575: Chapter 575 Devouring the Origin, Defying Fate

The Divine Senses that had been spying withdrew cleanly and decisively.

Shen Yuanmo did not linger in the spot for even a single breath.

As his figure merged into the folds of the Void Realm, his intent had already been transmitted into the hub of the Chaos Dao Palace.

The Chaos Dao Palace was hidden behind a dark matter nebula three billion miles away, and all of the Dao Palace's energy fluctuations were converged to the extreme.

"ship spirit."

"Present."

"Advanced stealth jump. Erase all spatial traces along the route, including any lingering Karma."

Shen Yuanmo's figure landed on the central throne, and he tapped his fingers on the armrest.

"Target: The Dead Silent Star Sea on the periphery of the Tianshu Star Sector."

The ship spirit responded almost instantly: "The Dead Silent Star Sea has no factions stationed within a radius of nine hundred trillion miles, and the concentration of Spiritual Qi within the Star Domain is extremely low."

"Moreover, there are large areas of chaotic Law zones, which can effectively interfere with long-range tracking by Immortal Kings."

"The jump route has been planned. It is estimated to take seven folded jumps, with the entire journey taking two hours."

"Go."

The Chaos Dao Palace started silently; space around the Dao Palace folded, fractured, and reorganized, without even a ripple leaking outward.

The seven jumps were clean and decisive, with each landing point precisely avoiding known Immortal Dao monitoring networks.

Two hours later, the Dao Palace hovered in the heart of the Dead Silent Star Sea, beside the remains of an abandoned star that had long since gone cold.

There was nothing around.

There were no Spiritual Qi tides, no Law order, and even light was pitifully thin.

The entire Star Domain was like a corpse drained of blood, with only its skeleton remaining.

Shen Yuanmo was very satisfied.

He sat cross-legged in the cultivation room deep within the Chaos Dao Palace.

He closed off all external perception and sank his consciousness into his Dantian.

The Origin obtained from devouring the projection of Immortal King Guyuan was still rampaging within his body.

That was pure Immortal King-level energy, intense and violent.

It carried the traces of the Dao accumulated by Immortal King Guyuan over countless years of cultivation.

If it were any normal Early-stage True Immortal, this energy would be enough to burst their Dantian thirty times over.

But the chaos dao embryo was not picky.

The Chaos Myriad Dao Returning Origin Scripture circulated, and the chaos dao embryo opened an invisible Chaos Vortex.

It began to dismantle, dissolve, and absorb those unruly Immortal King Origins bit by bit.

The process was smoother than expected.

A low resonance came from within his body.

Middle Stage True Immortal, he had broken through.

There was no Heavenly Tribulation, no strange phenomena, and not even any excess Spiritual Qi fluctuations leaking out.

The Breakthrough happened just like that, unbelievably quietly.

Shen Yuanmo opened his eyes and slightly stretched his muscles and bones.

The newly broken-through Realm did not require additional consolidation; the characteristics of Chaos Return to Origin determined that.

Every bit of absorbed power would be thoroughly assimilated into his own cultivation, so there was no issue of an unstable Foundation.

He flipped his hand, and an ancient jade box appeared in his palm.

It was something he had exchanged for at the auction for twenty billion immortal crystals.

The jade box opened.

A crystal the size of a fingernail lay quietly inside.

It was completely transparent, with profound and unfathomable brilliance flowing within.

A primordial immortal crystal fragment.

The moment the crystal left the jade box's Seal, all the Law array patterns in the cultivation room simultaneously extinguished.

The ship spirit's voice carried a distinct tremor: "My Lord, the Law order inside the Dao Palace is in complete Chaos, and the underlying logic is being overwritten by unknown rules. My core calculations... bzzzt bzzzt..."

Shen Yuanmo pressed the crystal back into the jade box and closed the lid.

The Law array patterns in the cultivation room slowly resumed operation, and the ship spirit's voice returned as well.

"...Overloaded." For the first time, a fluctuation of emotion similar to lingering fear appeared in the ship spirit's tone.

"My Lord, the status of this thing is too high. Even if it is just a fragment, the rule suppression force it releases has already exceeded the Chaos Dao Palace's load-bearing limit."

Shen Yuanmo did not respond to this.

His eyes turned a deep silver-gray.

Insight into Origin, activate!

Perfect Deduction, activate!

His Divine Sense transformed into countless extremely thin filaments, piercing through the Seal of the jade box and probing into the internal structure of the primordial immortal crystal fragment.

Under the analytical vision of Insight into Origin, the interior of this fragment was no longer a solid.

Nor was it liquid or gas, or even any form of matter.

Its essence was a mass of the source of Dao that had been forcibly solidified.

It was the primordial Law from the beginning of the birth of the great Universe, before the Myriad Dao had differentiated.

Billions of dao runes were interwoven inside the fragment into an infinitely complex network.

Each dao rune contained a complete Great Dao Law.

Five Elements, Wind, Thunder, Light, Darkness, Time, Space, Karma, Destiny...

All known and unknown Laws were all within this net.

They were entangled together, indistinguishable from one another.

Perfect Deduction operated crazily, and tens of millions of calculation paths simultaneously unfolded in Shen Yuanmo's Sea of Consciousness.

For every step of deduction, the consumption of Divine Sense doubled.

But he did not stop.

The deduction reached a result at the end of the third breath.

