The grand arrays in the hall were not overall strong, but they had a trait: they had to be broken by the correct method. If one used brute force to break an array, the array would self-destruct, and this self-destruction would chain. As long as one array was brute-forced, all arrays in the hall would collapse, and the arrays had an order. They had to be broken in sequence. If you broke the wrong sequence, all arrays would collapse as well.
The arrays in the hall were like a tangled mess, chaotic, with countless dead knots tied. You had to untie each dead knot without making a sequence mistake. The difficulty was high. If you made a mistake, the collective collapse would trigger a chain reaction of tremendous power.
Each light point in these arrays contained astonishing Heaven-and-Earth power. This power was in a special limit state. Once activated, it might cross the limit and become terrifyingly destructive. He was inside the hall, with nowhere to retreat. Then there would be only death and Dao-dissolution.
Breaking arrays here was dancing on the line between life and death.
Lin Moyu's gaze was like lightning. He saw the structure and sequence and found the first array. A rune flew in response and fell into the array. With faint light, the array naturally dispersed, without triggering the others. This meant Lin Moyu was correct.
As the array was solved, the light point flew over and entered Lin Moyu's body. Lin Moyu instantly felt refreshed. Power surged from within, flowing through his whole body, then drilling into his soul. His flesh body, already at the limit, actually improved by a trace.
So this was the reward?
The reward surprised him. To Lin Moyu, nothing was better than strengthening one's own foundation. Previously, he had used his newbirth talent to push his flesh body and soul to the extreme, reaching the peak of a Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse, with nowhere higher. He did not expect that a tiny, insignificant light point could raise his flesh body and soul again.
If this continued, it might not be impossible for his flesh body and soul to surpass the peak and reach another tier.
A huge opportunity.
Lin Moyu collected his mind and continued breaking arrays. He saw the structure and sequence clearly, not missing a step, solving one array after another. He sought speed but also stability, finding a rare balance between fast and steady. His heart was like an ancient well, unmoved. His actions were decisive, full of confidence.
One array after another was solved. The Heaven-and-Earth power within became his reward. His flesh body and soul kept improving. Each time only a trace, but small accumulations become great, streams converge into seas. When all arrays in the hall were solved, his flesh body and soul had improved by a full tenth. This tenth already broke his former peak, and he had half a foot across the boundary of a Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse.
He felt his next step had already moved forward a tiny bit.
When all arrays in the hall were solved, a great door appeared behind the hall. Beyond the door, the Divine Road appeared, leading into the void clouds. At the end of the road was the second Divine Hall.
Lin Moyu stepped onto the Divine Road and climbed upward. There were no trials as imagined. He moved smoothly. The ground below grew smaller. He climbed higher. Halfway, he looked back. The hall he passed was already tiny. In the distance, the battle between the System and the black shadow still continued. They were evenly matched, both much weaker than at the start. This battle had cost them a great price.
Noticing Lin Moyu's gaze, both stopped and looked at him.
Lin Moyu could not feel emotions from the System. The System seemed to have no emotions at all, too calm, calm unlike any living being. It felt like a machine running fully by rules. If the rules said it should do something, it would do it. Beyond that, it would do nothing extra. As for who set the rules, it naturally did not know.
The black shadow's gaze was completely different. It held greed, unwillingness, anger, killing intent, and more, almost every emotion. Lin Moyu had never seen such a complex gaze. Humans have seven emotions and six desires, but this was like all of them exploding at once and gathering in one body. Such a person should go mad, yet the black shadow did not. It was clear about what it wanted: it wanted to stop anyone who entered the halls.
It even spent great effort to create a fake Divine Hall and a fake Divine Road, fooling Lin Moyu at first. To make Lin Moyu lower his guard and enter, it even laid arrays outside to pressure him. But unfortunately, Lin Moyu still did not fall for it. If Lin Moyu had entered the fake hall, even if the System arrived, it might not have been able to save him.
In the end, the black shadow simply did not want him to enter the true Divine Hall. It seemed to know that once he entered, it would have no way to deal with him. It also seemed to know who could truly enter the halls. Not only did it know, the System also knew who could enter. More than that, they also knew what would happen after entry.
Lin Moyu kept walking up the Divine Road, his thoughts surging. From the Heaven-and-Earth Wall to these halls, it all seemed prepared for him. It looked like one had to reach the endpoint of formation Dao to come here, but he believed others might also reach the endpoint. Yet without the System's help, even if he reached the endpoint, he could not escape death.
By this view, everything seemed prepared for him. The System as well, waiting for this moment.
He stopped thinking and continued. If he reached the end, perhaps there would be answers.
At the end of the first Divine Road, he saw the second Divine Hall. It was identical to the first. Before entering, Lin Moyu looked back and found the Divine Road behind him had disappeared. That meant he had no retreat. Either continue forward or be trapped here until death arrived.
In the distance, the System and the black shadow had completely stopped. They seemed to know that continuing to fight was meaningless. Next, it could only rely on Lin Moyu himself.
