Primordial Era: A brick knocks Hongyun unconscious, and he seizes the throne at the start.

Chaos and vastness, without top or bottom, without before or after.

Lu Chen flew through the chaos for an unknown amount of time—there was no concept of time here, it could be an instant or ten thousand years. He could only rely on the Chaos Brick's perception of "force" to move in the direction of the strongest energy fluctuations.

Finally, a different color appeared ahead.

It was a fragment of a continent floating in chaos, roughly half the size of the primordial world, entirely crimson, radiating a scorching aura. The fragment's surface was crisscrossed with grooves and bore terrifying Dao wounds, clearly indicating that it had survived a fierce battle.

"This is... the remains of the Fire Demon God?" Lu Chen approached and sensed the remaining violent fire laws within the fragments, and was secretly shocked.

The remains of the Chaos God, slain by Pangu when he created the world, scattered throughout the chaos and evolved into various secret realms. This piece before us should be a part of the Fire God.

"Good stuff!" Lu Chen's eyes lit up.

Although the Law of Fire is not as profound as the Law of Power, it is purer. If one can comprehend and absorb it, it will also benefit his path of power.

He landed on this fragment of the continent, preparing to explore it, when suddenly his expression changed, and he used his brick-遁 (brick-遁 is a technique that allows one to teleport a hundred miles to the side)!

"boom--!!"

The spot where he had just stood was blasted into a bottomless crater by a pillar of crimson fire! The destructive aura contained within the pillar of fire made Lu Chen's heart tremble.

"There's something there!" Lu Chen stared intently.

From the deep pit, a strange creature slowly crawled out—it had the head of a lion, the body of a dragon, and the wings of a phoenix, its entire body was made of crimson crystals, and it was engulfed in an inextinguishable chaotic fire.

"A chaotic being?" Lu Chen narrowed his eyes.

This creature possessed a powerful aura, comparable to the early stage of the Primordial Chaos realm, and seemed to lack intelligence, possessing only a pure killing instinct.

"roar--!"

The Chaos Fire Beast roared and swooped down, distorting the space in its wake.

Lu Chen neither dodged nor evaded, and the Chaos Brick flew out of his hand!

"Bang--!"

A brick smashed onto the fire beast's head, shattering the crystals, and the fire beast howled and staggered backward. But strangely, the crack on its head was instantly filled by chaotic fire, restoring it to its original state.

"Immortality?" Lu Chen raised an eyebrow.

He smashed more than a dozen bricks in a row. Each time the fire beast was injured, it could recover quickly and become stronger with each battle. Its aura was even faintly rising towards the mid-stage of the Primordial Chaos realm!

"Absorbing my attack energy to strengthen itself?" Lu Chen saw through the clue. "Interesting."

He remained calm and composed, dodging the fire beast's attacks while observing its weaknesses.

Finally, when the fire beast pounced for the seventh time, Lu Chen discovered that each time it recovered, a purple light would briefly illuminate the fire beast's heart, which was its energy core!

"Now!"

Lu Chen unleashed his full power, fusing the Law of Power with eight Ancestral Witch Laws, and threw a punch!

This punch contains the freezing power of ice, the entanglement of wood, the sharpness of metal, the slowing of time, the acceleration of wind, the violence of thunder, the penetration of electricity, and the corrosiveness of poison. Finally, it is unified by the great principle of power, transforming into a nine-colored fist imprint that pierces through time and space!

"puff--!"

The fist strike accurately hit the fire beast's heart, and purple light exploded!

The fire beast let out a shrill roar, its body disintegrating inch by inch, turning into a rain of fire. Amidst the fire rain, a fist-sized purple crystal core fell and was caught by Lu Chen.

"A Chaos Fire Core?" Lu Chen grinned as he sensed the immense source of the fire law within the crystal core.

The essence contained in this crystal core is enough for him to comprehend the Law of Fire to its fullest extent and integrate it into the Great Dao of Power system.

But before he could rejoice for long, countless red dots lit up in the surrounding chaos—hundreds and thousands of chaotic fire beasts were closing in from all directions!

Clearly, the battle had alerted the local "native inhabitants."

"This is troublesome." Lu Chen frowned.

He wasn't afraid of one fire beast, but hundreds or thousands... even ants can kill an elephant. What's more, these fire beasts could absorb attack energy to strengthen themselves, so the more they fought, the more numerous they would become.

escape!

Lu Chen made a decisive move, activating his full Brick Escape technique and speeding towards the depths of chaos.

