174: Shimen

The rotating nebula within the eyes of the Giant Turtle Holy Spirit suddenly accelerated.

It clearly sensed the Chaos Qi on Lin Dao—a presence that was of the same Origin yet purer and more profound.

This presence made it feel threatened and also incited its ferocity.

The Giant Turtle Holy Spirit opened its mouth, which was like an abyss, and inhaled violently!

Rumble—!

The Chaos Qi within a radius of hundreds of millions of miles instantly surged, flowing toward its massive mouth like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

Those floating star fragments, broken weapons, and even some weak Chaos creatures were all pulled by this terrifying suction, helplessly drawn into that massive mouth to be crushed and devoured.

This single inhalation seemed intent on turning this entire Chaos region into a vacuum!

Lin Dao stood at the center of the suction; his robes whipped violently in the wind, but his figure remained as motionless as an ancient sacred mountain rooted in the Chaos.

He raised his right hand, spread his fingers, and pressed down vaguely toward the center of the vortex that was devouring everything.

"Stay."

A single word spoken seemed to contain the decree of Chaos.

The violent suction stopped abruptly.

The Chaos Qi and star fragments surging toward the giant mouth were blocked as if by an invisible wall, frozen in mid-air.

The Giant Turtle Holy Spirit closed its mouth, emitting a dull rumble from its throat; clearly, this move had made it very uncomfortable.

The first exchange was silent, yet it was a collision of the most fundamental control over Chaos.

The nebula in the eyes of the Giant Turtle Holy Spirit rotated even faster, and its massive body moved.

Its tail, resembling a mountain range, lifted violently, stirring up ten thousand feet of Chaos waves and sweeping toward Lin Dao with the power to shatter stars!

Wherever the tail passed, space emitted sounds of unbearable distortion, and fine black cracks spread outward.

This strike, with power refined to the extreme, was enough to tear a Great World apart!

Lin Dao did not dodge or evade; a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

He also clenched his fist, muscles bulging on his arm, as Chaos Qi condensed at his fist's edge. Without manifesting any visions, he simply threw the most direct, straightforward punch to meet the sweeping giant tail!

Fist and tail collided!

Boom—!!!

A deafening, dull roar erupted, like the collision of two ancient stars!

Centered on the point of impact, a ring-shaped shockwave visible to the naked eye expanded outward, flattening and shattering all floating matter in the vicinity, regardless of size!

Even the chaotic Chaos Qi was briefly cleared into a massive spherical void!

Lin Dao's figure swayed slightly, and ripples appeared in the Void Realm beneath his feet.

The Giant Turtle Holy Spirit emitted a low roar of pain; the tip of its indestructible tail, formed from fragments of realm walls, actually showed several fine cracks!

Although it was instantly repaired by Chaos Qi, this blow clearly caused it to suffer a loss.

In terms of strength, it had actually fallen at a disadvantage!

The Giant Turtle Holy Spirit was thoroughly enraged.

The dim star cores on its back shell suddenly lit up, emitting lights of various colors. Law powers of various attributes—Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Thunder... flowed and gathered within them!

The next moment, countless beams of light of different colors, each containing different Law attributes, shot out from its back shell like a torrential rain!

Fire meteors, frost spears, Geng Metal Sword Qi, Yi Wood Divine Thunder, yellow sand storms... various attacks mixed together to form a destructive torrent that swept toward Lin Dao!

These were the myriad Laws it had refined into its own body after devouring countless world fragments!

Facing this overwhelming attack of diverse Law attributes, Lin Dao finally got serious.

He moved his hands in front of him, his body's Chaos Qi boiling, evolving a rotating gray vortex before him.

"Chaos Furnace, Refine All Laws!"

The thousands of Law beams sweeping in—whether scorching fire, freezing water, sharp metal, or heavy earth—were forcefully pulled, twisted, and thrown into the center of the vortex the moment they touched it.

The vortex was like a bottomless pit, crazily devouring these Law attacks, disassembling their Law structures, and reducing them back to the most fundamental Chaos energy to replenish itself.

The Giant Turtle Holy Spirit's attacks not only failed to injure Lin Dao in the slightest, but instead became nourishment for his Primal Origin!