Lin Moyu murmured and entered the second Divine Hall. He again saw hundreds of grand arrays, light points everywhere, each within an array, not much different from the first hall. The difference was that the arrays were much stronger and deeper, making the difficulty higher. But it still could not stop him.
He quickly sorted the structure, found the correct sequence, and began breaking arrays. The light points with strange Heaven-and-Earth power entered his body, and his flesh body and soul continued to strengthen. As he grew stronger, his speed of breaking arrays increased. In less than half a day, he solved all arrays in the second hall. His flesh body and soul strengthened by another tenth.
Passing the second hall, he stepped onto the Divine Road to the third. One road after another led to halls, hall after hall sought immortality.
Without realizing it, Lin Moyu had passed eight halls in a row and stood at the entrance of the tenth hall. The first eight were no different, except the arrays inside became more and more complex. Only at the tenth did something change.
Before the hall appeared a stone stele as tall as two people. Two lines of golden characters were carved on it. The characters flashed with Dao-heart divine light like heavenly decree. Immense pressure rolled down onto Lin Moyu, striking into his soul and Dao heart, as if imprinting into his subconscious, forcing recognition of these words:
"Tread the Divine Road, enter the Divine Hall, seek immortality."
Lin Moyu looked at the inscription and chuckled. "Immortality cannot be sought. It must be fought for. Immortality is not something you can beg for. You must fight, fight with people, fight with heaven, fight with the heavens beyond heaven. Only the victor can obtain immortality. I have walked to this point step by step. When did I ever seek?"
In his view, these words were completely wrong. In the contest of the great Dao, he would not seek. Whoever blocked him, he would slaughter them.
His Dao heart was smooth and unbreakable, turning into divine light that covered him. The stele became a stepping stone for his Dao heart. From then on, Dao-heart divine light was brilliant, with no flaw, reaching perfection.
From then on, Dao heart was complete. Heaven-and-earth held no confusion. My heart is the heart of heaven. My intent is the intent of heaven. Only what I want exists. Nothing confuses me. In this contest of the great Dao, the final victor can only be me.
Lin Moyu stepped past the stele and entered the hall. The moment he entered, the Dao-heart protective divine light shot out like an arrow and struck the stele. The stele shattered into dust.
Whoever erected it, wanting him to seek, no chance.
Inside the hall, Lin Moyu broke arrays and took the Heaven-and-Earth power. This was his opportunity. It was not a begged-for opportunity, but one gained by his own strength.
Faintly, Lin Moyu felt this opportunity seemed specially prepared for him. Other than him, no one could obtain it.
A day later, the tenth hall's arrays were all solved. Each hall strengthened him by a tenth and let him take a small step forward. Ten halls doubled his flesh body and soul compared to when he first arrived. The boundary of a Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse was finally shattered. Lin Moyu felt his flesh body and soul reached a brand-new realm.
This strengthening was pure. There was no comprehension. He simply became stronger.
If he returned now, facing those rosy radiance arrows, he might directly withstand them with flesh body and soul. Even facing the black shadow, it was not impossible to fight. And since flesh body and soul did not touch rules, he was confident he could slash the black shadow down here.
His complete Dao heart told him this feeling was correct. At this moment, he was stronger than the black shadow.
When he stepped onto the eleventh Divine Road, that familiar feeling rushed at him again. Lin Moyu faintly felt he had been here before. This feeling was like the first time he saw a rune: familiar, with a sense of long-lost closeness.
It seemed some secrets were about to be unveiled.
At his current realm, some things naturally became clear. His talent in rune arrays was not accidental. Especially that unexplained familiarity, which had been strange from the very first time. And when he first obtained the Calamity Scepter, when it was not yet called that, he had felt it should belong to him. Such feelings had happened many times. Once or twice could be coincidence, but repeated occurrences meant something was off.
Lin Moyu knew he must have something special. As his realm rose and his soul strengthened, many details would surface and be sorted automatically. Minor clues gathered into one.
Deepest part of the Ancient Wilds, the Hongmeng Gemstone's attitude toward him changed. All of it pointed to these issues.
Lin Moyu knew he would find the answer sooner or later. So he never mentioned it and left everything to time.
Now the answer was about to emerge.
He seemed to have some connection to this place.
The eleventh Divine Hall did not change much inside, still filled with arrays across the hall, only stronger and more complex. Lin Moyu solved them one by one, taking only a bit over a day to solve them all. The Heaven-and-Earth power inside raised his flesh body and soul by another tenth.
Flesh body and soul kept strengthening. Lin Moyu also realized that his formation Dao was strengthening as well. Solving arrays was also a process of rebuilding formation Dao. These arrays were of all kinds, from weak to strong, like letting him walk formation Dao again. While solving, his understanding went a step deeper. Though he already stood at the endpoint, his foundation could be made even more solid, until truly complete.
Dao heart, formation Dao, flesh body, soul. This was the great opportunity brought by the Divine Hall and Divine Road.
