210: The Sound of the Dao

Crack! Crack!

The grayish-white seed shell shattered inch by inch, blooming with billions of brilliant rays of Great Dao light!

As the light receded, a phantom heart—transparent as colored glaze yet entwined with profound, chaotic dao patterns, resembling the most perfect work of art—replaced the seed of martial dao and suspended itself at the center of Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness! It pulsed slowly, and with every beat, it seemed to synchronize with the pulse of the entire Universe, radiating a supreme dao rhyme that was fearless, indestructible through ten thousand tribulations, and eternally free!

Chaos Fearless Dao Heart, formed!

Eternal Dao Heart: The Dao Heart becomes a Universe of its own, capable of commanding the power of ten thousand Great Daos, immune to all Great Dao assimilation and erosion; the Divine Soul is impervious to all Spells!

Fearless Dao Heart: Can be actively triggered to burn the Dao Heart Origin in exchange for a 300% explosive burst of combat power limit!

With the first powerful pulse of the Dao Heart, the vast and majestic 7.4 billion feathers of Chaos power—previously imprisoned by the Myriad Battles Pagoda's laws—erupted like an awakened primordial giant god, surging through Lin Yuan's entire body! No, it was more than that! Supported by the Dao Heart and carried by the Chaos Battle Body, this power seemed to undergo a qualitative change, becoming more condensed and as easy to direct as his own limbs! A sense of unprecedented Perfection filled his entire being!

Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes. His left eye was brimming with life like spring returning to the earth, while his right eye was as deathly silent and cold as an eternal frozen abyss. In the deepest depths of his pupils, there was a speck of Chaos Heart Light, pure as colored glaze and utterly fearless! The charring and scars on his body healed and vanished rapidly under the powerful vitality of the Chaos Battle Body; the flesh at his severed arm wriggled, regenerating at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Lin Yuan stood amidst the afterimages of the vast starry sky within the Myriad Battles Pagoda. He clenched his fist, feeling the unprecedentedly powerful strength surging within him and that eternally pulsing Fearless Dao Heart. The pagoda doors swung open, and the dim light of the external Heaven-Grade Secret Realm flooded in, along with several bone-chillingly cold and malicious powerful Auras that locked onto the pagoda exit like venomous snakes.

A cold arc curled at the corner of Lin Yuan's mouth as he took a step forward. Sensing its master's intent, the chaos heavenly extreme sword let out a clear, melodious chime and automatically leaped into his regenerated palm.

"Mere lowlifes, do you think you're worthy of shaking my Dao Heart?" His voice wasn't loud, yet it contained a fearless Chaos dao rhyme, spreading out like a physical shockwave and instantly shaking the figures outside the pagoda doors, forcing them back repeatedly!

"Finally... you've come out!" A voice filled with bone-deep resentment and irrepressible excitement rang out; it was Yuan! He was no longer in that pathetic, broken state from the abyss; clearly, he had found a fortuitous encounter within the Secret Realm. At this moment, his Aura was more settled, faintly touching the threshold of the Half-step Myriad Dao level. The Wings of the Azure Heaven on his back flowed with brilliant, eerie light, indicating he had recently upgraded the wings to a higher tier. To his left and right stood two other individuals.

On the left was a man clad in crimson scales with a rugged face, holding a flame giant axe the size of a door. The crimson flame wings on his back radiated a scorching heat like molten lava, and his blood-qi was like a Dragon. He was a Peak of the Feather Transformation Realm powerhouse from the Wildlands Holy Land—Yan Huang!

On the right, a figure was shrouded in a deep blue cloak flowing with water-ripple patterns, their face obscured except for two flickering points of eerie blue light beneath the hood's shadow. Fine ice crystals spread silently across the ground beneath his feet, and a bone-chilling cold that could freeze the Soul permeated the air. This was the Peak of the Feather Transformation Realm powerhouse from the Great Yu Dynasty—Yu Bingpo!

Three Peak of the Feather Transformation Realm experts blocked the pagoda entrance in a triangular formation! Killing Intent surged like a physical tide, so intense that even the space near the pagoda doors distorted slightly.

