189: Messenger from the upper realm? Annihilated with a wave of the hand.

More than a month had passed since the Emperors Road opened.

The gaze of the Myriad Heavens and Myriad Realms was almost entirely drawn to that bloody road, fraught with opportunities.

Countless Prodigies struggled, battled, rose, and fell within it.

The names of Lin Huan, Lin Hao, Ye Chen, and other Lin family disciples were repeatedly reported back with glorious achievements, exciting the entire Lin family.

However, Lin Dao, who was stationed in the Lin family's Forbidden Ground, remained as calm as a deep abyss.

The Emperors Road was already a landscape he had traversed, unable to stir even a ripple in him.

His mind was more immersed in the deduction and perfection of his own Chaos World.

At the same time, he was also waiting for something.

On this day, his closed eyes suddenly opened.

His gaze seemed to penetrate the Small World's barrier, looking towards a previously empty area deep within the endless Star Domain.

"Finally... it's here."

He sensed an extremely subtle fluctuation that was completely incompatible with the Laws of this Universe.

That fluctuation carried a higher-dimensional "order" and "indifference," attempting to silently penetrate the Universe's barrier and descend upon this Realm.

This was precisely the subsequent worry he had vaguely felt when he previously collected that 'Upper Realm' light egg.

Without alarming anyone, Lin Dao took a step, and his figure vanished from the Forbidden Ground.

The next moment, he appeared outside that target Star Domain.

This place was far from any living stars, a desolate Void Realm.

Only some cold asteroid belts slowly drifted.

At this moment, strange changes were occurring in the center of this Void Realm.

The space there rippled violently like water.

A subtle crack, shimmering with colorful light, was being forcibly torn open by an invisible force!

Beyond the crack was not the familiar dark Void Realm.

Instead, it was a blurred, unknown scene emanating a high-level Law aura that caused palpitations!

A passage from the "Upper Realm" was being forcibly opened!

Although this passage was extremely unstable, seemingly only able to last for a very short time, and unable to accommodate too powerful forces.

Yet, the will attempting to descend carried a natural, condescending disregard.

Buzz—

The passage stabilized for a moment.

A light silhouette, as if being squeezed, arduously emerged from the colorful crack.

The light silhouette solidified, transforming into a figure.

The newcomer was a young man.

He wore ancient-styled, silver-white battle armor that flowed with a faint glow.

His face was handsome, but his eyes held an arrogance and indifference that seemed innate.

The energy fluctuations emanating from him were quite peculiar.

It was not the Spiritual Qi or Laws of this Realm, but a more condensed, more "ordered" power.

Its strength was roughly equivalent to the Quasi-Emperor First Heaven of this Realm.

He steadied himself and took a deep breath.

He seemed somewhat unaccustomed to the thin energy of this Realm.

Then, his gaze scanned the desolate Star Domain around him, his brows slightly furrowed.

"As expected, it's a barren and desolate 'Lower Realm,' with incomplete Laws and sparse energy."

He muttered to himself, his voice carrying a unique rhythm, as if containing some profound truth.

"If not to retrieve the 'Source Egg,' why would I descend to such a defiled place."

His Divine Thought spread out like mercury, seemingly searching for something.

However, his Divine Thought had barely extended far when it hit an invisible wall, being forcibly bounced back!

The young man's expression changed slightly, and he abruptly turned his head to look at a huge meteorite not far away.

Unbeknownst to him, a figure had appeared there.

In a green robe, standing with hands behind his back.

His aura was integrated with this Star Domain, as if he had existed there since ancient times.

It was Lin Dao.

"Are you looking for me?"

Lin Dao looked at him calmly, his eyes unperturbed.

The Upper Realm young man's pupils suddenly contracted, and an alarm blared in his heart!

He hadn't even noticed when the other party had appeared!

Moreover, the other party's aura... he couldn't see through it!

It was like a boundless, bottomless sea of Chaos!

"Who are you?"

The young man suppressed the shock in his heart, forced himself to be calm, and asked in a commanding tone.

"You native of this Realm, upon seeing an Upper Realm envoy, why do you not kneel and welcome him?"

He tried to intimidate the other party with the name of the "Upper Realm."

In the knowledge he had received, beings of the Lower Realm all yearned for Ascension to the Upper Realm and should hold reverence for those from the Upper Realm.

Upon hearing this, Lin Dao's lips curved into a half-smile:

"Upper Realm? Envoy?"

"With your meager Quasi-Emperor strength, are you even worthy of chattering before me?"

The young man's face instantly flushed red.

As a person from the Upper Realm, even if he was merely a subordinate, he should be respected in the Lower Realm. When had he ever been so belittled?

He laughed in extreme anger:

"Arrogant!"