As the halls' arrays grew more complex, the time Lin Moyu spent increased. At first, he could clear a hall in a short time. By the nineteenth hall, it took him four full days to finish. Rewalking formation Dao gave deeper insights. Indeed, not bad.
Before the Divine Servant Hall, he had tread the Divine Mountain and rewalked the cultivation road to stabilize his cultivation. Here he rewalked formation Dao to deepen formation Dao cultivation. In these halls, his flesh body and soul were strengthened.
A cultivator places Dao heart first, soul as root, flesh body as base, everything else after.
Why do I feel like this is someone cultivating a successor? But it does not feel completely so. Interesting.
Before the twentieth hall, there was no stele, but there was a human-shaped statue. When Lin Moyu arrived, the statue transformed into a living person, evolving out. A vast aura shot skyward, pressing down all around.
A Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse.
Lin Moyu was stunned. He could actually see a Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse here. But this one was not a living person. It was a dead person revived by special means.
Lin Moyu's heart jolted. Was this not like his Undying Spirits?
With a slight sensing, he immediately felt the aura. It was indeed identical to his Undying Spirits.
His techniques had always been unique. Yet here he could see someone else's Undying Spirits, and it was even a Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse. As he was shocked, the opponent attacked. A divine sword cleaved heaven-and-earth and fell toward him.
Lin Moyu tapped lightly. A rune flew out, became a grand array, and blocked the sword.
Bang!
The divine sword was震飛 in the crash.
The Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse steadied the sword, formed sword seals with both hands, guided the sword, and the divine sword cleaved the heavens again, falling once more, several times stronger than before.
Lin Moyu's array shattered. He tapped again. A second grand array formed instantly, blocking the remaining sword force. He frowned.
"He can use techniques. And that sword is also a Hongmeng supreme treasure. He is not restricted here, but I am suppressed. I can use nothing but formation Dao."
No, I still have flesh body and soul. My flesh body and soul are much stronger than his. I can suppress him with flesh body and soul.
As soon as the thought moved, an invisible force fell. His flesh body and soul sank. They were also suppressed.
Lin Moyu understood. "This is forcing me to win using only arrays."
Earlier, rewalking formation Dao deepened his understanding. He already stood at the endpoint, and that only let him go a step deeper while standing there. The endpoint was still the endpoint, but the deeper the understanding, the stronger the same array could be.
And Lin Moyu felt that although he stood at the endpoint and had the Hongmeng Jade Array Disc, he still seemed to be missing a trace from true formation Dao perfection. That trace was hard to grasp. Even after rewalking, he still could not comprehend it.
Fine. Then I will use this battle to see if I can comprehend formation Dao perfection.
No external aid, only runes forming arrays. Facing a Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse holding a Hongmeng supreme treasure and freely using techniques, the difficulty was indeed not small. But to Lin Moyu, it was a good chance. Perhaps he truly could comprehend perfection in battle.
Attacks fell like the sky collapsing. The opponent held a Hongmeng supreme treasure divine sword, power blazing, sword after sword shaking the world. Lin Moyu used only rune arrays. Each array could block only one strike. Under the storm-like attacks, Lin Moyu could only defend, with no mind to counterattack.
The Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse produced thousands of swords each breath. Lin Moyu formed runes in one thought, countless arrays forming and perishing in an instant. They seemed evenly matched, but Lin Moyu knew: long defense means eventual loss.
If he kept defending, sooner or later he would lose. Here, losing meant death. There was no retreat.
Formation Dao perfection, what am I missing?
What I can use is only formation Dao. Flesh body is useless to formation Dao. Soul has turned into runes and merged into formation Dao. What am I lacking?
Lin Moyu's thoughts raced. He counted every power and ability he could rely on, yet still found no way to break the situation.
Ahead, the Divine Hall suddenly bloomed with rosy radiance. A new statue flew out, landed, took form, and became a half-human half-beast Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse. It was still an Undying Spirits-like Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse. It produced a Hongmeng supreme treasure battle saber and joined the battle.
In an instant, Lin Moyu's pressure skyrocketed. The prior balance was broken. Lin Moyu became passive.
No. If this continues, my time is running out.
The saber suddenly grew, one became two, two became four, instantly evolving ten thousand giant sabers that fell from all directions. Arrays shattered. Lin Moyu was blasted back, covered in wounds. They were all surface wounds, but still painful. If his flesh body were not strong enough, he would have been chopped apart already.
Facing two Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses attacking madly, Lin Moyu struggled. He was completely passive. His defense was broken again and again. If not for his strong flesh body, he would already have been defeated, even dead and Dao-dissolved.
A strong flesh body was good. Recovery was fast, and his flesh-body talent began adapting to the attacks. The two Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses' damage to him was gradually weakening. Even so, he still could not turn defense into offense.
The hall spat out rosy radiance again. Another stone statue flew out and became a powerful creature like a White Tiger, also a Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse. It roared, shaking ears, and spat out a Hongmeng supreme treasure seven-colored pearl, whipping up boundless gale. The gale cut like blades, shredding Lin Moyu's arrays. His flesh body, just starting to adapt, was wounded again, and these wounds were larger than before. This White Tiger was strong even among Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses.
