182: Domain expansion

Domain transformation... Feather Transformation Realm Foundation... A thousand times the time... Racing against time!

The extreme pressure of the Primordial Chaos Realm... and those three Prodigies of the era at the Peak of the Feather Transformation Realm... An unprecedented sense of urgency whipped at his Soul like a cold steel lash!

Without the slightest hesitation, the Chaos Qi around Lin Yuan erupted with a roar. His figure transformed into a stream of light that tore through the Chaos, and with an unyielding determination, he charged ferociously toward the entrance of the "Primordial Chaos Realm"!

In this desperate furnace simulating the beginning of Chaos, using the immense pressure as a hammer and the Chaos Origin Qi as fuel, he would forge, expand, and refine his "Origin Domain"—which contained the supreme Chaos Origin and had begun to imprint with the dao patterns of the lotus seed—to an unprecedented limit! He would charge toward the Feather Transformation Realm.

The entrance to the Primordial Chaos Realm was not an ordinary gateway, but a terrifying vortex akin to a wound in the Universe, constantly twisting and tearing, collapsing inward to devour everything, while intermittently spewing out destructive streams of Chaos light.

Clutching his identity jade tablet, Lin Yuan wrapped himself in Chaos aura and, like a meteor rushing into a fire, plunged headlong into that seething Chaos abyss!

"Hum—!!!" It felt as if the weight of the entire Universe had instantly pressed down upon his Soul and Physical Body!

The moment he passed through the entrance, Lin Yuan felt as if he had been gripped tightly by an invisible giant hand and then thrown into a Chaos core furnace that was churning madly, with temperatures reaching hundreds of millions of degrees!

The scene before his eyes vanished completely, replaced by the boundless, violently churning Chaos turbulence!

Space here was no longer a three-dimensional Concept, but had been twisted, folded, and compressed to the extreme into countless layers of chaotic pleats!

The invisible spatial pressure was so heavy it transcended the limits of physics, like a giant hammer forged from the core matter of billions of neutron stars. It bore down from above and below, front and back, inside and out, from every dimension of existence, carrying the terrifying power to crush stars and obliterate Laws, pressing down fiercely!

This pressure acted not only on his Physical Body but directly on his Divine Soul and Origin Law!

"Pfft—!" Lin Yuan was struck as if by a heavy blow, and he spat out a mouthful of blood rich in dense Chaos essence and traces of golden light, which was instantly evaporated into Chaos particles by the terrifying pressure in mid-air!

The cyan-gold divine light on his skin, woven from his Innate Dao Body and Chaos dao patterns, was instantly pushed to its limit, flickering wildly and dimming, emitting "hissing" sounds of being overwhelmed!

His bones groaned, his internal organs shifted, and every inch of his Meridians felt as if they were being constricted by chains cast from chaos divine gold!

He felt like an ancient gnat trapped in amber; let alone moving, even breathing felt like pulling a massive millstone!

"Hiss... What a terrifying Primordial Chaos Realm! This is only the outermost first layer?! This pressure... is more than a thousand, ten thousand times more violent than the Chaos Qi in that secret treasury!"

Lin Yuan's mind shook violently, and his Soul trembled. He finally understood completely what the White-Robed Examiner's warnings about "acting according to one's ability" and "mental Foundation" meant!

This was simply not a place for an ordinary Dharma Domain Realm cultivator to set foot! Anyone with a slightly weaker Foundation would be annihilated, both body and Soul, upon entering!

He forcibly steadied his nearly collapsing mind, no longer attempting in vain to resist this omnipresent cosmic pressure, and instantly sank his consciousness into the Origin!

He operated the Chaos Origin Law with all his might, as if carving out a Chaos core within his body to resist the external pressure!

The initial Profound Truth of the "Chaos Origin Scripture" flowed through his heart, and every rune lit up, guiding the violent Chaos Origin Qi to circulate along profound trajectories, attempting to form a certain antagonistic balance with the external pressure.

