Chapter 72

Earth shaking, demonic energy soaring into the sky!

The entire Five Elements Demon-Sealing basin seemed to come alive, the earth rising and falling like waves, countless huge cracks spreading frantically toward all directions with the demonic energy barrier as the center! The pitch-black demonic energy barrier shrouding the basin was like boiling water at this moment, rolling and expanding violently, with huge bulges constantly protruding on the surface, as if something was hitting the inside frantically, wanting to break out!

The roar of the Ruined Abyss demon sense was no longer a simple soul impact, but turned into tangible sound waves, mixed with chaotic law power, sweeping heaven and earth! The bone forest turned into powder in the sound waves, the distant mountains collapsed in the tremor, and the sky was dyed into a dirty dark red!

"The seal... is going to break completely!"

"Run! If you don't run, it will be too late!"

"Once this demon is born, the Mystical Realm will be in chaos!"

Panic reached its peak! Even Ye Chen, the Third Imperial Prince, and others were pale at this moment, feeling a fatal threat! This demon had not yet fully appeared, but its power had already surpassed the Soul Formation category, and it was definitely not something they could contend with!

"Retreat!" Ye Chen made a decisive decision, the thunder sword gang rolled up several nearby cultivators, and took the lead in retreating violently.

The Third Imperial Prince, the chubby cultivator, and others also retreated rapidly away from the core of the basin without hesitation.

Elder You Liang and others of the Youming Sect were like frightened birds, fleeing in a panic, not even caring to leave harsh words.

In the blink of an eye, only Lin Lin Xuan remained on the edge of the basin, still suspended in mid-air, facing the demonic energy barrier that was about to break!

It was not that he didn't want to retreat, but he couldn't! Or rather, he didn't want to!

At the moment when the demonic energy barrier was about to collapse completely, under the extreme destruction and chaotic law impact, the Chaos Soul Formation in his dantian entered a mysterious state!

The Soul Formation was solemn, forming hand seals, and the chaotic air currents around its body rotated, collapsed, and expanded at an unprecedented speed! The destructive demonic energy, chaotic heaven and earth energy, and even the law fluctuations emitted by the Ruined Abyss demon sense outside became the nourishment for its evolution!

The scriptures of the "Nine Revolutions Chaos Scripture" flowed, reorganized, and sublimated in his heart at an unprecedented speed!

"Chaos... not only encompasses, but also is the origin, and also is the end... in destruction, also contains new life..."

A realization flashed through Lin Lin Xuan's mind like lightning!

Under this huge pressure of heaven and earth overturning and demons coming to the world, in this terrifying crisis of life and death, his Chaos Dao finally broke through a certain invisible shackle and took a crucial step!

Boom!!!

The Chaos Soul Formation in his dantian suddenly erupted with indescribable brilliant light! It was not a single-colored light, but a primitive light that contained everything in the world, yet returned to chaos!

The volume of the Soul Formation did not become larger, but at its core, a tiny, yet heavy point that seemed to be able to crush the void and contained infinite evolution possibilities, suddenly condensed!

This point was the true foundation of his Chaos Dao, the manifestation of his Dao path—Chaos Dao Seed!

With the Dao Seed formed, it meant that his Chaos Dao truly stepped onto the stage of entering the hall! It was no longer just a characteristic of the cultivation technique, but the core law of his own existence!

A chaotic spiritual power far more vast, pure, and carrying a trace of eternal immortality than before surged out from the Dao Seed, instantly filling his whole body! His aura skyrocketed at this moment, instantly breaking through the barrier of the early Soul Formation stage, reaching the mid-stage Soul Formation! And the foundation was extremely solid, without half a point of vanity!

Not only that, his perception and ability to trigger the laws of heaven and earth around him were greatly enhanced! "Shrinking Ground to an Inch" was more rounded, "Eye of Truth-Breaking" was more detailed, and the destructive meaning of "Nirvana Finger" was on a higher level! Even that "Star-Nether Light," in his hands at this moment, seemed to have life, as if he were using his arms!

All these changes happened in the blink of an eye!

Just at the moment when his Dao Seed was formed and his cultivation broke through—

Crack!!!!

Accompanied by a loud noise that seemed to shatter the whole world, the huge pitch-black demonic energy barrier finally collapsed completely!

Endless pure demonic energy, like a volcano that had been suppressed for ten thousand years, erupted, rushing into the sky, dyeing the sky above the basin into ink! A terrifying pressure that surpassed the Soul Formation stage and reached the Spirit Transformation stage, like the pouring of the nine-day Milky Way, instantly enveloped a radius of a thousand miles!

