Eternal Wild Ox truly became a panicked ox. He was completely panicking.
Lin Mohan was now only one thin line away from achieving the Dao. From what had just happened, it looked like Lin Mohan still needed to keep killing. Killing ordinary people was useless. She could only kill those who competed with her, at minimum Great Supremes, and ideally beings that surpassed Great Supremes. And here, the only one who surpassed Great Supremes was himself.
Eternal Wild Ox trembled in fear. Destiny Venerable beside him could not laugh anymore either. He could not see the future. Lin Mohan's future was a fog he could not pierce, he could see nothing at all. As for whether Lin Mohan would kill Eternal Wild Ox, maybe she would, maybe she would not. He could not guess at all.
After all, besides killing Eternal Wild Ox, there was also the Divine Wood Sea, the chance to achieve the Dao in this great tribulation. Refining it could likewise let Lin Mohan achieve the Dao. Either choice worked, but he could not guess which Lin Mohan would pick. With Lin Mohan's temperament, she might truly draw her sword and kill the ox, because that would be simpler.
By now he was one hundred percent certain that Lin Moyu had no intention of achieving the Dao. Instead, he wanted to push Lin Mohan onto the Supreme throne. Compared to Lin Mohan, Lin Moyu felt even more unfathomable. Everything that had happened before had been driven by Lin Moyu in the shadows. Lin Moyu had staged a grand play for everyone.
He cleared his throat. "Fellow Daoist Lin..."
He did not even know whether he was calling Lin Mohan or Lin Moyu.
Lin Moyu chuckled. "Destiny Daoist, do not worry. What I promised you before still stands."
Destiny Venerable let out a small sigh of relief and slowly bowed. "Many thanks, Fellow Daoist Lin."
Lin Moyu looked toward the Divine Wood Sea. "Big Sis, it is still just a tiny bit short."
Lin Mohan gave a soft sound. "Just one thin line."
Lin Moyu said, "There is also a sneaky thief hiding in there. Kill him and you can achieve the Dao."
Lin Mohan followed Lin Moyu's gaze. She did not see anything, but she understood what he meant. "I will go slash him."
Lin Moyu nodded. "Go. Do not fear damaging the chance to achieve the Dao. This thing cannot be broken."
Lin Mohan nodded and turned into a sharp sword that shot into the Divine Wood Sea.
Only after Lin Mohan left did Destiny Venerable cautiously ask, "Fellow Daoist Lin, you mean there is still someone inside the chance to achieve the Dao?"
Lin Moyu gave a soft sound. "A guy crawled in long ago and tried to refine it. Too bad his ability is lacking. Refining it cannot be finished in a short time."
Destiny Venerable asked, "Who?"
He could not infer it. As far as he knew, all the beings who surpassed Great Supremes had come, and they were all dead. That left only Great Supremes. But for a Great Supreme to slip in under everyone's noses felt impossible.
A few breaths later, an enraged roar erupted from within the Divine Wood Sea. A vast aura surged up from the sea. Time and space twisted together, and endless spacetime was born and destroyed in an instant.
Lin Mohan's sword light tore through spacetime. A figure tumbled out of time and space, looking somewhat bedraggled.
Destiny Venerable was shocked. He was still alive. Only one person could manipulate time like this.
Calamity Great Supreme.
Lin Moyu smiled. "Some people scheme too much, but after all their calculations they forget to calculate their own strength. He is far from capable of secretly refining the chance to achieve the Dao."
"The chance to achieve the Dao is not something anyone can casually refine. Besides me, the Tribulation Respondent, who can refine it a bit faster, anyone else would need at least several hundred years."
From the start, Calamity Great Supreme had secretly slipped inside and begun refining. He did it very covertly, fooling everyone except Lin Moyu. The Calamity Great Supreme who fought outside and later had his body seized by Heaven Sundering True Lord was not the main body, but a clone.
