Swallowed Star: Drawing Talents

Solar System, Earth.

Space trembled, rippling slightly.

A river's projection enveloped the infinite starry sky, appearing faint and indistinct.

Clang! Boom! Huff! Ha!

A towering figure, tens of thousands of kilometers tall, wielding a massive stone club, mottled and scarred, strode barefoot through the river.

His entire body shimmered with a silver-white hue, his head adorned with countless antennae, easily numbering in the thousands. Yet, his eyes, resembling vast lakes, held a serene tranquility, radiating a sense of peace.

He wore seemingly ordinary garments, yet within them, countless artifacts emitted sounds that resonated deep within the soul, each thread akin to a raging river.

At this moment, numerous probes within the Solar System were operating normally, yet utterly failed to detect this sudden, powerful presence.

‘This—is Yang Wu’s birthplace?’

Lord of Chaos City gazed at the azure planet.

In truth, after confirming that Yang Wu possessed a human soul and was not a spy of another race, Lord of Chaos City would not usually interfere with the opportunities of a junior genius.

At his level, Lord of Chaos City only concerned himself with matters that impacted the entire human race.

However, the primordial core within Yang Wu intrigued him—a pure human, showing no signs of possession, yet possessing a 'primordial core' akin to that of a Star Giant Beast.

Furthermore, through the core, he saw a nascent avatar gradually gestating within.

Even after living for countless years, Lord of Chaos City had never encountered such a unique human.

Driven by a sliver of curiosity, he used the virtual universe to investigate all of Yang Wu's information and came to this primitive planet.

Lord of Chaos City gazed at Earth, his mastery over space-time allowing him to easily examine everything.

“Rise!”

He slowly extended a massive palm, and a strange, invisible wave enveloped the entire Solar System.

Immediately afterward.

Within this space-time, time began to rapidly reverse. Everything was quickly rewinding.

Scenes shifted rapidly, like a movie playing in reverse at high speed.

The orbits of planets began to reverse, and people on Earth, who had been walking forward, were now moving backward.

Even their speech became reversed.

Soon, Yang Wu's figure appeared in the picture, his past rapidly flowing backward before Lord of Chaos City.

Scene after scene reversed, yet Lord of Chaos City detected nothing amiss. Time continued to rewind, everything like an illusion, until the scene reached Yang Wu's breakthrough to the Star level.

Boom!

The entire scene froze instantly.

Planetary motion, particle movement, everything was frozen in that moment.

“Buzz!”

A faint, indistinct light filled Earth, with a massive vortex rotating above, a faint beam of light enveloping Yang Wu in the secret chamber as he broke through.

Instantly!

The surrounding space-time, which had been rewinding to this moment, rapidly began to return, everything returning to reality.

“Hmm?”

A trace of confusion flickered in Lord of Chaos City's eyes, followed by shock.

“Space-time reversal, interrupted?”

“This… that scene just now—the original universe's Source Will descended!”

Lord of Chaos City was utterly shocked.

A Universe Lord controls space-time, an ability granted by the Source Will. If the Source Will wants to punish a Universe Lord, it can completely strip away their control over space-time.

Lord of Chaos City's shock was not that the space-time reversal was interrupted, but rather…

My divine body, consumed 0.3%...

He was merely performing a normal space-time review, not reversing time to resurrect a life. A simple inspection shouldn't consume much divine power.

Especially for him, possessing a top-tier domain-type supreme treasure like the Qianbao River and a peak divine body tens of thousands of kilometers tall.

The consumption of a normal space-time review was completely negligible.

But now, a 0.3% consumption of his divine body was astonishing, requiring considerable time or precious treasures to recover.

What exactly attracted the descent of the Source Will, forcibly interrupting his reversal of space-time? Lord of Chaos City was secretly alarmed, focusing his gaze back on Earth.

“Rise!”

Space-time continued to rewind once more.

However, this time, he deliberately bypassed the moment Yang Wu broke through to the Star level.

Until the scene reached Yang Wu's breakthrough to the Planet level.

Boom!

Divine body -0.3%!

The original universe's Source Will descended again, forcibly interrupting Lord of Chaos City's space-time backtracking.

“Is he a special life form favored by the Source Will?” Lord of Chaos City mused. Come again!

Space-time rewound again, and this time, it finally proceeded normally.

After skipping the Star and Planet level stages, the space-time reversal finally proceeded normally!

No. 9 National Relic Trial, Elite Training Camp study, wilderness area hunting monsters, martial arts hall assessment—all the way to before Yang Wu was born.

Space-time no longer had any anomalies.

In the cosmic starry sky, Lord of Chaos City retracted his outstretched giant palm.

Boom!

The originally rewinding space-time rapidly began to return, as if a spring was constantly winding, and when it reached a certain point, it would automatically reverse and rewind.

Like a spring, when compressed by external force, it compresses. When the external force is removed, the spring rebounds.

This is the self-repair of the universe's original operating rules. The universe itself also has the ability to self-recover.

When a super existence reverses space-time, the universe itself will begin to return.

Every point in time reversed is everything that has already happened in the past and should no longer exist in the present.

A moment later.

The return of space-time finally stopped.

Everything returned to normal, and this starry sky finally returned to its original space-time node.

Lord of Chaos City, standing in the starry sky, looked at his divine body, which had lost 0.6%, and sighed deeply.

“Alas, ten thousand years of work for naught!”

Virtual universe, one of the plane spaces, endless darkness, with faint starlight in the distant.

A simple temple floats in the air, and in front of the temple is a long stone table with stone chairs on both sides.

Suddenly, a golden-robed figure appeared out of thin air, it was Lord of Chaos City. He sat directly in the position closest to the main seat, waiting quietly.

A moment.

Whoosh~

A savage giant appeared in the main seat, he had a head of messy, scattered hair, bare feet, and looked like a savage man who had walked out of the wilderness.

He looked at Lord of Chaos City and smiled: "Chaos, what do you want from me today?"

Giant Axe Founder, is the founder of Giant Axe Fighting Arena, and is also the only Universe Supreme Master of the human race today.

He is the true pillar of the human race.

It is because of his existence that the human race can be one of the peak races.

The human race has faced several crises in history, and they have been able to overcome them smoothly because of the existence of Giant Axe Founder.

“Giant Axe, listen to me in detail.” Lord of Chaos City said, he told the whole story in detail. “The Source Will descended?” Giant Axe Founder looked at him.

“Yes.”

Lord of Chaos City nodded: “In the process of backtracking time and space, I personally witnessed the original universe’s will descending twice, and also interrupted my backtracking twice.”

Very few people have truly seen the original universe’s will, and only the Ancestral God Sect is relatively special, and knows more.

But the two of them had the most contact with the Origin Ancestor. After the Origin Ancestor was suppressed, he could still contact the human race in the virtual universe, and they both contacted Weido, so they also heard about the Source Will from the Origin Ancestor.

“In this way, Yang Wu should be another special life form loved by the Source Will.” Giant Axe Founder showed a thoughtful expression.

“What an interesting little guy, but unfortunately I am still wandering in the Chaos Sea, and it will take 400 years to return, otherwise I would have come over to see it myself.”

“What are you going to do with him!”

Lord of Chaos City thought for a moment and replied: “His past practice goals are clear, I plan to let him go for a while and see!”

“Haha, then it’s up to you to arrange it!”

“I really hope he can bring us some surprises!”