Chapter 83: Sugar Maple Weeping Blood: Heavenly Workshop Devouring the World

###**I. Cold Cenotaph: Sugar Tears Eroding the Stele**

Deep in the Sugar Maple Forest, the inscription Ao Li had carved with frost-covered fingertips suddenly seeped blood droplets. There was no grave before the stele, only a green jade sugar box—inside were stacked Ling Yue's charred pill robe and Ao Zhan's broken Azure Dragon Sword! When Lin Jin's Chaos Qi touched the sugar box, the sugar frost on the box surface suddenly flowed backward into blood:

**"Jin'er, open personally: Nine Revolutions is not a pill, but a Dao-Slaying fire seed. If you see this box, go to Heavenly Workshop quickly..."**

Before the blood words were dry, a sinister wind rose in the forest. Three thousand sugar maple leaves left their branches and turned into blades, the bronze veins of Heavenly Workshop puppets swimming within the leaf veins, every blade pointing directly at Ao Li's heart!

###**II. Puppet Devouring Spirit: Sugar Armor Asking the Heart**

Lin Jin flicked his sleeves to deflect the maple blades, Chaos Qi congealing into sugar armor to wrap around Ao Li. The array patterns of the Medicine King Valley guardian array appeared on the armor's surface, but he saw the Xuantian Sect Leader's life-bound soul tablet embedded in the array eye!

"A fine way to use the array to raise puppets!" Lin Jin crushed the soul tablet, nine strands of soul-devouring silk bursting from the fragments. The other end of the silk threads sank into the center of Ao Li's brow, pulling out half a strand of blood-stained memory:

- In the Xuantian Sect dungeon, she was implanted with a Heavenly Workshop puppet core;

- In the middle of the night in the Sugar Maple Forest, the Sect Leader personally buried the cenotaph;

- At the end of the memory, a ten-thousand-zhang bronze pill furnace hung at the peak of Nine Yi Mountain—what was being refined inside was actually the Chaos Origin!

###**III. Maple Fire Burning Puppets: Asking the Dao in Anti-Void**

Ao Li suddenly snapped the soul-devouring silk, the Nirvana pattern behind her ear splitting into sugar locks that entangled the maple forest. The sugar maple root system broke through the soil, every root tip piercing a miniature Heavenly Workshop puppet:

"Fellow Daoist Lin, destroy the array eye!"

Lin Jin stepped onto the maples and rose, Chaos Qi congealing into a hundred-zhang sugar sword. When the sword light split the earth veins, the sugar box suddenly exploded—Ling Yue's pill robe rushed into the sky wrapped in Primordial Pure Qi, piecing together the final chapter of the "Anti-Void Asking the Dao Art" in the void:

**"The realm is not a realm, the calamity is not a calamity. On the day Heavenly Workshop devours spirits, the sugar heart illuminates the Great Thousand!"**

###**IV. Pill Furnace Appears: Ten Thousand Realms Burning Together**

The sound of gears meshing came from deep within the earth veins, and Nine Yi Mountain collapsed with a roar. A ten-thousand-zhang bronze pill furnace broke through the soil, the furnace walls engraved with the names of cultivators—every name corresponding to a Chaos Realm clone that was currently melting!

The Xuantian Sect Leader stood atop the furnace, a mechanical arm extending from beneath his black robe: "Little Friend Lin, this Ten Thousand Realms Furnace is missing a main pill..." He suddenly tore open his robe, what was pulsing in his chest actually being Ao Li's Nirvana sugar heart!

"When Li'er blocked the calamity for you back then, this seat took half her heart soul." The furnace fire suddenly surged, Devouring Dao blood patterns appearing on the sugar heart's surface, "Today, it should be complete!"

###**V. Sugar Heart Returning to Position: Chaos Startling Change**

Lin Jin's Chaos Qi suddenly went out of control, the Nine Nether Profound Iron retrieved from Burial Sword Cliff flying toward the furnace on its own. Ao Li's Nirvana Fire congealed into a sugar coating to wrap around the pill furnace, and from within the fire came Ling Yue's final warning:

**"Jin'er, if the pill is formed, the ten thousand realms will be extinguished!"**

The instant the sugar coating exploded, Lin Jin saw a horrifying truth—what was hanging at the core of the furnace was not a pill, but the Primordial Chaos Body pierced by bronze chains! The face was seventy percent similar to Ling Yue's, and what was inserted in its chest was the Moon Ember Sword that had gone missing three hundred years ago!

###**Final Act: Matricide Suspicion**

The pill furnace suddenly rained sugar, the droplets congealing into Ling Yue's phantom. She held the Moon Ember Sword and stabbed toward Lin Jin, but half a blood-stained pine nut sugar wrapper fell from the sword tassel:

**"Mother has never left... beware of the sugar..."**

A mechanical giant hand reached out from a rift in the void, and at the final moment before crushing the phantom, Lin Jin saw the tiny blood words carved on the sword hilt—

**"The Xuantian Sect Leader is Lin Xuan's reincarnated body!"**

The Sugar Maple Forest suddenly cracked open, nine hundred ice coffins rising from deep within the earth veins. In every coffin was sealed a woman with the same appearance as Ling Yue, all of them pierced by replicas of the Moon Ember Sword! ===== CHAPTER 84 =====