35: Battle Arena - Unparalleled in History

"Third round of challenges, shall it begin? Target: 100 Gathering Origin Realm, ten thousand star combat power phantoms. Time limit: ten breaths."

The cold voice echoed above the ten thousand battles platform.

"Start!"

Before Lin Yuan's voice had even faded, the ancient stone platform beneath his feet roared! Densely packed runes lit up instantly. Piercing through space were not beams of light, but a hundred golden bolts of thunder that tore through the air! Where each bolt of thunder exploded, a War Spirit clad in golden armor of Law stepped out. Flaming sabers steamed the space, frost-covered spears froze the airflow, thunder hammers invoked the might of heaven... A hundred violent auras intertwined, enough to crush an ordinary Gathering Origin Realm Cultivator a thousand times over!

"Clang—!"

The chaos heavenly extreme sword did not need to be summoned. With a crisp sound like tearing silk, it leaped into Lin Yuan's palm like a blood-thirsty Dragon Soul. The star patterns on the sword body came alive in an instant, flowing with brilliant colors and drawing heart-stopping, dazzling trajectories in the Void Realm. Lin Yuan did not even move his body; he merely lifted his wrist and slashed with a casual motion.

"Extinguish."

There was no earth-shattering roar, only a gray, misty "Chaos Tide" that seemed to devour all things surging silently! In an instant, the Chaos tide divided into a hundred sword rays, thinner than a hair yet containing the intent of extinction. They ignored space, ignored time, and ignored the weapons the War Spirits had raised in astonishment, plunging with absolute precision into the center of every golden-armored brow!

Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff...

A hundred soft sounds merged into one! Those indestructible golden armors, circulating with Law, crumbled inch by inch from the inside out like fragile glass! The hundred War Spirits did not even manage to let out a roar before they transformed into golden light dust drifting across the sky, instantly annihilated without a trace.

"Challenge complete! Time taken: half a breath! Obtained Advanced Tianyuan Token! Set an ancient record for the ten thousand battles platform! Reward: 1000 Secret Realm points!"

The announcement voice carried an unprecedented mechanical stutter, as if the System itself were shocked by it.

Lin Yuan retracted his sword, about to continue. Suddenly, he felt something. The fate dice in his sleeve hummed and slid into his palm on its own, spinning rapidly.

First roll, three points.

"Mental Energy + 6000 stars!"

Boom! His Sea of Consciousness felt like the beginning of the Universe, and his ocean of Mental Energy expanded violently! His perception penetrated matter, and the jumping of billions of Law particles in the air became visible in minute detail!

Second roll, one point.

"chaos heavenly extreme sword, Awakening! Third Tier!"

Hum—! The long sword in his hand erupted with joyful tremors! The star patterns on the sword body suddenly became as complex and profound as a galaxy, and the Chaos vortex at the hilt condensed into reality! An overwhelming, irresistible power was injected into his body—combat power bonus increased from one hundred thousand stars to two hundred thousand stars!

[Lin Yuan · combat power Panel]

Base combat power: 100,000 stars

Equipment bonus: 200,300 stars

Purple-Gold Body: 360,000 stars

Mental Energy (12000x5): 60,000 stars

Extreme Supreme: 200,000 stars

Martial Skill amplification: 120,000 stars

Five Elements Law (8%): 400,000 stars

Wind Law (8%): 80,000 stars

Body Law (15%): 150,000 stars

Law of Thunder (35%): 350,000 stars

Law of Sword (25%): 250,000 stars

Chaos Law (10%): 500,000 stars

Total combat power: 2.773 million stars!

"Fourth round, start." Lin Yuan's tone remained flat.

Rumble!

Ten figures descended, their auras like an abyss or a prison! Their mere existence caused the space of the ten thousand battles platform to groan under the burden. Each one had a base combat power of one hundred thousand stars! The destructive fluctuations emitted by their every movement approached two hundred thousand stars!

"This is more like it." In Lin Yuan's eyes, Chaos Sword Intent flashed and vanished.

The chaos heavenly extreme sword hummed and left his hand, hovering in front of him. The sword tip trembled slightly, and ten gray sword lights, seemingly capable of cutting time, shot out silently. The ten terrifying entities opposite him had only just seen the sword shadows, their defensive postures only half-formed—

Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi!

The ten gray rays had already pierced through ten heads like ghosts! The shock on their faces instantly froze. They looked down as their bodies began to decompose and annihilate silently from the wounds at their brows, turning into stardust filling the sky.

"Challenge complete! Time taken: half a breath! Obtained Top-tier Tianyuan Token! Reward: 2000 points! Set a new historical best!"

