Chapter 1 What Exactly Are Taboos?

Why do the five supreme saints all have various evil spirits and monsters derived from them, which even the entire world cannot expel despite its best efforts?

Even Su Zhou couldn't figure out this question for a while.

However, tracing back through endless time to the Old Hunkun, he could see a few things.

Namely, the old and new Hunkun were essentially two different worlds.

The Old Hunkun was the first and most ancient primordial world. It was vast and boundless, containing endless immortals and gods. It even formed a massive immortal god-Dao Harmonization cultivator organization, like a world of creation, to study profound and difficult problems even for many experts.

And during a test involving some deep principles of the Great Dao, or perhaps a forbidden experiment, the true 'taboo' was awakened.

Even by reading the surviving world fragments of the Old Hunkun and absorbing those ancient, desolate memories, Su Zhou found it difficult to understand what exactly happened at that time. But in any case, the Old Hunkun met its end in the end.

Countless experts, the entire macroverse, and even the derivation of infinite spacetime, all perished and were destroyed.

The ancient immortals and gods fought desperately to resist the 'taboo,' but it was meaningless. They were defeated and crushed one after another. Even the incomparably powerful Dao Harmonization Sacred Venerables, exerting their full strength, were completely defeated. Their imperishable bodies were shattered, and the remaining power could only shelter a small fragment of the world, protecting the lives within so they could continue.

They succeeded.

The world guarded by the Sacred Venerable in the palm of their hand drifted in the void for countless years. The tears of the Celestial Gods brought some vitality to this source-less world, preventing everything from collapsing into dust…

Although this broken world was full of slaughter, violence, oppression, and ugliness, life continued. Even though all living beings cried, hated, and were filled with doubt, they finally waited.

They waited for an expert, a strong man from an outer universe, to arrive at this place, and then, feeling injustice, offered help.

Qian Yuan Dao Zun destroyed all the innate Chaos Demon Gods surging from the corpse of the Old Hunkun, and even eliminated the source-less demon gods from an unknown origin in the outer universe. He used their corpses to cast the foundation of the 'New Hunkun,' which was later called the 'Forbidden' land.

Next, Qian Yuan Dao Zun would take out the world in the palm of the Old Hunkun Celestial God, and use the myriad beings within as seeds to sow in the New Hunkun, once again continuing the bloodline of the Hunkun world.

Su Zhou's power ran through the past and future. The child blessed by him had already begun to pacify the entire fragment world, bringing order and reason to all beings. He descended at this time node.

And asked Qian Yuan Dao Zun with doubt.

"If the only goal is to eliminate these Chaos Demon Gods."

He surveyed the entire Hunkun, gazing at the seemingly endless innate Chaos Great Dao incarnations that would constantly emerge even without a source, and couldn't help but feel puzzled: "You could have just asked me to join."

"These might have been a bit tricky before, but for me now, as a Flood, they can almost be destroyed with a flip of the hand."

Su Zhou could now bypass Qian Yuan Dao Zun's will and directly take action to eliminate all the Chaos Demon Gods in the Old Hunkun.

However, in that case, the land of the New Hunkun in later generations would be missing, which might cause all the myriad beings in the New Hunkun to perish as a result—unless Qian Yuan Dao Zun, who cast all of this and opened up the New Hunkun, agreed to add Su Zhou's possibility to the possibility of the 'birth of the New Hunkun.' This way, Su Zhou could add more possibilities to the Hunkun without destroying the historical structure of later generations.

Su Zhou himself was strongly opposed to changing the past and then influencing the future, as this would negate the cornerstone of the past existence of all beings. Even if someone wanted to recover someone who had disappeared in the past, it would be better to revive them in the 'present,' and there was no need to distort history and make it so that they had never died.

In addition, Qian Yuan Dao Zun's actions were very much to Su Zhou's liking. He 'drew his sword to help when he saw injustice,' and stayed behind to help because of a momentary righteous indignation, feeling that Hunkun needed help, and he slaughtered demon gods to cast the New Hunkun.

He even sustained his actions, which delayed his chance to achieve the Flood stage.

So now, in admiration of his sacrifice and dedication, the young man's attitude was much better.

But he still questioned the necessity of the Five Supreme Saints' actions.

"If the taboo is really that difficult to deal with, then ordinary people shouldn't be sacrificed."

Standing in the past, looking at the relative future, the Zhuzhou power representing Su Zhou was observing many details in the Hunkun world along the timeline. He still couldn't understand: "It feels like… this taboo… is at most just a Flood!"

He wasn't speaking aimlessly, but telling the truth—all the Chaos Demon Gods, even if they traverse the past and future, including the demon gods derived from the void outside Hunkun, the future demon gods that revert to the original future, plus the native innate demon gods.

All these demon gods combined would barely be enough to reach an 'Eternal' element.

