Chapter 774
The Zone of Life
"The chaotic land that was cut off."
"Crossing such a vast river of time, without the replenishment of the Lord of Chaos, even the Chaos God would probably not be able to withstand it."
Xu Chen felt the chaotic star field that could barely be maintained, and his expression was somewhat complicated.
"Did the inheritance mention what lies beyond the Chaos?" Xu Chen suddenly asked.
"Beyond the chaos, there is nothingness," Wan Huan said.
"I see."
Xu Chen nodded slightly, his gaze fixed on the area beyond the barrier.
If the seal outside the barrier continues to weaken at this rate, it will be able to break in a hundred billion years.
At this time, in order to conserve resources, almost all the powerful beings in the Chaos Starfield sealed their own origins and transformed into mortal spirits to maintain the lowest possible level of consumption.
However, the energy required to operate in the isolated chaotic star field is too enormous, and the power that Xu Chen draws from the star field seed has begun to become difficult.
In such a situation, the only way to maintain the operation of the Chaos Starfield is to draw on its own stored energy.
However, this energy can only last for trillions of years at most.
After exhausting its own energy, it can only attack the living beings within the star field.
"Sleep now, and wake up in billions of years."
"If we cannot preserve the Chaos Starfield, we can only preserve the human race in the end."
"The power I have drawn is still sufficient to maintain the current operation of the human race's chaotic territory."
"You don't need to worry. At this stage, just maintain the most basic operation of the human race. Other powerful beings should sleep and wait for the day when chaos recovers."
Xu Chen's words resonated in the ears of all the high-ranking experts of the human race. After speaking, Xu Chen fell into a deep sleep.
With Xu Chen's current level of cultivation, billions of years are but a blink of an eye.
But that snap of the fingers felt like an eternity to Xu Shen.
Billions of years later, Xu Chen awoke, only to be suddenly struck by a profound sense of loneliness.
Upon waking, Xu Chen sensed that the energy in this chaotic star field had clearly decreased, and the light in his eyes dimmed slightly.
"You've finally woken up." Wan Huan appeared in front of Xu Chen.
"I'll go check out the abandoned land outside the seal and see if there's any chance of survival. If not, I'll think of other ways."
As Xu Chen spoke, he tore a small opening in the seal outside the barrier.
Xu Chen followed the small opening into the world and found himself in a desolate place, much like a star field.
With all paths gone and chaos obscured, this space is filled only with deathly silence and withered worlds one after another in the desolate starry sky.
Upon entering, Xu Chen suddenly sensed that the entire world seemed to be in a vacuum. As soon as he entered, a strange power began to draw upon his inner essence.
But no matter how much that power was absorbed, Xu Chen had it firmly under his control, and he couldn't absorb any energy from it.
Looking at this area, Xu Chen inexplicably thought of the incomplete areas of the Great Dao that he had repaired in the chaos before.
The scene before us is a more profound manifestation of the incompleteness of the Great Road.
"That's a fragmented area of the Great Dao of Chaos, but it's not even here. How am I supposed to complete it?"
"My current origin is simply insufficient to fill this endless space."
Xu Chen wandered around this abandoned space and discovered that, just as Wan Huan had said, the space was a hundred or a thousand times larger than chaos.
In a desolate and empty place, Xu Chen saw an enormous body, upon which was a frozen authority of the Great Dao.
"This is!"
Xu Chen reached out and touched the mass of Great Dao authority. As soon as he made contact, he felt that this mass of Great Dao authority was even larger than the one he controlled.
However, these Great Dao authorities are not included in the total amount of Chaos Great Dao authorities.
"This is interesting!"
Xu Chen not only found the Great Dao Authority, but also found a magical treasure beside that huge body that even Xu Chen could not see through.
Beside the magical artifact was a stone tablet inscribed with curses against the nine Chaos Gods in the Chaos Dao divine script.
"Those nine Chaos Gods are truly despicable. They had the upper hand and had already won, but they just couldn't tolerate these Chaos Gods who didn't control the division of Chaos."
"He betrayed his teammates right after winning, cutting them out of the chaos they were in."
Xu Chen absorbed the magic weapon and the authority of the Great Dao into his own body.
In this region where all paths cease to exist and chaos is obscured, Xu Chen felt that the power of the Great Dao he controlled could not exert its due strength.
