Chapter 80

###**I. Altar Imprisons Phoenix · Sugar Soul Burns Heart**

In the center of the abyss altar, Ao Li's true body was pierced through the shoulder blades by nine layers of bronze chains, with the ends of the chains tied to the life tablets of three thousand sugar-sculpted cultivators. The moment Lin Jin's chaotic green lotus touched the chains, the life tablets suddenly exploded—the cultivators' souls condensed into pale ghost hands, tearing at his sugar soul!

"Soul Devouring Tribulation, what it devours is the seven emotions and six desires!" Lin Xuan's phantom rose from the altar, holding three sugar souls floating in his palm, "Every time you use the Emotion Sword, she suffers the pain of Nine Nether Soul Devouring!"

Ao Li's true body suddenly opened her eyes, and what leaped in her pupils was not Nirvana Fire, but the pale runes of the Dao-swallowing ones: "Fellow Daoist Lin... slay me!" The Burial Coffin pattern on her neck reversed into sugar threads, wrapping around Lin Jin's sugar sword and stabbing it into her heart!

###**II. Sugar Stele Traces the Past · Primordial Legacy**

The moment the sword tip touched Ao Li's heart, the altar floor tiles suddenly flipped over. Stele inscriptions condensed from syrup rose from the abyss:

**"Soul Devouring is not soul devouring, severing emotion is not severing emotion. The day the sugar soul burns out is when the Primordial is seen clearly."**

Where the stele inscription exploded, Ling Yue's sugar box flew out, and what was hidden in the box was not alchemy medicine, but Lin Jin's fetal hair from three hundred years ago—the hair was wrapped in Primordial Chaos Qi, resonating with the Dao-swallowing runes on Ao Li's heart!

"Mother calculated this tribulation long ago..." Lin Jin crushed the sugar box, and the fetal hair transformed into sugar butterflies that rushed toward the Dao-swallowing runes. Where the runes disintegrated, Ao Li's true body suddenly became ethereal, and Nirvana Fire burst from her spine: "The sugar butterflies are the key... open the Heaven's Veil!"

###**III. Butterfly Leads to Heaven's Gap · Dao-Swallowing Truly Arrives**

Three thousand sugar butterflies wrapped in Primordial Chaos Qi collided with the dome of the abyss, and a pale pillar of light descended from the crack. What stepped out of the light was neither human nor puppet, its body surging with the resentment of billions of cultivators—the Dao-swallowing true body was actually a thousand-faced monster pieced together from syrup and bones!

"You ants, also worthy of peeking at the secret of Heaven?" Ten thousand faces spoke in unison, the sound wave shattering half of the sugar butterflies. Lin Jin's 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 paved by the sugar butterflies with their lives!

Ao Li's remnant soul suddenly solidified, and the Nirvana Fire burned a passage in the star map: "Take her and go!" She pushed her true body toward Lin Jin, transforming into a sugar coat to wrap around the Dao-swallowing giant foot, "Remember to taste the..."

The sound of the sugar coat bursting and the unfinished words were all drowned out by the roar of the Dao-swallowing ones, and at the end of the star map passage appeared the ruins of Medicine King Valley—in the valley stood the First Generation Questioning Heart Stele covered in sugar frost!

###**IV. Questioning Heart Stele Awakens · Realm Recast**

Lin Jin cradled Ao Li's true body and touched the Questioning Heart Stele, the sugar frost on the stele peeling away to reveal Ling Yue's dying carvings:

**"Questioning Heart Realm: Sugar fire burns illusions**

**Binding Emotion Realm: Primordial breaks reincarnation**

**Non-Delusion Realm: Nirvana sculpts new life"**

The base of the stele suddenly cracked, flying out nine sugar heart pills—each pill was wrapped in fragments of Lin Jin's past life memories. Ao Li's true body suddenly raised her hand and crushed the pills, the medicinal fragrance condensing into a sugar coat to wrap around the two:

"Fellow Daoist Lin... this is the 'Primordial Questioning Heart Formula' improved by your father..." The Nirvana pattern behind her ear suddenly cracked, revealing the alchemy primordial consciousness sealed by Ao Zhan!

###**V. Sugar Coat Crosses Tribulation · Non-Delusion First Formed**

The Dao-swallowing true body tore open the star map and chased after them, the pale giant palm slapping toward the Questioning Heart Stele. Lin Jin's sugar coat suddenly reversed into armor, the surface of the armor reflecting the projections of three hundred Chaos Realms—every "Lin Jin" in each realm was forming seals in unison!

"Non-delusion is not emotionless..." He slashed the sugar coat with his fingers as a sword, Primordial Chaos Qi mixed with Nirvana Fire condensing into a new sword, "it is understanding the original heart!"

The moment the sword light pierced the Dao-swallowing true body, the resentment of ten thousand sugar-sculpted cultivators suddenly backfired. The pale giant palm cracked inch by inch, and Lin Xuan's screams came from the cracks: "Impossible... how could the Dao-swallowing ones..."

Sugar rain suddenly fell on the ruins of Medicine King Valley, the raindrops washing away the Dao-swallowing filth. In Lin Jin's arms, the eyelashes of Ao Li's true body fluttered, and the sugar frost on her fingertips condensed into small characters:

**"Third Tribulation: Swallowing the Dao. Beware of the sugar butterflies..."**

###**Final Act · Butterfly Shadow Surprise**

A bronze giant hand suddenly reached out from the void crack, its fingertips pinching half a broken sugar butterfly. The butterfly wing patterns pieced together into a star map, pointing to the Dao-swallowing lair outside the Chaos Realm—there, ten thousand bronze coffins were suspended, each sealing a clone of Lin Jin!

The figure of the old man selling sugar paintings appeared among the bronze coffins, the sugar spoon in his hand carving a new sugar figurine of Ao Li:

**"The Eightieth Realm: Sugar-Sculpted Reincarnation. Customer, do you want to carve the past, or sculpt the next life?"**