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Chapter 3838: All for the Final Step
The process was surprisingly smooth Lin Moyu easily picked up that object.
It was only the size of a fingernail, emitting a faint gray light. It looked unremarkable, but faintly exuded a primordial aura, as if it contained endless ages.
As soon as Lin Moyu sensed this aura, he felt as if he had returned to some primordial era, like the very beginning of heaven and earth.
He was shocked in his heart: "What is this thing!"
This aura was terrifying not in terms of strength, but in terms of level.
Though the aura wasn't strong, its level seemed to surpass that of the Great Dao.
A deep voice suddenly rang out: "Daoist friend, what do you think of this item?"
Lin Moyu looked up to see a phantom appear atop the Twilight Drum.
He guessed the other's identity and immediately saluted, "Lin Moyu of the human race greets the Twilight Drum Emperor."
This was a wisp of the Twilight Drum Emperor's remnant soul. Even though it was only a remnant, Lin Moyu still maintained proper respect.
The remnant soul was hazy, its true features unclear, but Lin Moyu could sense it was sizing him up, its gaze gentle.
Almost instinctively, he felt the Twilight Drum Emperor was a good person.
The Twilight Drum Emperor spoke softly: "Daoist friend, you haven't answered me yet."
Lin Moyu replied, "I don't recognize this item, but I find it extremely wondrous."
The Twilight Drum Emperor said, "You're not telling the truth. Earlier, you clearly saw through its origins."
Lin Moyu answered honestly, "I did see through its origins, but I truly don't covet it."
The Twilight Drum Emperor said, "Then tell me, where does it come from?"
Lin Moyu said, "I once heard a senior say that at the dawn of heaven and earth there was chaos, the source of all things. If I'm not mistaken, you two Emperors used spacetime power to tear open a spacetime rift and drew in chaos."
His words were half true, half false there was no senior who told him this; he had experienced it himself. Moreover, he had sensed a similar aura from the Chaos Seed, so he was nearly certain of his guess.
The Twilight Drum Emperor chuckled, "Well said. It is indeed chaos. We drew it in, then used spacetime power to compress and refine it, ultimately obtaining two things."
"One is the Void Soul Essence Stone, the other is this Essence of Chaos."
"The Essence of Chaos helps me and the Morning Bell Emperor take the final step, so we used eternity to temper it, hoping that endless ages would yield enough Essence of Chaos."
Lin Moyu now understood that the small object in his hand was called the Essence of Chaos, and it could help the two Emperors take that final step.
He also realized a possibility and asked, "Does the Essence of Chaos help the Lord of Time as well?"
The Twilight Drum Emperor replied, "Not much. Every eternal existence's final step is different."
Lin Moyu immediately said, "Earlier, the Morning Bell Emperor said the Lord of Time wants to use the Void Soul Essence Stone to fully control the Twilight Drum, that his final step is related to the Twilight Drum is that true?"
The Twilight Drum Emperor sighed, "The Twilight Drum is only part of it. The final step is his greatest secret he won't tell anyone. Even the Morning Bell Emperor and I can only guess."
Which made sense how could a Great Dao Lord or eternal existence reveal their final step to anyone? If they encountered an enemy, they might be stopped.
Lin Moyu said, "Earlier the Morning Bell Emperor said the Lord of Time has come, so it seems he has other schemes besides the Void Soul Essence Stone."
The Twilight Drum Emperor smiled, "You're right. He's very good at scheming. That's why I fell for his Dao back then and ended up like this."
As he spoke, the Twilight Drum Emperor waved his hand and spacetime shifted, revealing a scene in the air.
In the image, the Morning Bell Emperor and the Lord of Time were locked in fierce battle.
The Morning Bell was struck repeatedly, space twisting and shattering, forming terrifying strangulation.
The Lord of Time wielded the Time Great Dao, causing time to flow backward or freeze, turning time into invisible blades that shattered the void and struck at the Morning Bell Emperor.
The two eternal beings fought so fiercely that the void was torn apart, nearly overturning the entire Great Spirit Domain.
The Morning Bell Great Spirit Domain's space was crazily compressed; the Morning Bell Emperor's attacks were pure force.
The Lord of Time's techniques were bizarre and hard to counter, but he could never truly do anything to the Morning Bell Emperor.
Within the Spacetime Spirit Realm, Lin Moyu watched this battle an epic clash between eternal beings.
The Twilight Drum Emperor said softly, "Shi You wants to shatter the Spacetime Spirit Realm and break my eternal aura."
Lin Moyu didn't quite understand and looked at the Twilight Drum Emperor in confusion.
The Twilight Drum Emperor, like a kindly old man, slowly recounted his story, helping Lin Moyu understand the entanglements between him and the Lord of Time.
The Morning Bell and Twilight Drum, two innate origin treasures, correspond to space and time. Though they cannot control the Great Dao, they possess power equal to the Daos.
With these two treasures, the Morning Bell and Twilight Drum Emperors were not at all weaker than the respective Great Dao Lords.
The two Emperors were close friends, working together to create the Spacetime Spirit Realm and draw in chaotic energy to make the Essence of Chaos.
Later, the Lord of Time approached the Twilight Drum Emperor under the pretense of discussing the Dao.
He acted humble and courteous for ten thousand years, gaining the Twilight Drum Emperor's trust.
Just when the Twilight Drum Emperor thought the Lord of Time was a true friend, the Lord of Time betrayed him.
Fortunately, the Twilight Drum Emperor had split the Twilight Drum in two, leaving part of it in the Spacetime Spirit Realm, shrouded in his eternal aura, so that part of the Twilight Drum would remain forever.
As long as the Twilight Drum could not be restored to wholeness, the Lord of Time could never truly obtain it.
Yet his final step was tied to the Twilight Drum.
So the Lord of Time had always tried to break the Spacetime Spirit Realm.
But the Morning Bell Emperor had already sealed the entire Great Spirit Domain, and the Lord of Time was repelled again and again.
Meanwhile, the Morning Bell Emperor used the Essence of Chaos produced by the Spacetime Spirit Realm to advance toward that final step.
The further the Morning Bell Emperor progressed, the more anxious the Lord of Time became.
The Lord of Time knew that if the Morning Bell Emperor truly took that step, he would be doomed even if eternal beings do not die, he would fall into endless dormancy with no hope of return.
Thus, he had to stop the Morning Bell Emperor even if he couldn't take the step himself, he couldn't let the Morning Bell Emperor succeed.
Lin Moyu finally understood his own role as a tool in all this.
His purpose was to carry the Lord of Time's Dao Jade Heart into the Spacetime Spirit Realm.
The Dao Jade Heart contained a clone that was obvious. The Morning Bell Emperor would certainly follow into the Spacetime Spirit Realm to stop the Lord of Time's clone.
While the Morning Bell Emperor was inside, the Lord of Time could charge into the Morning Bell Great Spirit Domain.
Of course, a great battle was inevitable, but this was the Morning Bell Great Spirit Domain the Morning Bell Emperor's home turf, so the Lord of Time's chances of victory were slim.
And Lin Moyu himself was just a stepping stone, used because of the rule set by the Morning Bell Emperor and the Twilight Drum Emperor: any cultivator who mastered the power of time could enter the Spacetime Spirit Realm.
As for why that rule was set, it involved secrets unknown to outsiders the Twilight Drum Emperor did not say.
The Lord of Time was simply exploiting this rule to create an opportunity to enter the Morning Bell Great Spirit Domain.
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