The elder was truly shocked.

  Everything he witnessed overturned his understanding.

  From the moment a world reached Mid-Tier Martial, an origin was born.

  The origin’s strength was directly tied to the number and overall power of its cultivators.

  Worlds had tiers, so origins did too.

  Thus, origins had strong and weak.

  A strong origin could theoretically fuse a weaker one, though the difficulty was immense. Only top experts in High-Tier Martial worlds might possess such secret methods.

  But a weak origin fusing a strong one?

  That was fantasy, impossible.

  The feasibility was near zero.

  “This youth is a madman… if he fails, heaven and earth will collapse, countless will die.”

  Though fusion had begun, the elder remained pessimistic.

  He believed failure inevitable.

  Heavenly rules were not so easily broken.

  Moreover…

  the elder did not understand Lu’s purpose in fusing origins.

  To elevate the world tier?

  Turn Mid-Tier Martial into High-Tier Martial?

  “Sometimes… becoming High-Tier Martial is no blessing.”

  The elder shook his head. Mentioning this, his eyes filled with sorrow and desolation.

  He seemed to have personal feelings about it.

  “I must stop him. A descendant of Emperor Hao’s bloodline is too rare to let him court death.”

  The elder stood straight on the cold continent, then took a step.

  Rumble!

  The entire void trembled.

  This was undeniably a great power, terrifyingly strong.

  Strands of rules and Dao wove into chains from the void, trying to bind the withered elder.

  “Sigh… Nihility Heaven.”

  The elder sighed, stepping back onto the cold continent.

  Array Words spun, wrapping the continent in profound mystery.

  The rule chains vanished into the sky.

  “Even after scattering all my blood qi, I still cannot descend?”

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  “Rules are merciless, Dao is merciless.”

  The elder lamented.

  Then he pinched a handful of yellow soil.

  Raised a hand, forming an array rune.

  The soil became a clay figure.

  He embedded the rune.

  Soon, the clay figure became lifelike, identical to the elder.

  “Go. Warn Emperor Hao’s descendant. Do not court death.”

  The elder said.

  He pointed at the clay figure’s forehead.

  Next instant, the figure shot toward Golden Body Continent.

  After it left,

  the elder surveyed the endless void, the infinite darkness that seemed to devour hearts.

  He faintly sensed several fluctuating auras.

  “Oh…”

  “This boy was already targeted?”

  “Indeed… a Mid-Tier Martial world ascending to High-Tier Martial is fortune to wanderers and High-Tier Martial worlds alike.”

  “A fresh, tender High-Tier Martial origin… everyone covets it.”

  The elder smiled.

  Then lowered his head, aura fading completely.

  Like a corpse quietly sitting on the cold continent.

  …

  Origin space of Golden Body Continent.

  Lu’s divine sense trembled.

  He kept his eyes closed, but in truth, his mind now connected two world origins.

  Five Phoenixes and Golden Body Continent.

  Five Phoenixes’ origin was a massive vortex, spinning with terrifying suction. Tianyuan’s origin rotated stably within.

  The vortex form was Lu’s bold past experiment, shattering Five Phoenixes’ origin to create it.

  Weak fusing strong!

  A miraculous method.

  It had flaws, of course.

  The vortex was scattered, unstable, prone to collapse.

  If Lu died, uncontrolled, Five Phoenixes’ origin would disintegrate.

  Thus, Lu and Five Phoenixes’ origin were inseparable.

  If Lu died, Five Phoenixes perished.

  If Five Phoenixes perished, Lu would be gravely wounded, though not dead.

  With Lu’s temperament, he would never allow that.

  Lu raised a hand, forming seals.

  Creating profound suction, drawing Golden Body origin into Five Phoenixes’ vortex.

  Like a thin snake swallowing an elephant.

  Golden Body origin was too strong, a supreme Mid-Tier Martial origin, not far from High-Tier Martial.

  Like a massive elephant.

  Five Phoenixes’ origin, even after fusing Tianyuan, was only newly top-tier Mid-Tier Martial, very weak.

  Truly snake swallowing elephant.

  Lu’s face was solemn.

  Suddenly,

  his expression shifted.

  Someone intruded Golden Body Continent?!

  Lu frowned. He never expected intrusion now.

  “Who?”

  Lu wondered.

  Liujia Array Sect?

  Lu pondered.

  While fusing origins, he had set arrays in the origin space.

  The intruder could not enter.

  But they were trying to break in.

  Daring to break arrays, clearly proficient in array dao, likely Liujia Array Sect.

  Lu had killed their giant, their appearance was unexpected but not surprising.

  “This array uses Eight Trigrams runes, not easily broken.”

  Lu sensed briefly, then ignored it, resuming fusion of Golden Body origin.

  Rumble!

  As fusion progressed, Lu discovered a serious issue.

  Tianyuan origin within the vortex began repelling Golden Body origin.

  Or rather, Tianyuan origin’s strength was insufficient, oppressed by Golden Body origin.

  The stable vortex showed signs of collapse!

  Lu’s face grew grave.

  He had a major problem.

  Origins repelled each other.

  The vortex spun like a deflating, unbalanced tire, losing control.

  …

  On Golden Body Continent,

  the clay elder on the mountain peak, after failing to break the array, was stunned.

  “This boy sealed the origin space with an array?”

  The elder was impressed.

  “Worthy of the one this old man chose.”

  Mainly, Lu’s array baffled him, no way to crack it.

  The array wasn’t strong, but its method was strange.

  “This child must join my Liujia Array Sect.”

  The elder said solemnly.

  Suddenly,

  his brow raised.

  He felt Golden Body Continent’s energy intensity change dramatically.

  “This…”

  “Success?”

  “Weak origin… successfully fused strong origin?”

  The clay elder was horrified.

  He stopped trying to break the array.

  “Since fusion succeeded, he should emerge?”

  Yet after a day or two, nothing.

  The clay elder sat on the peak, puzzled, looking up.

  He discovered the other two continents’ origins also stirring.

  The clay elder’s heart thundered in shock.

  “Greed is a snake swallowing an elephant!”

  “This child is insane! One wasn’t enough, he wants two more?”

  …

  At this moment,

  origin space.

  Lu opened his eyes, face helpless and bitter.

  Sensing the drawn Prajna and Tianluo origins.

  Lu inhaled deeply.

  He had miscalculated.

  He only wanted to test fusing one.

  But after Golden Body, the vortex balance was failing.

  To stabilize, he might need… to fuse the other two as well.

  Gradually…

  he was starting to lose control of himself.