He saw in Xu Lei's eyes that his former good friend did not trust him.
He continued, "You repeatedly say we cannot be ignorant, that we must believe in science... Have you forgotten what enabled us to travel through time?"
"The Gate of Time and Space."
"Can that truly be considered science?"
Wei Hong asked a question that no traverser had ever raised before.
Why did traversers, after their journeys, come to believe that technology could crush everything?
After traversing, why did they no longer believe in gods or immortals? Had traversers ever considered why they were able to traverse in the first place?
Xu Lei remained silent, offering no reply.
The two parted ways without haste.
Wei Hong, meanwhile, went to the great mountain he had seen before, and waited.
...
Blue Star was a land of many disasters.
The Water-Avoiding Pearl appeared, the Ancient Tower invaded, and even so-called parallel worlds emerged.
Fang Ming, wielding the Heavenly Origin Jade, reaped endless emotional value and stirred up storms across Blue Star.
Many people experienced so-called "fortuitous encounters" and considered themselves favored by heaven, children of destiny.
After researching some extraordinary items, numerous nations truly found some methods (methods conjured by Fang Ming's illusions), creating their own superhumans and even sub-tier extraordinary items.
This was an era of intensity and upheaval.
Although many bled and lost their lives, the entire world ushered in a new future.
Fang Ming watched with joy as his strength increased, from three-star to four-star, and then from four-star to five-star.
He began to plan to use the energy of various planets in the universe to further enhance his strength.
However, the delighted Fang Ming did not realize that outside this ten-star work-world, someone had always been watching him.
...
Outside the ten-star work-world.
In the Sea of Void.
A stunningly beautiful youth quietly observed another version of himself.
Himself, wielding the Heavenly Origin Jade.
He shook his head slightly.
When memories become something that can be replicated, the distinctions between "I," "you," and "he" sometimes diminish.
That version of himself believed he had been defeated by the Heavenly Dao Fox Ancestor.
But in reality, it was merely implanted memory.
The real him, let alone the Heavenly Dao Fox Ancestor, had not even cleared the Divine Realm opened by the Yin-Yang Divine Venerable.
"If memories can be altered,"
"Then, do I truly exist?"
"Or am I a clone of someone else?"
"It cannot be falsified!"
The stunningly beautiful youth shook his head and vanished from the Sea of Void.
There was no need to worry about the clone of himself.
After all, without the technology of the Sea of Void, no matter how great the achievements, one could not leave a work-world.
And the true Fang Ming had clearly not given that clone Fang Ming any Sea of Void technology.
Therefore, someone who could not leave a work-world posed no threat.
...
An unknown place.
An unsolved mystery.
An unknown narrative layer.
The Primordial World.
The Chaos was vast, boundless and immeasurable.
Innumerable Chaotic Spiritual Qi formed the Chaos.
And within the Chaos lay the Primordial World.
In the Primordial World, myriad races thrived, and in the Four Seas, Venerable Yunlong presided.
Since the ancient Dragon-Phoenix Calamity and the fall of Zhulong, the true controller of the Four Seas had become Venerable Yunlong.
Venerable Yunlong possessed the body of a dragon and had attained the Great Luo fruit status, making him a renowned and powerful being in both the Three Realms and the myriad worlds.
It was upon hearing of Venerable Yunlong's impending sermon that Daoist Xuanzhen traversed countless work-worlds, entering from the shallow sea to the deep sea, and then to the deepest sea – the Supreme Primordial World – to pay homage to Venerable Yunlong.
While flying through the Primordial World, Daoist Xuanzhen was almost terrified.
He had once constructed infinite work-worlds and reached the pinnacle, and was by no means weak in many work-worlds such as the Spiritual Void Heaven Domain and the Light-Dark World.
But the Primordial World was different.
In the Primordial World, there were endless powerful beings; even an Earth Immortal here could annihilate most terrifying worlds in the deep sea.
Daoist Xuanzhen was once known as Dao Ancestor Xuanzhen in the Sea of Void.
However, upon arriving in the Primordial World, he quickly restrained himself and changed his Daoist title, which was conceptually linked to himself, for fear that some powerful existence might bring him calamity out of dislike for his title.
Daoist Xuanzhen knew that Dao Ancestor Hongjun existed in the Primordial World. Although this was not the shallow or deep sea regions of the Sea of Void, nor one of the many low-tier, mid-tier, or high-tier Primordial Worlds, but the Supreme Primordial World, Dao Ancestor Hongjun did not hold absolute supreme status here.
However, it was said that he had once favored the Demon Emperor Lu Ya, and even if not a pseudo-saint of the Great Dao, he was an existence at the absolute peak of the Great Luo fruit status, someone he could not afford to offend.
Carefully avoiding numerous beings who called themselves Xuan Immortals, but who were actually extremely powerful in the deep sea regions of the Sea of Void,
Daoist Xuanzhen soon encountered Venerable Yunlong.
Venerable Yunlong's birth was extremely ancient, dating back to the ancient Dragon-Phoenix Calamity.
During the ancient Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, the Dragon Clan and the Phoenix Clan vied for supremacy, and Venerable Yunlong was one of the dragons who followed Ancestral Dragon.
After many dragons perished, only a few Great Luo remained in the Dragon Clan.
Venerable Yunlong and Venerable Feilong were among the few Great Luo who survived.
Of course, this was merely a record.
Daoist Xuanzhen knew deeply that perhaps in the Sea of Void, in those low-tier, mid-tier, and high-tier Primordial work-worlds, the records were as such.
But in this Supreme Primordial World, records were not just records.
Great Luo Golden Immortals were also known as Mythical Great Luo in the Supreme Primordial World.
They had attained the "Supreme Fruit Status."
Just as he was now, when he looked at Venerable Yunlong, he perceived Venerable Yunlong's transcendence.
He had already surpassed countless work-worlds in the Sea of Void, and in countless work-worlds in both the shallow and deep sea regions, his time and space were under Venerable Yunlong's control.
His true spirit had left traces in the past, present, and future of countless work-worlds in the Sea of Void.
His will permeated beyond the Supreme Primordial World, encompassing all low-tier, mid-tier, high-tier, and top-tier Primordial Worlds, and indeed all other worlds, unconstrained by any work-world or any space-time.
He was the sole existence in the myriad worlds of the Sea of Void, with corresponding avatars in countless work-worlds, while his true body resided within the origin world of the myriad worlds of the Sea of Void, the Supreme Primordial World, ruling over countless work-worlds with his Mythical Great Luo fruit status.
"Transcending all omniverses, ruling all work-worlds, any single avatar can evolve infinite work-worlds, can evolve... an unreachably large cardinal number强者...?"
"What is an unreachably large cardinal number?"
After Daoist Xuanzhen uttered this phrase,
Venerable Yunlong, who looked down upon all work-worlds from the Supreme Primordial World at the origin realm, his expression suddenly changed.
A book appeared in his hand.
It seemed to be a book, and also a Sea of Void, containing countless work-worlds within.
The great beings present, who had traveled from other worlds to the Supreme Primordial World to listen to the sermon, also vaguely perceived this concept.