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

The road to the void is shrouded in chaos and obscurity.

Lu Chen held the gray stone shuttle in his hand. This treasure seemed to have a spirit, automatically guiding the direction in the raging chaotic airflow. Wherever it passed, the chaotic spacetime was temporarily smoothed out, forming a relatively stable "passage".

The further they went, the more violent the chaotic energy became, its color shifting from hazy gray to dark, eventually transforming into a void-like black that devoured everything. This was no longer ordinary chaos, but the outer edge of the Ruins of Return, where all things ended and laws were annihilated!

"No wonder the Dao Ancestor said this place is a place where nine out of ten will die." Lu Chen felt the destructive aura around him that was enough to obliterate the Great Luo Dao Fruit. He dared not be careless. He suspended the Chaos World Brick above his head, and layers of chaotic air flowed down to protect his body, which was the only way he could barely resist.

The stone shuttle flashed, and a crack suddenly appeared in the void ahead. From within the crack came a heart-palpitating suction force and... a barely perceptible, violent aura that originated from the same source as the demonic ape!

"This is it!" With a thought, Lu Chen accelerated his brick-escape technique, transforming into a stream of light and rushing into the crevice.

The world is spinning!

Once he regained his balance, he found himself in a bizarre and fantastical "world".

There is no sky, no earth, only endless fragments of laws drifting, colliding, and annihilating in the void. This is one of the core areas of the Ruins of Return, a "graveyard" where the laws of the Great Dao collapsed, settled, and ultimately perished after the fall of the Chaos Demon God!

Metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, light, darkness, time, space, life, death... countless fragments of laws, like shattered stars, shone with their last light before fading completely and turning into nothingness.

In the center of this graveyard of laws, a dark golden ball of violent light was floating erratically, radiating an unruly power fluctuation—it was the Chaos Demon Ape's essence that Lu Chen had swallowed but had not been fully refined due to external interference!

At this moment, under the influence of the primordial sense, the fragments of laws related to "power," "war," and "fight" that have not yet completely disappeared are slowly converging towards the demonic ape's primordial essence, as if summoned!

"So that's how it is! The Ruins of Return is not only a forbidden zone, but also the ultimate laboratory for the evolution of laws!" Lu Chen instantly understood. Here, he could see most directly the entire process of various laws from their birth to their peak, and then to their collapse and annihilation! Furthermore, he could use the Demonic Ape's essence to actively attract and devour those broken laws related to the Great Dao of Power, thus replenishing himself!

"The Dao Ancestor sent me here not as punishment, but as an immense opportunity!"

Without further hesitation, he sat cross-legged in the void, fully activating the Great Dao of Power, while simultaneously releasing the suppression on the Demon Ape's origin.

"boom--!"

The dark golden light burst forth! A pure, all-encompassing power, seemingly capable of tearing apart chaos and reshaping the world, swept out! Within a radius of hundreds of miles, all fragments of laws related to "power" surged into the light like swallows returning to their nests!

Lu Chen's mind was completely immersed in comprehending the Law of Power.

He "saw" that force is not simply "power." It is the movement of matter, the transfer of energy, the distortion of space, the flow of time, the driving force of cause and effect, and the struggle against fate!

A stubborn rock is shattered by force; a river flows by force; a star turns by force; a world is born and dies by force!

Extreme force can create heaven and earth; minute force can penetrate the cell nucleus.

The Demon Ape's essence contains the most primal, savage, and all-encompassing "force"! It disdains any single law, but instead uses force to govern all laws and to evolve all paths!

"My previous understanding was too narrow," Lu Chen thought, shocked. "The Great Dao of Power shouldn't just be about attack, defense, and speed... It should be the underlying logic of all things, the root of all change!"

He began to try to actively "capture," "analyze," and "integrate" those drifting fragments of laws, using the essence of the demonic ape as the core and his own insights as the guide.

With the integration of a fragment containing the "Law of Speed," his understanding of the "kinetic energy" of force deepened, and his speed in Brick Escape increased by 30% out of thin air!

With the integration of a fragment containing the "Law of Oscillation", his understanding of the "fluctuation" of force broke through, and the suppressive power of the Chaos World Brick was brought into high-frequency vibration, multiplying its power!

A rare fragment of the "Dimensional Laws" was drawn to him. After merging with it, Lu Chen gained a vague understanding of "spatial folding" and "dimensional reduction attacks." Although he couldn't use them for the time being, they pointed him in the right direction for the future!

Like the most greedy glutton, he frantically devoured the unclaimed treasures of law within the Ruins of Return. With each fragment he absorbed, his Great Dao of Power became more complete, and his refinement of the Demonic Ape's essence deepened.

I don't know how much time has passed, maybe ten years, maybe a hundred years (time is disordered in the Ruins of Return).

The primordial light of the demonic ape had been refined to ninety-nine percent, completely merging with Lu Chen's Dao of Power. At this moment, he no longer emitted light; instead, his aura was extremely restrained, making him appear like an ordinary person.

However, if you sense it carefully, you will find that the void around him is spontaneously twisting and collapsing. This is a manifestation of the Law of Force being cultivated to an extremely high level, and his own existence has begun to affect the dimension of reality!

"The Law of Power, perfected!" Lu Chen opened his eyes, his gaze no longer filled with divine light, but with a deep "emptiness" that seemed capable of containing all things, yet also capable of shattering them.

With a thought, he did not activate any magic power, but merely made a "fist clenching" gesture.

"Snap—!"

The void a hundred miles ahead shattered like glass, piece by piece! It wasn't a supernatural power, nor a magical artifact, but merely the law of force activated by willpower that created such a terrifying scene!

"Is this... the threshold for proving the Dao through force?" Lu Chen felt the vast, star-like, yet responsive power within him, and boundless pride surged within him.

Suddenly, he frowned slightly and looked into the depths of the Ruins of Return.

There, a wave of law, far more ancient, more obscure, and yet more...evil than the Demon Ape's origin, faintly emanated. That wave carried a strong sense of devouring, decay, and annihilation, originating from the same source as the annihilation aura of the entire Ruins, yet far more concentrated and terrifying.

"Is that... the 'Origin of the End' nurtured deep within the Ruins of Return? Or... the final curse left behind by a fallen demon god?" Lu Chen became wary. The Dao Ancestor said that the Ruins of Return were a place of nine deaths and one life, and perhaps the greatest danger came from there.

But there was no fear in his eyes; instead, a fighting spirit ignited within him.

"Perfect, I'll use you to test my newly mastered technique—Chaos: Annihilation of Power!"

He stood up and took a step toward the direction from which the fluctuation came.

The void beneath their feet, unable to withstand the pure power, cracked open with black fissures.

After a century of returning to the void, one comprehends the laws and achieves perfection in the Great Dao of Power.

But the final test has only just begun.