Lin Moyu retreated step by step. He kept forming arrays and dodging, trying to avoid strikes, buying time for his flesh body to adapt.
One after another, never ending. Where did so many Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses come from?
Could it be they are the forty-two who did not become divine servants?
Whether or not, Lin Moyu felt it was not over. The three before him were not all. More would come.
If he could not find the key, even if his flesh body adapted, he would still die in the end. Even the strongest flesh body has a limit. It cannot block endlessly.
Soon, the hall spat rosy radiance again. The fourth Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse appeared, this time a fire bird shaped like a Vermilion Bird, spewing flames of terrifying might. Lin Moyu felt a long-lost scorching heat, even pain in his soul. These flames burned flesh body and also scorched soul. Of course, they were far inferior to Hongmeng Purple Fire, but here Hongmeng Purple Fire was also suppressed and could not be used.
On one side were Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses freely using techniques and treasures. Lin Moyu could rely only on formation Dao, and it was many against one. This battle was extremely unfair.
But Lin Moyu had no choice. The rules were so. In the world, nothing has ever been fair. Strength is the only fairness.
Since the rules here were like this, if he was weaker, he could only endure. There must be a method. I just have not found it.
Lin Moyu was a bit disheveled now, chased by four Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses. He was helpless. He did not know how long it had been since he was like this. Every time it was him crushing opponents, plotting against them. When had he ever been like this?
He tried to rush into the hall, but an invisible power shrouded the hall. He could not enter at all. Lin Moyu knew: if he could not find the correct method, he could not pass this level.
The hall spat rosy radiance again. The fifth Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse appeared. Pressure increased again. The frequency increased, faster and faster.
If this continues, and a few more come, I truly cannot hold.
He felt pressure on flesh body and soul. If a few more came, even his flesh-body adaptation talent would hit its limit. Then he would die.
The more it was like this, the calmer Lin Moyu became. His thoughts raced. He searched himself again. Around him, other than the hall, there was nothing. The solution was only within himself.
He realized: the one who arranged all this, like him, did not rely on external things. Only self.
What else do I have?
Under the combined attacks, his array shattered. Lin Moyu was blasted back again, covered in wounds. His soul also took shocks. His recovery speed began to lag behind the injuries. Strikes landed again and again. Wounds piled up. Though still surface wounds, soon they would reach deeper, even shake his foundation.
In a soul shock, Lin Moyu suddenly saw a trace of faint light.
This was...
He was very familiar with it.
It came from the Dao-heart protective divine light.
The Dao-heart protective divine light did not seem very strong. It could only offset part of the attacks, barely better than nothing. But this glimpse gave Lin Moyu hope.
Maybe it can.
It must.
Dao heart firm and complete. The protective divine light surged, gathering in his palm.
Using Dao heart as array base.
Set arrays.
With a low shout, the protective divine light fused with runes and became an array. The array's divine light bloomed, blocking several attacks. It only trembled and swayed, but did not shatter.
Found the solution.
Lin Moyu rejoiced. Dao heart roared, will firm. The protective divine light burst out, fused with runes into an array base.
Lin Moyu began using arrays as tools, launching counterattack.
Rune as flesh, heart as bone, soul as spirit.
Array, form!
A grand array formed with a boom. Rune transformed into the array's flesh and blood, Dao heart became the array's base bones, soul became the array's spirit. At the moment it formed, it erupted with terrifying power, forcing the Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses back.
A phantom resembling Lin Moyu by eighty percent evolved from the array. This was an array spirit. Not an ordinary array spirit. An ordinary array spirit can only control an array, but this array spirit wrapped the array over its whole body, turning into divine armor.
The array spirit wore the array, moved like lightning, and pounced on one Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse. At first clash, that Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse was suppressed. The Hongmeng supreme treasure struck the array spirit. The array spirit neither dodged nor avoided, directly taking it. The Hongmeng supreme treasure could not harm it at all.
This array fused offense and defense, possessing the peak defensive and offensive power of formation Dao. The array spirit nearly crushed the Hongmeng true supreme powerhouse, beating it until it had no strength to fight back.
Lin Moyu tapped repeatedly. Dao-heart protective divine light coiled around him. One array after another formed. One array spirit after another took shape. Array spirits fought Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses and suppressed them forcefully. These arrays were offense and defense as one. Killing them was only a matter of time.
Array spirits were rare. Among ten million arrays, one might not produce a single array spirit. But in Lin Moyu's hands, they formed one after another.
So this was formation Dao perfection.
Truly not relying on external things. Dao heart was the best array material. Array spirits were no longer luck, but something he could have if he wanted, and could refuse if he did not.
Turning arrays into spirits was only one method. It was not the true strength of formation Dao perfection.
Then let me see how strong perfection can be.
The Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses were all suppressed by array spirits. Lin Moyu strode to the hall entrance, until an invisible force blocked him. He could not move an inch.
