199: Foundation of the Great Way of the Soul

"My dao foundation is more than just Chaos!" Lin Yuan's perception, like invisible tentacles, swept across another power core within his body.

There, a seed, pitch-black and profound, as if it could thoroughly devour even light and twist and annihilate even space-time, was slowly floating.

On the surface of the seed, countless dense and intricate Devouring dao patterns, wriggling and flickering like living things, emitted a terrifying aura capable of swallowing the universe—it was the Devouring Origin Dao seed that he had painstakingly refined by one-tenth!

The Great Dao of Devouring ranks among the top of the hundred greatest Great Daos!

Once this Dao seed is thoroughly refined and absorbed, merging with his own Origin, he will be able to initially grasp 1% of the true meaning of the Great Dao of Devouring.

Although far inferior to the supreme magnificence and all-encompassing nature of the Chaos Great Dao, as a top-tier Great Dao, this 1% comprehension can also bring a direct increase of 10 million feathers of combat power!

This will be another Heaven-Defying force, besides the Chaos Great Dao, capable of tearing the firmament and devouring powerful enemies!

Imagining the scene where he fully comprehends the Great Dao of Devouring, activates the devouring power, and thoroughly devours and refines enemies along with their Divine Abilities, Magic Treasures, and even a Small World, a cold sharpness flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes.

"And you, heaven swallowing pagoda!" Lin Yuan's consciousness sank into his Sea of Consciousness.

A nine-story black pagoda, ancient, mottled, and exuding an aura of primordial Chaos Return to Ruin, was floating quietly—the heaven swallowing pagoda!

This Dao Artifact, nurtured by the Devouring Origin, granted him the Heaven-Defying ability to double all his attacks after the first layer was refined.

Now that he had reached the Peak of the Feather Transformation Realm, and both his Soul and power had undergone a qualitative transformation, it was the best time to attempt refining more layers and unearthing deeper levels of power!

"Hum!"

As Lin Yuan's intent directed, the vast and boundless Chaos Origin power, mixed with the initially comprehended true meaning of the Great Dao of Devouring, like a bursting galaxy torrent, fiercely slammed against the tightly closed tower gate of the second layer of the heaven swallowing pagoda, which was engraved with even more complex and mysterious dao patterns!

Rumble—!

A sound of heaven and earth splitting seemed to resound on the level of consciousness!

The tower gate trembled violently, and the Chaos Return to Ruin dao patterns flowing on its surface, like ice thrown into boiling magma, made a harsh "chi chi" sound and began to twist and melt violently!

A terrifying devouring power, even more profound and domineering than the first layer, as if capable of swallowing the universe, seeped out bit by bit through the cracks in the gate!

All of Lin Yuan's Devouring Origin power boiled and cheered for it, crazily surging toward the black pagoda!

The refinement had begun!

Once this second layer was opened, what kind of shocking power would it bring?

Lin Yuan felt the vast power brought by several forces surging and transforming within his body, his heart stirred.

However, when his gaze swept across the data light screen and landed on the terrifying number required for the evolution of the chaos wings, a cold pressure followed.

【chaos wings (six wings): 1.6 billion feathers combat power bonus (Middle Stage of Second Tier) → Required for promotion to Third Tier: 40 billion primal beginning origin crystal!】

40 billion Origin crystals!

This would be enough to instantly drain the primal beginning origin crystal reserves of a large Sect!

Once the wings were successfully promoted to the Third Tier, the combat power bonus they brought would directly jump to 2.4 billion feathers, which was already twenty-four times the power of a basic Great Dao Perfection practitioner!

More importantly, the leap in major Realm would surely grant the wings brand-new Heaven-Defying Divine Abilities!

"Resources... I need massive resources!" Lin Yuan's gaze was as sharp as a falcon's, piercing through the layers of surging Chaos turbulence, casting toward the dark Chaos deeper in the abyss, which was as thick as ink and exuded an even more ancient and terrifying aura.

That was the true core that even the guardian giant claw from just now had not reached, and it was also the most likely place for the even larger mother vein of the primal beginning origin crystal mineral vein to lurk!

Crisis and opportunity both reached the extreme!

He lowered his head slightly, his fingertips brushing over the ancient long sword hanging at his waist—the chaos heavenly extreme sword, and the Dao robe flowing with Chaos halo on his body—the chaos heavenly evolution robe.

The spiritual power fluctuations coming from these two partners that had accompanied him in battle for a long time now seemed too weak in the face of his power, which was as vast as a Chaos sea of stars.

"Old friends, your limits are almost reached..." Lin Yuan whispered, carrying an imperceptible sigh.

Finding top-tier Materials to recast them into something more compatible with his own Chaos greatness, or seeking stronger replacements, was already imminent.

And the Primordial Dao Body!

The Awakening progress had been stagnant at 20% for a long time; he needed to find those Primordial Purple Qi scattered in other places to break through the shackles and let the dao body burst forth with more terrifying potential.

And although the Innate Dao Body had reached 25% and its Physical Body strength was unrivaled among the same Realm, if there were Chaos treasures or heavenly divine liquids to temper his Physique, the immortal potential it contained could be further excavated!

Finally, his consciousness condensed at the center of his eyebrows.

That three-inch-long dao slaying wisdom sword, with its entire body shrouded in chaotic mist, was floating quietly.

It was not a physical entity, but an embodiment of his will and Soul highly condensed.

Every subtle vibration emitted an invisible sharpness that cut through vanity, pointed directly at the Soul Origin, and destroyed all laws.

It was the Incarnation of Lin Yuan's will, and even more so, the Foundation of his future path to the Soul Great Dao!

"Will Wisdom Sword... Foundation of the Soul Great Dao..." A cold glint flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes.

The only way to improve it was through battle!

Slaying powerful living beings, absorbing the purest and most tenacious part of the will power from their Soul Origin, was like using the Souls of ten thousand gods and demons as a whetstone to temper this sword of the Soul!

Deep in this Primordial Chaos Realm, those ancient source beasts that had slept for unknown epochs, with monstrous fierce power, comparable to the Peak of the Myriad Dao Realm or even stronger, were the best "provisions"!

Under a thousand times the time flow, every breath was precious.

The countdown to the opening of the Epoch Battlefield was like a chaotic giant axe hanging over his head.

Lin Yuan took a deep breath, and the three pairs of chaos wings behind him suddenly erupted with brilliant divine light that tore through the galaxy!

"The path is under my feet, the Dao is in my hands!

Let this abyss be the furnace, and Chaos be the fuel to forge my supreme dao foundation!"

He let out a long whistle, the sound waves rolling, actually briefly overpowering the roaring terrifying suction force coming from the bottom of the abyss.

The chaos wings stirred up the divine light of heaven and earth splitting, and his figure turned into a fearless Chaos thunderbolt, dashing fiercely toward the bottom of the abyss, which was thick with darkness and pregnant with greater dangers and infinite Treasure Troves!

The goal was clear—Origin crystals! Tempering! Breakthrough!

Before the funeral bell of the Epoch Battlefield completely rang, he would push the Chaos Great Dao to a new height, let the wings promote to the Third Tier, and let all his powers complete their ultimate transformation!

At the very bottom of the first layer of the abyss of the Primordial Chaos Realm, the thick, ink-like dark Chaos was rolling, like the gastric juices of a primordial giant beast that had slept for billions of epochs.

The space here had long been shattered, the time flow was chaotic and unbearable, and the huge gravitational vortex was like the giant mouth of a black hole, silently tearing apart all matter and energy that approached.

Only the thick Chaos itself maintained a strange, heavy stability in this extreme Chaos.