220: Chaos Wings advance to the fourth tier

"Lin Yuan!" The Xuanming War General's voice resounded through the sky, carrying a desperate roar. Every word was like a heavy hammer of profound ice, striking at the heart of every Martial Artist in Lihuo Star City.

"By the decree of the Saint Emperor of the Tianyuan Dynasty, I offer the core resources of a Profound Realm as tribute! To help you ascend to the peak!"

"His Majesty, the Saint Emperor of the Tianyuan Dynasty, has conveyed his decree to me: to accept you as his final Personal Disciple! The Emperor's dojo is open to you! The complete volume of the 'Tianyuan War Scripture' is yours to comprehend!"

"This is a projection of the 'Xuanming War Drum'!" The Xuanming War General waved his hand abruptly, and a phantom of a primitive bronze drum, covered in mysterious ice patterns, floated in the air. It emitted a terrifying Aura capable of suppressing the ages, with blood-colored light faintly flowing across the drum surface. "With this drum shadow, you can mobilize all Martial Artists in the Feather Transformation Realm within my territory, the Xuanming Heavenly Realm, except for the Imperial Guard! To see the drum is to see me in person!"

"This agreement is sworn upon my Dao Heart of Xuanming, and guaranteed by the decree of the Saint Emperor of the Tianyuan Dynasty! The Heavenly Dao is my witness!"

The Xuanming War General's voice rumbled like Chaos divine thunder, echoing over Lihuo Star City. Each condition was like a bombshell, blasting the Martial Artists below—who were already numbed by the Great Dao of Life and Death and the pressure of the myriad Daos—out of their wits!

The core resources of a Profound Realm! A Personal Disciple to the Saint Emperor! The complete volume of the 'Tianyuan War Scripture'! A projection of the Xuanming War Drum that could mobilize the power of a Profound Realm!

This was no longer a recruitment; this was an unprecedented, almost insane display of regard and investment by an immortal Imperial Dynasty into a Prodigy of the Feather Transformation Realm! It was a sky-high price that would make even Saint-Grade powerhouses turn green with envy!

The Nine Heavens Emissary of the Cangqiong Imperial Dynasty looked ashen, his lips trembling, but he could not say a word. The commander of the Taiyan Divine Guards clutched his chest, looking at the floating projection of the Xuanming War Drum, his eyes filled with unwillingness and deep helplessness. They knew that faced with such conditions offered by the Tianyuan Dynasty, the Imperial Dynasty behind them likely could not produce more or higher-level chips. Unless... they were willing to bet on core resources at the God Domain level, but that would never be opened for a Prodigy of the Feather Transformation Realm, even if he had comprehended the Great Dao of Life and Death!

The entire Lihuo Star City was deathly silent. Billions of gazes, filled with unparalleled shock, awe, envy, and even jealousy, were focused on the figure in the center of the battle stage. The chaos wings fluttered gently, and the Great Dao of Life and Death that had been cutting through the heavens and earth slowly receded. The vitality in Lin Yuan's left eye faded, and the deathly stillness in his right eye dissipated, restoring the deep, starry-sea-like calm.

He looked up at the Xuanming War General, whose Aura was overwhelming and whose gaze was burning like fire. A faint glimmer of the glass-like Chaos Fearless Heart light flickered deep in his eyes.

"Since the Tianyuan Dynasty thinks so highly of me, Lin Yuan, then—"

Lin Yuan's voice was calm and waveless, yet it clearly penetrated the solidified air.

"Tianyuan Dynasty, Lin Yuan accepts."

The moment the words fell, a grand, majestic will, seemingly originating from above the Nine Heavens, carrying a trace of indescribable approval and expectation, brushed through Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness like a breeze:

"Lin Yuan... This Emperor looks forward to meeting you after you become the champion of the Taichu Divine Continent Feather Transformation Realm Prodigy Tournament!"

