Chapter 4766: Sky Shattering True Monarch
The Calamity Great Venerate continued to spit out essence blood, using it to drive the stone seal.
This divine weapon of a supreme powerhouse was far too powerful for him; attempting to fully activate it was overly strenuous.
It was unlike Gold Great Venerate's Insect Stele.
Although that stele had also reached the level of a supreme powerhouse's artifact, it had at least been refined personally by Gold Great Venerate and was truly his own, completely different from this stone seal.
The stone seal expanded again and grew even stronger than before.
The Calamity Great Venerate was already fighting desperately.
Lightning formed from the rules of heaven and earth poured down like raindrops onto the stone seal, but the seal was far too strong.
The rules of heaven and earth could do nothing to it.
"Sky Shattering Seal!"
The Calamity Great Venerate roared, his entire body erupting with essence blood.
Even his soul power surged forth, joining together to drive the seal.
The stone seal kept growing in size, its power mounting without end.
The void around it shattered continuously, and even the dark thunderclouds condensed from heavenly rules were smashed apart by its impact.
A terrifying aura radiated from it, as though it intended to crush the entire universe.
It matched its name perfectly: Sky Shattering Seal, the seal that shatters heaven and earth.
Lin Mohan's sword light was scattered once more, yet she did not retreat even half a step.
Her sword radiance kept exploding, actually holding even with the Sky Shattering Seal.
The Calamity Great Venerate had no way out at this point; only one of him and Lin Mohan could live.
He pulled out a jade bottle and took from within it a clump of purple gold fresh blood.
He tilted his head back and swallowed the blood in one gulp.
In an instant, his aura surged dramatically, and the injuries he had suffered earlier recovered by seven or eight tenths.
He then continued to recklessly spit out essence blood and kept using his soul to fuel the Sky Shattering Seal.
The seal grew ever stronger, and Lin Mohan faintly began to fall behind.
Lin Moyu merely watched with a calm gaze, still believing Lin Mohan could handle it and that he did not need to intervene.
The Hongmeng Gem spoke.
"If these eyes are not mistaken, the Sky Shattering Seal should be the divine weapon of that former Sky Shattering True Monarch."
"Sky Shattering True Monarch was a supreme powerhouse of the Six Cycle Heaven and Earth, someone who grasped the Primordial Heaven Arts.
This Sky Shattering Seal was the ultimate treasure he spent his entire life refining."
As it spoke, the Hongmeng Gem suddenly exclaimed.
"No, something is wrong with this Sky Shattering Seal."
Lin Moyu replied placidly,
"There is indeed a problem.
The Calamity Great Venerate probably did not obtain the Sky Shattering Seal by accident, but because someone deliberately arranged it."
The Hongmeng Gem said,
"There seems to be another aura inside the Sky Shattering Seal."
A gleam flashed through Lin Moyu's eyes.
He had noticed the issue even a moment earlier than the Hongmeng Gem.
Deep within the Sky Shattering Seal, a soul was concealed.
That soul hid so deeply that it had even slipped past his Undying Eye.
Only when the Calamity Great Venerate poured his full strength of blood and soul into the Sky Shattering Seal did that hidden soul reveal the slightest trace.
The Sky Shattering Seal was crushing the rules of heaven and earth while simultaneously enduring their punishment.
At the same time, it was absorbing and adapting to the rules of the Chaos Primordial Wilds.
The punishment of heavenly rules was gradually weakening, which meant it had begun to merge into this world.
Once that fusion succeeded, the soul hidden within the Sky Shattering Seal would be able to deceive the rules of heaven and earth and naturally count as a native of the Chaos Primordial Wilds.
As long as a soul existed, creating a new body would not be difficult.
To be able to hide in the very depths of the Sky Shattering Seal, that soul could only belong to the former Sky Shattering True Monarch and no one else.
Therefore, the Calamity Great Venerate did not obtain the Sky Shattering Seal from the remains of that other universe by chance.
It was Sky Shattering True Monarch who had deliberately let him have it.
Once the plan succeeded, Sky Shattering True Monarch would be reborn within the Chaos Primordial Wilds.
With his soul at the level of a supreme powerhouse plus the Sky Shattering Seal, and with no other supreme beings in the Chaos Primordial Wilds, who could possibly stop him?
The Calamity Great Venerate clearly had not noticed any of this.
He kept driving the Sky Shattering Seal, only hastening Sky Shattering True Monarch's revival and rebirth.
The Hongmeng Gem asked,
"Master, are you going to act?"
Lin Moyu shook his head.