Calamity Great Supreme used Time Essence Stone to pull himself over from the past, forming a clone. This kind of clone was extremely special, a secret art unique to Calamity Great Supreme and also his innate gift, called the Time True Body.
A Time True Body was different from an ordinary clone. It was also a physical body and could exist independently, no different from the main body. Even Heaven Sundering True Lord did not notice it, but it did not fool Lin Moyu.
Lin Moyu knew Calamity Great Supreme could not complete the refinement quickly, so he did not bother him and instead played along. When Lin Mohan was only one thin line from breaking through, Calamity Great Supreme became the final stepping stone.
A stepping stone that could help Lin Mohan achieve the Dao.
There was no suspense.
Lin Mohan's sword Dao had already become a rule, and she had inherited the Shrouding Heaven Beast's space ability. She completely suppressed Calamity Great Supreme. No matter how desperately Calamity Great Supreme fought, he could not contend with Lin Mohan's sword. Every method was mercilessly destroyed. Sword light swept the void, killing until Calamity Great Supreme had nowhere to flee.
Calamity Great Supreme roared, "Lin Moyu, you cannot kill me. The small world is still in my hands."
Lin Moyu smiled. "Really? I do not quite believe it."
Calamity Great Supreme suddenly unfolded his domain, revealing the small world within. The state of that small world appeared clearly. Meng Anwen, Bai Yiyuan, Yan Kuangsheng, all were inside.
Calamity Great Supreme said, "If I fall, this small world will be destroyed along with me."
"Then let it be destroyed."
Lin Moyu suddenly snapped his fingers. The small world inside the domain shattered with a boom and dispersed like bubbles.
Calamity Great Supreme froze on the spot, incredulous.
"What is going on? The small world was clearly inside my domain. How did it suddenly vanish?"
Lin Mohan's crisp shout came through. "Think about it slowly."
"One Sword to Cut the Dao."
Sword light surged and swallowed Calamity Great Supreme. His screams came from within the sword light. He exhausted every means, yet Lin Mohan broke them all with a single sword.
Lin Moyu said calmly, "When strength reaches a certain level, all plotting is useless. The fist is the hard truth."
Destiny Venerable agreed deeply. Lin Mohan's slaughter had perfectly proven it. He could see that Lin Mohan had already won. No matter what tricks Calamity Great Supreme still had, he could not stir up any waves. And Lin Moyu was also present. This one was the real killing god. Everyone had been toyed with in his palm. With these siblings here, no one else would ever touch the Supreme seat.
He bowed to Lin Moyu again. "Fellow Daoist Lin truly is a great power. Destiny is convinced."
Lin Moyu smiled. "I did not say that. One of my teachers did."
"After my sister achieves the Dao, do you and this Eternal Wild Ox plan to remain in Chaotic Wild Desolation as carefree folk, or go to other Heavens and Earths for a look?"
Destiny Venerable said, "We will stay in Chaotic Wild Desolation. I feigned death and hid for countless years. I am tired of hiding. I might take the old ox to a small world and live as ordinary people, herding cattle and living idly."
Lin Moyu said, "Ordinary life does have its good side. After the great tribulation, everything will need rebuilding. Heaven and Earth should enjoy a stretch of peace. Destiny Daoist can enjoy yourself, find a few kindred spirits, form Dao bonds and marry, have some children."
Destiny Venerable smiled. "I do have that thought. I also want to find the old ox a group as well. His bloodline should be passed on."
Lin Moyu said, "As long as you two do nothing outrageous, my sister will not trouble you. Rest assured."
Destiny Venerable nodded forcefully. "Naturally, naturally."
Screams rang out and spacetime fell silent. Calamity Great Supreme was slashed out from a pocket of spacetime, his body split into four. Then sword light turned into a galaxy and swallowed him, grinding soul and flesh to pieces. Calamity Great Supreme, who had plotted for countless years, finally came to an end.
Radiance descended. Lin Mohan's aura began to rise again.
