The swelling pain in his brain persisted for almost two hours, but fortunately, as the memories slowly returned, the feeling of pain gradually subsided.

Once Lu Chen recovered his memories, he reminisced about the events that occurred before he entered the Burial Furnace and the schemes he planned upon entering.

In those years, the Deceit Realm invaded the Spirit Realm, intending to harvest its vitality, prompting him to join forces with the Great Powers of the Spirit Realm to resist the Ancestor of the Strange.

This crisis was the greatest ever since the birth of the Spirit Realm, as all the Ancestors of the Strange were mobilized, thrusting the Spirit Realm into despair.

However, just as the Ancestors of the Strange and the Spirit Realm’s Great Powers were locked in a deadly battle, the Netherworld Evil Emperor launched a surprise attack, using the Burial Furnace to absorb all the female Ancestors of the Strange and the Great Powers of the Spirit Realm into the furnace.

Initially, after being sucked into the Burial Furnace, the Spirit Realm’s Great Powers continued to resist the Ghostly Mist Emperor and the other Ancestors, but it soon became apparent that Chaos Qi was eroding their bodies.

Chaos Qi is most damaging to humans as it not only erodes the physical body but also the divine soul, wiping humans from existence entirely.

Chaos Qi similarly has a corrosive effect on the mysterious beings; although the mysterious lives are immortal, the Chaos Qi can erase their memories, turning them into walking corpses.

Upon realizing the danger posed by Chaos Qi, both the Ghostly Mist Emperor’s camp and human Great Powers decided to cease fighting and work together to find a way to break out of the Burial Furnace.

It’s uncertain how many years passed; humans grew scarcer, mysterious lives increasingly turned into walking corpses, yet they never found a way to break out of the Burial Furnace.

Under such circumstances, one day, Lu Chen proactively approached the Ghostly Mist Emperor and the Ancestors of the Strange, proposing a temporary alliance. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Initially, the Ancestors of the Strange disagreed; in their view, Lu Chen was merely a mortal, food to them, and despite his abilities, even the Ancestors couldn’t break the furnace, so how could he?

Seeing the Ancestors of the Strange’s disapproval, Lu Chen was not anxious; later, due to the prolonged stay of the Spirit Realm’s Great Powers in the furnace causing many to lose their sanity, they suddenly considered Lu Chen’s unique identity. Besides, those Great Powers noticed that Lu Chen was the least affected by the Chaos Qi compared to everyone else, leading them to believe Lu Chen possessed a method to resist its erosion.

The Great Powers united to compel Lu Chen to surrender his resistance technique against Chaos Qi, but eventually, all those Great Powers were defeated by Lu Chen.

Lu Chen ultimately utilized the power from those Great Powers to create the Tianyan Immortal Domain and suppressed the still-living Great Powers beneath it, continually extracting their power through formations to transform it into so-called Spiritual Energy and Immortal Aura.

Soon, the Ancestors of the Strange noticed that the Tianyan Immortal Domain created by Lu Chen could resist the eroding effect of Chaos Qi. Although the domain too was constantly under erosion, if they could shelter within it, the mysterious life forms would temporarily avoid contact with Chaos Qi.

Ultimately, the Ancestors of the Strange decided to collaborate temporarily with Lu Chen.

However, the Ancestors’ powers were too strong; their entrance into the Tianyan Immortal Domain would inevitably cause its premature collapse. Subsequently, the Ghostly Mist Emperor suggested a method to seal their mysterious powers, allowing them to live within the domain.

The Ghostly Mist Emperor dared to let Lu Chen seal their powers because mysterious lives are immortal, thus they harbored no fear of Lu Chen’s plots, unlike him; Lu Chen, to ensure his safety, proposed signing a pact with the Ancestors of the Strange.

When Lu Chen suggested signing the pact, the Ancestors were quick to agree, after which Lu Chen signed pacts with each Ancestor and used the power of their vows to create the Red Flower Sedan as the token of the pact.

Once the pact was signed, Lu Chen proactively helped seal the mysterious powers and memories within the Ancestors.

Of course, without the cooperation of an Ancestor, Lu Chen couldn’t seal their power.

After sealing the Ghostly Mist Emperor and others, Lu Chen was almost drained of his power, so he merged his divine soul into the Tianyan Immortal Domain and sealed his memories, reincarnating within the domain.

Before reincarnating, Lu Chen split off a wisp of his divine soul, which primarily functioned to guide him to grow stronger and lead him to forge bonds of cause and effect with the Ancestors of the Strange.

Ancestors of the Strange are immortal, and throughout countless eras, the Spirit Realm failed in its struggles against the Deceit Realm, ultimately becoming their pasture.

During his time in the Spirit Realm, Lu Chen contemplated ways to oppose the Ancestors of the Strange. His thought was that since they couldn’t be killed completely, he should forge bonds of cause and effect with them, using the Power of Cause and Effect to constrain them, preventing them from acting against the Spirit Realm.

If the Ancestors of the Strange couldn’t attack the Spirit Realm, the deceitful kings of the Deceit Realm wouldn’t pose a threat.

During the signing of the pact with the Ghostly Mist Emperor and others, Lu Chen realized that the vow power on the Red Flower Sedan could suppress the mysterious powers within them, inspiring him further.

This was the best opportunity for him to forge bonds of cause and effect with the Ancestors of the Strange. In the grand world, aside from its rule power, the Power of Cause and Effect is most terrifying; crucially, it can break rule power to a certain extent.

From the outcome, Lu Chen succeeded; though he lost all his power now, he could clearly feel the cause and effect power lingering on him.

Except for the Netherworld Evil Emperor, the male Ancestor of the Strange, other female Ancestors seeking to attack him would inevitably face interference from the Power of Cause and Effect.

However...

Although he knew it was the wisp of his divine soul guiding him to forge bonds of cause and effect with the female Ancestors, Lu Chen still harbored some perplexities.

The first is concerning the Red Flower Sedan, which seems to have mutated; the original sedan only exerted its suppression on the Ancestors when they attacked him.

Moreover, the Red Flower Sedan is a neutral token, incapable of being refined by any party, yet ultimately, Lu Chen himself refined it and could use it to collect Yun Yudie and others.

The most significant anomaly is that the women entering the Red Flower Sedan would become enamored with him—a capability the sedan shouldn’t possess.

Cultivators at the Emperor Realm don’t believe in coincidences; any coincidence could very well be someone’s scheme.

Beyond the Red Flower Sedan, there were two more anomalies; one is his divine soul not guiding his strength as planned.

The portion of his soul transformed into a system did lead him to forge cause and effect bonds with most Ancestors, yet the system’s rewards presented major issues.