CHAPTER 751: 6.91 MILLION GOODS, FIVE

The First Generation’s finger was just about to knock on the door when,

Hiss.

A ring of gray ripples rapidly spread out from him, covering and freezing everything around—the rooms, the outer community, the entire Suiyang City, Earth-Moon Star, all in an instant.

Everything plunged into absolute stillness.

A flash of colorful light in The First Generation’s eyes, and with the sound of a rustle,

The gray frozen state instantly shattered.

His finger gently tapped on the wall.

Hum!

The wall automatically revealed the blind spot entrance to the underground garage.

He stepped in with poise.

But...

The garage was empty, devoid of anything...

Not until he reached the center of the garage and looked down at the remaining footprints.

"Interesting..." He wasn’t clear on how the other party escaped, but... Such power was definitely not something the current third generation could achieve.

After all, escaping from under the eyes of an Omniscient was not possible without being of equal power.

"You can run to the ends of the vast Black Sea, but how far can you get from the senses of an Omniscient?"

The First Generation murmured softly to himself.

Hiss.

His entire body suddenly shattered, transforming into countless golden flower petals, dissolving into nothingness.

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Dong...

Dong...

The heavy sound of a bell gradually roused Li Chengyi from his slumber.

He felt his body trembling, resonating and vibrating with the tremendous sound.

The cold ground pressed against his back. A slight cool breeze brushed his face, carrying a scent like blood, mixed with a strangely familiar aroma.

Whoosh.

He opened his eyes and the first thing he saw was a circular ceiling composed of countless purple-black rhombus-shaped crystals.

"You’re awake?"

A somewhat familiar voice reached him from beside his body.

Li Chengyi’s heart tensed; he still remembered that in the end, he and the Second Generation Flower Emperor had spent over a thousand years in an underground garage space researching...

After understanding the fundamentals of the immortal Primordial Soil, he had managed to sustain himself by consuming everything around him, so he didn’t need to worry about hunger or thirst for a long time.

In the final moment of his complete cultivation, Xie Rong suddenly interrupted him and said something to him,

Something he couldn’t quite grasp the significance of.

Then he was transferred away and brought to this place.

"Where is this...?" He rose to his feet, floated up lightly, and stood on the ground.

He looked towards the person who just spoke to him.

"You? Professor Miman?!" Li Chengyi stared at the other with some surprise.

"Surprised?" Miman was draped in a black robe, with numerous wriggling tendrils beneath it supporting his body.

His eyes glowed red, and his entire being was shrouded in shadow, obscuring what lay within.

It wasn’t only him; several similarly dressed figures stood a bit behind Miman, also without legs and moving with tendrils instead.

They stood slightly behind Miman, clearly of a slightly lower status.

"Do you still remember the favor you owe me?" Miman said with a smile.

"Of course," Li Chengyi nodded and took the opportunity to survey his surroundings.

This was a very cold and spacious church.

Huge round arched stained glass windows, seven or eight meters tall on both sides, let in light that painted the rows of benches with a variety of colors.

At the very front, there was an altar made from gray stone.

On the altar, there was a blurred mass of swirling gray mist.

The mist constantly changed shape, never settling into any fixed form.

"This is the Temple of Asraduni, the Primordial Temple," Miman stated calmly.

’Why would Xie Rong send me here?’ Li Chengyi frowned.

In that last moment, he could feel that the Second Generation had expended all of his remaining strength to hide and send him away, while he himself stayed behind to maintain the disguise within the blind spot.

But the question was, why did the Second Generation send him here?

"Since you remember, that’s good," Miman said with a smile. "Now, my request is for you to meet with our Sect Leader, Alpha Pope."

What kind of request was that?

Li Chengyi frowned, but whether it was Xie Rong or Miman, they both gave him the feeling as if this had been prearranged.

This prompted a trace of caution in his heart.

"Don’t worry, actually, the originally chosen person wasn’t you. But after you appeared, everyone thought you would be more suitable," a deep, young voice came from behind Li Chengyi.

He turned around, following the voice.

He saw a three-headed white dove slowly spreading its wings, flying in through the door and landing on the cold gray-black floor tiles.

The dove was the size of a watermelon, with three pairs of blood-red ruby-like eyes, calmly gazing at Li Chengyi.

"Everything changes, and neither you nor I will remain constant. Immortality is undefined, but not invariable. But you..." the dove paused. "You are different..."

"Why is it different?" Li Chengyi had by then mastered the pathway to the All-Encompassing, harnessing the dimension of his being to leverage the appearances of all things. Xie Rong had taught him the practical skills.

What followed was the manipulation of infinite energy.

"I owed Xie Rong a favor once. Now, he has asked me to repay it to you," the white dove Alpha said in a solemn tone.

"The Second Generation? Was it his arrangement?" Li Chengyi’s gaze fell low.

From the outset, it was the Second Generation who had summoned him to this world. To think of it, if it had been just a summons without any arrangement, that clearly wouldn’t be the Second Generation’s style.

Such a figure, capable of squeezing a thread of life from a dead end, would never be that simple.

"You have already stepped into the All-Encompassing as the Third Generation. Based on the dimension of Eternal Vitality, pushing towards omniscience, it’s nothing but a method to promote everything in the deep dimensions through energy consumption. Since you’re aware of this method, I presume the Second Generation has already explained the foundation of omniscience to you?" the Alpha Pope asked softly.

