Chapter 1584: Origin Stone

The flying vessel slowly flew into the Zhizundou Palace.

The Zhizundou Palace was immensely grand; even the height of its main gate reached dozens of millions of li, and its interior space was even larger, comparable to a small world.

For ordinary people, this distance would take many years to traverse, but to a World Lord-tier supreme expert, such a palace was still considered small.

Upon seeing Lin Yan follow Minghui Zhi into the palace, some Zhi projections came forward to greet him, while others watched from afar without approaching.

These Zhi who came forward mostly knew Minghui Zhi personally.

Thus, although the number of Zhi who had reached the World Lord tier was not vast, it was also not negligible.

After all, the number of worlds was incalculable.

Clearly, there were degrees of closeness and distance among these Zhi; each Zhi harbored a trace of wariness toward those they did not know.

"Do not reveal any information about your world."

Minghui Zhi, seeing that Lin Yan had drawn the attention of many Zhi, whispered a message to Lin Yan.

Lin Yan remained silent, standing atop the flying vessel, following Minghui Zhi all the way to the deepest part of the Zhizundou Palace.

There, originally empty, a massive gray-white stone slowly emerged as Lin Yan arrived.

The size and height of this stone were unknown; it seemed most of it lay within the void, with only a small portion exposed.

From afar, the stone appeared whole, but up close, it was riddled with numerous depressions.

"This is the Origin Stone, also called the Zhi Stone. You have one chance—take as much as you can, then return to your world immediately."

Minghui Zhi said this without explaining the Origin Stone's function.

Lin Yan asked no further questions; he floated above the stone and summoned a black long spear in his hand.

Then he thrust the spear violently into the Origin Stone.

"Ding!"

The spear struck the Origin Stone with a crisp sound; this stone was harder than the Rainbow Bridge.

"Wrong."

Lin Yan thought.

He did not withdraw the spear, but instead unleashed all the power of the laws he had mastered.

As these forces rapidly penetrated inward, the black long spear finally pierced into the Origin Stone.

From afar, the Zhi quietly observed Lin Yan, assessing the power he wielded and the form it took.

With countless worlds, each possessed vastly different forces; for Zhi-level powerhouses, who were already World Lords, eternal and indestructible, a hundred million years, a billion years, even a quadrillion years meant nothing to them.

As long as they did not die, they might one day encounter another world—so gathering early intelligence on others was crucial.

After Lin Yan's black long spear pierced the Origin Stone, it began to cut into it.

Soon, he severed a large chunk from it.

Lin Yan quickly sensed that time was running out.

In just a few more minutes, this piece of Origin Stone would vanish.

Although he still did not know what use this Origin Stone served, from the Zhi's reactions, it was clearly the most precious object in the Origin Realm—so the more he took, the better.

"Boom!"

Lin Yan no longer held back; he transformed into a flame form and plunged violently into the Origin Stone.

In the world where Tianjie resided, his flame form would be deemed a heretical god, but here in the Origin Realm—the gathering place of countless worlds' powerful lifeforms—no one was overly surprised, for there were too many worlds here, and every conceivable lifeform existed.

Yet soon, the Zhi were utterly astonished.

For the Origin Stone was shrinking at a visibly observable rate.

In a short time, the Origin Stone dwindled to a mere speck—and then was completely consumed by Lin Yan's flames.