63: Shrinking the earth to an inch! A new evolution in movement techniques!

In front of the cliff where demonic mist surged, space rippled like water.

Lin Jingyu's figure solidified abruptly, his feet on the viscous, defiled demonic earth.

The ancient token he held tightly in his hand was now emitting a scorching heat. The blurry 'Xū' character on it glowed with silver light, flowing like a living thing, pointing towards the seemingly unremarkable jagged black rocks before him.

Divine Thought surged out like a tide, carefully probing. The cliff face was cold and dead, filled with the chaotic evil Qi unique to the Demon Abyss, no different from other places.

If not for the token's guidance, no one would be able to detect the abnormality here.

"Hidden deep enough." A cold glint flashed in Lin Jingyu's eyes, without the slightest hesitation.

"System!"

The cold command was issued.

"Consume all 43,000 evolution points! Deduce the Movement Technique to its limit and find a higher-level evolution direction!"

[Ding! Command confirmed!]

[Consumed 43,000 evolution points!]

[Movement Technique (Perfection) is being deduced...]

[Deduction direction locked... Space Origin compression... folding...]

[Deduction successful!]

[Movement Technique has broken through its limit!]

[Evolved into: Shrinking the Ground to an Inch (Minor Achievement)!]

[Remaining evolution points: 0!]

Boom—!

A torrent of space Profound Truth, far deeper and more domineering than when the Movement Technique was at Perfection, instantly surged into Lin Jingyu's limbs and bones!

If Movement Technique was about riding the waves of space, then Shrinking the Ground to an Inch was about directly shaking space itself!

Instead of merely traversing, it forcefully compressed and folded vast spatial distances into the mere area under his feet with supreme power!

Taking a single step meant the ultimate sublimation of spatial displacement! A Within arm's reach (short distance) was now Tianya (the ends of the earth)!

The space around Lin Jingyu subtly twisted, and invisible ripples spread, making his burly figure appear like a descending demon god.

He clearly felt that his control over space had leaped to a huge new level!

As far as his gaze reached, space was no longer an obstacle, but a lump of clay that could be kneaded at will!

"Shrinking the Ground to an Inch... Good!" Lin Jingyu felt the surging, immense power within him, and his killing intent grew stronger. This name was domineering enough, exactly to his liking!

He no longer delayed, his Divine Thought once again locking onto the core coordinates indicated by the token.

This time, under the higher-level spatial perception granted by Shrinking the Ground to an Inch, the cliff face finally revealed its flaw!

Behind layers of demonic rock, an extremely subtle spatial node pulsed weakly like a heart.

It was enveloped by an ancient Restriction, incompatible with the Demon Abyss's evil Qi, like a pearl covered in dust.

This Restriction was already battered and covered in cracks corroded by evil Qi. It was these cracks that allowed the token's coordinates to penetrate!

"Found it!" Lin Jingyu's lips curved into a cold arc. He didn't need to find a gate; before Shrinking the Ground to an Inch, space itself was the gate!

He took a step!

There was no earth-shattering commotion, only space silently compressing and folding beneath his feet!

"Buzz!"

Lin Jingyu's figure, like a phantom, directly penetrated the demonic rock cliff, dozens of feet thick!

The hard rock before him was like air, offering no obstruction!

The moment he passed through the rock wall, the scene before him abruptly changed!

The thick demonic mist vanished, and the pungent sulfur smell faded.

In its place was a gray space, so dead silent it was chilling.

The sky was a solidified lead-gray, without sun, moon, or stars, only a oppressive gray haze.

The ground was cracked black permafrost, barren of vegetation. Dark red, viscous liquid, like congealed blood, flowed in the cracks, emitting a faint, strange smell mixed with sweetness and decay.

The air was filled with an ancient, desolate Aura, but beneath this Aura, an even colder, more ominous evil power intertwined, like a maggot in bone, eroding the Origin of this space.

Broken! Dead! Evil!

This was the 'Xū' Realm! An ancient relic space that had long died and been invaded by evil forces!

Lin Jingyu's Divine Thought, like an invisible radar, instantly swept across several miles.

It was utterly silent, only the wind whimpering across the cracked earth, like the cries of lost Souls.

