A day passed in a blur. Chen Tian awoke from his recuperation, his origin recovering only slightly, though it made little difference to him. He opened his eyes, stepped out of his room, and headed towards the central plaza. The central plaza was already filled with the cultivation auras of cultivators and martial artists. The immense pressure emanating from them deterred ordinary practitioners from entering. Chen Tian clapped his hands together, the rhythmic sounds echoing as the crowd slowly stirred.
Chen Tian said lightly, "Not bad, not bad. It seems your cultivation techniques have entered the first level and are proceeding to the final step. If you can endure it, our chances of winning this battle will be on our side."
"Everyone, do you have confidence!"
"Yes!"
The crowd roared. Chen Tian spread his arms, his face turning pale. Grayish-white energy flowed from his arms. As this energy appeared, the surrounding space shattered, and void emerged from behind Chen Tian, expanding bit by bit. Chen Tian watched this unfold, his will firming as he controlled this power. This power was too immense; Chen Tian could only guide a sliver of it outside his body. Any stronger, and his body would explode and die.
Chen Tian forcibly controlled this power, breaking into a sweat. Blood streamed from his entire body, flowing from his lips, nose, and eyes. What was shocking was the color of the blood—grayish-white. Seeing the color of the blood, everyone was horrified. Was this human blood?
He was no longer human!
Chen Tian possessed many physiques, energies, and systems. These things caused his body to change. It could be said that Chen Tian was human now, but not of the human race from China. He was a human from the myriad worlds.
Chen Tian's blood was the same as that of humans from the myriad worlds. The reason was simple: Chen Tian had stepped into that place, and everything had changed from there.
Finally, Chen Tian managed to force three wisps of energy from his internal origin, which entered the gray gas. He spread his arms, and two vortices appeared on either side of him.
Chen Tian said weakly, "Cultivators go to the left, China cultivators go to the right. Hurry!"
Chen Tian endured his weakness and discomfort. Controlling the two vortices had a time limit; he couldn't maintain it for long.
Moreover, prolonged exertion would cause him immense harm. Chen Tian couldn't afford to suffer such great damage.
Upon hearing this, everyone quickly divided themselves into teams and rushed into the vortices.
As soon as everyone entered the vortices, Chen Tian could no longer hold on and collapsed onto the ground.
He lay flat on the ground, with only two small vortex openings remaining.
A woman appeared in the center of the plaza. Her aura was mysterious, her gauze ethereal, as if everything around her had frozen. No one knew she had been there.
Qing Ling and the others didn't notice. The woman looked at Chen Tian with a sorrowful expression, "Why you, why are you always the one getting hurt? Your personality has never changed."
After speaking, tears welled up in her eyes. She turned, and Chen Tian and her figures vanished.
Across the entire Earth, time in the cultivation world froze. Everything here was like a painting.
At the center of the universe, there was a nebular vortex, known as the Forbidden Zone. Beings who entered here had no hope of survival. Yet, within it lay a mountain village, occupying the central interior.
Inside the mountain village, it was prosperous and flourishing. The humans had no imposing aura; they were like ordinary mortals. These people simply took a step, and the surrounding nebular vortexes rotated and operated in response.
A figure appeared outside the mountain village. It was a woman, carrying a young man. She stepped out and entered the mountain village, arriving under a willow tree where flowers bloomed.
An old man opened his eyes and said, "Third Brother, you have crossed the line. This is something he must go through."
"But I can't bear it. We shouldn't have sent him away back then."
"Do you think we wanted to? This is for the universe, for all the worlds in the universe, for all beings within it."
The old man sighed sadly. Sending him away back then was a necessity. To resolve the future crisis, it could only be done this way.
"Help him, Second Brother. I don't want to see him suffer like this."
The woman started crying. Looking at Chen Tian's state, her heart felt as if it were wounded.
The old man shook his head and murmured softly, "To save him, unless he endures it himself and completes the fusion of Immortal and Martial, or one of us sacrifices our origin life force."
"Second Brother, I, I'll use mine. I'm willing to give up my origin life force."
"Third Sister, do you know what you're saying? Once your origin life force disappears, you will cease to exist. No beings like you will ever be born again."
"And you control the power of laws. Your disappearance means the entire universe will lose the power of laws. No, this is unacceptable. From the primordial Xuanhuang, chaos was born. Beneath chaos, all things are born. All things give rise to laws and various energies. Losing you would be a massive loss to the universe."
Regardless, the elders present did not want Third Sister to sacrifice herself. Third Sister controlled the origin of laws. Her disappearance would mean the entire universe would no longer have the energy of laws, nor would the power of laws ever appear.
Without the support of the power of laws, the Heavenly Dao would be incomplete, and the world would collapse before long. The universe would collapse on its own before reaching that point.
This was absolutely unacceptable!
