191: Chapter 191 Forging the Dao with Blood

Lin Yuan's fist pierced through its chest without hindrance, grabbing the corpse core hidden deep within the spine.

"No—!!!"

Amidst the despairing wails of the Corpse Demon, Lin Yuan's fingers suddenly exerted force.

Crack!

Losing the support of the corpse core, the Corpse Demon's light instantly extinguished.

That towering figure, like a sand sculpture weathered for ten million years, completely collapsed before Lin Yuan, dissipating into the wind atop the divine mountain.

He won!

Thud!

The moment the Corpse Demon shattered, the will that had supported Lin Yuan through the death-defying battle suddenly gave out.

Lin Yuan fell straight back onto the plaza.

His current state could no longer be described simply as "heavily injured."

His left chest was pierced, his internal organs were extensively ruptured, and nearly eighty percent of the bones throughout his body had been shattered during the frantic exchange of blows just now.

Even the strength to stand had been completely drained. The divine blood in his body was almost gone, and his flame of life was like a candle in the wind, flickering and ready to go out at any moment.

However, less than twenty meters ahead...

There, the golden pool of divine blood, boiling with thick golden light, still emitted a strange fragrance powerful enough to bring all things back to life.

"Just... a little more..."

Lin Yuan bit the tip of his tongue hard, using the sharp pain to force himself to stay conscious.

He didn't even have the strength to crawl anymore and could only rely entirely on his two mangled arms.

Squelch... squelch..."

Atop the desolate summit of the divine mountain, Lin Yuan dragged his body, moving forward inch by inch.

This was the absolute obsession to crawl toward the peak even if only one breath remained!

Ten meters... five meters... one meter!

Finally, Lin Yuan grabbed the railing at the edge of the divine blood pool.

He felt the aura of origin rushing toward him from the pool's water.

"The ancestors' legacy... I'm taking it over."

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Yuan let go with both hands and, dragging his heavily injured and dying body, plunged headfirst into the scalding, boiling golden divine blood!

Splash!

Golden waves rolled, instantly swallowing Lin Yuan's figure completely.

The true transformation from a cocoon to a butterfly officially began at this moment!

Splash!

The thick waves splashed high, instantly swallowing his form completely.

A second before falling into the blood pool, Lin Yuan had thought that this ultimate fortune left by the Ancient God-Demons would be a supreme spiritual spring capable of instantly healing all injuries.

However, the moment he truly sank into this ocean, cruel reality shattered his illusions!

This was no gentle panacea at all!

This was the most overbearing, violent, and unreasonable origin extracted by the ancestors after they had swept through the myriad races and slaughtered gods and buddhas during the Primordial Era!

As soon as he entered the pool, the scalding golden liquid was like billions of red-hot divine needles, ruthlessly boring into the depths of his flesh and bone marrow through the hundreds of wounds all over Lin Yuan's body!

Pain!

Agonizing pain!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...

Without any room for resistance, the layer of dark-gold Ultimate Path Astral Qi permeating Lin Yuan's limbs and bones was instantly dissolved, stripped away, and torn clean by the wash of this violent origin!

A dimensional strike!

Before the true Ancient God-Demon origin, he was as crude as a low-quality clay mold!

The divine blood entering his body was like pouring oil onto a fire.

Under the pressure of this overbearing power, the blood and qi within Lin Yuan's body were forced out through his pores, turning into wisps of black impurities that were instantly evaporated by the pool water.

This wasn't healing; this was skinning and deboning, completely reforging his entire being in a furnace!

Ah————————!!!

The sound pierced through the chaotic mist, making the array patterns around the divine blood pool flicker.

Lin Yuan rolled frantically in the boiling golden sea of blood, his eyes wide open, blood vessels bursting one by one, as two lines of bloody tears flowed down, mixing with the pool water.

A true "destruction before creation"!

A trial of life and death!

The lineage of the Ancient God-Demons never raised flowers in a greenhouse.

To take over the strongest legacy left by the ancestors and step into the Star-Shattering Realm that existed only in legends, one had to completely crush all traces of their past mortal body!

[Warning! Warning!]

[The host's physical body is suffering source destruction! Cell survival rate is plummeting: 30%... 10%... 5%!]

[The "god-demon furnace" has entered an overloaded state! Origin energy overload! Unable to fully absorb!]

Under the wash of this divine blood that could be called world-destroying, even the system could only barely retreat and defend.

The phantom of the dark-gold giant cauldron that blotted out the sky was now compressed to the size of a palm, perched at Lin Yuan's heart to protect his last shred of life force from being extinguished.

As for the rest of his physical body...

Sizzle!

Under Lin Yuan's conscious gaze, his tempered flesh and blood body began to collapse on a large scale.

His flesh was completely dissolved by the divine blood, revealing the bones beneath covered in dark-gold divine patterns; then, even those indestructible bones began to wail.

Crack... snap...

His legs were the first to collapse inch by inch, turning into fine bone powder and completely merging into the golden blood pool.

Then followed his arms, ribs, spine, and even his hard skull!

All were crushed and melted by this overbearing Ultimate Path origin!

In less than half an hour...

At the ultimate land of fortune atop the Primordial Divine Mountain, the physical body Lin Yuan was so proud of was almost completely erased!

The young man could no longer be seen in the vast divine blood pool.

In the depths of the boiling golden ocean, only a longan-sized mass of blood remained, tightly wrapped by the god-demon furnace.

That was Lin Yuan's heart blood!

This drop of heart blood drifted and sank in the scalding divine blood pool, its pulse so weak it seemed it would be completely extinguished in the next second.

Yet it was tenacious to the extreme, emitting a will that would never surrender even if heaven and earth collapsed!

The old body was dead!

Silence.

A deathly silence.

Aside from the "gurgle gurgle" of the boiling divine blood pool, there was no sound atop the divine mountain.

That weak drop of heart blood, under the pressure of the endless golden origin, seemed to have fallen into an infinite abyss.

Just as the system was about to exhaust its last bit of foundation, at the critical moment!

From that weak drop of heart blood, a will that awed all ages suddenly erupted!

"You want to melt me?"

"In your dreams!!!"

Even if only a single drop of heart blood remained, Lin Yuan's will never wavered in the slightest!

In the darkness, his unyielding soul let out a wild roar!

"The divine blood in this pool is all the legacy my ancestors left for me!"

"What's mine, no one can take away!"

"System, let go, and let me... absorb!!!"

Boom!!!

Following Lin Yuan's command, the god-demon furnace protecting the heart blood suddenly withdrew all its defensive barriers!

Lin Yuan no longer tried to resist the assimilation of the blood pool.

He took the initiative, using the Great Path power in the blood pool that was strong enough to crush stars, and began to use his pure drop of heart blood as a catalyst to frantically devour the surrounding origin!