"A mere ant from the Lower Realm, you don't know the immensity of heaven and earth!"

"This envoy has been ordered to investigate the whereabouts of the 'Source Egg.' If you know what's good for you, immediately hand over the Source Egg and bind yourself for punishment, and perhaps I can leave your corpse intact!"

"Otherwise, when my Upper Realm army descends, this Realm will be razed to the ground, and not even a chicken or dog will be left!"

He tried to subdue the other party with a thunderous momentum and inquire about the Source Egg's whereabouts.

Runes lit up on his silver-white battle armor.

A terrifying pressure, far exceeding his own cultivation, erupted.

Clearly, this battle armor was a treasure of extremely high grade, capable of greatly amplifying his strength!

He pointed his fingers like a blade.

A highly condensed silver blade light, imbued with Upper Realm Laws, tore through the Void Realm and slashed down at Lin Dao!

This strike already possessed the power comparable to a Quasi-Emperor Third or Fourth Heaven!

Facing this fierce strike, Lin Dao didn't even move his feet.

He merely raised his right hand, gently pinching with his index finger and thumb.

Like plucking a flower, his movement was soft and precise.

That silver blade light, capable of shattering stars, suddenly froze in mid-air as if under a immobilization spell, a zhang away from his face.

Then... it was easily pinched by his two fingers!

Buzz!

The blade light vibrated violently, emitting an unwilling wail.

The Upper Realm Laws contained within it furiously impacted, yet they could not shake those two fingers in the slightest.

The sneer on the Upper Realm young man's face instantly froze, his eyes filled with unbelievable horror!

He actually caught his full-power strike, amplified by his battle armor, with bare hands?!

How was this possible?!

How could such a powerful existence be in the Lower Realm?!

Lin Dao's fingertips exerted a slight force.

Crack!

That condensed silver blade light, like fragile glazed glass, shattered inch by inch, turning into specks of silver light and dissipating.

"The Laws of the Upper Realm are nothing more than this."

Lin Dao commented faintly, as if he had merely crushed an insignificant leaf.

He looked calmly at the completely dumbfounded Upper Realm young man:

"It seems you don't know the specific situation of that egg; you're just a small pawn sent to scout ahead."

The young man felt a chill run through his body and his Divine Soul tremble under his gaze.

All his arrogance and superiority were shattered at this moment!

He finally understood what kind of terrifying iron plate he had kicked!

"You... what Realm are you in?!"

The young man's voice trembled, devoid of his previous arrogance.

Lin Dao did not answer.

He merely blew a gentle breath towards him.

Whoosh—

A subtle current of Chaos Qi, like a gentle breeze, blew towards the young man.

The young man's pupils contracted sharply, sensing a fatal crisis!

He roared, pushing the defense of his silver-white battle armor to its limit.

At the same time, he conjured a shield engraved with profound stars to block in front of him.

He rapidly retreated, trying to escape back into the spatial rift that had not yet fully closed!

However, everything was in vain.

That wisp of Chaos Qi, seemingly slow, instantly traversed space.

Ignoring the battle armor's glow and the star shield's defense.

It brushed directly past the young man's body.

The young man's rapidly retreating figure suddenly froze, the expression of terror on his face solidified.

He looked down at his body.

From his fingertips, like a weathered sand sculpture, he silently turned into the finest dust, scattering into the Star Domain.

Along with the high-grade silver-white battle armor and the star shield, all turned to ashes.

An "envoy" from the Upper Realm, with Quasi-Emperor level combat power, was completely obliterated before Lin Dao, without even causing a ripple.

Lin Dao didn't even glance at the dissipating dust.

His gaze turned to the rapidly shrinking, unstable colorful spatial rift.

He could feel that on the other side of the rift, an even grander, more indifferent will was coldly "watching" this place across endless time and space.

"This is just the beginning."

Lin Dao spoke calmly in the direction of that will.

His voice, however, clearly penetrated the spatial barrier and reached the other side.

"This Realm is not a place for you to act recklessly."

As his voice fell, he gently waved his sleeve.

The already unstable spatial rift, as if wiped by an invisible giant hand, instantly smoothed out and vanished.

No trace of it could be found.

The Star Domain returned to its previous dead silence and desolation, as if everything that had just happened was merely an illusion.

Lin Dao stood alone in the Void Realm, his eyes profound.

He knew that the trouble had only just begun.

Since the Upper Realm had noticed this place and sent the first person, they would never let it rest.

His act of killing their envoy and sealing the passage today would only attract stronger attention and more powerful forces from them.

"It seems the peaceful days are over."

He murmured to himself, his figure gradually fading and disappearing into the Star Domain, returning to the Lin family.