55: Break through the formation and slay the supreme being, Zhongdang Divine Mountain

The "Nirvana Return to Origin Array" was fully activated, and the entire Dark Divine Mountain transformed into the core of a black hole that devoured all things. Above the firmament, the massive Nirvana Vortex rotated slowly, emitting a despair-inducing suction force. This power was formless and immaterial, yet it acted directly upon the very essence of existence. Lin Fan could feel the Origin of his Chaos Domain trembling, as if it were being forcibly extracted! Mo Yuan, Su Zhiqing, and the others turned pale, their respective Domain lights dimming sharply like candles in the wind, threatening to extinguish at any moment.

At the mountain Peak, Control's figure finally fully manifested. It was not human, but a terrifying dharma idol a thousand feet tall, composed entirely of dark crystals and possessing eight arms! Each of the eight arms held a different hand seal, closely connected to the mountain's ley lines and the vortex in the sky. Its aura was as vast as an abyss, already reaching the limit of the Realm Lord Peak, with even half a foot stepped into a higher level! It was the manifestation of the mountain's will and the highest spokesperson for the Lord of Annihilation in this place!

"With your blood, we shall forge the path for my Lord's return!" Control's eight arms shook in unison, its grand and cold voice like a heavenly decree, causing the array's power to surge even further! The devouring force suddenly increased several-fold. Some of the weaker Prodigies in the Alliance immediately let out miserable screams as their blood essence and soul light were forcibly extracted like mist, their bodies rapidly shriveling!

"Guard your Origin! Gather around me!" Lin Fan shouted sternly. His three-thousand-foot Chaos Domain expanded frantically regardless of the cost, enveloping as many Alliance members as possible! The Chaos Qi flowed, striving to neutralize the omnipresent devouring force. But facing this array that exhausted the Dark Divine Mountain's Origin, even the Chaos Domain was like a lonely boat in a storm, vibrating violently as its range was continuously compressed!

"This can't go on! We must destroy the array core or kill Control!" Blood leaked from the corner of Mo Yuan's mouth as his Demonic Blade Domain shrank to three feet in front of him, struggling to hold on.

"The array core is the entire Divine Mountain, and even more so, Control itself! Only by slaying it will the array be broken!" Su Zhiqing's Glazed Sword Domain had been compressed to the surface of her body, her Sword Qi protecting her. Her face was pale, but her eyes were firm.

"Then we shall slay it!" A look of madness flashed in Lin Fan's eyes. He knew he could no longer hold anything back. The chaos bell hung above his head, trailing Chaos Qi. His hands rapidly formed seals, and the wisp of Innate Chaos Qi within his body began to burn at an unprecedented speed! Simultaneously, he unhesitatingly triggered the fragmented "epoch imprint" in his Sea of Consciousness, as well as the power of the "Unyielding war soul" blessing he had just obtained!

"With my Chaos, I take in the ancient war soul! Burn my Origin to open the heavens and create the earth!"

Lin Fan roared to the heavens, his entire body erupting with an unprecedentedly brilliant light! That light was not a single color, but an indistinct Chaos-gray, interwoven with the Unyielding blood-light of the ancient war soul, the vicissitudes and sorrow of the epoch imprint, and his own resolute will!

In this moment, all of his power was poured into the chaos bell without reservation!

"chaos bell, Myriad Laws Return to Void, Heaven-Opening Strike!"

Dong! This time, the bell's toll surpassed any previous one! It was no longer just a sound, but had transformed into a physical Chaos storm that swept through heaven and earth! Within the storm, one could faintly see phantoms of ancient sages at war, the Reincarnation of worlds being born and destroyed, the elegies of changing epochs, and even more so, Lin Fan's own supreme Dao intent of opening the Chaos and evolving the myriad heavens!

The Chaos storm swirled upward, boldly charging toward the massive Nirvana Vortex in the sky! It also surged toward Control, the thousand-foot dark dharma idol beneath the vortex!

"Like a mantis trying to stop a chariot!" Control's eight arms waved together, causing the Divine Mountain to tremble. An endless amount of Nirvana ley line energy gathered, forming a "Nirvana Origin Shield" in front of it—a shield so thick it seemed capable of withstanding the impact of the myriad worlds! Upon the shield, ten thousand demons roared and worlds fell, representing the ultimate defense and end!

