Chapter 1972: Chaos Returns to the Origin

Chapter 1972: Hundun Guiyuan

Xie Mo smiled and said, "Everything is possible."

With a gentle wave of her hand, she summoned a yu jian and placed it in Ye Chen's palm.

Ye Chen didn't say a word. He crushed the yu jian, and the sealed shen shi within it merged into his divine sea, containing an immense amount of complex information.

With his eyes closed, Ye Chen murmured to himself, "Hundun Guiyuan."

Xie Mo spoke slowly, "All flames in the world, whether beast fire, true fire, heavenly fire, or immortal fire, are branches of Hundun Huo. They each contain some essence of Hundun Huo. This Hundun Guiyuan immortal technique reunites and fuses the essences of various flames. Naturally, it requires an extremely vast quantity and variety of flames."

Ye Chen opened his eyes and sighed in admiration, "Truly a heaven-defying creation."

At that moment, he didn't need Xie Mo to explain further; he already understood clearly in his heart.

To put it bluntly, it was about fusing flames with flames, drawing out the latent Hundun Huo essence from various flames. The more they fused, the closer it came to Hundun Huo itself. It was indeed a heaven-defying level immortal technique.

Xie Mo looked at Ye Chen with a smile and said, "This creation—is it any good?"

Ye Chen replied cheerfully, "Good, absolutely good."

If he could truly create Hundun Huo, his strength would skyrocket, and his alchemy would become even more formidable. The benefits were immeasurable. After all, the level of Hundun Huo was comparable to that of a Hundun body.

Xie Mo continued leisurely, "This Hundun Guiyuan immortal technique was originally prepared for Dan Zun and Dan Huang. Only by creating Hundun Huo would there be a greater chance to refine the Nine Turns Reincarnation Pill." She glanced at Ye Chen and added, "Who would have thought that Dan Zun Qi Ye would fall, and Dan Huang Chu Qing would die? A great calamity wiped out nearly all the peak alchemists, so it ended up benefiting you instead."

Ye Chen said with a dry laugh, "So, I'm just a backup, right?"

Xie Mo shrugged and replied, "You can think of it that way; it's not entirely wrong."

Ye Chen chuckled and said, "No wonder they call you a great god—you can even create such a heaven-defying immortal technique."

Having obtained Hundun Guiyuan, Ye Chen was in an exceptionally good mood. With his spirits lifted, his words became sweeter. After all, even great gods liked to hear compliments.

Xie Mo shook her head self-mockingly and said, "This technique wasn't created by me."

Ye Chen looked at Xie Mo tentatively and asked, "Not you? Then who?"

Xie Mo's expression turned sorrowful as she said, "The one lying in the bamboo grove."

Ye Chen muttered softly, "So, it was created by Mu Liuqing?"

A few seconds later, Ye Chen looked at Xie Mo again, still with a tentative tone, "Since Hundun Guiyuan was created by Senior Mu, has he ever succeeded in creating Hundun Huo?"

Xie Mo didn't respond, but her expression became hazy and distant, as if recalling past events. The absolute genius she loved had indeed created Hundun Huo in ancient times, shocking the heavens. But it was precisely because of Hundun Huo that a great disaster befell him.

That battle arose because of Hundun Huo. She was there, as was Mo Yuan, and so was Hong Lian, who had not yet become an emperor.

Unfortunately, the enemy had too many supreme giants. The fight turned the mountains into corpses and rivers into blood, burying the starry sky with peak quasi-emperors.

In that war, Mo Yuan died in battle, sacrificing himself to protect Hong Lian in the void. Mu Liuqing also died, self-destructing his Hundun Huo and perishing completely, but he managed to save a trace of her soul.

Later, Hong Lian defied the heavens to become an emperor, sacrificing Hong Lian Industry Fire to burn the gods of the eight desolate regions. She wrought great slaughter for her fallen lover and old friends, and the fierce reputation of the female emperor still echoes today.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of thousands of years had passed.

Even now, those bloody scenes remained vivid in her mind. She was still alive, and so was Mo Yuan, but Female Emperor Hong Lian and Mu Liuqing were long gone, leaving only ancient bonds.

Seeing Xie Mo like this, Ye Chen had the good sense not to ask further. Clearly, Hundun Huo had stirred up painful memories. Who said demons had no love? It was just buried deep in their hearts.

He could also guess why Jiu You Xian Yan was so attentive to Mu Liuqing—it had probably sensed something and submitted because of it.

A breeze blew, and Xie Mo walked away, her back figure desolate and weary.

Ye Chen sighed, collected his thoughts, and focused on comprehending Hundun Guiyuan. In essence, it was about fusing flames, but it wasn't a simple fusion—there were many profound principles involved.

Under the ling guo tree, he meditated like an old monk for three full days.

For those three days, Xie Mo didn't appear again, perhaps having left Cang Lan Realm to venture into the vast starry sky in search of alchemy materials.

It wasn't until the fourth night that Ye Chen opened his eyes. His gaze was profoundly deep, with flashes of enlightenment. He had finally grasped the true essence and realized just how astonishing Mu Liuqing was.

Ye Chen looked inward at his dan hai and said, "You two, are you ready?" Since it involved fusing flames, the first step would be Jiu You Xian Yan and Jiu Wu Xian Yan—he only had these two immortal fires.