[Source-less Permanence], a characteristic of eternity. If the Gods and Kings of the Music Macroverse completely grasp the Eternal element, then they can exist permanently in cycle after cycle without cause and effect. Even if there is an existence that obliterates the cause and effect of the entire Hunkun with supreme power, they can still create something from nothing with the Eternal element and ensure their immortality.

Of course, it's not just within Hunkun.

Among the Chaos Demon Gods, many emerged from the void of the outer universe. And all the Chaos Demon Gods of the past and future joined forces, that divine power that even Qian Yuan Dao Zun needed to treat with caution could perhaps represent the [Infinity] element.

Therefore, Su Zhou said that the taboo itself might be a Flood. It had gone mad, or it had become the prototype of a monster, so it was senselessly destroying and annihilating.

As an expert who possessed the [Absolute] element, it might be difficult for Qian Yuan Dao Zun to seal a Dao Harmonization Sacred Venerable with a single element, but it wasn't impossible.

And the difficulty of sealing a Flood would increase sharply, but after all, Qian Yuan Dao Zun wasn't fighting alone. He had the assistance of four other Supreme Saints.

[No, far more than that.]

Seeing that Su Zhou didn't immediately destroy the spacetime structure of the Old Hunkun, Qian Yuan Dao Zun also breathed a sigh of relief—they originally thought that the Primordial Zhuzhou was the typical Flood who had fallen into a demonic obsession for his own Dao, but they didn't expect that he was still someone who could be communicated with.

Thinking of the process of negotiating with the other Flood in the beginning, this Supreme Saint even felt the illusion that 'the Primordial Zhuzhou doesn't seem difficult to communicate with'.

He said: [If it were just that, why would the five Supreme Saints join forces? And why would we give up the opportunity to become a Flood and guard this place for endless years?]

[Just keep watching, and it will prove that our choice was not wrong, but a necessary sacrifice.]

Slightly frowning, Su Zhou didn't immediately refute.

He looked towards the distant future. He saw that after slaughtering many Chaos Demon Gods and casting the New Hunkun with their corpses, another figure appeared beside Qian Yuan Dao Zun.

The Polar Star Sacred Emperor, a traitor among the many Chaos Demon Gods summoned by the taboo, or rather, a rebel.

What he represented was absolute spiritual energy and order.

The Polar Star Sacred Emperor joined forces with Qian Yuan Dao Zun to completely seal the Chaos Demon Gods, sealing the [Eternal Taboo].

Its name was [Chaos Demon God] and [Evil God Calamity Path].

And next, was the Third Epoch.

Qian Yuan Dao Zun and the Polar Star Sacred Emperor sealed eternity. For a time, there were no more suddenly emerging innate demon gods in the entire Hunkun. The links to the past and future were also severed. Even if demon gods occasionally appeared, they would soon be annihilated.

Theoretically speaking, even if the taboo was really a Flood, it would at least be hemiplegic after being suppressed by such a set of measures. If a few more Flood were called over to besiege it, it might not be difficult to beat it into eternal sleep.

The Flood was indeed immortal. Even the explosion and collapse of the multiverse wouldn't hurt it in the slightest, but just as the Flood needs infinite time to become a transcendent, if other powerful existences bombarded a Flood that had already been severely damaged, then the time for it to become a transcendent would be infinitely prolonged, or even simply isolated and sealed.

But the taboo was obviously not so easy to deal with… Even if it lost an element, it still possessed incredible divine power.

In the epoch when Qian Yuan Dao Zun and the Polar Star Sacred Emperor jointly suppressed Hunkun, an unexpected change occurred.

In the beginning, only one or two immortals and gods who admired Hunkun's reputation, wanted to come to Hunkun, and sought to learn from the Supreme Saints felt puzzled.

They said that they originally wanted to go to Hunkun to meet the Supreme Saints, but after arriving at Hunkun, let alone seeing the Supreme Saints, the entire world was also very primitive and old. It was simply like those spirit-less heavens and earth where no experts appeared. There were few living beings, and there were almost no cultivators, let alone powerful Supreme Saints.

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This was very different from what they imagined—it should be known that Hunkun at that time was famous in most of the multiverse because it had two Supreme Saints who were almost Flood. The characteristic of Hunkun drifting in the multiverse also allowed many experts to enter it and communicate with the Supreme Saints at that time. Both sides felt that they had gained a lot, so Hunkun gradually became the perfect point for debate in the multiverse at that time, and it was also the area where various immortal Dao transcendent technologies were most developed.

They felt that they had arrived in another world, and even suggested that 'there may be enemies of Hunkun who set up the wrong spacetime guide, causing them to enter another universe.'

These immortals and gods' words were ignored as ravings. After all, the vast majority of people didn't encounter this situation. They entered and exited Hunkun without any abnormalities, so naturally they wouldn't notice anything unusual.