For the first time, the nebula in the eyes of the Giant Turtle Holy Spirit fluctuated violently, revealing a hint of fear.

It realized that the understanding and application of the Dao of Chaos by this "little thing" before it was far superior to its own!

It stopped attacking from a distance and charged forward with its massive body. Its four limbs paddled, stirring up towering waves of Chaos, and it opened its giant mouth to reveal sharp teeth like intersecting mountain peaks, biting down fiercely toward Lin Dao!

It wanted to engage in the most primitive physical combat to decide the outcome!

"Well come!"

Lin Dao laughed aloud, advancing instead of retreating. His figure turned into a streak of Chaos light, actively meeting the biting giant mouth.

He did not choose to clash head-on; instead, in the split second of danger, his figure nimbly bypassed the sharp teeth like a swimming fish, instantly appearing at the side of the Giant Turtle Holy Spirit's relatively fragile neck.

"Break!"

He joined his fingers like a blade, with Chaos Qi highly condensed at his fingertips, forming a grayish blade of Law, and slashed fiercely at the neck covered with thick scales!

Ssh—!

The sound of a sharp blade cutting into tough hide rang out.

The scales on the Giant Turtle Holy Spirit's neck shattered in response, and a massive wound deep enough to see bone was carved open!

Dark golden blood gushed out like a waterfall; every drop of blood was incredibly heavy, crashing into the Void Realm of Chaos with a roar.

"Roar—!"

The Giant Turtle Holy Spirit let out a heaven-shaking roar of pain, its massive body twisting wildly, stirring the surrounding Chaos into turmoil.

It swung its head violently, attempting to knock Lin Dao away, while light shone on its back shell again, and countless sharp stone spikes sprayed outward in all directions like a torrential rain!

Lin Dao's figure flickered as he wove through the dense stone spikes; every time he appeared, he left a new wound on the Giant Turtle Holy Spirit.

Whether with a fist, palm, or finger, every strike contained the power of Chaos Law condensed to the extreme, destroying its Physical Body structure and vitality.

The Giant Turtle Holy Spirit had immense power and formidable defense in vain; in the face of Lin Dao's combat style—which concentrated power to a single point and possessed minute control over Chaos—it appeared clumsy and inefficient.

Most of its attacks missed, while every one of Lin Dao's attacks could effectively injure it.

This battle turned into a one-sided suppression.

The aura of the Giant Turtle Holy Spirit declined at a visible rate; there were more and more wounds on its body, and the dark golden blood had almost soaked nearly half of its body.

The nebula in its eyes grew dim, filled with pain and unwillingness.

Finally, after being struck again by Lin Dao's fist at the core of its back shell, causing its massive body to tremble violently and extinguishing most of the star cores on its shell, the Giant Turtle Holy Spirit let out a desperate whimper and stopped attacking.

Its massive body slowly lowered, its head hung down, and those huge eyes looked at Lin Dao; there was no more ferocity in them, only submission and pleading.

It knew that if the fight continued, it would surely die.

Lin Dao hovered before it, looking at this ancient Holy Spirit that had dominated the Chaos Frontier for who knows how many years, and ceased his attack.

He was not a bloodthirsty person, and the purpose of his trip was not to slay this Holy Spirit.

Defeating it to gain the qualification to reach that stone gate was enough.

He glanced at the Giant Turtle Holy Spirit, said nothing, and turned into a streak of light, passing over its submissive body and flying toward the broken stone gate before that absolute void.

The Giant Turtle Holy Spirit watched his retreating figure, whined low, and slowly sank into the Chaos Qi below, beginning to lick its wounds, no longer daring to offer the slightest obstruction.

Lin Dao arrived before the stone gate and stood still.

Being close, he could feel the vastness and brokenness of the stone gate even more.

The traces of battle remaining on it emitted an aura that made even him tremble; they were left by entities at least on the same level as him, or perhaps even higher.

He cast his gaze toward the deep darkness behind the stone gate.

There, it seemed to be the end of the entire Chaos Frontier, and also an unknown beginning.

He could feel that something inside was calling out, having countless connections with him and Lin Huan's Primal Origin Body.

Without hesitation, Lin Dao took a step forward and entered that absolute darkness where even Chaos was repelled.

His figure was instantly swallowed by the darkness.