Living in the deep palace

The Great Luo Source Sea, the deepest part of the ancestral sea.

This place, hailed as an absolute forbidden zone in the multiverse system, fell into an unprecedented stillness after losing the suppression of the nine supreme beings and the aura of the one hundred and eight ancient celestial beings. The roar of the Origin Sea Laws was gone, the churning of chaotic energy had ceased; everything returned to its primordial tranquility.

Su Chen, clad in a supreme divine robe formed from the tenth realm of the Origin Creation Law, strolled through the pure nothingness.

His steps appeared slow, but each stride seemed to traverse countless epochs. At this moment, he no longer needed to use any supernatural powers to traverse the void, because every coordinate he occupied was the absolute center of this multiverse. From the moment he stepped into the tenth realm, time and space lost their meaning in binding him, becoming mere clay figures that he could mold at will.

"Is this the true bottom of the Great Luo Ancestral Sea...?"

Su Chen's gaze was as deep as an abyss as he surveyed the increasingly viscous, mysterious space around him, where even the concept of "darkness" was beginning to fade.

The deeper one goes, the more terrifying the repulsive force from the depths of the dimension becomes. If a powerful expert at the peak of the ninth realm were to come here, they probably wouldn't last even a fraction of a breath before being crushed into nothingness by this terrifying dimensional density. But this oppressive force, powerful enough to shatter the Dao Fruit of Returning to Truth, felt like a gentle breeze on Su Chen's face, not even causing a single wrinkle in his clothes.

Finally, after walking for an unknown amount of time, Su Chen slowly stopped.

Directly in front of him, the once boundless void of the Great Luo Ancestral Sea suddenly came to an end.

What blocked Su Chen's way was neither a chaotic crystal wall nor an extraterrestrial surge, but a door.

An ancient, colossal gate so immense that its boundaries cannot be measured by any sight or divine sense!
The door was entirely a dull, bronze-colored surface, devoid of any intricate or ornate carvings or dazzling Origin Gold. Instead, it bore countless crisscrossing, deep trenches, as if carved by the most primal weapons. Within each trench lay dried, dark bloodstains.

The aura emanating from these bloodstains, even after countless eons of time, still carries a chilling desolation and despair. It is the final testament left by those supreme beings who once tried to open this door, only to perish here in despair.

At the very top of the giant gate, faintly visible in a primordial Daoist script that transcends the comprehension of the present universe, are four large characters imbued with endless vicissitudes and vastness—

【Primordial Chaos】!
"The Gate of Primordial Chaos..."

Su Chen stood before the door, gazing up at this ultimate portal that seemed to separate two completely different dimensions. The extreme fervor of the Origin Dao deep in his eyes, like a spark, gradually began to spread like wildfire.

"No wonder those nine old fogies preferred to hide on Yuanshan Mountain and eke out a living rather than dare to step into this abyss. It turns out they were blocked by this door."

Su Chen stretched out his fair and slender right hand and gently placed it on the cold and rough bronze door.

"Buzz————————!!!!!"

The moment his palm touched the door, an overwhelming torrent of information surged into the depths of Su Chen's true spirit along the cold bronze material.

That is the eternal memory that this door carries!
Su Chen saw it. In the extremely distant prehistoric era, there was a brilliant and talented half-step tenth realm expert who exhausted the entire resources of the Great Luo Origin Sea, wielding an unparalleled weapon, and poured his life's blood into slashing at this door. However, he was instantly shattered by the primordial power that rebounded from the door, and his soul was destroyed. His physical body turned into a puddle of mud and remained forever in front of the door.

He also saw that dozens of powerful beings at the Great Perfection of the Ninth Realm joined forces, attempting to force their way through using the forbidden method of sacrificing all living beings with blood. In the end, however, they triggered the Great Dao Thunder Punishment, and the Origin Realm behind them was completely wiped out.

This door is a wall of sighs, a chasm that has buried the ambitions and lives of countless supreme experts!
"I see."

Su Chen slowly withdrew his hand, his eyes showing no fear whatsoever, but rather an extreme contempt that seemed to look down upon the ages.

"If you can't push it away, then you dare not push it away. If you can't break it, then you kneel down and submit."

"The creatures in the Great Luoyuan Sea have ultimately had their spirits eroded by this tranquil 'puddle.' They thought that once they reached the ultimate state of returning to truth, they could rest easy, but little did they know that the true world had always been behind this door."

