Baby with Daoist Monarch System

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Cracks spread across the entire stone body like a spider’s web in an instant. Millions of dazzling divine lights burst out from the fissures, painting the entire valley into a colorful domain of Liuli and Light. Within each divine light, a fragment of the most primordial Law was contained, the essence accumulated over three thousand years.

Boom!

With a loud bang, the colorful strange stone exploded, turning into a rain of light that gently scattered over every inch of the valley. Nourished by this primordial source, the Immortal Herbs within the valley began to grow wildly, with increased spirituality, and some even developed a faint intelligence, crying out with a yearning sound toward the center of the explosion.

In the center of the light rain, a figure slowly appeared.

It was a boy.

He seemed to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, with black hair draped to his waist, each strand seemingly condensed from the purest light, shimmering with starlight. His skin was more crystal clear than the finest Immortal Jade, faintly revealing beneath it flowed not blood, but a divine radiance interwoven in five colors.

His features were so beautiful that they defied any description, as if a collection of all the ”perfect” concepts in the world. But the most striking were his eyes.

What kind of eyes were they!

In his left eye seemed to reflect the outline of the Dao Sun, blazing, holy, full of the majesty of creation and order. But in his right eye, there was a deep darkness that seemed to swallow all Light, within which flickered stars of contradiction and Chaos, a power absorbed, understood, but not yet completely controlled by him.

Life and death, positive and negative, order and Chaos.

Two completely opposing powers achieved an eerie yet perfect balance in his eyes.

The boy landed barefoot on the ground. He looked down at his own hands, and then looked up at the Dao Sun in the sky, his eyes filled with the curiosity and understanding of new birth.

”So, this is ’me’. ”

He had no name, because in this world, there was no other ”he” that needed distinguishing. He was the first being born of the innate primordial Source in this realm, the favored of the Dao Origin Realm, the peculiar ”variable” expected by the will of Fire.

He is Dao Sheng.

Dao Sheng, meaning born of the Great Dao.

He took his first step.

As his foot touched the ground, the entire land of the Dao Origin Realm pulsed slightly with joy, as if welcoming the birth of its child. He walked forward, and the Immortal Herbs and auspicious beasts in the valley made way for him, flowers bowed towards him, and spiritual beasts softly murmured to him.

He walked out of the valley.

The outside world was much vaster than the valley by billions of times.

The towering Divine Mountain itself was a collection of solidified Law chains, exuding a grand aura of suppression upon the heavens and earth. The roaring rivers did not carry ordinary water, but the innate metal and wood essence, any drop of which would drive Lower Realm cultivators mad.

Above the sky, besides the eternal Dao Sun, countless stars were slowly rotating. Dao Sheng knew that each star represented a supreme Dao yet to be mastered by any being. When the day comes that a being comprehends a certain Dao to perfection, they can light up the corresponding Dao Star, living as long as heaven and earth, shining with the sun and moon.

What a majestic, yet so desolate and lonely world this was.

Dao Sheng wandered aimlessly, measuring the land with his feet, observing the world with his eyes, and sensing the pulse of all things with his heart. He watched a blade of grass, from sprouting to withering, comprehending the Wheel of Life and Death that naturally flowed into his heart. He saw a mountain enduring wind and rain, grasping the eternal essence of ”Suppression” from it.

With every breath, he exchanged essence with the heavens and earth; with every heartbeat, he resonated with the Great Dao. His power was growing at an unimaginable speed with every moment.

However, this world was not only filled with peace and beauty.

When he walked a hundred thousand miles to a black plain, he stopped.

This plain was barren, the ground covered in dry, hideous ravines as if cursed by some terrifying power. The air was permeated with a disquieting, chaotic, and violent aura.

That was the aura of ”Tribulation”.

Dao Sheng’s peculiar eyes gazed at the center of the plain. Divine Light flowed in his left eye, seeing through all illusions; he saw the Law here severely distorted, space misaligned, and time chaotic. A dark glow flickered in his right eye, sensing a power that was kindred to what lay deep within his right eye, yet filled with malice.

”Roar!”

A roar, unlike anything any being could utter, echoed from a giant ravine at the center of the plain. Then, a massive creature slowly crawled out of the ravine.

It was a ”Tribulation Beast” beyond the bounds of common sense.

It had a body like a giant lizard, yet eight legs like a spider. Half of its body burned with Black Flame, the other half coated in gray-white frost. Atop its head, there were no eyes, only a giant mouth opening like a black hole, from which came the wails and curses of countless beings in Despair.

This Tribulation Beast was the aggregate of all twisted Laws and chaotic wills on this plain, the first embodiment of the ”Curse of Chaos” in this world. Its existence was itself mockery and provocation to ”Order”.

Upon its appearance, it locked onto Dao Sheng.

In its Perception, Dao Sheng was like a bright moon in the night, his pure, harmonious, order-filled aura of ”Dao” an unbearable delicacy, and a mortal enemy that must be destroyed!

”Order...must...be torn!”

Disjointed, frenzied thoughts echoed in Dao Sheng’s mind.

In the next moment, the Tribulation Beast moved!

Its eight long legs kicked, and its massive body mysteriously vanished from its original spot. It wasn’t a matter of extreme speed; it directly distorted the space between itself and Dao Sheng, forcibly erasing the concept of ”distance”!

It appeared before Dao Sheng in an instant, its mouth large enough to swallow mountains, biting down!

Facing this sudden attack that transcended physical laws, Dao Sheng’s face showed no panic. He did not even retreat, only raised his right hand calmly.

His movement was so slow, it seemed even mortals could easily dodge it. But as he raised his hand, the flow speed of the entire world’s time seemed to change for him.

The Tribulation Beast’s pounce, fast to the extreme, seemed incredibly slow in Dao Sheng’s eyes. He could clearly see how the opponent’s fangs tore through space, how the Black Flame and frozen ice on it annihilated each other to create an even more terrifying chaotic power.

”So, this is the attacking method of the ’Tribulation’.”

Dao Sheng understood.

He extended a finger, gently pointing towards the forehead of the Tribulation Beast.

This point did not carry earth-shattering might, had no encircling chains of Law, only the purest ”Reason”.

—”Between you and me, there must be distance.”

This was his first definition and declaration of the Law of ”Space”!

Buzz!

An invisible wave spread out, centered on Dao Sheng’s fingertip.

The massive body of the Tribulation Beast, which had been about to devour Dao Sheng, suddenly halted. The ”distance” it had forcibly erased between itself and Dao Sheng was at this moment redefined and infinitely lengthened by a higher, undeniable power of ”Order”!

In the Tribulation Beast’s perception, the young man before it was both within reach and as distant as the horizon. No matter how frantically it lunged forward, it could not cross this ”reach of the horizon” distance.

This was a crushing at the level of Law!

”Roar!”

Failing in its attack, the Tribulation Beast grew even more frenzied. Its black hole-like mouth opened wide, and a gray beam composed purely of ”Chaos” and ”Contradiction” shot fiercely towards Dao Sheng!