178: Chapter 178 To catch a thief, first take out his heart

Ninth-Rank Origin Tribulation Fire!

This was the Ancestor of the Star-Swallowing Spirit Beast's ultimate trump card for survival. To eradicate Lin Yuan from within its body, the old monster spared no cost to its own origin, pouring this Tribulation Fire—capable of instantly reducing even an Eighth-Rank Grandmaster to ashes—directly into its digestive tract!

A sea of purple-black fire filled the entire flesh-and-blood corridor, like a roaring fire dragon opening its sky-devouring maw, charging crazily toward Lin Yuan's location!

All paths of retreat were sealed off, and the surrounding intense heat caused the air to distort instantly.

Lin Yuan glanced at the progress bar on his retina that had just jumped to "15%" and gripped the slaying abyss in his hand tightly.

He did not dodge, nor was there anywhere to dodge.

Lin Yuan took a deep breath, his eyes fixed on the overwhelming Ninth-Rank Tribulation Fire surging toward him, his muscles tensing to their absolute limit once again.

"You want to burn me to death? Come on then!!!"

The layer of dark golden aura on Lin Yuan's body surface began to flicker violently.

Even his tempered god-demon body was approaching its limit in the face of this Tribulation Fire, which could instantly reduce an Eighth-Rank Grandmaster to ashes.

The skin on the surface of Lin Yuan's arms peeled off and carbonized in large patches, and the piercing, excruciating pain, like maggots on a bone, frantically stimulated his nerves.

Just at this life-or-death moment of extreme speed!

The slowly advancing golden progress bar on his retina finally soared to 100%!

【Ding! Deep analysis complete!】

【Target physiological structure has been fully modeled! Fatal weakness confirmed!】

【Spirit-Swallowing Source Core located: situated directly below the host's current coordinates, at a vertical depth of 30,000 meters—the spinal center!】

"30,000 meters directly below?"

Lin Yuan stared at the thick, frantically wriggling scarlet stomach wall beneath his feet and suddenly burst into wild laughter.

His laughter was filled with a hair-raising brutality.

"Clang!"

Lin Yuan backhanded the slaying abyss back into its scabbard.

The blade was too short; it was fine for cutting flesh, but for boring a hole through such dense flesh tens of thousands of meters thick, the efficiency was too low!

What he needed was the purest physical pounding!

"Boom!"

Lin Yuan ignited all the remaining primeval divine blood within his body without reservation!

Dark golden divine patterns spread from his spine all the way to his fists!

Above his head, the purple-black Tribulation Fire had already descended upon him!

"Break for me... Break! Break! Break!!!"

Lin Yuan's eyes were crimson, his fists clenched together, and he smashed them fiercely into the wall of flesh beneath his feet!

"Thud!!!!"

Five thousand tons of force directly smashed the hundred-meter-thick flesh beneath his feet into a pile of mush!

Lin Yuan plummeted straight down through the blood-hole he had smashed, like a cannonball!

The Ninth-Rank Tribulation Fire above, having missed its target, poured down through the blood-hole, biting at Lin Yuan's heels.

But Lin Yuan didn't care about the raging fire behind him; he had only one thought in his mind: smash through this old pile of flesh and bones and tear out its heart!

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Within the flesh, Lin Yuan's fists turned into phantoms.

Muscle fibers were smashed to pieces, and blood vessels were pulverized into blood mist.

When he encountered obstructing cartilage, Lin Yuan smashed it apart with his head and shoulders!

Three thousand meters... ten thousand meters... twenty thousand meters!

Outside, in the cold space of the Burial God Star Abyss.

The Ancestor of the Star-Swallowing Spirit Beast, which had been rolling crazily, suddenly stiffened its massive body.

The next second.

"Roar!!!"

A scream that shook the entire Star Abyss!

Its true body, comparable in size to half a planet, began to convulse uncontrollably in pain in space.

Its massive tail lashed out crazily, directly smashing a nearby continent comparable in size to Earth to smithereens!

"What's happening? Has that old monster gone mad?!"

Inside the main control room of the Kunlun, Dragon Battle stared fixedly at the violently fluctuating life magnetic field on the holographic radar, his face full of shock.

"It's the Captain destroying its structure from the inside!" Ancient Sword Soul keenly sensed the vibrations coming from within the giant beast.

Inside the giant beast.

"Boom!"

Lin Yuan was covered in blood, like a demon god.

This was already 30,000 meters underground!

The passage behind him was completely filled with the purple-black Tribulation Fire, and the terrifying heat had scorched the flesh on Lin Yuan's back, leaving it charred black and revealing white bones.

The bone membrane blocking his path was the final line of defense protecting the life source core, and its strength had surprisingly reached the Eighth-Rank Peak!

"You want to block me? Shatter!!!"

Lin Yuan's right arm suddenly pulled back like a full-moon bow, five thousand tons of pure force gathering at a single point as he unleashed a fatal punch at that translucent white bone membrane!

"Crack!"

A cracking sound rang out; under the absolute explosive force, dense cracks spread across the bone membrane.

"Again!"

Ignoring the excruciating pain of his fractured finger bones, Lin Yuan followed up immediately with his left fist, smashing it fiercely into the same intersection of cracks.

"Bang!!!!"

The final line of defense exploded into pieces!

Accompanied by bone fragments flying everywhere, Lin Yuan tumbled into a vast chamber.

The Ninth-Rank Tribulation Fire behind him was firmly blocked by the shattered bone membrane remains, unable to advance an inch.

Lin Yuan gasped for breath and slowly stood up from the ground.

In the very center of this huge chamber floated a pulsating crystal core as large as a mountain!

Spirit-Swallowing Source Core!

With every pulse, it emitted ripples of laws capable of both reviving all things and annihilating all things.

"Stop! Human! You win! Stop it immediately!!!"

Just as Lin Yuan fixed his gaze on the source core, starlight gathered in the chamber, manifesting the face of the Spirit-Swallowing Beast Ancestor, filled with terror and despair.

"I admit defeat! As long as you don't touch the source core, I am willing to hand over my soul origin and serve you as my master for eternity! I am a Half-Step Ninth Rank ancient giant beast, and I can help you sweep across the entire star domain!"

The old monster was truly afraid.

Having lived for tens of millions of years, it had never seen such a crazy, unreasonable body cultivator who had actually punched through a 30,000-meter labyrinth of flesh and blood with nothing but a pair of bare fists, standing directly before its lifeblood!

"Surrender?"

Lin Yuan stood before that mountain-sized source core.

There was not a single piece of good flesh on his entire body; his back was charred black, his fists were dripping with blood, and he looked like an Asura who had crawled out from the deepest depths of hell.

Hearing the old monster's plea for mercy, Lin Yuan slowly pulled back the corners of his mouth, revealing blood-stained teeth in a smile that was cruel to the extreme.

"You are not worthy."

The moment those words fell, Lin Yuan kicked off the ground, lunged forward, opened his arms, and embraced the huge source core!

"System!"

Lin Yuan roared toward the sky, the violent killing intent in his eyes completely detonating without reservation:

"god-demon furnace, turn to maximum power for me!"

"Suck this old beast dry for me!!!"

Boom!!!

A phantom of the primeval smelting furnace, a hundred times larger than ever before, descended with a boom behind Lin Yuan!

A devouring force, so violent it defied description, locked onto that Half-Step Ninth Rank source core.

"No—!!! You lunatic! You will be condemned by heaven!!!"

The Spirit-Swallowing Beast Ancestor's divine consciousness let out one final, miserable howl.

The next second, that brilliant source core, as huge as a mountain, was forcibly dragged into the black hole by the god-demon furnace.