Chapter 79

###**I. Sugar Figurine Horror · Old Man Vanishes**

The moment Lin Jin's fingertips touched the Ao Li sugar figurine, the syrup suddenly softened. Golden flames leaped from the sugar figurine's pupils, condensing into Ao Li's remnant consciousness phantom: "Fellow Daoist Lin, the Seven Tribulations of Swallowing the Dao must use the sugar soul as a guide..." Before the words could finish, the bamboo stick of the sugar painting old man suddenly pierced through the phantom, and black blood flowed from the sugar figurine's eye sockets: "This tribulation, you cannot cross!"

The old man's wrinkles cracked, revealing Lin Xuan's bronze face, and the sugar spoon in his hand outlined a terrifying scene—at the end of the void ancient path, ten thousand sugar-sculpted Lin Jins were kneeling and worshipping the Dao-swallowing altar!

"Grandfather has prepared sacrifices for you." Lin Xuan laughed ferociously and crushed the sugar figurine, the syrup condensing into chains that wrapped around Lin Jin's ankles. The ends of the chains disappeared into the ancient path remnant stele, and scarlet annotations seeped from the stele inscription:

**"First Tribulation: Heart Devouring. The Dao-feeder must gouge out the heart as a sacrifice."**

###**II. Heart Devouring Tribulation Begins · Sugar Soul Burns Emotion**

Pale fire rain suddenly descended in the void, and Lin Jin's chaotic green lotus disintegrated spontaneously, the lotus petals transforming into sugar armor for protection. In the fire rain, the whisper of the Dao-swallowing ones appeared:

**"Hand over the sugar soul, and I will grant you reincarnation."**

Lin Jin's heart suddenly felt intense pain, and half a sugar heart jumped out from the cracks in the sugar armor—it was exactly the Nirvana sugar soul left by Ao Li! The moment the sugar heart touched the fire rain, the ancient path remnant stele exploded with a crash, and Ling Yue's life-bound sword box rose from the base of the stele. Lying in the box was not a spirit sword, but the candied haws he had strung for his mother three hundred years ago!

"Jin'er, the sugar heart is not the heart..." Ling Yue's remnant voice came from the candied haws, and the bamboo stick suddenly pierced into Lin Jin's heart. What splashed out was not blood, but sugar crystals condensed from Primordial Chaos Qi, the crystal surface reflecting the true face of the Dao-swallowing ones—it was actually an aggregate of the resentment of billions of sugar-sculpted cultivators!

###**III. Resentment Swallows Heaven · Sugar Armor Returns to Dust**

The Dao-swallowing giant hand reached out from the void, ten thousand crying mouths splitting open in its palm. Lin Jin's sugar armor suddenly grew in reverse into thorns, each sugar thorn engraved with fragments of the "Questioning Heart Formula". The moment they pierced the giant hand, the wails of the sugar-sculpted cultivators transformed into Sanskrit chanting:

**"With a clear conscience, what is there to fear from swallowing the Dao!"**

Lin Xuan's phantom disintegrated in the chanting, his bronze face shattering into sugar dregs. When the sugar dregs touched the Dao-swallowing giant hand, the pale skin suddenly crystallized, and black syrup surged from the cracks—it was actually concentrated resentment of the cultivators!

Ao Li's sugar soul suddenly surged, the Nirvana Fire wrapping around Lin Jin: "Use the candied haws... pierce its crown..."

###**IV. Candied Haw Breaks Tribulation · Ancient Path Re-condenses**

Lin Jin threw the candied haws, the bamboo stick transforming into a thousand-zhang sugar sword in the Primordial Chaos Qi. The moment the sword tip pierced the Dao-swallowing crown, ten thousand sugar-sculpted cultivators self-destructed in unison, the resentment backfiring on its master!

"No!" The Dao-swallowing giant hand crushed the void, and Chaos Realm fragments splashed like sugar dregs. The sugar sword suddenly softened, and the pine nut candy wrapper on the sword tassel unfolded into a star map—it was exactly the escape path hidden by Ling Yue in the Azure Dragon Ring back then!

Lin Jin dragged Ao Li's remnant soul and leaped into the star map, and from behind came the Dao-swallowing one's poisonous vow:

**"Second Tribulation: Soul Devouring. This seat will have you forever..."**

The words were annihilated in the void turbulence, and at the end of the star map appeared a Medicine King Valley illusion condensed from sugar frost. New blood characters were added to the stele at the valley entrance:

**"Three sugar souls remain, only then will the swallowing tribulation be crossed."**

###**V. Illusion Confuses the Heart · Sugar Shadow Surprise**

Inside the illusion, the three-year-old Lin Jin was chasing sugar butterflies in the courtyard. Ling Yue suddenly rushed out from the alchemy room, the Nine Revolutions Sugar Pill in her hand bursting with evil light: "Jin'er, run! This pill..."

The scene stopped abruptly, and a black-robed person walked out from the shockwave of the sugar pill explosion—it was actually Lin Xuan in his youth! He held three sugar souls floating in his palm, each sugar soul wrapped in fragments of Lin Jin's past life memories:

"Good grandson, these three souls were refined from your father, your mother, and that little lover of yours..." He crushed a sugar soul, and Ao Zhan's screams resounded through the illusion, "Do you want them?"

###**Final Act · Sugar Butterfly Leads Evil**

Lin Jin's chaotic green lotus suddenly took root in the illusion, and ten thousand sugar butterflies flew from the lotus heart. As the butterfly swarm rushed toward Lin Xuan, Dao-swallowing blood rain descended from his sleeves: "Second Tribulation: Soul Devouring!"

In the rain curtain, Ao Li's remnant soul suddenly solidified, the Nirvana pattern behind her ear splitting into sugar locks to wrap around Lin Xuan: "Go! The sugar butterflies are..."

Amidst the sound of chains snapping and unfinished words, Lin Jin was wrapped by the sugar butterflies and fell into the abyss. At the bottom of the abyss, nine hundred sugar-sculpted cultivators were kneeling and worshipping the Dao-swallowing altar, and what was suspended in the center of the altar—was Ao Li's intact true body!