Chapter 500: Secluded Cultivation on the Chaos Continent

The Void Realm was chaotic and murky as a figure materialized and descended.

"We have arrived." Lin Yuan gazed carefully at a vast continent suspended in the distance. The size of this continent was dozens of times that of the Home Universe, and endless auras emanated from it, radiating into the deep Chaos Void in all directions.

"Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent?" A smile appeared on Lin Yuan's face.

This continent was the closest Chaos Continent to the Home Universe. A hundred years had passed inside the Universe, but only four months had passed in the Chaos Void.

Three months ago, Lin Yuan had been wandering aimlessly in the Chaos Void and accidentally discovered the aura radiated by the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent.

After three months of travel, Lin Yuan finally arrived.

The closer he got to the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent, the higher the frequency of encountering other Experts, and through negotiations with these Experts, he obtained intelligence information about the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent.

In the information left behind by the Peak Sovereign Realm Expert 'Cang Wei Yang', there were also introductions regarding the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent.

"My luck is not bad." Lin Yuan felt happy in his mind; the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent could be considered the marginal area of the map left by Senior 'Cang Wei Yang'.

Going a bit further would exceed the range recorded on the map.

The Chaos Void was boundless, and even a Chaotic Great Saint could not reach the edge, let alone a Dominator?

"Right now, my distance from the Home Universe—"

Lin Yuan glanced back.

With his current Space-Time Sevenfold Realm comprehension, every breath could cross the range of a Home Universe, yet even so, he had traveled non-stop for more than three months.

One could imagine just how far the Home Universe was from the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent.

Of course, this distance was only relative to Lin Yuan; for a Sovereign Realm, it might be crossed in a few hours, and for a Chaos Realm, it could be crossed in a single thought.

The three levels of the Twelfth Order—Proving Dao, Sovereign Realm, and Chaos Realm—were each like a natural chasm. It was said that surpassing the Chaos Realm would allow one to approach the Perfect Time Life and possess some characteristics of the Perfect Time Life.

"The connection with my true body's Primordial Spirit is almost reaching its limit," Lin Yuan thought to himself.

The Twelve-Order Ultimates who comprehended the Space-Time Sixfold Realm within the Home Universe could only have their condensed Incarnation linger near the Universe, and it could not last long before being eroded and collapsing by Chaos Qi.

Lin Yuan's space-time comprehension had reached the Space-Time Sevenfold Realm, and his connection range with the Incarnation far exceeded that of the Sixfold Realm, but no matter how far it exceeded, there was still a limit.

But Lin Yuan was very lucky. Before reaching the limit, he discovered the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent, or rather, the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent happened to be within the range where his true body's Primordial Spirit and Incarnation maintained a connection.

"The controller of the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent."

Information regarding the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent flashed through Lin Yuan's mind.

To be qualified to be called a Chaos Continent, there must be a Chaos Realm standing behind it.

And the Chaos Realm behind the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent was named Venerable Gu Ming, and the entire Chaos Continent was named after him.

Venerable Gu Ming valued fairness greatly. The Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent he opened up had prosperous trade, attracting Experts from the nearby Chaos Void and even other Chaos Continents to trade here.

"When Senior Cang Weiyang was alive, Venerable Gu Ming was already a renowned Chaos Venerable. Now that Senior Cang Weiyang has been dead for several cosmic eras, Venerable Gu Ming is still around."

Lin Yuan felt quite emotional in his heart.

Normally speaking, a Chaos Venerable was very, very difficult to die.

The mysterious disappearance of the two Chaotic Great Saints, Moyu Tower Master and Your Majesty Xuan Huang, could not confirm that they were dead.

And even if they were dead, they were not necessarily killed.

"Let's go in."

Lin Yuan continued to approach the distant vast Chaos Continent.

The Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent was shrouded by a grand Formation, with thirty-three exits and entrances around it. Lin Yuan chose the nearest entrance.

"To enter the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent, you need to pay ten chaos stones." In front of the entrance, a mental fluctuation entered Lin Yuan's ears.

"Understood." Lin Yuan nodded.

Slaughter was forbidden in the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent, making it extremely safe here.

Since it was safe, a fee naturally had to be paid. Compared to the perilous Chaos Void, the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent at least possessed order and safety.

Swish.

Lin Yuan took out ten chaos stones. He had obtained quite a few chaos stones from the Immortal Cave of the Peak Sovereign Realm Expert 'Cang Wei Yang', though most of them had been sent back to the Home Universe.

But his Incarnation still carried some, and the purpose was precisely for this scene before him.

With the information and intelligence left by Senior 'Cang Wei Yang', Lin Yuan was very clear about many rules of the Chaos Void.

"Hmm?"

Just at this moment, Lin Yuan looked up and saw several figures descending.

These several figures should belong to the same race. They paused at the entrance for a moment, and finally took out a few Twelfth Order weapons to make up the 'fee' for entering the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent.

