The Purgatory Calamity-Chapter 1016 - 974: The Disappearance of the Dao Source

He spoke of you, referring to the "Source of Metal Essence" spread out on the bottom layer of Purgatory.

From that giant Realm God Card, He sensed an unusual aura of Spiritual Intelligence, realizing that the source born at the beginning was participating in this divine battle in another way.

However...

The time-space constraints that Yi Hao had just employed possessed the magical ability to confine all matter, and since "Source of Metal Essence" was a material object, it too should have been restricted by these constraints.

Only a soul could maintain a certain level of activity in the frozen state of time-space alien power!

A higher-dimensional, advanced version of Soul Consciousness could retain its own will even as time and space froze.

In other words, only the "Soul Path Origin" could remain unaffected by the time-space constraints, capable of stirring thoughts in the Sea of Souls, and exerting its inherent power.

Bee King pondered as he looked at the Realm God Card beside his head, trying to communicate with Pang Jian.

"Um!"

His will entered Pang Jian Yuan Shen’s body and saw the sun, moon, and stars rising and falling in the grey and misty Misty Sea.

This scene was as if Pang Jian had transported the Mysterious Fog Sea into his own body.

Stars shining brilliantly, three round moons, two great suns, and various strange and wondrous mountains.

These crystallized mountains were intertwined with Thunderous Lightning, or fluxed with extremely cold and serene lightning, or were dark and deep, housing various oddities.

Within Pang Jian Yuan Shen, the mountains were like God Status.

And atop those crystallized mountains sat several of Pang Jian’s Soul Spirits, like God Spirits presiding over their God Status.

Bee King grew increasingly astonished.

Relying on his connection with Pang Jian, he roamed within Pang Jian Yuan Shen’s body, seeing the five major viscera created from metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, floating in the Misty Sea like five pieces of heaven and earth.

Those five great heavens and earth exuded an aura of the ultimate Great Tao, emanating a clear magnetic force of Dao origins.

Other of Pang Jian’s Soul Spirits settled within those five great heavens and earth, like Supreme Gods dominating their respective territories.

"Using the Five Elements Principles to construct heaven and earth, condensing into the five major viscera, then separating one’s divine essence to reside within."

"The Metallic Heaven and Earth corresponding to the lungs, permeated with the aura of ’Source of Metal Essence’, seemed to have been repeatedly cleansed by it."

"The Fire Heaven and Earth for the heart blazed with the Power of Blazing Fire, that Pang Jian’s Soul Spirit seemed to have absorbed the principles of ’Fire Dao Source’."

"Divine King Yan Hao had refined the myriad alien fires between heaven and earth, also collecting the residual fire of ’Fire Dao Source’."

"..."

Bee King’s thoughts surged like tides, increasingly astonished by what he saw.

He had always known that many Dao origins born at the beginning, due to the clash of two great wills, had been shattered or absorbed and assimilated by powerful Divine Kings.

Dao origins, one by one, disappeared and fell silent.

And while the two great Supreme Wills above and within the Misty Sea grew stronger with each shattering of the Dao origin, the shattered Dao origins were either integrated by the Sovereign to become Divine Kings or directly refined by Divine Kings to boost their power.

Over the vast expanse of time, the Sovereign and Divine Kings who refined Dao origins had fallen due to the divine battles, returning to quietude in the Outer Star River and Misty Sea.

Lacking Spiritual Intelligence, Dao origins were merely natural products of the Heavenly Dao Laws, regarded by deities as treasures coveted to ascend to higher realms, aiding Their achievement of higher statuses.

Neither the God Spirits above nor within the Misty Sea disagreed on this.

Initially, God Spirits were warriors of major tribes, lifeforms created by the two great Supreme Wills, rising to godhood according to the methods of deification set by them.

God Spirits either perished in mutual slaughter or died in the Forbidden Land.

Even without the outbreak of a great calamity, gods from the Outer Star River and Misty Sea constantly battled each other, with a distinction between native gods and Alien Gods.

Continuous battles and struggles gave birth to nearly indestructible Sovereigns and all-powerful Divine Kings.

Often at this time, a heavenly calamity would suddenly erupt. Even the Sovereigns and Divine Kings struggled to survive, either falling in the divine wars or mysteriously disappearing.

Where did the Dao Sources they captured and refined go after they perished?

As Dao Sources shattered and diminished one by one, the two great wills continued to grow, strengthened by the paths they paved for the God Sealers.

The Dao Sources, belonging to realms that no longer existed due to the fall of Sovereigns and Divine Kings, should have vanished from this world.

Yet, the Bee King, gazing into Pang Jian’s Primordial Spirit Body, felt the traces of the perishing Dao Sources within his organs.

The existence of the "Source of Metal Essence" in Pang Jian’s lungs seems reasonable, and He was not surprised.

But the "Fire Dao Source," which should have ceased to exist with the death of Yan Hao, was still traceable in the fiery domain of Pang Jian’s heart.

Water, wood, and earth, the marks of these three great Dao Sources, also manifested in three other organs.

The Bee King thought, and several names came to mind.

Divine King Yan Hao, Divine King Cang Miao, Sovereign Xi Lin, and Sovereign Hou Tu.

Yan Hao came from the Outer Star River, used the "Nine Sun Heaven Strike" to attack Mysterious Fog Sea, and ultimately fell in Mysterious Fog Sea, his head transforming into a Ruin Domain under Pang Jian’s control.

Cang Miao, a member of the Sea Clan, achieved divine status through the Heavenly Water Path, became a Sovereign, and collected the essence of "Water Dao Source" in myriad rivers, ultimately forging the Realm of Divine King.

This Divine King also waged wars in ancient times on Mysterious Fog Sea and met his end there. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

Xi Lin and Hou Tu, both born in Mysterious Fog Sea, one from the Wood Tribe and the other a warrior from the Rock Clan, attacked the Outer Star River together.

After their devastating defeat, the combined forces of the gods from beyond killed these two Sovereigns, who fell back into Mysterious Fog Sea.

Xi Lin and Hou Tu, during their reign as Sovereigns, searched the world for "Wood Dao Source" and "Earth Dao Source," obtaining only fragments of the two great Dao Sources.

They, too, eventually perished.

Yet the two great Dao Sources they gathered still resided in another two of Pang Jian’s organs, as if they had long merged with Pang Jian.

Pang Jian’s Primordial Spirit Body, draped in grey swirling Mystical Fog, showed traces of shattered and disappearing Dao Sources in various organs, crystal bones, stars, and suns!

What did this imply?

Those who harvested and fused Dao Sources were born from the two highest wills, ascended by following the roads to godhood laid by these two wills, and perished either in mutual slaughter or while exploring the Forbidden Land.

When the Divine Kings and Sovereigns vanished, the Dao Sources should also have disappeared, yet they continued to persist.

Living beings perished, yet Dao Sources were preserved, previously never revealed.

Now, however, they were abundantly appearing in Pang Jian’s Primordial Spirit Body!

Why was this so?

The gaze of the Bee King deepened.

He then looked towards Yi Hao, the God of Destiny, feeling the aura of those shiny silver eyes, and gradually sensed the presence of other Dao Sources.

"It’s those two harvesting the Dao Sources!"

"They lack their own bodies, relying instead on the beings they created, turning them into powerful Divine Spirits possessing the power to refine and eradicate Dao Sources!"

"Then, they let the Divine Spirits slaughter each other, provoking one divine calamity after another."

"As the Dao Source-harvesting Divine Spirits fall one by one, the Dao Sources are opportunistically captured by them, becoming their means to perfect themselves, continually advancing and strengthening!"

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