Mythology: Erlang Shen begins to show his divine power in the heavens

Chapter 251, The Candle Dragon Reappears

Lin Yuan gazed at the illusory yet mysteriously glowing panel before him, a desire for exploration surging within him like never before.

He took a deep breath, cleared his mind of all distractions, and focused all his mental energy on his eyes, trying to penetrate the surface of the panel and explore the root and origin of the system.

In an instant, his consciousness seemed to be drawn away from the real world by a powerful force and entered a realm full of chaos and the unknown.

In this mysterious realm, Lin Yuan's gaze gradually focused, and he saw the origin of the system.

It was an existence beyond imagination, presenting an extremely pure power of spacetime, like a brilliant star in endless darkness, radiating dazzling light.

The purity and supremacy of this power of spacetime far exceeded his comprehension, leaving him deeply shocked.

Compared to the spacetime power he once possessed, it was worlds apart.

He knew that he could easily reverse the spacetime of a great world with his own abilities, but the spacetime power before him seemed to contain a terrifying power that could reverse the spacetime of those supreme worlds. Every fluctuation carried endless mystery and majesty.

"The God of Candle Dragon?"

Lin Yuan muttered to himself, a bold guess rising in his mind.

In his understanding, the only being capable of wielding such powerful spacetime energy was probably the Great God Zhulong.

The Candle Dragon, with its eyes open it is daytime, its eyes closed it is nighttime, its breath is winter, and its exhalation is summer. It controls the flow of time and space and possesses the supreme power to rewrite the order of heaven and earth.

A resolute glint flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes. He decided to follow the clues of this spatial and temporal power and continue to investigate.

Using his newly acquired Destiny Eye and profound understanding of cause and effect, he explored the secrets of the system's origin from the unique perspective of destiny and cause and effect.

Endless lines of fate and causality intertwined and entangled above the system's origin, forming a vast and complex network that stretched toward an unknown void.

These lines of fate and cause and effect shimmer with a strange light, each containing countless possibilities and variables, as if connecting everything in the past, present and future.

Lin Yuan was not afraid of the mystery and unknown before him; on the contrary, a strong desire to explore surged within him.

He knew that this path might be full of dangers and challenges, but only by delving into it could he uncover the truth hidden behind the system.

So, without hesitation, he traced his consciousness along those lines of fate and cause and effect.

During his tracing, he felt a powerful resistance, as if an invisible force was preventing him from exploring the system's secrets.

But Lin Yuan moved forward step by step.

His consciousness traversed the intertwining of fate and cause and effect, sometimes sinking into a fog, and sometimes seeing some incomprehensible scenes.

Those images seem to conceal the secrets of the system's birth and its close connection with this world and countless other worlds.

On that journey of tracing the origins of fate and cause and effect, Lin Yuan's gaze fell upon nothing but fragments of time and space fluttering in the air.

These fragments are like the afterimages of countless worlds, each shimmering with a unique light, some bright, some dark, some cold, some warm, weaving together a magnificent and mysterious picture.

Upon closer inspection, various strange scenes faintly emerge from the fragments:
There is a vast and boundless continent where giant beasts roam, and the mountains and rivers exude an ancient aura.

There is a vast and boundless starry sky, where stars shimmer with eerie colors, and mysterious warships shuttle through the stars.

There is also the fantastical fairyland, shrouded in ethereal mist, where immortals fly on swords, displaying their extraordinary and otherworldly nature.

Lin Yuan was deeply shocked, as he knew that these fragments of spacetime represented all the myriad worlds.

However, a strong sense of unease welled up inside me.

In his long-held understanding, the myriad realms were derived from the three supreme worlds, and thus were divided into three types.

The highest mountain and sea world gave rise to the Jianmu Heavens, where towering Jianmu trees connect heaven and earth, and various rare and exotic beasts and mysterious races inhabit.

The supreme primordial world gave birth to the primordial heavens, filled with chaos and opportunities, where powerful gods and demons roamed freely.

In the highest universe, the heavens and cosmos were born, and civilizations collided among the stars.

But the worlds within these fragments of spacetime that he sensed at this moment, whether in terms of the operation of laws or the fluctuations of aura, seemed to be completely different from these three kinds of myriad worlds.

