stonecrandall Chapter 379 Creations of the Heavens, Deep Palace at the Bottom of the River
Chapter 379 Creations of the Heavens, Deep Palace at the Bottom of the River
Chapter 379 Creations of the Heavens, Deep Palace at the Bottom of the River
Ye Yang was naturally not afraid of the One Yuan Water of that day.
First of all, he is not a being from the Source River World, nor has he undergone any reconstruction; his material foundation is not part of the Source River World's system.
The reason why Tianyi Yuanshui can have such terrifying performance is simply because all things in the Yuanhe world are evolved from it; it is the mother of all things!
But the laws of one country cannot govern people in another country.
Moreover, Ye Yang is currently refining Tai Su, a substance that is extremely close to its original state under the main world's law system. Its quality is even higher than that of the One Yuan Water of that day, so it is impossible for it to be corroded.
Therefore, compared to the Star Lords or Source Emperors who need to be extremely careful when facing strange river beasts, his approach is quite violent.
After diving to a depth of nearly 100 million kilometers, Ye Yang encountered his first strange river beast.
At the bottom of this river, the water is compressed to an immense weight, and the riverbed is extremely hard. An attack from a novice True Immortal would probably only be able to leave a few marks on it.
The riverbed rises and falls rapidly, forming countless mountain ranges and ravines.
River beasts roam among these mountains and ravines, occupying various places and dividing up their territories.
Upon arriving in this deep-sea world, Ye Yang was immediately confronted with an attack from a river beast that occupied a mountain peak.
It was a river beast that resembled a crocodile, covered in hard scales, with its long jaws open, spraying a ball of Heavenly Yuan Water directly at Ye Yang!
Come here.
Ye Yang reached out and grabbed the river beast, ignoring the Heavenly Yuan Water spraying at him.
Glug glug~~
The river beast struggled frantically, emitting muffled sounds.
The Heavenly Primordial Water it had previously sprayed was shattered upon impact with Ye Yang within half a meter of him, and then dispersed to the surrounding area.
Having captured a river beast, Ye Yang probed its body with his divine sense, observing how its hide was constantly being damaged and corroded by the mixture of the Heavenly Primal Water he had previously sprayed and the river water.
"Interesting. The outer skin feels very similar to the physical structure of creatures in the Source River World, but the deeper you go, the lower the degree of evolution of the primordial water becomes, and the closer it gets to the Heavenly One Primordial Water, until finally the core is completely composed of pure Heavenly One Primordial Water."
Ye Yang vaguely sensed that the form of this river beast seemed to be constrained by something. Under the influence of that thing, the Heavenly One Yuan Water continuously evolved and degraded, forming the appearance, bones, and internal organs of this river beast.
But the more it evolves, the more stable its "form" becomes, while the "essence" of the primordial water diminishes—perhaps one day, after this river beast has consumed all the primordial water in its body, it will completely transform into an ordinary creature of the source river world.
"But if it loses the power generated during the transformation and downgrading process of the Heavenly Primordial Water, this river beast will also lose its power comparable to a True Immortal, and will become unable to survive at this depth —"
Ye Yang looked around and saw that the deep water here actually contained extremely rare Tianyi Yuan Water.
Therefore, due to the concentration difference, the process of the degradation and evolution of the primordial water in the river beast's body can no longer continue after a certain point.
At that time, this river beast would likely fall into a long slumber, and even after its final evolution was complete, it would not transform into a true living being of flesh and blood, ultimately becoming a stone, deposited deep at the bottom of the river.
"The Primordial Water of Heaven, this foundation of creation actually seems a bit monotonous. It doesn't have that feeling of true chaos, unfathomableness, the evolution of all things, and infinite possibilities."
"It is extremely rare for a diverse and vibrant world of life to evolve—but now it seems there may be other reasons."
Ye Yang was only speculating. To find evidence, or rather, to uncover the true secrets of this mysterious waterway, more exploration was needed.
Since he suspected that some force was maintaining the form of these river beasts, Ye Yang's task was naturally to separate them. And among his current methods, the most useful was naturally the Great Dao Domain.
Ye Yang expanded the scope of his repulsion of the laws of this world, while also causing the various wonders of the Heavenly One Primordial Water to gradually fade away.
As the Great Dao Domain enveloped the river beast, Ye Yang's mind stirred, attempting to separate only the Heavenly One Yuan Water—
—As a result, the river beast exploded completely, vanishing into nothingness!
Bang!
