39: Law of Destruction

"He... he is actually devouring the Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder?!" Saint Zhao Wuji of the Purple Sun screamed in a loss of composure, his voice as shrill as a rooster being strangled, his face twisted by extreme jealousy and fear! He stared fixedly at the figure in the center of the Thunder Lake who resembled a Dominator of thunder, his fingernails digging deep into his palms, blood dripping from between his fingers, yet he was completely oblivious. "This... this is absolutely impossible! This is a desecration of the Heavenly Dao!"

In the core of the Thunder Lake, Lin Yuan sat cross-legged. The billions of violent Purple Heaven Divine Thunders were no longer lashes of destruction but had transformed into thunder snakes guarding a deity, docilely coiling around his body like the most loyal guards!

Within his Sea of Consciousness, that Chaos Thunder Rune condensed from the Law of Thunder had now transformed into a purple Chaos vortex that devoured everything, crazily swallowing the extremely pure thunder Origin contained within the Thunder Lake! The comprehension level of the Law of Thunder, which had been stagnant at 35%, was now climbing crazily toward a higher level at an unprecedented speed!

"Sixty breaths! Fourth-level Thunder Soul Origin baptism—achieved!!!" The deacon responsible for counting had a hoarse, cracked voice, the veins on his hand holding the counting Jade Slip bulging, soaked in sweat! The numbers on the Jade Slip were jumping crazily. The hundreds of thousands of Cultivators watching had long since collectively lost their voices, their pupils shrunk to pinpoints due to extreme shock, leaving only dullness and bewilderment on their faces.

In the deepest part of the Thunder Lake!

Lin Yuan's 110,000-star vast Mental Energy, like the most precise detector, suddenly captured a wisp of swimming purple Origin spiritual essence that radiated fluctuations transcending the mundane! It was like a living thunder ancestor Qi, agile and majestic! Inspiration struck!

The chaos green lotus in his Sea of Consciousness that carried everything suddenly transformed into a beam of Chaos thunder light that tore through the Void Realm and instantly submerged into the depths of the lake bottom! The lotus leaves stretched out like the hand of the Heavenly Dao, carrying an irresistible will, forcibly grabbing and wrapping that supreme purple Origin spiritual essence!

"Boom crack—!!!"

It was as if the supreme rules of the netherworld had been offended!

The firmament of Refining Spirit Valley was instantly torn apart! A Purple Heaven Chaos Divine Thunder as thick as a water vat, containing the power to destroy the world, ignored spatial distance and, carrying the supreme will to judge all things, tore through the Void Realm and struck precisely at Lin Yuan's glabella—fiercely!

"Retreat quickly!!" Guardian Elder Mo Tianji roared sharply!

The onlookers were terrified, retreating frantically! Several Saints and Saintesses also turned pale, one after another sacrificing their trump card protective treasures, their light shields flickering violently! However, the moment this Chaos Divine Thunder, which was enough to blast a Peak Myriad Laws Realm Cultivator into ash, touched Lin Yuan's glabella—

Hum!

Deep within his glabella, the Chaos Thunder Rune vortex suddenly erupted with a suction force that could swallow the sky and earth!

The terrifying Divine Thunder, capable of destroying stars, was like a clay ox entering the sea, instantly swallowed, decomposed, and turned into the purest thunder Origin by that Chaos vortex!

"So that's how it is!" Lin Yuan opened his eyes abruptly, Chaos thunder light exploding in his pupils, as if piercing through the ultimate Profound Truth of the Universe's birth and destruction!

"Thunder is not just for destruction! It is the authority of Heavenly Dao punishment! It is the creative power to break old orders and nurture new life!" At this moment, the true meaning of thunder was completely branded deep into his Soul! The thunder light around his body was no longer coiling, but had transformed into a flowing thunder Bloodline. Every inch of his skin, every strand of his hair, was jumping with purple electric sparks interwoven with creation and destruction!

[Mental Energy transformation! +25,000 stars!]

[Current Mental Energy: 110,000 stars!]

[Law of Thunder comprehension level: 40%!]

The moment Lin Yuan's figure, bathed in the unscattered Chaos thunder light, calmly stepped out of the purple Thunder Lake—

Zzz!

The tiny electric sparks escaping from his body actually burned pitch-black cracks like spiderwebs into the stable space of Refining Spirit Valley! Seven distinct yet homologous Law powers, like seven awakened ancient Dragons, surged and roared within his body, finally achieving a mysterious, endless, and perfect balance under the command of the Chaos Law!

"Seven Laws cultivated together, Foundation at Perfection... 110,000 stars of Mental Energy... Gathering Origin Realm..." Guardian Elder Mo Tianji's voice, with a trace of imperceptible trembling, quietly sounded in Lin Yuan's ear like a dream, "Young man, the last person to achieve such an unprecedented accomplishment in the Gathering Origin Realm... was 30,000 years ago—Daoist Cangyuan! And he only reached this step in the Spirit Refining Realm..."

