226: Chapter 226: A single thought arises, and all laws emerge; a single thought vanishes, and the heavens collapse!

Su Jin's gaze narrowed as her five fingers formed a claw shape, hovering over Chen Fu's crown.

The moon-white Divine Power transformed into thousands of extremely fine threads of light, drilling through Chen Fu's seven orifices into his Sea of Consciousness.

A few seconds later, Su Jin retracted her hand.

Empty.

Chen Fu's Sea of Consciousness was dried up to the bottom, and not even a trace of residual memory fragments could be found.

The assailant acted cleanly and neatly, erasing Chen Fu's Divine Soul along with his Karma imprint from this Universe.

Such a method was definitely not something an ordinary demigod could execute.

Su Jin's brows tightly knitted together.

She lowered her head to look at the lifeless shell on the ground, calculating countermeasures in her heart.

Wanting to extract intelligence from a dead person whose Divine Soul had been completely destroyed rendered conventional soul-searching techniques ineffective.

The only method was to invite a True God who controlled the time Law, forcibly reversing the long river of time in this space.

Tracing back to the moment Chen Fu was killed to intercept the murderer's appearance and aura.

But this path was completely unviable.

The time Law was one of the top existences among the myriad paths of the starry sky.

Over the past nearly a thousand years, within the entire Federation territory, habitats related to the Dao of time had almost become extinct.

Never again had it been heard that any new god could ignite their divine fire relying on the time Law.

As for those ancient time True Gods who had lived for tens of thousands of years, one by one they had long since hidden themselves in the deepest parts of the Universe, ignoring worldly affairs.

Su Jin didn't know old monsters of this level at all.

Even if she knew them.

The other party would absolutely not shoulder the backlash brought by reversing the long river of time for the assassination incident of a freshman.

The clue was broken.

The other party was far too sensitive, seizing the initiative to cut off all sources within the extremely short time difference after Blood Raven's death and her own use of the Karma astrolabe for deduction.

Su Jin sighed.

With a wave of her large sleeve, Chen Fu's corpse was collected into it.

The mastermind was hidden extremely deep; relying solely on her own strength to search for a needle in a haystack was far too low in efficiency.

For this matter, that bunch of old fellows in the high levels of Starry Sky University had to be dragged into the water.

Lin Yuan was the leader of the vanguard army and the core asset of the school. Now that this asset was being targeted, those people shouldn't even think about staying out of it.

With a single step, Su Jin's figure melted into the Void Realm.

Starry Sky University main campus, the deepest part of the floating island group.

The Senate.

This was a grand hall built from pure stellar meteorite iron. In the center of the hall, a huge circular stone table was placed.

Six Elders whose auras were as deep as the abyss sat upright on stone chairs, discussing the resource allocation issues of the Blood Pact War of Ten Thousand Races.

"Bang!"

The heavy metal doors of the hall were forcibly kicked open by a massive force.

The violent moon-white Divine Power swept through the entire meeting room like a hurricane.

The projections in front of several Elders shattered.

Su Jin walked into the hall, flicked her wrist, and Chen Fu's corpse heavily smashed into the center of the circular stone table.

All six Elders furrowed their brows.

"Su Jin, what madness are you up to?" The red-robed Elder sitting in the main seat had a face as gloomy as water, his gaze sweeping over the corpse on the table.

"How can you casually barge into the important territory of the Senate?"

"Barge in?"

Su Jin let out a cold laugh, pressing her hands on the edge of the stone table, leaning her body forward to stare directly at every single person present.

"If I had returned any later, the ashes of this most precious vanguard army leader of your Starry Sky University this year could have been scattered outside by someone!"

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of several Elders changed drastically.

"Speak clearly, what happened?" The red-robed Elder asked in a deep voice.

Su Jin straightened up, pointing at Chen Fu's corpse on the table.

"This person is called Chen Fu, an Advanced deacon of the Sirius Star Region's oceangoing trade chamber of commerce.