The voice in the Void Realm carried a hint of uncontrollable trembling for the first time.

"Final challenge · Fifth round, shall it begin? Target: Half-step Primordial Spirit Realm! Base combat power: two million stars! Fire Law comprehension... 90%! Time limit: None!"

This voice was as heavy as a declaration of doomsday.

Lin Yuan took a deep breath, and the chaos heavenly extreme sword hummed excitedly in his hand, gray light flickering on the blade: "Start!"

Absolute silence! The air solidified like lead!

A crimson figure stepped out from a lava Hell! With every step he took, the ten thousand battles platform beneath his feet melted into a pool of rolling magma! When he fully appeared, nine burning heavenly fire Dragons roared and rose from behind him, dyeing the sky into an endless sea of blood! The moment his eyes opened and closed—the clear sky for ten thousand miles instantly turned into a boundless purgatory sea of fire! The terrifying heat waves were enough to distort and crack space itself!

"Five million stars..." The unprecedented pressure pressed down like a physical mountain! Lin Yuan gripped the sword hilt with his five fingers, his knuckles turning white.

"Roar—!" The red-haired man pointed his flaming spear, and the nine world-destroying fire Dragons tore through the sky, burning everything, and lunged straight at Lin Yuan!

Lin Yuan finally moved! His figure seemed to merge into Chaos. He took a step forward, and the heavenly extreme sword in his hand drew a mysterious, unpredictable trajectory that seemed to be from the beginning of the world! Wherever the sword edge passed, the violent fire Dragons whimpered and disintegrated inch by inch as if encountering their natural enemy!

"Chaos · Return to Ruin!"

At the sword tip, a point of extreme gray light suddenly erupted! Wherever the light reached, the Laws of heaven and earth retreated! For the first time, the Guardian's face revealed an expression of extreme horror. He wanted to retreat, but discovered that the surrounding space had been completely locked by the invisible Chaos power, like a fly in amber!

"Puchi—!"

The long sword pierced his chest! There was no blood, only endless Chaos Qi flowing crazily into the enemy's body along the sword blade! That majestic fire-type spiritual power, capable of burning mountains and boiling seas, emitted a shrill "hissing" sound like snow meeting the sun, being violently decomposed, devoured, and returned to nothingness by the Chaos power!

"Final challenge... complete! Time taken: one breath! Obtained Special-grade Tianyuan Token! Reward: 5000 points! First person in history: Lin Yuan · Spirit Martial Hall!"

The announcement resounded through the clouds, filled with unbelievable excitement.

When Lin Yuan stepped off the ten thousand battles platform holding that Special-grade Tianyuan Token flowing with seven-colored divine radiance—

Hum!!!

The ten thousand battles platform shook violently! Unprecedented seven-colored clouds surged into the sky, rendering the entire Secret Realm sky magnificently beautiful! Huge golden characters appeared brilliantly in the clouds:

[ten thousand battles platform · Ancient Number One]

[Lin Yuan · Spirit Martial Hall]

[Total clearance time: three breaths]

In the plaza, tens of thousands of Cultivators were as if their throats had been strangled, dead silent. You could hear a pin drop! Immediately after—

"Hiss—!!!"

"Three breaths?!"

"Since the founding of the ten thousand battles platform... never..."

"Prodigy! Peerless Prodigy!!"

The crowd exploded instantly! Several powerful figures with profound auras wearing gorgeous robes lost their composure, pushing forward regardless of their status.

"Young friend! This old man is from the Zhao Family of the Tianqing Domain..." the white-bearded old man hadn't finished speaking.

"Young friend! My Heavenly Sword Sect's core true transmission position is waiting for you..." the middle-aged man in purple robes interrupted eagerly.

"All of you, back off!" A beautiful woman's sleeves billowed, her powerful energy pushing others back. With seductive eyes, she said, "Little brother, my Profound Woman Palace's Saintess position..."

Lin Yuan frowned slightly. The Spirit Martial Hall token at his waist lit up suddenly, and an invisible majesty spread out.

Hiss... Everyone gasped, instantly silenced in fear! The beautiful woman's face changed drastically, and she backed away sheepishly, her eyes full of wariness.

"I appreciate everyone's kindness." Lin Yuan cupped his fists and looked around, his voice calm but carrying undeniable power. "I must return to the Spirit Martial Hall to report. Farewell."

Passing through the noise, he stepped onto the teleportation array leading to the Spirit Martial Hall. As the array light flashed, the sight before him made Lin Yuan, this Prodigy with nearly three million stars of combat power, shrink his pupils in an instant, his mind shaken violently!

