270: Suppressing the Great Dragon

His gaze turned toward the depths of the Origin Pool, toward that slowly rotating core vortex that emitted a fatal attraction and an aura of destruction!

"Only there, where all Daos converge and Origins gather, is the ultimate furnace to prove my Dao!" Chaos Heart Light erupted from Lin Yuan's eyes, carrying a resoluteness that knew no retreat. No longer satisfied with passively absorbing the Great Dao torrent at the edges, he moved his body, braving the increasingly dense and condensed Great Dao impacts. Like a world-opening Chaos Divine Sword, he resolutely charged toward the core vortex of the Myriad Dao Origin Pool!

The closer he got to the core, the more violent and condensed the Great Dao torrent became. The edges were billions of scattered streams, but near the vortex, they had turned into roaring Dao Dragons! The Gold Dragon's scales were cold and stern, its claws and teeth tearing through the Void Realm; the Fire Dragon burned through the eight directions, twisting the space wherever its dragon breath passed; the Time Dragon's body was illusory, leaving time in disarray wherever it went; the Destruction Dragon was entwined with the Black Flame of Extinction, its mere aura enough to cause a Divine Soul to collapse... These Dao Dragons, condensed from pure Great Dao Origin imprints, each possessed terrifying power approaching or even surpassing the Early Stage of the ordinary Hunyuan Realm! They were no longer instinctively repelling him, but carried a will to protect the core, launching a life-and-death siege against Lin Yuan, the intruder who dared to delve deep into the Forbidden Ground!

"Roar—!" Nine Dao Dragons of different colors and attributes tore through Chaos from different directions, carrying world-destroying power as they lunged at Lin Yuan simultaneously! Nine distinct yet peak Great Dao powers intertwined into a celestial net, sealing off all space for evasion, intending to completely tear Lin Yuan apart and annihilate him!

"Good timing!" Lin Yuan was not shocked but delighted, the Battle Intent in his eyes burning like fire! Facing this death trap that could cause even top Prodigies like Heavenly Emperor Cang and Abyss Ruin to fall, he finally made his move!

"Chaos Ruin Blade!"

Merging his fingers like a sword, a dark-gold blade light, as thin as a hair and with profound gui xu runes flowing along its edges—generated by a skill attached to his chaos wings—silently slashed out! This slash had no earth-shattering momentum, yet it contained Lin Yuan's ultimate mastery of the true essence of "Ending" and "Annihilation" from his 60% Chaos Great Dao! As the blade light passed, space was not cut open, but rather, like a canvas thrown into the guixu origin point, it was silently annihilated into an absolute vacuum channel!

The first to bear the brunt was a Gold Dragon. Its sharp dragon claws, capable of clashing head-on with top-tier Dao Artifacts, shattered and annihilated inch by inch like fragile glass the moment they touched the Chaos Ruin Blade! Then came the dragon body, the dragon head... The entire dragon, condensed from pure Sharp Gold Origin, could not even last a single breath under the Ruin Blade before being completely erased and returned to the most primitive gold-element Origin particles!

"Life and Death Cage!"

With another thought from Lin Yuan, the runes representing the Great Dao of Life and Death on his seventh-tier chaos wings lit up! Intertwining gray and white Dao chains appeared out of thin air, ignoring the Time Dragon's illusory body and the Space Dragon's folded trajectory, precisely entangling the two most treacherous dragons!

The supreme power of the cycle of life and death flowed on the chains, frantically draining the Origins of the two Dao Dragons! The Time Dragon's body rapidly became gray and decayed, as if it had experienced the washing of billions of years of time; the Space Dragon let out a pained hiss as the spatial nodes composing it were forcibly collapsed by the power of life and death! In just a few breaths, the two powerful Dao Dragons were ground down by life and death, turning into pure Space-Time Origin and being devoured by Lin Yuan's wings!

"Roar!" The Destruction Dragon lunged forward carrying the Black Flame of Extinction, its dragon breath spewing out, returning all things to guixu! A sharp light flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes; he actually didn't dodge, the dark-gold light of his Great Accomplishment Chaos Body condensing to the extreme on his right fist!

"Break!"

A punch was thrown! No fancy techniques, only the purest power and the crushing weight of the Chaos Origin! The Chaos Fist, containing a terrifying supreme power of nearly a hundred billion units, slammed heavily into the Destruction Dragon breath!

BOOM!!!

The Destruction Dragon breath, capable of annihilating stars, was like a raging wave hitting a divine mountain before Lin Yuan's Chaos iron fist, exploding violently! The wild destruction energy was forcibly torn apart, decomposed, and assimilated by the Chaos power contained in the fist's edge! The punch's momentum didn't decrease, striking heavily on the head of the Destruction Dragon!

Crack! A tooth-aching sound of bone cracking rang out! The Destruction Dragon's massive head, composed of pure extinction energy, was actually dented by Lin Yuan's punch! The destruction aura fluctuated violently, letting out a pained wail! Lin Yuan did not let up, turning his fist into a claw with fingers like hooks, his dark-gold Chaos runes shining as he ruthlessly plunged them into the Destruction Dragon's head!

"Devouring Evolution!"

The vortexes at the edges of his wings spun frantically, and an irresistible suction force erupted! The terrifying Extinction Origin contained within the Destruction Dragon's massive body was like a burst dam, forcibly drained and devoured by Lin Yuan! The Destruction Dragon struggled frantically, but its body shriveled and dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye, finally collapsing completely and turning into a pure and majestic torrent of destruction energy that merged into Lin Yuan's body!

The Great Accomplishment Chaos Body roared, greedily absorbing this homologous destruction power, the dark-gold luster on its surface seeming to deepen slightly. Lin Yuan could feel his understanding of the "Destruction" branch of the Chaos Great Dao rapidly deepening, and his mastery of the Great Dao of Devouring was also steadily improving!

In an instant, four of the nine Dao Dragons were gone! The remaining five dragons (Fire, Water, Wood, Light, and Darkness) let out roars of shock and anger, their attacks becoming even more frenzied, yet also carrying a hint of instinctual fear! This human before them was simply more like a monster born from Chaos than they, the Incarnations of the Dao!

Lin Yuan's figure shuttled through the Great Dao torrent as if taking a stroll in a courtyard. The Chaos Ruin Blade cut horizontally and vertically, the Life and Death Cage imprisoned and refined, and the Chaos iron fist crushed and annihilated! He was like a Chaos Dominator dancing in the torrent of myriad Daos; every move he made was precise and efficient, dismantling and devouring the powerful Dao Dragons one by one!

His aura did not diminish in battle but instead climbed steadily because of the continuous devouring and refining of the myriad Dao Origins! The evolution of the miniature universe on the chaos green lotus pedestal became faster and more realistic! His mastery of the Chaos Great Dao, under the verification of actual combat and the nourishment of Origin energy, steadily advanced toward 61% and 62%!

Finally, after pinning the last Light Dragon to the Void Realm with the Chaos Ruin Blade and completely devouring its Origin, there were no more obstacles before Lin Yuan. He had already stepped into the true core area of the Myriad Dao Origin Pool—the edge of that terrifying vortex with a diameter of ten thousand miles!

The Great Dao turbulence, violent to the extreme, formed a literal energy storm here! Billions of Great Dao Origin imprints were forcibly torn apart, stirred, and compressed here, only to be rebirthed into new, purer Origin particles under the unspeakable power of the vortex core. This place was the ultimate ground where destruction and rebirth intertwined! It was the core engine of the Myriad Dao Origin Pool's power! The energy level and Dao pressure it contained were hundreds or thousands of times greater than the periphery!