386: Ultimate Blood Sacrifice

He rested his right hand on his knee, the saint slaying sword laid across it. Inside the cold sword body, that terrifying power capable of extinguishing ten thousand Laws and shattering the holy Dao lay dormant like a sleeping Vicious Beast. Lin Yuan's Divine Thought probed cautiously into the core of the sword body, and he immediately felt an ultimate sharpness capable of tearing apart the Soul of a Hunyuan Realm expert!

Deep within the sword body, countless Innate dao patterns naturally condensed from Grandmist killing intent formed an incredibly complex and profound prototype of a sword Universe. At its core, a single point of cold light contained the "saint slaying" true intent that made even Lin Yuan feel palpitations.

"As expected... at my current Realm, I can barely trigger a sliver of its sharpness, let alone perform initial refinement and ownership." Lin Yuan understood in his heart.

An Innate Supreme Treasure has its own pride; without the great power of the Saint Realm, one cannot truly grasp its core authority. Forcibly refining it would only result in being backlashed by its Origin sharpness, destroying both body and Soul.

That he could so easily obtain the initial recognition of the lotus pedestal and the divine sword, and store them within his body, was entirely the result of the resonance between the primordial chaos universe prototype within him and them. This was already a Heaven-Defying Opportunity.

He calmed his mind, no longer forcing the refinement of the saint slaying sword, and instead focused most of his energy on guiding the power of the lotus pedestal to repair and strengthen his own Universe prototype.

At the same time, the various resources previously handed over by the one hundred million Hunyuan Realm army were also being rapidly devoured and converted by the prototype. With every devouring, the primordial chaos universe prototype grew a fraction, and the power of feedback also grew slightly.

Outside the Dao Palace, the one hundred million elites of the Zhenyuan Army, led by Dragon Fighting Wilderness, stood like the most loyal bedrock, forming a strict battle formation to guard all sides.

Further away, the territory of the Star Alliance remained temporarily calm on the surface under the will of Abyss Without Path and the deterrence of the Tianyuan Dynasty.

Su Yao's Life Sanctuary, Abyss Ruin's Imperial Dao Dragon City, and other forces attached to the Star Alliance were all seizing this last tranquility before the storm to frantically improve their strength and reinforce their defenses.

Everyone could feel that invisible, suffocating, terrifying pressure descending slowly from outside the 903 Divine Domain barrier, like billions of ancient divine mountains! The air was no longer filled with Spiritual Qi, but with the scent of decay and destruction.

Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes, the Grandmist star nebula rotating slowly deep in the depths of his pupils. His Divine Thought pierced through the Dao Palace, pierced through the defenses of the Chaos Origin City, and seemed to "see" the torrent of quadrillions of different plane armies gathering outside the barrier, enough to make any Hunyuan Realm expert despair.

"Hundreds of billions... trillions..." He whispered to himself, his fingertips unconsciously tracing the cold spine of the saint slaying sword, a trace of ultimate sharpness, imperceptible yet enough to make even the Saint Realm take notice, flashing across his fingertips and vanishing.

"Not enough... far from enough." The primordial chaos universe prototype within him conveyed an even deeper craving. The nourishment of the lotus pedestal was only for repair and stabilization; to grow rapidly, it needed more massive and pure Universe Origin as sustenance!

"Come then." Lin Yuan's gaze became deep and cold, like the Chaos Return to Ruin staring at an impending world-ending tsunami. "Use your corpses... to pave the path to the Saint Realm for me!"

His thoughts stirred slightly, and a command was instantly transmitted to Dragon Fighting Wilderness and all the core high-level officials of the Star Alliance through the Star Master Token:

"Star Alliance members, enter the ultimate combat readiness state."

"All resources are to be diverted to war Puppets, defensive arrays, and gui xu annihilation turrets."

"The chaos creation platform is to stop producing ordinary Star Scar Guards and focus all efforts on manufacturing 'Chaos Return to Ruin bombs'."

"Notice to the entire alliance:"

"The hunting ground is prepared, and the prey is pouring in endlessly."