Simultaneously, it triggered the array's devouring power, transforming it into billions of invisible chains that wrapped around the Chaos storm, attempting to decompose and devour it mid-way!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!! The Chaos storm collided violently with the Nirvana Origin Shield and the billions of devouring chains! A terrifying explosion that defied description erupted above the Divine Mountain! The turbulent energy tore the space to shreds, revealing the pitch-black void beneath! The light from the explosion even briefly dispersed part of the Nirvana black clouds!

A stalemate! A terrifying stalemate! The Chaos storm frantically struck and wore down the Nirvana Origin Shield, while it was also being continuously weakened by the billions of devouring chains. Control's thousand-foot dharma idol vibrated violently, and fine cracks appeared on its eight arms, clearly under immense pressure. As for Lin Fan, he was bleeding from all seven orifices, and cracks appeared on his body. The backlash from burning his Origin and the exhaustion of the confrontation instantly left him severely wounded!

"Alliance Leader!"

"Lin Fan!"

Everyone cried out in alarm, their eyes nearly bursting.

"Now is the time! Give the Alliance Leader a hand!" Mo Yuan roared hoarsely. He no longer held his position, but instead transformed all the remaining power of his Demonic Blade Domain into a pitch-black blade light condensed to the extreme, slashing toward one of the dharma idol's arms!

"Glazed Sword, Delusion-Breaking Dao-Slaying!" Su Zhiqing also exhausted her last bit of strength, merging herself with her sword to become a heaven-reaching sword-rainbow, piercing straight toward the center of the dharma idol's forehead!

"Buddha's Light Shines Everywhere, Subdue the Demons!" The Son of Buddha burned his sarira, and the golden Buddha-light transformed into a phantom of a demon-subduing pestle, crashing down!

"Nature's Wrath, Life Burning!" Elf bit the tip of her tongue, using her own life Origin as a guide to stimulate the power of nature, transforming it into an emerald-green spear that pierced toward Control!

"War God's Blood, Boil!" The Giant Clan Warrior roared to the heavens, his blood essence burning as he crashed into Control like a blood-colored meteor!

"Nine Tails Heaven Incineration, Sacrifice!" A look of resolve flashed in Zi Linger's eyes. One of her fox tails exploded, transforming into a towering purple flame that merged into Lin Fan's Chaos storm!

"Eye of Reincarnation, Open!" Ethereal Moon's face was as white as paper as she forcibly opened the Eye of Reincarnation. A gray-white beam of light, containing the supreme rules of Reincarnation, shot toward the core of the dharma idol!

"Great Void Dragon Cry, Space Shatter!" Primordial Void Dragon revealed her Dragon Clan true form. Her silver-white dragon body was wrapped in spatial power, and she spat out a dragon breath that shattered the Void Realm!

In this moment, everyone in the Alliance disregarded life and death, burning everything to launch their strongest and final strike! Their target was aimed directly at Control!

Control moved its eight arms together, distracted by defending against these attacks. The light of the Nirvana Origin Shield dimmed by a fraction! The billions of devouring chains also experienced a momentary disruption!

"Now!" A sharp light exploded in Lin Fan's eyes. Ignoring his own state of near-collapse, he forcibly activated his last bit of strength, along with the "dust of time" power he had just obtained and not yet refined from his Divine Soul!

"Time Slow!" His use of the Law of time was extremely rudimentary and carried a massive backlash, but at this moment, even if he could only slow Control's movements by one ten-thousandth of an instant, it would be enough!

Control's grand dharma idol's movement paused for an imperceptibly small moment.

For a battle at Lin Fan's level, this single moment meant life or death!

"chaos bell—Suppress! Destroy! Return! Origin!" Lin Fan roared, his hands grasping the air as if holding the entire Chaos storm. He completely merged it with the chaos bell's power, transforming it into a gray, hazy Chaos Sky-Opening Axe Phantom—as if it could re-establish earth, water, fire, and wind, and reopen the Universe!

The axe phantom solidified, ignoring the barriers of space and time. In that moment of Control's slight hesitation, it struck the core of the Nirvana Origin Shield, the point most closely connected to Control!

