241: Primordial Chaos

Hiss, hiss, hiss—!

On the surface of the stone egg, those glowing cracks sounded like red-hot branding irons, emitting a harsh, piercing sound.

Wisps of primordial chaos qi, so dense they had liquefied and shimmered with the colors of the dawn of Chaos, began to seep out from the cracks!

The moment these currents appeared, they radiated a primitive dao rhyme that made the entire Secret Realm tremble!

They did not dissipate; instead, as if possessing life, they coiled around Lin Yuan's arms and, following the pores and acupoints all over his body, madly drilled into him!

"Urgh—!"

An indescribable, intense pain instantly swept through every cell, every Meridian, and every inch of bone in Lin Yuan's body!

This pain was not merely tearing or burning, but the ultimate agony of transformation, originating from the very essence of life, being forcibly shattered, reshaped, and sublimated!

It felt as if billions of carving knives condensed from primordial chaos qi were simultaneously sculpting inside him, forcibly transforming his mortal flesh into the legendary Chaos Body that was indestructible through ten thousand tribulations and immune to all Laws!

His skin cracked inch by inch, only to instantly heal under the envelopment of the primordial chaos qi; the newly born skin possessed a luster as warm and moist as jade, yet contained the colors of Chaos.

His bones emitted explosive sounds like popping beans, being crushed and reorganized, becoming crystal clear with dark golden Chaos runes flowing within.

Under the scouring of the purple qi, his internal organs seemed to transform into miniature Chaos nebulae, each pulsation triggering the tides of the surrounding Laws.

His Meridians were widened to their limits, like riverbeds carrying a Chaos galaxy; what flowed within was no longer spiritual power, but condensed primordial chaos qi!

Even more crucially, the Origin core of the Chaos Body, which had originally only been gestated to 50%, was now flooded with endless primordial chaos qi; like parched earth receiving a torrential flood, it began to expand, solidify, and transform at an unprecedented speed!

50%... 55%... 60%... 70%...

The gestation level of the Chaos Body was soaring at a terrifying speed!

However, this process of transformation was also extremely dangerous.

primordial chaos qi was too primitive and overbearing; every scouring contained the mighty power of Creation, and the slightest carelessness would result in the collapse of his dao body and the destruction of his Divine Soul.

If not for Lin Yuan possessing the Chaos Fearless Dao Heart to suppress his Divine Soul, the phantom image of the chaos green lotus to harmonize and organize, the Chaos Great Dao Origin to guide and assimilate, as well as the terrifying Foundation of his Primordial Dao Body itself, he would have long since turned to dust in this violent transformation.

Time passed rapidly in this core of the Secret Realm with its thousand-fold flow rate. One day in the outside world was nearly three years here.

Lin Yuan was like someone wrapped inside a gigantic Chaos cocoon composed of primordial chaos qi.

On the surface of the giant cocoon, countless primitive Chaos runes flickered, each flash causing the entire Sea of Laws to tremble violently.

Inside the giant cocoon, an earth-shattering leap in life was taking place.

The Awakening level of the Chaos Body had already broken through the 90% mark and was launching its final assault toward that ultimate, perfect 100%!

Inside the Chaos cocoon, the concept of time had long since blurred. Sixty years of time were like sand flowing through fingertips.

Lin Yuan's consciousness seemed to sink into the Chaos Mother Sea at the beginning of the Universe's birth.

He "saw" the Grandmist undifferentiated, the clear and the turbid yet to be distinguished; boundless Chaos was like thick paste, containing all possibilities while gestating ultimate deathly stillness.

He "heard" the roar when the chaos singularity exploded—a silent sound capable of tearing apart all frameworks of Law; the clear and turbid qi separated like Dragons, fragments of time and space scattered like shattered glass, and the Five Elements Origin struggled to condense into a prototype amidst the embers of the explosion...

These were the most primordial fragments of Creation memory contained within the Chaos Origin core embryo!

At this crucial moment, as Lin Yuan completely opened his body and mind, using himself as a furnace to refine the Origin core, these most primitive and pure Dao imprints surged into his Divine Soul like a torrent, madly merging, verifying, and completing his comprehension of the Chaos Great Dao and the miniature universe scene evolved by the phantom image of the chaos green lotus!

His 15% comprehension of the Chaos Great Dao, under the impact of these Origin imprints, was like a drop of water thrown into boiling oil, beginning to violently boil, expand, and sublimate!

16%... 17%... 18%...

His understanding of the three great truths of Chaos— "Inclusivity," "Evolution," and "Birth and Death"—became profound and clear at an unprecedented speed.

In his Sea of Consciousness, the phantom image of the chaos green lotus and the miniature universe evolving upon its lotus leaves became clearer and more perfect.

The originally blurry galaxy began to condense into concrete stars; on the desolate continents, prototypes of extending leylines and surging rivers began to appear, and the circulation of the clear and turbid qi conformed more to a certain profound rhythm... The chaos green lotus itself also became more solid, and faint, blurry Chaos divine runes even emerged upon the lotus pedestal.

Meanwhile, the transformation of his Chaos Body, rushing toward 100%, also entered its final, most crucial, and most dangerous stage!

The infusion of primordial chaos qi reached its peak. The pressure inside the giant cocoon was terrifying to the extreme, enough to crush an Origin Dao Artifact into powder.

Lin Yuan's body seemed to have transformed into a battlefield, where the newly born bones, flesh, and Meridians—containing Chaos runes and flowing with dark golden primordial chaos qi—were undergoing their final replacement and Fusion with the old mortal body structure.

Every cell cycled billions of times through disintegration and Rebirth, each cycle bringing it closer to that perfect form of the Chaos Body.

99%!

Only one last step remaining!

Just at this moment, an unexpected change occurred!

At the core of that Chaos Origin core embryo—which Lin Yuan had been continuously refining and which had already shrunk by more than half—a "singularity," indescribably small yet seemingly containing infinite mass and energy, suddenly lit up!

This point of light was purer and more dazzling than all the primordial chaos qi combined!

It seemed to be the most essential, most original location of the entire Origin core embryo—the Heart of the Primordial Chaos Origin!

This point of light ignored the barriers of Lin Yuan's body and the distance of time and space; like a teleportation, it appeared directly in the deepest part of Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness, appearing right above the swaying, radiant phantom image of the chaos green lotus!

What did it intend to do?

Lin Yuan's Chaos Fearless Dao Heart sensed an unprecedented warning!

This point of the Heart of the Primordial Chaos Origin contained the most primitive power of Creation; it did not intend to destroy, but rather... to occupy the magpie's nest!

It wanted to forcibly assimilate and devour the miniature universe prototype in Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness—which had been condensed by his own Dao and nurtured and evolved by the chaos green lotus—to turn it into nourishment for its own evolution of a new Universe!

This was the final instinctual resistance of the Chaos Origin core embryo, and it was also its ultimate desire as an "embryo" to "mature" and to "create the world"!

"You want to devour my dao foundation? In your dreams!" Lin Yuan's will let out a heaven-shaking roar in his Sea of Consciousness!

His Chaos Fearless Dao Heart shone brilliantly, its eternal, indestructible dao rhyme transforming into tangible clear radiance, tightly protecting the chaos green lotus and the miniature universe at the core of his Sea of Consciousness.

The phantom image of the chaos green lotus erupted with unprecedented power; billions of crystal-clear, jade-like roots frantically probed out from beneath the lotus pedestal, piercing through the Void Realm of the Sea of Consciousness, fiercely stabbing toward that point of the Heart of the Primordial Chaos Origin, attempting to coil around, decompose, and absorb it!