Chapter 143 Two Paths

In this fragmented dreamscape, within the last remaining courtyard, all sounds suddenly quieted, giving a sense of serenity and remoteness. Suddenly, the Two Emperors didn't know how to speak, or rather, they even felt that they couldn't break the current atmosphere.

Finally, Hu Di reached out and touched his lips, coughing to break the silence, "You, don't take it to heart."

"Huntian, he has his own considerations, you..."

Hu Di couldn't say anything.

In the end, only a sigh remained. He couldn't say anything else, so he mumbled, "Besides, didn't you win in the end?" He reluctantly pulled together various reasons to keep Wei Yuan from caring, finally sighing in annoyance.

Spiritual light flowed on the jade slip, and golden characters circulated in the void.

Wei Yuan lifted his right hand from the jade slip, and the golden characters suspended in the air gradually faded, restoring the jade slip to its original simple style. Wei Yuan held the jade slip and said, "So, this is a life-saving charm he left me?"

In fact, no one needed to answer his question anymore.

Because the matter was already clear enough without words.

Even if he existed in the form of a dream image, Huntian was still worried that Wei Yuan, who found this place, would encounter danger, and worried that Houtu would be permanently asleep in the dream, unable to wake up, but he never thought about himself.

Shu Di looked at the letter and suddenly seemed to realize something, saying, "So, you are [Yuan]!"

Hu Di belatedly realized, exclaiming, "Yuan?!"

"The kid that Houtu and Huntian always mentioned?"

"Very good at swordsmanship."

"But the one whose cooking is even better?!"

This comment about being good at swordsmanship but even better at cooking felt somewhat inappropriate at this time. Wei Yuan put away the jade slip, not into his sleeve dimension, but cherished it like a mortal, placing it in his chest, and then said with a smile, "That's right, it is I."

Hu Di laughed loudly, his eyes shining, "You've finally arrived!"

"That little girl Houtu, even in her dreams, often says that you will definitely come to find her."

"You don't know how many times they've praised you. Even Huntian doesn't hesitate to praise you when he mentions you, saying that your cooking is great, unparalleled in the world. I've already seen your swordsmanship. If Huntian is right, then your cooking is even more amazing than that sword strike?!"

"Come, come, come, quickly make some dishes."

"We both listened to Houtu's words and thought about finding you every day, but this dream is only so big after all. We've been wandering around every day and haven't been able to find you. We've finally waited for you today!"

Hu Di's sadness and those traces of sorrow only existed for a while.

The years were long, and he wasn't the kind of person who only dwelled on the sadness of the past. Wei Yuan paused for a moment, exhaled a long breath, and smiled, "However, there may not be many ingredients here. I'll go get some ingredients and seasonings."

"Now there are many seasonings outside that you couldn't eat in the past."

"Especially things refined by the methods of the human race, which are extremely delicious."

Wei Yuan stretched out his hand, and countless laws gathered to transform into the Nine Heavens Gate.

Then he would directly cross the Nine Heavens Gate to get things from the outside.

Accompanied by a rumbling sound, the Nine Heavens Gate directly appeared in front of Wei Yuan.

But the top artifact that was about to gather and manifest suddenly solidified just as it was about to take shape.

Strands of extremely pure and extremely powerful power began to gather madly. There was no sign of this abnormality before it happened, but its outbreak was extremely rapid. Kunlun's Nine Heavens Gate stood here. The azure artifact should have been covered with countless mysterious patterns, corresponding to the countless laws of the myriad phenomena.

Vast and heavy, the entire Nine Heavens Gate suddenly trembled violently.

Cracks suddenly appeared on the Nine Heavens Gate.

Originally, as the treasure of Kunlun's Kaiming, the Nine Heavens Gate naturally possessed the authority to observe the ten directions, but at this moment, the concept of the ten directions that had been suppressed suddenly began to collapse violently. In the blink of an eye, it had completely collapsed, and finally turned into strands of law threads and dissipated.

As if the entire dream world had suddenly dimmed, layers of extremely heavy "dark clouds" were pressing down hard, and strands of yin and yang energy actually emerged from the cracks in the Nine Heavens Gate, shocking the eye.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the cracks in the Nine Heavens Gate instantly expanded.

It was as if it had been torn apart by the two calamities of yin and yang.

In front of Wei Yuan, it exploded with a bang. Wei Yuan's pupils shrank slightly, and after seeing the Nine Heavens Gate annihilated and dissipated, the origin of the yin and yang energy did not dissipate, but reassembled, extremely pure yin energy and boundless heavy and vast yang energy swirling and intertwining, once again presenting a state of balance.

The prototype of the Great Calamity!

Wei Yuan slowly said, "This is..."

