Eternal Time and Space

Chapter 24 Cause and Effect

After breaking through to the Innate Great Saint Realm, Zi Chen received a divine instruction from Heaven. It was an extremely profound feeling. By accumulating a massive amount of Heavenly Dao merit, he could prove his Dao through merit, become a Primordial Golden Immortal, wield the power of Heaven, and act on behalf of Heaven.

The Primordial Golden Immortal was a realm Zi Chen had never heard of before. The information transmitted by the Heavenly Dao only gave a vague concept of it. But one thing he was certain of was that it was the most powerful force in the primordial world and the highest attainment under the Heavenly Dao.

Zi Chen has already embarked on his own path: the Eternal Path of Time and Space, the Six Bodies and the Three Realms, and the Innate Great Saint Realm. If he continues down this path, he may very well reach a place even higher than the Primordial Golden Immortal. However, this does not prevent him from using the path of the Primordial Heavenly Dao to verify his own path.

By taking two paths in parallel, allowing them to corroborate and learn from each other, we may be able to go further.

Therefore, Zi Chen sent out Mo Yun, a celestial incarnation, a golden-winged roc, representing the most fierce and direct aspect of his six forms.

To proactively accept the calamity and gain merit from the Heavenly Dao—this is the purpose of Mo Yun's journey.

And the Hong Qing in front of him should be the one that Zi Chen sensed during his breakthrough—the one who surpassed the Great Luo Golden Immortal even faster than him.

Zi Chen advanced by devouring the Three Heavens and Four Netherworlds and perfecting the Eternal Dao of Time and Space; Shen Ni advanced by slaughtering all races and seizing fortune. So what makes Hong Qing so powerful? What path has he taken?

Mo Yun couldn't see through it, and it was precisely because he couldn't see through it that he was even more interested.

While Mo Yun was sizing up Hong Qing, Hong Qing was also sizing up Mo Yun. He had broken through earlier than Zi Chen and had sensed the will of Heaven when he broke through, knowing that accumulating Heavenly Dao merits could lead to the attainment of the Primordial Dao. Over the years, he had traveled through the prehistoric world and seen countless powerful beings, but he had never seen Mo Yun before.

Hong Qing could understand the path of the Divine Reversal; it was a path of plunder, forcibly breaking through bottlenecks with the fortune of all races. But he couldn't understand the Mo Yun before him.

Mo Yun's aura was so vast that it seemed less like a person and more like a world. This aura reminded Hong Qing of the Heavenly Dao, but it was not entirely the same. The Heavenly Dao was an ethereal, formless, and shapeless rule, while Mo Yun's aura was tangible, like stars, the sky, and the vast and boundless starry world.

The path this person took was similar to his, but completely different.

Just as the two were sizing each other up, Phoenix Lingguang's gaze fell on Moyun.

Looking at Mo Yun, Ling Guang's expression gradually changed from surprise to doubt. A complex look appeared in his phoenix eyes, which were like vermilion jade, including shock, realization, disbelief, and a hint of indescribable gentleness.

Mo Yun felt Ling Guang's gaze, turned his head, and looked indifferent.

"You...you are..." Ling Guang's voice trembled slightly.

Mo Yun nodded, looked at Ling Guang, and said, "I was once a Yin-Yang God and Demon in the Chaos. I was killed by Pangu and only managed to retain a wisp of consciousness. Later, you collected my origin and used your own essence to regenerate me, which gave me the opportunity to see the light of day again. In a way, I still owe you a debt of karma."

Upon hearing this, the expressions of the other four clan leaders all changed.

The Yin-Yang God and Demon, one of the three thousand gods and demons of chaos, this golden-robed youth before them actually has such an ancient background. What shocked them even more was that Ling Guang actually had such a relationship with the Yin-Yang God and Demon, collecting the origin and nurturing it with his essence and blood. If we really talk about it, Mo Yun has Ling Guang's blood flowing in her veins, and she should probably call Ling Guang her mother.