Several dozen runes flew out. Dao-heart divine light enveloped them, evolving a grand array. The array emitted terrifying aura. It did not evolve an array spirit, but the danger it radiated far exceeded the array spirits.
This array was called the Nine Heavens Slaughter Array. It could break all techniques. It could kill all living beings.
With Lin Moyu's thought, the array formed.
One array breaks ten thousand laws. One array slaughters all beings.
The grand array震动. Countless attacks轰向 the hall. Rosy radiance flickered before the hall. The invisible force blocking Lin Moyu was smashed to pieces in an instant.
An aura surged out from the hall. Lin Moyu walked into the hall against that aura.
Inside, statues floated scattered, like the previous halls. There were also countless light points, each containing strange Heaven-and-Earth power, each within an array. Beyond that, there were many more statues.
His gaze swept across thirty-seven statues. Adding the five Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses from earlier, it totaled forty-two. These forty-two statues corresponded exactly to the forty-two Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses who failed to become divine servants.
As expected, just like I inferred. The forty-two who failed to become divine servants became Undying Spirits.
If I never found the solution, I would eventually have to face forty-two Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses at once.
But now, the initiative is in my hands.
With a finger motion, the Nine Heavens Slaughter Array flew in from outside. Attacks轰向 the statues that had not yet evolved. The statues shattered under attack. Before they could evolve, without resistance, they were smashed to pieces.
Array spirits also flew in. As the statues were smashed, the Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses that were like Undying Spirits also vanished at the same time.
Lin Moyu had a feeling these Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses had not truly died. They looked identical to Undying Spirits, but still seemed somewhat different.
What exactly was happening here? What did that fellow want?
He did not think too much. He began breaking the arrays inside the hall. No matter what the other side wanted to do, his own strength was the foundation. As long as his strength was strong enough, he could handle any surprise.
With formation Dao reaching perfection, Lin Moyu's understanding of formation Dao truly reached the extreme. His method of breaking arrays changed.
The Nine Heavens Slaughter Array spread and transformed into another grand array. The array spirits he had evolved also self-collapsed, turning into runes that flew into the Nine Heavens Slaughter Array.
The array moved with his will. Whatever array he wanted was formed in a thought.
The array became a net, covering the entire hall. Then the net tightened, enclosing all arrays in the hall. With a low shout, wherever the net passed, the hall's arrays all shattered.
Not brute force, but true array breaking.
Lin Moyu used arrays to break other arrays. This was the array-breaking method he developed. Arrays that used to take days to solve were now all solved in less than half a day. Efficiency rose severalfold.
Light points flew into Lin Moyu's body, becoming nourishment for his flesh body and soul.
Lin Moyu sensed the changes. That familiar feeling grew stronger, as if he also had a connection to these light points.
After obtaining all light points from the twentieth hall, his flesh body and soul strengthened by another tenth. From entering the first hall to now passing twenty, his flesh body and soul had strengthened severalfold.
There were still seventy-nine halls ahead. If nothing unexpected happened, he could keep strengthening.
Leaving the hall, he saw a new Divine Road. Before it stood a stele that had not existed before. Sixteen large characters were carved on it:
"Comprehend the true meaning. Dao-heart divine light, unbreakable. Formation Dao perfection."
He knew clearly: only formation Dao perfection could pass the level just now.
Strange. Why do I feel so familiar?
That familiar feeling rose again, but he could not say why. It felt like he had seen this stele before.
The sixteen characters emitted faint golden light. Then the stele cracked. Sixteen golden round stones flew out from it. The stele turned to dust and dispersed, leaving only sixteen golden round stones floating before Lin Moyu.
Lin Moyu reached out and took one. He immediately knew what it was.
Dao Heart Source Stone.
This was a divine stone condensed from Dao-heart power, turning Dao-heart divine light from empty into real. Condensing it into a divine stone ultimately produced such a Dao Heart Source Stone.
Dao Heart Source Stone was condensed from Dao-heart divine light, and it could also nourish Dao heart in reverse, raising Dao-heart divine light. As Dao-heart divine light grew stronger, the arrays one laid would also grow stronger.
Lin Moyu had already reached formation Dao perfection. His runes were already at the extreme. If he wanted arrays to become even slightly stronger, he could only raise his Dao heart. But his Dao heart was also already complete and flawless. Raising it would be abnormally hard, requiring long grinding, a time measured in tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years.
Dao Heart Source Stones could save him immense time.
These sixteen Dao Heart Source Stones could save him a vast amount of time. Who condensed these? Even Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses might not be able to condense Dao Heart Source Stones. Someone with a complete Dao heart like him, he had not seen a second. And these Dao Heart Source Stones were ancient, clearly existing from very long ago. Thinking it through, perhaps only the Supreme Master the hall spirit spoke of could produce such things. Even for him, to condense one Dao Heart Source Stone would take at least a hundred million years.
Putting away the Dao Heart Source Stones, Lin Moyu stepped onto the Divine Road and continued forward.
He crossed the Divine Road and reached the twenty-first hall. A flowing-gold light curtain fell like a drape, covering the entire hall.