Behind him, the horde of fire beasts pursued relentlessly, pillars of fire tearing through the chaos and nearly striking him several times.

After fleeing for an unknown amount of time, a strange "rift" appeared ahead—it was a spatial turbulence in chaos, where time and space were disordered and fraught with danger, but it was also the best way to escape the pursuers.

Lu Chen gritted his teeth and rushed into the crevice.

"Buzz—!"

The world spun around.

When he regained his footing, he found himself in a completely unfamiliar and chaotic area.

There were no fire beasts here, nor any fragments of the continent, only an endless expanse of hazy gray mist. Floating within the mist were countless tiny specks of light, each containing a fragment of a broken law.

"This is... the graveyard of laws?" Lu Chen's eyes widened.

Legend has it that deep within the chaos lies the "Graveyard of Laws," formed from fragments of the Great Dao of fallen demon gods. Comprehending its secrets here would be of immense benefit to one's cultivation.

He cautiously approached a point of light—a fragment of the "Law of Wind," only the size of a fingernail, but containing a true meaning of the law that was more ancient and purer than the primordial Great Dao of Wind.

"I'm rich!" Lu Chen's heart raced.

There are at least tens of thousands of fragments of laws floating here! Although most of them are incomplete, they are diverse in type, covering almost all the laws he knows!

He sat down cross-legged and began to absorb and comprehend the teachings.

Time loses its meaning here.

Lu Chen was immersed in the ocean of laws, and fragments were devoured, analyzed, and fused by his Dao of Power. With each law he fused, his Dao of Power became more perfect, and his aura became increasingly profound.

After an unknown amount of time, when he had fused the 999th fragment of law, a soft "crack" sound came from his body—the bottleneck had loosened.

The thin veil separating the peak of Hunyuan realm from that of a sage has finally been pierced.

But Lu Chen was not in a hurry to break through.

He sensed that the Great Dao of Power was flawed—it had incorporated too many laws, thus losing its original "purity." The Great Dao of Power now resembled a hodgepodge, powerful but not perfect.

"I need a 'core'," Lu Chen pondered, "to unify all these laws into a single whole."

He thought of Pangu.

The reason why Pangu's Great Dao of Power was able to create heaven and earth is because it is pure—power that is pure to the extreme can shatter everything and create everything.

"Returning to simplicity..." Lu Chen seemed to understand something.

He began to strip away the superfluous rules, retaining only the most fundamental "force".

This was a painful process, tantamount to severing one's own cultivation. With each law stripped away, his aura diminished by one point.

But he gritted his teeth and persevered.

When the last law was completely stripped away, his cultivation level dropped from the peak of Hunyuan to the late stage of Hunyuan, but the Great Dao of Power became incomparably pure—so pure that a blurry giant phantom appeared in the chaos, holding a giant axe and making a gesture of splitting the heavens and earth.

The phantom of Pangu!

"It's done." Lu Chen opened his eyes, but the nine-colored light was gone, replaced by chaos.

But his aura was more than ten times stronger than before!

Although his cultivation level is still at the late stage of Hunyuan, his combat power... has already touched the threshold of sainthood!

"It's time to go back." Lu Chen looked in the direction he came from.

This journey through chaos yielded far more rewards than expected. Not only did he obtain the Chaos Fire Core and a large number of Law fragments, but more importantly, he found the correct direction for the Great Dao of Power.

As long as we continue down this path, prove the Way through force, and become a sage, it's only a matter of time.

He activated his Brick Escape technique and returned towards the primordial wilderness.

At this moment, a hundred years have passed in the primordial era.

During this century, the human race rose to prominence and became the protagonist of the primordial world. After the era of the Five Emperors ended, the human race entered the dynastic era, enjoying unparalleled prosperity.

Under Lu Chen's intimidation, the Western Religion temporarily ceased its activities, but undercurrents still surged.

Inside the Wuzhuang Temple, Zhen Yuanzi looked at a shattered jade talisman in his hand with a solemn expression.

The jade talisman was left behind by Hongyun before his reincarnation; its shattering now signifies…

Hongyun is in trouble.

Just then, a stream of chaotic light descended from the sky, and Lu Chen's figure appeared at Wuzhuang Temple.

"Senior, I'm back," Lu Chen said with a smile. "This trip was quite fruitful... Hmm? Why does Senior look so pale?"

Zhen Yuanzi handed him the shattered jade talisman, his voice hoarse: "Fellow Daoist Hongyun's reincarnation... may have perished."

Lu Chen's smile froze.