Both Jiu You Xian Yan and Jiu Wu Xian Yan were suspended in his dan hai. Though they couldn't speak, they understood his intent. To fuse them together, the two flames, with their high intelligence, had no objections.

Ye Chen smiled and said, "In that case, let's begin."

He slowly closed his eyes and activated Hundun Guiyuan, gradually bringing the two immortal fires closer. Since they didn't resist, it was all under his control.

Tian Lei watched curiously from nearby, wanting to join in the fun, but Ye Chen held it in place.

Under Ye Chen's watchful eye, the two immortal fires slowly merged into one, but soon they separated again.

The first fusion attempt naturally had errors. Ye Chen coughed awkwardly and controlled the immortal fires once more, slowly merging them bit by bit.

Awkwardly, the second attempt also ended in failure.

Ye Chen refused to give up. With his mind, he guided the immortal fires for a third time, focusing his concentration. This time, he proceeded at an extremely slow pace.

This attempt succeeded. The two immortal fires fused perfectly into a single flame, its color black.

As the owner, Ye Chen clearly felt that the essences of the two immortal fires had merged into one, along with their intelligences. The flame had grown stronger, weaving a mysterious power that enhanced his sacred body essence and loosened his cultivation, truly approaching the level of a great saint.

As dawn approached, Ye Chen opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath of turbid qi, with traces of dao principles evolving in his gaze.

He smiled and said, "Not bad."

He summoned the immortal fire into his palm.

The black flame gently swayed, distorting the space around it, yet in his palm, it felt incredibly warm. It was both Jiu You Xian Yan and Jiu Wu Xian Yan, with their intelligences perfectly fused. It was even more affectionate toward him as its master than before.

A charming voice echoed, "You've fused them in just three days? You're quite a monstrous talent yourself." Xie Mo had returned, manifesting under the ling tree, as ethereal as a dream.

Ye Chen laughed and said, "Being praised by the Chi Mei Xie Shen is truly an honor."

Xie Mo glanced at him and flicked her hand, producing a stalk of immortal grass. It was a ling zhi, enveloped in immortal qi and surrounded by seven-colored immortal haze. Upon closer inspection, mysterious phenomena appeared around it.

Ye Chen's eyes lit up and he said, "Seven-Colored Snow Ling Zhi."

He recognized this immortal grass; it was on the same level as the Qihuan Linglong Grass and had vanished from the heavens, making it an invaluable treasure.

Ye Chen couldn't help but scan Xie Mo up and down. This woman—was her ability really this great? She could find extinct immortal grasses in just three days, which shocked him greatly.

He looked at Xie Mo curiously and asked, "Senior, where did you find this? Do you have some secret method for seeking immortal grasses?"

Xie Mo stretched lazily and said, "Why? Do you want to learn?"

Ye Chen rubbed his hands and chuckled, "Of course I want to."

Xie Mo replied, "When you refine the Nine Turns Reincarnation Pill, I wouldn't mind passing it on to you."

Ye Chen's cheerful expression dropped instantly, and he thought, "I must have been overthinking it." This wasn't just teasing him? Never mind whether he could refine the pill; even if he could, who knew how many years that would take.

As Ye Chen's face darkened, Xie Mo pointed with her jade finger, manifesting a glazed-colored flame in her palm that swayed gently.

Ye Chen exclaimed in surprise, "Sanmei True Fire?"

He recognized it at a glance. In his previous life as Dan Chen, he had once possessed a Sanmei True Fire, which was an incredibly precious type.

Xie Mo smiled leisurely and said, "A gift for you."

She generously flicked it toward Ye Chen.

Ye Chen, who had been frowning a second ago, now beamed again. True fire was rare, let alone a peak-level Sanmei True Fire. Such a treasure was something you could encounter but not seek, and he never expected Xie Mo to give it away so easily.

Little did he know, Xie Mo was helping him gather flames to aid in creating Hundun Huo, which would increase the chances of refining the Nine Turns Reincarnation Pill. To revive Mu Liuqing, she was going all out, sparing no expense.

Ye Chen guided the flame into his dan hai, then looked straight at Chi Mei Xie Shen and asked, "Senior, if Hundun Huo can be created, can Hundun Lei be created too?"

Xie Mo plucked a ling guo and said, "Naturally."

Ye Chen asked again, his eyes unwavering, "What about a Hundun body? Can that be created?"

Xie Mo replied leisurely, "Theoretically, yes. But I advise you not to think about it. Bloodlines aren't like flames. Flames may repel each other but can still be reconciled. If bloodlines repel, they can't be fused. Forcing it could lead to disaster, even instant destruction."

Ye Chen smiled and said, "I understand."

He sat cross-legged under the ling guo tree, ready to have a good chat with his new Sanmei True Fire.

Xie Mo didn't leave. She quietly watched Ye Chen, her beautiful eyes narrowing from time to time with deep meaning. Strangely, she couldn't see through him. This feeling had started back in the Hong Lian Industry Sea; it always seemed like some ancient power was concealing Ye Chen's secrets, and even as a quasi-emperor, she couldn't pierce through it.

For some reason, she had an indescribable confidence in this young man, believing he could refine the Nine Turns Reincarnation Pill.

Since reforming her human shape, she had heard countless legends about Ye Chen. This junior was born to create myths.

Xie Mo smiled lightly and murmured, "Mu Liuqing, have you seen it? Talented individuals emerge in every generation."

With that, she transformed into a wisp of ethereal cloud.