Just a few days ago, he offered a price of one million cubic meters of pure Divine Power crystals, a living planet, plus a divine art Legacy, to hire the demigod rank 7 wanted criminal Blood Raven."

"To forcibly locate Lin Yuan's Divine Domain and carry out a cross-border assassination!"

The atmosphere inside the hall sank.

One million cubic meters of divine crystals! Demigod rank 7!

When these two terms were combined together, the weight was far too heavy.

"Where is Lin Yuan? What is the extent of the damage to the core of his Divine Domain?" The green-robed Elder sitting on the left hurriedly pursued the question.

"He has a great life; he counter-killed Blood Raven." Su Jin's tone was mocking, "But that is not the point."

"The point is, someone has reached their hand into Starry Sky University's bowl, placing a bounty on our person right under your eyelids!"

Su Jin crossed her arms, her voice resonant and powerful.

"You bunch of old fellows sit here every day, calculating the resources of this star region and weighing the interests of that financial conglomerate."

"With every word you claim you want to Cultivate Lin Yuan as a future True God, but what is the result?"

"Others used one million cubic meters of divine crystals on the black market to buy his life, and your intelligence network didn't even catch a whiff of a fart!"

Su Jin's words were pearls of wisdom, every single sentence stabbing right at the lungs of these high-level figures.

The several Elders were scolded until their faces turned ashen, yet they had no way to retort.

Blood Raven invading a freshman's Divine Domain was indeed a major dereliction of duty in the school's security system.

"Su Jin, mind your words."

The blue-robed Elder on the right patted the table, his tone stiff.

"This matter is indeed a dereliction of duty by the Security Department, and we will strictly investigate it, but you don't have to put your words so harshly."

"Harsh?" The anger in the depths of Su Jin's eyes was almost about to gush out, "I haven't interfered in the school's internal affairs for a hundred years, and today I've truly opened my eyes!"

"You have known me for a hundred years; when have you ever seen me lose my composure like this?"

"I traced the Karma line all the way to the Sirius Star Region, only to find that this corpse's Divine Soul had already been completely erased."

"The other party had the ability to shield my deduction; what this means, you bunch of old foxes know better in your hearts than I do!"

"A major force has entered the arena!" Su Jin said word by word, "They don't want to see Lin Yuan stand out in the Blood Pact War of Ten Thousand Races."

"Today it's one Blood Raven, tomorrow it might be ten Blood Ravens."

"If you guys can't even protect your own students, you might as well just disband that so-called vanguard army, and everyone can go back to their respective homes to avoid going out and making fools of yourselves!"

The entire hall was pitch-black silent.

These high-and-mighty Elders looked at each other in dismay.

They deeply knew Su Jin's temper; today's matter had indeed touched her bottom line.

After a long while, the red-robed Elder let out a long breath of turbid air.

"Alright." He broke the silence, his gaze sweeping over the other five, "What are you still looking at? Su Jin is right; others have already put knives to our necks. If we still don't hit back, they will really think Starry Sky University is made of mud."

The Grand Elder looked at Su Jin, his tone softening down.

"Leave the corpse."

"The Intelligence Department and Disciplinary Inspection Department will all be dispatched to thoroughly investigate all capital flows and spatial jump records of the Sirius Star Region."

"As for the Security Department, I will personally go and knock some sense into them."

"Before the Blood Pact War of Ten Thousand Races begins, I will mobilize two prime Divine Artifacts to blockade the spatial coordinates surrounding Lin Yuan's villa."

"Never mind a demigod rank 7, even if a True God wants to cross boundaries, they must first ask whether my Formation agrees or not."

Having obtained the red-robed Elder's promise, Su Jin's expression finally eased slightly.

She let out a cold snort and turned to walk out of the hall.

When she reached the doorway, she stopped her footsteps and flung back a sentence without turning her head.

"You had better not let me find out that this matter is connected to certain noble clans within the school."

The heavy doors closed shut.

After Su Jin left, the atmosphere inside the hall remained oppressive.

"Go investigate." The red-robed Elder rubbed his brow, "Dig three feet into the ground to find the clues; don't end up having others poke our spines behind our backs again."

