121: The true Heavenly Stele of Ten Thousand Laws has appeared in the world.

On the summit of the Spirit Martial Hall, the gale winds were biting.

Lin Yuan stood quietly by the edge of the cliff, his robes fluttering wildly. He allowed the surging, tangible pressure of the Hunyuan Realm from all directions to batter his body, yet his figure remained as motionless as a lone pine rooted in the mountain. Li Xuan had appeared silently beside him, his cloudy eyes holding a rare trace of solemnity and... an exclamation of wry amusement.

"You brat..." Li Xuan's voice was extremely low, almost blown away by the mountain wind. "You only dove into that 'broken net' for half a day, and you've already poked a hole in the sky, sitting directly in the top seat among that pile of Myriad Laws Realm brats? Your growth... it's simply like the Chaos storm at the beginning of the epoch; it's unreasonable!" He paused, his speaking speed increasing. "Listen, later on, no matter what kind of flowery promises these old fellows make, stay calm and don't be in a hurry to nod! Listen first; comparing goods before buying doesn't lead to losses!"

After speaking, Li Xuan took a deep breath, straightened his back, and cupped his hands toward the group of holy carriages that obscured the sky and shone with ten thousand rays of light. He spoke loudly, his voice not large, yet it clearly penetrated the layers of pressure and echoed among the mountains: "Your arrival, esteemed Domain Lords, makes my Spirit Martial Hall shine with brilliance! This is a wild, mountainous place with nothing good to offer for hospitality, so I ask you all to condescend to move, and enter the mountain for a chat!"

"Hum—!"

Space rippled like water.

Forty-nine figures, like stars falling from the Nine Heavens, landed silently on the cloud platform atop the Spirit Martial Hall. Each figure exuded a vast aura no weaker than Li Xuan's; that was the majestic power of the Hunyuan Realm! At this moment, these titans who could shake a Heavenly Realm just by stomping their feet in their daily lives, had their gazes focused unanimously on Lin Yuan, their eyes filled with undisguised appreciation, curiosity, and a determination to possess.

Lin Yuan nodded slightly in greeting. He could clearly feel that these gazes were like substance; he felt as if he had become a newly hatched true Dragon cub in the eyes of hunters—incredibly precious, but also attracting a pack of wolves circling him.

The first to break this delicate balance was Star Dust Master from the Star Sanctuary.

The old man stepped forward, starlight flowing around his body, his voice gentle yet containing the supreme majesty of one who governs billions of stars: "I am Star Dust Master, master of the Star Sanctuary's Muli Heavenly Realm." He looked at Lin Yuan with burning eyes, "Little Friend Lin, if you are willing to enter my Star Sanctuary, you can immediately be ranked in the 'Star Child Sequence'! You will enjoy... the resource support of an entire Star City!"

"An entire Star City!"

Lin Yuan's heart shook violently! He already knew the despairingly vast hierarchy of the Taichu Divine Continent:

The Taichu Divine Continent has 902 Domains, each Divine Domain Lord controls the Universe of one Domain!

Beneath one Domain, there are ten thousand Profound Realms! A Profound Realm Master is at the Peak of the Saint King Realm, an invincible existence who killed their way out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, governing one Profound Realm!

Beneath one Profound Realm, there are ten thousand Heavenly Realms! The Heavenly Realm Domain Lords before him were the Hunyuan Realm titans who governed one Heavenly Realm!

Beneath one Heavenly Realm, there are ten thousand Star Continents! Each Star Continent has a diameter of one light-year! The masters of Star Continents are all powerful beings of the Myriad Dao Realm!

Within one Star Continent, there are hundreds of millions of cities! Only the ten thousand most core, most prosperous cities can be called "Star Cities"! The master of a Star City must be an invincible existence in the Feather Transformation Realm who looks down upon their peers!

An entire Star City! The resources, Spiritual Qi, population, and wealth it controls... for Lin Yuan, who was merely in the Myriad Laws Realm, it was no different from stuffing a vast galaxy directly into his arms! This was immense wealth enough to drive any Myriad Laws Realm Martial Artist crazy! However, in the eyes of the Star Sanctuary, which ruled over hundreds of millions of Heavenly Realms and trillions of Star Cities, this... was merely a drop in the ocean, a single hair from nine oxen!

"Star Dust Master!" A clear sword hum filled with disdain rang out. Sword Without Limits of the Heavenly Sword Sanctuary stepped forward, his green robes fluttering without wind, his Sword Intent soaring to the heavens!