Different.
The hall had changed.
This flowing-gold light curtain was actually an array: an incomparably powerful suppression array, a sealing array. Such arrays were generally used to suppress powerhouses, to seal certain terrifying existences that were hard to kill.
Lin Moyu did not know what terrifying existence required such sealing. But he sensed danger and had to be cautious.
Lin Moyu looked at the array, trying to see through it into the hall, while also thinking: since the Supreme Master set this up, there must be a reason. The first ten halls made him rewalk formation Dao cultivation to deepen comprehension and lay foundation for perfection. The next ten made him comprehend Dao heart and formally reach formation Dao perfection. This Sealing-Suppression Grand Array was not hard for him to unravel. It could not be meant to stop him. The real difficulty should be the sealed existence inside. Formation Dao perfection was meant to deal with what was inside. That meant, aside from formation Dao, no other method could handle it.
Lin Moyu formed his own inference. He did not know if it was accurate, but he believed it would not be wrong. He always had confidence in his inferences. He had never been wrong before. He would not be wrong now.
If he was not mistaken, here the restrictions should be lifted so he could use various means.
Lin Moyu walked to the array and gently touched it. This sealing array was inward-facing, not outward-facing. As long as you did not attack it, you would not be counterattacked.
The instant he touched it, a light shot out from the array and enveloped him. In his ear sounded the Hongmeng Gemstone's voice.
"Master, I am back."
Lin Moyu gave an "mm" sound, took out the Calamity Scepter, and also took out the Hongmeng Jade Array Disc. The Hongmeng Jade Array Disc flickered, clearly usable again. Chess of All Living Beings and the Zijin Thunder Pagoda were also unsealed and could be used normally.
Lin Moyu closed his eyes and sensed that he could again connect to Yushen Heaven-and-Earth. But this connection could only borrow Yushen Heaven-and-Earth's power. He could not sense what was happening inside it, nor could he contact the little tree. The Technique Domain had no issues. A trillion Undying Spirit Soldiers could be summoned anytime. Massive faith power could also be mobilized anytime. His combat strength had returned to its peak.
As expected, like my inference. The master of these halls is telling me: aside from formation Dao, other methods are useless. If so, then let me see what is sealed inside.
Lin Moyu tapped lightly. Dao heart surged with protective divine light, letting him enter the array directly. He did not break the array. Instead, he chose to fuse with the array. This way, the array still existed. Whatever was sealed inside could not escape. And he, having fused into the array, would not be affected. Rather, he could borrow the array's power to suppress the opponent.
Inside the hall were ten thousand points of starlight. Only the rosy radiance of the grand array suppressed here, lighting the hall bright.
A statue stood at the center. It looked like a giant eagle curled up. Its feathers were full of backward barbs, the tips flashing cold light, sharp beyond measure. Lin Moyu had a sense that although his flesh body was strong, if he were hit, he would still be injured.
With only one look, Lin Moyu felt it was more terrifying than any living being he had ever seen. It was clearly not awakened, yet the aura it emitted made him feel disgusted.
What kind of creature is this?
The statue suddenly震动. A clump of soul flame猛然 ignited, shooting to the sky. This soul flame was the strongest Lin Moyu had ever seen, stronger even than Hongmeng true supreme powerhouses. And it was very special. Lin Moyu had never seen it before.
A gray soul flame, full of death aura.
Soul flame is the mark of a living being. Any living being's soul flame must contain vitality. But this soul flame was full of death aura. It was very abnormal. And around it, Lin Moyu saw space annihilating, as if this soul flame could devour everything.
"Click click click. How many years has it been? Someone finally came."
A sharp voice sounded, like needles刺 into the soul. His soul ached faintly, extremely uncomfortable. Lin Moyu instinctively felt intense disgust.
"Outsider beings."
Lin Moyu blurted it out. This disgust was familiar. Back in the Great World, he had felt similar toward beings from other worlds.
Could it be that beyond this Life-Forbidden Zone, there are other heaven-and-earth worlds?
More doubts arose, but he also felt his thought was unreal, not matching his understanding.
The sharp cry sounded again. "Eat you, and this sovereign will be free!"
At last, this venerable one can be free!
Lin Moyu asked, "What exactly are you?"
Whoosh. The statue moved. Its two wings burst open, revealing its true appearance. It did resemble an eagle by three parts, yet it was far more terrifying and ferocious. Even Lin Moyu could not describe its looks. It seemed that every time he looked, its appearance changed. A monster. An extremely dangerous monster.
Lin Moyu thought of the desolation beasts in the domains. It seemed to share one or two traces of similarity, but compared to a desolation beast, this thing was who knew how many times more dangerous. As it awakened, the grand array's power gradually weakened. It did not seem in a hurry to strike, instead stretching its body.
"This venerable one is a Primordial Divine Beast."
Lin Moyu snorted coldly. "I have seen divine beasts before, and none were this ugly."
