The Prodigies War

Upon seeing the Boat of Eternity sweeping over all of a sudden, Lin Xun was startled as well. Even he had never expected this. As the boat got closer tracing his spirit sense, he proceeded to feel as though his spirit sense was boarding and riding it, which eased the fatigue.

Next, the Boat of Eternity, carrying his spirit sense, began to fly deeper into the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders...

“Is it trying to take me somewhere?” Lin Xun's mind shook, finding this simply unbelievable.

He had only considered the Boat of Eternity as a key to unlock the Spirit Empowerment World. Who would have thought that this treasure would act in a completely new way out of the blue, seemingly wanting to take him to a certain place!

“Right, Xia Zhi is still inside the Boat of Eternity.” Lin Xun suddenly remembered this and probed his spirit sense into the Boat of Eternity, attempting to wake up Xia Zhi. However, his spirit sense got blocked by an obscure force. It was also then that he noticed something. The Boat of Eternity was glowing with a mysterious energy fluctuation similar to what came from a living being.

This was a kind of energy that he had never even seen before!

“My spirit sense must have picked up something in this Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders that caused the Boat of Eternity to act in turn...” Lin Xun calmed down.

At this moment, he was merely using his spirit sense to roam the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders. A normally deadly threat was not to be feared in this case. The only thing he worried about was Xia Zhi who was physically inside the Boat of Eternity!

“I swear I won't let anything happen to you.” Lin Xun took a deep breath and poured his energy on his spirit sense.

Rustle~~

At this moment, the Boat of Eternity finally acted like a genuine boat, carrying his spirit sense as it shuttled through the heavy chaos aura towards the endless depths of the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders.

During this journey, Lin Xun's spirit sense was never more relaxed. With his soul energy no longer being consumed, he could focus entirely on the scenes and perceive their mysteries. Compared to the previous exploration, though, it felt like a superficial sightseeing trip. The Boat of Eternity was going too fast, appearing to suffer no obstruction along the way.

After an unknown amount of time, the boat trembled and came to a sudden halt. In Lin Xun's spirit sense, he saw a tree! This tree was rooted in chaos. It was clearly only nine feet tall, but what was reflected back to him was a tree infinitely high and immeasurably big to the point that he felt tiny.

Yet, no matter how he ‘looked,’ it was indeed only nine feet tall! What shocked him was that the four big branches of the tree showed the silhouettes of the Return, Fortune, Kunlun, and All-Wonder Dominions. They also radiated the origin aura of the four great dao dominions respectively.

Otherwise, these four branches were bare, having no leaves or fruits. Instead, their surfaces had ring markings. Lin Xun's spirit sense went over to the tree, and immediately his mind felt fit to explode. A massive stream of knowledge violently flooded his mind in the form of images, making him go briefly blank.

An unknown period of time later, Lin Xun saw a piece of void. There was nothing there until suddenly, a gray, misty chaos aura emerged, continuing to coalesce and grow. Eventually, it grew to fill that void to the brim.

Afterwards, the chaos aura tumbled as if it was nurturing something. This process lasted for countless years on end. One day, finally, a life force was born in the chaos, giving the piece of chaos a strange and mysterious pulse...

As time passed, more forces were produced one after another in that chaos aura, each distinctly different from the life force and different from each other. They were like the origin of chaos. They constantly converged, vibrated, collided, transformed, and evolved...

In the end, they formed the four great dao dominions!

When the four great dao dominions took shape, it was like the beginning of a universe. The prototype of an epochal world formed in the chaos, which kept twisting, stretching, and expanding. When it finally stabilized, countless worlds, countless lives, and countless daos emerged thereupon...

All of this strange happening outlined an epochal civilization, interpreting the grand changes of existence and its karma, spacetime, fate... All kinds of marvelous powers intertwined and collided, perfecting the rise and fall of an epochal civilization in cycles.

When an epochal world went from flourishing to declining, it merged into the Fortune Dominion like a leaf falling back to its root, and then, it was not long before the chaos aura birthed a new epochal world...

As the epochs went through the cycle, so did the endless lives and daos. The only thing that remained unchanged were the four great dao dominions. They were stationed in place in this chaos, throughout each and every epoch!

Boom!

Something shook in Lin Xun’s mind, and the images burst like bubbles. Meanwhile, his spirit sense was still on the Boat of Eternity. In the distant chaos, that mysterious tree was quiet and motionless.

The images had vanished, but he felt with clarity the enlightenment that had settled in his brain. It was a realization related to the birth and formation of a ‘Chaos Era’!

“This old tree was born in the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders. The origins of the four great dao dominions formed on its branches. From it, one can understand the life of this Chaos Era from its birth to its changes... As it seems, this tree is a witness to everything that happened in this Chaos Era.”

