Chapter 1: Where Did I Go?
Within a Boundless Chaos, a slightly dim stream of light darted around like a headless fly.
Suddenly, an illusory ball of light appeared not far away.
In an instant, the dim stream of light seemed to have been stimulated, suddenly bursting forth with dazzling brilliance. It rushed forward and quickly plunged into the light ball. The already quiet chaos returned to peace.
A vast amount of information, like a flood, poured into Yu Yue's mind, making his already muddled brain feel like paste, struggling to comprehend the contents within.
It seemed as if a day or perhaps a month had passed before those tightly shut eyes opened again.
"Did I... transmigrate?" Looking at his illusory arm, Yu Yue casually shook it.
"I can't believe something like this actually happened to me... but I didn't want to transmigrate," Yu Yue said, looking helpless.
Back home, Yu Yue was a moderately famous online author on the internet. He had a car, a house, and living parents in a warm, harmonious family.
Recently, his career had also been on the rise. One could say his future was bright.
Furthermore, he wasn't one of those protagonists in novels who had no attachments and could casually abandon everything from their previous life.
"Sigh! Forget it. Since I'm here, I'll make the best of it. My younger brother is still at home, and with him taking care of Mom and Dad, I don't need to worry too much. I just hope they don't get too sad over my sudden disappearance," Yu Yue could only console himself this way.
After grieving alone for a while, Yu Yue looked at his illusory body, speechless.
"And even if I transmigrated, shouldn't I at least be a person? What the heck am I now... Wait, am I actually a ghost?"
He shook his head, dispersing the strange thoughts... if he even still had a head.
Yu Yue looked around and saw that the surroundings were pure white, with only many threads emitting a hazy glow, constantly intertwining and giving off a strange radiance. In the center, however, a pale purple thread was exceptionally thick, more than ten times the width of the others.
After casually scanning the surroundings, Yu Yue fixed his gaze on the pale purple thread in the center, his eyes filled with resentment.
"It seems this illusory law is the culprit behind my transmigration."
Yes, these thread-like things were the fundamental essence sought after by countless beings—the legendary Laws.
The anger in Yu Yue's eyes gradually turned into helplessness.
"Although I really don't want to admit it, after this illusory law landed on me and carried my soul through the Boundless Chaos, during those long years, I had already merged with it completely, becoming inseparable."
As time passed, Yu Yue gradually calmed down.
He began to organize the sea-like, vast information in his mind, hoping to sort out something useful from it.
Instantly, the vast information was absorbed at an extremely fast rate, like melting snow. As he processed and digested it, the look in Yu Yue's eyes grew increasingly surprised.
"Strange, isn't this the Core of the World Origin? Why is it so fragile?"
Immediately, Yu Yue pulled hard forward.
"Tear!"
The seemingly unbreakable space in front was instantly torn open, and large spatial rifts appeared, failing to heal for a long time. Bursts of buzzing emerged from the void, and the surrounding Great Dao wailed, while the Myriad Daos wept.
Looking at the scene before him, which resembled the collapse of a world, Yu Yue was momentarily speechless.
"It seems this world isn't just low-level; it's so weak that even I, who was an ordinary person, can casually tear space apart."
Suddenly, an inexplicable sorrow surged into his heart, and Yu Yuebecame dispirited.
"Since the world is so low-level, everything I see is illusory. The entire world combined might not even be as high-tiered as I am. Perhaps I can never return to my original world. Instead of lingering on like this, I might as well die and end it all."
Before his voice faded, Yu Yue's spiritual consciousness went into nirvana, and he passed out.
At the same time, the interwoven Laws around him braided themselves into chains, tightly wrapping around Yu Yue. As time passed, Yu Yue's already illusory body became increasingly transparent, as if he would disappear in the next moment.
Suddenly, the illusory law in the center erupted with dazzling light, seizing Yu Yue, who was wrapped in the chains of Law, from afar, crushing him, and integrating him into itself.