Just as Su Chen was about to draw the Origin Demon Blade from his waist and forcefully break down the door with his supreme cultivation at the tenth realm.

"Young transcendent being... sheath your weapon..."

A withered, weak, and aged sigh, as if it might be carried away by the wind at any moment, suddenly echoed in the empty air before the deathly silent doorway.

Su Chen's gaze sharpened, and he turned to look at the lower right corner of the giant gate.

There, at some unknown time, a gaunt figure appeared, almost blending into the bronze door.

It was a desiccated corpse sitting cross-legged. His clothes had long since weathered into ashes, and his flesh clung tightly to his bones, like a mummy that had been dried up for countless eons. His legs were deeply embedded in the gaps at the bottom of the bronze door, as if they had grown together with this primordial gate.

If he hadn't just made a sound, even with Su Chen's tenth-level divine sense, he would have almost mistaken him for part of the door!

"Who are you?"

Su Chen looked down at the desiccated corpse, his tone calm yet exuding an undeniable air of superior authority. He could sense that although the corpse was devoid of any life force, the extremely faint trace of Daoist energy remaining deep within its bones was even more ancient and profound than that of the nine Supreme Beings combined!
The realm of this corpse before its death was absolutely close to the true tenth realm! It was even purer than the First Cause, who claimed to be the creator!

"I am but a loser who, in the endless ages, attempted to force my way through this gate, only to ultimately become a speck of dust at its feet..."

The desiccated corpse slowly and with great difficulty raised its head, and in its empty, sunken eye sockets, two dim, eerie lights flickered like candles in the wind. It looked at Su Chen, and in those eerie lights, there was an extremely complex emotion—shock, reminiscence, and a deep sorrow.

“My name was forgotten by the world long ago. You may call me… ‘The Gatekeeper’.”

The gatekeeper's hoarse, lisping voice echoed in the void.

"Young man, I sensed the aura of that fool, the First Cause, within you. You actually devoured the underlying logic that maintains the order of the Origin Sea? Furthermore, you even truly took that step and achieved the legendary... Tenth Realm?"

The gatekeeper's tone was filled with undisguised amazement, but he immediately followed with a bitter laugh and shook his head.

"What a pity, what a pity... You are exceptionally talented and decisive in killing. If you were to reign supreme in the Great Luo Yuan Sea, you could enjoy eternal glory. Why did you have to come to this abyss of despair and touch this forbidden door that should never have been touched?"

Su Chen narrowed his eyes slightly. He was not swayed in the slightest by the other party's pessimistic words. Instead, he crossed his arms with great interest.

"Forbidden? Despair?"

Su Chen sneered and said, "Old man, just because you can't open this door, does that mean no one in the world can? Since you say that I have already entered the tenth realm, what door in this world can stop my ultimate sharpness?"

"You're wrong, young man. You're terribly wrong."

The gatekeeper coughed violently a few times, as if each additional word he uttered was consuming his dwindling spiritual imprint. He extended a withered, twig-like finger and pointed tremblingly at the Primordial Gate behind him.

"This door is called Hongmeng, but it is actually a 'seal'."

"Do you think the Great Luo Origin Sea is everything in this world? Do you think that reaching the tenth realm is the end of this path of cultivation?"

The gatekeeper gave a bitter smile, a smile that revealed the utter despair that came after discovering the truth.

"The Great Luo Source Sea is nothing more than a pond. A pond that was arbitrarily created by a true 'powerful being' to keep us low-dimensional beings in captivity!"

"Behind this door is not some higher-dimensional immortal realm or divine realm, but the true [Origin Continent of All Heavens]! That is a place where only the legendary 'Supreme Rulers' who have transcended the primordial chaos and controlled the eternal Heavenly Dao are qualified to stand!"

“In this pond, even if we cultivate to the Great Perfection of the Ninth Realm, even if someone as talented as you steps into the threshold of the Tenth Realm, in the eyes of those true great powers, we are nothing more than a slightly larger fish or turtle!”

"Once you push open this door and break the seal on this pond, you will surely alarm the 'fishermen' guarding the shore! At that time, not only you, but the entire Great Luo Yuan Sea, and even all the creatures under your command, will face true annihilation! You won't even be qualified to be a servant; you will be casually wiped out and turned into ingredients for alchemy!"

The gatekeeper's voice grew increasingly shrill, as if recalling the incomprehensible horrors he had witnessed through the crack in the door when he forced his way through.