Ling Guang looked at Mo Yun with an extremely complicated expression. She had indeed collected the essence of Yin and Yang gods and demons, and she had indeed nurtured two giant eggs with her own blood essence.

But when she went to that valley again, both giant eggs had disappeared. She thought she would never see them again, but when she saw them again, the creature inside the eggs had already taken human form and had grown to a level that surpassed that of a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

After a long silence, Ling Guang finally spoke, asking, "Are you the Yin-Yang God-Demon, or the Golden-Winged Roc?"

Mo Yun looked at Ling Guang, his expression still indifferent.

"I am Mo Yun, a being of both Yin and Yang, a god and demon, and also a golden-winged roc."

After hearing this, Ling Guang fell silent. She understood what Mo Yun meant. Mo Yun was not the reincarnation of the Yin-Yang God and Demon, nor was he simply a phoenix offspring. He was a completely new being born from the intertwining of the Yin-Yang God and Demon's origin and the phoenix's essence. He had the roots of the Yin-Yang God and Demon, and also the bloodline of the phoenix, but he was neither of them. He was simply Mo Yun.

Mo Yun looked at Ling Guang and spoke again, his voice more solemn than before.

"I can guarantee that the Phoenix Clan will not be wiped out, in order to atone for the karma."

Upon hearing this, Ling Guang's expression darkened.

She discerned a different meaning in Mo Yun's words. Mo Yun said "to ensure that the Phoenix Clan is not destroyed," not "to ensure that the Phoenix Clan prospers forever." This meant that in Mo Yun's prediction, the Phoenix Clan would face a catastrophic disaster in the future. He would intervene to preserve the Phoenix Clan's bloodline, but he could only ensure that the Phoenix Clan's bloodline would not perish.

What kind of calamity could bring the Phoenix Clan to the brink of annihilation? And what kind of cause and effect would warrant Mo Yun's intervention only once?

Ling Guang didn't press further. After a moment of silence, he nodded solemnly.

"it is good."

One word was enough to acknowledge this cause and effect.

The other four clan leaders watched this scene with their own thoughts, but now was not the time to delve into those matters. Meng Zhang coughed lightly, drawing everyone's attention back to the main topic.

Hong Qing looked at Mo Yun with a faint smile on his face. As someone who was also beyond the Great Luo Golden Immortal, he knew very well how difficult it was for Mo Yun to make a guarantee to Ling Guang.

The seven people took their seats as guests and hosts.

Hongqing sat on the left, Moyun on the right, and the five clan leaders sat in the five directions. The atmosphere in the hall was somewhat oppressive. The pressure of having two beings who had surpassed the Great Luo Golden Immortal sitting together made the five clan leaders involuntarily restrain their auras.

Despite their suppressed emotions, the five couldn't hide the joy on their faces. Hong Qing might only be able to contend with Shen Ni, but with Mo Yun added, it would be two against one, greatly increasing their chances of winning.

Meng Zhang spoke first, recounting in detail the battle between the Allied Forces of Ten Thousand Races and the Beast Clan. When he spoke of the power of Shen Ni's spear, even as the patriarch of the True Dragon Clan, his face paled slightly.

The supervising soldier supplemented the troop deployment of the ferocious beast army, Zhiming analyzed the weaknesses of the ferocious beast race, Kunlun provided information on the food and supplies, and Lingguang remained silent, only glancing at Moyun from time to time with a complicated look in his eyes.

After listening, Mo Yun and Hong Qing exchanged a glance.

"Leave Shenni to us." Hongqing's voice remained calm.

"You'll have to deal with the ferocious beast army yourselves," Mo Yun said crisply.

The five clan leaders breathed a sigh of relief. What they feared most was Shen Ni. As long as Shen Ni was restrained, the allied forces of all races would at least have a fighting chance against the ferocious beast army, even if they could not win quickly.