A soul attack? Lin Yuan: Not even worthy of giving me a gua sha treatment!

Inside his stomach, that surge of pure energy converted from the Monarch-level monster was like a single drop of water cast into a furnace.

It failed to stir even a ripple before being completely assimilated and absorbed.

Lin Yuan peered into his Dantian's Qi Sea, observing that wisp of Primordial Chaos Sword Aura which remained as thin as a strand of hair.

It seemed only a tiny bit brighter than before.

The change was imperceptible.

"Not enough."

Lin Yuan shook his head.

"It's not even enough to fill the gaps between my teeth."

He looked up, his gaze sweeping across this deathly silent 'nothingness,' where it seemed even concepts had been erased.

The moment that Monarch-level monster had been killed instantly just now,

this absolute silence was shattered.

A circle of invisible ripples spread out.

It was as if a large piece of bloody meat had been thrown into a calm pool of sharks.

"Hiss..."

"Heh heh..."

From all directions.

Within that pure 'nothingness,' twisted and blurry silhouettes began to emerge one after another.

They had no physical forms.

They were like shadows of thick ink dripping into water, each with a different shape.

Some looked like withered humans, some like skinned beasts, and others were simply masses of wriggling flesh sprouting countless eyeballs and tentacles.

Void Wraiths.

Eerie creatures composed purely of mental energy, more Advanced than Shadow Demons.

They possessed no physical attack capabilities.

But they could directly attack a living being's Soul!

One.

Ten.

A hundred.

A thousand!

In an instant, Lin Yuan was surrounded so densely by Void Wraiths that not even a drop of water could leak through.

They did not attack immediately.

They simply stared fixedly at Lin Yuan with those countless 'eyes' filled with malice, madness, and spite.

Then.

Waves of mental intent filled with negative emotions surged toward Lin Yuan's mind like a tide.

【Fear...】

【Despair...】

【Pain...】

【Kill me... no... eat you...】

【Sink together... in this eternal nothingness...】

Billions of negative emotions, mixed with the filthiest mental pollution, were enough to make even a determined King-Sealing Expert go completely insane and have their Soul collapse within a tenth of a second!

However.

Lin Yuan's face still bore that same calm expression.

He even looked a bit bored.

Within his Sea of Consciousness, the golden Grandmist Sword Intent hung high above like an eternal, indestructible sun.

These so-called mental attacks and Soul pollution,

let alone shaking this sun,

couldn't even get close.

It felt like a light breeze brushing against a mountain ten thousand fathoms high.

It couldn't even blow away a single speck of dust on the mountain.

"That's it?"

Lin Yuan shook his head with some disappointment.

He didn't even have the interest to use the Primordial Chaos Sword Aura.

With just a thought,

Hum—!

An invisible ripple, yet one that seemed to carry a sharp will capable of splitting the heavens and earth, suddenly expanded with him as the center!

Grandmist Sword Intent!

【Ah—!!!】

【Light! No! It's a sword—!】

【Spare...】

The Void Wraiths, which had been incredibly arrogant just moments ago, let out silent screams of extreme agony the instant they touched this Sword Intent, like snow melting under the sun!

Their bodies were instantly purified and decomposed under the impact of the Sword Intent!

They turned into streams of the purest Soul energy, free of any Impurities!

Lin Yuan opened his mouth.

And took another breath.

Whoosh—!

Hundreds and thousands of torrents formed from Soul energy surged into his mouth like birds returning to their forest, scrambling to be first!

Boom!

This time.

Lin Yuan's body finally had a slight reaction.

Within his Dantian's Qi Sea, that hair-thin strand of Primordial Chaos Sword Aura suddenly trembled!

Then.

It began to grow longer at a speed visible to the naked eye!

One strand became two!

Two strands became three!

A moment later, it had turned into a small cluster of chaotic grey-gold gas, slowly rotating like a nebula!

"Hmm, Soul energy is a good catalyst."

A flash of satisfaction crossed Lin Yuan's eyes.

He felt it.

His 'furnace' had finally truly begun to burn!

But this was still not enough!

Lin Yuan no longer stayed in place.

He picked a direction, and with a movement of his figure, he turned into a streak of light and actively flew toward the deeper parts of the Return to Ruins!

This movement of his

was like setting the entire Return to Ruins on fire!

The vast, pure life aura on his body, which was a fatal temptation to all void creatures, was like ten thousand suns rising simultaneously in this dead world!

"Roar—!!!"

"Screech—!!!"

One terrifying existence after another, slumbering in the nothingness, was startled awake!

They woke from their slumber and sensed that peerlessly delicious aura that made even their Souls tremble!

They went mad!

All the monsters went mad!

A Four-Armed Demon Ape, its body as large as a mountain and covered in black crystals, roared as it charged out of the void. Its four mountain-like fists, carrying power that could destroy everything, smashed toward Lin Yuan!

Puchi!

A flash of grey-gold Sword Aura vanished in an instant.

The Four-Armed Demon Ape's movements came to a grinding halt.

In the next second, its massive body, along with that indestructible crystal armor, turned into dust that filled the air.

The energy was absorbed.

Another swarm of alien insects with metallic wings, spitting annihilation rays, flooded in like a cloud obscuring the sky, numbering over a million!

Lin Yuan didn't even look.

He just flicked his finger.

Swish!

A strand of Sword Aura flew out and exploded within the insect swarm! It turned into a massive web of Sword Qi covering a radius of thousands of kilometers!

The million-strong insect swarm was instantly sliced into basic particles.

Energy was absorbed once again... Lin Yuan was like the most efficient harvester.

On this hunting ground of death, considered an absolute forbidden zone by humans, he began a one-sided, frenzied massacre!

Any monster that dared to approach him, whether Monarch-level or multiple Monarch-levels,

had only one end.

Being killed instantly in one hit.

Then, becoming a negligible bit of fuel in his furnace.

Inside his Dantian's Qi Sea,

that mass of Primordial Chaos Sword Aura was expanding frantically at a terrifying speed!

From a small cluster to a large mass.

From a mass to a swirling nebula.

Then, the nebula continuously compressed and refined, turning into a small, surging grey-gold stream!

Lin Yuan could feel himself becoming stronger at an unprecedented, frantic pace!

But he was still not satisfied.

"Too slow."

"The quality of this firewood is still too low."

He shook his head as he continued his harvest.

Just then.

His advancing figure came to a sudden halt.

He remained suspended in this nothingness.

The various monsters rushing frantically from all directions also seemed to have their pause buttons pressed, stopping their movements in unison.

In their 'eyes' filled with greed and madness, the expression of Fear appeared for the first time!

They turned around as if they had seen a ghost, fleeing frantically back the way they came!

It was as if something ten thousand times more terrifying than this god of slaughter had awakened in the direction Lin Yuan was heading!

The chaotic energy and roars of the entire Return to Ruins became eerily quiet.

Lin Yuan looked up.

He looked toward the deepest part of the Return to Ruins, at that absolute darkness where even 'nothingness' seemed to be swallowed.

He felt a gaze.

A cold gaze filled with majesty, cast from the infinitely distant upstream of time.

That gaze held no hostility.

It was simply like a high-and-mighty deity looking down at an ant that had accidentally intruded into his divine kingdom.

A trace of a smile finally appeared on Lin Yuan's face.

"Is the main course finally about to be served?"