74: Master of Lingwu Hall

As the dawn of the nineteenth day broke, the final speck of crystal dust sealing the Space Law finally dissolved completely. Lin Yuan's eyes snapped open, and two brilliant silver beams shot out, piercing through the Void Realm! He casually made a light stroke in front of him—

Screech—!

A three-meter-long space crack with edges as smooth as a mirror appeared out of thin air, like a canopy sliced open by an invisible divine blade! Within the crack, violent void turbulence twisted and tumbled, emitting a terrifying aura that seemed to devour all things.

Most shocking of all was that this crack opened, closed, extended, and mended according to Lin Yuan's will, as easily as moving his own arm, as if space itself were an extension of his limbs!

[Space Law Mastery: 100%! Perfection!]

Within his Sea of Consciousness, at the top of the Divine Thought Tree, that third nearly transparent Law Divine Leaf fully unfurled! Upon the leaf's veins, billions of silver patterns finer than hair intertwined and flowed, each one emitting the extreme sharpness of cutting through Laws and severing all things!

It was no longer merely a leaf; it was more like a supreme divine blade suspended in his Sea of Consciousness, ready to slash through time and space at any moment!

"The time has come!" With a thought from Lin Yuan, the Wheel of Time Devourment—formed from the Fusion of the Time and Devouring Laws—slowly emerged at his brow. The wheel hummed, filled with hunger for the addition of new power.

The power of the Space Law, like a silver galaxy, surged into the wheel! Buzz—! The silver-black wheel body vibrated violently, its surface instantly covered in spiderweb-like fine cracks, as if it would completely disintegrate in the next moment!

Crack... Snap—!

At this critical juncture, Lin Yuan had a sudden flash of insight, and his spiritual platform became Clear Emptiness! He channeled the Chaos Law Origin, transforming it into the Creation radiance that harmonizes all things! The nine-colored divine light flowed like water over every hideous crack, instantly transforming them into profound dao patterns containing the ultimate truths of the Universe!

The reconstructed wheel was intertwined with three colors, its divine light flowing: silver represented the control of time, deep black symbolized devouring all things, and transparent spatial ripples severed all obstacles!

"Devour of Time and Space!" A soft shout containing dao rhyme rang out!

A hundred meters away, a testing Puppet cast from divine gold—capable of withstanding a full-strength blow from the Dharma Domain Realm—collapsed weirdly and silently before it was even touched by the ripples of the three-colored wheel!

It didn't shatter or explode; rather, its entire existence was forcibly compressed into an absolute singularity that devoured light! In the next moment, the singularity, along with the space around it, completely vanished from the spot—exiled into the depths of the endless chaotic turbulence of time and space, never to return!

The power of this strike far exceeded Lin Yuan's expectations, giving him a subversive understanding of the power he controlled!

[Divine Thought Skill Upgrade: Devour of Time and Space! (Divine Thought attack intensity increase: +200%! Includes Time-Space Banishment effect!)]

On the twentieth day, the light of dawn penetrated the barrier. Deep within the Sea of Consciousness, the symbiotic Fusion with the World Meta-Embryo was finally complete!

A Clone with the exact same aura, appearance, and even Soul fluctuations as Lin Yuan's main body stepped out from the core of the Divine Thought Tree; even the slightest curve of its hair was identical! What was even more mind-shaking was that on the Clone's brow, that same three-colored "Wheel of Time and Space" mark was also branded!

"The newly born Clone's cultivation Realm and Law comprehension are perfectly synchronized with the main body..." Lin Yuan felt the clear thoughts coming from the Clone, and an indescribable ecstasy surged in his heart! "Though it needs to Cultivate and grow independently, it can share Soul perception, effectively increasing the speed of cultivation and Law comprehension... Most importantly, this is equivalent to... a second life!"

When the sundial's golden needle pointed precisely to noon, nine grand bell chimes—sounding as if they could cleanse the Soul and announce the arrival of a sacred moment—thundered through the clouds outside the Immortal Cave! The barrier covering the Immortal Cave dissipated, and the Grand Hall Master's voice, sounding as if it spanned endless time and space, rang directly in the depths of Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness:

"Lin Yuan, come to the Primal Hall immediately!"

Stepping out of the Immortal Cave, Lin Yuan's aura was already completely different! Although his Realm still remained at the Spirit Refining Realm First Heaven, silver light flowed as his deep eyes opened and closed, as if he could pierce through spatial barriers; with even the most ordinary step, the space within three inches of his toes automatically folded and contracted. One step forward covered the distance of ten steps for an ordinary Cultivator!

With every movement, dao rhyme formed naturally, as if he had achieved a deeper resonance with the Great Dao of this world!

On both sides of the nine hundred and ninety-nine "Primal Steps" engraved with ancient dao patterns stood terrifying guards with auras as deep as the abyss and as heavy as hell; the weakest among them were at the Peak of the Dharma Domain Realm. The moment the sole of Lin Yuan's boot stepped onto the first step—

Boom!

All the guards, near and far, moved in perfect unison like precise machinery! They slammed one knee to the ground! Their divine weapons were thrust into the earth, the tips sinking three inches into the stone!

"Welcome—Chief Saint—from your seclusion!"

This sound wave, like a mountain roar or a sea tsunami, contained a blood-and-iron will. It surged up step by step like a crashing tide, straight to the summit of the Primal Hall in the clouds! Above the clouds, the Prodigies from various sequences who were watching all had their faces change drastically!

