363: Ten Thousand Furnaces

"myriad dao furnace... It is time to forge the final foundation of Perfection."

He took a step forward, and his figure vanished from the spot. Behind him, the Chaos Great Dao vortex, which had most of its Origin drained, slowly calmed and dissipated.

On the second floor of the Myriad Dao Origin Returning Pagoda, amidst the embers of the dissipated Chaos Great Dao Origin Eye, Lin Yuan's figure stood tall and unmoving. The Chaos mist flowing around him had condensed into substance; with every breath, he drew in the remaining Dao fragments in the Void Realm, producing faint crackling sounds of annihilation.

His chaos dao fruit refinement was at 80%, and the Yuan Power bonus from the Dao Fruit alone reached eight thousand points! This terrifying power surged within his body like a dormant sea of stars, awaiting the final point of explosion.

He raised his head, his gaze piercing through the churning Dao turbulence, casting it toward the core of this chaotic world.

There, it was not the portal he had expected.

Instead, it was a tripod furnace.

A furnace that stood between heaven and earth, forged and entwined by billions of twisted, wailing, and burning Dao chains—the myriad dao furnace!

The furnace body displayed a constantly shifting primary color of Chaos, as if carved from a solidified cosmic storm. On the furnace walls, countless painfully distorted Dao faces appeared intermittently—the roar of the fire Origin, the sharp ring of the gold Dao, the whimpering of deathly stillness, the sigh of time ripples... billions of Dao sounds mixed into a roar that threatened to tear the Soul! The furnace mouth spewed nine-colored chaos origin fire. That fire was not burning; rather, it was the manifestation of myriad Daos disintegrating, fusing, and ultimately returning to the most primitive state of Chaos under extreme heat and pressure!

The mere heat waves radiating out scorched the Void Realm within ten thousand feet of the furnace body, causing it to twist and collapse. Several great dao long rivers were forcibly drawn in, like firewood thrown into a sea of fire, evaporating instantly!

[Myriad Dao Origin Returning Pagoda Final Stage: myriad dao furnace!]

[Draw upon the chaos origin fire to forge a supreme dao foundation! Endure the calcination of the Origin fire, draw the myriad Dao Origins into the body, and smelt your own Dao Fruit until it reaches Perfection! Time limit: Ten days!]

[Warning: Origin fire tempers the Soul, myriad Daos devour the heart! Those without a clear Dao Heart and a stable dao foundation will surely turn to ashes upon entry!]

[Core Origin Position Guide: Furnace Core, Heart of Origin Fire!]

The divine seal's prompt carried a nearly cruel temptation. The furnace core, the place where the nine-colored Origin fire spewed most intensely, was the "Origin Position" reserved by the divine seal for Lin Yuan—the best place to forge the Dao, and also the most terrifying stake of execution!

Almost the moment the prompt fell, the remaining tens of thousands of Dao Monarchs went completely mad!

"Origin fire! That is the fire of the Dao Origin! Obtaining it allows one to become a Saint on the spot!" A Burning Heaven Dao Lord, riding a crimson fire flood dragon, had bloodshot eyes as he recklessly charged toward a wisp of red Origin fire spewing from the furnace mouth.

"Get lost! That's mine!" Another Dao Monarch of the Stars, clad in starlight battle armor, invoked the Star Power of the heavens, transforming it into a giant palm that slammed violently toward the Burning Heaven Dao Lord.

"Let's die together!" A withered Dao Monarch with a decaying aura, clearly heavily wounded in the second stage, let out a desperate howl and directly detonated his remaining Dao Origin, turning into a destructive Dao storm that crashed into the nearest competitors!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A tragic struggle broke out instantly around the perimeter of the furnace! Dao Monarchs were like moths to a flame; to get close to the furnace body and seize a wisp of escaping Origin fire, they did not hesitate to self-detonate their Dao Artifacts, burn their essence blood, or even drag their enemies down with them!

The flashes of Dao collisions, the crimson of exploding essence blood, and the shrill wails of Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering intertwined with the myriad Dao roars of the furnace itself into a cruel funeral song.

