The girl shook her head and said, âAfter I gave birth to the twelve Sorcerer Ancestors, it took countless years for them to give birth to their own bloodlines, finally making the age of chaos lively. As for the Heavenly Dao, it was the sum of the non-living creatures born in the most prosperous and glorious moment in the age of chaos.â
âNon-living creatures?â
Su Ping narrowed his eyes.
âThe Heavenly Dao was something born by the combination of all living creaturesâ thoughts and emotions, along with the power of the chaos universe. Theyâre objects that transcend the concept of life. They have all the characteristics of living creatures, but theyâre not alive. So, theyâre indestructible!â
The girl continued, âThey would respawn even if they were erased. They healed and mutated at a very fast pace. They absorbed most of the power in the world of chaos in a very short amount of time and reached a shocking level.â
That was the first time for Su Ping to learn about the origin of the Heavenly Dao. He couldnât help but feel surprised and puzzled. âIs there a way to finish off the Heavenly Dao? If they canât be destroyed, arenât they invincible?â
The girl slightly shook her head and said, âTheyâre not invincible. If theyâre destroyed a billion times and the power of chaos in their bodies is scattered, they will return to their most primitive form. By then, they can easily be erased, imprisoned and sealed. There are countless ways to finish them off.â
âSo, the real problem is how to destroy them a billion times, right?â Su Ping found the matter tricky the moment he heard the number. âSo, you canât take care of the problem either, right?â
âThat is correct.â
The girl stared at Su Ping and said, âWhen I woke up, the Heavenly Dao had nearly destroyed the entire world of chaos. My power was deeply connected to the world, so I was heavily wounded too, and I couldnât compete with the Heavenly Dao.â
âSo, you chose to raise an heir?â asked Su Ping, âYour two previous hosts were the candidates you picked, right?â
The girl nodded. âYes. You are the third.â
Su Ping heaved a sigh and said, âIâm not dead yet. It seems that weâre both very lucky.â
âI hope we can finish everything once and for all this time.â A thoughtful light flashed in the girlâs eyes. âWe donât have a lot of time, nor chances for this.â
âMe neither.â
Su Ping sighed softly. He was both shocked and relieved after learning the systemâs real identity.
He once asked the system if it could finish off the Heavenly Dao. The answer he received was no, and the girl was still saying no.
It made sense. If she could, she would have done so long before.
âYouâre slightly different from the time you acted like the system,â said Su Ping, âIâm not talking about the appearance.â
The girl nodded and said, âI had previously sealed part of my power and I recovered while I was sleeping. I would only wake up until you upgraded the store to level 9. This is the bed of chaos where I slept.â
âCan money really be converted into the so-called energy points?â Su Ping looked at her in surprise.
âOf course not.â
The girl said, âThe store was only meant to train you in different phases. After following the instructions all the way to the last upgrade, that would mean that you would have grown up and it would be the time for me to wake up and lead you to deal with the lingering crisis that has existed since the age of chaos.â
Su Ping realized that the store was just a greenhouse where he was nurtured.
It didnât matter whether he could make money or not. What mattered was that he had to get stronger.
âSo to speak, the store is just a shell where you slept and waited for me to grow, and the system was just a subconscious thought you set up before you fell asleep?â Su Ping speculated.
âMore or less,â the girl said.
âEarlier you said that the Chaotic Realm of the Undead I saw wasnât real. What did you mean by that?â Su Ping asked.
The girl gazed at Su Ping and said, âItâs time for you to know everything. None of the cultivation sites you saw were real.â
Su Ping trembled and slightly changed his expression. âWhat do you mean? They were all fake? Illusions? ImpossibleâŚâ
He didnât believe that the people he saw in those cultivation sites, with their furious, earnest or sorrowful eyes, were fake!
Su Ping stared at her and said solemnly, âEven if youâre the Mother of Chaos, I believe that everything Iâve been through is real. It couldnât be an illusion made by you!â
The girl gazed at Su Ping and replied, âYour experiences were indeed real, but those cultivation sites are not. Or rather, they were real, but theyâre already gone now.â
âGoneâŚâ
Su Ping was stunned.
The girl heaved a soft sigh. âBack in the age of chaos, some of the twelve Sorcerer Ancestors had already died when I woke up, and my power was robbed from me. I couldnât fight the Heavenly Dao; I could only retreat.
âAfter that, the world of chaos collapsed into billions of universes.
âDifferent lives were born in those universes. They were the cultivation sites you visited.
âSome Sorcerer Ancestors established universes of their own. Others reigned over some universes. Some of my childrenâs corpses were transformed into universes.â
The girl stared at Su Ping and added, âThe world of gods and the world of deities followed the ancient age. The age of the Archean Divinity came after the age of chaos, when the cyborgs and many other species coexisted. Once the Archean Divinity was destroyed by the Heavenly Dao, deities were bornâŚ
âThere were also millions of universes in the age of deities, and different species survived after the age of gods ended. But they were eventually destroyed in the third war.â
Su Ping listened to her in a daze, feeling that everything inside his head was turned upside down. However, he learned many things he was unaware of.
âSo⌠The cultivation sites that Iâve visited⌠arenât in the same timeline.â Su Ping was stunned.
He had more or less noticed it, but for some reason, he neglected the fact.
âThatâs right,â said the girl, âThey are the survivors of the great wars. If you go to the Golden Crowsâ world and ask them about the Archean Divinity, they wouldnât know a thing, because the Archean Divinity didnât exist in their era.
âThe Archean Divinity originated from the ancestor of the Primitive Chaos Clan, whose body turned into three pieces. One was the Archean Divinity, the second part was the Chaotic Realm of the Undead, and the last was hidden.
âThe Archean Divinity and the Chaotic Realm of the Undead existed in the same age and were destroyed together. I found the last piece and transformed it into the world of deities. I hope that he could be reborn, which could take billions of years, but it never happened.â
There was a hint of sadness in the girlâs eyes as she spoke.
Although she didnât elaborate on the matter, Su Ping could imagine that countless excellent stories that took place since the age of chaos actually had the Mother of Chaos behind them.
âI saw how chaos fell to pieces. I tried to gather the power once more to resist the Heavenly Dao. So, I found the first candidate and raised him all the way to the Undying State. I gave him Sorcerer Ancestor Xuan Qiâs Chaos Qualification, so he could turn into a new Sorcerer Ancestor.
âThat was the first battle against the Heavenly Dao that I preparedâŚâ Light flashed in the girlâs eyes. Countless species seemed to be flashing by as she recalled, but all of them collapsed.
âI failed in the end.â
She whispered, âIn that battle, the Original Dragonsâ ancestor was suppressed and absorbed by the Heavenly Dao. Hun Yu also surrendered and became their puppetâŚâ
Su Ping was stunned.
The Original Dragonsâ ancestor was suppressed and absorbed?
He remembered the enormous ancestral dragon, whose eyes were as big as planets. Its pressure was absolutely domineering⌠And yet, it was suppressed and absorbed by the Heavenly Dao?
To top it off, Sorcerer Ancestor Hun Yu, the one who chose to cover the retreat⌠surrendered to the Heavens in the end?
âThen, the things that Iâve experiencedâŚâ
âAll of it happened before the war; they had already fought the Heavenly Dao before I organized them. Later on, they fought by my side,â said the girl, âOf all the cultivation sites youâve visited, the chaos cultivation site was the only universe I ever constructed. You may consider it an illusory land, so it requires a lot of energy. This would obviously make the ticket fee much more expensive.â