Above the firmament, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine white jade divine palaces, like ancient stars, floated at the peak of an endless sea of clouds! Each palace exhaled seven-colored clouds, moving slowly along mysterious and unpredictable trajectories, implicitly forming a peerless divine array that enveloped the world! Below, a million acres of Spirit Medicine gardens were misty with clouds, ten-thousand-year Spirit Medicines breathed divine light, hundred-thousand-year divine trees swayed with dao rhyme, and exotic flowers and herbs competed for beauty, the Spiritual Qi so dense it turned into tangible dew.

What made the Soul tremble most was the main hall in the center! It was cast entirely from Star Divine Steel, refracting dreamlike galaxy light under the sun and moon. Hanging from the eaves of the palace were thirty-six thousand five hundred glazed divine lamps—the wick of each lamp was actually a complete Law crystal that emitted fluctuations capable of distorting space!

"Spirit Martial Hall's... foundation!" Lin Yuan held his breath involuntarily. Even though his Dao Heart was like iron, he was shocked by this heaven-reaching, Supreme majesty. The ordinary-looking bluestone slabs beneath his feet, when stepped upon, emitted a warm current that nourished the Divine Soul—it was the legendary, unattainable "Soul-Nourishing Divine Jade"!

In front of the registration side hall, several divine and handsome Azure Phoenixes perched on a Purple-Gold divine tree bathed in thunder light. The deacon was meticulously handling affairs, but when Lin Yuan placed the token on the desk—

"Lin... Senior Brother Lin?!" The deacon was struck as if by divine thunder, jumping up, his sleepiness gone, his voice changing pitch. "Please wait a moment! I will immediately..."

"Clang—!!!"

A clear and distant chime of a jade chime, seemingly capable of cleansing the Divine Soul, came from the deepest part of the Spirit Martial Hall without warning. The lingering sound echoed, instantly spreading through nine thousand palaces! The deacon's face turned pale as paper, and his whole body trembled like chaff:

"Grand... Grand Hall Master... summoning... summoning! Quick! Senior Brother, come with me quickly!"

Crossing seven palaces, each one made Lin Yuan's mind shake again: Spiritual Artifact treasury, Law diagram wall, Myriad Dao training grounds... until the depths, where it suddenly opened up. In a courtyard, the rockery was carved from a single piece of Spirit Marrow Divine Jade, and the flowing water was actually liquefied, ultimate heaven and earth spiritual essence! In the center of the courtyard, a man in green robes was leisurely brewing tea, the fragrance of which caused the surrounding Laws to resonate slightly.

"Sit." Feng Tianxiu did not look up. With a light flick of his sleeve, a ten-thousand-year Golden Silk Divine Wood chair, flowing with immortal dao rhyme, slid silently behind Lin Yuan.

Just as Lin Yuan took the teacup that seemed to contain a galaxy—

Boom!

A Supreme Divine Thought, vast as a cosmic abyss and ancient as the eternal night, instantly swept across Lin Yuan's entire body! The sixty thousand spiritual power crystals in his body vibrated and resonated crazily! In his Sea of Consciousness, the chaos heavenly extreme sword emitted a dangerously sharp hum! Lin Yuan suppressed his instinct to resist because he clearly perceived that the man brewing tea before him had a power level that could no longer be measured by "star level"—that was a Supreme expert of the Myriad Dao Realm who stood above billions of stars!

"Oh?" Feng Tianxiu's teapot paused slightly, the amber tea pouring from the spout drawing a perfect Dao trace in the air. For the first time, a trace of genuine surprise flashed in his eyes. "In three thousand years, this is the first time I have seen... a Gathering Origin Realm Cultivator who used ten thousand stars for Foundation Establishment."

He flicked his finger.

Whoosh!

In the tea mist above Lin Yuan's head, a projection of all his core data suddenly appeared:

Spiritual power crystals: One red crystal

Laws comprehended: Ten types!

One of which was: Chaos Law!

"!!!" Seeing the last item, the fingers of Feng Tianxiu holding the teapot trembled imperceptibly! He looked up abruptly, and in those eyes that seemed to contain an endless sea of stars, a brilliance that pierced through the ages exploded:

"Good! Good! Good!"

Saying "Good" three times in a row! This Myriad Dao Realm Grand Hall Master of the Spirit Martial Hall actually stood up in excitement! He walked around Lin Yuan three times, his gaze like a torch, as if examining a peerless treasure. Finally, a roar that shook the nine heavens and caused the clouds of ten thousand palaces to chime in unison erupted:

"Red dao foundation! Heaven blesses my Spirit Martial Hall! Hahahaha! Today, I have actually encountered such a rare Prodigy! What a Lin Yuan! What a Heaven-Defying person who walked out of a low-energy Universe!"