Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 615: Chapter 364 Destruction

After exploring the interior of this Cave Heaven, although there weren’t many gains, Chen Mu’s understanding of the Cave Heaven had increased significantly. The past confusion about the Void now faintly revealed a trace of clues.

“Although this Cave Heaven exists within the Earthly Abyss, it belongs to an independent space, so it is not affected by the Earthly Abyss. Similarly, it is isolated from the Da Xuan World, with the Power of Heaven and Earth being extremely scarce, even lacking the phases of Qian Heaven and Kun Earth.”

Chen Mu stood on a floating rock in mid-air, looking around in all directions, perceiving attentively and thoughtfully.

Compared to the mountains and rivers of Da Xuan and the Earthly Abyss, this Cave Heaven is indeed ‘incomplete’. Not only is there scarcely any Power of Heaven and Earth to wield within it, but many essential forces of Heaven and Earth are also missing, such as the crucial Qian Heaven and Kun Earth.

Because there is no Qian Heaven and Kun Earth, there is neither heaven nor earth here. Even in Chen Mu’s perception, wind and thunder are non-existent, with only a few phases like mountains, marshes, water, and fire present.

Therefore,

this Cave Heaven cannot form a complete cycle of Heaven and Earth.

Chen Mu did not know whether worlds like Da Xuan, possessing a complete Heaven and Earth, also had the concept of ‘lifespan’, but clearly, this Cave Heaven did.

Because at the edge of the Void in this Cave Heaven, one could see countless intertwining and spreading fine white cracks. These were scenes of the Void being cracked, and these cracks were slowly expanding inward.

That is to say,

someday in the future, these cracks will interlace and fully connect to form real spatial fissures, until this Cave Heaven completely collapses, meaning it has reached the end of its destruction.

“Worlds are certainly multilayered.”

During his several encounters with Ancient Demons and Heavenly Demons, Chen Mu had already vaguely speculated this, and after entering this small Cave Heaven, sensing its difference from the outer world, the concept became clearer to him.

If such small Cave Heaven worlds exist, there must also be larger ones, even immense enough to rival the mountains and rivers of Da Xuan.

Diverse worlds can possess entirely different heavenly and earthly essences. For example, the power essence wielded by the Ancient Demon Clan is clearly not within the realm of Qiankun and belongs to a different category from the Eight Phases of Heaven and Earth.

However,

even knowing this, Chen Mu has only lifted a corner of the veil of mystery surrounding Heaven and Earth.

Although he knows that the Ancient Demon Clan must come from another world, the possibilities are many. Perhaps this clan once existed in a ‘large Cave Heaven’. The fact that this Cave Heaven went through infinite changes over eons and eventually collapsed, causing the clan to fall into the Da Xuan World, is vaguely corroborated by evidence, as the Ancient Demon Clan seemed to have appeared suddenly during Ancient Times.

But there is another possibility. The Ancient Demon Clan might come from a world even larger and more ‘complete’ than the Da Xuan World, with more diverse heavenly and earthly essences. Compared to it, Da Xuan is the one that’s a ‘Cave Heaven’.

This conjecture, for the time being, lacks evidence.

Even with Chen Mu’s current status, the information he can access is still limited to within Da Xuan; he has never heard anything about what lies ‘beyond Da Xuan’.

He once asked Qin Mengjun, who also knew nothing about it, and Qin Mengjun must have asked Yin Heng. Yin Heng, having roamed the world for a hundred years, did not know either… or rather, to many in the Blood Exchange Realm, this Da Xuan World is the center of everything. Even if there are indeed other worlds, they are merely ‘Cave Heavens’ that exist dependent on Da Xuan.

This is also quite normal.

Having been born in this world and never having seen other sights naturally leads one to believe that this is the center of everything.

Chen Mu has never had such a notion. He is aware of the vastness of Heaven and Earth and of his own insignificance. He knows how vast the Da Xuan Ninety-Nine States are, but he also understands that such a huge world could be just a drop in the Vast Sea.

But these scattered thoughts were just fleeting in Chen Mu’s mind. For now, delving into these matters held no significance for him; after all, the Martial Arts he was practicing hadn’t yet entered the final Realm, nor had he reached the end.

After collecting his thoughts,

Chen Mu followed the original path back.

He stepped out of the small Cave Heaven and meticulously sensed his position, quickly feeling the aura and pressure of the Earthly Abyss once more, both growing stronger the further out he went.

Until he emerged from the passage in the Stone Vein, the aura and pressure of the Earthly Abyss were finally unobstructed.

“Indeed, this entire Stone Vein… no, the coherent Power of Heaven and Earth within the Stone Vein, is the essence that supports that Cave Heaven? No wonder the environment here is so strange, with so many disordered ore veins stacked together, resisting the compression from the Earthly Abyss without being compacted into one mass; the balance inside and out complements each other.”

Chen Mu placed a hand on the Stone Vein and sensed the vitality of the entire Vein again.

The Power of the Earth’s Veins within nurtured the existence of that Cave Heaven, and it was also because of the existence of that Cave Heaven that it withstood the squeezing from the outside world, allowing this Stone Vein to maintain its current appearance.

This is a balance.

Chen Mu now really wanted to get his hands on the legendary Qiankun Pot, not because he wanted it, but because he wanted to study how it achieved internal and external balance. If he could take it as a reference, perhaps he could find some clear direction.

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