The road to becoming a Supreme was not just one. The weakest was to prove the Dao by grand vow. A stronger one was to refine the chance to achieve the Dao and prove the Dao. There were several other methods as well.
But the strongest was surely to prove the Dao by force.
Lin Mohan walked that road.
Prove the Dao by force, kill all others who sought to prove the Dao, contend for the Dao, kill to the peak. When her sword might towered over the heavens with none comparable, that would be her moment of proving the Dao.
When Calamity Great Supreme fully fell, Heaven and Earth radiance descended. Though there still existed beings who surpassed Great Supremes in the world, though the Tribulation Respondent still remained, though the chance to achieve the Dao had not been refined, her road had been fully opened.
Radiance wove a brocade robe around Lin Mohan. A throne appeared in the void, the throne of the treasure among treasures, unique and supreme.
Lin Mohan's aura abruptly surged, stepping into another level.
In an instant, her aura swept the void. Destiny Venerable and Eternal Wild Ox involuntarily knelt in the void, lowering their heads in submission.
So this was a Supreme. Truly so strong.
A Supreme was the highest, peerless existence within Heaven and Earth, the limit of Heaven and Earth's strength. Within Heaven and Earth, they were the only one, unchallengeable.
Even those who surpassed Great Supremes, as long as they had not reached the Supreme level, could never understand how terrifying this level was.
Destiny Venerable and Eternal Wild Ox knelt, but it was not only them. It was all the countless living beings of Heaven and Earth.
At this moment, living beings within Heaven and Earth could do only one thing, kneel obediently toward the strongest existence and offer their reverence.
A Supreme was also the master of Heaven and Earth, the one who held Heaven and Earth's fate. Under the Heaven-and-Earth rules, none could disobey.
All beings knelt, only Lin Moyu stood proudly in the void.
Heaven and Earth demanded he kneel, but he said Heaven and Earth was unworthy. Even the Heaven-and-Earth rules detoured around him. He naturally did not need to kneel.
The Empress arrived above the Nine Heavens.
Lin Mohan's beautiful eyes shifted, within them billions of cold lights and sword shadows.
"The great tribulation, disperse."
A golden utterance, and the great tribulation dispersed.
Countless beings affected by the great tribulation instantly returned to normal. Heaven and Earth ceased warfare. With Lin Mohan's single heavenly decree, Heaven and Earth began to return to calm.
The Heaven-and-Earth great tribulation dispersed, but the Divine Wood Sea still remained. The chance to achieve the Dao came with the great tribulation, yet it would not depart with it.
Lin Mohan could take the chance to achieve the Dao away, refine and absorb it, or refine it into a treasure. All were useful.
But now this chance to achieve the Dao belonged to Lin Moyu.
As the great tribulation dispersed, Lin Moyu's identity as the Tribulation Respondent also dispersed. With a Supreme now present in this Heaven and Earth, even if Lin Moyu refined the chance to achieve the Dao, he could not become a Supreme.
Lin Moyu smiled. "Congratulations, Big Sis, on achieving the Dao."
Lin Mohan showed a bright smile. Her eyes rippled, the sword edge fully hidden. When she looked at Lin Moyu, there was only gentleness.
"Xiaoyu, Big Sis has achieved the Dao. Next it will be your turn."
This confused Destiny Venerable. As far as he knew, one Heaven and Earth could have only one Supreme. This Heaven and Earth already had a Supreme. How could Lin Moyu still achieve the Dao?
He had doubts, but he did not dare ask and could not ask. It was better to keep kneeling.
Lin Moyu smiled. "No rush. My road still has some distance to go."
Lin Mohan said, "Big Sis does not mean that road. I mean when will you have a few children? Big Sis is free now and can help you raise them."
Lin Moyu froze, then gave a dry laugh. "Big Sis, do not worry about that. Think about something else."
As he spoke, Lin Moyu tossed over a jade token that recorded Chaotic Wild Desolation's Primordial Dawn Arts.
