269: Wandaoyuan Pool

Various Great Daos flowed, collided, blended, annihilated, and were reborn within the massive "pool" like living spirits. At times they transformed into roaring dragons, at times they condensed into tranquil lotuses, and at times they scattered into starlight points across the sky.

Each Great Dao imprint radiated its own unique Dao charm and pressure. Billions of Dao charms intertwined, yet instead of chaotic conflict, they formed a strange, all-encompassing harmonic rhythm, together constructing the Foundation of this Myriad Dao Origin Pool.

The center of the Origin Pool was not calm. There, a massive vortex over ten thousand miles in diameter rotated slowly. The core of the vortex emitted an indescribable attraction, appearing to be the destination and starting point for all Great Dao imprints in the entire Origin Pool.

The edge of the vortex was the most violent region. Great Dao imprints of different attributes collided and annihilated like wild horses, erupting with terrifying energy turbulence sufficient to instantly vaporize ordinary Hunyuan Realm experts, only to be forcibly restrained and harmonized by the power of the vortex core in the next moment, reintegrating into that harmonic rhythm.

"The Myriad Dao Origin Pool... it truly lives up to its name." Lin Yuan hovered in the void at the edge of the Origin Pool, his Great Accomplishment Chaos Body's pressure naturally released to push away the chaotic Great Dao turbulence attempting to invade. Chaos Heart Light flowed in his eyes as he instantly saw through the essence of this one-star Creation Secret Realm.

This place was not naturally formed; rather, it was a product of the violent collisions and sedimentation between Great Daos when the New Divine Domain first opened. It was a collection of "primordial imprints" left by all Great Dao Origins in this world.

For any cultivator pursuing the peak of the Great Dao, this place was a supreme Holy Land. Comprehending here allowed one to point directly at the Great Dao Origin, with an efficiency far exceeding the outside world by a thousandfold! If one could withstand the baptism of the Origin Pool's core vortex, they could even temper themselves with the Myriad Dao Origin imprints, causing a qualitative transformation of their Dao body and Divine Soul.

"I shall use this torrent of myriad Daos to temper my Great Accomplishment Chaos Body, validate 60% of the Chaos Great Dao, and peer into that higher Realm of 'Chaos Returning to One'!" Lin Yuan's mind was firm. The seventh-tier chaos wings behind him suddenly flapped, and he turned into a dark-gold stream of light, charging without hesitation into that magnificent and deadly "pool water" composed of billions of Great Dao imprints!

Buzz!

The moment Lin Yuan stepped into the range of the Myriad Dao Origin Pool, the entire pool seemed as if a stone had been cast into it, and billions of Great Dao imprints instantly "came alive"! They were no longer flowing harmoniously, but were like an enraged swarm of bees, carrying their respective Dao charm pressures and transforming into an overwhelming torrent of Great Daos, madly surging toward Lin Yuan, the "outsider" and "anomaly"!

The sharp Qi of iron-blooded armies tore through space, flames that could boil seas swept across the eight directions, a cold wave that could freeze the Soul permeated the void, threads of twisted fate coiled around, and ripples of time accelerating decay layered upon each other... This was not a conscious attack, but the Myriad Dao Origin Pool's instinctive rejection and trial for the intruder!

Only an existence capable of withstanding the scouring of the myriad Daos—and comprehending, harmonizing, or even driving a portion of those Daos—was qualified to go deep into the Origin Pool and approach that core vortex.

"A torrent of myriad Daos? A pity, for I am the Master of Myriad Daos who has comprehended the Chaos Great Dao!"

Facing this torrent of myriad Daos that could instantly turn any Feather Transformation Realm Prodigy into fly ash, Lin Yuan's eyes were calm and waveless, even carrying a hint of scrutinizing indifference. He did not deploy his domineering [Chaos Domain: All Heavens Returning to Ruin], but instead pushed the power of his Great Accomplishment Chaos Body to the limit!