At the core of the rolling demonic energy, a fuzzy, thousand-zhang-tall giant demon shadow condensed from countless twisted resentful souls and chaotic laws slowly stood up! It had no fixed form, as if it were a collection of all negativity and chaos, only a pair of giant eyes burning with dark red flames, full of endless greed and destructive desire, staring dead at the figure of the small, yet chaotic-aura-emitting person below!

The Ruined Abyss demon sense finally broke free from most of the shackles and officially descended!

"Roar——!!!"

The demon shadow let out a roar that shook the sky and the earth. Just the sound wave caused some cultivators who escaped slowly in the distance to have their physical bodies collapse and their souls destroyed! It raised a giant palm condensed from demonic energy, covering the sky and the sun, carrying the terrifying power of annihilating everything and polluting all laws, and slapped fiercely at Lin Lin Xuan, who had just broken through and whose aura had not yet fully calmed down!

This palm contained the power of Spirit Transformation, locked the space, isolated the retreat, as if to erase Lin Lin Xuan and the land under his feet from this world!

In the distance, Ye Chen, the Third Imperial Prince, and others who had already retreated to the safe area, seeing this scene of heaven and earth destruction, were all pale and desperate! The power of Spirit Transformation was definitely not something that Soul Formation could contend with!

"Jin Jin Shisan... is finished!" Someone muttered, with regret and fear.

However, facing this strike that was enough to make any Soul Formation cultivator's soul fly away, Lin Lin Xuan, who had just broken through, had no fear in his eyes, but was burning with unprecedented fighting intent and calmness!

The Chaos Dao Seed rotated slowly in his dantian, exuding a stability that encompassed everything.

He did not choose to resist hard, and he had no power to resist this Spirit Transformation strike.

Just at the moment when the demon palm was about to reach his body, he made a move that surprised everyone!

He fiercely slapped the Star-Nether Light he had been maintaining toward the basin core ground that had been completely exposed due to the seal breaking—there, it was the foundation of the Zhou Tian Star Dou Demon-Suppressing Array!

At the same time, he fully activated the Chaos Dao Seed he had just condensed, and injected a pure chaotic origin power, mixed with the sealing truth he had just understood, along with the Star-Nether Light, frantically into the foundation of the broken array!

"With my chaos, call your remnant spirits! Stars as guide, Nether as suppression! Seal!"

He was taking a risk! He wanted to use his own Chaos Dao Seed as a guide to forcibly trigger the last power of this remnant array, not to seal the demon (already impossible), but to—block it for a moment!

Hum——!!!

Stimulated by the chaotic origin and Star-Nether Light, the five-colored spiritual light that was originally dim suddenly lit up! Although it was far from its peak, it still condensed a stubborn demon-suppressing will, turning into a thin, yet extremely tough five-colored light film, blocking between Lin Lin Xuan and that covering demon palm!

Boom！！！！！！

The demon palm slapped fiercely on the five-colored light film that suddenly rose!

Heaven and earth lost color, all things lost sound!

The terrifying explosive energy exploded like billions of thunder at the same time, and the dazzling light made everyone temporarily lose their vision! The violent energy shock wave expanded in a spherical shape, hard-cutting the ground in the center of the basin by dozens of zhang, forming a huge bowl-shaped depression!

The five-colored light film only supported for less than a breath before it shattered, turning into light spots all over the sky and dissipating. But it finally succeeded! It fought for that crucial moment for Lin Lin Xuan!

Just at the moment when the light film shattered, the energy was most chaotic, and the space twisted violently—

Lin Lin Xuan moved!

"Shrinking Ground to an Inch" was exerted to the extreme under the blessing of the Chaos Dao Seed! He did not retreat in a straight line, but his figure was like a ghost, along the edge of the energy shock wave, at an incredible angle and trajectory, narrowly avoiding the core destructive power of the demon palm!

Swish!

His figure appeared several miles away like a teleportation. Although he was still swept by the energy aftermath, his blood was surging, and he looked quite wretched, but he finally... survived!

"What?! He dodged it?!"

"Escaped under a Spirit Transformation strike? How is this possible?!"

"What was that five-colored light film just now? He could actually trigger the remnant power of the seal?"

Ye Chen and others watching from a distance were dumbfounded and unbelievable! A mid-stage Soul Formation actually escaped under the angry strike of a Spirit Transformation demon? This simply overturned their cognition!

The Ruined Abyss demon shadow clearly didn't expect this "ant" to be so slippery. A trace of surprise flashed in those burning giant eyes, followed by monstrous anger!