...

Su Jin returned to her independent sub-space residence.

She threw herself into the sofa, raised a hand to rub her throbbing temples, and a deep sense of helplessness surged in her heart.

She was very clear that going to the Senate to make a fuss today would mostly end up as much thunder and little rain.

Starry Sky University was long no longer that pure institution from tens of thousands of years ago that couldn't tolerate a single grain of sand in its eyes.

With the expansion of the Federation territory, the interests of major star region conglomerates and ancient noble clans had intricate and intertwined penetrations into every corner of the school.

The high-level figures did things with increasing tact, emphasizing checks and balances and the overall situation.

Investigate the master behind Chen Fu?

It would most likely come to an abrupt halt once it reached some scapegoat.

Even with herself personally acting hand-in-hand she couldn't fish out the true culprit; how much truth could be investigated if handed over to those heavy-burdened Intelligence Departments?

"Lin Yuan oh Lin Yuan, you brat, you really are a hot potato."

Su Jin let out a long sigh.

Currently, all she could do was force the school to strengthen physical protection over Lin Yuan's Divine Domain.

...

At the same time, Villa No. 079.

Lin Yuan sat cross-legged on the rush mat in the center of the living room, his eyes slightly closed.

He knew nothing about the raging waves caused by him in the outside world, nor Su Jin's furious outburst in the Senate.

At this moment, all his mind and spirit were immersed in the depths of his Sea of Consciousness.

Inside his Divine Domain, it had already been accelerated by him using a high-tier time card.

During this period of time, he had been pondering a fundamental question concerning future godhood—the construction of the prototype of the divinity.

Demigod rank 7, condensing the divinity prototype, this was the cornerstone for stepping into the True God Realm.

Previously, Lin Yuan's conception was very clear.

He fused with that taboo divinity fragment [End and Origin] which even the military old pedants couldn't understand.

Relying on his own understanding of this divinity, as long as he absorbed the Power Of Faith step by step.

He could easily use this fragment as a medium to condense the divinity prototype of [End and Origin].

The end of destruction is new birth, endless and reciprocating.

But now, Lin Yuan was shaken.

His gaze landed on the depths of the Sea of Consciousness, where a crystal radiating rich blood-red light and Death Qi floated.

"If I only condense the divinity with [End and Origin], then this withered-blood divinity prototype."

"Aside from being absorbed as nourishment for a portion of the energy, the Law Profound Truths within it would be completely wasted."

Lin Yuan deduced in his heart.

"I possess [Creation Extraction]."

"This means that as long as I kill enough deities, I can extract divinity fragments of thousands of Laws like space, time, thunder, blazing flames, slaughter..."

"If I solely use [End and Origin] as the Foundation, that would be far too single-faceted."

Lin Yuan's thinking began to wildly diverge.

In the common sense of deities, Laws value precision over quantity.

Greediness leads to poor digestion; forcibly fusing Laws of different attributes easily leads to the collapse of the divinity and the extinguishing of the divine fire.

But Lin Yuan was different.

[End and Origin] itself did not belong to any specific elemental system.

What it touched was the bottom-most operating logic of this starry sky.

All things have a beginning and an end.

"Since End represents destroying all things, and Origin represents nurturing all things..."

In Lin Yuan's eyes, a heart-palpitating fanatical light gradually lit up.

"Then can I use [Origin] as the bottom of the melting furnace, and [End] as the lid of the melting furnace."

"Throw all the thousands of Laws I will extract in the future—the Law of blood, the Law of withered bones, even time and space... all into this great melting furnace!"

"Use the myriad Dao as firewood, and the faith of all living beings as the blazing fire."

"Crush and reorganize all Laws, forcibly branding them onto my divinity!"

"I do not want a single taboo."

"I want my divinity to encompass every single rule within this Universe."

"I am the myriad Dao, and the myriad Dao is me."

"With a single thought, ten thousand Laws emerge together; with a single thought fading, the heavens collapse!"

How crazily unhinged this idea was, deserving to be called unorthodox.

