# 1485
Chapter 1486: Darkness Origin
Sensing the abnormal movement of the mother flag, everyone in the Ancestral God Temple immediately turned back and walked toward the platform, quickly gathering together.
"What did you all discover on your end?" As Lingbao Tianzun had calculated, there was no danger inside the Ancestral God Temple. Everyone who had entered the stone formations had emerged unharmed, without a single scratch.
"...Nothing." Taibi Zhenren spoke bitterly. "We were trapped inside the formation the entire time and couldn't find a way out."
"We didn't either," Zhou Ping，紧接着开口。
"Besides stones, it seems nothing was left behind."
"Same here..."
"..."
As everyone spoke helplessly, Lu Wuwei blinked and exchanged glances with the people beside him.
"...Is that so?" Lu Wuwei opened the delivery box on the back of his electric scooter, and a rich aura of laws instantly rippled outward!
"Origin?!" The Gods of Great Xia stared in shock. "Earth Origin?!! How did you find it?!"
Everyone had walked through the giant stone formation until now, finding nothing but stones and some empty Ancestral God residences. If it weren't for Lin Qiye's Darkness Origin that allowed him to see the Ancestor Dark, not even Lingbao Tianzun could have found anything. Yet Lu Wuwei had casually pulled an Origin from the back of an electric scooter?!
Was this something you could just pick up casually?!
"How did you get this?" Even Lingbao Tianzun was startled when he saw it.
"I don't really know either... I was originally following a few gods wandering around the Ancestral Stone Formation, then the car suddenly got a flat tire. The moment I got off, they vanished in a blink...
I just pushed the car inside and kept walking. I came to a bare stone house, and this thing was inside. I grabbed the box and put it in." Lu Wuwei shrugged. "What, isn't there one of these in every formation?"
The Gods of Great Xia: ...
"Perhaps, countless ages ago, each of these giant stone formations did indeed contain an Origin... After all, Origins are the soil that gestates laws, and the Ancestral God Temple is where natural laws are born." Lingbao Tianzun explained slowly,
"However, after the Ancestral Gods declined, most of these Origins were lost. Some scattered into unknown hidden corners, while others were taken by other divine kingdoms. Finding this piece of lost Earth Origin here speaks to extraordinary luck."
Lu Wuwei scratched his head.
"I'm calling you back for something else..."
Lingbao Tianzun pointed at the Earth Origin and repeated what the Ancestor Dark had said. The Gods of Great Xia and the many Human Apexes sat down on the spot and began meditating around the sphere of light.
...
In the dim haze of consciousness, Lin Qiye seemed to have returned to the grasslands deep within the Dark Ancestor Stone Formation.
He leaned against the bare tree trunk and slowly opened his eyes. His scattered pupils gradually focused, and his consciousness grew clear.
He gazed at the familiar grasslands, moon, and branches before him. For a moment, he was stunned, then quickly stood up: "Why am I back here again..."
"You haven't returned. This is merely the depths of your consciousness." A voice came from behind. Lin Qiye turned to look and saw that figure still perched on the tree trunk, quietly watching him.
"Junior Lin Qiye greets the Ancestor Dark."
Lin Qiye immediately bowed respectfully.
Though his body had been taken over by the Ancestor Dark, his consciousness had remained清醒的 he had heard every word exchanged between the other party and Lingbao Tianzun. Naturally, he knew that the person before him was a remnant soul of the Ancestor Dark.
The Ancestor Dark's eyelids twitched violently as Lin Qiye bowed to him. He silently shifted slightly and said:
"There's no need to be so polite... I just wanted to ask something."
"What is it?"
The Ancestor Dark hesitated for a moment, then pointed at Lin Qiye's body. "When can you return my Origin to me?"
"..." Lin Qiye was stunned for a long moment. Instinctively, he stepped back half a pace and said seriously, "Ancestor Dark senior, this Origin was given to me by my mother. Even if it originally belonged to you, I... still cannot return it to you."
Lin Qiye had thought the Ancestor Dark had brought him here to secretly bestow some benefits on him. Who could have imagined that this dignified Ancestral God would actually ask him for something back... Though Lin Qiye possessed many abilities, this Darkness Origin was the most important to him, the ability he used most skillfully.
"Mother?" The Ancestor Dark's voice sounded strange.
He cleared his throat and continued, "It's just a Darkness Origin after all. To you, it's at most a toy. What use would keeping it have for you, right?"
"Senior Ancestor Dark jokes. This thing is extremely useful to me." Lin Qiye shook his head like a rattle drum. Just as he was about to say more, he suddenly froze,
"Senior Ancestor Dark... what are you calling me?"
The Ancestor Dark looked into Lin Qiye's eyes, opened his mouth, then ultimately sighed bitterly.
"Never mind... Since you want to play with it, I'll just lend it to you. Once you're done playing, I'll come retrieve it... However, it seems you've only utilized about a tenth of this Origin's power. Should I directly fully activate it for you?"
Listening to the Ancestor Dark address him repeatedly as "you," Lin Qiye's brow was full of confusion. But when he heard the last sentence, he instinctively nodded.
"Sure."
The words fell, and the shadow of the Ancestor Dark on the tree trunk raised a finger and pointed at Lin Qiye through the air.
Bang—!!
Lin Qiye heard a soft sound emit from within his body. The dormant Darkness Origin trembled violently, and a pure darkness instantly covered heaven and earth!
This Darkness Origin had been given to him by Nyx before she was discharged from the asylum. According to her, as long as he kept honing it, he could gestate his own Darkness Origin from it. Subsequently, Lin Qiye had indeed continuously cultivated abilities like 【Night Flash】 and 【Night Sky Descends】 from this Origin.
But if one looked at Nyx's full ability wheel at the time, the abilities he had gained so far were less than a third of hers. Yet as this darkness spread, Lin Qiye clearly felt some kind of constraint within his Origin break directly. A flood of abilities surged into his mind!
Not only was there darkness from night, beyond that, Lin Qiye perceived even more existences... The shadows under lamplight, the blackness at the bottom of the abyss, the darkness before death.
The name "Darkness Origin" was what the Night Goddess Nyx had given this Origin. The Origin itself had come from the Ancestor Dark.
It was born from all living beings' fear of darkness in the earliest of ages, while night was merely one part of it.
With the Ancestor Dark personally intervening, this Darkness Origin rapidly awakened within Lin Qiye. If Lin Qiye's previous mastery of darkness was akin to gradually nurturing a green seedling, then now, with the Ancestor Dark's watering, that seedling was growing into a towering tree at an astonishing speed!