Following Yu Yue's integration, the entire Origin Space sent out ripples, and all the Laws instantly grew rapidly, as if they had taken a powerful tonic.
Within the Chaos, the originally illusory ball of light shone brightly, and its form gradually solidified.
"Who am I? I am Emperor Lord Donghua!... No! I am Yu Yue." Suddenly, Yu Yue woke up with a start.
After Yu Yue sorted out the sequence of events, a wave of lingering fear instantly flooded his heart.
Recalling everything that had just happened, Yu Yue couldn't help but give a bitter smile.
"That was truly a clever scheme. If this illusory law hadn't already merged with me and spontaneously protected my soul just now, I would have likely been completely devoured by this Heaven and Earth!"
It turned out that the suicidal impulse Yu Yue had just felt was precisely a scheme of the Heavenly Dao. It had blinded his sense of self, causing him to generate the intent of nirvana, allowing the Heavenly Dao to seize the opportunity to consume him and use him as fuel for its own advancement. If it hadn't been for the protection of the illusory law just now, he might not have even retained a single True Spirit... "However, I suppose this is a blessing in disguise. Now that I have merged with the world, I am the new Heavenly Dao!"
The next moment, Yu Yue gave up resisting and completely merged with the world, entering an incomparably profound, ineffable, supreme wondrous realm.
A moment later, a pair of eyes of the Heavenly Dao, woven entirely from Laws, appeared in the Origin Space.
"So, I wasn't the unluckiest one after all." Yu Yue finally understood the true meaning of fortune playing tricks on people.
It turned out that Emperor Lord Donghua, who had appeared in Yu Yue's memory when he woke up, was the real unlucky fellow!
The Immortal Realm Emperor Lord, who was about to successfully merge with the Dao, was instantly attracted by the chaotic state of Yu Yue after the commotion just now. Because his status was too low, merely approaching resulted in him being devoured by Yu Yue.
That was why Yu Yue had the momentary delusion that he was Emperor Lord Donghua.
"But this world is far too... pathetic!" Yu Yue combined the worldview he had sorted out from Emperor Lord Donghua's memory with the information the world itself fed back to him. If his soul hadn't merged with the world, the entire world would likely have fallen into destruction soon.
"Speaking of which, why does the plot development here resemble a trashy novel I read before?"
Yu Yue grew even more confused.
It turned out that before Yu Yue started writing novels, he had plenty of time to spare and often found himself in the awkward situation of having nothing to read.
He remembered one time while surfing the net, he saw a bizarre novel titled *The Cold Immortal Venerable's Nine Lifetimes Search for His Wife*.
"The plot trajectory of this book is exactly the same as the current stage of this world."
"However, I remember the ending of that book was that Nine Tribulations Immortal Venerable Luochen attained the legendary Immortal Emperor rank, then took the Peach Blossom Demon who had undergone nine reincarnations, broke through the World Barrier, and left the world."
Yu Yue suddenly remembered how the World Origin had been on the verge of exhaustion when he first arrived, leaving him speechless.
"It looks like Luochen directly drained the world dry when he attained the Emperor rank. Then, the moment he left the world, he was instantly annihilated by the Chaos Qi."
"This is practically a party wipe! But, it doesn't matter now."
No matter how many Immortal Emperors there are, I can handle them.
The next moment, wisps of milky white liquid emitting a strange light gathered in front of Yu Yue, condensing into crystals the size of water droplets.
What appeared on them was an exposition of the world's Dao and principles, like the most flawless treasures between Heaven and Earth. There were three such crystals.
Looking at the pure crystals before him, a trace of relief flashed within the cold, emotionless eyes of the Heavenly Dao in the void.
"Fortunately, during the traversal through Chaos, the majority of my soul was protected by the illusory law, allowing most of my soul body to be preserved."
"Afterward, the soul body merged with Heaven and Earth and transformed into the Origin. Although it is still not abundant, it is now more than ten times what it was before."
"For the time being, I don't need to worry about the Origin suddenly exhausting itself and the world collapsing!"