76: Primordial Divine Land

With a turn of his wrist, his fingertip, sharp as a sword, traced across a deep, secluded lake. The lake's surface looked like a frozen starry sky, reflecting thousands of Law runes: "This is the 'Xuantian Mirror Lake'! The lake water contains complete fragments of the Law; drinking just one mouthful can grant a Martial Artist an epiphany regarding the Laws of Heaven and Earth, causing their Realm to soar!"

Lin Yuan's pupils suddenly contracted to pinpricks! He had experienced life-and-death battles, yet he was still struggling desperately outside the threshold of the Myriad Laws Realm... And the Prodigies of the Central Continent could actually so easily...

"Boom—!" Before Lin Yuan could recover, Li Xuan's large sleeve, like a cloud hanging from the sky, swept across the map with a roar!

In an instant, the entire map of the Central Continent came alive!

Billions of brilliant points of light suddenly lit up like an exploding sea of stars! Each point of light erupted with a pressure that dominated the world, representing a hegemon-level force that had occupied the land for eternity! The points of light intertwined, collided, and flickered, forming a terrifying giant net that blotted out the sky, shrouding the entire Taichu Divine Continent!

Among them were behemoths as glorious as the sun hanging in the sky, shining over billions of miles of territory, as well as tiny existences as deep and dark as the devil's eyes in the abyss, lying in wait. The aura radiating from these points of light alone made Lin Yuan's Divine Soul feel as if it were splitting, nearly suffocating him!

"The Five Great Immortal Dynasties, like primordial divine mountains, guard the core of the Taichu Divine Continent and rule over eight hundred divine domains!" Li Xuan's voice boomed above the map like the thunder of creation. He flicked his finger—

"Hum! Hum! Hum! Hum! Hum!" Five golden divine suns, more intense and ancient than the sun, rose with a roar from the core of the map! Inside the divine suns, billions of layers of palaces and pavilions were stacked, with phantoms of gods and demons patrolling, emitting a supreme Imperial majesty capable of crushing space and time!

"Any vassal force under the Imperial Dynasty can wipe out your so-called 'Ten Great Forces' of the Eastern Continent with a flick of a finger. Their foundation is so deep, and they possess so many experts, that it exceeds your imagination!"

Lin Yuan's gaze locked onto one of the divine suns—a phantom of a giant tower wrapped in nine primordial golden Dragons burst out from the sun! The Dragon scales were like cast divine gold, and within the opening and closing of the Dragon eyes, stars seemed to be born and destroyed! At the top of the tower, a blurred figure stood with hands behind their back. Just a single glance cast by that phantom made Lin Yuan's Divine Soul feel as if it had been struck by a ten-thousand-ton hammer, nearly shattering!

"This is the 'Nine Heavens Golden Dragon Tower', the symbol of the Xuantian Imperial Dynasty!" Li Xuan's tone carried a trace of reverence when facing a supreme existence. "The one at the top of the tower is the sacred image of the Xuantian Sacred Emperor! Wherever his gaze falls, mountains and rivers crumble, and ten thousand Daos wail!"

Before the words faded, Li Xuan pointed his finger again!

"Boom!" Ten divine hall phantoms, so towering they pierced the firmament and whose bases seemed rooted beneath the Nine Netherworlds, descended with a roar! Divine light was like a prison, entwined with Law chains. The phantoms alone seemed to suppress and freeze the entire map space!

"These are the Ten Supreme Divine Halls! They stand above the heavens, acting on behalf of Heaven to mete out punishment! The Hall Masters are all invincible behemoths who have spanned eternity! With a single thought, they can extinguish galaxies and turn ten thousand worlds into dust!"

Following that, a hundred rays of pure brilliance streaked across the sky like comets, lighting up the map, transcendent and untouched by Karma.

"The Hundred Great Sacred Lands are hidden in grotto-heavens. Their outer sect walkers might be the arrogant Prodigies in your eyes; their Holy Lords have long since attained profound cultivation, unfathomable, where their words become Law!"

"Awoo—! Roar—!" Roars, vast and ancient, as if from the primordial era of creation, exploded on the map! Bloodline totems, condensed into tangible forms and radiating savage, primordial ferocity, shot into the sky! The Golden Crow burned the sky, the Black Tortoise suppressed the sea, the White Tiger tore through the void... The totems roared, waves of pressure rolling out; the Bloodline Power of the primordial clans made even space and time tremble!

"Thousands of primordial clans, inheriting true blood, are born divine! When a direct descendant is born, there must be visions of purple clouds coming from the east and gods and demons kowtowing! After transcending, their ancestral Divine Ability awakens, and their combat power... can Heaven-Defyingly strike against higher Realms!"

Li Xuan slowly retracted his sleeve, a trace of complexity passing over his face, that arrogance actually carrying an unconcealable sense of insignificance: "And my Spirit Martial Hall... even as a hegemon of the Central Continent, in this vast Central Continent, we are merely tucked away in the top ten of the Tianxu Province."

However, what froze Lin Yuan's Soul the most was the core area of the map—the five towering pagodas that pierced through endless time and space, with each level of the tower body seemingly evolving Chaos, the tower tips piercing into unknown nothingness, emitting a presence that caused the heavens and ten thousand Daos to twist and wail!

