Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard” Chapter 556: Another Taihao Chaos

Venerable Yuanhao pushed further into the depths of the Taihao Holy Hall before reaching a concealed spot.

This area stood out as utterly unique, boasting nothing more than a colossal altar.

Venerable Yuanhao reached this spot and stared intently at the altar's core.

A lone strand of hair floated there in suspension.

"Master, where exactly have you gone? Does your Chaos truly conceal some great opportunity? Or perhaps a great danger?"

Yuanhao knew well that the current Taihao Chaos wasn't the true one pioneered by the Taihao Dominator. It bore the name Taihao solely because he was the first to ascend to the Dominator realm here, lending his Dao title to the Chaos.

The Taihao Dominator had forged his personal Chaos!

The altar in front of him served as the Nothingness Teleportation Array crafted by the Taihao Dominator, allowing travel straight to the Taihao Dominator's life-bound Chaos.

No one knew of this location, not even the Guardian Spirit was aware.

Still, he couldn't say for sure if Martial Uncle Taixuan knew about it, though chances were he didn't.

Meanwhile, Su Yuan in the distant Seven Stars Dao Court showed a startled expression.

Forget Taixuan Dominator—even Su Yuan himself hadn't spotted this place in Venerable Yuanhao's memories!

Su Yuan felt immense shock at Yuanhao's latest moves.

To bring Venerable Yuanhao back to life, Su Yuan had relied on the incarnation feature of [Mental Echo]. Thus, Yuanhao now functioned basically as Su Yuan's incarnation.

Su Yuan had simply handed back control to Yuanhao.

As a result, every action Yuanhao took unfolded under Su Yuan's vigilant gaze.

Theoretically, Su Yuan should grasp everything about Venerable Yuanhao, yet this surprise from Yuanhao caught him off guard.

Venerable Yuanhao had no clue Su Yuan watched him in secret.

He drew in a heavy breath and mounted the altar.

Next, with a unique secret technique and his blood, he triggered the altar underfoot.

The floating hair strand ignited into flames.

A mighty, abyssal force of spacetime rupture seized Venerable Yuanhao's form.

Venerable Yuanhao disappeared from the altar in an instant.

Su Yuan concentrated his mind to monitor, anticipating the mental feedback from Venerable Yuanhao.

Time slipped by, an indeterminable span.

Or maybe time held no sway in the void.

A beam of light burst from the Taihao Chaos, piercing the nothingness, spanning vast expanses, and plunging into a different Chaos.

Yuanhao recovered his external senses and opened his eyes.

Before him stretched devastation: crumbled walls and ruins. Towering structures and edifices lay toppled in piles, resembling a total wasteland.

Yuanhao gaped in disbelief at the sight, his divine sense sweeping afar.

Farther out, more wrecked buildings littered the land, some scorched to char and gouged into craters.

A dim gray fog shrouded the sky, dimming all illumination.

Yuanhao furrowed his brow, eyeing the damaged altar below him, its three corners shattered.

He grasped the truth: return was impossible; this trip was one-way.

Right then, gray mist drifted toward him.

A horrific corrosive force swiftly ate away at his skin's outer layer.

Venerable Yuanhao swiftly invoked his body's armor shield, summoning a golden radiance barrier.

The gray mist relentlessly gnawed at the golden shield, draining his inner magical power at a terrifying pace.

"Is this inside Master's Chaos? How did it turn into such a desolate, ruined hellscape?"

Venerable Yuanhao's mind sank with dread. He'd sensed trouble for his master, but reality proved far graver than feared.

He started combing the wreckage for any treasure remnants.

And simultaneously.

The instant Venerable Yuanhao ventured into the ruins.

Su Yuan at last pinpointed Venerable Yuanhao's position via [Mental Echo].

Su Yuan's main body entered the nothingness and, in mere steps, reached the edge of this Chaos.

To Su Yuan's astonishment, this Chaos displayed a warped form—like a perfect round cake savaged by beast bites, now hideously deformed.

Thankfully, the Chaos Barrier had reformed, though the breaches lingered unrepaired.

What catastrophe had struck here? An entire Chaos lay in such shambles.

Su Yuan mulled it over briefly and chose not to force entry. Instead, he slipped inside using [World Traveler].

Upon entering this Chaos, Su Yuan strangely couldn't detect the Chaos Origin's position.

Something veiled the Chaos Origin, rendering it utterly undetectable.

Su Yuan now stood amid that vast ruin field.

He too wondered about potential valuables here.

With a mere thought, Su Yuan detached countless avatars from his body, scattering them every which way.

Avatar after avatar dove into the ruins to scour.

Treasures emerged one by one—damaged ones, pristine ones, faulty ones—from the debris, landing in Su Yuan's grasp.

Su Yuan fiddled with a fractured sword.

"It's actually a shard of a twenty-eighth-order Fused Dao Treasure!"

This revealed that a twenty-eighth-order Dao Venerable had once arisen in this Chaos.

He now comprehended the variances in ascending to Chaos Dominator across orders.

Upon hitting Chaos Dominator, the count of Dao Principles merging into the Fused Dao Principle sets the Dominator's primal Origin Dao Principle, the bedrock of their Great Dao.

Higher orders ease grasping Chaos True Intent while boosting unleashed battle prowess!

Hence, Dao Venerables must push their order as high as feasible.

Yet this demands staying within limits—the loftier the order, the tougher the fusion, slashing odds of Chaos Dominator breakthrough.

A twenty-eighth-order Dao Venerable counts as extraordinarily scarce.

Su Yuan delved deeper and quickly unearthed more fragments from twenty-something-order Fused Dao Treasures.

Shock swelled in Su Yuan's heart. Unearthing multiple twenty-something-order Dao Venerables so effortlessly? This life-bound Chaos of Taihao's had flourished beyond belief!

One avatar upturned a stone tome, revealing inscribed text.

[...The Unknown descended. The Taihao Progenitor looked up and roared wildly: Error? Eradication? Hahaha! After the laughter, the Progenitor flew away, his whereabouts unknown! Later, monsters descended, wantonly slaughtering the myriad beings! A terrifying catastrophe sweeping through the Chaos descended...]

Su Yuan scanned the page's inscription, brow creasing in deep confusion over the account.

"The Unknown descended? Why term it 'Unknown'?"