This whisper sounded like thunder, exploding only in Lin Yuan's ear. But in the distance, the faces of Zhao Wuji and several other Saints could no longer be described as ugly; it was a madness mixed with despair, resentment, and hysteria! Zhao Wuji's once handsome face was now twisted like a demon, the killing intent in his eyes almost solidifying: "Lin Yuan... Lin Yuan!!!"

Lin Yuan ignored the monstrous malice behind him. His gaze, as if piercing through the Void Realm, was firmly locked on the area Feng Tianxiu had mentioned—the core and most mysterious Soul Heart Origin region of Refining Spirit Valley! That was an absolute Domain shrouded in seven-colored Chaos rosy clouds, surrounded by the seven-colored Soul Origin lakes on the periphery like stars guarding the moon! Legend has it that only Heaven-Defying existences who have obtained the fifth-level baptism in all seven lakes are qualified to trigger the passage and step into this Holy Land that nurtures the ultimate secrets of Refining Spirit Valley!

"Hoo—"

Lin Yuan took a step, his figure seemingly merging with the Space Law, rippling and blurring like a reflection in water, instantly disappearing from the hundreds of thousands of dull gazes!

The light and shadow changed before his eyes, and space and time were misplaced.

When Lin Yuan perceived his own existence again, he was already in a strange space that could not be described in words.

There was no sky here, no earth, no light, no darkness... only absolute nothingness! And in the absolute center of the nothingness, there floated a spring... the size of a fist, crystal clear, as if condensed from the purest Mental Energy Origin! It flowed quietly, emitting a terrifying fluctuation that made Lin Yuan's 110,000-star Mental Energy feel an instinctive tremor!

"Soul Heart Origin..." Lin Yuan's mind moved, and the chaos green lotus in his Sea of Consciousness, carrying Chaos, seven-series Laws, and 110,000 stars of Mental Energy, floated out slowly, hovering above that spring, attempting to absorb its supreme essence.

"Hmm?!" Lin Yuan's spiritual sense instantly issued the sharpest warning!

Deep within the spring, it was not a docile Origin! An evil eye covered in hideous bloodshot veins, with endless destruction and madness burning in the depths of its pupils, suddenly opened! The scarlet light, like a viscous sea of blood, instantly submerged the entire void space! A Mental Energy of 200,000 stars, vast as a starry sea and heavy as an ancient divine mountain, erupted! Like the collapse of the Universe, it slammed down on the chaos green lotus!

Crack!

The phantom of the chaos green lotus let out an unbearable wail, the lotus petals instantly covered in cracks, its light dimming and about to extinguish! That pure, overwhelming mental pressure almost ground Lin Yuan's Soul into powder!

"Challenge rule: Annihilate the Evil Eye to obtain the Soul Heart creation." A cold, mechanical, emotionless voice, like a Heavenly Dao decree, resounded through this death space.

"Roar—!" The blood light in the Evil Eye's pupils surged, and the violent intent soared! Its Mental Energy, vast as an abyss, instantly condensed, transforming into a pitch-black giant axe wreathed in the aura of ending all things and returning to nothingness! On the blade of the axe flowed the supreme Divine Patterns of the Law of Destruction—its comprehension level had actually reached a terrifying 20%! This was a higher-order Law that transcended the basic Laws!

"Higher-order Law of Destruction?!" Chaos light exploded in Lin Yuan's eyes; instead of fear, a monstrous Battle Intent ignited!

"Die!" The Evil Eye's will roared! The world-destroying giant axe tore through the nothingness, carrying the ultimate will to sever Karma and annihilate the Divine Soul, slashing down at the crumbling chaos green lotus! Its speed exceeded thought!

"Pa—!!!"

At the critical moment! A Chaos thunder vine wreathed in Chaos purple electricity, but with mysterious devouring vortices appearing on its surface, like a Divine Punishment whip reaching out from the deepest part of the Void Realm, struck fiercely against the world-destroying axe blade!

Thunder light exploded! Black light ravaged! The collision of pure destruction and Chaos thunder tore countless spiderweb-like, terrifying cracks in this void space that could not heal for a long time! Space fragments peeled off and annihilated like glaze!

"Higher-order Law... is nothing more than this!" A cold arc curled at the corner of Lin Yuan's mouth. Even though the Evil Eye's Mental Energy was nearly doubled and the Law of Destruction was a higher-order existence superior to the thunder system, his 40% comprehension of the Law of Thunder, under the command and blessing of the Chaos Law, actually withstood this world-destroying blow, and even... did not fall into a disadvantage!

"Roar!!!" The Evil Eye was completely enraged! Bloodshot veins in its pupils spread crazily like a burning blood net! It swung the giant axe frantically, instantly slashing out seven world-destroying axe shadows! Each axe shadow contained a different true meaning of destruction—ruin, disintegration, decay, return to ruin, annihilation, nothingness, and end! The seven axe shadows intertwined into a net of death covering the entire space, cutting off all life!

