325: Chaos Origin City

"Very good." Lin Yuan's voice was calm yet carried unquestionable majesty, "This place shall be named Chaos Origin City! You all are now the Origin Guards!"

He raised his hand and pointed beyond the Star City, toward the vast Divine Domain that was still filled with countless exotic beast nests, resource points, and even the traces of other lords.

"Follow me into battle! With slaughter, we shall forge the immortal foundation of our city! With blood, we shall irrigate the path to the pinnacle of my Dao!"

"Understood!!!" The hundred Origin Guards roared in unison, their Chaos heart-fires burning fiercely in their eyes, and their Return to Ruin blades emitted a bloodthirsty hum!

Lin Yuan's wings flapped, transforming him into a streak of Chaos light as he charged ahead toward the nearest area occupied by exotic beasts, which was marked by high energy readings and rare mineral deposits. The hundred Origin Guards transformed into a hundred streaks of dark gold thunder, following closely behind, their cold killing intent tearing through the chaotic Void Realm.

At this moment, the fangs of Chaos Origin City were finally bared! A blood-red storm of war-feeding-war, of stopping killing with killing, sweeping across the 903 Divine Domain, officially began!

Meanwhile, in the distant Life Sanctuary, shrouded in the emerald radiance of the ancient tree of life, Su Yao was using her Natural Resonance talent to sense the sudden, heart-palpitating aura of Chaos slaughter erupting in the distance, as well as that Dao Soldier legion that had shaken the heavens upon its first cry. Her stunningly beautiful face was filled with worry.

"Is this the Dao Soldier you summoned… Lin Yuan, your pace is too fast… and too dangerous…" She looked outside the sanctuary at a forest that had just been slightly polluted by the eerie aura of the Dark Abyss, a trace of determination flashing in her eyes. "It seems I cannot just stick to steady development anymore… The erosion of the Dark Abyss is coming even faster than I imagined…"

Inside the Star Fortress of the Cangqiong Imperial Dynasty, Heavenly Emperor Cang looked at Lin Yuan's rising merit points on the merit leaderboard, his expression as gloomy as water. Floating before him was a brilliant star core, inside which was sealed a "Star Radiance Guard" currently being nurtured from star energy, but its progress was far behind Lin Yuan's Hongmeng Dao Soldier.

"Dao Soldier… Hmph! Lin Yuan, do you think you are the only one with trump cards?" A hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes as he ordered an elder with a profound aura beside him, "Activate the 'Star Fall Project'. Spare no cost to accelerate the incubation of the Star Radiance Guard! At the same time, send someone to contact the 'Shadow Chamber of Commerce'… I need to know the secret and method behind the explosive growth of Lin Yuan's merit points!"

At the feet of the Saint of Wither and Flourish lay the corpse of a powerful exotic beast that had just been drained of its life force by his Life and Death Dao Law. He felt the traces remaining in the corpse, which had been additionally extracted by some mysterious power, and considering the slow growth of his own merit points, a dark light flickered in his eyes.

"merit points… additional gains… Lin Yuan, it seems your power as a Divine-Grade lord is even more interesting than I imagined…" He licked his lips, revealing a cold, sinister smile. "Perhaps… I should go 'visit' those areas that have just been slaughtered by you? To see if I can 'pick up' some… secrets?"

Chaos Origin City was like a rising Chaos star, exuding an increasingly powerful aura within the chaotic 903 Divine Domain.

The radiance of the level-eight Star City core, the grandmist dao stele, the energy tides formed after the nine great Chaos Dao veins were governed by the Chaos Spirit Gathering Formation, and the newly born Origin Guards that had already bared their ferocious fangs—all of this made Lin Yuan's territory an existence that could not be ignored in this new world.

On the merit leaderboard, Lin Yuan's name firmly occupied the top spot like a rock, the number having quietly climbed to [Lin Yuan (merit points: 8.87 Billion)]. Every clearing operation not only brought an increase in merit points but also brought a massive amount of slaughter value. These slaughter values were efficiently invested by Lin Yuan into the construction of his territory.

"Consume 100 million slaughter value! Accelerate the unlocking of the 'Dao Pattern Inscription' function for the Hongmeng Dao Soldier Camp!"

As the order was issued, the blood pool inside the Dao Soldier Camp boiled, and the rune furnace at its core emitted a blinding light. A profound dao pattern representing the "Soul Great Dao" was the first to condense and light up on the inner wall of the furnace!

"Consume 50 million slaughter value! Perform 'Soul Dao Pattern' inscription for Origin Guards No. 1-10!"

The ten Origin Guards stepped into the inscription furnace. The blood pool churned, and the Chaos energy and aura of slaughter, mixed with the newly unlocked true meaning of the Soul Great Dao, transformed into an invisible graver, branding deep, dark runes representing Soul control onto the core positions of their dark gold divine armor.

When they stepped out again, beside the Chaos heart-fire in their eyes, there was an additional hint of dark light that could perceive Souls. Their Return to Ruin blades now carried a weak but real Soul-shock effect when attacking, greatly increasing their lethality against spirit-type exotic beasts and creatures of the Dark Abyss!

"Consume 80 million slaughter value! Increase the 'Chaos Spirit Liquid' condensation efficiency of the Chaos Spirit Gathering Formation by 300%!"

At the core node of the Spirit Gathering Formation, the speed at which the Chaos Spirit Liquid condensed visibly accelerated, changing from drops to a small stream! The pure Chaos Origin energy was guided by the dao stele, beginning to nourish the entire Star City, and even slowly increasing the purity of the Chaos energy within the territory.

"Consume 200 million slaughter value! Construct the myriad dao enlightenment platform!"

A massive platform, constructed entirely of Chaos divine crystals and covered in natural dao patterns, rose from the ground near the dao stele.

Profound dao rhyme flowed across the platform; standing on it, the clarity of one's comprehension of the heaven and earth Law increased by many times! Although it was only the basic version, it had already benefited the Origin Guards under Lin Yuan's command immensely, greatly increasing their Cultivate speed.

Lin Yuan's territory, like a precise and greedy war machine, was operating, expanding, and strengthening at an unprecedented speed, driven by the frenzy of slaughter value!

However, just as Lin Yuan was preparing to lead the initially strengthened Origin Guards to pounce on a ruin marked by the primal divine seal as "suspected location of a Dark Abyss erosion node," a sudden change occurred!

Woo—!!!

A shrill, piercing alarm, as if capable of tearing the Soul apart, sounded without warning from within the grandmist dao stele, instantly resounding throughout the entire Chaos Origin City! The alarm carried an unprecedented sense of urgency and crisis!

At the same time, the "dao stele Suppresses the World" halo shrouding the entire Star City territory fluctuated violently! A terrifying will, cold, dead, and filled with absolute malice and an aura of destruction, like billions of invisible needles, ruthlessly pierced toward the Void Realm barrier of the Chaos Star Core!

Boom—!!!

Beyond the borders of the Star City, the Void Realm, only tens of thousands of miles away from the coverage area of the Chaos Spirit Gathering Formation, shattered like fragile glass! A massive spatial rift, its edges flowing with thick, ink-like dark purple energy and emitting a nauseating aura of corruption and death, was forcibly torn open!

Behind the rift, it was not the ordinary Void Realm turbulence, but a deep, lightless, absolute darkness that seemed capable of swallowing even starlight! That was the aura belonging to the Dark Abyss Plane!

"Roar—!!!"

"Jie jie jie—!!!"