249: Tianyun Stele

"A monster... a true monster..." In the distance, the Seven Absolute Sword Immortal, who had witnessed the entire process, felt her hand holding the sword tremble slightly, and her sword heart felt a chill. Xuanyuan Wuji's gaze was solemn to the extreme, and the Imperial Dao Dragon Qi within his body let out a low dragon roar. Other Era Prodigies, such as Mr. Yuan Mie Xu, Azure Heaven Emperor, and Constant Inability, looked at Lin Yuan with gazes that had completely shifted from scrutiny and wariness to unprecedented solemnity and... a hint of hidden killing intent.

Lin Yuan had become the greatest mountain they must work together to move on their path to the top! The chaotic battle of the Sixth Heaven was pushed to an even more tragic climax by Lin Yuan's two interventions.

Lin Yuan sat cross-legged, comprehending the insights from the recent battles and the power of the Great Dao Laws on the plains. The moment he left the Great Dao Law Plains and stepped into the Seventh Heaven, Lin Yuan felt as if he had fallen into a bizarre kaleidoscope. This was no longer a stable space; the boundaries of time and space were completely broken, crushed, and reorganized.

The scene before him changed instantly: one moment it was the phantom of the surging River of Time reflecting countless tributaries; the next, it transformed into a maze of countless spatial fragments constantly collapsing and reorganizing; a moment later, he might see countless threads representing different destiny trajectories crisscrossing in the Void Realm, emitting a heart-palpitating aura of fate. Direction, distance, past, and future all became chaotic here.

He saw two figures colliding fiercely in the core area of the maze, causing violent tremors throughout the entire heaven.

Ye Du was surrounded by the phantoms of the Six Paths of Reincarnation. Facing Lu Chen's time freeze, the River of Rebirth appeared beneath his feet, channeling the frozen time power into Reincarnation, leaving him unaffected. Facing attacks of spatial folding and shifting, the Gate of the Afterlife appeared by his side, swallowing the attacks and returning them from another gate! He could even draw upon the power of Reincarnation to form a Time Vortex, attempting to drag Lu Chen into an endless maze of Reincarnation.

Lu Chen's figure was as ethereal and uncertain as spacetime itself. With a light stroke of his fingertip, he could freeze local time, making Ye Du's movements as sluggish as a snail; or fold space, instantly shifting Ye Du's attack thousands of miles away. He sometimes hid in the cracks of time and sometimes flashed from the future to launch a fatal blow, being unpredictable and mysterious. Surprisingly, like Lin Yuan, he had comprehended multiple Great Dao powers while in the Feather Transformation Realm. The coordination of the two supreme Great Daos of Time and Space allowed his combat power to steadily suppress Ye Du.

The battle between the two had no earth-shattering explosions, but it was extremely dangerous. Time was sliced, looped, and reset; space was folded, torn, and displaced; destiny threads were plucked, entangled, and severed. The entire Seventh Heaven seemed to have become a massive, ever-changing Spacetime Sandbox. Ordinary prodigies stepping into it would be lost instantly, torn apart by the chaotic spacetime forces.

Lin Yuan's Chaos Domain remained stable here, forcibly suppressing the chaotic spacetime around him like a stabilizing pillar. His gaze swept across this maze, and his Divine Thought locked onto several faint but hostile auras—several Divine Domain Leaders who considered themselves proficient in space or time and attempted to ambush him in the Chaos.

"Hiding like rats, get out."

Lin Yuan pointed his fingers like a sword and lightly slashed at a certain spot in the Void Realm.

Chii!

A Chaos Ruin Blade, its edges flowing with gui xu runes, emerged silently. Ignoring the distance of space and the obstruction of time, it instantly pierced through that seemingly empty area!

"Ah!" A scream rang out as two hidden figures were forced out of the cracks in spacetime. Their bodies were torn by the Chaos Ruin Blade, revealing wounds deep to the bone. Their Dao principles were eroded, and they were instantly heavily injured. Their marks automatically flew toward Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan didn't even look; his figure flickered within the Chaos Domain, appearing at another node where destiny threads were entangled as if teleporting, and he struck with a palm! Chaos power erupted, turning a mysterious Prodigy who was trying to invoke the power of destiny to curse him, along with his formation, into dust!

He was like a reaper walking through the spacetime maze. Wherever the Chaos Domain reached, Chaos was calmed and the small-time villains were punished. The Luck Rainbow Bridge behind him, having absorbed the dissipated Luck of these experts and the spacetime Origin of this place, became more solid and heavy, with spacetime runes faintly rising and falling within the bridge.

In the distance, the battle between Lu Chen and Ye Du had reached a fever pitch. However, both sensed Lin Yuan's heart-palpitating pressure from the rainbow bridge and his terrifying strength in suppressing spacetime with every move. They tacitly stopped for a moment and looked in Lin Yuan's direction, their eyes filled with unprecedented wariness.

Lin Yuan, however, had already stepped into the Eighth Heaven. An aura of desolation, deathly silence, yet containing the power of star destruction, blew toward him. Before him was an infinite Void Realm, with countless massive and varied star remnants floating in it. Some were like mountains split by a sharp blade, their cross-sections as smooth as mirrors; some were like eggshells crushed by immense force, with fragments scattered throughout the Void Realm; and some were just cold star cores burning with ghostly blue flames, emitting terrifying radiation and gravity.

This was a graveyard of stars, a desert of power.

At the very center of the battlefield, atop a broken star so massive it was hard to imagine, a giant stele formed entirely from dark-gold Heavenly Dao Law stood tall! The body of the stele was engraved with complex and profound "Heavenly Luck" divine runes, emitting a vast pressure that suppressed the heavens and invoked the Luck of ten thousand worlds! A heavenly ladder composed of pure light extended from the top of the stele into the depths of the Void Realm, which was the entrance to the final throne—the Ninth Heaven!

The heavenly luck stele!

There was no need to collect ten marks; as long as one could reach the top of this stele and endure the baptism of the Heavenly Dao pressure before it, one could directly advance to the Ninth Heaven! This was a shortcut, but also a dangerous path! The Heavenly Dao pressure emanating from the stele's body was like a physical Chaos Divine Mountain, making the prodigies near the star remnants feel that every step was difficult and their Divine Souls were about to tear!

At this moment, beneath the giant stele was the center of the storm!

"Those who block me shall die!" Universe roared, pushing the power of his Ancient Desolate Holy Body to the limit. Dark-gold blood Qi rose like smoke into the sky! He ignored that terrifying Heavenly Dao pressure, like a human-shaped tyrannosaurus, crushing the star remnants beneath his feet. Every step made the Void Realm tremble as he brutally knocked aside several prodigies in his way, charging toward the base of the heavenly luck stele! The aura of the Destruction Great Dao condensed on his fist; anyone who tried to stop him was repelled or heavily injured by the fist wind that was enough to shatter stars!

Derive - Dao Void appeared much more composed. He stood at the edge of the battlefield, his hands constantly forming seals for deduction. Countless illusory destiny threads flowed between his fingertips, connecting everyone on the battlefield and that heavenly luck stele. He was looking for the weak points and patterns of change in the Heavenly Dao pressure during the ascent, searching for the theoretically most "effortless" path. Meanwhile, with a flick of his fingers, invisible destiny power interfered with other competitors approaching the heavenly luck stele, causing their steps to falter or triggering star fragments to smash into them.