At this conclusion, Lin Xun couldn't help but wonder, why would the Boat of Eternity bring his spirit sense here? He attempted once again to sense the aura that permeated the Boat of Eternity. This time, it yielded a shocking discovery. The aura of the treasure was of the same lineage as the aura of the ancient tree over there!

Don't tell me...it was that tree that gave birth to the Boat of Eternity?!

Lin Xun pondered hard, trying to understand the mystery behind this, but in the end, nothing came up. His brows furrowed. His spirit sense turned to the ancient tree in the distance, carefully surveying it.

Half a day later, an idea suddenly struck him. Maybe I can try the Nirvana principle on it?

After all, Nirvana was also related to the dao of life. Furthermore, he became an unprecedented variable because of it.

However, before Lin Xun could make an attempt to put this idea into action, something unexpected arose——Buzz!

The Boat of Eternity carrying his spirit suddenly shuddered, and Xia Zhi was moved out. After a jolt ran through her delicate body, she scanned her surroundings with confusion in her clear eyes, clearly having no clue where this was.

Seeing this, Lin Xun transmitted his voice with his spirit sense, “Don't panic, this is the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders. Stick to my spirit sense.”

Xia Zhi's eyes stopped moving as she processed his words, and she instantly quieted down.

At the same time, in both their spirit senses, the Boat of Eternity bloomed with radiance as if undergoing some magical metamorphosis. It kept shrinking and becoming compact, eventually transforming into a palm-sized leaf that was the color of chaos!

Shortly after that, however, the energy on the leaf began to wither and dry out. Like a small child drained of strength, it floated down that ancient tree like a falling leaf returning to its roots, and then, it vanished!

“This is...” Lin Xun was shaken. “Could it be because the Boat of Eternity exhausted its power carrying my spirit sense all the way here?

“Falling leaves return to their roots... Perhaps, the Boat of Eternity was originally a leaf on this tree, somehow swept out of the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders back then and obtained by Alpha Origin...

“Now, after carrying my spirit sense to this tree, it was finally returned to its mother where it could wither and enter eternal rest...”

Lin Xun had a feeling that his speculation was the case. There must be a marvelous echo between the Boat of Eternity and this ancient tree. Because of this, the boat had been able to locate his spirit sense, followed him, and took him here to witness its final ‘resting place.’

Thinking of this, he suddenly made a connection. If the Boat of Eternity was a leaf from this ancient tree, wouldn't Senior Chen Xi’s River Map be the same? And if so, how many leaves has this tree produced in this Chaos Era?

Since the Boat of Eternity opened the door to the Spirit Empowerment World, is it possible that the other leaves are keys to other secret worlds in the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders too?

The more he thought about it, the more he found this ancient tree extraordinary. It was born in the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders and had witnessed the birth and formation of this Chaos Era. The origin of the four great dao dominions were imprinted on it, and its leaves were most likely to be occult treasures such as the Boat of Eternity and the River Map.

How could such a tree be an ordinary existence?

“Lin Xun, is it impossible for me to leave this place anymore without the Boat of Eternity?” Xia Zhi suddenly asked, pulling Lin Xun out of his contemplation.

Lin Xun was dumbstruck. At the moment, he was only here as a wisp of spirit, which he could retrieve with a problem so long as he didn't encounter any obstacles on the way back. However, Xia Zhi was different. Her entirety had gotten here with the Boat of Eternity, where it was the depths of the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders!

Of note, this realm was riddled with the most treacherous dangers, enough to deter characters like Chen Xi, Alpha Origin, and himself from taking a step inside. Without the Boat of Eternity, how could Xia Zhi, at her current cultivation level, have a chance to leave alive?

“Do not fret, there has to be a solution.” Lin Xun inhaled deeply as he gazed at the ancient tree nearby. “This tree is bare right now, but I can try to make it metamorphose and produce a leaf with the power of Nirvana... Even if that doesn't work, there will definitely be another way. I will not let you be trapped here!”

His voice was permeated with resolution.

“Mhm.” Xia Zhi suddenly commented, “Speaking of which, the Eternal Night Divine Emperor was also born in the Forbidden Land of Myriad Wonders. Since I’m her reincarnation, this is no different from me returning to my home...right?”

This idea was peculiar and novel and viewed the situation from a special angle, but Lin Xun was unable to refute it. After all, this was indeed the case...

“No matter what, just be careful.” Interrupted by Xia Zhi’s weird observation, Lin Xun calmed down quite a bit. At the same time, the power of the Nirvana principle was channeled into his spirit sense and began to approach the ancient tree in the distance.

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