"Don't worry, Third Sister. When we sent him away, he had already generated Chaos Origin within him. With one more step to complete the Immortal-Martial fusion, he won't be far from Xuanhuang Origin. Trust him."
Another old man looked at Chen Tian with his gray-white pupils.
If Chen Tian woke up, he would discover this was the Origin Village. Unfortunately, Chen Tian was now in a deep slumber.
The woman had no choice but to place Chen Tian's figure under the Origin Village tree.
"Third Sister, tell us what information you gathered this time when you went out."
The elders suddenly became serious.
"Second Brother, currently, three of the Nine Heavens have been invaded. I fear they won't hold on."
"Alas! The situation is dire. This is happening faster than we calculated."
"What do we do? He hasn't completed his eleventh reincarnation yet. We absolutely cannot let the universe fall."
One of the old men calculated on his fingers, then said, "There is still a chance. It's not the right time. I cannot reveal this method."
As the old man spoke, everyone fell silent. The old man who spoke controlled the origin of the future and could see some future events. When he said it wasn't the time, they wouldn't question him.
The people of the Origin Village were all beings of Origin.
Each person was an element that made up a universe. If even one person was missing, the entire universe would collapse.
They didn't question him because it was for his own good.
"Third Sister, send him back. The eleventh life has not been completed, and he cannot exceed the bounds of the universe. We cannot meet him."
"Alright. I only hope his remaining lives can be more ordinary."
The woman waved her hand gently, and Chen Tian's figure was carried away by the wind.
"Third Sister, you are too devoted. You clearly know we...!"
"I know, but I still like him. That will never change."
In China, in the cultivation world, time flowed simultaneously. Chen Tian's figure returned to his room.
In Chen Tian's consciousness, he felt like he was trapped in a huge vortex, his consciousness drifting aimlessly. Chen Tian spoke, "This time, nearly half of my origin was wasted, affecting my entire body and consciousness. It seems it will take more than half a year to recover."
"But I need to get out of here first. If I continue to drift like this, my consciousness will completely dissipate."
Within his consciousness space, Chen Tian's consciousness recovered slightly, but he couldn't move. It hadn't fully healed.
Chen Tian felt his consciousness slowly disappearing when suddenly a voice echoed in his consciousness.
"Ding! Detected host consciousness is being consumed. This system will guard the host's origin!"
"Warning, warning! To guard the host's origin, this system will enter dormancy. It cannot be activated unless the host obtains the power of origin. Execute?"
The system's voice echoed in Chen Tian's mind. He hadn't expected the system to be within his consciousness.
Chen Tian fretted. The system was undoubtedly crucial to his growth. If the system went dormant, Chen Tian didn't know how great the impact would be.
But he couldn't wait in his current situation. Was he going to wait for his consciousness to dissipate?
"Ding! Detected host has entered the Origin Village, with the power of origin at your side. This system can help the host resist for free. Activating the protection of the power of origin."
Within Chen Tian's consciousness, a beam of light shot out, and a vortex appeared. A figure emerged from the vortex.
It was someone identical to Chen Tian, but with a completely different aura and temperament.
"Hello, host. This is our first meeting like this. Allow me to introduce myself, I am the system, and the system is you. This system was transformed from the eleventh life of you."
"Everything is arranged!"
Chen Tian's mind was filled with questions. What was all this?
The eleventh life? What kind of joke was that? The Heavenly Dao's limit was nine, with ten being the maximum. Reincarnation followed this pattern. The eleventh life? He had never heard of such a thing.
This was common knowledge in the cultivation world.
"I know you are confused, host. When you go through the eleventh life, you will understand the fundamental reason for all this."
The system's voice stopped. Chen Tian's conscious form was enveloped by a light, and his consciousness began to repair bit by bit, even regaining his ability to move.
Before Chen Tian could react, his consciousness flashed, and he left.
Inside Chen Tian's room, Chen Tian opened his eyes, looking bewildered.
"Who am I?"
"Origin Village, eleventh life, system. How do these things feel connected, yet I have no memory of them? Strange, strange!"
"Congratulations, host, for completing the Immortal-Martial fusion. Chaos Origin has completely taken shape!"
A system voice sounded. Chen Tian was stunned. Wasn't the Immortal-Martial fusion the method Chen Tian used to strengthen everyone's abilities this time? How did he complete it?
Observing his internal origin, he saw only a gray-white origin, though the Chaos Origin was dimmer than before.
Chen Tian had consumed too much origin, affecting his Chaos Origin.
Chen Tian felt the power within him. Just drawing a sliver of Chaos Origin caused his whole body to ache.
"This, this power is even stronger than the power from the Holy God Realm? Is this the peak power of the myriad worlds?"
This time, Chen Tian felt confident he could defeat the opponent.
"Several days have passed."
Chen Tian didn't know how long he had been asleep. He hurriedly left his room to see what was happening outside.