The golden egg under the mist was about a meter in diameter. Its surface was giving off a warm golden light. The eggshell wasn't transparent, but I could still see a black shadow inside. It was wriggling rhythmically, like a flickering candlelight, or a beating heart.
Looking at the golden egg, an expression finally appeared on the Black Dragon King's calm and old face. It was a kind of joy and excitement that he had to restrain himself.
He placed his hand on the golden egg and gently rubbed it. He muttered, "Old friend, we finally meet again …"
I looked at the scene in front of me confusedly. I couldn't understand.
It was rumored that the four ferocious beasts had been sealed since ancient times. Could it be that the Black Dragon King was from the ancient times too?
At the Monster Emperor realm, one would be immortal. With the Black Dragon King's cultivation, it wasn't impossible for him to live from ancient times until now.
Apart from that, the Primordial Beast was a ferocious beast under the command of Monster Emperor Ling. From the Black Dragon King's power, he obviously wasn't on the same side as Monster Emperor Ling. From what I understood, he should be on the same side as the Yan Emperor's clan, which was the witch race.
As I thought about this, the Black Dragon King withdrew his hand. He raised his head to look at me and said solemnly, "I won't be able to open the golden egg by myself. I'll need your help."
I nodded. "Please instruct me."
After getting my promise, the Black Dragon King didn't hurry to tell me what to do. Instead, he pointed at the golden egg and asked, "Do you know what's inside the golden egg?"
I frowned. "Isn't it a Primordial Beast?"
The Black Dragon King stared at me. After staying silent for a while, he replied, "Of course it's a Primordial Beast. But apart from the Primordial Beast, there's something else."
I couldn't guess what he was trying to hide, so I didn't think too much about it. I just looked at him and waited for him to reveal the answer.
This time, the Black Dragon King was silent for a long time. He turned his gaze to the golden egg and reached out to touch it. Suddenly, he sighed and continued, "If you sense it carefully, you should be able to sense that there is an energy greater than heaven and earth in this eggshell. This energy is not something that Chaos Beasts can possess."
As I listened to his words, I sank deeper into doubt. The so-called 'heaven and earth' referred to this world. How could such a thing exist in this world?
Although I was thinking about this, I couldn't help but release my spiritual sense to check the golden egg.
When my spiritual sense came in contact with the golden egg's shell, it was met with great resistance, just like before. It was difficult to enter. The seemingly thin eggshell was like a locked door, blocking me from entering.
After a moment of stalemate, the door seemed to recognize my identity and lifted the restriction. My spiritual sense suddenly rushed into the eggshell.
A dazzling seven-colored light flashed in my consciousness. Then, the light dispersed, revealing a pitch-black night sky in front of me. Countless stars twinkled in the night sky, and among the stars, there were some nebulas.
I focused on one of the nebulas. Together with the tens of thousands of stars around it, it looked like a diagram of a galaxy that I had seen in my textbooks when I was young.
A galaxy was a place in the universe where matter was denser. It was a system formed by a large number of stars and other matter. For example, the Milky Way.
I looked around. Besides the one in front of me, there were countless other galaxies like this one. After getting over the initial numbness, I quickly realized that the inside of the golden egg in my spiritual sense seemed to contain a whole universe!
Of course, I didn't think that it was a real universe. However, my doubts about the Black Dragon King's words were gone. It seemed that there was a power greater than heaven and earth in this world.
After getting my spiritual sense out of the golden egg, I looked at the Black Dragon King with awe and respect.
The Black Dragon King's gaze was gentle. He chuckled and asked me, "What do you see?"
"The universe," I answered honestly.
The Black Dragon King's expression froze for a moment. It seemed that my answer had exceeded his expectations. However, he quickly shook his head and said, "When everyone sees the origin of Primal Chaos, the scene that appears in front of them is different. I see this world, but what you see is the universe … …"
After saying that, he smiled wryly. It seemed that he was mocking himself.
As for me, I was completely dumbfounded.
The source of chaos?
The Black Dragon King meant that the source of chaos was in this golden egg?
Pryor had told me that I could peek at the source of chaos through the Chaos Beast, but he hadn't told me that the Chaos Beast was with the source of chaos.
The Black Dragon King didn't seem to mind my astonishment. He seemed to have recovered from his previous emotions. He pointed at the golden egg and continued to tell me, "The Primal Chaos Beast and the source of Primal Chaos are born together. After being sealed for so many years, the two of them have almost fused into one, forming a new and complete source of Primal Chaos.
If we want to separate it from the source of chaos, we can only replace it with something else. "
"What do I have to do exactly?"
"You only have to sit cross-legged next to the golden egg and place both of your hands on the eggshell. Try your best to sense the location of the Chaos Beast and act as its guide.
As for the rest, just leave it to me. "
The Black Dragon King didn't explain too much to me. He only told me that I had to be responsible for a part of it.
I roughly understood what he meant. What I had to do was to establish a connection with the Chaos Beast. At the same time, I would act as a coordinate so that the Chaos Beast would take the initiative to come out in my direction.
I was secretly delighted with this task. Originally, I was worried about how to avoid the Black Dragon King from communicating with the Chaos Beast. Now, the task that he had put me in charge of could almost solve that problem perfectly.
Since I was in charge of establishing a connection with the Chaos Beast, I would have the opportunity to communicate with it the moment I came into contact with it. During this process, the Black Dragon King wouldn't be able to detect it.
After receiving the order, I sat cross-legged next to the golden egg. I followed the Black Dragon King's instructions and placed both of my hands on the eggshell.
The Black Dragon King stood on the other side of the eggshell. He placed his hands on the eggshell as well. The moment he placed his hands on the eggshell, he suddenly disappeared. In his place was a golden ball of light.
This golden ball of light emitted a dazzling golden light as if it was a sun. It was obvious that he had released all of his cultivation base. Each beam of golden light on the ball of light was the power in his body.
The ball of light only glowed for a moment before dimming. However, when I looked at it, I found that the ball of light didn't dim at all. All of the light was gathering toward the golden egg, creating a dazzling beam of light that shone directly into the golden egg.
This beam of light didn't seem to be obstructed by the eggshell. It directly pierced through the eggshell and reached the inside of the golden egg. After piercing through the egg, it reached my palm from the other side, creating a light dot.
After piercing through the entire golden egg, this light dot became very dim. I could only vaguely see a wisp of it.
While I was guessing the function of this light dot, my spiritual consciousness suddenly sensed a strange consciousness inside the golden egg. It was exuding a joyful emotion.
I was shaken. As I was about to check, I found that my palm on the eggshell had suddenly sunk into the golden egg. As my palm sunk into the egg, the strange consciousness in my spiritual consciousness became clearer. Apparently, this consciousness belonged to the Primordial Chaos Beast.
I hurried to increase my spiritual consciousness to communicate with it. However, I couldn't receive its message. I could only feel that its joyful emotion was becoming clearer and stronger.
While I was trying to communicate with it, my palm had completely pierced through the eggshell and sunk into the golden egg. However, the surface of the eggshell wasn't damaged at all. It looked as if it had naturally grown on my wrist.
This situation made me flustered. However, I didn't have time to do anything. I saw a pair of hands emerge from the top of the eggshell. They looked very familiar. They were exactly the same as my hands, but they didn't have the color of flesh. Instead, they were crystal clear.
While I was panic-stricken, I remembered what the Black Dragon King had said. "If you want to separate it from the Primordial Chaos Beast, you have to use something else to replace it!"
He wanted to send me in to replace the Primordial Chaos Beast and separate it from the eggshell!