Chen Nan muttered to himself, "I don't know, I really don't know! Ever since my resurrection, I've been desperately searching, carefully verifying everything. I want to know what happened ten thousand years ago, I want to know why I was able to be resurrected from the ancient tomb of the gods... But now, I'm a little scared. I tracked down to the Deathly Abyss with immense excitement, hoping to obtain some kind of clue, but now... I feel incredibly terrified. I don't want to investigate any further. What good does it do to know those secrets, or not to know them? I still have to live. Rather than that, I might as well live a simple, ordinary life, enjoying every moment of my existence. I never want to explore those troubling, terrifying secrets again..."
A cold red light shot from the nameless demon's single eye. He slapped Chen Nan hard across the face and said coldly, "Wake up! Stop dreaming! Do you think you can escape? If someone is really using you, do you think you can escape their control? Backing down will only help their conspiracy proceed smoothly. Not resisting, not struggling, is worse than being a coward!"
A single slap from the nameless demon sent Chen Nan sprawling to the ground. Blood trickled from his mouth as he struggled to his feet. At that moment, as if emerging from a nightmare, he was completely awake, and chuckled bitterly, "God slapped me, heh heh..."
The nameless demon said, "I always feel that someone has tampered with me, erasing certain marks from my life. I always feel like I'm just a pawn in someone else's game, and I'm truly unwilling to accept this! I don't want my fate to be controlled! I don't want to be led around by others! Although our experiences are different, I see some traces of myself in you, and I don't want you to follow my path. Whether you've been set up in a trap is still uncertain, but regardless, you should fight back, you should seize your own destiny, seek out the secrets unknown from ten thousand years ago, and forge your own path."
Chen Nan had completely calmed down by now. He nodded and said, "I know what to do. I will try my best."
The nameless god-demon said, "Don't be afraid of anything, don't worry about anything. According to what you've told me, a great upheaval must have occurred in the world ten thousand years ago. The more powerful the being, the greater the impact. Countless powerful beings likely perished. The one who attacked you, whether with good or bad intentions, must have also been greatly affected. While they may not have died, they were certainly severely injured. Even a god-demon as powerful as you, if greatly harmed, would surely conceal their whereabouts and fall into a deep slumber in the most hidden place. Presumably, they have lost contact with you over the past ten thousand years; they cannot care for you. You now have plenty of time and energy to slowly seek the truth, to understand the unknown secrets, and to break free from the arrangements of fate!"
Chen Nan seemed to have emerged from the fog, his confusion gone. He nodded and said, "Thank you for the encouragement. I understand what to do."
The nameless god-demon looked at him and said, "Now I will examine your body and see what those two orbs of light inside you are like."
At the nameless demon's request, Chen Nan relaxed his body, and a wave of drowsiness washed over him. Slowly, he lost consciousness. His body lay flat on the ground, then slowly floated up and hovered in front of the nameless demon.
A beam of red light shot out from the nameless demon god's single eye, piercing straight through Chen Nan's body and capturing the trajectory of the two orbs of light he had previously seen.
At this moment, two orbs of light were quietly lurking in Chen Nan's dantian. They seemed to move with the fluctuations of Chen Nan's emotions. Whenever he was excited, the two orbs of light would dart around in his body, and whenever his mind was calm, they would remain motionless in his dantian.
The nameless demon nodded. He realized that these two orbs of light were indeed extraordinary; without his Heavenly Eye, they would be impossible to detect. He suddenly shook his body, and a terrifying aura of immense power surged forth from within him, filling the world with endless red light. He gently waved his hands, and the blinding red light transformed into a soft red glow that flowed into Chen Nan's body, reaching his dantian. The two orbs, one golden and one black, were completely enveloped in the faint red light.
At first, nothing happened; the two orbs of light were completely still and did not react. But as the red light increased, the two orbs gradually became restless and began to rotate within Chen Nan's dantian, seemingly trying to dispel the red light.
The nameless god-demon sensed resistance and accelerated the injection of red light. The red light and the two light spheres began to entangle. Chen Nan's dantian became clear, with red, gold, and black light reflecting off each other.