"wrong."
Ye Yang shook his head and looked down at the river beasts below, some sitting cross-legged and some standing.
He quickly caught another one and tried again.
Bang!
The third one ————! ·Four ————!
As Ye Yang scanned and explored the riverbed with his divine sense, traversing through countless ravines, he casually captured river beasts for research.
These river beasts have no souls or much intelligence. They are indifferent even when they witness the tragic deaths of their own kind. They will only attack without hesitation when a foreign object enters their territory and they become aware of it.
In Ye Yang's opinion, these were all "incomplete" lives, which was quite bizarre. Although they looked strange and varied, they were all just "empty shells," lacking the essence of life.
"This body of water is quite large; I don't know how long it would take me to explore it all by myself. If I can't glean some information from these clearly man-made river beasts, it will be difficult to figure out what's unusual about this place."
Ye Yang hopes that the "Deep Palace" is indeed located in this area of water, but even so, finding the target is not an easy task.
"Let's explore for a while, no more than half a month. If we haven't made any progress in half a month, then we'll go and eliminate those Source Emperors who are in exile!"
Two days later.
After repeatedly destroying the river beasts he captured, Ye Yang finally succeeded once!
Chi~
The river beast's body quickly dissolved, turning into a mass of pure Heavenly Primordial Water that floated to one side.
But it left behind an identical phantom image in the same spot, which suddenly turned into a wisp of smoke that lingered there.
"This is—" Ye Yang looked at the wisp of smoke in surprise.
He found it difficult to describe this thing, unable to say whether it was matter or energy or something, because all "material" entities had been stripped away during the previous separation.
What was now presented to Ye Yang was a tangible yet intangible thing—
Just like the flame of a lighter, the flame that people see is not a real thing; it is essentially a reaction process in which new gases are constantly burning and old gases are being blown away.
"The constantly changing combustible gases and combustion exhaust gases are its carriers, while the light and heat released are its products."
It can also be likened to a shadow—in a world where information cannot travel faster than the speed of light, a shadow appears to move faster than the speed of light, which is actually because it is a tangible but intangible existence.
It can also be used as a metaphor for human thought and self-awareness.
Thinking about this, Ye Yang understood what it was.
With a change of heart, he altered the Great Dao Domain, simulating and evolving a portion of the laws of the main world as understood by Ye Yang.
Instantly, that wisp of smoke transformed into a beam of light, vanishing in an instant!
But in that instant, Ye Yang sensed a vast amount of information within that ray of light from the Great Dao:
『Number 283.22—FPN—0.481 World, Red-beaked Long-finger Monkey—Entropy Increase Efficiency 1.21—Life Characteristics—%@#*8
Ye Yang frowned slightly.
"Isn't this the kind of power of the Great Dao that I sensed before—a power that seems to be devoid of any self-will bias?"
"It seems to be compatible with the immortal cultivation system of the main world —"
He recalled the immortal cultivation system passed down by that Dao Ancestor in the main world. After entering the era of the myriad realms, this immortal cultivation system underwent a seamless transformation, evolving into the Myriad Realms Immortal Cultivation Method—
Ye Yang couldn't help but suspect that the Immortal Alliance was actually shrouded in the shadow of a certain "predecessor civilization".
Perhaps they were the creators of the [Gate of All Heavens], or perhaps, like the current Immortal Alliance civilization, they were merely users for a time.
The Dao Ancestor is the individual of that "previous civilization".
But now Ye Yang is basically certain that if it is not a coincidence, then the special power he felt in that fog is closely related to this "predecessor civilization"!
"At my current level, I should be able to access some major secrets that only the higher-ups of the Immortal Alliance know. I'll ask Ancestor Jili about it privately later."
Ye Yang muttered to himself, while also organizing the information he had just read.
The discovery revealed a blueprint for life in a species called the red-beaked long-finned monkey!
Moreover, it is not a blueprint that can only function based on a specific world, but a blueprint that packages together life genetic information and the world law information that supports the existence of this life form!
In other words, by using the Dao simulation technique to mimic the relevant laws, Ye Yang can reproduce this life form without any difficulty, following the blueprint.
This is essentially a video file that includes its own operating system and uninstallation software.
"Does it work in all the heavens?"
Ye Yang was merely surprised by this.
By analogy with the path they cultivate, the goal is to traverse the heavens and attain a realm that is eternally proven. This shows that this is a method that a qualified civilization of the heavens would develop.
