Chapter 4400: Ancient Desolation Gold
This went smoothly enough.
This time, Little Tree's recovery of the Origin Earth was fairly uneventful; the will of the Origin Earth only made some minor trouble, nothing serious.
Once split into six for certain reasons, Little Tree was finally whole again now, it was only a matter of time before he regained his peak power.
How strong his peak is, Lin Moyu doesn't know, but judging by Chaos Child's attitude, it has to be at least not weaker than the Supremes.
After all, Chaos Child's inner world once nurtured nine Supremes; maybe they're not quite equal to real Supremes in chaos itself, but the difference can't be that much and if Chaos Child is at that level, so must Little Tree be.
The title "Chaos Ancestral Tree" isn't for nothing; he's the strongest tree in all chaos, the ancestor of all trees, hence "Ancestral Tree."
Little Tree possesses, in addition to battle power, all sorts of innate abilities and talents.
Lin Moyu looks forward to Little Tree's return to full power; it should enhance his own innate gifts as well.
Already, with Little Tree's improvement, Lin Moyu's rebirth limit has soared: he now has five thousand extra lives, and the number is still rising with no end in sight. Soon it'll reach ten thousand, maybe even more.
With so many new chances at life, he's become extremely confident.
But at the same time, Lin Moyu has become aware of new dangers.
For example, the Shadow Desolate Bug can invalidate his spells devouring scattered souls not only from the present, but all points in the past and future, destroying both soul and true spirit.
If he ever faces the Shadow Desolate Bug, he must be extremely cautious his extraordinary rebirth is not without roots, and if his soul is devoured in every timeline, taking the true spirit with it, his rebirths might be rendered useless.
The perils of chaos and ancient desolation once again, Lin Moyu has glimpsed just the tip of the iceberg. Chaos and ancient desolation have "spoken" to him in their own language: these places are truly perilous.
Besides the known dangers, there are many unknowns.
Consider the unnamed giant beast whose physical body had nearly surpassed the limit of the Chaos Realm; frighteningly close to the Supreme level, yet it still died.
Not only did it die, but after death, it was chopped up and eaten by others.
There's no such thing as absolute safety in ancient desolation not even for a Supreme.
A Supreme is just a Supreme of chaos, not of ancient desolation.
Lin Moyu thought of what Catastrophe Supreme once said: they all ventured into ancient desolation to defy "Dao," even though as top Supremes, even he, after two expeditions, found that there are dangers in ancient desolation that even they cannot be sure to survive.
For a moment, Lin Moyu thought even with the Calamity Crossing Boat, absolute safety isn't guaranteed.
"After I find the great array, I'll leave," he decided.
He took out the Cause Seeking Ring.
The ring glimmered faintly as always, whether in chaos or ancient desolation, the ring's appearance didn't change.
He activated it with his soul power: "Effect without cause!"
Lin Moyu "plants the fruit for himself," ensuring he'll find the great array Catastrophe Supreme left in ancient desolation.
As always, the Cause Seeking Ring retaliated fiercely, and Lin Moyu was instantly blown to pieces.
Purple light shimmered he was reborn.
Again and again, Lin Moyu revived.
During these rebirths, he experienced endless backlash from the ring, an agony not just of karma, but something higher.
He'd carefully analyzed this before, but didn't understand. After seeing pure water, he suddenly realized that the Cause Seeking Ring's power its backlash was on the same level as pure water, above the rules of chaos's Great Dao.
It is a force of karma, higher than the karmic Great Dao itself a wonderful power.
Only someone fearless of death could use the Cause Seeking Ring. Any Supreme would have to be extremely cautious.
After dying eighteen times, the backlash faded, the ring glowed, and the "fruit" was set.
Lin Moyu instructed Little Tree, "Let's look for a Desolation Path."
Little Tree understood and began searching.
With the Cause Seeking Ring, the "fruit" had been set.
The first Desolation Path Little Tree found may not be the closest, but it would be the correct one.
Soon Little Tree locked onto a Desolation Path, and the Calamity Crossing Boat flew toward it.
Desolation Paths crisscross all of ancient desolation; used well, they save colossal time.
As the Calamity Crossing Boat roared ahead, Lin Moyu quietly watched the warped space outside.
The force of the ancient Desolation Path beat against the boat loud, but not damaging.
Sometimes, however, a bit of raw power would still leak in. The boat, damaged in an ancient battle, was not perfect.
Lin Moyu felt these intrusions and had the thought to repair the Calamity Crossing Boat. "How can I do it?" he asked.
Chaos Child replied easily, "Simple just get a piece of Ancient Desolation Gold."
He answered so quickly, Lin Moyu was sure his memories had recovered even more, though he refused to admit it.
Lin Moyu pressed on, "What is Ancient Desolation Gold?"
Chaos Child said, "It's a unique material to ancient desolation. The Calamity Crossing Boat is so tough because it's fused with Ancient Desolation Gold."
Lin Moyu continued, "Where do you find it?"
Chaos Child shook his head, "No idea. It's extremely rare never seen it myself, just heard of it."
Little Tree added, "It's said that at the deepest part of ancient desolation, on a certain vein of desolation, Ancient Desolation Gold can be found. But that's just a legend no one's ever found it, certainly not in my memory."
"How do you get to the deepest part?" Lin Moyu asked.
Little Tree shook his head. "You need a specific Desolation Path it's dangerous, and even Supremes can't guarantee their return. Even with the Calamity Crossing Boat, there's no guarantee of safety."
Chaos Child commented, "The innermost ancient desolation is considered a forbidden zone. Even if you want to go there, master, don't do it now wait until you become a Supreme."
Lin Moyu nodded, "Understood. I'll make the trip when there's a chance no point letting the boat stay broken, and I'd like to see how tough it could get after the repair."
Chaos Child muttered, "Even then, it's just an artifact…"
He seemed a little disdainful, as if however strong the boat became, it would never match him.
That might even be true, but Lin Moyu didn't reply and kept watching the Desolation Path.
He faintly sensed that if he could unveil the pattern of all Desolation Paths, he might unlock the greatest secret of ancient desolation.
Perhaps ancient desolation and chaos together hid a world shaking secret something beyond even "Dao," perhaps the ultimate mystery of all existence.
But he knew his power was not nearly enough to uncover it...yet.
Passing through Desolation Paths time and again, decades went by before Lin Moyu finally neared his goal.
In the void, dozens of giant beasts were gathered together, looking grim and ready for a great enemy…
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