Just as Lin Yuan was filled with doubt and trying to piece together a clue from these unfamiliar fragments of time and space, a voice suddenly rang in his ear:

"You still ended up like this."

The voice was deep and resonant, as if it had traveled through endless time and space, carrying an indescribable sense of vicissitude and emotion.

Lin Yuan turned around abruptly, only to find nothing behind him except for endless fragments of time and space fluttering like snowflakes.

"The Great God Zhulong?!"

He probed.

Sure enough, in the void where endless fragments of time and space flew, a majestic figure slowly emerged in front of him, which was none other than Zhulong.

He was like the embodiment of space and time itself, vast and boundless. His mere appearance caused the entire mysterious realm to tremble.

The Zhulong's body is larger than imagined, winding and coiling like a long river of time that runs through the past, present, and future.

Each of his scales shimmered with a strange and dazzling light, a light that was not ordinary but contained an interweaving of countless law runes.

Upon closer inspection, each scale seems to contain an infinite world.

In the faint light of one of the scales, a strange world can be seen slowly unfolding: on the continent, surging magma rushes out from the crater, and the scalding lava, like a roaring dragon, wantonly reshapes the face of the earth.

The world reflected in the other scale is a profound cosmic scene, with colorful nebulae blooming freely in the endless void. The mysterious black hole is like a cosmic glutton, greedily devouring all the surrounding matter. At the edge of the black hole, time and space are distorted beyond recognition.

Zhulong's eyes, like two suns hanging at the end of time and space, radiate a dazzling and scorching light.

When he slightly opened his eyes, the entire mysterious realm seemed to usher in the dawn. Wherever the light reached, fragments of spacetime dissipated, revealing a clear void.

As he slowly closed his eyes, darkness instantly enveloped him, as if the whole world had fallen into an endless slumber, and the flow of time had become slow and heavy.

With each breath he took, he caused a violent tremor in spacetime. His exhaled breath transformed into ripples of spacetime, spreading in all directions. Wherever it went, the lines of fate and cause and effect were thrown into chaos, only to rearrange themselves again after a moment, as if rewriting the chapters of destiny for all the heavens and myriad worlds.

A faint halo of spacetime surrounds the Candle Dragon, within which countless tiny stars twinkle.

These stars are not ordinary celestial bodies, but universes in the microscopic world, each with its own unique trajectory of development.

And Zhulong, quietly suspended in the void, witnessed the birth and death of these microcosms, as if he were the master of all this, the guardian and judge of the order of space and time.

Zhulong spoke slowly, his voice seemingly coming from the deepest recesses of time and space, carrying the weight and vicissitudes of history, echoing softly in this mysterious realm:
"After the three of us broke off, I intended to fall into a long slumber and never again concern myself with the affairs of the world."

He paused slightly, a complex light flashing in his large eyes, as if recalling a distant and long-ago past.
"Until your arrival." "Just as I foresaw long ago, beyond chaos lies chaos—the vast emptiness, a much larger unknown."

Zhulong continued, each word he uttered carrying the weight of a thousand pounds.

"Every piece of chaotic void is endless and independent. Theoretically, unless one truly transforms into that ultimate nothingness, it is impossible to touch the nothingness that can be transformed into the ultimate, most fundamental nothingness. Does that nothingness still truly exist? The concept of existence has become nothingness."

At this point, Zhulong let out a long sigh, as if lamenting the elusive nature of the universe's ultimate truth.

But you came.

Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan was shocked. Various thoughts swirled in his mind like a tangled mess, and doubts arose one after another:

"But wasn't the world I originally in the supreme universe? I didn't come from any other chaotic void."

He eagerly awaited a reasonable explanation from Zhulong, his gaze fixed on the supreme being who controlled time and space before him.

Zhulong slowly shook his head. With a slight movement of his massive body, he caused a violent distortion in the surrounding spacetime.

"No, those are just memories from after you became fully human. In the beginning, you weren't anyone."

As soon as he finished speaking, a vast and mysterious amount of information suddenly surged into Lin Yuan's mind like a turbulent tide.

The information was chaotic and obscure, and Lin Yuan felt a sharp pain in his brain, as if countless steel needles were piercing him.