"You dare to bring out such meager resources to show off as a treasure?" His gaze was like lightning, piercing straight at Lin Yuan. "I am Sword Without Limits, master of the Heavenly Sword Sanctuary's Sword Tomb Heavenly Realm! Little Friend Lin, if you enter my Sword Sect, you will be granted the honorable position of 'Sword Child'! You can comprehend three chapters of the supreme incomplete volume of the 《Heavenly Sword Canon》!"

His voice was resolute: "From now on, whatever you need for your cultivation, whether it be Medicinal Pills, divine weapons, Secret Realms, or Legacies... my Heavenly Sword Sanctuary will provide them with all our might, without a single word of hesitation!"

It was like igniting a prairie fire!

"Boom!"

The third, the fourth... all forty-nine Domain Lords who governed a Heavenly Realm and shook the Universe, spoke one after another! The conditions they offered were more shocking than the last, more breathtaking than the last!

"Granted the position of 'Green Wood Envoy'! Bestowed the golden seal of 'Star City Reserve City Lord'! Enjoy the salary of a City Lord, and hold authority over half a city!"

"Conferred as 'Heavenly Realm Demon-Suppressing War General'! Command three thousand Dao soldiers at the Peak of the Feather Transformation Realm! Hold the power of life and death!"

"Listed at the top of the 'Imperial Dynasty Talents Ranking'! Bestowed the 'Star Continent Inspection Envoy' jade talisman! Act on behalf of the Imperial Dynasty to inspect Star Continents; seeing the talisman is like seeing me in person!"

"The position of 'First Law Child' of the Devouring Divine Hall! Unlimited supply of resources! Personally guided in cultivation by the Divine Hall's Saint Elder group! Direct access to the Origin of the Great Dao of Devouring!"

Every condition was enough to set off a bloody storm in an ordinary Star Continent! Every promise represented a broad road leading to the Peak of power!

However, after the initial shock, Lin Yuan's eyes quickly turned into a frozen deep pool.

He knew clearly—these conditions that sounded capable of changing the world were, to the super powers that ruled over ten thousand Domains, trillions of Profound Realms, and endless Heavenly Realms, merely a speck of dust leaking from between their fingers! It was like a county magistrate in a mortal Imperial Dynasty being nothing more than the most minor, insignificant official in the eyes of an emperor! The price these Domain Lords were paying was far lower than the future value they expected to gain from Lin Yuan!

"Seniors..." Lin Yuan took a deep breath, about to politely decline this dazzling "kindness."

Rumble—!!!

A sudden change occurred! The entire Spirit Martial Hall, no, the entire Eastern Extreme Tianxu Continent, the entire Taichu Divine Continent! All things in heaven and earth, the Laws of time and space, were at this moment... trembling crazily!

A terrifying pulsation, indescribable, irresistible, and seemingly originating from the Origin of the Universe, erupted from the depths of the endless Void Realm!

"Crack—!!!"

A final, earth-shattering roar that tore through the Divine Soul, like the first thunderclap of the creation of the world, exploded in the deepest parts of the Souls of all living beings!

Lin Yuan looked up abruptly!

He saw that above the firmament, which had originally been occupied by the divine radiance of the various factions' holy carriages... a huge crack, hideous beyond imagination, pitch black as ink, with Chaos currents flowing along its edges, appeared as if the Universe had been forcibly torn apart by an invisible giant hand! This crack expanded crazily toward both sides at a speed exceeding light, exceeding thought! Trillions of li? Quadrillions of li? Its scale was so immense that in an instant, it had spanned the entire firmament that could be seen by the eye and perceived by Divine Sense! It was as if the sky of the entire Taichu Divine Continent had been completely split into two!

"That... what is that?!" Even with the Heart-Nature and cultivation of the forty-nine Heavenly Realm Domain Lords, at this moment, they all changed color, losing their voices in horror! They felt a pressure that surpassed their cognition, a pressure that made even the Hunyuan Realm feel small and fearful, slowly descending from the depths of that crack!

Deep within the crack!

A towering, ancient, giant stele, whose magnificence could not be described in words, was slowly revealing its form that suppressed eternity!

The body of the stele presented a kind of ancient, extinct, all-encompassing grayness! On its surface, countless ancient runes, complex and mysterious to the extreme, slowly flowed and vanished like living things! Every flicker of the runes caused the space for trillions of li around it to ripple violently and moan like water waves!