The Xuanming War General's figure tore through the Void Realm and departed, leaving behind the Xuanming War Drum projection floating in the air, as well as a spatial ring resting quietly in Lin Yuan's palm. The ring was dark gold, made of a material that was neither gold nor jade, cool to the touch, and its surface flowed with subtle, mysterious patterns like star trajectories, emitting a restrained yet majestic spatial fluctuation. This was the core resource of a Profound Realm that the Tianyuan Dynasty had promised him; now, according to his current Realm, a portion had already been provided. Its internal space was so vast that it could contain a galaxy!

Lin Yuan's Divine Thought probed inside.

Hum!

The scene before him opened up. It was not the mountains of Origin crystals or divine materials he had expected, but a Universe of energy that had been forcibly compressed and condensed to the extreme! As far as the eye could see, there were endless rivers of primal beginning origin crystals flowing with seven-colored radiance! They were like frozen liquid galaxies, surging and roaring, yet bound by invisible spatial power, turning into solidified mountain ranges of crystals that emitted suffocatingly pure Origin power, layer upon layer, endless, with no end in sight! The sheer terror of their reserves far exceeded any mineral vein Lin Yuan had plundered at the bottom of the abyss in the Primordial Chaos Realm! What was even more shocking was that in the core area of these crystal mountain ranges, there were nine fist-sized, perfectly round, indescribable crystals floating—they seemed to contain all colors yet returned to absolute Chaos—the chaos origin crystals! Although their quality was far inferior to the mother source core he had obtained in the abyss, the Chaos Origin fragments and the power of creation and destruction they contained were still vast and majestic!

"Tianyuan Dynasty... What a grand gesture!" Even with Lin Yuan's iron will, he could not help but be moved by these sky-high resources at this moment. The core resources of a Profound Realm truly lived up to their reputation! These resources were enough to support the rise and fall of a large Sect for ten thousand years, yet now, they were all piled up in his hands alone!

"For the chaos wings to ascend to the fourth rank, I need... 250 billion Origin crystals!" Lin Yuan's gaze swept across the endless mountain ranges of crystals, and a sharp arc curved at the corner of his mouth. "There are far more than a trillion Origin crystals here!"

He hesitated no longer. With a thought, the three pairs of chaos wings behind him, flowing with green lotus divine patterns, unfolded with a roar, like a screen of chaos divine gold hanging from the sky, instantly cutting out an independent Chaos Domain above Lihuo Star City. The newly born annihilation dao patterns on the edges of the wings suddenly lit up, emitting a low, Soul-trembling hum.

"heaven swallowing pagoda! Chaos Origin Pool! Open!"

Deep in his Sea of Consciousness, the gate to the second floor of the primitive, mottled nine-story heaven swallowing pagoda swung open with a bang! The space inside the pagoda had long since evolved into a "Chaos Origin Pool" under the nourishment of the chaos green lotus Origin, and at this moment, it erupted with a terrifying suction force capable of swallowing the Universe! This suction did not act on the outside world, but precisely locked onto the surging seven-colored Origin power crystal river within the spatial ring!

Swish—! ! !

Like a heavenly river pouring backwards! The solidified seven-colored crystal mountain ranges instantly disintegrated and liquefied under the power of the heaven swallowing pagoda, turning into a surging torrent of Primal Beginning Origin power. Ignoring spatial barriers, it frantically poured into the Chaos Origin Pool! The Origin Pool was like a bottomless abyss, accepting everything, storing and purifying the massive amount of pure Origin power! Its speed and efficiency were a hundred times greater than the wings' autonomous absorption!

"chaos wings! Ascend to the fourth rank! Right now!" Lin Yuan urged with all his might!

Inside the Chaos Origin Pool, the mountain-like 250 billion primal beginning origin crystals were instantly ignited! The vast, pure-to-the-extreme Primal Beginning Origin power turned into a seven-colored giant dragon spanning the Void Realm, bringing with it a roar that could create the world, ignoring the barriers of the Origin Pool, and frantically poured into the three mysterious wings behind Lin Yuan!

Boom—! ! ! !

Above Lihuo Star City, it was as if a Chaos sun had risen! The blinding Chaos divine light instantly submerged even the projection of the Xuanming War Drum! Lin Yuan's figure completely disappeared into the core of the light, with only those three pairs of wings expanding, extending, and transforming frantically!