"Yes," Li Chengyi pondered and nodded.

"That’s good," Alpha nodded, "Then, I can rest assured in handing over what he left here to you."

"What is it?" Li Chengyi’s brow furrowed tightly.

"Do you know why the Unique Light of the First Generation Flower Emperor failed?" Alpha suddenly smiled.

"...!!?" Li Chengyi’s mind reacted instantaneously, his eyes widening.

"You guessed right. The Second Generation tore a large piece from the puzzle of the Unique Light. And now... I am giving that part to you," Alpha said with a smile.

It turned and flew toward a hidden corridor in the temple.

"Follow me."

Li Chengyi followed closely behind, hurrying to keep up.

"So, the real reason for the First Generation’s fall was because the Unique Light was taken and he was besieged?" At this moment, his mind seemed to connect many things together.

"Yes and no," Alpha replied. "With adequate preparation, achieving omniscience is not difficult. The three kinds of omniscience are essentially three different methods of advancing all things. But only Quan Li needs to understand the most fundamental principle. Therefore, Quan Li is the true, complete body of omniscience."

"The collection of the Unique Light essentially cut off the lifelines of all other light-seeking beings, hence causing public outrage," Alpha said with a smile.

"Originally, the First Generation was almost certain to succeed with the Unique Light. Thus, he boldly made his appearance and prepared for the final step of complete fusion.

Unfortunately, the Unique Light that had been assembled was torn apart by Xie Rong.

As a result, the First Generation Flower Emperor Yong Ling, who did not ascend to greater strength, was besieged and killed. Royal’s City crumbled, Primordial Soil was destroyed, and that era came to an end."

Li Chengyi continued to walk through the corridor, his heart stirred by these ancient secrets.

"Even if I obtain the Unique Light, as someone of the All-Encompassing, I can’t do much right? Isn’t it too early to give it to me now?"

"Don’t you understand?" One of Alpha’s heads turned back.

"Mathematical principles are merely methods to lever different aspects of the original entities. Omniscience, from beginning to end, is a realm. What truly determines your strength, is your own driving force and level of consciousness," it implied.

"The more you can see, the stronger you are."

"....." Li Chengyi was deeply shaken.

This phrase seemed to carry some special principle, making his recently stabilized dimension once again start to churn and surge.

"Unique Light, Unique Flower, Unique Sky, what they are gathering on the surface, apart from the so-called Mysterious Power, is the truly most precious higher forbidden knowledge and recognition!" Alpha continued.

Soon, Alpha flew into an even larger grey hall.

Huge Faceless statues holding scepters stood around the hall, circling any entrant with a fierce gaze.

The floor featured intricate and lavish silver lines, drawn into a gigantic circular array.

Above, myriad floating wisps of grey mist echoed with faint and strange howls as if they were indoor clouds.

"This is the micro-multiverse created by my master."

Alpha raised its head to look at the grey mist above.

"It has its own time and space, parallel worlds, and countless dimensions. The Unique Light is hidden within."

Li Chengyi raised his head, too, looking at the mist. His perception reached into it, feeling an infinitely profound cavern, bottomless.

"When my master exchanged with Xie Rong, he imparted the conceptual understanding of the original entities, and here, before I give the Unique Light to you, I also have to tell you one thing."

He paused, then continued.

"Make all your final preparations. The stronger your self is, the stronger the infinite energy is, and the more original entity faces you can see. The closer you are to the essence of the original entity."

Li Chengyi nodded in understanding.

He now understood.

In the conceptual system of the Behemoth Sect, the All-Encompassing is to lever the aspect of appearances of the original entity.

Quan Shu is to lever a larger volume of original entities, allowing them to display their faces simultaneously.

Quan Li, the so-called addition and subtraction of conceptual rules, is actually about changing the distance between the original entities and the Black Sea, masking the original entities, or displaying more, etc.

This layer allows for minimal manipulation and contact with the original entities, and that’s about it.

Rules, after all, are just our cognitive rules; concepts are the same.

The core of all this is the original entity.

"Then, I’ll give you two seconds," Alpha leaped, transforming at high speed into a tentacled humanoid wearing a white feathered robe.

Unlike other followers, it clearly had a crown-like circle of silver protrusions on its head.

Li Chengyi took a deep breath and closed his eyes. A yellow amber-like bead appeared in his palm.

In an instant, his consciousness entered the bead, into his sealed Earth-Moon Star.

The surface of Earth-Moon Planet.

All things were fixed, solidified, forever suspended in the moment of being sealed.

The dark grey clouds shrouded the sky, and patches of deep blue flowers, like patterns on a canvas, unrealistically blue, grew silently on the ground.

Each flower was only the size of a fingernail, but they were numerous. At a glance, their end was hardly visible.

These were the altered Marsh Forget-me-nots cultivated intensively by the Mingyuan Group.

It was also the Flowers that Li Chengyi now needed for the Twelve Divine Flower Position, the only one he had left.

Such seas of Marsh Forget-me-not flowers, there were three more on Earth-Moon, all different varieties, all to provide Li Chengyi with different types of Flower energy.