"Shut up!" the Primordial Divine Beast roared. "You dare insult this divine beast. This venerable one will eat..."
Before it could finish, a projection appeared above the Divine Hall. Vast pressure swept in, stuffing every word the Primordial Divine Beast was about to say back down its throat.
Lin Moyu frowned. He instinctively felt this projection was familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before. He thought to himself: If my guess is correct, this person is the Supreme Master the hall spirit spoke of.
The projection's voice was solemn and majestic. "This is the Primordial Ferocious Savage. It feeds on Hongmeng. Today, you two will fight. The winner lives. The loser dies."
With a single sentence, the rules were set.
The projection dispersed. The Sealing-Suppression Grand Array's power also withdrew from the Divine Hall. Lin Moyu could sense the sealing-suppression array still existed outside the hall. Even if he lost, this Primordial Ferocious Savage would still be sealed, unable to escape. He understood the other's intent. This was still a trial for him. It was to make him kill the other party. If he failed, then it would continue waiting for the next person to arrive. How many years that wait would be was hard to say, but at least the Primordial Ferocious Savage before him could not get out.
Primordial Ferocious Savage, feeding on Hongmeng. That meant it ate heaven-and-earth. Who knew what other abilities it had.
Lin Moyu's thoughts spun quickly as he murmured, "What Primordial Divine Beast? So it is a Primordial Ferocious Savage. No wonder it looks so ugly."
That one line enraged it again.
The Primordial Ferocious Savage shrieked and roared, "Old bastard, you dared imprison this venerable one for so many years. Sooner or later this venerable one will tear you apart. For now I will start with you. This venerable one will not only eat you, it will also swallow your bloodline clansmen, devour your heaven-and-earth..."
Before it could finish, a bolt of Zijin Godslaying Thunder had already slammed into its body. In an instant, the Divine Hall became a sea of lightning.
The Hongmeng supreme treasure, the Zijin Thunder Pagoda, erupted with heaven-shaking power. It had been completely refined by Lin Moyu, and its might far exceeded what it had possessed back when it was in Zijin Emperor's hands. Lightning swept through the Divine Hall, destroying everything. Yet the Divine Hall remained unmoved, incomparably sturdy. Lin Moyu did not need to worry at all that the battle would damage the Divine Hall.
"tsk tsk tsk, this rich Hongmeng power. I have not eaten it in so many years. Truly delicious."
Lin Moyu's expression shifted slightly. This Primordial Ferocious Savage was actually bathing in lightning. Not only was it completely unscathed, it could even devour the lightning radiance. Feeding on Hongmeng did not only mean devouring heaven-and-earth, it also meant devouring all Hongmeng power. Hongmeng was the pinnacle of heaven-and-earth, and all heaven-and-earth power evolved from Hongmeng. If it could devour Hongmeng power, then weaker powers would be useless against it.
Let us test it.
Lin Moyu produced the Chess of All Living Beings. The Chess of All Living Beings evolved, rules forming on their own. The Primordial Ferocious Savage stood within the chess game, yet it was not affected by the rules at all. Its power was not suppressed in the slightest.
"Self-contained heaven-and-earth. Not bad, not bad. Though it is incomplete heaven-and-earth, I will treat it as an appetizer."
With a shrill laugh, the Primordial Ferocious Savage opened its mouth and swallowed hard. The heaven-and-earth within the Chess of All Living Beings shattered with a boom. All rules turned into streaming light and were devoured by it. The Chess of All Living Beings reverted to its original form, now covered in countless cracks.
The Hongmeng supreme treasure was ruined.
Although a Hongmeng supreme treasure could self-heal, if the damage was too severe and it harmed the foundation, it would still break. This Hongmeng supreme treasure was exactly like that. Broken.
The Primordial Ferocious Savage looked as if it had eaten a delicacy, sticking out its tongue. "Little one, any more? Bring out some more for this venerable one to taste."
Lin Moyu snorted coldly. "Then taste this."
The Calamity Scepter swung down with a roar, transforming into countless staff shadows that smashed straight down.
The Primordial Ferocious Savage, about to enjoy more food, had relaxed its guard. It only reacted when the Calamity Scepter was already upon it, but it was too late.
Bang.
The Primordial Ferocious Savage was smashed hard into the ground. Several cracks appeared in the scales on its body.
Lin Moyu swung the Calamity Scepter again, smashing toward its head. The Primordial Ferocious Savage let out a strange cry, its body turning into mist and vanishing. In the next instant, it appeared in the farthest corner of the Divine Hall.
Its eyes were vicious as it stared at Lin Moyu, or rather, at the Calamity Scepter.
"How do you have that thing?"
Seeing its reaction, Lin Moyu thought to himself: As expected, it matches what I thought. The Calamity Scepter's tier is even above a Hongmeng supreme treasure.
The Primordial Ferocious Savage stared for several breaths, then suddenly shrieked with laughter. "So it is an imitation. You gave this venerable one quite a scare. I thought it was truly that thing. It seems you have some relationship with that old bastard. Once this venerable one devours your soul, I will naturally know everything."
