161: Ancient High Priest

In the defiled winds of the Boundless Sea, Lin Jingyu sat cross-legged, suspended above the collapsed ruins of Thousand-Eyed Holy City.

His eyes were tightly closed, Chaos Divine Power surged around him like a tide, dark golden light flowed beneath his skin, and the lines of his bulging muscles undulated like ancient divine mountains.

Behind him, the Pangu Dharma Appearance phantom stood tall, reaching the heavens, its Chaos eyes opening and closing, exhaling the primordial aura of creation.

Inside his body, earth-shattering changes were taking place!

The fragment of Evil God divinity that had merged into his body was now being frantically refined by the chaos furnace formed by the Great Dao Furnace Art!

The dark red divinity, under the incomparably overbearing power of the furnace, melted like ice and snow, its Impurities forcibly stripped away, refining the purest and most Origin Profound Truth of the Rule of Strength and vast energy!

[Ding! Refining Evil God Origin divinity fragment! Great Dao Furnace Art experience points +10,000,000!]

[Great Dao Furnace Art (Entering the Hall 18,000,000/50,000,000) → Experience soaring! Smelting efficiency skyrocketing!]

[Depth of Rule of Strength comprehension increased! Pangu Dharma Appearance solidity greatly enhanced!]

[Detected sufficient evolution points and depth of rule comprehension. Consume evolution points to fully charge towards Domain Realm Triple Heaven?]

"Yes! Break through immediately!" Lin Jingyu roared in his heart.

Rumble—!!!

45,600,000 evolution points burned instantly!

They transformed into an unimaginable majestic torrent, mixed with the pure energy and rule comprehension obtained from refining the divinity, and fiercely rushed towards the invisible Domain Triple Heaven Bottleneck within his body!

Crack!

A crisp sound, like shattering glass, exploded deep within his Soul!

The thousand-zhang Domain of Strength violently trembled!

Its range did not expand, but the Prototype of the Rule of Strength within it was like divine fuel had been injected, instantly becoming incredibly solid and heavy!

The power of spatial confinement increased geometrically! Chaos-colored Heaven-Opening runes faintly emerged on the Domain's boundary walls!

Buzz!

Lin Jingyu's body shook, and a terrifying pressure, several times stronger than before, erupted from him like an awakening primordial giant god!

The bones and shattered stones of the ruins below were crushed into powder by this pure power pressure, forming a huge depression!

Domain Realm Triple Heaven! Achieved!

[Ding! Breakthrough to Domain Realm Triple Heaven! Domain of Strength intensity greatly increased! Prototype of the Rule of Strength is close to materialization! Spatial confinement power doubled!]

[Pangu Dharma Appearance (Prototype) → Solidity reached 30%! Heaven-Opening Fist Intent power surged!]

[Rule of Strength comprehension: 35% → Critical point broken through, rule prototype begins to evolve towards a complete rule!]

"Strength! It's even stronger!"

Lin Jingyu suddenly opened his eyes, Chaos divine light like lightning in his pupils, piercing through the Void Realm!

Clenching his fist, feeling the surging, terrifying power within his body that seemed capable of shattering stars with a single punch, a heroic spirit of looking down upon the world arose spontaneously.

However, the moment he completed his Breakthrough!

A cold, viscous, terrifying pressure, imbued with the malicious gaze of billions of eyeballs, tore through the space above the Holy City ruins without warning!

Buzz!

The space was torn open like tattered cloth, and viscous, defiled blood-light poured down from it, instantly dyeing this world a nauseating dark red!

A figure, treading on the blood-light, slowly emerged from the crack.

He wore a dark golden robe woven from countless wriggling tiny eyeballs, and held a scepter with a single giant eye at its tip, constantly opening and closing, flowing with defiled divine blood.

His face was withered like a thousand-year-old dried corpse, yet his eyes alone were like two bottomless, defiled whirlpools, swirling with the pain and despair of billions of living beings.

His aura had shockingly reached the Peak of Domain Realm Nine Heavens!

Moreover, a faint but incredibly real Domain prototype belonging to a 'god' slowly spread out from him like a viscous, bloody swamp, instantly covering a radius of ten thousand zhang!

It even slightly distorted Lin Jingyu's Domain of Strength!

It was precisely the ultimate trump card of the Evil God Cult—the Ancient High Priest, who had slept for countless years, had long since sacrificed himself to the Evil God, and obtained a trace of divine grace!

"Blasphemer..." A dry, hoarse voice, like the friction of billions of grains of sand, spoke with the indifference and judgment of a divine messenger, "Destroying my Lord's Holy City, stealing my Lord's divinity... Your sins can only be cleansed through eternal torment, using your flesh and Soul."

His gaze fell upon Lin Jingyu, and for the first time, a faint trace of... greed appeared in his defiled, whirlpool-like eyes. "Such a pure Prototype of the Rule of Strength... It will serve perfectly as the final sacrifice to my Lord!"

Before his words finished, the defiled single-eyed scepter in his hand lightly tapped!

"Divine Domain—Thousand Eyes' Demise!"

Rumble!

The ten-thousand-zhang blood-colored swamp Domain instantly boiled!

Gravity instantly surged to an unimaginable degree, far exceeding a hundred times the gravity of Lin Jingyu's Domain of Strength!

Space was completely solidified, like defiled blood amber cast for billions of years!