"Chaos... damn it!!"

It felt the increasingly pure chaotic aura on Lin Lin Xuan, and the Dao Seed fluctuation that made it instinctively disgusted and vigilant. This son must not be left!

The demon shadow roared, another giant palm raised, more terrifying demon power began to condense, locking onto Lin Lin Xuan who had just stabilized his figure!

However, just as it was preparing to launch the second strike—

Hum! Hum! Hum!

Between the heaven and earth of the Mystical Realm, there was a sudden burst of grand, ancient, and humming sounds that seemed to originate from the origin of the world! In the sky, the dark red dyed by demonic energy began to recede, and instead, countless profound golden runes appeared, and a terrifying will far more vast, more majestic, and full of order and judgment than the Ruined Abyss demon sense slowly awakened!

It was the original will of the Mystical Realm! Or rather, the residual guardian will of the Hunyuan Dao Ancestor!

The complete breaking of the Ruined Abyss demon sense and its unscrupulous strike finally touched the bottom line of the existence of the Mystical Realm, triggering this ultimate defense mechanism!

"Hunyuan old man... lingering!"

The Ruined Abyss demon shadow let out a roar full of fear and unwillingness. It had just broken free, and its power was far from recovering to its peak. Facing this complete Mystical Realm original will, it did not dare to shake it hard!

It stared at Lin Lin Xuan with those burning giant eyes, as if it wanted to swallow him alive.

"Ant... I remember you... wait for me to recover... must find you..."

The intention full of resentment passed into Lin Lin Xuan's mind like a curse.

The next moment, the huge demon shadow shrank, turned into a pitch-black demon light condensed to the limit, ignored Lin Lin Xuan, and "swish" tore through space, disappearing in place instantly, not knowing where it fled in the Mystical Realm!

It chose to avoid the edge!

With the disappearance of the demon shadow, the terrifying demon power filling the heaven and earth also dissipated, leaving only the scarred earth and the frightened crowd.

The golden runes in the sky faded slowly, the Mystical Realm will seemed to confirm the temporary departure of the greatest threat, and also returned to silence.

On the edge of the basin, it was dead silent.

Everyone was still immersed in the shock of the collision between the Spirit Transformation demon power and the Mystical Realm will, unable to return to their senses for a long time.

One by one, gazes couldn't help but focus again on the green-shirted figure standing alone on the edge of the ruins, with damaged clothes and blood at the corners of his mouth, but standing tall like a pine.

Jin Jin Shisan!

It was him, who stood up at a critical moment and tried to repair the seal!

It was him, who miraculously survived under a Spirit Transformation strike!

It was also him, whose mysterious chaotic aura seemed to make even that terrifying demon fearful!

After today, the name "Jin Jin Shisan" would no longer be associated only with Pill-Condensing Creation Dew and the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, but would resound throughout the Mystical Realm, or even... spread back to the outside world, along with his legendary deeds of hard-shaking the Spirit Transformation demon shadow and breaking the game in a desperate situation!

Ye Chen looked at Lin Lin Xuan, his eyes extremely complex, eventually turning into a silent sigh, carrying a trace of loneliness, and turned away. He knew that in the matter of fighting the demon, he had already fallen a step behind.

The Third Imperial Prince Li Li Daoyi's eyes flickered, not knowing what he was calculating, and also retreated quietly.

The chubby cultivator scratched his head, looked at Lin Lin Xuan, and then at the gold abacus in his hand, muttering: "This business, lost, lost, should have invested in advance..." His figure also gradually faded.

Elder You Liang and others had long slipped away without a trace.

In the blink of an eye, only Lin Lin Xuan remained in this area that had just experienced a heaven-shaking battle.

He slowly wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, feeling the mid-stage Soul Formation spiritual power surging in his body and the Chaos Dao Seed that was rotating slowly and exuding an eternal meaning, with no pride in his eyes, only incomparable solemnity.

Although the demon retreated temporarily, the hidden danger had been planted. It was hiding in the depths of the Mystical Realm, recovering its power, and could come back at any time. And he, clearly, had been targeted by it.

The road ahead was still full of crises.

But his Dao heart was firm, without any fear.

Sweeping his gaze over this ruin, he did not stop, his figure turned into a green rainbow, and galloped away in the opposite direction to where the demon shadow fled.

He needed to digest the gains of this breakthrough as soon as possible, and find a way to leave the Mystical Realm or deal with the bigger storm in the future.

The wind and clouds of the Mystical Realm rose again because of him. And his legend had just begun!

(End of Chapter 72)