Finally, Xu Chen saw more and more corpses of Chaos Gods in this area, and on these corpses, the power of the Great Dao was condensed.
Xu Chen collected these Great Dao authority wields one by one. As the number of them increased, he vaguely felt that he should do something.
"The Chaos Will, which controls the primordial power of the entire chaos, will also disconnect once it is cut off."
"If we want to revitalize this abandoned land, shouldn't we find a new chaotic will to replace it?"
Thinking of this, Xu Chen hurriedly returned to the Chaos Starfield and found Da Xu, who was admiring the Xuanhuang Supreme Treasure he had refined.
"Take a look at this magical artifact for me."
Xu Chen took out the magical artifact that resembled a cauldron but was not quite a cauldron.
Upon seeing this magical artifact, Da Xu immediately jumped up.
"This aura far surpasses that of the Xuanhuang Supreme Treasure!"
Da Xu placed his hand on the magical artifact and sent his divine sense into it.
In an instant, Xu Chen felt that Da Xu's divine sense had been trapped inside.
In a daze, thirty million years have passed.
Realizing that Da Xu wouldn't wake up anytime soon, Xu Chen wandered around the abandoned area again.
Xu Chen gathered the numerous chaotic god bodies together.
"Chaos is so vast, it's more than enough for you to move around in, but you insisted on fighting, ultimately cutting Chaos into this state, and ending up trapped in this wasteland, and finally being..."
As Xu Chen was speaking, he suddenly paused in surprise.
He discovered that each chaotic god's body emitted a slight fluctuation, which only slowly spread out after being touched by Xu Chen's primordial power.
"This is?"
Xu Chen put all these fluctuations together and felt as if they were an article with missing words.
"Interesting. It seems the body of the Chaos God hasn't been fully assembled yet." "Keep searching. I want to see what you'll leave me with in the end!"
Another trillions of years have passed. At this time, the Chaos Starfield has clearly weakened. Some weak races have begun to perish, and the remaining strong ones have all fallen into slumber in order to ensure the survival of their races.
Xu Chen searched the abandoned land for billions of years and collected 361 bodies of Chaos Gods.
After gathering the fluctuations emanating from the bodies of these Chaos Gods, Xu Chen discovered a path that the Chaos Gods had explored and continued to roam in this abandoned land.
However, this path seemed inconceivable to Xu Chen.
"To create a path amidst ruins and to unite one's will."
"The Dao, is there still a Dao here?"
Xu Chen sensed this desolate area; although it was vast, it was a place devoid of morality.
"You so many Chaos Gods spent so much time and still couldn't create it. If it were me, I probably wouldn't be able to either..."
Before Xu Chen could finish speaking, he suddenly sensed a new star field seed appearing in the chaos and beginning to sprout.
This time, Xu Chen used this star field seed to absorb a large amount of chaotic power, which even contained a trace of the Great Dao authority.
Feeling this, Xu Chen was extremely excited. The chaotic power he had just absorbed through the Star Domain Seed was enough to sustain the Chaotic Star Domain for hundreds of billions of years.
However, just as Xu Chen was about to inject this power into the Chaos Starfield, he suddenly stopped.
"Where the Way exists, thoughts cease; the absence of the Way is itself the Way!"
In that instant, Xu Chen's mind became clear, and he transformed the power he had just absorbed from the Starfield Seed into a special power of the Great Dao, filling this abandoned land.
As if life and death were colliding, a spark of life force began to spread across the wasteland.
Xu Chen exhausted all the energy he had absorbed, creating a special place equivalent to a city within the human race's territory.
This special place was brought into the human race's consciousness and placed under their control.
Before long, a small, vibrant world appeared before Xu Chen.
Although the world before us contains very little energy and emits very little energy, this little energy is enough to sustain the operation of the world before us.
"This world contains only a trace of the Great Dao of Life, and can only give birth to beings that cannot cultivate."
"But so what? As long as the power generated by this world can maintain its own operation, then it has succeeded!"
Xu Chen spoke with some excitement, and carefully sealed off the area that still held a sliver of life.
Just as this area of life was completely sealed, the fluctuations generated by the bodies of the 361 Chaos Gods seemed to have detected something and surged toward that world that contained only a trace of life force.
