After a moment of silence, Mu Changqing once again waved his sleeve, enveloping the gray mist with supreme power, following the threads of causality, and casting it into unknown years.
This place had long been severed from the present world. Mu Changqing could only choose to let Yuan Datou follow the flow of time and return to the present world.
This might take a million years, or a billion epochs, or perhaps an instant.
It depended on whether Yuan Datou was lucky enough to fall into unknown years where the passage of time was similar to that of the present world, allowing the timeline to quickly realign and return him to the present.
After Yuan Datou's consciousness departed, Mu Changqing turned to face the mysterious gate.
Within, golden blood could be seen faintly flowing backward, black blood stained the Ancestral Origin, and various ominous and bizarre phenomena occurred frequently, appearing before their eyes.
Intertwined laws of order pierced the heavens, emitting an endless, radiant brilliance, as if proclaiming this place as the origin of all things, the ruler of all beings.
No matter the world, the era, the system, the variable, or the destined protagonist, all were created here.
Regardless of the plane or the years... no matter how formidable or terrifying you were, capable of suppressing billions of universes with a mere thought, or standing parallel to the river of time... you could not escape the control of the gray Ancestral Origin.
For all things originated here, and this was the destiny of all beings.
"What a terrifying place. Merely facing its casually revealed aura makes one feel fear, fear of a superior being, a crushing blow from a higher life form."
Dao Zu's expression was solemn, his tone laced with disbelief.
Facing such an existence, he could barely muster the will to resist.
"Enter my inner world. When I need you, I will release you. Otherwise, with your current cultivation, you wouldn't even have the qualification to step into the gray Ancestral Origin."
Mu Changqing stood with his hands behind his back, his figure majestic before the mysterious gate, with faint purple light occasionally rippling around him.
This formed a standoff with the terrifying power within the mysterious gate, their brilliance intermingling.
The two heard his words and did not refuse, nodding slightly in agreement.
For if Mu Changqing had not blocked all the terrifying power emanating from the gray Ancestral Origin at this moment, they would not even have the qualification to stand behind him.
Afterward, Mu Changqing waved his sleeve and took the two into his inner world.
He raised his eyes to the mysterious gate, the inside obscured by a dense gray haze, making it impossible to see clearly.
Only by truly entering would one know the specific situation within.
"The gray Ancestral Origin, the realm of all beings, eternal reincarnation, immortal and indestructible, the origin of all things."
Mu Changqing held a long sword woven from purple threads and slowly approached.
He stepped into the gray Ancestral Origin alone, a place where no one had entered for countless ages.
The moment he approached, a brilliant light erupted, and various laws of order and supreme principles transformed into monstrous, bizarre creatures, roaring and attacking Mu Changqing.
Their mission was to prevent later arrivals from entering.
Ordinary Ancestral Gods could not withstand its terrifying power; it was too horrifying and awe-inspiring.
It created beings, it created all things, time, eternity... therefore, its power transcended all that is known, making any immortal or eternally unchanging existence a laughable joke before it.
However, Mu Changqing had transcended this system and forged his own new origin.
"I will fight to the heavens! If I wish to enter the gray Ancestral Origin, who can stop me?"
Mu Changqing's hair flew wildly, his eyes opened, radiating supreme arrogance and madness. With a roar,
His long sword cut through the spacetime of this place, and with a single strike, he annihilated all the bizarre creatures, cleaving open a crystalline passage leading to unknown years.
Rumbling!
Mu Changqing struck again, cutting away the bizarre power and ominous creatures surging from the passage.
After advancing for an unknown number of years, a thin membrane-like light screen appeared ahead, blocking Mu Changqing's advance.
"Break!"
Mu Changqing snorted coldly and directly threw his long sword. It transformed into a purple beam that annihilated everything in its path, instantly shattering the light screen.
The moment it touched, a sound like shattering crystal rang out.
Following this, the sword broke through the light screen like a hot knife through butter, opening a passage connecting the gray Ancestral Origin to the gray island.
A gray land emerged into Mu Changqing's sight.
There was no imagined thick fog, no killing intent lurking, no bizarre or ominous energy erupting, no seas of blood and mountains of corpses.
There was only a silent plain, a gray plain stretching endlessly.
Looking around, within a radius of hundreds of millions of miles, there was no sign of life. The gray land gave a sense of a chaotic future, oppressively silent.
Mu Changqing stepped across the shattered crystalline light screen, his figure landing on the gray land.
He recalled his long sword, placed his hands behind his back, and quietly observed his surroundings, a hint of confusion on his brow.
"It seems... different."
Mu Changqing murmured to himself. His divine soul flashed by, but he could not grasp the entirety of the gray Ancestral Origin within his divine consciousness.
This was because this place was obscured by unknown beings, making it impossible to perceive or deduce.
Wilderness surrounded him, silent and still, the gray land enshrouding the great world.
The gray sky featured a twilight sunset, tinged with gray.
Streams flowed into the sea, all of them a bizarre gray.
It was as if all things were just beginning, and the worlds had not yet opened, giving a chilling and uneasy feeling.
"What kind of world is this?"
The surroundings were too quiet, so quiet it was unsettling and chilling.
Mu Changqing's voice, as he murmured to himself, traveled through spacetime, impacting the surrounding space and continuing ceaselessly.
It was as if the energy here would not dissipate, obeying the law of conservation of energy, yet there was nothing consuming energy.
Mu Changqing looked towards the endless horizon and strode forward, heading into the distance.
Just then, a streak of light flashed by, tearing through the gray sky, causing the entire gray Ancestral Origin to seethe, and vast mists billowed out, reflecting all realms.
Even more terrifyingly, that streak of light seemed to trigger a butterfly effect, activating the gray land that had slumbered for endless ages, causing it to gradually awaken.
The most primitive laws and orders of all kinds radiated infinite divine brilliance, intertwining and enshrouding the gray land.
On the gray ocean at the horizon, ships floated, like creation gods and demons that had been slain and discarded on the gray ocean.
Or perhaps they were like great tombs, burying unknown beings, submerged by the gray ocean.
At this moment, the sun and moon coexisted, a blood-red moon and a gray sun, exceptionally bizarre, casting their light upon the gray land. The interwoven colors were indescribably strange and ominous.
Following this, the sound of the Dao echoed, shaking the universe.
The boundless earth trembled, as if the consciousness of the gray Ancestral Origin was awakening, and beings were stirring, causing the heavens and earth to resonate profoundly.
Mu Changqing stood on the gray land, his brow furrowed as he observed these terrifying and awe-inspiring phenomena, not intervening.
Instead, he waited quietly for these unknown beings to reveal themselves.