Various epochal civilizations carried various cultivation civilizations and all kinds of heavenly daos. However, at the end of it all, these epochal civilizations were all contained within a single chaos!

This kind of chaos was not the so-called primal chaos origin at play in the birth of a world, nor was it a primal chaos origin law. Instead, it was like the womb of a mother, carrying and supporting the entirety of epochal changes, civilizations, the almighty dao, and life!

Such chaos could be considered a ‘Chaos Era.’ A Chaos Era encompassed all epochal civilizations, daos, life, changes and evolutions, as well as their perpetual affairs. Whether it was the Immortal Dao Epoch, the Demonic Epoch, the Buddhist Epoch, or the Shamanic Epoch, all of them were a part of one Chaos Era.

In a Chaos Era, there were four great origins: Life, Fate, Fortune, and Ultima. That was to say, the origins of the four great dao dominions of All-Wonder, Kunlun, Fortune, and Return were the four great origins that made up this entire Chaos Era.

Among them, the origin of Life was the core of the Chaos Era, and it was also a supreme path that most cultivators could never hope to touch! The three great origins of Fortune, Fate, and Ultima, on the other hand, manifested into the change of epochs, the rotation of fortune, and the fate of all things...

The four great origins interlinked, and each one was indispensable, just like how the four great dao dominions formed a cyclical sequence with their energy, repeating in a set order that maintained the operation of the entire Chaos Era.

All above were the profound mysteries that Alpha Origin had fathomed from the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders during these eons. They answered many questions Lin Xun had been wondering, such as the existence and connection of the four great dao dominions.

At the same time, though, they gave him just as many shocks, for a good number of those 'truths’ had been unheard of!

“How do you feel?” asked a smiling Chen Xi when he saw Lin Xun had calmed down a little and returned from his thoughts.

“Alpha Origin is very impressive, no doubt about it.” Lin Xun weighed his words. “Even as his opponent, I have to say that he has extraordinary talents for self-cultivation and seeking the dao.”

Chen Xi nodded. “Alpha Origin is indeed formidable and an extremely terrifying opponent. A long time ago, he even planned to leave this place to refine the Return Dominion, the Kunlun Dominion, and the Fortune Dominion. His idea was that if he could first fuse the other three great dao dominions into his own dao, he would grow strong enough to refine the All-Wonder Dominion as well.”

Lin Xun gasped, “He is that crazy?”

“To him, that's just another means to seek the dao, except it would lead to the demise of all cultivators of all epochs as well as countless beings,” Chen Xi calmly commented. “In other words, if he carries out such a thing, then excluding him, all living beings in existence will suffer.”

Lin Xun suddenly had a question, “About the Alpha Origin Principle that encases the Fortune Dominion, don't tell me that Alpha Origin set it up for the purpose of refining the origin of Fortune?”

“Well guessed.” Chen Xi laughed. “When I realized what he was doing, I went there and created Fortune Divine City. I put the Fortune origin in there and layered the River Map on top for extra protection. Only after I did all that was the power of Alpha Origin blocked outside the Fortune Dominion.”

Lin Xun finally understood why the Fortune Dominion had been trapped under the shroud of the Alpha Origin Principle. Alpha Origin was actually so madly ambitious that he had even aimed to refine the three great dao dominions into his own. Who would have thought?

“This fellow seems to disregard everything in order to seek the dao,” Lin Xun lamented.

Chen Xi agreed, “If not, then the swordsman wouldn't have turned his entire cultivation base into a sword seal and imprisoned Alpha Origin in the Taihun Domain before he entered reincarnation. He said he feared Alpha Origin would leave the All-Wonder Dominion to wreak havoc on the universe.”

After a pause, he said, “But there's no denying that Alpha Origin is a praiseworthy opponent. His dao knowledge, as well as his unshakable heart to seek it for all eternity, has been shown in his actions. Even I have to deeply admire him for that.”

Lin Xun nodded, then said, “Senior, what do you think of Alpha Origin's realizations and deductions of the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders?”

Chen Xi went silent for a while before he replied, “He did not tamper with the content he gave you because I have also fathomed these mysteries on my own. In regard to this subject, I've actually developed a sense of appreciation toward him.”

He then sighed deeply. “Unfortunately, our similar cognition about the great dao does not change the fact that our paths are different and that what we seek conflict. As they say, when people’s daos and morals don't align, they can never be friends.”

Lin Xun said, “The one who knows you best is often your enemy, and this applies well to the relationship between us and Alpha Origin. In the end, this game can only have one winner.”

Chen Xi said, “It’s still early for that yet. While we have this opportunity, I’d like to share my insights as well.”

Lin Xun smiled. “You have my undivided attention.”

Chen Xi began, “Alpha Origin believes that the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders houses the dao of life, which he regards as the core origin of a Chaos Era, but in my opinion, this dao of life should be called the dao of the great primordial chaos path.”

“The great primordial chaos path?” Lin Xun mused.

“Yes, the great primordial chaos is the core of a Chaos Era and the origin of life. To use an analogy, if a Chaos Era is an egg, then the power of great primordial chaos is the yolk, in which all the daos of life are nurtured to birth...”

Chen Xi proceeded to state the mysteries he had explored during these countless years.

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