However, as the information gradually became clearer, he finally grasped the key part of it.

Lin Yuan's eyes widened in disbelief, and he exclaimed in a trembling voice:
"Am I the one who traverses the chaotic void, and also the true origin of this system? Am I the system itself?"

At this moment, his heart was filled with immense shock, and his original self-perception was completely overturned.

Lin Yuan stood frozen in place, his heart churning with turmoil, finding it hard to accept this sudden truth.

The information flooding into his mind was like a surging tide, shattering his past self-perception.

His essence was actually just a pure and ultimate source of spacetime.

It sounds so absurd, yet it has an undeniable sense of reality.

According to this information, in the distant past that is almost impossible to trace, he was merely a wisp of spacetime primordial power that roamed freely in the chaotic void, formless and without substance, yet containing endless possibilities.

It was Zhulong, the master of time and space, who discovered this special source of time and space in the endless years.

Only Zhulong, with its unparalleled power in the realm of spacetime, made a simple yet significant modification to this wisp of spacetime origin.

"In terms of time and space, the God of Candle Dragon is indeed the most powerful, and only he can do such an incredible thing."

Lin Yuan pondered to himself, his gaze unconsciously drifting back to the imposing figure before him, a figure that seemed to embody the very fabric of time and space.

Zhulong seemed to sense Lin Yuan's thoughts and slowly spoke, his voice still carrying that sense of vicissitude that transcends time:
"After that, based on that wisp of the origin of spacetime, I shaped you into your current form, making you a person."

At this point, Zhulong paused slightly, a glint of unfathomable light flashing in its enormous eyes.

"Actually, my original plan for the transformation was not like this. It wasn't meant for you to play different roles, but... that inexplicable source of spacetime adaptively changed everything."

Hearing this, Lin Yuan was even more shocked. His eyes were filled with doubt and confusion, and he couldn't help but ask:

"Adaptively changed everything? How exactly did that happen?"

Zhulong looked at Lin Yuan, his gaze softening with a rare gentleness, as if he were looking at a child who had endured countless hardships:

"After I finished shaping you initially, I found that you did not develop along the trajectory I had initially envisioned."

That wisp of spacetime origin, in the process of coming into contact with this world, seems to have developed a kind of self-awareness. It began to autonomously adjust its own form and abilities according to the world.

And so I realized... you are no one, yet you can be anyone!

You possess limitless potential and can adapt to any role and mission.

Lin Yuan stood there dumbfounded, his brain racing as he tried to process everything Zhulong had said.

He recalled his experiences in various worlds, and how those different roles he had played in the past were actually due to his unique nature.

What seemed like a coincidence was actually an inevitable choice for him as the origin of spacetime.

He was overwhelmed with mixed feelings.

He thought that Zhulong had personally created this system and given it to him.

Now, Zhulong tells him...

Is he the system itself?
He's a system expert?!

Originally, it was meant to become a Heavenly Eye Spirit.

He accepted it.

but now.
Lin Yuan found it hard to accept.

The voice of the Candle Dragon rang out again:
"Do you really think you can bear so many different Dao Fruits just by relying on Erlang's Root Dao? That's completely beyond the scope of the Root Dao! Essentially, you are the one bearing different Dao Fruits!"

Lin Yuan was suddenly startled.

He always believed that he was able to continuously improve his strength and bear many powerful Dao fruits by playing various roles, especially after reaching the pinnacle of playing Erlang Shen.

But now, Zhulong's words were like a heavy hammer, completely shattering his understanding.

"what do you mean……"

"Although the Root Dao is powerful, it also has its limits. Everything you have experienced and the Dao fruits you have obtained in various worlds cannot be easily contained by a single Root Dao."

You are the very origin of spacetime that traverses the chaotic void, possessing unimaginable inclusiveness and adaptability.

When you play roles in different worlds, it may seem that you are gaining power and comprehending the Tao through acting, but in reality, it is your special essence that is at work.

You yourself are like an inexhaustible container, capable of perfectly integrating and containing those vastly different Dao fruits!

Lin Yuan fell silent.

"So, I don't actually need to worry about anything?"

(End of this chapter)