"Indeed, Master, your divine sense is not only powerful but also incredibly fine." Fairy Canglan offered a compliment. In truth, her greatest strength also lay in divine sense, as the Immortal Clan predominantly relied on it to wield various marvelous arcane arts. Compared to close combat, Fairy Canglan was certainly no match for the Queen of Agony. However, in the path of divine sense, she held a slight edge over the mid-stage Integration Realm Queen of Agony, being far superior in refinement and purity.

"Hmph, cunning Immortal Clan women," the Queen of Agony followed the trail of Lei Dong's divine sense and indeed discovered something unusual. Yet, she was deeply displeased with Fairy Canglan's method of flattering the Master by belittling herself: "Anything goes when trying to curry favor with the Master."

Lei Dong shot them a glare, halting their impulse to bicker. He then turned to Fairy Canglan, saying, "Your mastery of formations is the highest among us; I'll have to trouble you."

"Master, before you arrived, this servant had already prepared," Fairy Canglan pulled out various formation tools from her personal dimension and began setting them up. In moments, the formation was complete. Under the lightning and thunder effects of the array, that marvelous temporal law gradually dissipated, revealing the strange spatial rift. The formation's power then shifted, steadily bombarding the spatial rift.

In no time, a pitch-black spatial tunnel was exposed. Just as Fairy Canglan was about to fly in, the Queen of Agony, Infidi, eager to vie for favor, flapped her wings and darted into the rift first: "Master, this servant will scout the way ahead."

Her delicate figure flashed away, plunging into the fissure, but within mere breaths, she was violently thrown back out at an even greater speed, a trickle of blood escaping the corner of her mouth. Seeing this, Lei Dong swiftly flew up and caught her.

"Thank you, Master," the Queen of Agony cried out sweetly, then her expression changed: "Master, be careful, it's a late-stage Integration Realm Golden Puppet."

No sooner had she spoken than a massive, golden puppet emerged from the void rift. The war puppet exuded an aura that was ice-cold and violent. Its giant hand pried open the spatial rift, and its gaze swept coldly over Lei Dong and the other two. It muttered a sentence Lei Dong couldn't comprehend.

"Master, it says all intruders must die," Fairy Canglan's expression shifted slightly: "This is a sentient war puppet; everyone be cautious."

A late-stage Integration Realm puppet was indeed formidable. However, Lei Dong felt no fear now, as he commanded three Integration Realm powerhouses. If they truly couldn't handle it, they would have to send some cannon fodder to soften the blow first.

Fortunately, none of the three were ordinary cultivators. The Queen of Agony, being mid-stage Integration Realm, went without saying. And Fairy Canglan, despite having destroyed two Chaos Spirit Treasures, possessed numerous spells and methods as a member of the Immortal Clan. Her Utmost Yin Profound Ice Technique, when unleashed, possessed substantial power, greatly restricting the war puppet's movements. Although the high-level, sentient war puppet was incredibly powerful, after a fierce battle, it was struck repeatedly on its control core by Lei Dong's Immortal Slaying Finger, annihilating its soul along with it.

In this fight, Lei Dong and the two women all sustained some injuries. Out of caution, all three spent two to three days recuperating before formally entering that space. Their luck held; within that space, there was only one remaining high-level Golden War Puppet.

And that place was indeed the central control hub Fairy Canglan had deduced. Fairy Canglan excelled in formations, and her knowledge of formations naturally originated from the Crystal Ancient Clan. Thus, she not only mastered the Crystal Ancient language but also possessed deep insight into some of their control methods.

After her manipulations, she finally deciphered the routines of this temple. Through the formation within the control hub, she discovered the last spatial secret chamber that hadn't been mined; the other three had been completely depleted.

The final secret chamber remained undiscovered because it was hidden within the control hub itself and required manipulation via the central system to access. Upon opening it, the sight was blinding: densely packed Chaos Crystals—a sweep of the divine sense revealed at least hundreds of thousands of them.

And in the central seal lay an object resembling a constantly spinning cosmic vortex, deep as the starry sky itself.

"Chaos Origin!" Lei Dong and the other two exclaimed in unison. The Chaos Origin was the rarest and most seldom-seen substance in this cosmos. Compared to Chaos Crystals, the Chaos Origin was the true gift of the universe and the genesis of all life.

At this moment, Lei Dong was no longer as ignorant of the universe's profound mysteries as he once was. That fellow Zha Gu, though disappointing, was a Demon King who had lived for millions of years. His memory stored a wealth of knowledge, including the origins and formation principles of Chaos Spiritual Energy and Chaos Origin.

