167: Taiyi, ranked first in the Myriad Laws Realm.

"Continue the challenge! Number 50!"

The illusion shifted abruptly, and a vast Star Domain unfolded beneath his feet. Lin Yuan's pupils constricted—the opponent before him was a woman shrouded in endless starlight, her long hair cascading like the Milky Way, each step following the rhythm of orbital paths.

[Historical 50th: Star Dome Empress (99th Epoch)]

Without preamble, the Empress waved her delicate hand. In an instant, the stars of the heavens shifted, three hundred and sixty main stars simultaneously erupted with dazzling light, and a vast stellar array instantly formed! Gravity tore at space, twisting it like twine; the shockwaves of exploding stars ripped spiderweb-like cracks in the Void Realm, and spatial confinement solidified the air around Lin Yuan into a crystal cage!

"Origin Dharma Body, open!" Lin Yuan roared, forcefully carving out a thousand-zhang diameter Chaos Domain within the stellar array. But the stellar array continued to contract, and those rotating stars slowly approached with a terrifying pressure that could obliterate all things.

"Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel!" Lin Yuan formed hand seals, and the wheel of life and death appeared, forcibly distorting the stellar array's trajectory. A burning star deviated from its orbit, colliding with another planet, erupting with a brilliant light that illuminated the entire Star Domain.

The Empress's phantom frowned slightly, gently tapping with her jade finger. The disturbed stellar array suddenly reorganized, transforming into nine stellar chains that coiled around him. Lin Yuan grunted, his left shoulder pierced by a chain, golden divine blood spilling into the Void Realm.

"Swallowing Origin Mending Heaven Art!" Emerald light flowed over the wound as he simultaneously withstood three stellar impacts. Blood spilled from the corner of Lin Yuan's mouth, but an even more intense Battle Intent blazed in his eyes.

"Myriad Laws Reversal Wheel!" Lin Yuan seized the fleeting opportunity, deflecting a destructive stellar light—the brilliant pillar of light, like a sword of divine punishment, tore a hundred-zhang gap in the stellar array!

The Empress's phantom retreated half a step for the first time, surprise appearing on her starlight- Cohesioned face. How could Lin Yuan let go of this chance? "Soul Devouring Seal!" 84 million plumes of mental impact transformed into solidified transparent spears, piercing through the Star Dome directly at the Empress's core!

The sound of the stellar array shattering was like a myriad of glazed tiles exploding simultaneously. Before the Empress's phantom dissipated, she actually nodded in salute to Lin Yuan, a remark of admiration drifting from her lips across time and space: "A junior... to be feared..."

[Rank: 50!]

Lin Yuan gasped, wiping the blood from his forehead, the flames of battle still unextinguished in his eyes: "Challenge Number 10!"

The illusion changed again. The Chaos Qi receded like a tide, replaced by immeasurable Buddhist light. An old monk sat cross-legged on a twelve-grade Chaos Lotus Platform, his emaciated body exuding a suppressive Aura that made the Void Realm tremble.

[Historical 10th: Formless Buddha Venerable (9th Epoch)]

"Amitabha." The moment the Buddha's name rang out, Lin Yuan's entire body shook violently—the sound was not transmitted through the air, but directly resonated within him! The light emanating from the Chaos Lotus Platform was not simple purification; it was rewriting the surrounding Laws, and Lin Yuan was shocked to find his Devouring Origin Law being forcibly converted!

"Eternal Evolution Body, activate!" The radiance of the Innate Dao Body erupted, and dense, ancient Dao patterns appeared on his skin. Lin Yuan let out a long roar, actually charging actively towards the lotus platform. The Buddhist light scorched his body, emitting a clangorous sound like metal striking stone.

The old monk's phantom finally raised its eyes. When those eyes, containing great wisdom, looked at Lin Yuan, the latter felt as if he saw myriad worlds being born and destroyed within them. "Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel!" With 210 million plumes of Battle Intent empowering him, the chaos heavenly extreme sword slashed directly at the twelve-grade lotus platform!