Suddenly, at that moment, a soft white light emanated from Chen Nan's chest, and a holy aura permeated the illusory realm. The jade ruyi on Chen Nan's chest trembled gently, and the holy radiance, like water, slowly flowed from his chest into his body, converging towards his dantian.
The nameless god and demon were shocked. Although he had already sensed that Chen Nan was wearing a celestial treasure on his chest, he did not expect it to be so miraculous, actually surging with holy celestial energy and operating as if it had a life of its own.
The gentle, holy light quickly surged into Chen Nan's dantian, joining the tug-of-war between the red, gold, and black lights, causing the four colors to swirl together.
The nameless demon had no choice but to intensify his efforts, rapidly injecting red light to contend with the other three colors. He had originally intended to imprison the gold and black orbs of light and investigate their strangeness. However, he now realized he had been too careless; the two small orbs contained boundless divine and demonic power, and he couldn't suppress them, let alone completely imprison them.
As more and more holy light surged into the jade ruyi, the nameless god-demon felt increasingly strained. After the four colors of light became entangled, he had no choice but to abandon his original intention and begin to passively resist.
Time slowly passed, and the red light emanating from the nameless god and demon was locked in a bitter struggle with the three-colored light within Chen Nan's body. The four colors of light gradually reached a state of equilibrium, with neither able to overcome the other, nor able to break free first.
However, they all had one thing in common: the four colors of light were carefully confining their power within the small vacuum of Chen Nan's dantian. They dared not roam freely for fear of tearing Chen Nan's body apart.
This delicate state continued, with Chen Nan remaining in a deep sleep. The nameless god-demon grew anxious, feeling a pang of regret for his rash actions.
If we want to break this delicate balance, we desperately need a fifth power, even if that power is extremely weak! But where can we find a fifth power in this illusory realm? Unless Chen Nan wakes up and uses the relatively weak power within him to break this balance.
The nameless demon was completely immobilized, all its power channeled into Chen Nan's body, resisting and entangled with the other three-colored lights. He secretly regretted letting Chen Nan fall into a deep sleep; if they waited for him to wake up on his own, who knew how long it would take!
Time passed, and a day and a night had gone by, yet Chen Nan showed no signs of waking up. The nameless demon god felt utterly exhausted. Over the course of that day and night, he gradually noticed something. The golden and black orbs of light had been passively defending themselves, without emitting any consciousness; they seemed to be two unthinking living beings.
The soft white light that invaded Chen Nan's chest through the jade ruyi seemed extremely aggressive, always trying to take the two orbs of light for itself, as if it wanted to devour them. Moreover, a consciousness was faintly flowing out from within that holy radiance.
The nameless god and demon tried to capture that stream of consciousness, but found it extremely difficult. His power was all poured into Chen Nan's dantian, making it difficult to use any supernatural abilities.
Two days and two nights passed in the blink of an eye. The nameless god and demon felt physically and mentally exhausted. He never imagined that a mortal body could leave him helpless and completely unable to move.
He suspected that if this situation continued, he might run out of energy, which really annoyed him. It was extremely humiliating for a god or demon to be like this.
Through his clashes with the tricolor light, the nameless demon felt increasingly terrified. The two orbs of light were clearly still growing, yet even in this state, they were already proving difficult to handle. Who knew how far they would develop in the future? What puzzled him, however, was that these two orbs of light seemed to truly lack thought and consciousness; not a single trace of awareness emanated from them.
What terrified the nameless god and demon the most was the holy white light that the jade ruyi pierced into Chen Nan's dantian. It was truly as vast as the sea and unfathomable. Moreover, it seemed to be consciously spreading out, as if it was constantly eyeing the gold and black light spheres, and seemed to want to seize the power of the two light spheres for itself.
The nameless god and demon felt a real headache coming on. Chen Nan's secrets were truly extraordinary, both inside and outside his body, there were strange things that were hard for ordinary people to imagine.
On the fourth day, just as the nameless god and demon felt powerless to continue, Chen Nan finally opened his eyes and slowly regained his senses.
The nameless god and demon were truly excited. He wanted to open his mouth and tell Chen Nan what to do, but found that he no longer had the power. He wanted to tell him through his stream of consciousness, but found that he was powerless to do so. He could only look at him anxiously.