Crack—!!!! This time, it was a clear, crisp sound, as if the very Foundation of the Great Dao had snapped!

The Nirvana Origin Shield, claimed to be able to withstand the impact of the myriad worlds, shattered in front of the Chaos Sky-Opening Axe Phantom—which combined all of Lin Fan's power, the desperate strike of the Alliance, and a hint of time interference! Before the shield fragments could scatter, they were completely devoured and annihilated by the Chaos Return to Void power within the axe phantom!

The axe phantom's momentum did not decrease as it boldly cleaved into the chest of Control's thousand-foot dark dharma idol!

"No—!!!!" Control let out an unprecedented roar filled with shock, anger, and disbelief! It could not accept that, while relying on the Divine Mountain's array, it would be defeated by a Human Race in the Late-stage World Lord!

As the axe phantom entered its body, the Chaos Return to Void power and the Myriad Laws Return to Origin characteristic erupted wildly, frantically destroying and devouring the vast Nirvana Origin and the connection to the Divine Mountain's ley lines within the dharma idol!

With the chest as the center, countless massive cracks appeared on the thousand-foot dharma idol, with Chaos light bursting from within! The eight arms hung powerlessly and crumbled! The dharma idol began to collapse and disintegrate!

"My Lord is immortal..." Control's final resentful and unwilling thought was transmitted. Then, the entire dharma idol exploded, turning into a rain of dark light that filled the sky!

With the fall of Control, the "Nirvana Return to Origin Array" that enveloped the Divine Mountain lost its core controller and immediately went out of Control, collapsing! The Nirvana Vortex in the sky abruptly stopped rotating, then shattered and dissipated like a broken mirror! The terrifying devouring force also vanished instantly!

Pfft—! Lin Fan could no longer hold on. He violently spat out a mouthful of golden blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. His vision went dark, and he fell straight from the sky. The chaos bell let out a mournful cry and turned into a streak of light, sinking into his body.

"Alliance Leader!"

"Lin Fan!"

Mo Yuan, Su Zhiqing, and the others were also completely exhausted and severely injured, but they still struggled to fly toward where Lin Fan was falling.

The Giant Clan Warrior caught Lin Fan. Everyone gathered around, looking at Lin Fan's miserable state—his breath as thin as a thread, covered in blood, and barely recognizable as human. Their eyes reddened. This battle had been too tragic.

"Did we win?" Zi Linger's voice trembled as she looked at the Dark Divine Mountain, which was gradually returning to calm but was now riddled with scars, and the dissipating light of Control's dharma idol. She still couldn't believe it.

"We won," Mo Yuan wiped the blood from his mouth and looked around. Not even three out of ten Alliance members remained, and every one of them was injured. But ultimately, they had flattened this final barrier!

["System," Lin Fan silently called out with his last bit of consciousness before fainting, "Check in at the Peak of the Dark Divine Mountain, the place of final victory."]

[Ding! Check-in location detected—Peak of the Dark Divine Mountain (Final barrier broken, Nirvana Venerable fallen). Ultimate check-in conditions met. Check-in successful!]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining: Innate Chaos Qi (One complete wisp)! World Tree Seed (Chaos)!]

A pure and vast wisp of complete Innate Chaos Qi, far exceeding any before, along with a strange seed emitting the aura of the beginning of Chaos and seemingly containing infinite vitality, merged into Lin Fan's nearly exhausted body. They began to repair his shattered Physical Body and Origin at an extremely slow speed.

This was the gift of victory and the Foundation for a new journey.

But at this moment, no one had time to rejoice. Although the Dark Divine Mountain was broken, ahead, the core of the Eye of Gui Xu, which had been shrouded in black clouds for countless ages, was finally exposed before everyone without any concealment. An even more ancient, deeper, and more despair-inducing Nirvana aura, like a world-destroying demon god that had been slumbering for eons, was slowly awakening... Flattening the Divine Mountain was not the end. The true ultimate was right before their eyes. And the Alliance at this moment was already at the end of its tether.

In his coma, Lin Fan's brow furrowed tightly, as if he sensed the approaching, most ultimate darkness.