In the grand cycle of the universe, which measured its lifespan in tens of billions of years, all living beings would vanish during the grand Tribulation. Then, everything in the heavens and earth would gradually contract, finally condensing into a single point—infinitely small yet infinitely heavy.

That point could only persist for an instant before exploding, forming a new expanse of chaos. All life, compressed and condensed during the grand cycle of heaven and earth, would also form a single point. That point was the culmination, the essence of all life from the previous cycle before the current one began.

When the cosmos reverted to chaos, that point would also detonate, generating numerous Chaos Origins and vast amounts of Chaos Spiritual Energy, which would expand and collide aimlessly within the chaos. Eventually, catalyzed by the Chaos Spiritual Energy, the Chaos Origin, after various collisions, would gestate new life.

And those lives, due to their differing environments and the stimulation of Chaos Spiritual Energy, would continuously change—evolving, one might say—forming various races. Some races would be strong and would begin to conquer others, enslaving them and plundering their wealth and resources to make themselves stronger and mightier.

This would continue until the universe reached the limit of its lifespan and began a new grand cycle of heaven and earth. Within the cosmos, there would always be some beings uniquely blessed, growing increasingly powerful, strong enough to casually destroy worlds, their lifespans nearly infinite. Yet, while grasping the laws of the Heavenly Dao, they also perceived the universe's patterns and deduced the arrival of the cycle Tribulation.

Because of this, they were terrified, unwilling to perish or be reduced back into Chaos Spiritual Energy and Chaos Origin, having their existence erased by the cosmic cycle. Therefore, they exhausted every means possible to grow stronger, attempting to achieve a power sufficient to survive the grand cosmic cycle.

However, the vast majority of these beings were utterly annihilated during their tribulation, transforming into immense waves of Chaos Spiritual Energy and Origin. Only a very select few, utilizing their immense power and subtle methods, barely managed to survive that catastrophe.

Their eternal fear of the grand cosmic cycle drove them, from the very beginning, to desperately plunder Chaos resources to restore and strengthen themselves. What concerned them most was the Chaos Origin, as if the Chaos Origin, saturated with life force, was the true treasure capable of overcoming the cosmic cycle tribulation.

For the High-level Demon Race or the Immortal Race, they fundamentally understood that they were merely weapons of war under the command of Immortal Venerables or Demon Venerables. Their purpose was to plunder resources for those beings held in high esteem. They would never have access to the Chaos Origin.

It was this realization that caused the Queen of Agony and Fairy Canglan to gasp and stand dumbfounded when this single Chaos Origin appeared. In that instant, the greed within them was nearly uncontrollable.

In fact, the method Professor Ming Ji employed was not essentially about turning people into obedient puppets. Rather, it was a secret art she researched over tens of millions of years, utilizing several 'masters' she controlled to plunder vast numbers of females, combined with her own profound achievements in soul manipulation via the Nether King Banner.

Theoretically, human affection, adoration, gratitude, love, and dependence could all be cultivated and constantly strengthened. Ming Ji, however, directly imprinted these emotions. Through the secret art, she instantly branded all these positive emotions directly onto the subject's soul imprint. The necessity of using sexual intercourse to achieve this stemmed from the fact that a female in a state of extreme arousal possesses the weakest willpower, making her unable to resist the implantation of the mental brand at that moment.

Consequently, although the Queen of Agony and Fairy Canglan held various positive emotions towards Lei Dong—even to the extent of being willing to sacrifice their lives for him at the most critical moments, like heroines in a romance drama—this was merely the ultimate manifestation of those affections being directly branded. It did not imply they lacked self-awareness, individuality, or even the full spectrum of human emotions.

Greed is an innate instinct for all living beings; one easily develops covetousness for what one intensely desires.

Fortunately, under the influence of the mental imprints, the two women held entirely positive emotions toward Lei Dong—worship, adoration, awe, respect, attachment, and so on. Despite their intense greed, they would remember Lei Dong at the most crucial juncture.

"Master, quickly consume this Chaos Origin," Fairy Canglan managed to say with difficulty. "If the Supreme Beings of the Three Realms find out, it will surely be confiscated."

"Yes, Master, absorb it quickly. But, could you perhaps leave a tiny piece for this servant to taste?" The Queen of Agony also said, her mouth watering pitifully.

"You two split it in half and absorb it immediately," Lei Dong stated nonchalantly.