This was the supreme treatment that only the First Sequence Saint throughout the ages could enjoy in the Spirit Martial Hall! Lin Yuan's emergence from seclusion was like an apocalyptic meteor dropped into a calm pool, setting off titanic waves in the deep waters of the Spirit Martial Hall!

The heavy doors of the Primal Hall opened silently, and a pressure of the Hunyuan Realm Great Perfection—capable of crushing stars and making myriad Laws bow—crashed down like an ancient divine mountain!

However, this time, a three-colored flowing dao rhyme divine light automatically appeared around Lin Yuan, acting as the toughest invisible barrier and quietly neutralizing that world-destroying pressure! The Grand Hall Master, seated behind a jade desk, nodded slightly, a rare trace of approval flickering in his eyes that were as calm as an ancient well.

"Only ten days have passed outside, yet your Space Law has already reached Perfection..." The old man lightly tapped the jade desk, producing a soft sound like the grand music of the Dao. "It seems your master still underestimated you, this... Chaos Dao Seed."

Before his voice had finished fading, the Grand Hall Master casually flicked his sleeve!

A seemingly colorless, formless, and ordinary current of air silently attacked Lin Yuan! However, wherever this current passed, space became like frozen amber, time like a stagnant hourglass, and even the most basic particles constituting matter stopped their movement!

This was the Grand Hall Master's comprehension of the Transcendent "Primal Law"! Although it contained only one ten-thousandth of its Divine Might, it was enough to instantly turn any Myriad Laws Realm Cultivator into cosmic dust!

"Devour of Time and Space!" Lin Yuan's pupils shrank slightly, but he showed no fear! The three-colored wheel at his brow suddenly erupted with a blazing divine light that pierced the Universe!

At the edge of the wheel, countless time-space dao patterns, fine to the extreme, flowed and combined frantically, playing out the ultimate Profound Truth of the Universe's birth and death! The wheel's rotation speed climbed to its limit in a ten-thousandth of an instant, transforming into a spiral ripple that distorted time and space to meet the attack head-on!

The most terrifying part of this attack was that it was simultaneously anchored in three time dimensions: past, present, and future! Where the ripples reached, space was silently sliced into billions of fine cracks, the edges of which flickered with an absolute darkness that devoured all things!

What made the Soul tremble even more was that wisp of supreme Chaos Law aura at the core of the ripples, which caused this attack to undergo an essential sublimation, as if even the fundamental Laws constituting this Universe had to step aside for it!

"Well done!" A flash of genuine surprise appeared in the Grand Hall Master's eyes for the first time! His casually thrown Primal Law air current was actually being gnawed and decomposed bit by bit by that spiral ripple, like a Taotie devouring divine gold!

The two forces collided silently. There was no explosion, only a hair-raising sound of "annihilation," as if two miniature Universes were canceling each other out! That Primal Law air current eventually turned into a wisp of curling green smoke and completely dissipated into nothingness!

"Good!" The Grand Hall Master praised loudly, a rare occurrence. His eyes, deep as a sea of stars, were firmly locked on Lin Yuan. "This one strike already possesses the power to heavily injure an ordinary Feather Transformation Realm! It seems your comprehension of the Chaos Origin is no longer just scratching the surface!"

He slowly rose and walked toward a vast star map on the side of the hall, which depicted an endless sea of stars and the rise and fall of various heavens. With a light wave of his sleeve, a bronze ancient boat only the size of a palm, covered in the green patina of ages and ancient battle scars, floated out. Though the boat was small, it emitted a majestic fluctuation that distorted even time and space! As the Grand Hall Master tossed it—

Buzz—!

The small boat expanded in the wind! In an instant, it transformed into a thirty-meter-long bronze giant boat with an ancient and majestic design! Upon the hull, countless mysterious and unpredictable time-space dao patterns flowed and flickered like living things; at the prow, a lifelike statue of an ancient Dragon head with wide, angry eyes had its mouth slightly open, breathing out a terrifying aura that made the void collapse!

"This is the 'Void-Crossing Boat,' a top-grade Spiritual Artifact." The Grand Hall Master's finger gently stroked a deep ancient scar on the hull that seemed to have spanned endless war fires. "While it has no direct offensive capability, it can traverse the barriers of Three Thousand Dao Worlds as if walking on level ground, ignoring all spatial constraints and forbidden lands."

He looked at Lin Yuan with a deep gaze, his tone carrying unprecedented solemnity: "It once carried me across Three Thousand Dao Worlds, through ten thousand tribulations. Today I bestow it upon you for self-defense. Remember, if you encounter a desperate situation where even I cannot reach you, this boat... may gain you a sliver... of a chance to escape!"

Lin Yuan was still immersed in the shock and joy of obtaining this escape divine boat containing endless stories when a sudden change occurred!

Buzz—!

The time and space within the entire Primal Hall were suddenly frozen by an invisible giant hand! The flowing Spiritual Qi froze in mid-air, the floating dust became fixed, and even Lin Yuan's racing thoughts felt as if they had fallen into ten-thousand-year-old black ice, becoming incredibly sluggish and heavy!

The Grand Hall Master stood with his hands behind his back in front of the star map, but his gaze had already pierced through the endless void, as if fishing at the source of the long river of time. He slowly turned around, his voice not loud, but like a heavenly decree, every syllable carrying the supreme will to reshape the Universe, deeply branding itself into Lin Yuan's Soul Origin:

"Since your talent... far exceeds my expectations..." Beneath the Grand Hall Master's calm tone were stormy waves enough to subvert the common sense of the Universe, "then today, let me... personally cripple your Laws."