"Go back now, young man..."

"While the door remains closed, while you still have a way out, why not return to your Origin Court and become the sole king of this Great Luo Origin Sea?"

After listening to the gatekeeper's heartfelt, tearful, and shocking secrets and earnest advice...

The entire bottom of the Great Luo Abyss fell into deathly silence once again.

If it were any other powerful being who had just entered the Returning to Truth Realm, upon hearing that the supreme realm they had pursued throughout their lives was nothing more than a "fish or turtle" waiting to be slaughtered in the vast world, their Dao heart would inevitably suffer a devastating blow, and they might even immediately have the intention to retreat, hiding in the Source Sea and never daring to cross the line again.

But standing here is Su Chen.

He was an extreme tyrant who started from the lower realm library and trampled all the high and mighty Heavenly Dao, gods, and creators under his feet, devouring them alive!
"Ha ha ha ha……"

A low chuckle came from Su Chen's mouth, and then the laughter grew louder and louder, like rolling thunder, causing the huge Primordial Gate to tremble slightly!
Hahahahahaha!!!

Su Chen laughed wildly, but there was no fear of the unknown powerhouse or the dejection of a broken Dao heart in his laughter. Instead, it was filled with an extreme madness and domineering aura that could tear the sky apart and make all the worlds tremble!

"Fish and turtles? Fishermen?"

After Su Chen finished laughing, he suddenly lowered his head, his abyss-like black eyes staring intently at the withered gatekeeper. The black and white primordial divine light in his eyes was like two peerless swords, piercing the gatekeeper's last remaining eerie light, causing it to tremble violently.

"Old man, your bones were crushed by this door long ago. And your courage was terrified by the view behind it!"

"Who do you think I am?!"

Su Chen took a step forward, and the tenth realm of Origin Creation Law on his body suddenly erupted, like the ultimate sun rising in the abyss, illuminating this dead and silent void with clarity!

"From the lowest mortal to the highest realm master, from the void beyond the realm to the summit of the Great Luo Origin Sea! Every time, wasn't I treated as a pawn and food by those high and mighty so-called 'rulers'?"

"But what was the result?!"

Su Chen slowly drew the [Origin Demon Blade] from his waist.

At this moment, after Su Chen stepped into the tenth realm, the demonic blade had completely shed all its physical constraints, transforming into a colorless heavenly blade entirely woven from the pure concepts of creation and destruction! Wherever the blade pointed, nothingness shattered, and all laws wailed!
"As a result, all those hunters who treated me as prey were chewed up and swallowed by me, turning into fertilizer for my inner universe!"

"Since beyond this door lies a much wider continent. And since on this shore, there is a group of self-righteous 'fishermen'."

"Then I, the Venerable One, will cleave this damned fishpond open! And rush ashore!"

"Tear their fishing nets to shreds! Crush their bones! Drag those so-called high and mighty rulers, one by one, down from their pedestals, stuff them into my ultimate furnace, and refine them all!!!"

"You...you're insane! You're dragging the entire Great Luo Yuan Sea down with you!!!"

The gatekeeper stared in horror at Su Chen, who had gone mad like a peerless demon god. He desperately tried to move his withered body to stop him, but to no avail.

"To be buried with someone?"

Su Chen's sinister smile widened. Instead of rushing to smash the door, he suddenly turned around, spread his arms, and faced the vast, boundless, purple-gold waves of the Great Luoyuan Sea behind him!

“Old man, you seem to have misunderstood something.”

"I am not the kind of stray dog ​​who abandons his legacy and ascends to heaven alone to escape."

"Now that I have conquered this fishpond, everything in it is my private property! If I were to come ashore, would I leave my food supplies behind to be slaughtered by others?!"

Su Chen's eyes suddenly snapped open in fury, and a wild, extreme statement that made the souls of all living beings in the Great Luo Origin Sea tremble resounded throughout the heavens!
"I will take this entire Great Luo Yuan Sea with me!"

"With my Eternal Heavenly Court, and with my millions of demonic troops!"

"Ascending to the highest realms! Transcending all dimensions!!!"

Accompanied by Su Chen's roar that shattered eternity.

At this moment, the already flawless [Tenth Realm - Origin Inner Universe] within his body suddenly opened all its dimensional channels to the outside!

"【The Ultimate Mystery of Origin and Creation—All Paths Return to the Source, Devouring Heaven and Seas】!!!" (End of Chapter)