Suddenly!

"Roar—!!!"

A roar filled with savagery and hunger exploded from a giant stone ruin in the distance, resembling a palace, most of which had collapsed!

Accompanying the roar, a fierce Divine Might of the Shenzang Realm, Third Level, shot into the sky!

Rumble!

Half of the remaining giant wall of the ruin was smashed to pieces by brute force! Amidst flying rubble, a colossal creature rushed out!

This monster was nearly four zhang tall, covered in dark-green, thick scales bristling with bone spikes. It resembled a giant ape, but its head was like an enlarged lizard's, with fangs protruding and saliva dripping onto the ground, corroding it into wisps of green smoke.

Its arms were exceptionally thick, ending in massive bone claws that gleamed with metallic cold light, dragging on the ground and carving deep grooves.

A pair of scarlet vertical pupils locked onto Lin Jingyu, the intruder, filled with greed and destructive desire!

The Evil-Scaled Demonic Ape! The guardian of this desolate Xū Realm, or rather, a relic creature completely corrupted by evil Qi!

"Roar!" The Evil-Scaled Demonic Ape identified its prey, dropped to all fours, and its massive body transformed into a terrifying dark-green hurricane, charging towards Lin Jingyu with a furious Aura that seemed to crush everything!

The ground beneath its feet trembled violently, and large patches of cracked permafrost were torn up!

The Divine Might of the Shenzang Realm, Third Level, poured out without reservation, forming a tangible shockwave powerful enough to make Martial Artists of the same Realm waver!

Facing this mountain-shattering, sea-toppling charge, Lin Jingyu's eyes held only indifference.

"Time to try out the new Movement Technique."

He moved!

There was no earth-shattering commotion, just a simple step forward!

"Shrinking the Ground to an Inch!"

Space compressed infinitely beneath his feet!

The demonic ape's charging, savage figure suddenly magnified and drew closer in Lin Jingyu's vision! As if it had actively delivered itself before him!

Lin Jingyu didn't even use any complex Martial Skills.

He merely leveraged the extreme speed and spatial folding power brought by Shrinking the Ground to an Inch, pouring all ninety-eight million jin of terrifying strength into his right fist!

His muscular arm instantly swelled by a circle, and veins bulged like coiling dragons and snakes!

"Chaos Heaven Opening Fist!"

The fist struck! Silently! Yet it contained the primal power of creation!

The space in front of his fist was compressed to its extreme, forming an invisible, distorted force field!

The next instant!

His fist and the thick, bone-armored chest of the charging Evil-Scaled Demonic Ape collided in the most direct, most brutal manner!

"Bang—Crack! Rumble!!!"

A dull, heart-stopping thud!

Followed by a teeth-grinding, dense crackling of bones, like exploding beans!

Finally, a thunderous roar like a collapsing mountain!

The Evil-Scaled Demonic Ape's massive charging body was like it had slammed into a star flying in reverse!

Its dark-green bone armor, which it prided itself on and was capable of withstanding Shenzang Realm, Third Level attacks, shattered and flew apart like inferior pottery the moment of impact!

Its thick sternum fiercely caved inward, forming a huge, concave fist print!

The fist power penetrated its body, raging and exploding within it!

"Pfft!"

Countless foul substances, mixed with fragments of internal organs and demonic blood, violently spurted from the demonic ape's massive mouth, shattered chest, and even its seven orifices, like a foul-smelling blood rain!

Its furious charging momentum was abruptly halted, and its massive body, as if all its bones had been removed, softly collapsed forward!

It crashed onto the permafrost with a rumble, splattering blood and dust everywhere!

Its scarlet vertical pupils instantly lost all their luster, leaving only congealed terror and disbelief.

Instant kill!

A Shenzang Realm, Third Level demonic ape couldn't withstand a single punch!

Pure power! Extreme speed! Penetration brought by spatial folding! The combination of the three was the most primal, most violent crushing!

[Ding! Slaughtered Shenzang Realm, Third Level (Evil-Scaled Demonic Ape)! Obtained evolution points: 18,000!]

The cold System prompt sounded.

Lin Jingyu slowly withdrew his fist. The Chaos Qi Flow automatically swirled out, devouring the immense demonic evil Origin escaping from the demonic ape's corpse, and also isolating the splashing filth.