The success rate of conventional refining was less than one in ten million.

An Immortal Emperor-level supreme treasure, even if it had shattered into this size.

The total amount of Laws contained within it still far exceeded the limit that a True Immortal could bear.

There was only one result of forcing a refinement: his own immortal soul and Chaos Immortal Body would completely disintegrate under the scouring of the Law torrent, leaving no corpse behind.

Shen Yuanmo was not surprised; he rested for a while.

After his Divine Sense recovered, he continued the deduction.

He did not know how many times the deduction had failed, but he finally deduced the method to refine the primordial immortal crystal.

That was to use the First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity, Chaos Return to Origin, to suppress the primordial immortal crystal, and to crush, subjugate, and assimilate the Laws within the crystal fragment.

The success rate was not deduced.

The only thing that could be determined was that the characteristics of Chaos Return to Origin had a certain compatibility with the essence of the primordial immortal crystal, and this compatibility was the only Breakthrough point that could be utilized.

Whether he could survive all depended on whether he could hold on.

Shen Yuanmo withdrew his Divine Sense, and his silver-gray pupils returned to normal.

He looked at the jade box in his palm and was quiet for a moment.

"ship spirit."

"Present."

"From now on, regardless of what movements occur inside the Dao Palace, do not intervene, do not raise alarms, and do not perform any unnecessary operations."

"...Understood."

Shen Yuanmo opened the jade box and picked up the fragment.

The instant his fingertips touched the surface of the crystal.

A numbing sensation shot from his fingertips up his arm, and the Spiritual Qi in his blood vessels spontaneously produced a rejection reaction.

His entire Chaos Immortal Body was instinctively resisting this thing.

Shen Yuanmo pressed the primordial immortal crystal fragment into his Dantian Sea of Qi.

There was no buffer.

The first instant the primordial immortal crystal fragment entered his body, the world turned upside down.

A torrent of Laws far exceeding the limit of a True Immortal erupted from his Dantian, spreading along his Meridians to every corner of his body.

Hundreds of bloody gashes burst open on the surface of his Chaos Immortal Body, and the connections between his muscles and bones were violently torn apart.

His left shoulder bone emitted a clear cracking sound, and two of his three ribs broke within the second breath.

Blood seeped out from the cracks in his skin, forming a thin red stream on the floor of the cultivation room.

This was not an ordinary injury; the self-healing ability that the Chaos Immortal Body prided itself on was forcibly frozen by that torrent of Laws.

The chaos dao embryo was bent over by the Law light released by the primordial immortal crystal fragment, and the brightness of the Law divine runes dropped sharply.

The volume of the dao embryo, however, was expanding in reverse—it was not becoming stronger, but losing control.

The Chaos Qi inside was churned into a mess by the foreign Laws, and order collapsed completely.

A short, low roar issued from Shen Yuanmo's throat.

"Inside my body, even an Immortal Emperor must follow my rules!"

The circulation speed of the Chaos Myriad Dao Returning Origin Scripture broke all known extreme values after this roar.

The Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art was simultaneously pushed to the limit of its eighth revolution, and a massive amount of Divine Sense poured into his Dantian.

Shen Yuanmo's will transformed into an invisible blade, cutting into the core of the chaotic battle between the chaos dao embryo and the primordial immortal crystal fragment.

First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity, Chaos Return to Origin.

Inside his Dantian, a gray Chaos millstone condensed into shape.

The millstone was not large, with a diameter of no more than three zhang, ridiculously small compared to the torrent of Laws released across the sky.

But when it started to turn, in every inch of space it crushed, all foreign Laws were being downgraded, dismantled, and beaten back to their most primitive state.

The Metal dao runes contained within the primordial immortal crystal fragment were crushed, reduced to attribute-less Law fragments.

The Fire dao runes were crushed.

The Wind dao runes were crushed.

One after another, bit by bit.

The speed was extremely slow.

Every time a foreign Law dao rune was crushed, Shen Yuanmo's immortal soul had to endure a corresponding backlash.

That pain was not physical; it was a dull pain deep in his Soul, as if someone were grinding it layer by layer with sandpaper.

His Divine Sense was being consumed violently, and it felt as if two red-hot iron rods had been inserted into his temples.

Blood seeped out from his ears and nostrils.

But the Chaos millstone did not stop.

Shen Yuanmo did not let it stop either.

His will was nailed to the core of the millstone, and every rotation was driven by him personally.

The torrent of Laws counterattacked; the primordial immortal crystal fragment was like an enraged ancient Vicious Beast, crazily releasing even more violent Law storms to resist the grinding.

The expansion of the chaos dao embryo was accelerating.

The rotation speed of the Chaos millstone was also accelerating.

The game between the two entered the most cruel tug-of-war stage.

Outside the cultivation room, the entire Chaos Dao Palace was trembling.

The Law array patterns on the walls flickered on and off, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the floor.

The ship spirit held on tightly to its core calculations, and all alarm Systems flashed crazily.

But it kept the order firmly in mind: do not intervene, do not raise alarms, and do not perform any unnecessary operations.

It could only watch.

Watching its master, deep within the Dao Palace, single-handedly bearing the crazy crushing force of the Immortal Emperor-level supreme treasure, the primordial immortal crystal fragment.

A trickle of blood spilled from the corner of Shen Yuanmo's mouth, dripping down his jaw onto his knees.

The Chaos millstone was still turning.