Chapter 320: Chaos God Trial

After waiting several months, the Supreme Star above the high dome, which radiated an endless aura of destruction, changed its color and aura three times in succession before finally becoming Life-aligned.

Lin Qing did not waste time; he immediately activated the Mist Pigeon Secret Art and vanished into a gale.

As he approached the Supreme Star, a terrifying cosmic will pressed down upon him from the front. This oppressive force was identical to that of the Main Star; if one's mental will was insufficient, one could not even enter the Supreme Star.

This slight pressure from the cosmic will was, for Lin Qing, naturally like a spring breeze brushing the face, having absolutely no effect.

In an instant, Lin Qing had flown into the Supreme Star. One could see that this massive star was filled with endless rivers of cosmic origin, and towering upon it were countless majestic mountains, each emitting an incomparably astonishing aura of power.

Lin Qing knew that these mountains were the testing grounds for various Void-level Divine Offices.

Whatever number of Void-level Divine Offices existed in the entire universe, that same number of mountains stood upon this Supreme Star.

These mountains were also called 'Void Peaks'.

As long as one's mental will could enter this Supreme Star, and one's divine office matched and satisfied the conditions for that office, one would be guided by the Void Peak corresponding to that divine office.

The moment he entered the Supreme Star, Lin Qing immediately felt the extremely stable space-time.

Here, even without the pressure of the cosmic will, ordinary Void Lords could likely only barely walk; with the added pressure of the cosmic will, most Void Lords would find it difficult even to stand up.

To be able to hover and fly in the air here meant one had to be a supreme powerhouse among the Void Lords.

Lin Qing's body swayed slightly; he then slightly activated the Mist Pigeon Secret Art, allowing him to stand suspended in the air above the mountains and valleys.

"Boom!!"

At this moment, a Void Peak in the distance, obviously far more majestic than all other mountains, suddenly trembled. It erupted with dazzling, brilliant colored light, transforming mid-air into a magnificent rainbow bridge that extended from the foot of the mountain.

The rainbow bridge extended all the way to Lin Qing's feet before stopping; then, the bridge began to carry him back, shrinking and retreating.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Qing was carried by the rainbow bridge to the foot of that incomparably majestic mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, a massive stone tablet radiating the aura of cosmic origin was visible, upon which the characters 'Chaos God' were carved.

This was the testing ground for the Chaos God.

Unlike the Basic Divine Office Trial, the Primal-level Divine Office Trial, and the Star-level Divine Office Trial, countless Star Gods had already been filtered out before even participating in the Chaos God trial.

Only those with a Chaos-colored Divine Core could come to attempt the trial; it was destined that only a few candidates would appear.

Lin Qing turned his head to look at the massive stone tablet. As if sensing him, a line of faintly glowing characters appeared on the tablet—

【He who reaches the summit shall become the Chaos God】

"This time, one person is enough."

The corners of Lin Qing's mouth curled up slightly. Without hesitation, he immediately walked briskly toward the only mountain path not far away.

This mountain path looked very ordinary and common, but it represented the first half of the Chaos God trial.

In the simulated future, his strength was far inferior to what it was now; only by joining forces with the other three Children of Chaos did he pass the trial of this mountain path.

At that time, he had specifically waited for several months, waiting for the other Children of Chaos to arrive together before stepping onto the mountain path to accept the trial.

But this time, it was not necessary.

The moment Lin Qing's foot stepped onto the first step of the mountain path—

Heaven and earth suddenly changed. Under the twisting of space-time, the stone step before him, merely half a meter high and half a meter wide, instantly transformed into a vast world resembling an endless war platform, and the flow of time accelerated drastically.

He saw the membrane of the world torn open with numerous gashes, from which Void Demons one after another crawled out, roaring.

At a glance, the entire world seemed to have become a hunting ground of the Yu Xingyuan. Dense swarms of Void Demons of various systems surged out like a tide, all rushing ferociously toward Lin Qing. The earth-shattering roars made the entire world tremble.

The strength of every single Void Demon was at the sixteenth layer of the Yu Xingyuan; for a Child of Chaos, this naturally meant nothing.

Lin Qing was too lazy to wait any longer; he merely swept his gaze across—

"Boom-boom-boom—"

The spatial fluctuations triggered solely by energy instantly transformed into an endless spatial storm that swept across, turning all Void Demons into nothingness.

At the exact moment all Void Demons were annihilated, the space-time of this world returned to normal. Before his eyes, it seemed to have returned to that ordinary and common mountain path, yet his foot had just stepped onto the first stone step.

