The Chaos Era,
began in chaos and flourished with the birth of life.
Because He divided the entire universe into countless realms.
The new wills born in the galaxies could not overcome the laws He had established.
They could not cross the chaos.
This caused these individual wills, over the long passage of time, to develop a thirst for knowledge about what lay beyond the chaos and a curiosity for the unknown.
This is the instinct of all living beings.
It is also the instinct of a galaxy's will.
Driven by this instinct, the wills of the galaxies also began to think.
If they could not pass through, could something else?
Trial,
is the beginning of exploration...
And so, they endowed their galaxies with life.
They created the most primitive life forms.
Spirits.
The first spirits!
These first spirits multiplied and thrived in their respective galaxies.
They rose from the chaos under the laws of the galaxy's will.
Some powerful first spirits continuously broke through their shackles and became the masters of their galaxies.
Carrying the expectations of the galaxy's will, they set foot into that chaos.
Countless first spirits followed one after another, attempting to cross that chasm and reach the world beyond.
To conquer the unknown, to explore the unknown, and to unravel the truth hidden behind the layers of chaos...
Just as Xu Xian had journeyed all the way to this point.
Although it was difficult,
and although there were failures,
some first spirits still managed to do it.
They succeeded.
The Will of the Universe gave its silent consent.
one by one, first spirits successfully crossed the Sea of Chaos and reached new galaxies.
At first, they were only there to explore.
Establishing ties,
getting to know one another,
and maintaining a tacit agreement of non-interference.
But after an extremely long time, some first spirits could no longer restrain their desires.
So they took their own races across the Sea of Chaos to conquer the star systems and dominate the star sea.
Upon the Sea of Chaos,
chaos ensued.
The aggression of the plunderers,
and the refusal of the guardians to retreat.
The fall of the strong.
The rise of new spirits.
The wills of the galaxies continuously tried to escape the control of the Will of the Universe.
They attempted to break free from their bonds, secretly bestowing their own galaxy's first spirits with various divine abilities, talents, laws, and domains...
The war became increasingly cruel.
The star sea became increasingly chaotic.
The galaxy's wills achieved annexation and evolution through the conquests of their spirits.
Until at one point, the Will of the Universe noticed.
A portion of the galaxy's wills had already escaped its control through these means.
Some powerful first spirits had even grown strong enough to threaten it through their constant conquests.
He knew,
that if this continued, one day a will would be born whose created spirits could contend with or even destroy Him.
He could, of course, erase everything with a single thought,
but He was a king,
and a king has his own stubbornness.
He would end this farce using their own methods.
He would show the entire universe that He was supreme and invincible.
And so,
He also created a race of first spirits within the chaotic universe.
An ancient and powerful race.
Under His instructions, this race began to sweep away the powerful spirit tribes of the star sea.
They devoured their opponents and assimilated them.
Wherever they went,
spirits were extinguished.
Desolation followed.
At that time, the spirits of the universe called them the [Spirit-Devouring Tribe].
The Spirit-Devouring Tribe,
possessed the most primitive devouring ability of the Will of the Universe.
They could devour all living beings, assimilate them, and plunder their abilities and power.
Thus,
one by one, the galaxy's wills collapsed, one by one, powerful spirit races were wiped out, and one by one, galaxies turned into dead silence.
His goal was achieved.
But,
the Spirit-Devouring Tribe did not stop there; driven by desire, the Spirit-Devouring Tribe, having no other spirits to devour, began to devour and kill each other.
Eventually,
they even began to devour the stars and every energy-bearing object in the universe.
The stars began to fade.
The universe gradually grew dim.
Darkness descended upon the universe.
And as the stars of the universe were extinguished, His power also began to wane.
The Spirit-Devouring Tribe began to rebel, inheriting the ambitions of the galaxy's wills and seeking to replace Him.
He was wrong!
He could not bear to see this ancient universe become desolate and turn into a void.
To rectify the mistake He had made,
He acted personally,
wiping out the Spirit-Devouring Tribe.
But He had not only bestowed the power of devouring upon the Spirit-Devouring Tribe, He had also granted them indestructible bodies and souls.
This contradicted His own laws.
He found that He could not even completely erase them.
He could only use the power of the Sea of Chaos to seal the Spirit-Devouring Tribe in another dimension of the chaos.
The Chaos Era,
thus came to an end.
With His energy exhausted and on the verge of falling into a deep sleep, He split Himself, bestowing a Heavenly Dao upon every galaxy.
