Because as soon as he lay down, he felt a few words appear in his mind.

Golden words!

Where had he seen them before? ...Ethan Brooks instantly remembered: when he first obtained the Celestial Crystal Spirit Marrow, he had also experienced a bout of dizziness, and it seemed that a few golden words had appeared then as well, after which the Celestial Crystal Spirit Marrow completely disappeared...

Ethan Brooks hurriedly sat up and tried to mobilize his spiritual sense, and to his astonishment, he discovered: his spiritual sense could actually be mobilized!

Moreover, within his sea of consciousness, a strong attraction was emanating...

Ethan Brooks focused his mind to observe, and even with the composure of Lord Ethan, he couldn't help but be stunned!

Within his sea of consciousness, a layer of white mist shrouded everything, and above the mist, there was actually a bead radiating boundless light.

Clusters of purple spiritual energy were emanating and flowing out from that bead.

"Isn't this... isn't this the bead I accidentally obtained while exploring the Domain of Death in the Azure Cloud Heaven Realm? When did it end up in my sea of consciousness? What's going on?!"

Ethan Brooks widened his eyes, completely clueless as to how such a change could have occurred.

But, a vague thought surfaced: Could it be... that in the final battle of my previous life, when I should have perished with body and soul destroyed, I was inexplicably reborn here, all because of this strange bead?

Or perhaps... this piece of Celestial Crystal Spirit Marrow just happened to match some element needed by the bead... thus further activating its effect?

Ethan Brooks, being well-versed and knowledgeable, felt that although his current speculation was rather far-fetched, he was ninety percent sure he was right—there was simply no other explanation.

After all, he really had been reborn. If such an absurd thing could happen, what else couldn't?

And deep down, Ethan Brooks faintly sensed another thing—this bead was probably far from simple!

Whether its origin or its function, neither would be simple!

"Or perhaps... it's very likely that the path to the pinnacle I failed to walk in my previous life, I will walk again in this life, starting from this bead?"

Ethan Brooks let his imagination run wild, and although he knew this idea was a bit absurd, his heart was nonetheless filled with longing. Because, even with all the knowledge of Lord Ethan, he had never heard of such a bizarre thing!

Ethan Brooks stared intently at the bead in his sea of consciousness, but was utterly baffled: the thing he had obtained by chance back then was actually such a world-shaking treasure? Why hadn't he noticed before?

Just then, Ethan Brooks suddenly felt a flash of light before his eyes!

It was as if a massive bolt of lightning, splitting heaven and earth, struck straight at him!

And after the lightning, there was only blazing white!

At that moment, Ethan Brooks felt his whole body tremble, and in his mind, a ball of light suddenly ignited!

The light grew larger and larger, and gradually he realized that all the light was coming from a single bead!

It was like a sun, hanging above the sea of thought.

The bead spun, and suddenly, ten large characters appeared abruptly, spanning in front of the bead, shining brilliantly! They shot straight into Ethan Brooks's eyes!

All the pain in his body, at that moment, miraculously vanished.

"Heaven and Earth have no equal master, Chaos' first spirit!"

Chapter 8: Purple Qi from the East, Cleansing and Reforging the Body

A moment later, those ten large characters shrank smaller and smaller, retracting into the bead. Even more astonishing, Ethan Brooks's spirit seemed to be drawn into the bead along with this force of contraction!

"This bead clearly exists within my body, so how can it draw me inside as well? What's going on?" Ethan Brooks's bewildered thought had just arisen when, with a "whoosh," his consciousness had already entered a strange space.

After a brief daze, Ethan Brooks quickly regained his composure. Looking around, he saw, amidst swirling white clouds, a massive palace standing majestically!

Directly beneath the palace were two huge gates made of white jade, smooth as a mirror, utterly bare!

As Ethan Brooks fixed his gaze to observe, he suddenly heard a sound, and a character seemed to fly in from beyond the heavens, falling like a meteor onto the empty left doorpost!

"Heaven!"

Immediately, a second character fell.

Ethan Brooks was already prepared in his heart; watching these characters fall like meteors from the sky, embedding themselves into the doorposts on both sides, they were exactly the ten characters he had just seen: "Heaven and Earth have no equal master, Chaos' first spirit!"

Then, a passage of words began to flash, one by one, on the white jade gates.

"Heaven and earth have but one master. And who is the master?"

"When chaos first opened, the spirit bead appeared; exhausting the power of creation, gathering the strength of the universe, this object was forged; evolving all living things, above are sun, moon, and stars, below are mountains, rivers, and great peaks..."

And so on, a long and grand passage.

As Ethan Brooks read, he felt a bit dazed. The words in this bead's inner space seemed a bit too boastful, didn't they? Even the sun, moon, and stars were created by you?

That... can't be, right?

Who do you think you are, a god? A saint? A super being?!

The next moment, the tightly closed gates suddenly swung open!

A dense, overwhelming white mist gushed out!