Afterwards, Lin Qing stepped onto the second step.

Space-time twisted and changed once again, and he subsequently fell into another vast and immense world.

Space cracked open with countless fissures once more, from which a large number of Void Demons surged out. The Void Demons this time were obviously far stronger than those in the world of the first step.

But Lin Qing still merely swept his gaze across, annihilating the vast sea of Void Demons entirely.

The second step, the third step, the fourth step...

Just like this, Lin Qing began to walk step by step up the mountain path. With each step, he would fall into a world; he had to kill all the Void Demons within it to pass through that layer of the world.

And as the layers increased, the strength of the Void Demons also grew stronger.

As far as Lin Qing knew, for the first half of a general Void-level Divine Office trial, the mountain path usually had between nine steps and eighteen steps; different divine offices had different strength requirements.

But the steps of the Chaos God trial numbered a full forty-nine!

The Void Demons surging out from the world of the forty-ninth step were all at the strength of the twenty-first layer of the Yu Xingyuan, and their numbers were in the tens of thousands!

A general Child of Chaos possessed strength only at the peak of the twenty-first layer of the Yu Xingyuan. With tens of thousands of Void Demons, each at the twenty-first layer of the Yu Xingyuan, one could see how exaggerated the difficulty was.

Not to mention the pressure of the cosmic will, which allowed only a fraction of one's strength to be exerted.

Moreover, one had to kill all the Void Demons to pass, which tested the Child of Chaos's comprehensive strength even more.

If one's will was not high enough, one's survival ability not strong enough, one's speed not fast enough, or one's killing efficiency not high enough... any of these factors could lead to failure.

Therefore, given the strength of the Children of Chaos from the past in the Void Sea, if they joined forces, there was still a slight hope of passing the forty-ninth layer.

Alone, it was almost impossible to pass.

In the simulated future, Lin Qing's genes had not reached the cosmic limit; he had only forged his innate Chaos Divine Artifact set. Due to his insufficient personal strength, his supreme secret art could only reach the level of the twenty-second layer of the Yu Xingyuan.

With such strength, although he was stronger than the other Children of Chaos, he did not have enough confidence to pass the trial alone.

In the end, the other Children of Chaos were all killed by the vast sea of Void Demons; only he, the strongest among them, passed the forty-ninth layer trial.

But this time, it was completely different.

Regardless of the Void Demons in any layer of the step-world, they were no different from cannon fodder compared to his strength.

Now, once he activated his innate cosmic treasure and unleashed his full power, his strength could even break through the cosmic limit, reaching the upper level of the twenty-fourth layer of the Yu Xingyuan.

Even if it were the Void Demons of the forty-nine-step world, even if their numbers exceeded ten thousand, the result before him would be slaughtering a vast swath with a single strike.

Back then, the power of the Immortal Realm Child of Chaos was not even as great as his, yet he utterly despised allying with other Children of Chaos; this was because his own strength alone was sufficient! "Boom—Boom—Boom—"

The towering, massive hand of the World God swept down with a thunderous crash; only to see a vast, surging storm of destruction sweep out like a shockwave, directly annihilating the remaining nearly ten thousand Void Demons.

The golden light dissipated, revealing Lin Qing, unharmed.

From start to finish, his aura hardly changed at all; he had not even exerted his full strength.

"This first part of the trial is too simple."

Lin Qing couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

Compared to the hardships and obstacles when simulating the future, his current state was as if he were merely playing.

There was no choice; his mental will and genes had both reached the universe's upper limit, inherently extremely powerful, and he could perfectly unleash all his strength; he already had sufficient confidence to pass the trial.

The key was...

He also possessed a terrifying set of innate universe supreme treasures, which caused his strength to surge even further.

Such power far exceeded the intensity of the Chaos God trial by a vast margin.

Lin Qing had never worried about the first part of the Chaos God trial; for a trial purely testing comprehensive strength, as long as one's raw power was strong enough, one could pass.

A trial that even several Children of Chaos could pass working together—how much difficulty could it truly hold?

"Vroom..."

The world vanished; Lin Qing also discovered he had already traversed the forty-nine steps. Ahead lay a rugged, uneven path; some sections were covered by branches and thorns, some blocked by rocks, some traversed by a flowing stream, and deeper within, mist swirled and obscured the view.

"Then comes the second part..."

Lin Qing took a deep breath and immediately set off along this rugged path.