Even more terrifying, within the Domain, countless dark red eyeballs, condensed from defiled Divine Power and chaotic will, appeared out of thin air, densely filling the entire space!

Each eyeball locked onto Lin Jingyu, emitting dozens of vicious mental erosions such as demise, Chaos, weakness, petrification, and curse, capable of freezing the Soul!

This was a true Divine Domain prototype! Containing a trace of rule power!

Though incomplete, its status was extremely high!

It was enough to easily crush any Domain below Domain Realm Nine Heavens, dragging enemies into eternal Hell!

"Domain suppression?"

Lin Jingyu instantly felt as if he was carrying a hundred thousand divine mountains! Every inch of muscle and bone in his body groaned under the unbearable weight!

The malicious gazes of billions of eyeballs were like billions of steel needles fiercely piercing into his Sea of Consciousness, frantically eroding his will!

Any other Domain Realm Triple Heaven, or even Nine Heavens, under the suppression of this Divine Domain prototype, would instantly suffer physical collapse and Soul demise, turning into a pool of defiled blood!

But in Lin Jingyu's eyes, Chaos divine light flashed! Instead of fear, a blazing battle intent ignited!

"Old fossil! You think you can suppress me with your half-baked Domain?"

He roared, and the Great Dao Furnace Art within him operated at an unprecedented limit!

The chaos furnace phantom on his body violently expanded, its flames raging, frantically refining the malicious divine erosion that had invaded his body!

Behind him, the Pangu Dharma Appearance phantom roared silently to the heavens, its Heaven-Opening will acting like a stabilizing needle, firmly protecting his Divine Soul and forcibly repelling the billions of eyeballs' demise will!

"Rule of Strength! Heaven-Opening Fist Intent! Break open this defiled cage for me!"

Lin Jingyu and the Pangu Dharma Appearance moved in sync, ignoring the terrifying pressure and the erosion of billions of eyeballs, clenching his right fist! The Chaos divine light condensed to an unprecedented degree!

The nearly materialized Prototype of the Rule of Strength transformed into a rapidly rotating Chaos whirlpool on his fist, as if it could open up a world!

The punch was thrown!

Silent!

Only a Heaven-Opening will, capable of destroying all laws and reordering the universe, burst forth with a rumble!

This punch was no longer pure physical strength, but a Peak strike containing his profound understanding of the Rule of Strength, fused with Pangu's Heaven-Opening will!

The fist light left his body, transforming into an extremely condensed Chaos beam, ignoring the viscous, solidified blood-colored space, and fiercely slammed towards the core of the blood-colored swamp Domain—the Ancient High Priest!

"An ant shaking the heavens!" A sneer appeared on the Ancient High Priest's withered face, and he tapped his defiled single-eyed scepter.

In front of him, the viscous blood-colored Domain instantly compressed and solidified, transforming into a massive dark red shield covered with billions of suffering faces and flowing with defiled divine blood!

On the shield's surface, the giant single eye slowly opened, emitting an aura of absolute divine defense!

This was the core defense of his Domain prototype, containing a trace of divine rule, enough to withstand any attack from a cultivator of the same rank!

The Chaos fist light fiercely collided with the dark red divine shield!

Time seemed to stand still for a moment.

The next moment!

Hiss—!!!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a more heart-palpitating sound of annihilation, like a red-hot branding iron piercing into solid ice!

The Chaos fist light, containing the Heaven-Opening will and the nearly materialized Rule of Strength, at the moment it touched the divine shield, the divine blood flowing on the shield's surface, the wriggling faces, and even the giant single eye, all let out mournful wails as if they had met their nemesis, and were instantly forcibly disintegrated and annihilated by the 'destruction' and 'creation' rule will contained within the fist light!

Crack! Rumble—!!!

The dark red divine shield, purported to contain divine rules and absolute defense, lasted less than half a breath before it exploded with a rumble in the Ancient High Priest's incredulous and horrified gaze, turning into fragments of defiled divinity splashing across the sky!

The Chaos fist light's momentum slightly diminished, but it still carried the lingering power of creation, fiercely slamming onto the defiled single-eyed scepter that the Ancient High Priest hastily raised to block!

Bang!!!

A muffled thud!

The giant single eye at the tip of the scepter instantly became covered in cracks!

The Ancient High Priest's withered body was sent flying backward as if struck by an ancient divine mountain, spewing viscous black blood that emitted a foul divine light!

The ten-thousand-zhang blood-colored demise Domain violently shook, and countless dark red eyeballs wailed and collapsed!

"Impossible!!!"

The Ancient High Priest steadied himself, his withered face revealing a mix of shock and anger for the first time, even a hint of fear!

He held the cracked scepter, his defiled single eye filled with disbelief. "A mere Domain Triple Heaven... can shake my Divine Domain prototype?! Your rules... your essence of power..."

"I said I'd tear down your broken temple, and I will!"

Lin Jingyu took a step forward, his Domain of Strength stubbornly expanding under the suppression of the Divine Domain prototype, Chaos divine light soaring into the sky, killing intent like a tangible cold wind. "Old man, I'm taking your eyeballs!"

He clenched his fist again, the Pangu Dharma Appearance phantom behind him shone brightly, and Heaven-Opening Fist Intent frantically condensed!

The punch that just shattered the divine shield gave him a deeper understanding of his own Rule of Strength application!