"Inside is the Primordial Dawn Arts. If Big Sis wants to completely control Heaven and Earth, you need to study it well."
Then he gave Lin Mohan the fused Heaven-and-Earth Source Water.
"This water is also for Big Sis. It can extend Heaven and Earth's lifespan."
He had never expected that the first thing Lin Mohan cared about after achieving the Dao would be making him have children. Making him have children had become Lin Mohan's obsession, from the small world until now without stopping.
He needed to give her something to do and break that obsession. The Primordial Dawn Arts alone would keep her busy for thousands of years, and he could avoid the topic for a while.
Lin Mohan put away the jade token. "I will study it. Your matter also cannot be delayed. Otherwise Big Sis will not spare you."
Lin Moyu gave a dry laugh. "I know."
Lin Mohan waved toward the Divine Wood Sea, sending out a sword light that struck it. She used Heaven and Earth's might, severing the Divine Wood Sea's power source and dispersing all the Heaven-and-Earth power it had absorbed.
The Divine Wood Sea began to shrink, quickly returning to its original state, becoming an unremarkable broken tree root.
Lin Moyu reached out and took the tree root. It truly was the root of the Primal Chaos Spirit Tree. From within it, he sensed the Primal Chaos Spirit Tree's aura. If this root were given to the small tree, the small tree should be able to advance again.
Lin Mohan looked at Destiny Venerable and Eternal Wild Ox.
"Destiny, what you promised before can be done now."
"Obeying the order."
Destiny Venerable answered respectfully. He took out a jade token and handed it to Lin Moyu.
"Fellow Daoist Lin, everything Destiny said before is inside."
Lin Moyu said, "Good. Thank you, Destiny Daoist."
Having handed over the thing and fulfilled the promise, Destiny Venerable withdrew with Eternal Wild Ox. They did not want to remain here long. In their eyes, these sibling pair, Lin Mohan and Lin Moyu, were genuine killing gods. If their mood turned bad, would they use them as a blade?
Only after they had gone far away did Eternal Wild Ox finally relax. "These siblings are too terrifying."
Destiny Venerable said softly, "Before, whenever I met Fellow Daoist Lin, I never felt this man was this terrifying."
Although Lin Mohan was a Supreme, for some reason he always felt Lin Moyu was even more terrifying. Destiny Venerable trusted his feeling. It would not be wrong.
Eternal Wild Ox said, "Yes. Chaotic Wild Dragon and Shrouding Heaven Beast were both played to death by him. What exactly is this guy's identity?"
Destiny Venerable said, "His identity is very special. I do not know the root. I only know he is a special person within destiny. In fact, back then I only saw a part. Just that part was enough to terrify. Thankfully our choice this time was not wrong, or we would also have fallen."
"Now that we can preserve our lives, it is already a blessing. Let us go. We do not need to hide anymore. We will find a quiet place and enjoy ourselves."
The two left. Power and status meant nothing to them. They only wanted a free life. The reason they fought for the Supreme seat was, in truth, to fight for freedom.
The Heaven-and-Earth great tribulation had dispersed, but in the great tribulation, more than half of living beings had died. Heaven and Earth were badly damaged and would need a long time to recover.
As a Supreme, Lin Mohan had many things to do next. Study the Primordial Dawn Arts, repair Heaven and Earth, then further refine Heaven and Earth to become the true master of Heaven and Earth.
Even at the fastest, this would take thousands of years. At the slowest, tens of thousands. And only she could do it. No one could help her.
Lin Moyu also had his own matters. For Lin Moyu, time was not abundant either. In less than eight hundred years, Yushen Heaven and Earth would迎来 its first round of Heaven-and-Earth life-and-death great tribulation. At that time, not only would he need to decide whether Heaven and Earth lived or died, he would also need to set its tier.
If he wanted to raise Yushen Heaven and Earth to Nine Wheel before that life-and-death great tribulation, he would be very busy.
