Chapter 37: Primordial Desolation Deadlock

**Chapter 37: Primordial Desolation Deadlock, Lin Jin Breaks the Game and Ascends the Immortal Path**

###**I. Nether Strange News, Mystery of the Immortal Path**

Deep in the Nether Hall dungeon, corrosive water soaked the iron chains. Lin Jin stepped on the right knee of Great Elder Ye Yan, the Burial Fire scorching his soul through the wound: "Old thing, you say the Immortal Path is hidden in the 'Chaos Eye'—why should I believe you?"

Ye Yan roared and spat out blood foam, his left eye suddenly exploding to reveal a jade stone engraved with ancient Witch Clan curses: "This object... was dug from the ancestral grave of the Witch Clan by the Nether Hall... cough cough... the entrance to the Immortal Path requires the sacrifice of a chaotic bloodline... and your Burial Fire..." He laughed maniacally, "is the key!"

The jade stone reflected an illusion: whirlpools surged in the Sea of Chaos, and nine ice coffins hung in the center of the whirlpool, the coffins actually cast from the spine of the First Generation Coffin Keeper! Lin Jin's pupils contracted—the patterns on the coffins were exactly the same as the "Lin" character on his black robe.

###**II. Deadlock Arises, Killing Tribulations from All Sides**

Within three days, the situation in the Primordial Desolation changed drastically:

-**Xuantian Sect** used "Slaying Lin" as their slogan, mixing Soul-Devouring Powder into the Chaos Spirit Springs to lure ten thousand rogue cultivators to besiege Reverse Scale City;

-**Witch Clan Remnants** opened the blood sacrifice array, and the poisonous insects of the Eastern Abyss Black Swamp turned into "Immortal-Devouring Locusts," blotting out the sky as they surged toward the Supervision Hall;

-**Thunder Savage Remnants** colluded with the exiled Immortal Sects to set up the "Nine Tribulation Thunder Net" in the Western Extreme Thunder Abyss, cutting off Lin Jin's retreat.

Ao Li rushed into the hall, covered in blood: "Master! The Reverse Scale City barrier is about to break, Ao Hui, that old thief... has rebelled!"

She opened her palm, and a fragment of the Reverse Scale Mirror reflected a horrifying scene—Ao Hui slit Ao Tian's throat, using Ancestral Dragon blood as a sacrifice to summon the Immortal Sect's Burial Fire Puppet army!

###**III. Jin Plots the Universe, Using Himself as Bait**

Lin Jin crushed the jade stone, his Burial Fire scorching marks onto the sand table: "They want the Immortal Path? Then I'll give them a 'feast'!"

**Game 1**: Allow the Xuantian Sect to break through Reverse Scale City. The moment Qu Wulei and her poison cultivators entered the city, detonate the Star Core residual power buried in the city—the poison cultivators and Burial Fire Puppets were incinerated together, the Fog Sea spirit springs were contaminated, and Xuan Mingzi lost his foundation.

**Game 2**: Lure the Witch Clan's Immortal-Devouring Locusts to the Thunder Abyss. To protect their skin-shedding, the Thunder Savage remnants had to use their Thunder Prison Battle Bodies to resist the insect tide. You Lu was forced to appear, slaughtering the remnants of the Xuantian Sect.

**Game 3**: Step alone into the Black Swamp, letting Wu Yao's Time-Eroding Insects gnaw on his left arm, using his chaotic bloodline as a lead to force out the location of the Immortal Path entrance—"The Chaos Eye, it was in your heart all along." Lin Jin sneered, his Burial Fire piercing through Wu Yao's heart.

###**IV. Chaos Eye Opens, Paved with Ten Thousand Bones**

The Witch Clan altar collapsed, and Wu Yao's remains turned into a blood bridge. Lin Jin stepped onto the bridge and entered. Inside the Chaos Eye, ice coffins stood in rows, each coffin extending a chain, the ends of which were tied to withered bones—these were the remains of past Coffin Keepers!

"To enter the Immortal Path, first bury yourself."

The Star River Immortal Venerable's sigh came from the void. The nine coffins opened simultaneously, and corpses with the same appearance as Lin Jin reached out from the coffins, their fingertips pointing at his heart.

Lin Jin burned his Burial Fire to the limit, crushing the Star River Crown into powder: "You want me to bury myself? Better to bury this hypocritical Immortal Path of yours!"

The power of the Star Core backfired against the ice coffins, and the ten thousand bone chains shattered inch by inch. Deep in the Chaos Eye, a crack appeared, and what floated in the crack was not the Immortal Path, but Xiaoyaozi's wine gourd!

###**V. Ascending the Immortal Path, Deadlock Reborn**

The bloody battle in the Primordial Desolation came to an end.

The Xuantian Sect's spirit springs were exhausted, Qu Wulei turned into a poison puppet; the Nether Hall's Shadow Hunters were all wiped out, the name Ye Xiao became a taboo; Reverse Scale City was scorched for three thousand feet, Ao Hui was nailed to the Ancestral Dragon's remains, wailing.

Lin Jin sat alone in the ruins, playing with the gourd he had retrieved from the Chaos Eye. New characters appeared on the gourd:

**"The Immortal Path has no gate, only the heart can break it. The next cup of wine... should be offered to the Burial Fire."**

Ao Li presented a secret report, trembling: "Master, we dug up a stone stele in the ruins of the Witch Clan... it has Master's name on it, and... four characters..."

**"Coffin opens, Jin lives."**

###**Finale: Dark Chess Unfinished, Immortal Venerable Weeps Blood**

The Star River Immortal Venerable's phantom condensed in the Sea of Chaos, the Star River Sword in his hand shattering inch by inch: "Xiaoyaozi! You actually dared to tamper with my chess game!"

The bamboo raft sailed leisurely by, and a sneer came from the gourd: "Your chess? It's just the dregs of the wine I brew!"

And deep in the Supervision Hall dungeon, Ye Yan's "corpse" suddenly opened its eyes—a Time-Eroding Insect crawled out of his exploded left eye.

PS: After much consideration, I feel that flying up just like this is lacking something. So, here I first want to apologize to all the readers. From the next chapter on, the style will change drastically, bringing you a different reading experience!!! ===== CHAPTER 38 =====