Chapter 1 [Dao Friend, You Cannot Enter Hunkun Without Becoming Hunkun]

[Even if you are a Great Torrent, it is the same. Without our permission, no matter how powerful your brute force, it is impossible to force Hunkun to submit. We will definitely resist,] said the Unknowing Enlightener slowly.

"That you will definitely resist is quite chaotic," Su Zhou said, not annoyed. He only repeated, "But becoming Hunkun? Is that the same as becoming Zhuzhou?"

Although somewhat puzzled, he quickly understood what the other party meant.

The essence of a Great Torrent powerhouse is more sublime, complete, and immense than an entire great universe. Even the most ordinary Harmony Dao cultivator is the Firmament of a universe.

If their existence were to travel to other universes, it would bring about extremely significant changes—like adding a Great Dao to the universe they arrive at, changing the entire ecological environment, or even bringing a completely new cultivation method... In short, their actions would create a tremendous impact.

Even with good intentions, a whale entering a lake will cause a huge disturbance. Similarly, Harmony Dao and Great Torrent entering a universe are even more exaggerated.

"Are you saying that I can't enter Hunkun because there's some extremely precise Great Dao structure inside, and my entry would destroy those structures?"

Thinking this, Su Zhou raised his eyebrows. "So, if I don't become part of Hunkun, don't become part of the Five Supreme Sages' order, become part of what they construct, they and the Hunkun Realm won't let me in?"

Su Zhou wasn't some demon. If it would cause trouble for others, he could completely not enter, and even swear that he would never destroy even half a flower or blade of grass inside the Hunkun Realm—he could do that.

But…

"You've shown your hand, Unknowing Enlightener."

Saying this, Su Zhou closed his eyes, and the shadow of black karmic force in his mind was instantly and completely dispelled.

He said directly, "If the Hunkun Realm really has some structure that would break if I went in, then just tell me directly, and I'll restrain my power when I enter."

"Your riddles and enigmas are just a way to avoid telling me what kind of shady business you're up to in Hunkun, while also trying to stop me from entering."

Saying this, he opened his eyes and looked at Hunkun. Su Zhou gave a very standard villainous sneer. "Heh, what kind of dirty tricks are you playing? Let me in and see. In the name of the Great Torrent, I guarantee not to affect anything."

[If you do not become Hunkun,] a low voice that directly entered the depths of his mind vaguely conveyed from within the Hunkun Realm, [then we cannot tell you this taboo, nor can we let you in.]

Su Zhou said impatiently, "Is Hunkun your personal property? You say I can't enter, and I can't? The other myriad beings haven't even spoken!"

Although it looked like Su Zhou was a bully forcing his way into a house, an hungry wolf wanting to rush into a fortress and eat the little pigs, and the Hunkun Realm and the Five Supreme Sages were ordinary people protecting their hometown, intending to resist the wolf.

But this was just a mistaken analogy and correspondence made by mortals.

The universe is free. Unless the will of the universe itself rejects a visitor, anyone and anything has the possibility of entering the universe. The so-called universe barrier is to defend against external enemies. Ordinary and common powerhouses open it to enter, which is essentially the same as drawing back a curtain. After entering, the barrier will heal and there will be no damage.

Those demonic monsters that would truly harm the universe itself will encounter the most fundamental resistance from the universe from the very beginning.

Who is Su Zhou? He is Innovation! His Great Dao has spread throughout the myriad realms. Which universe that uses it doesn't say it's good, with feedback being basically five-star reviews? Even if there are occasional discordant notes, giving bad reviews, that's just one possibility out of a countless number. There will always be times when innovation goes wrong, and that's when Su Zhou needs to correct his mistakes.

But, that's where the doubt lies.

"The Hunkun Realm, it should be very open, welcoming all foreign Great Daos, constantly absorbing the advantages of other universes, and carrying out internal survival of the fittest, self-sublimation of super-high-level universe…"

Speaking slowly, Su Zhou once again raised the Blade of Annihilation, his expression solemn. "From the moment I arrived around Hunkun, I discovered a huge point of doubt."

"That is, Hunkun rejected my Great Dao."

"Not only that, it also rejected all communication with me."

"Even, it rejected the Great Daos of other Harmony Dao cultivators, such as my friend and partner Hong Shi!"

Pointing the Blade of Annihilation at the current 'Hunkun Realm,' Su Zhou said in a deep voice, "Unknowing Enlightener, or rather, Five Supreme Sages!"

"I, the Primal Candle Dragon of the Multiverse Patrol, here suspect that you are involved in kidnapping, imprisoning the universe's will, and maliciously distorting the universe's instinct. I am now going to enter the Hunkun Realm to investigate the truth!"

"Either tell me what's wrong with the Hunkun universe's will now, or get out of the way!"

