200: Devouring Space

Lin Yuan's figure was like a star falling into a pool of ink, as the three pairs of chaos wings around him erupted with an unprecedented, brilliant divine light. The Azure Lotus Divine Patterns flowing along the edges of the wings seemed to ignite at this moment, carving a corridor of light through the darkness so thick it could not be dispelled. The terrifying suction originating from the core of the abyss was like billions of invisible giant hands tearing at his body, yet it was stubbornly resisted by the Chaos force field propped up by his wings and the War Spirit Armor covering his entire body, emitting a dull, tooth-aching grinding sound.

His target was crystal clear—the area ahead, looming in the viscous darkness, radiating primal beginning origin crystal fluctuations as vast as the sea! That was no exposed mineral vein wall, but a super-sized primal beginning origin crystal vein composed of pure primal beginning origin crystals, pulsing slowly like a giant heart! The Origin crystal reserves it contained were more than ten times greater than the previous vein that had been sucked dry! The surface of the vein flowed with seven-colored aurora, and with every pulse, it spewed out Origin power mist of ultimate purity, most of which was instantly devoured by the surrounding viscous Chaos.

“Roar—!!!”

A Soul-shaking roar tore through the viscous darkness! The guardian was far more terrifying than before! A colossus beyond description slowly rose from the Chaos behind the mineral vein. It possessed a form similar to a Demonic Dragon, yet it had a full twelve hideous heads! Each head was covered in Chaos crystal scales harder than Astral Divine Gold, each a different color, representing a different power of the Great Dao: Heaven Burning, Hell Freezing, Soul Eroding, Ruination, God Corroding, Heavy Pressure, Void Rending, Soul Seizing, Destruction... And the largest main head in the very center did not breathe beams of light, but a Great Dao of Void Ruin torrent that was as thick as liquid, radiating the aura of the end of all things!

The Twelve-Headed Chaos Demonic Dragon! Its aura was so terrifying that it had already firmly stepped across the threshold of the Hunyuan Realm! Twelve pairs of crimson vertical pupils, like blood moons, instantly locked onto Lin Yuan, who had intruded into the forbidden zone. A cold will of Destruction, like physical ice cones, stabbed fiercely into his Sea of Consciousness!

“Good timing!” Chaos Qi erupted like a volcano in Lin Yuan's eyes. Instead of retreating, he exploded with sky-high Battle Intent! The divine light of the three pairs of wings behind him surged again, his speed suddenly increasing to the limit as he proactively charged toward the terrifying beast occupying the mineral vein!

“Wings! Shift! Wisdom Sword! Soul Slash!”

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

The chaos wings vibrated at high frequency, and Lin Yuan's figure pulled out countless afterimages in the viscous Chaos, like a ghost traveling through a storm of Destruction. The Destruction torrents spat out by the twelve dragon heads wove into a net of world-ending proportions. Heaven Burning fire scorched space, Hell Freezing ice froze time, and Void Rending fragments sliced through dimensions... yet they were avoided by Lin Yuan with inconceivable speed and space-folding techniques, narrowly dodging the critical strikes, leaving only blinding sparks and frost marks on the surface of his armor where the aftershocks grazed him.

At the same time, the vertical Chaos mark on his forehead split open!

“Dao Slash! Breaking Delusion! Directing at the True Soul!”

Clang—!

A Wisdom Sword, condensed to the extreme and seemingly formed from the first ray of light at the dawn of Chaos, ignored spatial distance and physical defense. Following the source of those twelve destructive wills, it instantly slashed into the core Divine Soul of the Twelve-Headed Demonic Dragon! Wherever the blade passed, delusions were shattered, and the chaotic will of Destruction experienced a moment of stagnation and disorder! This was the most direct interference with the Soul's Origin!

“Now! Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel! Tenfold! Suppress!”

Lin Yuan seized this fleeting opportunity and slammed his hands down! A giant illusory wheel of life and death boomed into existence within the viscous Chaos, bolstered by a terrifying power ten times his own! The wheel was no longer an illusion but nearly material, carrying the supreme majesty of crushing galaxies and judging life and death, as it slammed down toward the Twelve-Headed Demonic Dragon, whose movements were sluggish due to its wounded Divine Soul!

Rumble—!!!

It was like the collision of two Universes! The viscous dark Chaos was forcibly pushed aside by the violent energy shockwave, forming a brief vacuum zone! The Twelve-Headed Demonic Dragon let out a roar of mingled pain and fury, its massive body forced downward by the Life and Death Wheel, the Chaos crystal scales on its surface cracking inch by inch! But it was, after all, an existence of the Hunyuan Realm. Its twelve heads simultaneously erupted with blinding light of Destruction, stubbornly resisting the downward pressure of the wheel!

A stalemate! This was a collision of pure power and Great Dao foundation!

A sharp glint flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes. His mind sank into his Sea of Consciousness, where the ancient and mottled nine-layered heaven swallowing pagoda was vibrating slightly. The mysterious dao patterns on the second floor's gate finally let out a strained wail under the continuous impact of Chaos Origin power!

“heaven swallowing pagoda! Second Floor! Open!”

Boom—Crack!!!

A loud bang, as if a cosmic singularity had exploded, erupted deep within Lin Yuan's Soul! The tightly closed gate of the second floor of the heaven swallowing pagoda, inscribed with endless devouring dao patterns, crashed open! A devouring force more profound and domineering than that of the first floor—as if it could swallow the myriad heavens and worlds—swept out instantly like an awakening primeval Vicious Beast!

This power did not act on the outside world first, but instead acted upon the storage space Lin Yuan had opened himself!

Rip—!

The storage Magical Artifact Lin Yuan carried, constructed from Space Law, was like a fragile soap bubble before this supreme power originating from the Devouring Origin, instantly shattering into annihilation! The massive amount of Materials, Origin crystals, and even the scattered mineral essences obtained previously were instantly swept by this devouring force into a newborn, boundless dark space—that was the Devouring Space that evolved naturally within the heaven swallowing pagoda after its second floor opened!

The space was vast and boundless, its stability far exceeding any storage treasure Lin Yuan had ever known. Even more Heaven-Defying was that this space itself contained powerful Great Dao force; it could not only perfectly store all things but also actively absorb void energy to nourish the treasures kept within, even... slowly evolving divine Materials that contained Great Dao power! Furthermore, with just a thought, any item stored in this space could ignore spatial barriers and instantly appear anywhere on his body, like an extension of his own limbs!

“What a Devouring Space! It encompasses the Universe and contains its own world!” Lin Yuan was exhilarated. The auxiliary capability brought by the opening of the second floor was truly Heaven-Defying!

“Now, it's your turn!” Lin Yuan's gaze instantly locked onto the pulsing primal beginning origin crystal vein below and the seven-colored aurora flowing at the core of the vein! He urged his mind with all his might, and the terrifying devouring power of the heaven swallowing pagoda's second floor was no longer confined to the internal space. Instead, it transformed into an invisible, world-enveloping devouring maw, fiercely covering the massive primal beginning origin crystal vein!

“Devour—for me!”

Rumble—!

The entire viscous Chaos at the bottom of the abyss boiled violently! That primal beginning origin crystal vein, as massive as a mountain, let out a strained groan under the supreme devouring power of the heaven swallowing pagoda's second floor. The primal beginning origin crystals forming the vein peeled away as if weathered, turning into a seven-colored torrent of Origin power that, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, frantically surged into the newborn Devouring Space!

The speed and efficiency were far beyond the passive absorption of the wings! In just a few breaths, the volume of the mineral vein shrank by a visible margin! Massive amounts of pure primal beginning origin crystals were frantically extracted and stored!