Chapter 318: The Dream of Origins

Everything happened in an instant.

By the time Xiao Shou condensed his Absolute Fusion ability and flew over from behind Fu Young, he saw Fu Young suddenly close his eyes and collapse.

Monk Tongchan had already chased after Xiao Ran and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Xiao Shou immediately caught Fu Young and began examining his body while calling out anxiously. "Young’er, what happened to you?"

...

Fu Young clearly knew he was dreaming.

Yet he could not wake up from the dream.

All he could do was watch himself in the dream.

He had become an enormous star, a celestial body so vast that it seemed endless and silently standing within the void.

The only thing accompanying him was an equally enormous osmanthus tree.

No.

It felt as if the osmanthus tree was also him.

This realization caused even the usually calm, composed, and extremely intelligent Fu Young to become confused.

What exactly was he?

A star? Or an osmanthus tree?

Just as he struggled with this question, he suddenly felt an intense rage rising from within his heart.

However, he saw that both himself as the star and himself as the osmanthus tree suddenly began emitting a blood red light.

Then they began falling endlessly from above.

Suddenly, the dream changed.

He saw himself as the star and the osmanthus tree suddenly split apart, transforming into countless smaller versions of himself.

They scattered throughout the universe.

As long as there was a place with light within the endless darkness of space, his existence could be found there.

It seemed that within infinite space, his presence existed everywhere.

Only the most central star and osmanthus tree remained hidden within the void and disappearing from sight.

This was an illusion.

He was Fu Young.

Not some star.

Not some osmanthus tree.

Fu Young repeatedly told himself this.

However, the consciousness within the dream still could not control its own movements.

He did not know how much time passed.

The dream began changing once again.

This time, he stood silently within the void.

Suddenly, an extremely powerful negative force of malice appeared.

"Negative overwhelms positive."

"He" thought.

"Destruction should descend once again."

"This time, I will create a world even more perfect than the one created by the Primordial God Pangu..."

The thought echoed within the dream.

However, the moment "he" broke through the void and emerged, he was immediately met with attacks coming from all directions.

The source was unknown.

The power system was something he had never seen before.

The attacks contained strength far greater than world destroying forces.

They struck "him" and shattered him into pieces.

His body split apart and he continued falling endlessly through the void.

"His" complete consciousness remained within the largest fragment of his original body.

After falling onto a piece of land... The dream suddenly changed again.

His consciousness was once more attached to an even smaller fragment.

That fragment continued falling.

Eventually, it landed on a barren planet.

The surroundings were completely dark.

There was nothing.

Nothing at all.

And so, he slept within the darkness.

Until one day, a man wearing gray robes with a long beard flew over.

The man extracted the planet’s core and magnetic energy.

Then he discovered him.

The man was overjoyed.

He stored him away and brought him back to a world filled with warm sunlight.

After some time, the man split his original body into two parts.

The version of himself that became the osmanthus tree had countless mysterious patterns carved onto its body.

These patterns guided out a portion of his power.

A pure white and sacred light radiated from him.

Fu Young suddenly opened his eyes.

The scene around him was familiar.

This was his own cave dwelling within the Eternal Prosperity Sect.

How had he ended up here?

He remembered that he had encountered his master... Then all his memories returned.

Fu Young was startled and immediately sat up.

Xiao Shou who had been guarding him nearby sensed his movement and instantly opened his eyes.

He immediately stood up and hugging him. "Young’er, you are awake? Are you alright? You scared me to death. I called out to you but you would not wake up. Your body was completely fine, but both you and your Nascent Soul were asleep. No matter how much I called, you would not respond. Even Creation Pills and Resurrection Pills did nothing. Do you know how terrified I was?"

"Master!" Receiving the long desired embrace so suddenly, Fu Young was caught off guard.

Originally, he had planned to question Xiao Shou with a cold expression about wanting to abandon him and leave. But now, he could not maintain that expression at all.

Feeling Xiao Shou’s trembling body, he gently patted his back. "Do not worry. I am fine. Not only am I fine, this is actually a good thing! Look, my cultivation has increased again!"

"I know. While you were sleeping, your cultivation suddenly started increasing rapidly. You have already reached the peak of the ninth cycle. You are only one step away from the Spirit Transformation stage."

"If I had not seen your cultivation continuing to rise, I would have taken you to find a medical cultivator." Xiao Shou continued hugging Fu Young.

Thinking back to the shock he felt when he saw Fu Young collapse, and how Monk Tongchan had chased after Xiao Ran and left him alone, the helpless panic he had felt at that moment caused him to tremble slightly.

Seeing him like this, Fu Young did not want Xiao Shou to continue worrying or feeling sad because of him.

So he immediately pretended to be unhappy. "Then, my dear Master, should you explain the matter of the Savior? Your origins? And most importantly... The fact that you actually planned to abandon me and leave?"

"Ah! I never thought about abandoning you!"

The way he said it made it sound like he had betrayed someone after leading them on.

We are just master and disciple, right?

We are not lovers or spouses or anything like that.

Xiao Shou pushed Fu Young away and sat back down beside the bed.

In his heart, he complained.

His eyes shifted around guiltily.

After turning them around several times, he finally figured out how he should explain himself. Then he immediately spoke with confidence. "I was planning to take you with me."