Returning to Yushen Heaven and Earth, he first gave the broken tree root to the small tree.
"Small tree, this is yours."
The instant the broken root touched the small tree, it turned into flowing water and naturally melted. It fused into the small tree. The small tree's aura began to rise rapidly.
In only a few breaths, in Lin Moyu's perception, the small tree's aura doubled. Yushen Heaven and Earth shook without end. As the small tree grew stronger, Yushen Heaven and Earth also benefited and grew stronger. The rules became thicker and the foundation more solid.
That feeling was different from fusing other Heaven and Earth. The two were not the same.
Fusing and absorbing other Heaven and Earth strengthened the realm tier. What the small tree brought was foundation.
Foundation was more important than tier. As long as the foundation was strong, raising the tier was only a matter of time.
The small tree continued to grow stronger. That root's effect on the small tree was extraordinary.
Lin Moyu could sense the small tree's foundation also rising. More and more roots burst out of Yushen Heaven and Earth and plunged into the Life-Forbidden Zone, drawing in even more massive power from the Life-Forbidden Zone.
The small tree transformed vast amounts of destruction power, not only strengthening itself but also feeding back into Yushen Heaven and Earth.
Around the small tree, vortices appeared one after another, like Chaotic Wild Desolation's Primordial Dawn vortices. These vortices opened channels between Yushen Heaven and Earth and the Life-Forbidden Zone, letting Yushen Heaven and Earth actively absorb the Life-Forbidden Zone's power to strengthen itself.
Yushen Heaven and Earth had not yet undergone its first round of Heaven-and-Earth life-and-death tribulation. It should not have had contact with the Life-Forbidden Zone. But now it truly was happening.
Even Lin Moyu did not know why. He also did not know whether this was good or bad. He felt it should not be bad, yet anything could happen.
The small tree grew larger and larger.
Half an hour later, new branches began to sprout. On both new and old branches, green leaves emerged and quickly grew. The small tree became lush. Vast life force surged out like a torrent, turning into a galaxy that flowed through Heaven and Earth.
Lin Moyu had a feeling that even an Eight Wheel Heaven and Earth's life force at the start of its evolution might not be this strong.
He had never seen a Nine Wheel Heaven and Earth, so he could not compare. This still was not the small tree's peak state. He also did not know what it would become at its extreme.
But from the current situation, the small tree fed back into Heaven and Earth, and the vortices also absorbed the Life-Forbidden Zone, strengthening Heaven and Earth itself.
Given enough time, even without absorbing other Heaven and Earth's power, Yushen Heaven and Earth would sooner or later rise to a Nine Wheel Heaven and Earth. A sufficiently strong foundation had already paved the road for Yushen Heaven and Earth's promotion.
One hour later, the small tree was already four or five times larger than before, and had become lush. Its roots had no idea how deep they reached into the Life-Forbidden Zone. A glassy radiance flowed across its trunk, dazzling beyond compare. It was plainly an unsurpassed supreme treasure.
Yet even so, Lin Moyu still felt the small tree was not complete. It seemed to still be missing something.
Branches swayed, shadows rippled, and even the spatial fabric of Heaven and Earth swayed with it, creating layered ripples.
Time and space interwove around the small tree, as if connecting to the distant past.
A tiny mote of light flew out and landed before Lin Moyu.
Lin Moyu sensed no malice, but he did not rashly touch it.
The small tree's voice came. "Master, for you."
Only then did Lin Moyu send out a thread of soul power to touch the mote.
The mote exploded. Inside was an illusory seed. The seed carried information that flowed into his soul along the soul power.
The information was ancient and mysterious, like Heaven-and-Earth murmurs. In scattered phrases it conveyed an indescribable meaning.
This meaning could only be realized personally. It could not be spoken. It could not be said.
Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth. Beyond Nine Wheel Heaven and Earth.
The information gathered and transformed into something Lin Moyu could comprehend.
