Chapter 284: Furnace Core Reversal

It wants to use my body as a cradle, to gestate a new void world.

Since that's the case, then I'll do the opposite.

Wang Zhize turned his head and looked at Wang Zhitao beside him, who had long been unable to contain himself, saliva almost spilling from the corner of his mouth.

My "Furnace Core" will not be its warm bed.

I will become a true Dan Furnace.

I will refine this so-called "Dao Pill" together with that "Void Seed", turning them into sustenance for my little world.

As the words fell, the top of the Heaven‑Sacrificing Platform fell into dead silence.

The greed and salivation on Wang Zhitao's face froze instantly, then a blaze far beyond before, almost maddening, erupted explosively in his eyes!

Eat!

Eat the enemy!

This is not surprising.

But brother's idea is to swallow, from the conceptual source, the enemy's plot, methods, and foundation, completely and thoroughly, digesting them into his own.

This is true consumption!

This is the ultimate of the Path of Consumption!

"Brother!" Wang Zhitao's voice trembled slightly from extreme excitement; he nodded vigorously, each word squeezing out like from his teeth, "This is… eating!"

Wang Zhize gave a slight nod, saying no more.

The plan is set, so we proceed.

He took a step forward, and his figure reappeared in the main hall of the Heaven‑Sacrificing Platform.

At this moment, the Heaven‑Sacrificing Platform, after the "Lord" was devoured, had become a pure energy conglomerate; the blood‑colored runes dimmed, yet its framework remained, still intricately linked to the remnants of the imperial underground dragon veins.

This is a perfect sacrificial Array.

Unfortunately, its sacrificial target is wrong.

Wang Zhize raised his hand, a strand of golden law rune flickering at his fingertips like an invisible pen.

He began to "write" within this space.

I define: sacrifice as guidance.

Buzz!

The entire Heaven‑Sacrificing Platform jolted violently.

The blood‑colored patterns originally used to extract billions of souls and draw dragon vein power had their underlying logic forcibly altered at this moment. They were no longer conduits for outward sacrifice, but became a massive funnel that converges and guides energy inward!

I define: offering as fuel.

Boom!

The underground dragon vein remnants emitted a mournful dragon roar, then pure energy was forcibly drawn out, racing madly along the altered circuit toward the Core at the top of the Heaven‑Sacrificing Platform.

I define: altar as conduit.

Wang Zhize's pen moved like a dragon and snake, stamping golden law runes one after another into the void, interweaving, overlaying, and reconstructing the original blood Array.

He did not destroy this altar, but turned it into a part of his own plan.

A gigantic super conduit specifically for guiding and transmitting Dao Pill power!

Meanwhile, his spirit sank into the little world within his body.

In the vibrant, increasingly perfected world at its center, his will became a colossal creator's hand, beginning to construct ex nihilo.

Mountains rose, the earth sank.

Countless laws he had comprehended—life, death, truth, distortion, illusion…—all transformed into the firmest foundations, building an immense furnace that shimmered with chaotic radiance.

This, then, is the true home prepared for that Void Seed.

At the instant Wang Zhize reconstructed the Outside World altar and the inner furnace, a will beyond this realm, icy to the extreme, descended again.

Void Walker!

It sensed this "worm's" mad action.

The "Furnace Core" it had chosen not only did not submit, but tried to reverse and devour its "seed"!

An invisible pressure, capable of freezing souls, crushed toward Wang Zhize, attempting to disrupt the law runes he was inscribing, forcibly halting his arrangement.

However, Wang Zhize's movements did not pause a fraction.

He didn't even look up.

He merely uttered a few words in his own world, in a tone of absolute control that allowed no objection.

I define: this realm, I am the creator master.

Outsider… no right to interfere.

The moment the words fell, an invisible, absolute barrier instantly enveloped the entire Heaven‑Sacrificing Platform.

The cold will from higher dimensions, as if striking an incomprehensible wall, was brutally cut off outside.

It could sense everything inside, yet could no longer exert any direct influence.

Having finished all this, Wang Zhize raised his hand and gently grasped the gray prison cage he had "cut" away.

Open!