"Well come! Just what I wanted!" Lin Yuan was not shocked but delighted, letting out a long roar! The chaos green lotus swayed in the sky full of destruction axe shadows, like a pillar of stability in a storm! His powerful Comprehension Ability was pushed to the limit, his mind completely immersed in the destruction Dao traces flowing on the axe blade, which represented the ultimate destination of the Universe!

[Law of Destruction comprehension level: 1%!]

A faint black rune containing endless aura of ruin quietly condensed into a prototype in Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness!

"So... this is the trajectory of all things ending... it is the funeral song of the old Universe, and also the prelude to the new era..." The realization was like a flash of lightning! Lin Yuan's mind changed again! On the Chaos thunder vine that struck out, strands of Chaos black Qi that seemed to be able to swallow light instantly entwined! Thunder and destruction merged, and the power increased geometrically!

For the first time, the Evil Eye... felt panic! It frantically urged the Origin, and the Soul Heart spring boiled violently, spewing out world-destroying Soul flames that were viscous like ink and radiated an aura of burning all spirits and polluting true spirits! This was a forbidden fire that could directly burn Soul imprints!

"Hahaha! A great tonic! Many thanks for the gift!" Lin Yuan burst into earth-shattering laughter!

Hum!

The Origin Chaos Qi beneath the chaos green lotus platform erupted, transforming into a gluttonous giant mouth that was invisible and formless, yet seemed capable of swallowing all the worlds! The world-destroying Soul flames, which would make Primordial Spirit Realm experts retreat, actually met their nemesis, being greedily and unimpededly... swallowed up by the Chaos giant mouth! It turned into nourishment for the destruction rune!

[Law of Destruction comprehension level: 3%!]

The newly born black rune in his Sea of Consciousness, as if injected with surging power, became solid, complex, and profound at a speed visible to the naked eye! The true meaning of destruction soared crazily!

"The game... should end now!"

Lin Yuan's eyes sharpened, his fingers pointing like a sword, pointing into the void at the struggling Evil Eye!

"Chaos ・ Heaven Opening!"

Hum—!!!

The crumbling chaos green lotus suddenly erupted with immeasurable Chaos divine light! Deep in the lotus heart, the Chaos Thunder Rune representing 40% thunder Origin and the black rune symbolizing 3% destruction true meaning rotated and merged like Yin and Yang fish! Finally, it transformed into a Chaos Heaven Opening thunderbolt wreathed in destruction black flames and Chaos purple electricity, as if capable of splitting Grandmist and resetting earth, fire, water, and wind!

This thunderbolt contained the creative punishment of thunder and the end-time power of destruction, carrying the supreme will to open up Chaos and reshape the Universe, ignoring space and time, and instantly pierced through the core of the bloodshot Evil Eye!

"Screech—!!!"

A scream so shrill it exceeded the limits of Soul endurance resounded through the nothingness! The Evil Eye's massive body disintegrated and collapsed inch by inch in the Chaos Heaven Opening thunderbolt! Its purest, uncontaminated destruction Origin power was gently wrapped and guided by the Chaos Qi boiling around Lin Yuan, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, all feeding back into himself!

[Challenge successful!]

[Mental Energy sublimation! +50,000 stars!]

[Current Mental Energy: 160,000 stars!]

[Law of Destruction comprehension level: 10%!]

Lin Yuan stood quietly in the nothingness, feeling the earth-shaking changes in his body! 160,000 stars of Mental Energy, vast as a galaxy, tough as immortal divine gold! With a slight movement of his mind, he could trigger the Law tides! The newly born Law of Destruction, like a dormant world-destroying black Dragon, coiled in the depths of his Sea of Consciousness, reflecting the Chaos and thunder. He had no doubt that, at this moment, a single look from him would be enough to make an ordinary Spirit Refining Realm Cultivator Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering!

"heaven-reaching pagoda... Refining Spirit Valley... Ancient Battlefield..." Lin Yuan's gaze swept over the silent dao observing sword at his waist, and the ancient fate dice deep in his Sea of Consciousness, his heart suddenly enlightened, "These Secret Realms are by no means naturally formed... They are like carefully designed trial steps, screening... or rather, cultivating the keys that can uncover some shocking secret buried at the end of the River of Time!"

"My path... has only just begun." He looked at the Soul Heart spring that had become crystal clear again, yet seemed to contain the ultimate Profound Truth of the Universe, and said softly.

Just at this moment—

Hum!

The calm Soul Heart spring shook violently without warning! A wisp of Primordial Purple Qi, so noble that it could not be described, as if transcending above the Laws, rose into the air from the deepest part of the spring like an awakened Chaos Ancestral Dragon! It ignored the spatial barrier, carrying a rhythm of "destiny," and instantly submerged into Lin Yuan's glabella, disappearing! It was as if it had never appeared, yet it was as if... it had completely changed some things!