Although no one in the multiverse has given Su Zhou law enforcement power, who told him to be a Great Torrent? Whether it is defining the law according to the highest ruling class, whoever has the last word, or the strong have the final say, or even a popular vote champion, a public vote, he has a great chance of getting legitimate law enforcement power.

What's more, the Five Supreme Sages do have an unspeakable plan.

So, even the Fifth Supreme Sage, the Unknowing Enlightener, could only remain silent for a moment, then slowly say:

[I must refuse.]

"Good!"

Su Zhou shouted, "Maliciously refusing to cooperate, are you!"

He slashed down with the Blade of Annihilation.

Instantly, a bright blade light separated chaos. The downward slash was even difficult for the multiverse void to withstand. It was the 'Third Layer of Ruin' that even the Tai Yi Ancestral Dragon was pursuing, a strike that could cause essential damage to the multiverse itself.

Su Zhou's blade did not harbor the heart of killing and destruction, merely a normal application of infinite and eternal power smashing down.

But even so, the many Harmony Dao cultivators and fleets that were still thinking of coming out to block Zhuzhou were already blown away, carried away by this torrential power that did no harm to ordinary people, flying to an unknown distance in the void. The surrounding Hunkun Three Thousand Realms were also protected by a barrier that had appeared at some unknown time, isolating all influence.

Although the youth has never been known for his skills, always relying on brute force and various whimsical ideas as his main combat methods.

But as the saying goes, all skills are to allow the weak to fight against the strong with less power. Now that Su Zhou possesses infinite power, there is really a gap that no skill or mystery can bridge.

When an infinite blade is slashed down, even if the enemy's skill is a more refined infinite blade, able to unleash a hundred trillion times the power of infinity, the two sides would at most be evenly matched.

No matter how strong the Hunkun Realm's universe barrier is, it is impossible to block the strike of a Great Torrent.

Therefore, with a sigh, a series of black karmic shadows emerged on the universe barrier. These shadows formed a complete mandala, with dim divine patterns flowing, intending to block the Blade of Annihilation.

The power of the Unknowing Enlightener was indeed incredible. The mandala he condensed was already equivalent to the multiverse's origin itself. When Su Zhou slashed down with his blade, it felt like he had shattered many universes and time-spaces.

Even, there was some kind of peculiar charm contained within, a taste of some element that Su Zhou had once pondered.

[Absolute.]

This one of the Five Supreme Sages had actually surpassed the peak of Harmony Dao, held an element, and was approaching a Great Torrent!

As expected of an existence who had fused all the essence of Hunkun, slaughtering all the powerhouses of an era to achieve the Dao. He was indeed a true chosen one!

However, for a true monstrous talent like Su Zhou, who had achieved the Great Torrent in less than forty years, the result was no different.

The mandala bloomed with countless cracks the moment it encountered the Blade of Annihilation.

Su Zhou's power completely crushed the opponent—after possessing the element of infinity, all accumulation of time became meaningless. Even if the Five Supreme Sages had lived for tens of trillions of cosmic eras, witnessing the repeated birth and death of the multiverse hundreds of millions of times, they were not infinity, not eternity, and could not be compared to Su Zhou's power.

Even with absolute will, their absoluteness would be infinitely diminished.

This is the Great Torrent—transcending the thinking and logic of mortals, powerful to the point of seemingly transcending all the truths of this multiverse.

The blazing golden-red long blade cleaved down, and the surging power of the Great Torrent poured into it, forming countless starlight specks that obscured the multiverse void. This power poured into the mandala, overflowing along the cracks in the Great Dao diagram, erupting, and spreading out. Streams of azure flames broke through those gaps, spreading above the Hunkun Realm, forming beams of light like swords and long blades.

In this sea of brilliant blade light, the Unknowing Enlightener's black karmic avatars were reduced to ashes, and the brilliant radiance reflected the faceless avatar of the Supreme Sage. He was silent, then sighed.

[My fellow Daoists,]

He said softly, murmuring to those unknown, unknowable, [in the end, we have come to this point.]

[Is it the multiverse's suppression, or so-called destiny? In any case, in this final moment, we must fight a newborn, and also the most powerful Great Torrent.]

[Among countless possibilities, we have found such a correct path… Even now, we can only believe.]

[Even if we sacrifice everything, for the sake of our Dao, we will not hesitate.]

Su Zhou naturally heard the Unknowing Enlightener's soliloquy. His first thought was to complain, 'Where did you get this protagonist script from? These lines are too righteous,' but in the next moment, he paused slightly.

Because, at this moment, just as the mandala shattered and the Blade of Annihilation struck the universe barrier of the Hunkun Realm, about to open up a harmless entrance.

The entire Hunkun Realm instantly became incomparably solid!