"Chaos Gui Xu • Myriad Laws Reversal Wheel!" A gray vortex unfolded beneath the lotus platform, frantically devouring the Buddhist light. But even more terrifying, the vortex actually began to surge back with converted Law power, and two energies of the same Origin but opposing nature collided in the Void Realm, forming a black hole-like singularity!

The old monk finally rose. This simple action made the entire illusion tremble. His emaciated palm slowly pushed out, and the ' swastika' golden seal in his palm rotated and magnified, coating even Chaos with gold wherever it passed.

Lin Yuan and his sword became one, transforming into a gray-white fine line. This sword had no fancy Moves, only the ultimate power of life, death, and destruction—where the sword edge passed, even the Buddhist light was cut with unhealable Void Realm cracks!

The lotus platform shook violently, and the gray-white fine line accurately pierced the lotus heart. The old monk's phantom clasped his hands together, and before his figure dissipated, he left behind a Zen saying that transcended time and space: "Bodhi is not a tree... nor is a mirror a stand..."

[Rank: 10!]

"Challenge... Number 1!" Lin Yuan's voice carried an unprecedented solemnity.

The entire platform was silent! All eyes converged—what kind of existence would the historical number one Myriad Laws Realm be?

The illusion froze. A chaotic Void Realm, yet to be opened by Grandmist. In the center, a figure stood silently.

He had no astonishing Aura, as if he had merged with Chaos. His face was blurry, only his eyes, as if containing the birth and death of the Universe, were infinitely profound.

[Historical 1st: Taiyi]

[Era: First Epoch]

"Latercomer..." The blurry figure spoke, his voice seemingly originating from Chaos itself, "You have comprehended the four Origin Laws, you are qualified to take one Move from me."

He slowly raised his hand, fingers splayed, and gently clenched them towards Lin Yuan.

There was no light, no energy fluctuation.

But Lin Yuan felt that the entire illusion, no, his very existence, his comprehended four Origin Laws of life and death, Devouring and Chaos, and even the Supreme Dharma Body within him, all began to tremble violently, as if they were about to... disintegrate and return to Gui Xu from the most fundamental level!

This was an attack that transcended Moves, transcended energy! This was an erasure directly acting upon the Origin of "existence" and "Law"!

"Ah—!" Lin Yuan let out a painful roar! His Origin Dharma Body fluctuated violently, and the Tianyan Robe lost all its light! The Origin Soul Seed in his Sea of Consciousness wailed! He felt as if he was being repelled and decomposed by the entire Chaos!

"No! How can my Dao be erased by a single word from you?!" At the brink of life and death, Lin Yuan's will, like a tempered divine weapon, erupted with unprecedented radiance!

"The four Laws are not the end, Chaos is the source! With the Origin Soul Seed as the guide, all Laws return to Gui Xu!"

Under the pressure of Taiyi's terrifying Chaos Origin power, in the desperate situation where his own existence was about to disintegrate, Lin Yuan had a sudden enlightenment—the green of life's budding, the gray of death's decay, the black of all-devouring, the primordial mist of undefined Chaos, four-colored lights spun frantically and compressed within him, finally erupting at a single point, a faint but utterly pure primordial Chaos light!

Although it was only a trace, its status was supremely exalted!

Buzz—!

That trace of primordial Chaos light emanated from Lin Yuan's glabella, faint yet incredibly tenacious, like the first ray of light that opened up the heavens and earth, piercing through Taiyi's all-encompassing Power of Gui Xu!

In those eyes that contained the birth and death of Chaos, emotional fluctuations that spanned epochs appeared for the first time. Lin Yuan saw the rotation of star rivers and the Reincarnation of the Universe within them, and even a hint of... expectation?

"Good." Taiyi's voice suddenly became clear, each syllable triggering a Chaos tide, "At the end of Gui Xu, creation is seen. You have touched the true threshold." As he spoke, the power capable of erasing existence receded like a tide, but left behind trails of Chaos in the Void Realm, forming obscure and profound Innate Dao patterns.