Beneath his skin, dark-gold runes bolstered by 20 billion combat power shone brilliantly, flowing with the aura of the Chaos Mother Sea. He was like a miniature Chaos singularity, quietly hovering in the center of the violent torrent of Great Daos.

Chiii—!

The torrent of attacks formed by billions of Dao Law imprints was like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, slamming violently into Lin Yuan! The expected earth-shattering explosion did not occur.

The sharp metal Qi capable of annihilating stars, upon touching Lin Yuan's skin, was like hitting an invisible Chaos barrier. The sharpness was forcibly ground down and decomposed by the Chaos Dao charm, turning into strands of pure gold-attribute Origin particles that were actively absorbed by Lin Yuan's body!

The heaven-burning fires scorched madly, yet they could not leave the slightest char mark on Lin Yuan's surface. Instead, they were rapidly assimilated by the Chaos Body's all-encompassing nature; the violent fire elements were tamed, turning into a warm current that nourished the Chaos Origin!

The cold wave that could freeze all things disintegrated on its own within three zhang of Lin Yuan. The Ice Great Dao was forcibly converted into gentle water-element vitality by the Chaos power!

The coiling threads of fate, upon touching the eternal barrier constructed by the 60% Soul Great Dao and the Chaos Fearless Dao Heart around Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness, snapped inch by inch and dissipated, unable to shake his will in the slightest!

The power of decay brought by time acceleration was head-on resisted by the eternal and indestructible Dao charm contained within the Great Accomplishment Chaos Body! The cutting traps formed by spatial folds were as useless as child's play before his stable existence, which was like a Chaos singularity!

Lin Yuan did not even deliberately defend or counterattack; he simply stood there, using his body as a furnace and Chaos as a guide, actively accepting, decomposing, absorbing, and assimilating this violent baptism from the Myriad Dao Origin Pool!

His body seemed to have turned into a massive black hole, a Chaos furnace efficient to the extreme! As the billions of Dao Law imprints struck, not only could they not harm him in the slightest, but they were forcibly stripped of their aggression, restored to the most primal Great Dao particles, and then greedily devoured and absorbed by his Great Accomplishment Chaos Body!

The miniature galaxy inside his bones rotated faster, its starlight brilliant as if absorbing the Great Daos of the heavens. The Chaos nebulae formed by his internal organs expanded rapidly, each pulse drawing in more Great Dao Origin to blend in. In his Sea of Consciousness, the chaos green lotus swayed gracefully, and the miniature Universe prototype atop the lotus pedestal accelerated its evolution under the nourishment of the Myriad Dao Origin particles!

Stellar trajectories became clearer, continental plates began to heave into mountains and flow with rivers, and the circulation of clear and turbid Qi faintly formed a preliminary cycle consistent with the true essence of Chaos's birth and destruction!

The 60% mastery of the Chaos Great Dao displayed its terrifying power of reigning supreme over all Daos at this moment! Chaos, after all, was the beginning of all Daos, the source of all Daos!

At this moment, the baptism of the Myriad Dao Origin Pool was not a calamity for Lin Yuan, but the most sumptuous feast! It was a supreme Opportunity for him to validate the Chaos Great Dao, temper his Chaos Body, and drive the evolution of his own Universe prototype!

The miniature chaos origin spring within his body also accelerated its rotation, taking in the Myriad Dao Origin particles assimilated by Lin Yuan, further refining and purifying them into primordial chaos qi that was more compatible with Lin Yuan himself to feed back into his entire body.

"Not enough! Still not enough! How can this bit of scouring touch the threshold of 'Chaos Returning to One'?" Lin Yuan felt the steadily rising power within his body but shook his head slightly. Though the torrent of Great Daos at the edge of the Myriad Dao Origin Pool was strong, it was too dispersed; it had plenty of impact but lacked concentration, and it could not yet form true pressure on him.