378: Burn with determination, never give up

"Give up? My final destination?" Lin Yuan suddenly raised his head, the corners of his blood-stained mouth splitting into a crazed and hideous grin! Within those eyes illuminated by the Grandmist Heart Light, the Sea of Chaos churned to the extreme, burning with a Battle Intent that was fiercer and purer than ever before!

"The only destination for me, Lin Yuan, is... the Peak!"

"My Universe was born from Chaos and grew from Grandmist! How can I allow a piece of filth from your Dark Abyss... to lay a finger on it?!"

In this desperate situation, Lin Yuan's will, Dao Heart, and that unyielding primordial chaos prototype resonated and fused like never before under the illumination of the Grandmist Creation Heart Light! A great creative power originating from the deepest part of his life's Origin, unwilling to be extinguished, erupted like a dormant volcano!

"With my will as fuel! With my Dao Heart as fire! primordial chaos prototype... burn!"

Boom—!!!

Inside the primordial chaos prototype that was on the verge of collapse, that flickering speck of Grandmist Purple Intent suddenly erupted into a blinding Purple Divine Light that seemed capable of illuminating the endless Chaos, as if oil had been poured onto it!

Wherever the light reached, the disintegrating Lava Star Domain instantly stabilized, the Gui Xu Nether Domain stopped its turbulence, and the spacetime framework was forcibly reinforced! Even the parts of the prototype's boundary that had been eroded and assimilated by the Dark Abyss's Power of Return to Silence emitted a "chi chi" purifying sound under this burning Grandmist purple light, forcibly repelling and annihilating the invading Dark Abyss particles!

[Will burning! The potential of the primordial chaos prototype has briefly erupted!]

"What?!" For the first time, a clear look of shock appeared in Yan's cold, dark-gold pupils! He felt his Power of Return to Silence being forcibly pushed back by an even more ancient, purer, and more unyielding creative will! That prototype Universe, which was on the verge of collapse, not only failed to disintegrate but instead erupted with a tenacious vitality that suggested a willingness to perish together!

"A deathbed struggle!" Killing intent surged in Yan's eyes as he felt the threat! That burning Grandmist purple light caused even the Dark Abyss Origin within him to experience an imperceptible tremor! He no longer held back; the phantom of the origin universe behind him accelerated its rotation, and his bone-armor-covered palm suddenly clenched into a fist!

"Dark Abyss Return to Silence · End of All Things!"

An even more majestic and pure Power of Return to Silence gathered, transforming into a beam of Dark Abyss primary-colored light condensed to the extreme, even more terrifying than before! Wherever the beam passed, even concepts began to blur, as if it wanted to completely erase "existence" itself!

Facing this beam that could destroy everything, there was no trace of fear in Lin Yuan's eyes, only madness and determination burning to the limit! He knew he only had one chance to strike! The power gained from burning the prototype's potential was like a candle in the wind, liable to go out at any moment!

"Grandmist! Gui Xu! Creation! Myriad Dao... Become One!"

He poured all of his will, all the burning Grandmist purple light, the 150,000 units of Yuan Qi surging in his body, the power of the primordial guixu dao bone, the governing true intent of the Myriad Dao Returning to Origin Seal, and the Creation and termination of the Chaos Creation Slash... everything, into the chaos heavenly extreme sword in his hand!

Unable to withstand this terrifying power, the sword's blade let out an overburdened wail and became covered in fine cracks! Yet, it still stubbornly carried its master's will!

Lin Yuan's figure transformed into a streak of light that pierced through the Chaos, burning with purple flames of Creation. Instead of retreating, he advanced, actively meeting the Dark Abyss beam that sought to erase existence! His target was not Yan himself, but... the invisible bond of will connecting Yan to the phantom of the Dark Abyss origin universe!

"Break... for me!!!"

The Heavenly Extreme Sword, burning with Grandmist Creation Heart Light and carrying Lin Yuan's lifelong Dao and determination, slashed ruthlessly at that invisible bond of will!

Cr-crack—!!!

An indescribable, crisp sound, as if the very Foundation of the Universe had been severed, exploded in the depths of all onlookers' Souls!

The Dark Abyss Prince Yan's body shook violently! The bone helmet covering his face was instantly covered in cracks! The phantom of the origin universe behind him shook violently and blurred! The moment it lost Yan's perfect control, the Dark Abyss beam capable of erasing existence suddenly decreased in power, and its trajectory underwent a subtle shift!

Puchi!

The burning sword light and the shifted Dark Abyss beam brushed past each other! The beam grazed Lin Yuan's body and shot into the endless Void Realm, annihilating a large swath of the Heavenly God Domain's land! Lin Yuan's sword light, however, did not lose its momentum and slashed ruthlessly into Yan's left shoulder, which was covered in pitch-black bone armor!

Clang—!!!

An ear-piercing sound of clashing metal echoed through the Universe! The Dark-Gold Demonic Patterns on the Dark Abyss bone armor flashed crazily, barely blocking this life-burning strike! However, the terrifying power, the unyielding will of Creation, and that trace of the true intent of annihilation from the primordial guixu contained in the sword's edge still penetrated through the armor!

"Ugh!" Yan let out a suppressed groan as the bone armor on his left shoulder shattered. A wound deep enough to see the bone appeared, flowing with dark-gold blood that emitted a terrifying aura of annihilation! What shocked and enraged him even more was that the creative will and Power of Gui Xu that had invaded his body were like maggots on a bone, crazily destroying his Chaos Origin Dao Body and even attempting to erode his connection with the origin universe!

"Ant! You actually dare to wound me!" Yan's anger was like a volcanic eruption, and a killing intent capable of incinerating a galaxy burned in his dark-gold pupils! The phantom of the origin universe behind him stabilized once more, and an even more terrifying Power of Return to Silence began to gather! This time, he was going to completely erase this damned Fire-Thief from the level of existence!

However, at this critical juncture!

"Weng—!!!"

An indescribably majestic Dragon's roar suddenly echoed throughout the core of the Heavenly God Domain! This Dragon's roar was not a sound, but a supreme decree acting directly on the level of rules! It was grand, magnificent, and peerlessly overbearing, carrying a supreme will that governed the heavens and suppressed all worlds!

Boom!!!

The Dark Abyss Power of Return to Silence enveloping Lin Yuan, which had almost crushed him, was suddenly struck as if by an invisible giant hammer and came to a halt! That ink-thick Dark Abyss energy that eroded all things actually let out a "chi chi" wail like snow meeting a scorching sun, and was forcibly repelled and purified by a grand and vast golden radiance!

A figure silently blocked the space between Lin Yuan and Yan.

He wore a black dragon-patterned imperial robe, his tall stature like a divine mountain supporting the heavens, his face handsome yet carrying a majesty that looked down upon all living beings. Just by standing there, an imperial temperament naturally flowed around him, making space submit and time feel awe.

His aura was as deep as an abyss and as brilliant as the sun. Behind him, one could vaguely see a phantom of a vast and boundless "origin universe prototype" composed of billions of brilliant star rivers and ancient divine mountains slowly rotating—its status was surprisingly on par with Yan's Dark Abyss origin universe prototype, and that grand and upright imperial will even faintly suppressed the Chaos and silence of the Dark Abyss!

The current Crown Prince of the Tianyuan Dynasty—Yuan Wudao!

"A reptile of the Dark Abyss dares to touch a hero of my Primordial Beginning Territory within its borders?" Yuan Wudao's voice was calm but had a metallic resonance. Every word was like a hammer of Law, striking against Yan's Dark Abyss origin universe and causing that rotating dark starlight to pause slightly.