"Lin Yuan!" Yuan stepped forward, his Wings of the Azure Heaven fanning slightly to stir up chaotic air currents. His eyes burned with the flames of revenge and a hint of greed. "Hand over the fortunes you obtained within the Primordial Chaos Realm and kneel to admit your guilt! Out of consideration for our shared sect Origins, I might allow your remnant Soul to undergo Reincarnation! Otherwise... today shall be the day your form and spirit are extinguished, and your path to the Dao is severed!"

Yan Huang slammed his giant axe heavily onto the ground, cracking the floor, and spoke with a voice like a great bell: "Kid, I heard you're quite the fighter? Come, if you can survive three strikes from your Grandpa Yan Huang, I'll consider you to have some guts!" A wave of scorching air rushed toward Lin Yuan.

Yu Bingpo said nothing, but the eerie blue light beneath his hood suddenly brightened. An invisible Soul-piercing force, carrying extreme frigidity, silently stabbed toward Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness! It was a vicious and cunning move, aimed directly at a vital point!

The three coordinated perfectly: Yuan used his Aura to pressure him, Yan Huang launched a frontal assault to draw attention, and Yu Bingpo secretly executed the most insidious Soul Origin attack! Any other Peak of the Feather Transformation Realm Prodigy facing this situation would be heavily injured or even killed instantly!

However, facing this death trap that would make even a Hunyuan Realm Early Stage expert frown, Lin Yuan's expression didn't change at all. In those deep eyes, the dao rhyme of life on the left and death on the right flowed, while at the very core, that speck of glaze-like Chaos fearless heart light remained as calm as an eternal cold pool.

He simply looked quietly at Yuan, who was on the verge of being controlled by his Soul Devouring Seed Spirit Technique. His gaze was as indifferent as someone looking down at an ant in the dust, carrying a detachment that pierced through the essence of the Soul.

Just as Yu Bingpo's bone-chilling Soul power was about to touch Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness—

Lin Yuan spoke.

His voice wasn't high, yet it seemed to contain the first sliver of Dao sound from the dawn of the Universe, echoing with absolute clarity in the deepest parts of the Souls of Yuan, Yan Huang, and Yu Bingpo! Every syllable was like a hammer of Law forged from Chaos divine metal, slamming ruthlessly against their Dao Hearts!

"You all—"

"Battle Intent, scatter!"

"Courage, vanish!"

"Hearts, be clouded!"

Golden words of command! The Dao Heart suppresses the Soul!

BOOM—!!!

There was no world-shaking energy explosion, no dazzling lights of Spells. There was only a terrifying collapse originating from the very source of life and the core of the will!

Yu Bingpo, being the first to be hit, saw the two points of eerie blue light beneath his hood dim and extinguish instantly, like candles blown out by a gale! He let out a muffled groan, his deep blue cloak trembling violently, and the ice crystals spreading beneath his feet melted rapidly as if meeting a blazing sun! An indescribable, massive sense of fear and emptiness originating from the depths of his Soul instantly submerged him! He felt the Soul Origin Laws he had cultivated for a hundred years become bone-chilling yet utterly meaningless, and his proud Soul secret techniques became as laughable as child's play. Fighting spirit? Courage? In this moment, they were completely stripped away and crushed! He only wanted to curl up and hide in the darkest corner, far away from this terrifying existence! Pfft! He suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood containing ice shards, his Aura instantly withering to the extreme. He stumbled back, his eyes filled only with blankness and marrow-deep fear; forget attacking, he had almost lost even the courage to stand.

Next was Yan Huang!

This giant of a man, who just a second ago was aggressive and like erupting lava, seemed to be like a punctured ball the moment Lin Yuan's voice fell! That blood-qi, boiling like magma, suddenly cooled and solidified! The flame giant axe in his hand, which felt like it could split mountains, now became heavier than ten thousand tons, making his arms tremble! He looked at Lin Yuan not as an opponent he could challenge, but as an insurmountable Chaos divine mountain radiating an Aura that made his Soul shudder! Battle Intent? Under the absolute suppression of Dao Heart status, only a sense of insignificance and powerlessness remained! Survive three axe strikes? He couldn't even summon the thought of lifting the axe now! There was only an instinctive urge to kneel and surrender! A strange 'he-he' sound came from his throat, his face turned as pale as paper, and his massive body involuntarily hunched over slightly. His surging Killing Intent dissipated into nothingness, leaving only heavy dejection and self-doubt.