Chapter 4556: Scheme Within a Scheme
All along, no one had ever been able to pierce the concealment of the Hidden Spirit Pearl. When he tested it before, not even Golden Supreme could see through it, but now Calamity Supreme's lingering will had managed to detect him.
Even though this was the core of Calamity Supreme's formation, Lin Moyu's understanding of arrays told him this shouldn't be possible.
Lin Moyu noticed some clues, leading him to several suspicions.
He withdrew the Hidden Spirit Pearl and asked, "Is there something you want to tell me?"
Sensing Lin Moyu's aura, the statue of Calamity Supreme slowly turned away and replied, "No. You already know everything. I have nothing more to say."
As he finished speaking, the void began to twist and a spacetime tunnel started to manifest.
Lin Moyu smiled, "Even if you have nothing to say, I still have questions."
The twisting void came to a halt. Calamity Supreme asked in a low voice, "What do you want to ask?"
He remained with his back to Lin Moyu, as though ready to leave at any time.
For some reason, Lin Moyu sensed that Calamity Supreme had some urgent matter and was only lingering for Lin Moyu's sake. Now that Lin Moyu had arrived, he was ready to go.
Hiding his odd feeling, Lin Moyu maintained his calm. "Your will should be concentrated in the Primal Wilderness, right?"
"Mhm." Calamity Supreme did not hide this, only making a quiet noise in reply.
Lin Moyu said, "In the very depths of the Primal Wilderness…"
He paused here, clearly noticing some tiny fluctuation in the will within the statue.
He hid it well only Lin Moyu sensed it, not Little Tree or Chaos Child.
Lin Moyu continued, "Something from the depths of the Primal Wilderness has emerged and is heading for the chaos. You can sense that, can't you?"
After a few breaths, Calamity Supreme gave another "mhm," and Lin Moyu heard a trace of relief in his tone.
Lin Moyu pressed on. "Do you know what that thing is?"
"I don't."
"Do you know what it will bring?"
"I don't."
"Do you know its exact location?"
"I don't."
The answers were all the same: "I don't know."
Lin Moyu sighed, "Alright, then go. I have nothing more."
"Fine." The void split open, a spacetime channel appeared, and he seemed to burrow inside.
Once he left, Lin Moyu began refining the grand array as the Hidden Spirit Pearl's power enveloped the soul world.
His soul glowed faintly, thoughtful this Calamity Supreme seemed different from before.
What tipped him off was Calamity Supreme seeing through the Hidden Spirit Pearl.
Even within his own domain and from close range, Calamity Supreme's lingering will should not outmatch Golden Supreme.
If even Golden Supreme couldn't see through the pearl, how did he?
If he had stood before the "Dao" and was discovered, that would make sense. But this wasn't the Dao; it was merely the will Calamity Supreme left behind. Such an anomaly made it hard not to suspect Calamity Supreme's cultivation had surpassed the Supreme level.
According to what Lin Moyu knew, Calamity Supreme had fallen, leaving only a grand plan and some fragments of will.
But did he truly perish?
Lin Moyu had never fully believed that. Calamity Supreme appeared to enter the game with his life, but could there be a scheme beyond the scheme?
How could he be so confident his plan, spun over countless years, would succeed just because of trust in his companions?
Lin Moyu did not think Calamity Supreme was this kind of person. They shared one trait: greater faith in themselves than in others not out of distrust, but a tendency to do crucial things themselves.
So in that moment, a suspicion was born: Calamity Supreme's scheme might be even deeper he might not have died at all.
But the Dao did indeed slay him. Faking his own death to deceive the Dao would be extremely difficult unless he possessed some treasure, or found a place beyond the Dao's perception.
Right now, only the very depths of the Primal Wilderness seemed likely to fit that description.
So when he deliberately mentioned the depths of the Primal Wilderness, Calamity Supreme's reaction confirmed the abnormality.
"Before, his scattered wills weren't connected each fragment unaware of the whole. He even hid himself from himself."
"Now with the wills merging, he's revealed some subtle flaws."
Lin Moyu could not be absolutely certain, but he was over 70% confident in his judgment.
"Calamity Supreme likely did not truly fall. Not only is he alive, but perhaps he has already broken through the Supreme boundary "
"No, he must have already reached a level equal to the Dao itself."
"All of this very likely relates to the Primal Wilderness's depths. There, he encountered the Primordial Qi of Heaven and Earth, and from it gained leftover First Qi."
"His scheme targets not just the Dao, but all of the chaotic wilderness."
The more Lin Moyu thought, the more plausible it seemed. Calamity Supreme's machinations surpassed his imagination. Perhaps even he and the other elders were being manipulated all along.
After gathering his thoughts, Lin Moyu summoned the Primal Jewel, Little Tree, Chaos Child, and Xiao Peng to discuss it.
He was reasonably confident, but pooling ideas might yield even better answers.
Little Tree and the rest listened and agreed with Lin Moyu's reasoning though, in comparison to Calamity Supreme's planning, they all felt like children.
How could one man imagine so far ahead?
The Primal Jewel yawned. "What's the use in guessing? One day you'll see for yourself at the Origin Core of Heaven and Earth."
Lin Moyu asked, "What is the Origin Core of Heaven and Earth?"
The Primal Jewel replied, "It's actually the depths of the Primal Wilderness itself. Every world has an origin core the source of everything. This world's origin is that place."
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"What you said isn't wrong the origin core indeed contains mysterious possibilities, but it's also very dangerous. Most who go never return."
Lin Moyu asked, "What exactly is in there?"
The Primal Jewel said, "I'm too lazy to describe it, and anyway I couldn't clarify it. See for yourself someday."
Lin Moyu understood if even the Primal Jewel couldn't say, it must truly be beyond description.
Origin core, the Primal Wilderness's depths the origin of this world.
After hearing from the Primal Jewel, Lin Moyu believed his theory was even more likely:
Calamity Supreme may have hidden there, feigned death, and gained a fortuitous encounter, then broke through the Supreme boundary.
It would have been fraught with peril, but knowing Calamity Supreme's nature, he would do it.
To reach his goal, he didn't shrink from danger.
Now, after all these years, Lin Moyu had appeared, the great game was unfolding, and Calamity Supreme's wills converged.
Softly, Lin Moyu murmured, "The chaotic wilderness is truly about to fall into chaos!"
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