And by the time Qian Yuan Dao Zun and the Polar Star Sacred Emperor discovered the abnormality, it was almost a grave mistake.

More and more immortals and gods were 'straying' into unknown spacetime instead of entering the 'true Hunkun,' and the rank of the experts involved was also getting higher and higher. Even a few Dao Harmonizations would be affected by this, and the matter had become extremely urgent.

The two Supreme Saints discovered that Hunkun's 'reality' was being replaced by 'parallel spacetime.' The Hunkuns that those immortals and experts entered were all Hunkuns in different parallel spacetime. They were manifesting and expanding in the multiverse, becoming the 'reality' that many experts naturally thought they were in.

And the true Hunkun, instead, became a parallel spacetime, a tributary of possibility.

Naturally, parallel spacetime was also real, and the multiverse of parallel spacetime was also real. There was naturally no difference between the two… Who could guarantee that the universe spacetime they were in wasn't a parallel spacetime in another universe? Or rather, the many parallel worlds in the multiverse were all parallel worlds to each other, without a true 'main body.'

For ordinary people, this was naturally the truth.

But for the Supreme Saints who held the 'element,' it was nonsense.

[No Illusion, Eternal Truth]—the place where the holder of the Absolute Dao is located is the reality!

They have no parallel derivatives. They are the absolute, unique, and supreme existence. The place where they are is the reality they choose. Relative to this will, the infinite parallel spacetime of the multiverse is all derived.

As long as they are still in Hunkun, then the only world that can be indexed when searching for 'Hunkun' in the endless parallel spacetime can only be the universe where they are.

But the funny thing is this.

Qian Yuan Dao Zun and the Polar Star Sacred Emperor, the holders of the two Absolute elements, were turned into 'derivatives'—the concept of the Hunkun macroverse was gradually being eroded and transferred to other parallel spacetime.

There was an [Absolute] more powerful than them covering their spacetime.

That was the Heavenly Devil of 'Rebellious Spacetime,' named at the beginning of the Third Epoch.

At that time, the two Dao Harmonizations tried their best to resist this subtle coverage, but they still needed to maintain the seal against the 'Eternal Heavenly Devil,' that is, the Chaos Demon Gods and the Evil God Calamity Path, and could not exert their full strength.

Therefore, the two Supreme Saints at that time were defeated step by step. Their deeds and actions gradually became myths and legends, gradually became stories in storybooks, and gradually became rumors that were somewhat true and false—until the end, if the two Supreme Saints really failed, they would completely become an unknown fantasy and ravings, becoming the parallel spacetime derived from behind this fantasy.

Was that real? It was real, but in that case, they would be sealed up.

This was the authority of the power of 'Absolute,' involving truth and falsehood. It was like a person lived a magnificent life, and then suddenly woke up at the end, only to find that everything they had experienced before was just a dream, a virtual game in a VR headset, a story that the person themselves imagined and made up in their brain.

The existence that was covered would lose its reality in this way and be rewritten as an ordinary member of the other party's world.

At that time, the 'false Hunkun' was about to become reality, and the Hunkun universe that replaced the two Supreme Saints had gradually been recognized by other experts in the multiverse.

They had even begun to forget some memories of the true Hunkun, and some people had even begun to write some false fan-made settings, recalling the past Hunkun, comparing it with the present, and adding their own imagination, making the already snowballing true Hunkun even more chaotic and about to be sealed into 'myths and legends' and 'past stories.'

If it really succeeded, then even Qian Yuan Dao Zun and the Polar Star Sacred Emperor would be completely imprisoned in the legends of the past, never able to reach the 'present,' and naturally unable to create the 'future.'

However, at this most critical moment, the Third Supreme Saint was born.

As everyone knows, Hunkun is essentially a macroverse that is biased towards Xianxia or the divine path. Whether it is Qian Yuan Dao Zun or the Polar Star Sacred Emperor, they are both figures like Dao Ancestors and Heavenly Emperors, which sets the tone for Hunkun.

The 'rebellious spacetime' that emerged from infinite parallel spacetime was naturally the same. That false Hunkun that replaced the two Supreme Saints was basically also of the Xianxia and Xuanhuan style.

However, how could there only be the Xuanhuan style in endless parallel spacetime?

The Exhaustive Source Sage was born in an impossible tributary of Hunkun, a parallel universe of the Western fantasy magic style.

In the beginning, he actually didn't notice the change in Hunkun at all. He simply felt that the style of the spacetime he was in seemed a bit wrong—everyone around him was using cultivation Qi and Dao techniques, but only his universe was using magic and alchemy. How could that not be a problem!

Originally, this was nothing. After all, magic and alchemy could also be regarded as another kind of Dao technique and alchemy. Everyone was human, so what was the difference?

But suddenly one day, the Exhaustive Source Sage realized something was wrong.

He realized that the style of the world he was in was beginning to change.