Entering the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent required ten chaos stones; if one lacked chaos stones, treasures of the same level could be used as a substitute.

However, most Experts would choose chaos stones. Using other treasures as substitutes? There would be a price premium, and the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent would calculate them at the lowest price.

"Those few Experts should be Twelfth Order Dao Realms who just walked out of the Universe," Lin Yuan speculated inwardly.

The Chaos Void bred countless Universes. At every moment, there were great destructions of Universes, and Twelfth Order Dao Realms survived the tribulation of great destruction.

The Twelfth Order Dao Realms inside the Universe survived the tribulation of great destruction and officially entered the Chaos Void. If they were lucky, they would find the nearest Chaos Continent to settle down in.

If they were unlucky? Wandering in the Chaos Void for a long time might lead to encountering various dangers and perishing.

Twelfth Order Dao Realms could hardly die inside the Universe. That was because of the Universe's protection; the volume of the Universe was equivalent to a Chaos Realm Expert.

It isolated the vast majority of threats.

Without the Universe's protection, coupled with bad luck, Twelfth Order Dao Realms would often find themselves in danger.

There were many Experts in the Chaos Void who specifically watched Universes about to be destroyed, killing the Twelfth Order Dao Realms who survived the tribulation of great destruction.

Those capable of surviving the tribulation of the Universe's great destruction were the most powerful living beings within the Universe, and they definitely carried most of the wealth of a Universe.

Furthermore, having never entered the Chaos Void, they merely possessed the Twelfth Order Dao Realm, but in terms of combat power, they were definitely weaker than the Twelfth Order Dao Realms inside the Chaos Void.

Carrying a large amount of wealth while having weak strength.

Such 'fat sheep' naturally attracted the attention of many Experts.

In the Chaos Void, except for places like the Chaos Continents, all other regions had not a shred of order—it was the law of the jungle where the strong preyed on the weak.

"The tribulation of great destruction…" Lin Yuan's expression turned slightly solemn.

The great destruction of the Universe targeted all living beings within it. When the Universe was destroyed and the River of Time collapsed, all life would die.

Only the Twelfth Order Ultimates who jumped out of the River of Time had hope of surviving it.

But it was only a hope of surviving. When the great destruction of the Universe occurred, many rules collapsed, which was also fatal to the Twelfth Order Ultimates. Often, in the end, only a small fraction of the Twelfth Order Ultimates could smoothly walk out of the Universe and enter the Chaos Void.

As for those lives below the Twelfth Order?

If they wanted to survive, there was only one way.

That was to migrate their own essence of life imprint from the River of Time inside the Universe into the River of Time of the Twelfth Order Ultimate's inner Universe.

When the Universe was destroyed and the River of Time collapsed, any life within the river would surely die because their own essence of life imprint was also within the River of Time.

As long as the essence of life imprint was transferred into the River of Time of the Twelfth Order Ultimate's inner Universe, it would suffice.

After this Twelfth Order Ultimate survived the Universe's great destruction, countless living beings in the inner Universe could naturally survive as well.

Of course.

Even if the Twelfth Order Ultimates had this ability, they would not migrate too many living beings from the Universe into their own inner Universes.

Because the more living beings from the Universe they carried, the more they would attract the attention of the Universe's consciousness, and the greater and more terrifying the pressure they would bear during the great destruction.

"In the great destruction of the Universe, ninety-nine percent of the citizens of Human Civilization will die," Lin Yuan thought silently in his heart.

In fact, ninety-nine percent was already considered good. The living beings able to enter the inner Universe of a Twelfth Order Ultimate at most numbered one-in-a-million or one-in-ten-million.

Coupled with the fact that more than half of the Twelfth Order Ultimates would also perish along with the Universe's great destruction, the number was even fewer.

"Forget it, thinking about these things is too far off now."

Lin Yuan reined in his thoughts. The Home Universe was still very young, and barring any accidents, there was still an incomparably distant distance away from the Universe's great destruction.

Before long.

Lin Yuan entered the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent.

The Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent had nine cities, which were places where all foreign lives gathered.

As for outside the cities? It was likewise covered with many Formations and was also the cultivation ground of Venerable Gu Ming, forbidding any foreign Experts from stepping into it without authorization.

"What is that?"

Lin Yuan looked distantly towards the center of the continent.

There stood a black Mountain Peak, and a terrifying aura permeated in all directions. This black Mountain Peak was filled with the aura of dark Chaos, enough to make ordinary Sovereign Realm Experts tremble in their hearts.

"That is a horn of the Chaos Dragon Beast subdued by Venerable Gu Ming," Lin Yuan thought to himself.

As a Chaos Venerable, Venerable Gu Ming had traveled the Chaos Void in his early years and subdued a Chaos Dragon Beast, which possessed combat power close to the Chaos Realm.

At this moment, the Mountain Peak standing in the center of the Chaos Continent was merely a single horn of the Chaos Dragon Beast. As for the true body of the Chaos Dragon Beast? It was slumbering deep within the Chaos Continent.