If professors studying theology at Starry Sky University were to hear this, they would probably point at Lin Yuan's nose and scold him for being a madman.

This completely violated the ironclad Laws of divine Dao Cultivation.

But the more Lin Yuan deduced, the more he felt this path was feasible.

[Creation Extraction], this was his greatest confidence!

He looked at that crystal, preparing to try throwing it into the closed loop of [End and Origin] for preliminary smelting.

"Beep—"

The smart brain terminal suddenly emitted a communication request sound.

Lin Yuan frowned slightly, withdrawing from the deep-level deduction.

He glanced at the terminal; it was Su Jin's encrypted band.

Lin Yuan connected the communication, and the holographic projection lit up. Su Jin leaned on the sofa, her expression somewhat fatigued.

"Senior." Lin Yuan spoke.

"Chen Fu is dead." Su Jin went straight to the topic, her speech fast, "When I traced over along the Karma line, his Divine Soul had already been completely erased. The clue is broken."

She briefly and concisely explained her discoveries in the Sirius Star Region and the process of putting pressure on the Senate.

"Over at the school's high levels, they promised to thoroughly investigate and mobilize prime Divine Artifacts to blockade the spatial coordinates of your villa."

Su Jin looked at Lin Yuan, her tone serious, "But you must prepare yourself mentally."

"The water behind this matter is very deep; there is a high probability that the true mastermind cannot be investigated out."

"The enemy is in the dark while we are in the light. From now until the Blood Pact War of Ten Thousand Races begins, you must absolutely not leave the villa by half a step."

Lin Yuan listened quietly to the end.

He did not display the anger, panic, or disappointment that Su Jin had anticipated.

His expression was exceptionally calm, and his eyelids didn't blink even a bit more.

"I know." Lin Yuan nodded, his tone casual.

Su Jin was stunned.

"You know? Just this reaction?" Su Jin couldn't help sitting up straight.

"The mastermind erased the Divine Soul and might launch a second wave of assassination against you at any time. Aren't you afraid?"

Lin Yuan looked at the anxious Su Jin in the holographic projection and let out a light laugh.

What emerged in his mind was the grand picture when he was deducing "Myriad Dao return to one" just now.

"Senior." Lin Yuan stared directly into Su Jin's eyes, his voice not loud, yet exceptionally resolute.

"Any conspiracies and plots, any tail-hiding calculations, are merely the carnival of the weak in the gutter."

"As long as my Divine Domain is broad enough, as long as my divinity is indestructible enough."

"When my mighty power overrides the rules of this starry sky, all calculations won't even count as dust blocking my footsteps."

Lin Yuan paused for a moment, his tone returning to its usual calmness.

"If they want to kill me, let them come. Consider them deliverymen sending me heads."

Su Jin opened her mouth, unable to speak for a long time.

Looking at Lin Yuan's impervious-to-reason, and even faintly leaking a bit of excitement appearance, she couldn't help rolling her eyes heavily.

This brat, she truly didn't know whether to call him bold-hearted or arrogant to the extreme.

For his matter, she crossed star regions to chase murderers, went back to the school to slam tables and curse mothers with high-level officials, bustling about and breaking her heart.

He, on the other hand, acted as if he didn't care about the assassination at all.

However, looking at Lin Yuan's as-stable-as-Mount-Tai Heart-Nature, the pent-up Qi in Su Jin's heart miraculously dissipated a lot.

"Fine, you brat have guts." Su Jin snorted.

"Since you have such confidence, then I won't meddle in other people's business."

"Those five transcendent-grade heart of the world, hurry up and absorb them for me."

"Understood." Lin Yuan nodded.

The communication hung up.

The living room returned to silence.

Lin Yuan closed his eyes, once again sinking his consciousness into the Sea of Consciousness.

As for the storm in the outside world, let it blow.

The only thing he needed to do now was to continue deducing that Great Dao melting furnace with [Origin] as the bottom and [End] as the lid.

The first step of forging divinity with the myriad Dao.

Starts from crushing this withered-blood divinity prototype.