After the white mist, there was a long corridor.

Ethan Brooks was just about to step forward when suddenly golden light flashed chaotically, and a line of words abruptly appeared before his eyes.

“To enter this gate, life and death hang on a single thought!”

Ethan Brooks halted his steps, focusing his attention.

Right after these eight characters, another twelve characters suddenly flashed, as if they were directly embedded into his mind.

“If you do not become the master of heaven and earth, you will turn to cosmic dust!”

Ethan Brooks felt a heavy shock in his heart!

This was a very clear message: since you have entered here, you are destined to accept the inheritance within, and then there is only one path: to become the master of heaven and earth!

If you cannot succeed, then you become dust!

Obliteration!

Simply put: if you do not succeed, you die!

Such a condition was harsh to the extreme.

Either live or die!

There was not the slightest room for compromise.

Ethan Brooks stood quietly for a while, softly murmuring to himself, “A man in this world should naturally strive to master everything! Even if I do not succeed, at least I have fought with all my might, and will die without regret! So what if I become dust? So what if I become grass or trees? A human life is but a fleeting autumn for the grass and trees!”

“But if I succeed, I will be the master!”

With his hands behind his back, he walked in at a leisurely pace.

He did not even bother to glance at the warning words flashing with light all around him.

To succeed is to overlook the world; to fail is to become ashes among the grass!

He only felt his blood surging, filled with an indescribable impulse!

Just as expected!

Qingyun Heavenly Domain, the three great sects!

Just you wait! I, Lord Ethan... will be back soon!

This place, with such a warning, was truly a perfect match for Ethan Brooks's character!—If you do not succeed, you will be ground to dust!

And in his previous life, that was exactly what he had done!

Only now, perhaps Lord Ethan was even more confident than before!

“Sure enough, it’s here!” At the top of the vast hall, there was a strange area, where a piece of heavenly crystal spirit marrow was placed squarely in the center, slowly emitting thick white mist, which merged into the purple energy within the hall, while the purple energy in the hall was also slowly entering the heavenly crystal spirit marrow...

“I guessed right, they converge and stimulate each other, forming some kind of regular cycle.” Ethan Brooks thought to himself. Although he still did not understand exactly what was happening, he could see that the inside of this pearl probably needed this piece of heavenly crystal spirit marrow as its activating power...

Ethan Brooks tried to take out the heavenly crystal spirit marrow, but found that he could not touch it at all.

“What the hell is this? After all the trouble I went through to get this thing, in the end I can’t even touch it?” Ethan Brooks was quite indignant.

After confirming the presence of the spirit pearl and the heavenly crystal spirit marrow, Ethan Brooks looked around again, only to find that although he had entered this enormous palace, he could only move within a very small area, as the other buildings behind were still shrouded in extremely dense white mist, where one could not see their own hand in front of their face—or rather, the clouds were so deep that their depths were unknown.

Unexpectedly, a sudden “dong” sounded in the air, like a morning bell or evening drum, echoing far and wide...

Ethan Brooks was stunned by the bell, and in his mind there arose a sensation like “enlightenment pouring down,” clearly feeling that this single sound seemed to let him see his own reincarnation through hundreds and thousands of lifetimes!

The long years of hundreds and thousands of lifetimes, in this moment, turned into a streak of flowing light, flashing rapidly before Ethan Brooks’s eyes!

It seemed real, yet dreamlike; it seemed tangible, yet elusive...

As the lingering sound faded, suddenly the purple energy in the hall surged, and a grand stream of purple energy shot up from the center of the hall, transforming into ten large characters!

“At the beginning of heaven and earth, only purple energy comes from the east!”

A dense, radiant purple energy suddenly appeared, bursting forth with lightning speed, and shot between Ethan Brooks’s brows!

In an instant, Ethan Brooks felt his head heavy and feet light, but in his heart, a cultivation method suddenly appeared.

“All things receive creation, Purple Qi from the East Technique!”

“At the beginning of heaven and earth, purple qi comes from the east, which is the mother of all things, nourishing the firmament... This method of gathering purple qi, with a righteous heart and spirit, my heart is heaven, yin and yang revolve, the three lights unite, the spirit platform is pure as ice, and purple qi comes from the east.”

...

“Purple Qi from the East Divine Art!”

Ethan Brooks carefully pondered over this cultivation method, and after a moment of contemplation, a sense of enlightenment as if he had obtained a priceless treasure lingered in his heart!

Before his rebirth, Lord Ethan had made a great name for himself, and his cultivation foundation was extraordinary; the techniques he practiced were naturally remarkable, and his insight was far beyond ordinary people. But in Ethan Brooks’s view, regardless of whether this “Purple Qi from the East Divine Art” was truly the first technique since the dawn of time, at the very least, compared to the Pure Yang Formula he had cultivated before his rebirth, the two were worlds apart, as different as heaven and earth. To say one was in the sky and the other on the ground would be praising the Pure Yang Formula too much, for they were not even on the same level!

And now, just from reading the introduction, he already felt the boundlessness of the Great Dao, vast and limitless.