179: Defying fate and changing destiny: Immortal body formation and domination of the great way

The finger that touched the immortal realm fragment turned into the purest light the moment it made contact.

Next was the palm.

The arm.

The body.

Lin Fan's Immortal Body, under the scouring of energy billions of times more vast than a cosmic torrent, had no room for resistance, instantly beginning the most thorough annihilation, from matter to the conceptual level.

This was a baptism more extreme than any previous 'death-seeking' endeavor.

The word 'pain' could no longer describe his current feelings.

His Divine Soul was torn into infinite fragments, each fragment imprinted with the complete scene of the Immortal Realm's birth and destruction.

His Physical Body cycled madly between annihilation and reorganization at a frequency of hundreds of millions of times per second.

"Warning."

"Host detected to be undergoing forced Fusion with 'World Origin'."

"Soul energy consumption rate exceeds threshold."

"Revival mechanism overloaded."

The System's alarm, for the first time, carried a sharpness and Chaos akin to data corruption.

Lin Fan felt like a small boat, tossed into a storm-ocean formed by the birth and death of billions of Universes.

Endless annihilation.

Endless reorganization.

His consciousness was ground into dust in one 'death' after another, then forcibly pieced together in the next 'resurrection'.

He lost the concept of time.

And also the concept of space.

He felt as if he had traversed eons, yet also as if only an instant had passed.

In this endless cycle, which almost drove him mad, the covenant imprint deep within his Divine Soul, connected to Li Hanyue, became his only coordinate.

A clear, pure, and eternally tranquil Lunar power, transcending endless space, tenaciously poured into his core consciousness, which was on the verge of complete collapse.

This power was not mighty.

Compared to the vast Immortal Realm Origin, it was as tiny as a speck of dust in the star sea.

But it possessed a quality that could bring all turbulence to tranquility.

Like throwing a ten-thousand-year-old Mystic Ice into boiling magma.

Lin Fan's chaotic Divine Soul, on the verge of being overwhelmed by the information torrent, finally found an outlet for release and organization.

He began to use this Lunar power to harmonize the Dao rhythm of the Supreme Origin Dao Unraveling within him, which represented both ending and new life.

Yin and Yang.

Motion and stillness.

Destruction and guardianship.

Two diametrically opposed yet originating from the same source Great Daos, within his body, with the Immortal Realm Origin as the furnace, began their deepest level of intermingling and transformation.

His Dao of Destruction was no longer merely destructive.

In the extreme of every 'breaking', a brand new true meaning of 'establishing' was born.

An ending was for a better new beginning.

Lin Fan's consciousness, struggling in the infinite cycle, suddenly became clear.

He no longer passively endured the scouring.

He began to actively guide the power of the Immortal Realm Origin, following the trajectory of Yin and Yang harmony, to reshape his existence.

"Immortal Dao Body, beginning transformation..."

"Immortal Body forming... 1%... 10%... 50%..."

His body was no longer flesh and blood.

Every single particle was composed of the purest Immortal Origin and Law runes.

Beneath his warm skin, what flowed was not blood, but the Dao rhythm radiance, condensed with the true meaning of 'breaking before establishing'.

His Sea of Consciousness, at this moment, expanded explosively.

It was no longer a starry sky.

Instead, it transformed into a small, nascent Universe, identical to the outside Cultivation World.

Mountains, rivers, sun, moon, and stars were all within it.

The root of all Laws in heaven and earth, like thousands of threads, clearly appeared within his perception.

With just a thought, he could freely manipulate the wind, rain, thunder, and lightning of this world.

With just a will, he could make withered trees bloom in spring and rivers flow backward.

He, as if, had become a miniature 'Heavenly Dao'.

And at the very moment his Immortal Body completely finished forming.

The entire Burial Immortal Valley, no, the entire Cultivation World's sky, changed color.

Above the Nine Heavens, in the void that Mortals could not glimpse, a cold face composed of endless order Laws slowly emerged.

That was the personification of the heavenly dao will.

Its gaze, for the first time, carried an emotional fluctuation akin to 'anger' and 'fear'.

"One who defies the Heavenly numbers."

"Shall be punished."

Guardian of the Dao's cold and despairing voice echoed in Lin Fan's mind for the last time.

Boom.