When the giant stele first appeared, it was as small as dust. However, in the instant a thought flashed through Lin Yuan's mind—Expansion! Crazy expansion! It instantaneously filled everyone's vision in a barbaric, unreasonable way! It filled the limits of what Divine Sense could reach!

Lin Yuan's Divine Sense had already extended crazily like a wild horse off its tether, covering a million li in an instant! However... he discovered with horror that his Divine Sense could not even completely cover... the most insignificant "speck of dust" on the base of this giant stele!

A cold and terrifying realization pierced his mind like an ice pick:

"Ten... light-years?!"

The height of this giant stele... actually reached a magnitude of ten light-years!

Although in the vast and boundless Taichu Divine Continent, beneath one Heavenly Realm there are ten thousand Star Continents with a diameter of one light-year! Ten light-years is just equivalent to ten Star Continents standing side by side. However, when a stone stele itself reaches such an unbelievable scale, the absolute impact and crushing sensation on one's vision and cognition is enough to make any witness... freeze their Soul!

The entire Taichu Divine Continent fell into a deathly silence at this moment. From the Eastern Extreme Tianxu Continent to the Southern Extreme Burning Heaven Continent, from the Western Extreme Cangyuan Continent to the Northern Extreme Xuanqiong Continent... trillions of living beings, regardless of their cultivation level, race, or status, all involuntarily raised their heads, looking toward that world-ending spectacle that tore through the firmament with boundless awe and confusion!

On the gray body of the giant stele, endless phantoms of Martial Artists were rapidly condensing and manifesting!

Some stood proudly holding swords, their Sword Qi tearing apart the galaxy; some sat cross-legged in meditation, their dao rhyme causing the heavens to resonate; some swung their fists to break the void, their Fist Intent shattering stars... Every movement simplified complexity to simplicity, returning to the truth, containing the ultimate true meaning that was simplest and strongest, pointing directly to the Origin of Martial Dao!

Gradually, these phantoms turned into ancient characters flowing with immortal golden brilliance, emitting majestic heavenly might, slowly circulating and endlessly alive on the vast and boundless surface of the stele!

"myriad laws heavenly stele..."

"It has actually... really appeared!"

"The golden age of the Myriad Laws Realm... the prelude to the change of epochs... has finally begun!"

The forty-nine Heavenly Realm Domain Lords had long since thrown the matter of recruiting Lin Yuan to the back of their minds. They looked up at the Heavenly Stele, muttering to themselves, their faces interwoven with shock, excitement, fanaticism, and a trace of... indescribable fear!

"As expected... it has come."

Beside him, Li Xuan's voice sounded, unprecedentedly solemn, hoarse, yet carrying a heavy, fate-knowing tone. Lin Yuan turned his head abruptly, only to see his teacher's cloudy eyes reflecting the golden runes flowing on the Heavenly Stele. The light actually made these eyes, which had seen through the ways of the world, reveal a trace of near-compassionate holiness.

"Teacher, is this myriad laws heavenly stele the same as the one in the virtual world..." Lin Yuan asked urgently.

"A new epoch... is about to begin!" Li Xuan interrupted him abruptly, his voice like sandpaper rubbing, carrying a determination that could sever everything. "The Heavenly Stele in the Taichu Virtual Network is just a toy phantom that records the Myriad Laws Realm brats under thirty years of bone age! But this one before us... is the true Monument of the Epoch! It only descends before the change of epochs and the overturning of heaven and earth!"

He turned his head sharply, his wrinkled face almost pressing against Lin Yuan's, a sharp light that pierced the Soul erupting from his cloudy eyes. Every word was like a heavy hammer, smashing fiercely into Lin Yuan's heart: "Lin Yuan! Listen!"

"You must... seize this Opportunity! Give it everything you have! On this Heavenly Stele... carve your name! Seize the epoch Luck that belongs to you!"

His withered palm gripped Lin Yuan's shoulder tightly, with such force that Lin Yuan felt his bones aching:

"Otherwise..."

The subsequent words were extinguished in a heavy, suffocating sigh. But the unspoken meaning, the endless worry and heavy warning about the future contained in his eyes, were clearer and more chilling than any words! The true epoch storm, with this ten-light-year world-ending Heavenly Stele as its bugle call... erupted and descended!