This rugged path seemed merely an ordinary mountain trail, but in reality, every uneven section hid constantly shifting space-time; only those with keen sensitivity to space-time could walk through it, otherwise they would remain trapped in place.

This rugged road was, in fact, part of the second half of the trial.

The Lin Qing from the simulated future found walking it extremely difficult; on average, traversing a single meter took thousands of years.

But now that his genes had reached the universe's limit, he naturally possessed control over space-time; under the manipulation of a micro space-time domain, walking became effortless.

Step after step, with almost no obstruction.

In no time, Lin Qing arrived before a mountain path pierced by a flowing river.

This river was merely an illusion; in reality, it was formed by countless surging space-time powers, very similar to a space-time phenomenon in the Void Sea. If one's space-time cognition was insufficient, or if one was unfamiliar with such phenomena, one might be swept away by the river water and ultimately washed to death.

"The Universal Tianhe..."

After observing for a long while, Lin Qing confirmed this river bore a strong resemblance to the Void Sea phenomenon known as the 'Universal Tianhe', and only then stepped into it.

The river water, laden with layers of space-time turbulence, quickly engulfed him.

Several months later, Lin Qing's figure finally emerged from the river water, reaching the opposite bank.

"Ha, the difficulty is not small," Lin Qing couldn't help but smile.

If it were the him from the simulated future, it would have taken hundreds of thousands of years just to walk out.

But now, relying on his prior knowledge of the Universal Tianhe's patterns and experience, combined with his innate universe supreme treasure forcibly breaking through space-time limitations, he crossed this river in merely a few months.

"Universe supreme treasures are too powerful..."

Lin Qing couldn't help but sigh inwardly and continued walking forward along the mountain path.

In no time, he encountered a second obstacle.

It was a rock situated on the mountain path, roughly half a person's height. It seemed easy to step over, but in reality, this rock's influence on space-time was far more terrifying than a black hole in the universe; it was impossible to go around or step over it.

The best method to pass was to study this rock's influence on space-time, examine the constantly changing structure of space-time, and find the space-time fissures within it, only then could one bypass this rock.

"Fortunately, I am alone..."

Lin Qing couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "If multiple people were together, creating even more complex space-time structures, I wonder if the innate universe supreme treasure could forcibly penetrate through..."

The trials on this mountain path increase in difficulty based on the number of people.

For the first part of the trial, if three people passed the mountain path, the number of Void Demons appearing would also triple.

However, when three people joined forces, they could compensate for weaknesses, efficiency would be higher, and since the Void Demons did not all appear at once, the success rate of passing would naturally be much higher.

But the second half is different.

If three people appear simultaneously, the difficulty of the obstacles on the mountain path also triples, but it easily becomes three times more complex.

These obstacles test cognition of the universe, life, space-time, and various other aspects; even at normal difficulty, they are nearly unsolvable. How could one possibly pass at triple difficulty?

After all, the cognition of three people cannot be fused together.

"Hmm..."

This rock-like obstacle also trapped Lin Qing for thousands of years before he found some patterns; only after forcibly widening a space-time fissure on the rock's surface using his innate universe supreme treasure did he barely manage to pass.

"Continue."

Just like that, obstacle after obstacle appearing on the mountain path was resolved by Lin Qing time and again.

The universe laws and space-time cognition hidden within many of these obstacles and trials are actually concealed within the various phenomena of the universe and the Void Sea; gaining targeted understanding and piercing through them in advance can significantly increase the success rate.

Over the past million years, Lin Qing's main body and clones had wandered for a long time in the Void Sea and the universe, observing many places numerous times.

Coupled with the assistance of the micro space-time domain and the innate universe supreme treasure, these obstacles were destined not to stop him.

Merely eight thousand years later, Lin Qing had already reached the summit of this high mountain.

On the summit, a high platform was visible.

On the walls surrounding the high platform, numerous intricate patterns and strange characters were visible, emitting an ancient and eternal aura.

Merely facing this high platform made one feel as if gazing up at the entire universe.

"Arrived, the final trial," Lin Qing couldn't help but smile, revealing a hint of amusement.

Suddenly, a breath of supreme divinity crossed over from the depths of endless space-time, transforming into a voice as vast and grand as a universe echoing, reverberating endlessly among the mountains and valleys:

"Master the secret techniques inscribed on the Chaos Platform, and you may ascend to the peak, condense the Chaos God Heart, and achieve the status of Chaos God."

(End of this chapter)