However, since Chen Nan woke up, the dormant true energy within his body has become active and has begun to flow slowly within his body, which greatly delighted the nameless god and demon.
The self-circulating true energy grew stronger and stronger. When this true energy flowed into his dantian, Chen Nan felt a jolt in his body, and his dantian seemed to churn violently.
The delicate balance was broken. The nameless demon spat out a mouthful of blood, and in the instant that true energy surged into his dantian, he quickly withdrew all the "red power." With one of the four colors gone, the holy white light was powerless. It could no longer use the nameless demon's power to suppress the two orbs of light, and in the end, it also helplessly withdrew from Chen Nan's body.
Chen Nan's dantian finally returned to calm. The two-colored light spheres remained still, lying dormant within his dantian, their true energy flowing slowly and endlessly. Chen Nan spun around, changing from a static, suspended state in the air to standing on the ground.
The nameless god-demon let out a long sigh and said, "You really are hiding a lot of strange things. I couldn't find out the secret of those two orbs of light. I only know that they have no mental fluctuations and seem to be living beings that cannot think. This is somewhat unimaginable. I didn't expect their power to be so strong. They are indeed the accumulation and sedimentation of the power of gods and demons. If they really grow up, they will be a great disaster for you."
Chen Nan frowned and said, "A living being without mental fluctuations and unable to think... this..."
The nameless god-demon said, "The absence of mental fluctuations now does not mean you will not be able to generate thoughts in the future. You should prepare in advance."
Chen Nan nodded.
The nameless demon pointed to the jade ruyi already exposed on his chest and said, "I sensed this celestial treasure long ago, but I didn't expect it to be far more powerful than I imagined. It even has consciousness, emitting streams of awareness. Unfortunately, I couldn't clearly capture those thoughts back then, and now when I try to communicate with it, it doesn't react at all. Hmm, its existence provided you with the opportunity to destroy the two orbs of light within you. I sensed that it had been trying to devour those two orbs, wanting to possess their power. This is truly terrifying, actually wanting to devour so much divine and demonic power! This jade ruyi must have a significant background in the celestial realm, but unfortunately, I've forgotten the past and have absolutely no recollection of it. How exactly did you obtain it?"
Chen Nan held nothing back from the nameless gods and demons, recounting in detail the ancient god turmoil in the City of Sin.
The nameless god-demon nodded and said, "The fact that two ancient gods fought so fiercely for it speaks volumes about the preciousness and importance of this divine treasure. However, I cannot sense its special qualities or know how to use it. Of course, its extraordinary nature is beyond doubt, and you should make the most of it. However, I always feel that this divine treasure is too mysterious. Although it exudes a holy aura, it still makes me feel somewhat terrified. When you are using it to subdue the wolves and tigers, you must be very careful not to summon both 'wolves' and 'tigers' at the same time, because I suspect that the Jade Ruyi is a forbidden object from ancient times."
The nameless god and demon talked a lot with Chen Nan, and Chen Nan was very grateful.
Suddenly, the entire Illusory Realm trembled violently, as if the world was about to collapse, and everything spun around.
The nameless god-demon cried out, "Oh no! The 'Heaven-Trapping Formation' is about to activate, and the Deathly Abyss is about to be sealed off!"
He slashed horizontally with his right hand, and a huge crack appeared in the Illusionary Realm in an instant. He carried Chen Nan and flew out quickly, appearing above the Death Abyss.
With a wave of his hand, the nameless demon surrounded Chen Nan with surging demonic energy, enveloping him and sending him flying out of Death Valley.
The nameless demon's voice echoed from behind him: "It's hard to say whether someone has used you to set up a grand scheme, but there's no scheme in this world that can't be broken. As long as you never yield and dare to defy the heavens, anything is possible. Also, be very careful of the jade ruyi you carry; it might be even more terrifying than the two orbs of light within you!"
Enveloped in demonic energy, Chen Nan flew out of the Death Abyss and landed smoothly at the valley entrance. Looking back, a shimmering light filled the valley, making the countless withered bones within appear particularly eerie and terrifying. He tried pushing against the protective light barrier, feeling some resistance, but he could still enter the abyss. However, he figured it wouldn't be long before the Death Abyss was completely sealed off and disappeared again.