The primordial chaos has arrived, and you have to choose the crow at the start.

Chen Geng's breathing became rapid, and he forcibly suppressed the urge to make a move.

There is no solution to this problem.

Perhaps this very scene was already waiting for him the moment he decided to come here.

But why did his father want him to attend the ceremony? Was it to help him grow, or did he have other plans?

What exactly do these ancestors want? Why did they set up this scheme on the day the Qilin Ancestor attained enlightenment?

These important figures wouldn't do anything meaningless for no reason, and the Emperor couldn't possibly travel through time just to tell him that the Qilin Ancestor was about to attain enlightenment and to have him come and witness the ceremony.

Ancestor Qilin... Ancestor Qilin... The Underground Passage...

Chen Geng simply ignored He Qingli's impending death and instead lowered his head into deep thought.

The merits of creation continuously blossomed within him, making his mind increasingly sharp and external interference seem insignificant.

Yuan Feng frowned slightly, sensing something was amiss, and said to Qing Luan beside her, "Go and wake up that little golden crow."

Now is the time for Him to make a choice. If He intervenes, the little golden crow will be led by the nose. The hardest part is often the first step.

One move can affect the whole situation, and when the time comes, He will have no choice but to comply. In the present moment, in the vast wilderness, only He can do that thing.

If Chen Geng doesn't take action, then they'll have to find another way; otherwise, they'll have to follow the old path and move closer to the predetermined outcome.

Everything may seem like a variable, but in reality, everything is predetermined.

The blue phoenix flew up to Chen Geng's mountain peak, about to approach Chen Geng and disturb him, but suddenly the tall figure opened his eyes and stared intently at him.

Qingluan was startled. Although the golden crow in front of her was weaker than herself, she felt a sense of dread.

"Do you want to join in too?"

The golden crow uttered six words, startling the blue phoenix into a sudden halt in its steps.

  

What... He's involved?

Did the golden crow discover something?

Chen Geng ignored Qingluan and turned to walk towards the Daoist temple deep within the Qilin Ancestral Land.

With each step he took, the eyes of the prospective Dao Masters followed him for a few seconds.

It wasn't until Chen Geng was almost at the Qilin's dojo that they realized the seriousness of the situation. What was this little golden crow going to do? Was he... going to his death?

Anyone who enters the Qilin's dojo will die.

"Your Excellency, you must not enter!"

The Old Ancestor of the North Sea shouted, "What's inside the temple...?"

Before He could finish speaking, Chen Geng had already arrived at that narrow gap.

Within this distance, unless the Dao Lord intervenes, no one can stop him.

"He's gone mad!"

An old ancestor widened his eyes: "Does this mean they don't want to play anymore? Why waste so much time?"

Entering the Qilin's dojo is essentially like entrusting your life and death entirely to the other party; life and death are in the hands of a single thought.

They dared not enter the temple, and even needed to be a certain distance away to allow for reaction time.

Yuan Feng's expression turned cold, and she reached out to stop Chen Geng.

Following the Great Dao, heaven and earth were now within a mere inch of each other, and Yuan Feng's hand directly touched Chen Geng's face.

But in the next instant, Chen Geng seemed to have been prepared, and he drew his axe from his waist and chopped hard at Yuan Feng's hand, which actually blocked her Yuan Dao for a short time.

This interruption allowed Chen Geng to go inside!

"Zhulong, why didn't you stop him!"

The Yuanfeng Great Dao trembled, questioning the Time Dao Lord, Zhulong: "Don't you have a good relationship with Him?"

Zhulong remained silent, picked up a glowing, grape-like spiritual fruit and ate it, as if he hadn't heard anything.

The variables are here, aren't they?

Chen Geng stepped into the Qilin's dojo.

This was the first time He had entered someone else's sanctuary, and it was completely different from the one in the sun.

This place before me actually contains an endless expanse of land.

Except for the absence of Mount Buzhou, everything on the entire land was exactly the same as the primordial wilderness outside.