To prevent the Spirit-Devouring Tribe from making a comeback,
He created new spirits.
He established the three great rivers: the River of Reincarnation, the River of Years, and the River of Time...
Which flowed through the entire starry sky.
From then on, the new spirits lived and died, reincarnated, and cultivated to break through the path.
The Ancient Era began.
All spirits thrived, entered immortality, became emperors, and attained the Dao throughout the heavens.
As for the Ancient Desolate Era after the Ancient Era, the Ancient Period after the Ancient Desolate Era, and all the way to the Era of Primal Chaos...
These were eras unique to Cangming.
Li Taibai said,
that after the end of the Chaos Era, no living being had ever left Cangming and returned from another galaxy.
Therefore, the ancient documents naturally contained no records of what lay beyond Cangming.
Or whether those places were like Cangming,
having experienced the same eras.
The story spanned endless ages, sounding bizarre, strange, and absolutely absurd.
The derivation of a single consciousness, a grand play directed and performed by itself.
From beginning to end, Xu Xian only listened and did not think too much.
The Primordial Era was too distant.
The Chaos Era was too long ago.
These things seemed to have nothing to do with him, until Li Taibai mentioned the Spirit-Devouring Tribe, and Xu Xian was suddenly jolted awake.
Indestructible?
Could it be that the Twilight Emperor was a descendant of the Spirit-Devouring Tribe?
Furthermore, in the Battle of the Boundary Sea that the little book spirit had mentioned more than once.
It was also said that the former master of the Sword Tower, Ye Wujiang, had guarded the Boundary Sea alone for hundreds of thousands of years.
In the final battle,
he resealed the dark creatures but fell because of it.
Did the dark creatures mentioned there refer to the Spirit-Devouring Tribe?
Was Li Taibai telling him all this to inform him that Above the Heavens, the dark creatures were returning once again?
An ominous feeling began to spread.
Yet,
he did not interrupt Li Taibai’s narration.
And,
the story in his mouth began to accelerate from the sealing of the Spirit-Devouring Tribe and the birth of the new spirits.
The Ancient Era,
the Ancient Desolate Era,
and the Ancient Period,
Li Taibai glossed over them all with just a few words.
He spoke of the wars of the heavens in the Ancient Era.
He spoke of the struggle for the extreme path in the Ancient Desolate Era.
He spoke of the fall of the gods in the Ancient Period.
Until the Era of Primal Chaos...
The Boundary Sea stirred, darkness invaded, spirits were wiped out, and stars were extinguished.
Ye Wujiang was born to face the calamity, gathering the Twelve Divine Swords to build the White Jade Capital and suppress the Boundary Sea.
From the beginning of the Era of Primal Chaos until its middle period.
The alien race tore open the seal, pushed through the chaos, and invaded in force.
Ye Wujiang held his sword and fought the alien race.
He also said that in that battle, all the experts of Cangming participated...
The stories that followed began to overlap with what the old tortoise and Lu Yuan had said.
The Battle of the Boundary Sea,
Cangming won a tragic victory, and Ye Wujiang exhausted all of his fortune.
At the end of his life, to prevent the Twelve Divine Swords from being tainted with the aura of the alien race and becoming restless, potentially causing chaos in the world in the future,
he built a Sword Mound and entrusted it to the Li family ancestors. He also left behind a sword stele and an endgame chess match, informing future generations that whoever could solve the endgame and comprehend the sword stele would be the new master of the Sword Tower.
In the future,
that person would surely inherit his will and guard the Boundary Sea.
He had also left behind a prophecy.
If the alien race were to break the seal and return in the future, a fated one would surely be born in Cangming to face the calamity, reopen the Sword Tower, and inherit his will.
To protect the star sea.
After Ye Wujiang’s death, the Li family ancestors returned to Cangming, chose a province to establish their sect, and watched over the Sword Mound and the sword stele.
Waiting for the fated one to appear.
The Li family descendants,
had passed this down through the generations.
Guarding it until this day.
Waiting for the arrival of the Sword Bearer.
The story skipped past the war of the fallen emperors during the Era of Primal Chaos and arrived at the Battle of the Boundary Sea during the Era of Ancient Immortals.
It was also after that battle.
Fanzhou was born.
Li Taibai said, "In that battle, three of my clan's first ancestors entered the world with swords on their backs, fighting for Cangming until their strength was spent. In the end, at the cost of their own lives, they managed to seal the Twilight Emperor in this place and pacified that chaotic world..."
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