354: The Shadow of the Myriad Paths Returning to Ruins

"shadow of ten thousand daos ruin..." Lin Yuan's expression was grave to the extreme, his heart feeling as if it were being gripped by an invisible giant hand.

He could clearly feel that this was not a living creature, but the materialized backlash of the entire Secret Realm's Dao will!

The level of power it contained had absolutely reached the Peak of the Saint Realm, and perhaps... even touched a higher threshold!

Without any probing, the attack of the shadow of ten thousand daos ruin descended instantly!

Its "arm," composed of countless twisted Daos, suddenly lifted and pointed at Lin Yuan from afar!

"Ten Thousand Daos... Return to Ruin!"

Hum—!!!

A beam of destruction, indescribable in color, appearing as if condensed from all the destruction, endings, and chaotic Daos in the world, and presenting the absolute original color of Chaos, silently pierced through the colorful sea of Dao light and shot toward Lin Yuan!

Wherever the beam passed, space did not just annihilate; it turned directly into an "absolute dead zone" where even the concept of "nothingness" did not exist!

Time on its path completely stagnated and solidified!

Any Dao before it shattered instantly like a fragile soap bubble!

This was the true Return to Ruin! It was the materialization of the end of ten thousand Daos! Its might far exceeded any "Return to Ruin" Dao technique Lin Yuan had previously unleashed!

Lin Yuan even felt his Chaos Domain wailing, and the clear radiance of his primordial azure lotus dao embryo was suppressed tightly!

Nowhere to avoid! Nothing to block!

The shadow of death was clearer than ever before!

"Cannot take it head-on!" a frantic shout emanated from the depths of Lin Yuan's Soul!

He instantly pushed the Great Dao of Time to its limit! "Time Acceleration!" acted upon himself, increasing his thinking speed a thousandfold!

At the same time, "Chaos Domain: Shrink!" compressed his Domain into an extremely condensed form like close-fitting armor, concentrating all power into defense!

However, in the face of an absolute disparity in power, all of this seemed futile!

The speed of that destruction beam transcended the limits of thought, reaching before his eyes in an instant!

Lin Yuan could even "see" the terrifying scene within the beam where billions of Daos were twisted and annihilated under resentment!

Just at this critical moment, in the depths of despair!

Hum—!!!

Deep in Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness, that primordial azure lotus dao embryo, which had taken root at the guixu origin point and had always passively accepted nourishment, erupted for the first time with an unprecedented, proactive will, carrying supreme majesty and fury!

It seemed completely enraged by the provocation of this "pseudo-Return to Ruin"!

The single point of Primordial Purple Qi gestated within the pistil, like a sleeping Creation deity awakening, suddenly erupted!

It was no longer a gentle, nourishing force, but transformed into a Primordial Creation Divine Light that seemed to open heaven and earth, containing a supreme will of Creation!

This divine light was not an attack, but instantly covered Lin Yuan's entire body, especially the chaos heavenly extreme sword in his hand!

The moment the divine light appeared, time seemed to solidify!

That destruction beam, capable of burying ten thousand Daos, upon touching the Primordial Creation Divine Light, unexpectedly seemed to have met its nemesis!

Within the beam, the billions of Dao fragments that had been twisted by resentment and chaotically annihilated were, under the illumination of the supreme light of Creation, as if they had been cast into a purification furnace!

Hiss, hiss, hiss—!!!

The destruction beam was not directly canceled out, but was forcibly "decomposed," "restored," and "purified"!

The violent destruction belonging to fire was stripped away and restored to the purest "Origin of Fire"!

The dead silence and cold belonging to ice were stripped away and restored to the purest "Origin of Ice"!

The sharp tearing belonging to metal was stripped away and restored to the purest "Origin of Metal"!

...

Even those wills of resentment, curses, and Chaos, under the illumination of the Primordial Creation Divine Light, were like snow exposed to the scorching sun, emitting shrill screams as they were forcibly purified and evaporated!

That terrifying "Ten Thousand Daos Return to Ruin" beam was actually, before the Primordial Creation Divine Light, forcibly decomposed and restored into billions of strands of incomparably pure, orderly, and most primitive, most original Dao torrents!

Like tamed wild horses, they circled the divine light submissively!