But Chen Geng sensed that something was wrong; he realized that he couldn't seem to fly.

"It can't fly."

A deep, steady voice came from his left. Chen Geng turned around and saw the First Emperor, dressed in a dark yellow robe, looking at him.

The First Qilin!

"Golden Crow Emperor Geng greets Senior First Qilin."

Chen Geng bowed, which is the proper etiquette when meeting an elder.

"Last time, your third brother breathed fire at me, so I plucked his feathers and ate him."

Shi Qilin remained unmoved: "You, on the other hand, can still speak to me politely."

Emperor Geng was unaware of this matter.

Chen Geng didn't steer the conversation in that direction; as expected, the third brother, Di Bing, had the most fiery temper.

He asked in confusion, "You said it's impossible to fly here, may I ask why?"

The First Qilin did not rise, but instead came before Chen Geng. Within the Daoist temple, He was everything. He still had patience for the younger generation.

Faced with this question, He answered Chen Geng with a counter-question.

"Can a boat still sail on water without a boat?"

"Without a boat, it is naturally impossible..." Chen Geng opened his mouth to answer, but suddenly, he was shocked and realized that there was no sky in this dojo.

There's no... ocean either!

The Great Dao within this arena is incomplete. Isn't it said that the past and future can be seen within the arena? And the Dao Lord is even more unrestricted, so why...?

Shi Qilin reached out and grabbed Chen Geng: "Alright, the question has been answered. Let me taste you and see how you compare to your third brother."

Chen Geng felt a chill run through his body, his mind racing as he analyzed the situation.

He came here to find a way to break the deadlock.

Since those ancestors came to participate in the enlightenment ceremony of the First Qilin and set up a deadly trap for themselves, it must be related to the First Qilin.

Therefore, he decisively entered the Qilin Dojo to find a solution.

But now that the Qilin wants to eat him, he can at least survive outside, but once he enters this place, he'll have to leave.

We must convince Shi Qilin with just one sentence!

Chen Geng's mind raced. Why was there no sky or ocean in this dojo?

It must be because of the struggle between the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans that the sky was taken by the Primordial Phoenix and the ocean was occupied by the Ancestral Dragon...

"Senior, we can find a way to deal with the dragon and phoenix!"

Chen Geng shouted, but Shi Qilin held him firmly and plucked out half of Chen Geng's golden crow feather, causing him to scream in pain.

"Heh, if I had a way, I would have found it long ago."

Chen Geng's words, which concerned the sky and the ocean, were not enough to move Shi Qilin. He remained calm in the face of danger and endured the pain of his other body being torn apart.

The thinking didn't stop; on the contrary, it accelerated under the stimulation of pain.

The most crucial element of the First Qilin is the underground passage, and the only thing missing on this land is Mount Buzhou!

"Senior, I have a way to deal with Buzhou Mountain!"

Just as the Qilin was about to put him into its mouth, Chen Geng stopped it with a single sentence.

In the next instant, Chen Geng's injuries disappeared, and his feathers returned.

It was exactly the same as when he first came in; time had gone back to the beginning.

For the Dao Master within the Dao Temple, time has no distinction between before and after.

Shi Qilin's gaze fell on her, and he calmly said, "Continue."

What an overbearing First Qilin!

Chen Geng harbored a deep grudge. He vowed that he would not be Chen if he did not make this beast pay in the future. Just wait, this time at the Dao attainment ceremony, you will not be able to protect yourself!

You deserve to end up guarding only a piece of land, living at the end of the immeasurable kalpa of the Dragon Han Dynasty.

But what he actually said was something else entirely: "You are about to complete the tunnel, but without Mount Buzhou, the tunnel will not be complete."

Shi Qilin nodded: "Yes, continue."

Chen Geng continued, "And those who came to observe the ceremony from all sides, including Yuan Feng and possibly Zu Long, are ostensibly there to observe, but secretly, they probably want to make your underground passage incomplete!"