Every moment, Dao Monarchs were incinerated into nothingness by the aftershocks of the Origin fire or torn apart by opponents. Their flesh, Dao rule fragments, and even remnant Souls were drawn by an invisible force, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, into that massive myriad dao furnace to serve as fuel for its burning!

Lin Yuan turned a deaf ear to the tragic slaughter outside him. His gaze was locked only on the furnace core, the "Heart of Origin Fire" that spewed the purest nine-colored chaos origin fire!

He took a step forward.

Buzz!

The passive Domain of [End of Myriad Dao] expanded silently. Wherever it passed, whether it was violent Dao attacks, escaping Origin fire aftershocks, or even the destructive storms formed by the self-detonation of Dao Monarchs, everything melted like snow upon touching the Chaos mist, returning to eternal silence!

He was like a being walking in another dimension, carving out an absolute corridor of death amidst the boiling perimeter of the slaughter furnace!

"He... he wants to go directly into the core?!"

"Madman! That is the Heart of Origin Fire! Even those in the Saint Realm wouldn't dare touch it lightly!"

"Stop him! We cannot let him monopolize the core Opportunity!" Several Dao Monarch leaders, whose auras had reached the Supreme Peak and who had formed a temporary alliance, saw Lin Yuan ignoring all obstacles and heading straight for the core. Their eyes erupted with extreme greed and fear.

They worked together to activate an ancient bell-shaped Dao Artifact, invoking an ice river, a fire python, and a Gengjin sword dragon. The three supreme Dao torrents intertwined and fused, transforming into a three-colored destructive giant python that tore through the Void Realm. With the resolve to perish together, it lunged fiercely at Lin Yuan's back!

Lin Yuan did not even turn his head.

He casually waved his left hand behind him.

"Noisy."

In his palm, the guixu origin point that devoured everything reappeared!

The three-colored destructive giant python crashed into the Origin point like a clay ox entering the sea. Without even making a ripple, it was silently annihilated and decomposed!

The ancient bell Dao Artifact let out a wail, its surface instantly covered in cracks. The three Supreme Dao Lords controlling it felt as if they had been struck by a heavy hammer; they all spat out life-essence blood containing Dao rule fragments, their auras instantly withering. Their eyes held nothing but boundless horror!

The annihilation power of this casual strike far exceeded any means they had seen in the second stage! The terror of the Withered Bone Star Fortress was only now truly branded into the depths of their Souls!

No one dared to block him again!

Under the gaze of countless terrified eyes, Lin Yuan's figure stepped into the furnace mouth of the myriad dao furnace, which was spewing the most intense nine-colored Origin fire!

Boom—!!!

It was like throwing a drop of ice water into a boiling pot of oil!

The moment Lin Yuan entered the core "Heart of Origin Fire," the entire myriad dao furnace let out a terrifying roar that shattered the galaxy! Billions of Dao faces on the furnace walls simultaneously let out shrill, agonizing screams!

The Dao chains entwining the furnace body tightened and trembled violently, letting out groans of being overtaxed! The spewing nine-colored chaos origin fire instantly became a hundred times more violent!

The color suddenly collapsed and fused from the shifting nine colors into an indescribable shade that seemed to contain the ultimate mysteries of the Universe—the Primordial Chaos color!

"Ugh—!"

Even with Lin Yuan's current Chaos Dao Body, he instantly felt a terrifying pain sufficient to incinerate a saint soul! That Primordial Chaos origin fire was no longer merely burning; it was forcibly "decomposing" everything he had in the most overbearing manner!

His flesh, bones, Meridians, Yuan Power, and even the billions of Dao runes that composed his chaos dao fruit were being crazily dismantled and smelted by this Origin fire, attempting to revert them to the most primitive Dao particles!

[Enduring the calcination of the Primordial Chaos origin fire! Dao Body disintegration: 1%... 2%... 5%!]

[Chaos Great Dao Dao Fruit suffering Origin impact! Refinement: 80% → 79%... 78%... 75%!]

This Heart of Origin Fire was an Opportunity, but even more so, it was a killing move! It was testing whether Lin Yuan's dao foundation truly had the qualifications to carry the final Perfection!