156: An outburst in despair

Despair!

An unprecedented despair, like a cold tide, engulfed the hearts of all surviving trial-takers! Inside the base's light barrier, there was a deathly silence. Everyone was so shocked by the world-destroying scene and terrifying pressure that they couldn't move. Rahu clenched his battle-axe, knuckles white; Luo Shen's face was pale, her Eternal Light flickering; Clear Emptiness's mouth constantly overflowed with blood as he fruitlessly tried to stabilize space... Their proud tenth-level Origin Spells were as insignificant as fireflies compared to the bright moon in the face of the absolute power of that seventh-tier alien beast!

The Sun-Eater Star-Devouring Beast's giant eyes, burning with dark red flames, slowly turned, finally locking onto the direction of the base. It seemed to have developed an interest in the light barrier that separated the inside from the outside. A giant claw covered in black scales slowly lifted, carrying a casual yet world-destroying might, and gently pressed down towards the base's light barrier!

Before the claw even reached, the terrifying pressure had already caused the light barrier to violently concave inwards! Inside the base, the silver stele (Heavenly Stele Clone) flashed wildly, clearly maintaining the light barrier with all its might! But everyone could feel the light barrier wailing!

"No—!" Inside the base, countless trial-takers let out desperate wails.

Just at this critical moment!

"Swallowing Origin Mending Heaven Art!"

A cold, low roar echoed from the hill ruins where Lin Yuan had crashed!

Buzz!

A pure, vast emerald-green light, containing endless life Origin, erupted with Lin Yuan at its center!

Swallowing Origin Mending Heaven Art: First-tier recovery-type Origin Spell!

The emerald-green torrent of life instantly washed over Lin Yuan's broken body! His wounds healed at a visible rate! His turbulent Qi and blood were quickly calmed! His weakened aura rapidly recovered as if injected with a powerful stimulant! Although he couldn't instantly return to his Peak state, it was enough for him to suppress his severe injuries and recover most of his combat power!

At the same time, an unprecedented madness and determination erupted in Lin Yuan's eyes! He still had five Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheels! And one last Myriad Laws Reversal Wheel! This would be a decisive, death-defying strike!

"Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel!"

Buzz—!

The phantom of the wheel of life and death reappeared! The vast power of 127 million feathers surged and roared! Lin Yuan's aura instantly climbed to its zenith, even carrying a tragic sharpness due to his injuries not being fully recovered!

He no longer held back! His Origin Dharma Body, infused with life energy and bolstered by the Life and Death Wheel, erupted with unprecedented brilliance! He gripped the chaos heavenly extreme sword tightly in both hands. On the sword body, runes of the four great Origin Laws of life, death, devouring, and Chaos simultaneously lit up, complementing each other!

"heaven swallowing pagoda! Hold it for me!!!"

The ancient small pagoda phantom spun wildly above Lin Yuan's head, its heavy force field pushed to the extreme, surging desperately towards the slowly descending giant claw! Although it was like a praying mantis trying to stop a chariot, Lin Yuan only needed a moment of delay!

"Myriad Laws Reversal Wheel!!!"

Lin Yuan poured all his strength, all his will, and all his desire for survival into this final Reversal Wheel! An unprecedentedly deep and vast gray vortex suddenly unfolded in the Void Realm between him and the giant claw! At the center of the vortex, the power of the four great Origin Laws intertwined and flowed, emitting a terrifying aura that completely annihilated space!

Just as the fingertip of the world-destroying giant claw was about to touch the Myriad Laws Reversal Wheel vortex!

"Now! Give me—Reverse!!!"

Lin Yuan let out a roar that shattered the Void Realm!

The giant claw pressed into the vortex!

There was no sound. Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

Inside the myriad laws heavenly stele base, all the trial-takers held their breath, staring fixedly at the gray vortex that seemed to devour everything.

The next instant!

Buzz—!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A chaotic-colored energy torrent, whose brilliance, ferocity, and destructiveness could not be described by any language, erupted from the center of the reversed vortex like the first light of creation, surging upwards with unstoppable force!

This torrent contained double the terrifying power of the Sun-Eater Star-Devouring Beast's descending giant claw! It also fused all of Lin Yuan's four great Origin Laws and the full power of the Life and Death Wheel! Its energy level, at the moment of eruption, even briefly reached the seventh-tier limit!

Boom—!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Chaos torrent violently collided with the palm of the Sun-Eater Star-Devouring Beast's descending giant claw!

An unimaginably terrifying explosion occurred!

A light hundreds, thousands of times more intense than the previous Flesh and Blood Furnace explosion instantly swallowed everything! The sky seemed to be torn open by a huge mouth! A black hole, even larger and deeper than the spatial rift caused by the Sun-Eater Star-Devouring Beast's arrival, suddenly formed at the center of the explosion! An extremely violent energy storm mixed with shattered spatial fragments formed a destructive Turbulence, sweeping madly in all directions!

"Roar—!!!"

The Sun-Eater Star-Devouring Beast let out its first roar of pain and fury since its arrival! The palm of its giant claw, covered in invincible scales, was actually blasted open by the double force of the recoil and the spatial fragmentation, forming a huge blood hole hundreds of meters in diameter! Dark golden, lava-like blood sprayed out like a waterfall, dripping onto the ground and corroding massive deep pits!

The tremendous impact even caused the Sun-Eater Star-Devouring Beast's massive head to sharply snap backward!

The base's light barrier, under the impact of the world-destroying explosion's aftermath, fluctuated violently to its limit, with even tiny cracks appearing on its surface! But in the end, it stubbornly held on!

And directly below the center of the explosion.

Thud!

Lin Yuan, as if completely drained of all strength, was covered in blood, his Origin Dharma Body completely dissipated, and the chaos heavenly extreme sword flew out of his hand, sticking into the ground not far away. He knelt on one knee, coughing up large mouthfuls of blood, his aura extremely weak. The continuous bursts of Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel and Myriad Laws Reversal Wheel, combined with the injuries from resisting the seventh-tier pressure, had completely exhausted him, even with one recovery from the Swallowing Origin Mending Heaven Art! The chaos heavenly evolution robe was severely damaged, almost losing its defensive capabilities.

He laboriously raised his head and looked at the sky.

The Sun-Eater Star-Devouring Beast's giant eyes, burning with rage and pain, locked onto him! Its injured giant claw slowly retracted, the massive blood hole in its palm shocking to behold, dark golden blood still flowing. An even more violent, colder killing intent, like a cold tide, enveloped the entire world!

It was thoroughly enraged!

A new, perfectly intact giant claw slowly lifted! This time, the target was no longer the base's light barrier, but directly pointed at the tiny ant below who dared to injure it—Lin Yuan!

The shadow of death had never been so clear, so cold!

Inside the base, there was a deathly silence. Everyone looked at the figure kneeling on one knee, barely breathing, watching the world-ending claw slowly descend above him, covering the sky. Despair, like cold venom, completely froze everyone's hearts.

Rahu closed his eyes. Luo Shen clenched her hands, knuckles white. Clear Emptiness stopped his futile attempts to stabilize space.

Facing a fully-formed seventh-tier Peak, Lin Yuan had done his utmost, even injuring it! But, was this the end?