Chapter 231: Awakening
Chapter 231: Awakening
While Zuo Meng and Ku plotted their schemes, the Dream Realm drifted in distant chaos.
This former domain of Zuo Meng had taken new shape through countless ages. Freed from their creator’s grasp, ancient beings once Sealed by Zuo Meng broke from stone prisons. These primordial monsters clashed over cosmic laws, shattering the evolved Immortal Realm civilization.
The Starry Sky Era began.
Celestial debris coalesced into countless planets. Victorious Huang claimed the Central Star Region as its supreme ruler – the Huang Celestial Emperor revered by all. Defeated rivals were banished to the Far Northern Star Region. Meanwhile, Immortal Realm survivors fled northward under Xuan Gui Celestial Emperor’s protection, establishing the Southern Star Region.
Thus the Dream Realm split threefold.
Zuo Meng’s avatar watched these developments without interfering. His main form focused entirely on chaotic matters, leaving little power for the avatar. Since the world’s destruction posed no threat, he permitted its course. After accepting Ye Chen as disciple, the avatar resolved to nurture two more talents – one disciple proved insufficient for traversing chaos. Though he’d taken Goddess Xi as student in Yuan Wu World, her role as world-stabilizing sage made her unsuitable for risky expeditions.
“The escape slows. The Origin World drains our strength.”
Though the Dream Realm reached chaos’ edge, the Origin World’s influence persisted. With fading shared essence, the Origin World sought to reclaim its fragment. This desperation drove Zuo Meng to ally with Ku.
He simply wished to survive.
“May we be in time.”
The avatar sighed beyond the world’s edge, sensing the Origin World’s pull. Returning focus to the Dream Realm, he mused:
“Another epoch dawns.”
Three Star Regions diverged. Lawless Northern wastes festered under fallen Ancient Deities. The rigid Central Star Region stagnated under Huang’s unyielding rule. Only the Southern Star Region thrived through constant revolution – separating ordinary people from Immortal Cultivators into layered societies. Severed from immortal legacy, Cultivation traditions fractured. Through forty centuries, mortals forgot celestial truths, proclaiming themselves nature’s masters.
Four millennia meant little to cultivators – mere moments of Closed Door Meditation. But for ordinary people, empires rose and fell through countless generations.
Earth Star.
This backwater of Southern Star Region bore faint Immortal Realm traces from forty centuries past. Through slave eras and feudal dynasties, humanity reached modern age. Science displaced forgotten myths, though shadowy cults still performed dark sacrifices.
“Master, shall I interfere?”
Goddess Xi remained unchanged – the Dream Realm’s sole sage. Her innate power surpassed even primordial chaotic beings like Huang and Xuan Gui. These born rulers’ mighty foundations became their Chains – Huang recognized this limitation, sparking wars to steal others’ essence. Yet neither Huang, Jie Ming’s reincarnation Junyang, nor Yuan Wu World’s ascended Storyteller achieved true transcendence. As for Xuan Gui, Zuo Meng abandoned hope for the cowardly ancient.
“Wait longer. Perhaps this era breeds promise.”
With his main form demanding more disciples, the avatar prepared to guide potential candidates.
Chaos.
Beyond Ku World’s Celestial Realm.
Zuo Meng engaged in cosmic chess while Ku consumed world laws, rewriting Ye Chen’s threads of fate. The process resembled adding new features to completed games – every action code and interaction requiring reconstruction within Ku World’s framework. Hence Ku needed Zuo Meng’s aid against enemies during vulnerable law-alterations.
Meanwhile, three big shots clashed.
Within the world.
Twenty years passed since the Leonid meteor storm. That month-long starfall lacking astronomical prediction spawned doomsday cults. But modern folk dismissed such tales – until now.
“Class reunion?”
Ye Chen shook his liquor-fogged head as memories cascaded.
His past life unfolded clearly.
“Twenty years lost!”
Dread gripped him. Despite Old Ancestor Ku and his master’s protection, awakening proved arduous. Earlier disciples might remain forever lost.
“My power’s gone.”
The Heavenly Book’s energy lay inert – incompatible with this world’s rules. Ku and his master’s gifts vanished, leaving mere mortality.
“Ye Chen?”
“Drunk already?” Companions jostled him.
Before he could answer –
BOOM!
Windows rattled as classmates rushed to see…
“A dragon! An actual dragon!”
Chaos erupted beyond the glass.