Its figure twisted as it charged at Lin Moyu, frighteningly fast. In an instant it was in front of him.
Lin Moyu swung the Calamity Scepter, sweeping toward its head. Its wings trembled and collided with the Calamity Scepter. Amid a thunderous boom, Lin Moyu was blasted backward by an overwhelming force. In that instant, the Divine Hall expanded. Space became boundless, turning into a void battlefield.
Such terrifying strength.
The immense force transmitted from the Calamity Scepter into his hand, splitting several wounds across his palm. With the strength of his flesh body, he was actually injured by the rebound. The opponent's power was monstrously strong.
The Primordial Ferocious Savage stretched slightly. "Not bad flesh body. But compared to this venerable one, you are far too lacking."
Its figure vanished again, instantly appearing before him. A claw reached for his head. Its claws were unbelievably sharp. Before it even reached Lin Moyu, he felt his skin being sliced open, a searing pain flaring up. Its attack ignored his talent. The damage he suffered could not be shared by anyone else. At the same time, his newbirth talent also seemed to be suppressed.
The Calamity Scepter swung up by instinct.
Bang.
Lin Moyu was blasted backward again. A huge force surged into his body, as if his bones were about to snap. This claw was several times stronger than the last. Terrifying power.
Lin Moyu felt the horror of the opponent's strength. It far surpassed his own. Especially within the opponent's attacks was a special aura, as if it was completely opposite to the rules he inhabited, and it could even suppress his talent. If he were killed by it, his rebirth would almost certainly not work. That was his feeling, and it could not be wrong.
The Primordial Ferocious Savage was blindingly fast, blinking in again and again, its attacks ferocious beyond measure. Lin Moyu was knocked flying again and again. If not for the Calamity Scepter shielding him, he would have been beaten to death long ago.
Only after a while did the Primordial Ferocious Savage stop.
Lin Moyu's body was covered in wounds. Though they were all superficial, they healed very slowly. A strange power clung to the wounds, clashing violently with his own power and slowing recovery.
Lin Moyu's gaze turned grave. No wonder all restrictions were lifted. This is telling me that aside from formation Dao, all other methods are useless. No, the Calamity Scepter is useful, but my power is too weak. It is not enough to contend against this Primordial Ferocious Savage. Its power is not so strong that it is beyond reason, but it is perfectly strong enough to suppress me, as if it were calculated.
There are still more than seventy Divine Halls ahead. If there are more Primordial Ferocious Savages, they will only be stronger than this one.
He roughly understood the Supreme Master's intent. The Supreme Master wanted him to use formation Dao to suppress and kill the Primordial Ferocious Savage, not only the one before him, but also the ones ahead. This was only the beginning.
The Primordial Ferocious Savage stretched its body, as if lazily. "Warm-up is over. This venerable one will feed now. You will end your life in screams. Your soul will become this venerable one's after-meal dessert."
Lin Moyu snorted coldly. "Too much nonsense."
His fingertips moved slightly. Several runes flew out and formed into arrays. Array spirits evolved into being. Lin Moyu's fingertips continued to tremble, runes scattering like points of light. In an instant there were hundreds of arrays. Hundreds of array spirits evolved, charging at the Primordial Ferocious Savage together.
"A laughable trick."
The Primordial Ferocious Savage shrieked with laughter and shook its wings, knocking the array spirits back. It did not swallow the array spirits. Formation Dao surpassed Hongmeng Heaven-and-Earth, and especially for someone like Lin Moyu whose formations were perfected, it was self-contained rules, already freed from reliance on Hongmeng power. The Primordial Ferocious Savage could devour Hongmeng, but it could not devour array spirits. It could only use its own power to tear them apart.
Hundreds of array spirits besieged the Primordial Ferocious Savage. In a one-on-one fight they were nowhere near enough, but relying on numbers, they could temporarily hold it back.
Lin Moyu did not use the Undying Spirit Soldiers. The Undying Spirit Soldiers still relied on Hongmeng power. Sending more would only be delivering food to the Primordial Ferocious Savage. There was no need.
Lin Moyu also had no delusion that hundreds of array spirits could kill the Primordial Ferocious Savage. Their only purpose was to buy him a little time. Not much, just two or three breaths would do. The Primordial Ferocious Savage was too fast, and even he needed a little time to set up an array.
It seems my formation Dao still needs to be strengthened. All arrays must be formed with a single thought.
Lin Moyu knew formation Dao was powerful and self-contained, but its only flaw was that powerful formations needed time to set up. The time was short, only two or three breaths, but sometimes even those two or three breaths were impossible to obtain. His formation Dao had to continue strengthening, until every formation could be completed in a single thought. Formation Dao perfection, then continue breaking through, perhaps even surpassing perfection.
He did not know if such a realm existed. Perhaps it was only his own delusion.
The hundreds of array spirits bought him three breaths. When all the array spirits were torn to pieces and the Primordial Ferocious Savage's shriek rang out again, a grand, majestic array had already taken shape.