Within his Sea of Consciousness, the phantom image of the chaos green lotus sensed the crisis of its host nearing its limit and, no longer merely swaying, erupted with unprecedented, brilliant cyan light!

Layer upon layer of Chaos light rain, like the sweet dew of the River of Life, carried the supreme power to soothe wounds, stabilize the Divine Soul, and nourish the Dao Laws, surging to wash over Lin Yuan's Physical Body and Soul, which were on the verge of shattering under the heavy pressure!

"Domain... manifest!" Lin Yuan roared in his heart. Supported by both internal and external forces, the "Origin Domain" compressed within his body, containing the dao rhyme of Chaos and the green lotus, began to struggle—like a chaos singularity suppressed to the extreme—inch by inch, forcing itself outward!

Lin Yuan gave a low shout, and his Dharma Domain instantly unfolded! It was a profound, vast, and peculiar Domain that contained the Concept of the beginning of Chaos and the Origin of all things.

In the center of the Domain, a phantom image of a green lotus could be vaguely seen rooted in the Chaos Qi, while the figure of the supreme war spirit appeared and disappeared at the edge of the Domain, emitting an unyielding Battle Intent.

However, under the terrifying pressure of the Primordial Chaos Realm, the Domain he was so proud of was instantly compressed madly the moment it appeared!

Sss-sss-sss—! The boundary of the Domain emitted a harsh, grinding sound of being overwhelmed. The range of the Domain, which was considered vast for the Dharma Domain Realm, was now forcibly compressed to less than a hundred zhang!

Inside the Domain, the Chaos Qi that had originally flowed smoothly became sluggish and chaotic, as if it could collapse at any moment.

"Is this the spatial pressure from when Chaos first opened? It truly lives up to its reputation!" Instead of fear, Lin Yuan's eyes blazed with raging fighting spirit. The greater the pressure, the more astonishing the gains after the Breakthrough! This was exactly the whetstone he needed!

He no longer resisted passively but actively guided this omnipresent, pervasive Chaos spatial pressure!

"Chaos Origin Scripture, ten thousand Daos return to the Origin! chaos green lotus, stabilize the cosmos!"

Lin Yuan sank his mind into his Sea of Consciousness and operated the "Chaos Origin Scripture" with all his might. The Profound Truth of the scripture was like an invisible Dao fire, tempering every wisp of the Chaos Origin Law within his Domain.

At the same time, the roots of the chaos green lotus, which were rooted deep in his Sea of Consciousness, seemed to pierce through the barriers of his Sea of Consciousness and extend to the core of his real Domain!

Hum! The phantom image of the green lotus in the center of the Domain instantly solidified a bit more, emitting an ancient and stable aura.

A stream of Origin power stemming from the Chaos Supreme Treasure permeated outward, forcibly stabilizing the crumbling boundary of the Domain.

The spatial pressure that had been compressed to the extreme was no longer purely a destructive force at this moment. Under the guidance of the "Chaos Origin Scripture" and the harmonization of the chaos green lotus, it began to fuse, bit by bit and with great difficulty, into his Domain boundary!

"Refine! Expand!" Lin Yuan gritted his teeth, the veins on his forehead bulging. He poured all his focus into controlling his Domain.

Every twist and fluctuation of space became an opportunity for him to comprehend the Space Law and understand the essence of the Chaos pressure.

Using his own Domain as an anvil, the heavy pressure of the Primordial Chaos Realm as a giant hammer, the "Chaos Origin Scripture" as a furnace, and the chaos green lotus as a cornerstone, he began to temper his Domain through thousands of strikes!

The Domain boundary repeated in cycles of destruction and Rebirth. Every time it was pressed to the verge of shattering, it was forcibly repaired and reinforced by the power of the green lotus divine light and the Origin scripture.

The repaired boundary was significantly more condensed and thicker than before, and more profound and complex Chaos patterns—similar to the dao patterns on Lin Yuan's skin—began to emerge on it, faintly resonating with the violent Chaos space around it.