"A Chaos Dragon Beast comparable to the Chaos Realm in combat power." Lin Yuan withdrew his gaze. The prosperous trade of the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent was not unrelated to this Chaos Dragon Beast.

No matter who it was, even a Peak Sovereign Realm Expert, upon seeing that single horn piercing the firmament, would feel their scalp go numb, let alone dare to cause trouble on the Chaos Continent.

Whether a Chaos Continent was prosperous did not have too much to do with the strength of the Chaos Venerable.

No matter how strong your strength was, if the order of the Chaos Continent under your command was chaotic, other Experts would not be willing to trade at your place.

If we cannot afford to provoke you, can't we at least hide from you?

Venerable Gu Ming believed in fairness, and over successive cosmic eras, no bad reputation had spread. Many Dao Realms and Sovereign Realm Experts also liked to come to the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent to trade and engage in secluded cultivation.

Lin Yuan entered Ming Chuan City, one of the nine cities of the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent.

The city was vast and divided into many areas, such as the trading area, living area, and so on.

"Many shops in the trading area have a certain Sovereign Realm backing them, and their influence is limited only to the Venerable Gu Ming Chaos Continent or simply Ming Chuan City."

Lin Yuan swept his gaze across them, then looked further into the depths.

Magnificent buildings stood there. Behind these buildings were various factions originating from other Chaos Continents, and standing behind them were all Chaos Realm Experts.

Compared to the private shops of many Sovereign Realms, these large shops had a better reputation, and of course, their prices were also more expensive.

"Pavilion of Myriad Daos?"

Lin Yuan looked towards the building in the deepest part. One of the pavilions was misty and unfathomable.

The Pavilion of Myriad Daos did not trade or sell treasures or Materials, but rather evolution paths.

To step into the Twelfth Order, one had to walk to the end of an evolution path, and this evolution path could not yet have any Twelfth Order existence.

The Chaos Void was vast and boundless. The Ultimates who could rely solely on their own strength to improve a completely brand-new evolution path from scratch and finally step into the Twelfth Order were extremely rare.

The evolution paths walked by the vast majority of Twelfth Order Experts were already existing ones.

For lives below the Twelfth Order, an evolution path leading to the Twelfth Order required great perseverance and great Opportunity to create.

But for many Chaos Realm Experts, perhaps in a single closed-door cultivation session, exploring hundreds or thousands of paths, they could figure out hundreds or thousands of Twelfth Order evolution paths.

The Great Dao was infinite, and any evolution path possessed the potential to ascend to the Twelfth Order.

It was merely a matter of high or low probability, but during closed-door cultivation, Chaos Realm Experts would observe the essence of the Great Dao with their minds, and various evolution paths would emerge. Some Chaos Realm Experts would record these evolution paths and eventually refine them.

"Evolution paths are also divided into high and low; some evolution paths hold hope of stepping into the Sovereign Realm or even Chaos Realm," Lin Yuan thought silently in his heart.

He had no interest in the evolution paths bought and sold by the Pavilion of Myriad Daos. For any evolution path, what suited oneself was definitely the most important, and the Martial Dao Evolution path, having been personally created by himself, naturally matched himself perfectly.

Since the Pavilion of Myriad Daos dared to buy and sell evolution paths, the existence behind it was naturally unimaginable.

Among the many intelligence reports left behind by the Peak Sovereign Realm Expert 'Cang Wei Yang', the Pavilion of Myriad Daos was definitely one of the entities forbidden from being provoked.

Even in the era of Your Majesty Xuan Huang and Moyu Tower Master, the Pavilion of Myriad Daos had already existed, and these two Chaotic Great Saints were extremely wary of the Pavilion of Myriad Daos.

"The Pavilion of Myriad Daos is suspected to be a layout of a nearly Perfect Time Life?"

Lin Yuan thought of Your Majesty Xuan Huang's description of the Pavilion of Myriad Daos, which was also one of the few moments when Your Majesty Xuan Huang spoke in a solemn tone.

Lin Yuan had no intention of contacting the Pavilion of Myriad Daos for the time being.

After entering Ming Chuan City, what Lin Yuan needed to do was to settle down here permanently.

The Chaos Void was too dangerous. Over the past four-plus months, Lin Yuan had almost experienced a life-and-death crisis. If not for relying on the Space-Time Sevenfold Realm comprehension, he probably would have ended his trip to the Chaos Void long ago.

Settling down in Ming Chuan City had many benefits. First was safety, and second, trade here was extremely prosperous. Lin Yuan could completely trade for the treasures and Materials he wanted.

Exploring the Chaos Void?

Obtaining treasures and encounters?

For Lin Yuan, who was still a Tier 11 life at this moment, it was still too far-fetched.

Directly obtaining the Immortal Cave of the Peak Sovereign Realm Expert 'Cang Wei Yang' previously was the result of Lin Yuan's extremely good luck.

But luck could not last forever.