Shu Di looked at the prototype of the Great Calamity that reappeared, his tone calm, and said lightly, "Isn't this a matter of course? The so-called Great Calamity is that there is a problem with the foundation of the entire world, which is the underlying architecture of all things. Do you think it's just like a flood, the accumulated 'water' that will one day flood the world, so you can solve the problem by just taking the water away?"

"It's not like that."

"The problem is with the most basic things."

"As long as this most basic and underlying problem is not solved, the yin and yang origin karmic energy that you previously dealt with will appear continuously with time. It won't be long, perhaps ten years, perhaps a hundred years, or perhaps it will take a thousand or ten thousand years. There will always be a day when the scale of karmic energy that you saw before will reappear here."

"Vast and boundless, almost destroying the world."

"What you just did was just treating the symptoms but not the root cause, and the Great Calamity still exists..."

Hu Di also had a headache and grimaced, "This... what Shu said is indeed true."

"If we really want to use an analogy, then the Great Calamity is the source of water, and the yin and yang origin energy that you just solved is just part of the water flowing out of this source. When these water flows accumulate to a certain level, they will directly smash down towards the bottom, that is, the direction of the myriad worlds."

The white-haired Hu Di raised his hand and made a gesture of swatting a mosquito.

"Smack!"

"And then the world is gone."

"You solved these water flows, of course, there is no problem. You can delay the outbreak of this Great Calamity for a certain amount of time, and you can even say that you can delay it for a very long time. But if you want to completely solve the Great Calamity, there is only one way, and that is to solve the problem of this water source."

"But kid, don't worry, we've already thought of a solution to this problem for you."

Hu Di laughed loudly and said, "One radish, one hole. If there is a problem, then there must be a way to solve it. And in the Clear and Turbid Worlds, there is someone who has the strength to solve this problem."

"There is only one, um, perhaps, there are two."

Hu Di stretched out his hand and gestured, "Fu Xi and Nuwa."

"They both possess the purest yin and yang energy, and together they can display the extreme power of [Inverting Yin and Yang], which is enough to instantly reverse the order of the yin and yang origins and return them to a normal state. At least, according to our two speculations, this so-called [Great Calamity] can be stopped."

At this moment, Shu Di, who was in the form of a black-haired, indifferent youth, rarely spoke, but at this time he also nodded slightly.

"That's right."

"Fu Xi may be extremely self-centered, unwilling to take action, unwilling to cause trouble, and unwilling to exert effort."

"But Nuwa is different. That child's realm is very high, and like Houtu, she is the kind of person with a very gentle personality. If you ask her earnestly, she will definitely help. And if she takes action, given Fu Xi's personality, even if he is dissatisfied, he will first take action to resolve this Great Calamity."

It seems... Fu Xi's persona is already known to the whole world.

Wei Yuan thought to himself, and then recalled what Fu Xi, the Lord of Guixu, said to him when he first came into contact with the prototype of the Yin-Yang Great Calamity, and shook his head slightly.

Shu Di frowned slightly, "What's wrong?" "Why do you look troubled?"

Wei Yuan said, "Perhaps, it is impossible to solve the Great Calamity in this way."

Shu Di said, "Why?"

Wei Yuan shook his head and explained, "Nuwa was severely injured and has been sleeping for thousands of years. She has just woken up for less than a year. Her cultivation has not recovered, and her power and concept are at their weakest state. If she intervenes in such a Great Calamity at this time..."

He didn't continue, but both Shu Di and Hu Di understood.

In that case, Nuwa herself would be subjected to a certain degree of backlash again.

This kind of backlash is not unbearable for a Dao Fruit level powerhouse in their full and normal state, but for Nuwa at this moment, it would cause her to be severely injured again, and it is not impossible for her to fall from the Dao Fruit realm on the spot.

Just this point made Shu Di and Hu Di's dream bodies speechless.

What's more, if something happened to Nuwa...

Then Fu Xi...

Their bodies stiffened slightly, as if they had already seen that crazy top god, and even their backs seemed to feel a hint of chill. They looked at each other, and immediately only bitter smiles remained. Even Shu Di, who was calm here, shook his head helplessly, "This, what can we do..."

"We didn't expect that both of our speculations were wrong."

"Great Calamity, Great Calamity."

Wei Yuan was silent for a moment, pressing his right hand on the Xuanyuan Sword, which was heavier and wider than ordinary swords, and exhaled softly, saying, "But it's not that there is no way to solve it. If we want to resolve the Great Calamity, we need Yin-Yang energy and the method of Inverting Yin-Yang, then apart from Nuwa and Fu Xi, there is another person who can do it."

Hu Di was bewildered, "Another person?"

"Who else has the purest Yin-Yang energy?" The one-armed Daoist said, "Far away at the horizon."

"But right before our eyes."