"This... what is this?!" Lin Yuan's mind shook violently, and he instantly realized!

The primordial azure lotus dao embryo gestates the primordial chaos universe prototype! Its essence is "Creation"! It is "Order"! It is the starting point of the evolution of ten thousand Daos!

And that "shadow of ten thousand daos ruin" was merely a "pseudo-ending" and "chaotic annihilation" formed after the Daos were twisted by resentment!

In the face of the true Origin of Creation, its forcibly combined, chaotic power of ending was like duckweed without roots, easily decomposed and restored into the "Materials" that constituted it—the purest Origin of ten thousand Daos!

"So that's it! Chaos is boundless, encompassing all things! Ten thousand Daos returning to the Origin can also create!"

A light of unprecedented realization erupted in Lin Yuan's eyes! He no longer defended passively, but actively guided!

"Using Chaos as the guide! Accepting the Origin of ten thousand Daos! Primordial Creation... forge my dao foundation!"

The billions of strands of pure Dao Origin torrents surrounding him, as if receiving the dual summons of the Chaos core and the Primordial Creation Divine Light, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, surged crazily into Lin Yuan's body!

This absorption was completely different from previously swallowing the Origin spirit fragments!

There was no violent impact, no chaotic will, only the purest, most original Dao nectar, like that from when heaven and earth first opened!

The primordial azure lotus dao embryo, like a long drought meeting sweet rain, stretched its lotus leaves and greedily absorbed this supreme nourishment!

The sealed primordial chaos universe prototype on the lotus pedestal seemed to be injected with infinite vitality; the stars became more brilliant, the continents more solid, the oceans more vast, and even the blurred Reincarnation long river and spatial veins became a few points clearer!

[Absorbed "Origin of Fire"! "Fire Phase" branch comprehension increased: 35% → 60%!]

[Absorbed "Origin of Metal"! "Metal Phase" branch comprehension increased: 15% → 40%!]

[Absorbed "Origin of Ice"! "Ice Phase" branch comprehension increased: 0% → 25%!]

[Absorbed "Origin of Wood"! "Wood Phase" branch comprehension increased: 0% → 20%!]

[Absorbed "Reincarnation Origin Fragment"! "Reincarnation Phase" branch comprehension increased: 0% → 5%!]

[Absorbed "Spatial Origin Fragment"! "Spatial Phase" branch comprehension increased: 25% → 35%!]

...

Countless torrents of information washed over Lin Yuan's cognition!

His understanding of the Chaos Great Dao leaped from the previous "controlling branches" toward the direction of "understanding the essence" and "touching the core"!

Under the Chaos system, a "Ten Thousand Daos Diagram," composed of countless exquisite Dao runes, more three-dimensional, more perfect, and closer to the Universe Origin, was being rapidly woven and expanded!

His Origin Power soared like a rocket, instantly breaking through 11,980 points, and it was still continuing to grow!

"Roar!!!" the shadow of ten thousand daos ruin let out a roar filled with shock, anger, and disbelief!

Its ultimate strike not only failed to destroy the enemy but instead became the opponent's greatest supplement!

This completely enraged the Secret Realm's backlash will!

The entire sea of Dao completely rioted! Countless great dao long rivers rolled backward madly, slapping toward the vortex like giant waves, attempting to inject more power into the shadow of ten thousand daos ruin!

The massive Chaos Body of the shadow of ten thousand daos ruin twisted and expanded violently, countless Dao eyes erupting with even more venomous light; it abandoned long-range attacks, its entire body, like a collapsing world-destroying firmament, carrying the ultimate will that fused the Chaos and annihilation of ten thousand Daos, came crushing and swallowing toward Lin Yuan!

It wanted to use its own "pseudo-Return to Ruin" body to forcibly drag Lin Yuan, along with his Chaos and Creation power, into eternal Chaos and ending!

Facing this earth-shattering strike, a blazing Battle Intent and realization, unprecedented before, burned in Lin Yuan's eyes!

Unprecedented power surged within his body, and the Primordial Creation Divine Light, driven by the dao embryo, became even more brilliant!

He gripped the chaos heavenly extreme sword tightly with both hands, perfectly fusing the Origin of ten thousand Daos he had just absorbed and understood with his own Chaos core and the Primordial Creation Divine Light!