"These river beasts, each with a different form, should record the complete life blueprint of a certain species in different worlds."
"The reason for this situation, I suspect—is that the database storing these life blueprints—was damaged, causing the data to leak. This information, combined with the external Tianyi Yuan Water, gave rise to all sorts of river beasts."
Therefore, the real secret of this body of water must be the damaged database.
"It matches up! This is a creation of some civilization, which landed in the Source River World and interacted with the Source River World at the beginning of creation. After a long period of evolution, the life information that first leaked out from here combined with the extremely malleable properties of the Heavenly Primordial Water, and by chance, the first batch of true life was born!"
"The source of all life information, including that of humans in the Source River World, originates from here —"
Ye Yang began capturing river beasts one by one, separating them using the method he had previously found, and then reading their life information.
"The further outward from that 'database,' the more fragmented the information should become."
"Although these river beasts aren't very aggressive, as the information leaks, more and more river beasts will accumulate near the database. Those with territorial awareness and stronger aggression will then attack!"
"They move when there's fighting; they have no self-awareness, they don't deliberately choose their direction of movement, everything is random, like Brownian motion. Over time, they slowly spread out," so the older the river beast, the farther it spreads.
The closer to the source, the higher the concentration of young river beasts.
Ye Yang killed one mindless river beast after another, reading their life information.
They quickly found a direction with a higher density of young river beasts.
"Is it hidden nearby?"
Ye Yang eventually found a mountain range and a deep valley.
It's very deep here, already 12 billion kilometers deep, but the abyss below seems endless. Even if Ye Yang's divine sense extends to the farthest point, he still can't reach the bottom!
Capture river creatures, extract information, and determine the extent of damage —
It seems that due to the long passage of time, even the river beasts near the "source" have lost most of their life information, making them similar to the river beasts on the outskirts.
However, Ye Yang could still sense the differences through statistics.
"It's right down there!"
After confirming that he was in a ravine rather than on a mountain range, Ye Yang dived down without hesitation.
20 billion kilometers — 40 billion kilometers — 80 billion kilometers —
The ever-increasing water pressure made it difficult for the Star Lords to move, but Ye Yang's Tai Su Battle Body treated it as nothing and rushed down at high speed!
Before long, at a depth of 10 billion kilometers, Ye Yang saw a faint light.
"The Heavenly One Primordial Water Sea?"
Ye Yang now knew that as long as he kept digging downwards in the Source River World, he would eventually reach a mysterious ocean, which was the place closest to the origin of the Source River World.
It can be considered a protective shell.
The "Eye of the Source River" that True Lord Jili brought Ye Yang to was a special location, where one could reach the "Origin River Spirit of the World" without having to cross the "Sea of Heavenly Origin Water".
In theory, as long as Ye Yang passes through the "Heavenly One Yuan Water Sea", reaches the origin of the world, and then changes direction, he can directly emerge from the "Eye of the Source River".
At the junction of the riverbed and the "Tianyi Yuan Water Sea", there is a layer of crystalline solid Tianyi Yuan Water, and at the bottom of this abyss, a smooth, mirror-like solid Tianyi Yuan Water is revealed.
The faint light that Ye Yang saw from afar earlier was emitted by this solid crystal.
But on this solidified Heavenly Primordial Water—a palace actually grew!
"The inner palace!"
Ye Yang was almost certain that this was the "deep palace" from the memories of that Origin Emperor.
"Haha, I actually found it."
"Then—let's thwart this Emperor Chao's scheme!"
Ye Yang smiled slightly, his Great Dao Domain unfolded, and he stepped onto the crystal palace.
boom!
Even though this solid Tianyi Yuan crystal was incredibly hard, even capable of supporting a world as a foundation, it still shattered into pieces in the face of Ye Yang's absolute violence.
Ye Yang blasted through the palace, and under immense pressure, endless abyssal water surged into it.
The speed is approaching the world's maximum speed limit at the source river!
The river water here actually contains a very high concentration of Tianyi Yuan water.
Ye Yang's divine sense only detected a group of Yuanhe people, about a thousand in number, at the cave entrance. The next moment, they were pulverized and stirred by the surging water, then completely dissolved and returned to their original state in the next instant.
There was no trace left.
"Indeed, it harbored the seeds of civilization."
Ye Yang didn't intend to kill everyone, but he simply couldn't save them all in time.
His body grew taller and larger, transforming into a giant, ready to pack up the entire palace and take it away.
However, a long sigh echoed from the depths of the palace.