Chapter 973: Great Yin and Great Yang Realms Once Fought

On the edge of the Netherworld Universe, Zhu Yan, Stone Fox, and the young Daoist priest were inventorying items. Chu Feng had left behind many valuable things, including various artifacts and weapons, some of which were divine artifacts brought back from the foreign lands.

A stone egg caught the attention of the Lame Heavenly Venerable.

This was the stone egg Chu Feng had obtained from the Flying Phoenix Star in the Undying Galaxy, which was once the main stronghold of the Netherworld's undying birds, but the race had been annihilated countless ages ago.

“This egg... it’s strange. An undying bird egg?!” Stone Fox exclaimed in surprise.

In the chaos, time held no sway. A three-inch-tall stone box shot through, moving incredibly fast. One of its sides emitted a faint glow, and patterns emerged.

Chu Feng set off alone, heading into the chaotic universe to embark on a killing spree!

This time, he was truly going on a massive killing spree, so he set off alone, absolutely without bringing anyone along. He was going to fight with all his might!

The stone box had a small slit open, and Chu Feng was observing everything outside. Half of a Heavenly Venerable’s decree was attached next to the slit, making everything relatively safe.

Boom!

Traveling through chaos was truly dangerous. Not far away, thunder roared in myriad layers. He clearly saw blinding flashes of lightning there, and he believed that even a god would be annihilated if they ventured in.

The chaotic region retained some of its primal features from before creation, making it exceptionally dangerous; anything could be encountered.

Naturally, what was most anticipated were the innate objects growing within the chaos, such as innate gourds or sword-embryos growing on ancient vines.

Once, a person from the Yang World discovered a crimson-gold ancient vine within a sea of thunder in the chaos. They plucked a sword-embryo shaped fruit from it, which turned out to be incredibly sharp; once unleashed, it shattered everything.

It was said that that sword-embryo had stained the blood of more than one Heavenly Venerable in the Yang World!

Chu Feng did not encounter such ultimate objects. In fact, even if he did, he wouldn’t be able to pluck them. Anyone who dared to try would undoubtedly be struck down by chaotic lightning.

Or they would be suppressed and killed by such plant-weapons.

Any innate plant of great origin was extremely difficult to pluck. Years ago, someone attempted to pluck a mutton-fat jade pure vase from a snow-white sapling growing in the chaos. Even Heavenly Venerables bled, illustrating how terrifying it was. Ultimately, a Great Omni-potent Being had to personally intervene to pluck it, paying a considerable price.

Relatively speaking, this chaotic region was still manageable. The so-called thunderous runes here were incomplete and fragmented, otherwise, their power would be even more terrifying.

At the very least, the chaos outside the Great Yang World was certainly many times more terrifying than this place. Naturally, the innate objects formed there contained more complete runes and possessed greater power.

This kind of journey was monotonous and dull. Chu Feng found no creations of nature, only chaos throughout his path.

“Hmm?!”

Suddenly, just as he was feeling bored, he sensed something was amiss. The stone box began to glow, not just one side, but its entire body emitted a faint light. He observed this from its inner wall.

The entire inner wall of the stone box became slightly crystalline!

Of course, this was the extent of it; it didn't burst into brilliant light.

Almost simultaneously, he felt a suppressing aura, incredibly dangerous, and then he witnessed an astonishing sight.

Through the slit in the stone box, he saw that the chaos ahead had vanished, cleared away. The chaotic mist itself couldn't even approach!

His eyes transformed into two golden symbols, with intricate patterns forming and weaving beams of light as he gazed forward. After reaching the quasi-God King level, his Fiery Golden Eyes were even more astonishing.

“That is…”

Chu Feng's eyes constricted, growing brighter, and he saw the scene ahead, filled with inexplicable shock.

Was there a person there?

More accurately, it was a humanoid creature, entirely golden. But it was incredibly enormous; just by sitting there, it made people feel the universe was tiny, exerting a suffocating pressure even on deities.

However, it was dead. It was impossible to tell if it was male or female. Its battle armor was ancient and long shattered, and the exposed flesh was withered and dry, a layer of golden skin adhering to the bones.

Its head hung low, its neck partially severed, unable to be held up.

“Hmm?”

Chu Feng was alarmed. He saw that some distance from the golden glowing hair of this being, there were many metallic powders, and even remnants of weapons, which had been twisted and broken by the light emanating from its hair.

Keep in mind, it was merely a corpse.

Chu Feng was shocked. He saw a massive battle-axe, of which only a small portion remained. This weapon was at least at the God King level, yet it was inferior to the creature's hair.

Upon closer inspection, there were many powders around this creature, all weapon fragments. They weren't limited to the area around the hair, but densely covered the creature's periphery.

“No wonder even the chaos couldn't approach it. How many powerful experts had besieged it back then? And what level had this creature reached?!”

Most terrifying of all, this corpse exuded surging Yang energy. To this day, it blazed with golden light, as if an immortal flame was burning through all ages and heavens, causing the chaos itself to recoil.

An evolutionist from the Yang World? Chu Feng frowned, surprised it had died here, silently and unknown to outsiders.

He couldn't shake the feeling that this was an even more unsettling existence than Tai Wu.

Chu Feng had already changed the stone box's direction immediately, fearing it would rush over and something unexpected would happen. He steered the stone box to bypass it.

However, soon after, he encountered another danger. Boundless darkness almost engulfed him. He swiftly changed direction and bypassed it, opening his Fiery Golden Eyes to gaze at that side.