"That is... the residence of the Five Emperors." Li Xuan's voice unconsciously carried an unprecedented solemnity and lowliness. "The... servants there, if placed in the Eastern Continent, would be existences capable of founding sects and becoming ancestors. As for the true Prodigies of the Divine Continent..."

The scene shifted: a young boy casually swung his sword—

"Rip!" Space was easily torn apart like a piece of rag!

"They... are born with divine bodies! At three, their Bloodline awakens! At five, they create their own divine arts! At ten... they have already ascended to the Myriad Laws Realm! In every generation of the Immortal Dynasties, those who comprehend the Origin Law... are everywhere!"

"Crack!" Lin Yuan's tightly clenched fists let out a brittle sound of unbearable strain from his joints! He had originally thought his achievements were at the pinnacle, but now he knew that was merely the laughable peak of a tiny space in the eyes of a frog in a well!

The starting point of those Divine Continent Prodigies was the... destination he might not even be able to touch despite exhausting all his blood and tears, and surviving nine deaths! His palms had been pierced by his nails, dripping with blood, but he was completely unaware, feeling only bone-chilling cold and... a heart-burning fire!

"Now, do you still feel you have even a shred of qualification to be proud?" Li Xuan's gaze, like a peerless heavenly sword cutting through falsehood, pierced straight into the deepest part of Lin Yuan's Dao Heart!

"You comprehended the Chaos Law, which is indeed rare, but in the eyes of the true giants of the Central Continent, you are nothing but a... seedling worth a glance."

His voice suddenly turned sharp: "I want you to touch the threshold of the Origin Law before the Myriad Laws Realm! Only then will you have the qualification... to chase the footsteps of those monsters!"

"Gulp..." Lin Yuan struggled to swallow the metallic, sweet taste in his throat; his back was already soaked with cold sweat, icy cold.

He bowed deeply, his spine letting out a groan of unbearable strain, his voice dry and hoarse, yet carrying the determination to cut off any path of retreat: "Disciple... understands!"

At this moment, his past worldview collapsed, but a fighting spirit capable of burning through the eight wildernesses erupted like a volcano amidst the ruins!

The Grand Hall Master's figure gradually faded, his final words like the maxims of Heavenly Dao, branded upon the Void Realm:

"Remember, the world you see right now is but a speck of dust to the true powerhouses! The Taichu Divine Continent is the heart of the ten thousand worlds! There... any random battle between Prodigies, in its brutality and glory, is enough to make all your past life-and-death battles... pale in comparison!"

The lingering echoes dissipated, but Lin Yuan remained frozen in place. In his mind, the supreme pressure of the Nine Heavens Golden Dragon Tower, the indifferent glance of the Xuantian Sacred Emperor, the sword strike of the young Prodigy tearing through the Void Realm, the terrifying sight of the Five Emperors' giant towers piercing through the heavens... all struck his Divine Soul in turns like billions of world-destroying thunderbolts!

An unprecedented, near-desperate sense of urgency transformed into a flame that burned the heart and eroded the bones—become stronger! Become stronger at any cost! Strong enough to... step into that ultimate battlefield where monsters run rampant!

Lin Yuan's Clone took a sharp breath; the air seemed to carry the dust of time. He sat cross-legged before the mysterious stone tablet, his Divine Thought like a trickle of water, cautiously probing toward the tablet's surface—

"Boom!!!" Where was it a trickle? It was simply a bursting galaxy!

A torrent of information, vast beyond description and carrying endless fragments of time, instantly breached the dam of his Sea of Consciousness!

The brilliant fireworks of stars being born and extinguished, the subtle whispers of vegetation withering and flourishing in the cycle of the four seasons, the long, tragic song of life from budding to decay... every moment was engraved with the most original rhythm of time!

"This is...!" The Clone shook violently, his eyes reflecting the miraculous scene of Chaos at the beginning of the Universe!

He "saw": the first ray of light as Laws were conceived from nothingness; he saw bubble-like Universes expanding and becoming brilliant in the river of time, eventually returning to cold, dead silence; he saw countless glorious civilizations blooming like epiphyllums only to wither; he saw peerless experts Heaven-Defyingly changing their fate, only to eventually, under the washing of the river of time... turn into a helpless sigh!

At the same moment, the distant Lin Yuan main body felt as if struck by lightning, suddenly waking from his Cultivation! The suffocating power of the Taichu Divine Continent described by the Grand Hall Master, and what the Clone was touching at this moment—the magnificent Origin that seemed to stem from the beginning of the world's birth... these two extreme shocks, through the bond of the Soul, turned into a monstrous wave, fiercely crashing against his mind!

He looked up abruptly, his gaze piercing through the endless Void Realm, as if he could see the mysterious space where the Clone was, and saw those six ancient characters containing endless mighty power!

In the cultivation room, Lin Yuan's Clone had completely sunk into the state of selflessness. In his Sea of Consciousness, those six large characters expanded infinitely, each stroke turning into a rushing, roaring river of time!

He vaguely sensed that the Origin Law was not the Law itself, but the womb from which Laws were born, the eternal roots supporting thousands of branches and leaves! As for its true appearance, only by exhausting his mind could he catch a glimpse of it. His consciousness completely sank into the depths of that cold, vast, and mercilessly flowing river of time.