"No need.
Elder Sister can handle it."
The Hongmeng Gem was obviously a bit unconvinced.
"Master has that much confidence?"
Lin Moyu smiled faintly.
"She has already seen through it.
There will be no problem."
Lin Mohan's sword intent had already begun to change.
She was no longer just meeting force with force and instead started to move with the flow.
On the surface, it looked as though she kept giving ground, but in truth it was not so.
Her sword intent was silently merging into the rules of heaven and earth, seeping into the heavenly punishment and, by borrowing the thunder of that punishment, slipping into the Sky Shattering Seal.
Within the seal, Sky Shattering True Monarch's soul was absorbing and melding with the rules of the Chaos Primordial Wilds.
Without noticing, he also absorbed a vast amount of Lin Mohan's sword intent.
"Explode!"
A clear, crisp cry rang out suddenly, and the interior of the Sky Shattering Seal detonated with a thunderous boom.
Sword intent erupted, and endless sword qi spread outward from within.
Two miserable screams echoed one after the other.
One came from Sky Shattering True Monarch inside the seal his soul was being wounded from the inside out by Lin Mohan's sword intent.
The other came from the Calamity Great Venerate.
As controller of the Sky Shattering Seal, he suffered backlash when the artifact was suddenly damaged.
With a single sword, Lin Mohan struck two birds at once, leaving both of them reeling.
Lin Moyu laughed.
"See?
Told you she could handle it."
The Hongmeng Gem flattered,
"As expected of Master's elder sister, second only to Master."
At this time, the Calamity Great Venerate still clearly did not know what had happened.
Being in the thick of it, he was the proverbial onlooker confused.
He was the one controlling the Sky Shattering Seal, yet he had no idea that an old monster was hidden within it.
Just as he forcibly stabilized his injuries and tried to drive the Sky Shattering Seal again, the artifact suddenly went out of control and smashed into him at lightning speed.
Another scream rang out.
Half of the Calamity Great Venerate's body was pulverized, not only his flesh, but also his soul.
His aura plummeted rapidly.
His realm could no longer be maintained; he fell from the clouds back into the mortal dust and dropped all the way down to the Heavenly Overlord Realm.
"H how could this happen…"
The Calamity Great Venerate could not understand what was going on at all.
He had no idea why the Sky Shattering Seal had suddenly gone berserk.
But this was only the beginning.
The seal rammed into him again, completely shattering both his soul and body.
Then the Sky Shattering Seal turned into a vortex, sucking in every last shred of his broken flesh and scattered soul.
The artifact hummed loudly and released a vast power that no one could approach.
Blinding light surged out from its surface.
The Calamity Great Venerate, who had just been smashed to pieces, reappeared above the seal.
He looked whole and uninjured, but his aura had already changed and even seemed stronger than before.
In the distance, Fate Venerate narrowed his eyes.
He also could not quite see what had happened, but he sensed danger and could not help but warn,
"Daoist Lin, be careful.
There is something strange about this one."
Which "Daoist Lin" he meant Lin Mohan or Lin Moyu was unclear, but that did not matter.
At this moment, the being standing there was no longer the Calamity Great Venerate.
Sky Shattering True Monarch had used the Calamity Great Venerate's flesh and blood to be reborn and had returned to the world.
Standing on top of the Sky Shattering Seal, he swept his gaze across the four directions and over all of heaven and earth, exuding a terrifying aura.
"This Monarch… has returned!"
Lin Mohan gave a cold snort, the sword in her hand pointing straight at Sky Shattering True Monarch.
"Which idiot are you supposed to be?
Coming back only to be beaten down again."
Lin Moyu said,
"Sky Shattering True Monarch, you have picked the wrong time to come back."
Sky Shattering True Monarch paused in surprise.
"You actually know who this Monarch is?"
Lin Moyu chuckled.
"Unexpected, is it?
Though thinking about it, it actually makes sense.
Your return is, in itself, an accident."
Sky Shattering True Monarch did not understand what Lin Moyu meant.
He slowly closed his eyes, and after a few breaths, opened them again, the previous confusion gone without a trace.
"So that is how it is.
You are called Lin Moyu, the one destined to face the tribulation, the pinnacle of the Great Calamity, with this calamity as your chance to attain the Dao…"
"Hahahahaha!"
He suddenly burst into wild laughter.
"To think that the moment this Monarch returns, I encounter the very peak of the Great Calamity.
With such an opportunity, this Monarch shall use it to attain the Dao anew and once more seize control of heaven and earth!"