He didn't even glance at the giant corpse on the ground, his gaze like lightning, sweeping towards the massive palace ruin from which the demonic ape had emerged.

From deep within that ruin, a wave of energy, a hundred times purer than the demonic ape's but also more evil and chaotic, faintly emanated!

At the same time, the token's sensing also pointed there!

That was the core of this desolate Xū Realm!

"The core... the fluctuation of an evil god altar... and this token's guidance..."

Lin Jingyu's thoughts raced, "This Xū Realm has indeed been eroded by the power of an evil god? Is the altar inside?"

He took a step, walking towards the ruin. Under Shrinking the Ground to an Inch, several miles were but a few steps away!

However, the moment he stepped into the range of the palace ruin!

An anomaly suddenly occurred!

"Buzz—!!!"

A vast, chaotic, terrifying will, filled with endless malice, erupted without warning from the deepest part of the ruin!

This will carried divine majesty, yet it was twisted and fallen, like a collection of the venomous curses of billions of living beings!

The entire desolate Xū Realm space violently shook!

The lead-gray sky instantly turned blood-red!

Deep within the cracked earth, the dark red viscous liquid bubbled like it was boiling, emitting an even stronger, sweet, and evil Qi!

A vast, overlapping voice, as if from the Nine Nether Hells, boomed and exploded directly in the depths of Lin Jingyu's Sea of Consciousness:

"Blaspheming... Holy Land... ant..."

"Offer... your... flesh... and... Soul..."

Terrifying pressure, like a tangible tsunami, swept out from the core of the ruin!

This pressure far exceeded the Divine Treasury Realm! It had clearly reached the Dharma Aspect Realm level!

Although it seemed to be restricted and unable to fully descend, its inherent evil and power were enough to make any Divine Treasury Realm cultivator instantly collapse!

Lin Jingyu's Chaos Qi Flow violently churned around him, and the Heaven Burning Divine Fire in his Heart Divine Treasury surged, transforming into an invisible flame barrier protecting his Sea of Consciousness!

Even so, he still felt as if an invisible demonic mountain was pressing down, his steps suddenly sinking, and the permafrost beneath his feet cracked inch by inch!

"Evil god... projection?"

Lin Jingyu's pupils constricted, but instead of fear, his eyes blazed with Battle Intent, "You want to suppress me through the relic Restriction and spatial node?"

He suddenly looked up, his muscles bulging, his blood and Qi roaring like ten thousand Dragons, emitting a dull rumble!

Ninety-eight million jin of terrifying power surged through his tendons, bones, flesh, and blood, resisting the terrifying pressure from the depths of the ruin!

"I don't care what you are!"

Lin Jingyu let out a low roar, like a thunderclap!

"If you dare block my way, then get—"

He took a step, enduring the overwhelming evil god Divine Might!

Shrinking the Ground to an Inch!

His figure instantly vanished from its original spot, carrying an indomitable killing intent, directly rushing towards the core of the ruin where the will had erupted!

"Blasted!"

Display the System page:

[System Interface]

[host]: Lin Jingyu

[Realm]: Divine Treasury Realm, First Level, Heart Fire Burns the Heavens! (Strength: 98,000,000 jin ↑)

[evolution points]: 18,000 (↑18,000)

[Cultivation Technique]:

- Archaic God-Demon Visualization Chart (Beginner)

- Chaos Heaven Opening Art (Minor Achievement)

- Indestructible Vajra Divine Art (Perfection)

- Shrinking the Ground to an Inch (Minor Achievement) Spatial Folding! (↑↑↑)

[Martial Skill]:

- God-Demon Burning Heaven Fist (Minor Achievement)

- Chaos Finger (Minor Achievement)

- Chaos Heaven Opening Fist (Minor Achievement)

[Divine Ability]:

- Heart Fire Burns the Heavens (Heart Divine Treasury) Annihilates all evil!

[Items]:

- Ancient Token (Engraved with 'Xū' character) Guides to the core!

- Bloody Beast Hide Map (Demon Abyss Fissure)

- Zhennan King's Token

- Detailed Map of Prefecture Demon Lairs