"Next time..."

"What we are going to swallow on this side is a trillion Hunyuan Realm Souls!"

At the peak of the Dao Palace, Lin Yuan's figure flickered in the Chaos Qi, like a Grandmist reef waiting for the storm to arrive. And the saint slaying sword in his hand, that single point of dormant cold light, seemed to brighten slightly.

Outside the barrier, that torrent of destruction composed of countless planes and hundreds of trillions of Hunyuan Realm experts was only one final... collision away from completely crushing the 903 Divine Domain barrier and submerging everything.

Pressure. An invisible, viscous pressure originating from outside the 903 Divine Domain barrier weighed on the heart of every living being, like billions of sunken Universes.

This pressure was not physical, but the Saint Realm intent of billions of intertwined, colliding, greedy, and destructive wills that had penetrated the barrier of the 903 Divine Domain, enveloping the entire 903 Divine Domain like cold eyes hanging from the firmament!

The 903 Divine Domain barrier had become the Gate of Purgatory!

As far as the eye could see, the barrier's light film had long lost its originally stable form; it was violently distorted, flickering uncertainly, like a rag being frantically torn and ravaged by countless invisible giant hands. Black cracks spread like spiderwebs across it, each crack expanding and emitting an unbearable "crackling" sound of shattering!

Outside the barrier light film, the Chaos Mother Sea had been completely ignited. As far as the eye could see, it was no longer the deep starry sky, but a boundless sea of destruction composed of countless war mega-structures and Hunyuan Realm legions!

Ten trillion! Thirty trillion! Fifty trillion! ... The Hunyuan Realm armies from different top-tier planes and their vassals exuded complex and terrifying auras of Universe Laws, like crazy moths rushing towards a candle flame.

The scale was so vast, and the energy so chaotic and majestic, that the spatial structure of the entire 903 Divine Domain was groaning and trembling, as if it would completely disintegrate in the next moment!

"Report! The spatial structure integrity of the 'Heaven's Spine' barrier node in the northeast sector has fallen below 30%! The Nirvana Abyss undead torrent has broken through the third layer of the spatial fold defense net! The quantity... cannot be estimated, at least five hundred billion!"

"Southwest battlefield area! The barrier has been torn apart by a cluster of Void Insect Nest 'World Devourer anchors', and over ten thousand large channels have been stabilized! The Void Walker legions are air-dropping on a large scale! Three trillion vanguard troops have been confirmed to have broken through!"

"High-intensity spiritual pollution fluctuations detected! The Nightmare Aggregate cluster is eroding the 'Life Sanctuary' defense line! Saintess Su Yao requests reinforcements!"

"Detected abnormal spatial folding... It's the Eternal Dynasty's 'Moment of Eternity Boat'! They are establishing a temporary base on the edge of the battlefield! Objective unknown!"

Cold battle reports poured into the command core of Chaos Origin City like a torrential rain, and were simultaneously transmitted to Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness. The periphery of the Star Alliance's territory, like a lake into which a giant rock had been thrown, instantly exploded with countless waves of destruction!

The golden Zhenyuan Army, the silver Star Alliance Army, clashed fiercely with the grey undead sea, the black insect tide, the crimson Lava Colossus, the holy knights of light, and the twisted Nightmare Aggregates!

The collision of Hunyuan power was no longer a roar, but a silent shriek that tore at the Soul, emitted when billions of Dao collided and annihilated!

Space was no longer just broken; it was directly torn and stirred by the violent energy, turning into patches of chaotic energy paste! The firmament shattered, continents sank, light was swallowed, and darkness was ignited.

Every second, thousands of Hunyuan Realm Martial Artists, along with their internal world projections, exploded like fragile bubbles, turning into the most primitive energy and Law fragments, only to be greedily absorbed by the pulsing Hongmeng Origin World light cocoon at the center of the battlefield.

This was an ultimate blood sacrifice with trillions of living beings as offerings and the Universe prototype as firewood! Its tragedy and scale surpassed all records since the birth of all Divine Domains in the Primal Plane!