"Interesting. You want to use me as a wedding dress? You're dreaming!"
Xu Chen manipulated the will of the human race, making them the first race to be born in this region.
After doing all this, Xu Chen summoned the high-ranking members of the human race, Wan Huan, and the lords of all the major races.
All the powerful figures who came over were filled with shock when they saw this area containing a trace of life force.
"How did you do that?" Wan Huan stared blankly at the area where there was still a glimmer of life.
"I also owe a lot to the bodies of these Chaos Gods in the Abandoned Lands. Otherwise, it would have taken me a long time to figure things out before I could break through this predicament."
"I've summoned you here today because there's something I need to discuss with you." Xu Chen's gaze swept over the human race's high-ranking officials and the race leaders.
"Completely seal off the chaotic region, and all living beings enter a state of self-sealing to maintain minimal consumption."
"In the time to come, I will extract the primal power of the Chaos Starfield to create more worlds that still have a trace of life."
"As long as we gradually expand these areas, given enough time, we can definitely restore the Chaos to its former glory, and perhaps then we can even launch a counterattack against the main Chaos."
"Furthermore, all races should stop hiding their secrets and bring out all the spiritual and divine objects that contain their origin. When chaos returns to normal, new territories will be divided according to their value."
Xu Chen shared his thoughts and gained the support of all the race leaders and Wanhuan, not to mention the human race.
A sealing array specially designed by Xu Chen covered the Chaos Starfield. As the array operated, all living beings in the Chaos Starfield seemed to be frozen and entered a sealed state.
Within the abandoned land, Xu Chen activated the last primal power squeezed from the Chaos Starfield, beginning to expand this area containing life force bit by bit.
As the area gradually expanded, Xu Chen consumed more and more energy. When only 20% remained, Xu Chen reached out with one hand to the energy clusters formed by magical treasures, divine objects, and spiritual objects, which were piled up into vast worlds, and drew power from them.
The once invaluable Xuanhuang treasures, innate treasures, innate spiritual treasures, and various spiritual and divine objects all turned into burning firewood in Xu Chen's hands.
An immense primordial power was absorbed into the body of the illusory god and transformed into the Dao of Nothingness to expand this life domain.
Millions of years pass in the blink of an eye.
That region, containing a trace of life force, has expanded to ten thousand times the former territory of the human race, but it is still far from catching up with the Chaos Starfield.
"Take it slow. We've exhausted all our primal power. For the rest of the time, we can only draw power from the newly born star field seeds of chaos from time to time."
At this moment, Xu Chen's own source power had dropped to 30%, and the power of the Great Dao he controlled was no longer enough to unleash 40% of his full strength.
If even one Chaos God discovers Xu Chen, they can suppress him by paying a higher price.
"This life-giving region has expanded to such an extent that, after supplying itself, it still has a trace of primal power remaining, which can be output outwards."
"Indeed, this is the only ray of light in the darkness."
As Xu Chen spoke, he fell asleep again.
After countless billions of years, Xu Chen awoke from his slumber.
However, the development of the life zone before Xu Chen's eyes was somewhat unexpected.
"While I was asleep, a world war broke out among the humans in this life zone, 99% of them were wiped out, leaving only a small lineage in a remote area."
"Other races seized the opportunity during the great war to rise up and become the dominant powers in the world."
"Sure enough, when a country becomes too powerful, occupies a region, and is unable to expand outwards, trouble will arise."
Xu Chen's gaze fell upon a corner of the world of life, where the human race, numbering less than ten million, eked out a living.
Even so, there are still alien races that want to completely exterminate humanity in order to prevent them from regaining their former glory.
"Without a clear goal, internal strife is likely to occur."
Seeing this situation, Xu Chen simply smiled and casually bestowed some Dao inheritance upon the remaining humans.
At this moment, the strongest being in this area of life was only at the Immortal Ascension Realm.
Xu Chen felt the development was slow, but he was helpless. After all, this area was devoid of all paths, making it extremely difficult to carve out a path of cultivation.
"Let's continue developing. Once a powerful expert above the Great Dao is born, we can slowly expand outwards."
Bored, Xu Chen entered this world and watched as the human race, having received the inheritance of the Great Dao, slowly regained its former glory. (End of Chapter)