It was still a vast and empty space, with no chaos approaching; it had all been repelled.

There was also a creature there, bony and emaciated, enveloped in darkness and radiating extreme cold. It sent chills down one's spine. Even hidden within the stone box, with only a slit of the supreme treasure open, Chu Feng felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

How incredibly cold was this humanoid creature? Its Yin energy was too dense. Chu Feng had never seen an evolutionist whose Yin energy was so unbelievably concentrated.

Most terrifying was that this creature was still so powerful even after death. Near this area, there were many shattered bones, too dense to count. They belonged to creatures that had been shredded by the Yin energy emanating from the colossal being after its demise.

Chu Feng's scalp tingled. He saw that those shattered bones were all at the God King level. The runes occasionally flashing revealed their terrifying nature.

Even in death, if anyone approached this colossal corpse, they would die, becoming blood and bone!

Chu Feng's heart throbbed with shock. Could this creature be from the Great Netherworld that Stone Fox's Omni-potent master had hypothesized?

He truly couldn't imagine where else such an incredibly cold and bone-chilling evolutionist could come from. Even after countless ages since its death, its current frigid aura was enough to strangle God Kings.

In an instant, Chu Feng felt overwhelmed. One must remember that even Stone Fox's master, a powerful Omni-potent Being from the Yang World, had only hypothesized the existence of a Great Netherworld, but there was no actual proof or verifiable instance, and no evolutionist had ever been to the Great Netherworld.

Yet here, Chu Feng had actually discovered someone seemingly from the Great Netherworld!

What chilled him to the bone was that there was also a golden humanoid creature from the Great Yang World, and these two clearly seemed to have battled countless ages ago.

Their evolutionary ranks were unpredictable.

Here were traces of prehistoric battles unknown even to the Great Omni-potent Beings of the Yang World, and a visitor from the Great Netherworld had actually fallen here.

Chu Feng was lost in thought. Without the stone box, if he had rashly entered these two areas, he would undoubtedly have died, without any suspense, just like those God Kings who had turned into bone fragments.

For a moment, he was in a daze.

Could the so-called shattered chaotic universe have been destroyed by battles like these?

In the past, whenever the chaotic universe was mentioned, it was always described as shattered. Now, it seemed that an earth-shattering event had occurred countless ages ago!

“The Lame Heavenly Venerable, combining his master's research, believed that whether it was the foreign lands, or the Netherworld where I am, or the frigid universe where the young Daoist priest is, they are all just small, negligible spaces adjacent to the Great Yang World. And if a Great Netherworld exists, we should currently be on the dividing line between the two.”

Chu Feng fell silent. Thinking of Stone Fox's conjecture, he found it terrifying.

Stone Fox's master once said that if the Great Yang World and Great Netherworld were divided using a Taiji diagram, undoubtedly, the so-called minor Netherworld would merely be a very short segment, or even just a single point, on that curve.

“What ancient battles, truly mysterious and terrifying,” Chu Feng sighed. He had no time to linger here and stopped pondering.

He only knew that in ancient times, two humanoid creatures from the Great Netherworld and the Great Yang World had fought here, and the consequences were too horrifying.

The stone box tore through the void, entering the chaos once more.

Along the way, he didn't encounter many surprises. The path ahead was monotonous. To increase speed, he activated the Heavenly Venerable's decree, making it glow, allowing strands of energy to overflow and supply the stone box.

Indeed, it was incredibly fast next!

It was almost like splitting heaven and earth; he traversed the chaos with nothing able to stop him.

Of course, Chu Feng became even more nervous. His concentration was heightened, fearing he might accidentally crash into an area like the one just encountered, coming across those mysterious corpses.

He was ready to change direction at any moment!

Fortunately, the journey was relatively smooth.

“Hmm?”

He saw a tree, shimmering with silver light, barely three meters tall. It actually emitted squeaking sounds and a rich, clear fragrance.

Over a dozen “fruits” grew on the strange silver tree. It was their sounds he heard.

Without hesitation, Chu Feng rushed forth. A beam of light shot out from the slit in the stone box, cutting down a silver fruit, which he collected.

Then, his finger trembled, and he swiftly steered the stone box to escape the area, only stopping after traveling a great distance.

This “fruit” actually moved. It was, in fact, a silver mouse, sleek and glowing with white luminescence. Previously, it had been curled up, but now it unfurled its three-inch-long body.

What was going on? Chu Feng was stunned. This mouse clearly had a “fruit stem” on it, meaning it had grown from a plant.

Soon, he recalled a record in an ancient scroll from the foreign lands: Spiritual plants in chaos, if they produced divine fruits that remained unplucked for a long time, would continuously transform and develop sentience, eventually becoming spirits!

Generally, divine medicines could not become spirits or cultivate.

Only in extremely rare cases, like the one Chu Feng now encountered.

Chu Feng was astonished and on guard, because such creatures were said to be very unusual. He didn't know what this silver mouse would do.

He steered the stone box around, approaching the strange silver tree to examine it closely.

There was actually a stele here, buried in the chaos!

“What is this? Chaos?” Chu Feng was utterly bewildered.

He carefully discerned that it was writing from the Yang World. Although he had learned a bit about it from Stone Fox, the characters here seemed even older than those he had learned.

“Ancient Yang World script?”

Chu Feng frowned. He pondered and studied it for a long time here, only then recognizing about half the characters and grasping some of their meaning.

His expression immediately changed!