Chapter 4439: Me, a Supreme, Useless as Trash
With the humming of the Cause Seeking Ring, Lin Moyu knew he was close and heading in the right direction.
Since the Chaos Divine Water Beast had already been exposed, there was no hiding from 'Dao'. In the border desolation region, trapped by karmic power, there was the beast of resentment viewed by 'Dao' as another avatar of the Chaos Divine Water Beast.
It would not be spared either: a single strike to kill the main beast, then the shockwaves would fan out, destroying all obsessions in the earth and targeting the resentment beast in the desolation region.
Following the residual trail of power through the strongest fissure, Lin Moyu finally emerged from the core and surfaced in the desolation region. He feared no misstep; the desolation was a ring any direction circled the West Pole Pure Land and led to the endpoint.
As the Cause Seeking Ring vibrated ever more strongly, he burst from a crack into a canyon.
This had once been a desolate fog shrouded zone, but after 'Dao's' strike, the mist was utterly gone.
He saw the shattered karmic chains; this was exactly where the resentment encounter had happened.
That avatar was gone fully annihilated.
Lin Moyu raised the Cause Seeking Ring, activating it:
"Effect without cause!"
"All that is mine in the West Pole Pure Land return to the Cause Seeking Ring!"
He had sown fate; the only way to use the ring was to plant a fruit.
He braced himself for backlash but a surprise, this time there was none; the fruit immediately succeeded.
The ring soared up, radiating multicolored light the whole canyon blazed; patterns in the ravines gleamed into view.
If you looked closely, those lines teemed with arcane runes, echoing the ring's own script.
'Dao's' strength was overwhelming, but it had not targeted this canyon, leaving it perfectly preserved.
The patterns now floated up and poured into the Cause Seeking Ring, whose power swelled ever stronger.
At the same moment, a memory appeared in Lin Moyu's mind:
In a vast void, the Cause Seeking Ring grew gigantic and fell to earth.
That earth was the ancient West Pole Pure Land; the ring struck it, opening a tremendous pit.
At that time, the Chaos Divine Water Beast was within the Pure Land, struck terribly by the ring in that instant, part of its soul was seized and imprisoned by karmic might.
The beast, at its end, tried desperately to reclaim its soul, but only managed a piece.
The fragment the ring imprisoned was mostly resentment, so the impact on the main soul was limited.
Still, here was proof: the Cause Seeking Ring surpassed the Chaos Divine Water Beast.
A portion of the ring's power remained, locking the resentment here until now.
This memory brought truth, but no particular use
The ring itself survived; its soul erased.
The beast, mortally wounded, strove to revive resurrected for barely two seconds before being annihilated.
Both losers; there's little point in rehashing their failures.
Now, with the ring in Lin Moyu's hand, the goal was to wield it wisely and strengthen himself.
The stronger the ring, the weaker the backlash the fewer his deaths for the same result.
This meant he could dare to plant bigger, wilder fruits though not too crazy, or he'd die anyway.
He now had a sense of the ring's limit: he could never surpass 'Dao', only just edge past the ceiling of the Dao, roughly to quasi Supreme level.
As the glow faded and all its lost power returned, Lin Moyu put away the ring and flew out of the canyon, returning toward the center.
The desolation region was now gone the inner and outer rings were joined; the canyon itself would vanish soon.
'Dao's' blow had shattered even the core's membrane; now anyone entering would face the full pressure from the edge.
According to Lin Moyu's estimation, even the Pale Realm would be needed to cross the new boundary.
In ancient times, the Pure Land had always been one piece; only now would it return to such unity.
It would remain a holy land for cultivation, just with a higher threshold.
On his way, he saw not a soul after 'Dao's' attack, almost all inside had perished, only a few elite survivors remained.
Lin Moyu felt no sentimentality such is the world of cultivators; one never knows whether accident or tomorrow will come first.
The Pure Land, now ruined, would remain sacred ground but would need a thousand years to heal.
All these changes took less than two seconds.
In Little Tree's epoch, such an event would have been trifling
Little Tree remarked, "It's miraculous the Pure Land survived so long; there must be more secrets yet."
Lin Moyu replied, "If so, they're for the future me to discover."
He knew his own limits; if 'Dao' hadn't intervened, facing the half resurrected beast would have been a daunting challenge.
Even burning all his corpse meat, he might not have prevailed.
And if corpse explosion failed, trouble would follow.
He wouldn't want to expose the Calamity Scepter, and even Ye Yangyan's presence might be nothing.
He realized the gap between himself and the truly supreme beings; even a thousand techniques sometimes offer no escape.
Catastrophe Supreme had warned: don't rely on artifacts in the face of 'Dao', foreign objects might not save your life.
This lesson made Lin Moyu all the more determined to become truly strong.
...
In the void outside the Pure Land, Supreme Xingquan's face looked dark.
"There's nothing I can do."
He spoke with suppressed rage, body trembling, deadly aura roiling.
Supreme Boyang, in a blue robe, answered, "Yes, nothing. Even as Supremes, before Him we're as children."
Xingquan's voice was icy: "A Supreme like me is just trash."
Boyang replied, "Who isn't? We all went through this, Catastrophe paid a heavy price for his resistance."
After a long silence, Xingquan sighed, "I misjudged the beast had already revived beneath the Pure Land, nearly whole."
Boyang said, "That doesn't matter; even fully revived he'd make no waves. After this, do you think our arrangement was wrong?"
Xingquan stayed silent. That silence was deafening.
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