His eyes suddenly blazed with radiance.
Nine Wheel Heaven and Earth was not the limit. Above it, there was another realm, called Primal Chaos.
Again, Primal Chaos.
Those two words seemed to carry endless magic. When Lin Moyu first heard the name Primal Chaos Gem, he already felt something strange. Later he obtained leaves of the Primal Chaos Spirit Tree, and the small tree broke and then rebuilt, turning into the Primal Chaos Spirit Tree.
At that time, the Primal Chaos Spirit Tree formed from the small tree was incomplete and still had many defects. Later, he searched for Heaven-and-Earth remnants, used the Heavenblasting Earthrending Arts to replay Heaven and Earth, letting Yushen Heaven and Earth absorb the power born at the first evolution of Heaven and Earth. Yushen Heaven and Earth evolved. The small tree also benefited, patching itself up.
Even so, the small tree still could not fully recover. The defects remained.
Now, from the Chaotic Wild Desolation great tribulation, he obtained a Chaotic root and finally filled a crucial missing piece for the small tree. The small tree grew stronger and more complete. It not only fed back into Yushen Heaven and Earth, it also drew out crucial information from distant time.
That information was the Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth.
Nine Wheel Heaven and Earth was not the ultimate. Above it was Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth.
To evolve a Nine Wheel Heaven and Earth into a Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth, the most important requirement was to possess the Primal Chaos Spirit Tree. Only the Primal Chaos Spirit Tree could support a Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth. Otherwise the Heaven and Earth would be too vast and would not be tolerated by the Life-Forbidden Zone and would inevitably collapse.
With this information, Lin Moyu's horizons widened again. His goal updated.
His gaze was no longer on Nine Wheel Heaven and Earth, but on Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth.
Soul, real and unreal, unified, plus the support of a Nine Wheel Heaven and Earth, already let him barely remain undying in the Life-Forbidden Zone.
If he could also comprehend the unreal of the flesh body and complete the unification of real and unreal for the body, then he could roam the Life-Forbidden Zone, even walk to the other end of the Life-Forbidden Zone, obtain the thing pointed to by Heaven and Earth, and reach a place no one had ever reached.
But what use was this Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth? What else did it contain that he did not understand?
Existence has its reason. That principle did not change.
Lin Moyu knew clearly that if Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth existed, it had a reason. He did not understand now because he was not strong enough and had not truly touched this level.
But he now had a chance to touch this level. If he did not try, that would be his own problem.
His eyes flashed with sharp light. His thoughts were complex and tangled, yet within the tangle he sorted out a clear thread.
The Primal Chaos Spirit Tree should come from Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth.
That also meant a Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth had once existed, and later, for some unknown reason, it collapsed. The Primal Chaos Spirit Tree broke.
He did not know why that Heaven and Earth collapsed.
Did a Supreme appear within it, or like a Nine Wheel Heaven and Earth did it have no Supreme, and after too many tribulations its lifespan ended and it collapsed? Or did a Great Annihilation arrive and cause it to collapse?
Now he could only be sure of two things.
First, Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth existed.
Second, the time when Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth existed was not this era of Great Annihilation.
Primal Chaos Spirit Tree leaves and Primal Chaos roots both came from the Heaven-and-Earth Wall. Inferring from this, it meant that within the Life-Forbidden Zone, Heaven and Earth had experienced more than one Great Annihilation.
Yet the Life-Forbidden Zone and the Heaven-and-Earth Wall itself still endured. It seemed they were the eternal, undying existences.
No one could enter the Heaven-and-Earth Wall, and no one had ever received guidance from it. Yet at the other end of the Life-Forbidden Zone, there were many Supremes who had received guidance.
From this, it seemed the Heaven-and-Earth Wall was the final destination. The Life-Forbidden Zone was only the road to the Heaven-and-Earth Wall, or the qualification to enter the Heaven-and-Earth Wall.
Lin Moyu understood.
He linked all causes and effects together and finally figured everything out.