Accidentally Reincarnated in Cultivation World-Chapter 380: Limbo, Legendary Beings, Heaven and Earth Council

Chapter 380: Limbo, Legendary Beings, Heaven and Earth Council

Hundun had no face to turn toward Yu Xuan, yet Yu Xuan felt that he was being looked at.

Not with eyes obviously.

Someone was measuring existence itself.

’What is this absurdity?’ Hundun thought.

Layer after layer of impressions flowed into him – death and rebirth, distorted fate, broken restrictions, foreign imprints that should never have coexisted.

Only now did Hundun understand why this human had stirred so many slumbering ancients.

And more telling than anything else, the Nine-Headed Calamity Serpent Empress, Shemei, had been sitting on his head.

That alone was enough to make many interested.

"Return for now," Hundun said.

There was no movement, no mouth opening, no sound carried by air.

The words simply appeared, echoing directly within their consciousness.

Hundun was speaking to Shemei.

"Yeah, yeah. Fine, fine," Shemei replied lazily.

"But you really should punish that Asura again. It’s good for his character."

With that, she slipped free from Yu Xuan’s neck, her form dissolving like mist, vanishing without disturbing the air.

Only then did Hundun turn his attention fully to Yu Xuan.

"Follow me."

Those words carried weight.

Yu Xuan found himself moving alongside Hundun as they ascended the pagoda.

No stairs were climbed now, yet the height increased.

Space folded politely out of their way, as if the pagoda itself acknowledged Hundun’s authority.

Maybe that was a treasure?

They arrived at a chamber near the top.

It was... simple.

Sunlight filtered in naturally, though there were no visible windows.

The room was spacious but unadorned, filled with soft cushions scattered across the floor.

No throne. No grand symbol of power.

Hundun lowered himself onto one of the cushions.

Only then did Yu Xuan realize something.

"Uh..." Yu Xuan hesitated, then asked cautiously, "Where am I supposed to meet the Leader?"

Hundun regarded him for a long moment.

"I am the Leader."

The words were calm.

As Hundun studied Yu Xuan more closely, a subtle disturbance rippled through his thoughts.

The first scent he perceived – yes, scent, made his instincts recoil.

That presence...

’Why does this human carry a scent so similar to that bastard Pangu?’ Hundun thought.

Hundun felt something close to unease.

Pangu’s body had long since been destroyed, his true self stranded in Limbo, paying the price for ancient transgressions. And yet, the aura clinging to Yu Xuan was unmistakable his.

Not faint.

Not diluted.

It was strong.

Too strong and oppressively familiar.

As if the mark had been engraved by inheritance.

Because of Pangu’s actions back then, Hundun itself had been dragged into consequences it never asked for.

That resentment had never faded.

If it were possible, Hundun would gladly bully that bastard Pangu every single day just to vent the resentment left behind after the chaos caused by that incident.

And yet now.

This Human carried that scent.

And not only Pangu’s.

There were other traces too.

One thought surfaced naturally.

’Is he an experiment?’

The idea did not shock Hundun.

If anything, it felt... plausible.

A being layered with too many contradictions rarely came into existence by accident.

Still... Hundun dismissed the thought just as quickly.

’It doesn’t matter.’

As long as this fragment of itself could be freed from the Land of Mortality, the origins of this Human were irrelevant.

What truly mattered was something else.

’Can he kill that thing?’

This is the real question.

Because the existence sealed within this place was not powerful in the conventional sense.

In terms of raw strength, Hundun was certain that with a single slap, it could erase that being from existence.

And yet.

Circumstances had twisted everything.

If brute force were enough, the Land of Mortality would not exist.

If brute force were enough, countless Legendary Beings would not be trapped here, stripped of immortality, reduced to mortality by curse and rule alike.

If brute force were enough, the Heaven and Earth Council would never have been formed in the first place during that era.

Hundun let out a soundless sigh, its thoughts settling. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Then its voice appeared directly within Yu Xuan’s mind once more.

"First, we will assess your qualification to awaken a Supreme Will." Hundun said.

The air seemed to still.

Yu Xuan frowned slightly.

He had already heard this term once before, from the unusually friendly nine-headed serpent, back then it sounded more like casual chatter.

Now, hearing it spoken here, in this place, by this being, the weight behind the words felt entirely different.

"Can you specify what you mean by qualification?" Yu Xuan asked carefully.

Hundun did not answer.

Instead, something emerged from its formless body.

A crystal-like lamp, shaped vaguely like a champion’s cup, floated silently into the space between them.

It had two elegant handles, its surface translucent yet impossibly deep, as though entire constellations were trapped within.

Tiny points of light shimmered and shifted inside it.

The object hovered silently before Yu Xuan.

’Am I supposed to lift this trophy without even competing? How convenient.’ Yu Xuan thought imagining jealousy of many invisible people.

If Hundun had possessed a face, and if it were capable of mortal expressions, it would have lost the ability to maintain its composure right then and there.

"Hold it," Hundun’s voice echoed directly in Yu Xuan’s mind.

"The rest will be done automatically."

Yu Xuan reached out and grasped the cup with both hands.

The moment his fingers closed around it.

Ethereal flames erupted without heat or sound, colorless yet brilliant, engulfing his body completely.

It seemed like an abstract fire.

Yu Xuan’s vision blurred as reality folded inward, for him as he began to see his own internal body.

At the same moment, unseen by Yu Xuan, another presence manifested silently within the room.

A silent observer.

A being whose arrival carried no sound, no fluctuation, yet warped the surroundings by its mere existence.

Its gaze fell upon Yu Xuan.

And it was filled with interest.

Hundun’s form subtly shifted.

Its attention snapped toward the newcomer, suspicion immediately rising.

Because that being.

Was from the Heaven Tribe.