A divine punishment light, indescribable in color, composed purely of the concept of 'erasure', tore through the world's barrier and fell directly towards Lin Fan.

This was the Heavenly Dao's final struggle.

It was the strongest authority and power it could wield.

Facing this divine punishment, which was enough to make any Great Ascension Stage Cultivator despair.

Lin Fan merely slowly raised his eyes.

In his pupils, the divine punishment light was reflected.

No fear.

No solemnity.

Not even the slightest ripple.

He simply extended a finger and gently pointed forward.

That finger, constructed from pure Immortal Origin, touched the divine punishment light.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

No roar of Laws colliding.

The divine punishment, capable of erasing everything, melted away silently, like ice and snow meeting the scorching sun.

No.

It wasn't melting.

But rather, it was absorbed.

Turning into the purest nourishment, it fused into Lin Fan's nascent Immortal Body.

"Impossible..."

Shou Dao Ren's despairing will echoed in the Void Realm.

Lin Fan ignored him.

After completely taking control of the Immortal Realm Origin, for the first time, he projected his will back towards that high and mighty 'player'.

In the void, the cold face composed of order Laws suddenly twisted violently.

Cracks spread across its face.

Shou Dao Ren, as an extension of the heavenly dao will, found himself losing control over this world.

He, the 'player', was instead completely locked down by what was once the most insignificant 'piece'.

The chessboard was rebelling... Beyond the distant forbidden zone.

Li Hanyue, who had been sitting quietly, continuously supplying Lunar power to Lin Fan, suddenly trembled.

A stunning blush appeared on her clear and beautiful face.

A vast, warm, yet supremely majestic power, surged back through the covenant link.

Her cultivation, which had long reached a Bottleneck, instantly broke through its shackles.

Her Mystic Ice Art, after perfectly fusing with Lin Fan's Supreme Origin Dao Unraveling, also underwent a fundamental transformation.

But she didn't care about any of that.

She only felt the incredibly familiar and powerful stable aura of Lin Fan, contained within that power.

She knew.

He had succeeded.

A clear tear slid slowly down her perfect cheek.

It hit the cold ground, instantly blooming into a crystalline ice flower.

Those were tears of joy.

Elsewhere.

Zhao Linger and Su Meier, who had been worried about Lin Fan, also looked up simultaneously.

They clearly felt that the entire world had changed.

In the air, the invisible shackles that had suppressed all Cultivators for ages quietly shattered.

Spiritual Qi became purer and more active than ever before.

They looked at each other, seeing the same irrepressible excitement and ecstasy in each other's eyes.

As Lin Fan completely fused with the Immortal Realm Origin.

The entire Burial Immortal Valley also began its rebirth, breaking before establishing.

Those chaotic and twisted Laws were reorganized in an orderly fashion by a gentle yet powerful force.

The twisted runes on the terrifying creatures that had mutated due to Law pollution gradually faded, restoring them to their original appearance as mountain beasts, their eyes filled with confusion.

Withered plants sprouted new buds.

Dry land gushed forth clear sweet springs.

This deadly forbidden zone, in just a few breaths, transformed into a vibrant paradise, rich in Spiritual Qi that condensed into immortal mist.

The entire world seemed to have been remade.

Becoming more stable, more full of life.

And at the center of all this.

Lin Fan slowly opened his eyes.

His pupils were no longer a pitch-black starry sky.

Within them, it was as if the birth and death of myriad worlds were in Reincarnation, and the trajectories of infinite Laws were flowing.

His gaze calmly swept across this newborn land.

He could feel the breath of every blade of grass, the pulse of every insect.

The entire world seemed to have become an extension of his body.

He felt that he had finally become the true Dominator of this heaven and earth.

He could, and only could, decide his own destiny.

He could even write a part of the Laws belonging to this world.

However.

His gaze did not linger on this world he controlled.

Instead, it slowly lifted, casting towards the deep, boundless, distant Void Realm.

He could feel it.

Beyond the barriers of this heaven and earth.

In a vaster, more unimaginable Chaos.

There was an even larger, older, and more powerful 'Heavenly Dao' will, coldly observing all of this.

He had escaped the chessboard beneath his feet.

But it seemed that, because of this, he had also become a new variable capable of influencing a higher-level 'chess game'.

His Immortal Path.

Had just truly begun.