At this moment, on the inner side of the Hunkun Realm, on the Tree of the Origin of Time and Space.

One after another, located in different branches, different possible time cones, different coordinate systems, the 'Five Supreme Sages' suddenly lit up with five completely different, but equally solemn, sacred, and towering pillars of light, like pillars supporting all the universes and time-spaces!

And these five pillars of light, spanning all time and space, erupted from the past and the future, and then, finally converged in the 'present,' converging in the 'present' Hunkun Realm, which is now the moment when Su Zhou slashed down, forming a slowly rotating, extremely complex, to the point of being impossible to see the shape of the huge formation!

That was the Taiji of Yin and Yang rotation, and also the repeatedly spiraling Metatron's Cube. It was the vast power condensed by the infinite star chart, and also the network of intertwined reincarnation between all living beings, with the infinite vitality and karmic force emanating from the complex wheel!

—Great Dao!

—Spiritual Qi!

—Time and Space!

—True Spirit!

—Karma!

Existing at the beginning of Hunkun's creation, many innate gods and demons existed, starting from scratch, shaping the great cosmic form of the Hunkun Realm, and continuing from this possible branch, spreading to the infinite 'Hunkun First Era.'

Weaving the Three Thousand Great Daos, raising all things to the sky, transforming the chaotic universe time and space into infinite land and floating islands, the First Supreme Sage, the Source of the Great Dao, Qian Yuan Daozun!

Existing at the beginning of Hunkun's order, many innate gods and demons conquered, affecting the survival of all things, so strong men were born, eliminating the gods, in charge of all things, clearing the heavens and earth, restoring world order, from this possible branch continuing, spreading to the infinite 'Hunkun Second Era.'

Intending to make everyone a god, completely eliminating all innate sin, establishing heavenly rules, creating the Heavenly Court, controlling all universes and time-spaces, the Second Supreme Sage, the Supreme Lord of the Gods, Jixing Shengdi!

Existing at the beginning of Hunkun's exploration, re-opening parallel time and space from infinite possibilities, traveling through endless time and space, bringing infinite seeds, sublimating the essence of Hunkun, the magnificent adventure era, from this possible branch continuing, spreading to the infinite 'Hunkun Third Era.'

Setting up the Parallel Time and Space Administration, establishing eternal wonders to anchor reality, determining the existence of 'real timelines,' pioneering the impossible, the Third Supreme Sage, the Passer of Time, Qiongyuan Xianzhe!

Existing at the beginning of Hunkun's chaos, treating all things with absolute fairness, giving all things true spirits, enlightening the essence of wisdom of all beings, making the types of life infinitely rich, from this possible branch continuing, spreading to the infinite 'Hunkun Fourth Era.'

Formed from the most subtle spiritual Qi, intertwined with infinite time-space possibilities, neither human nor god nor sage, independent of the world, not all things but ruling all things, truly loving all things, the Fourth Supreme Sage, the Creator of All Spirits, Shengyan Xianren!

And finally, existing at the beginning of Hunkun's silence, infinite time and space, endless races, infinite possibilities and parallel worlds, the karma of all living beings intertwined, full of suffering, like a hellish world, from this possible branch continuing, spreading to the infinite 'Hunkun Fifth Era.'

Gazing at all things floating in the endless sea of karmic suffering, waiting for the end of this sin, also waiting for all things to transcend from this infinite hellish transformation, the reincarnation of karmic force and cause and effect, the Fifth Supreme Sage, the Manifestation of the Bitter Sea, Wuming Juezhe!

Five Supreme Sages, five supreme powerhouses.

At this moment, from every time and space of Hunkun, from every possible branch, they strike out, gathering a will that can be called absolute, carrying the infinite power of Hunkun, and converging towards the 'present'!

Everything of theirs, everything, has transformed into this most sacred 'geometry,' blocking Su Zhou's blade!

Boom!!!

This huge formation condensed from five colors actually blocked Su Zhou's divine blade!

"Oh! So this is your trump card!"

Sensing the immense force coming from his hand, a force he had never felt before, Su Zhou's eyes widened when he saw this scene. He looked enlightened, then laughed loudly. "I was wondering why you weren't afraid of me at all—so that's how it is!"

He increased the force in his hand again—but that formation also burst out with infinite power, beginning to compete with Su Zhou!

[—Sacred Geometry·Infinite Force—]

The great formation, condensed from five completely different, supreme geometric figures, its power runs through the multiverse void, instantly shaking countless surrounding world clusters, scattering rainbow-like halos and flames, as if to reach the end of the multiverse!

"Infinity! Absoluteness!"

Su Zhou's eyes were bright, and he grinned. "One belongs to you, and one belongs to the Hunkun Great Universe!"

"The five of you working together, plus the power of Hunkun itself, is a Great Torrent!"