The cage shattered in response, turning into countless Light Spots across the sky.

The hovering, unstable chaotic Dao Pill was fully exposed at the center of the reconstructed Heaven‑Sacrificing Platform.

It instantly connected with the brand‑new energy circuit.

Buzz buzz buzz—

The Dao Pill began to tremble violently, emitting unstable light.

Deep within its Core, the Void Seed seemed to sense an unprecedented threat, unleashing a fierce will to struggle, trying to break free from the guiding force.

"Zhitao." Wang Zhize said lightly.

"Alright!"

Wang Zhitao had been waiting for a long time; he let out a snarling laugh, opened his huge mouth, and inhaled sharply.

A massive, continuously rotating black vortex instantly enveloped the entire perimeter of the Sacrificial Altar Platform, forming a barrier that devoured everything.

Any energy shock radiating from a Dao Dan would be instantly swallowed by this barrier, turned into his own nourishment, and would not in the slightest affect the Imperial City of the Outside World.

He was like a glutton guarding a dining table, preventing food from falling while always ready to devour any "pre‑meal snack" that might appear.

……

Inside the Imperial City.

Li Hu and Zhang Mei, with Zhao's assistance, had just cleared the last hidden "Shadow" organization base.

They stood atop the palace wall, gazing toward the Sacrificial Altar Platform.

Waves of energy that made their souls shudder came from that direction, stirring the clouds across the sky.

They could not understand what the Master was doing.

But they sensed it was an earth‑shaking battle beyond their imagination and beyond their reach.

"We… are too weak," Li Hu said, clenching his fist, his nails digging deep into his palm, a strand of blood flowing down without him feeling it.

Zhang Mei's eyes held equally complex emotions.

There was shock, awe, but more so a sense of helplessness as distance grew.

"The Master fights for this world," Deputy Minister of War Zhao said, standing aside, his aged face full of fervent reverence, "All we can do is guard the rear for the Master, so that the Master… has no worries behind."

Li Hu and Zhang Mei exchanged a glance and nodded heavily.

They could not aid the Master.

Then they would become the Master's strongest shield and sharpest blade.

To bring this scar‑filled Imperial City back onto the right track!

……

Atop the Sacrificial Altar Platform.

The guiding process is also a contest of wills.

Wang Zhize's spirit was constantly struck by attacks from the Seed of the Void.

Grand scenes unfolded in his mind, one after another.

【Merge with me, and you will command the birth and death of this universe, becoming the supreme god!】

【Look, that is the birth of stars, that is the Withering of the world, all will be toys at your fingertips!】

【Abandon your pathetic resistance, accept my gift, for that is your destiny as the Dao Marker!】

Terrifying visions, the temptation of divinity.

Scenes sufficient to break any creature's spirit played in succession.

Yet Wang Zhize's consciousness, like ancient unmelting ice, was harder than divine steel.

His heart had long found an eternal fulcrum within his own little world.

The borrowed divine seat was ultimately a mirage.

Only what he created himself is truly real.

He finally understood that this was not merely the refinement of a Dao Dan.

It was also a clash of wills between him and the Void Walker, spanning endless time and space.

Whoever can dominate this World Law Seed will fully control the initiative in future confrontations!

"Come."

A cold curve lifted at Wang Zhize's mouth corner.

He spread his arms wide, as if embracing the whole world.

"Activate!"

With his command, the restructured energy circuit of the Sacrificial Altar Platform was fully activated!

Boom—!!!

Ten thousand runes lit up together, brilliant light surged skyward, illuminating the sky over the Imperial City as bright as day!

That violently struggling Chaotic Dao Dan was completely locked by an invisible yet irresistible great force, and then began to be drawn, bit by bit, irreversibly, toward Wang Zhize's brow—the gateway to his little world—slowly pulling toward it!

Within the Void, that higher‑dimensional will seemed finally to realize that everything was already beyond rescue.

A silent whisper, mixed with astonishment and anger, crossed dimensions and resonated on the level of the law.

Yet in Wang Zhize's eyes there was only a steadfast resolve that could melt all things.

Your seed?

Your furnace core?

From today onward.

I am the furnace, refining the heavens!