Chapter 959: A Primitive Star (1/2)

Lu Yun’s face twitched to see the little fox resemble Ah Bao and tug on his hem like the mountain ghost once had. Though she’d last seen him hundreds of millions of years ago, to him, he’d only bid her farewell a dozen years past. She was now Wanfeng and had recovered her previous memories, and administered Dusk Province for him.

When he saw the mountain ghost again, a peculiar distress rose in his heart when he thought of Wanfeng. His farewell of a dozen years had been hundreds of millions of years of interminable waiting for Ah Bao. Just like the fake Fuxi had said, Lu Yun’s ten years were too long.

“Why don’t you go back to your own form?” He rubbed his nose.

The little fox rolled a sultry eye and returned to the shape of a dusty fox with a shake of her body. She jumped to Lu Yun’s shoulder and looked around blankly.

“Where are we?”

They were on a desolate star that likely belonged to a planet somewhere. Though dead spirits roamed the star, there weren’t that many of them. The little fox had visited some lower worlds during this time, but this one seemed different from the ones she’d set foot on before.

“This is a newly born star.” Lu Yun lifted his head to look at the sky above. It was gray and nebulous, without life. It wasn’t the boundless night sky above it, but the chaos.

Within the multiverse, the energy of a realm refined the chaos and created stars according to the laws of celestial bodies. There was a shifting boundary between the intersection of the multiverse and the chaos, and this star had just been born out of the chaos.

If Lu Yun wanted to seek out his own chaos dao fruit, he had to search in places like these.

This was a primitive star in which the laws of a realm collided with the chaos. There were still traces of energy from the chaos on this newly born star. However, it was too weak for him and couldn’t become his dao fruit. It’d be shattered by the strength within his body the second he refined it into himself.

“What a shame that I destroyed my opportunity with my own hands,” he chuckled ruefully. He’d personally struck twice to destroy the chaos dao fruit that Fuxi had nurtured within his tomb.

The first time had been to resurrect Fuxi—killing the four divine spirits had also destroyed the budding dao fruit. The second time had been when he combined the essence of the Ascension Pool with its body; the essence had been the core of the tomb. Though it was now stored in hell, it was almost impossible that it birth another chaos dao fruit.

“Have you ever considered that maybe the chaos can also nurture its own stars?” The little fox jumped on top of Lu Yun’s head and looked into the shifting gray. She murmured, “The chaos is such a mysterious place. No one knows what exists within it.”

“Maybe, but the chaos is too big for me. I don’t have the ability to enter it like Fuxi did.” Since there was no sense of time in the chaos, Lu Yun couldn’t guarantee that the world of immortals would still exist after he entered it and found his dao fruit. He’d been able to locate Fuxi’s tomb last time only because the demon god had subconsciously led him there.

“If I had the ability to travel the chaos, then the dangers facing the world of immortals would be resolved,” he snorted wryly and comforted himself, “But the energy of a realm possesses a fatal attraction for many things in the chaos. Perhaps a star born there will be attracted by the laws of celestial bodies here.”

“Young man, how much for your fox?” a slightly hoarse and weak voice sounded behind Lu Yun.

He turned around to see a malnourished elder almost drooling over the little fox. Uncomfortable with the stare, Miao darted into Lu Yun’s robes.