Chapter 4803: Multiple Approaches
In the deepest part of the Ancient Desolation, Lin Moyu was only a single step away from that Di‑Ting beast ancestor.
Lin Moyu hid within the rules, and the other party did not notice him at all.
Lin Moyu sent a voice transmission to Little Tree.
"Have you finished placing the markers?"
Little Tree immediately replied, "Both inside and outside the heaven and earth, they have all been placed."
Previously, Lin Moyu had instructed Little Tree to leave corresponding markers both within the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth and within this independent space.
By then, even without going through the entrance at the deepest point of the Ancient Desolation, Little Tree would still be able to establish a spatial passage that directly reached this place.
Lin Moyu said, "In a hundred years, open a passage directly to the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
"I want to go take another look, but you must be careful in the process and not be discovered."
Little Tree nodded.
"Rest assured, Master, I will be careful.
"There is one thing I need to report to Master about what I sensed in that heaven and earth."
Lin Moyu said, "Over there, some roots of the Hongmeng Spirit Tree have been used as a formation base."
Little Tree said, "No, I mean a complete Hongmeng Spirit Tree.
"It seems that there used to be a Hongmeng Spirit Tree in that place, but now it is gone."
Lin Moyu said, "Your feeling is not wrong.
"There should indeed have been a Hongmeng Spirit Tree there in the past.
"As for the specifics, I will investigate again in a hundred years when I go back."
This visit had already stirred the other party once, and that being would now surely be extremely vigilant, making it unsuitable for further action.
Lin Moyu planned to go again after a hundred years.
If nothing happened during that century, the other's vigilance should also relax somewhat, and as long as he was sufficiently careful, there should not be much problem.
Little Tree asked, "Then what does Master plan to do now?"
Lin Moyu said, "Just make a few small arrangements.
"From now on, this passage will only allow one‑way travel: entry is allowed, exit is not."
Several runes silently flew out, turning into a grand array that enclosed the hole at the deepest part of the Ancient Desolation.
As the formation unfolded, it sealed the heavens and locked the earth.
The void rapidly stabilized, and the auras coming from the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth were blocked by the formation, no longer able to flow into the Chaotic Ancient Desolation.
Without the influence of the aura from the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth, the Chaotic Ancient Desolation would gradually become purer, and the deepest part of the Ancient Desolation would also undergo a qualitative change.
Most importantly, Lin Mohan's refinement of the Chaotic Ancient Desolation would no longer be obstructed.
However, this required a process.
The aura of the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth was extremely powerful, far surpassing the world‑power of the Chaotic Ancient Desolation, so this process would easily take tens of thousands of years.
Lin Moyu could not wait that long.
He tapped lightly with a finger, and one rune after another flew out, merging into the rules.
In total, there were one hundred and eight runes, though in truth there were only two types: one yin and one yang, one void and one real.
The one hundred and eight runes formed fifty‑plus pairs that covered the entire deepest region of the Ancient Desolation, forming an independent continent.
"Refine!"
The formation activated, and an invisible fire rose up.
Using the grand array to refine the aura of the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth, it would take only ten years for the deepest part of the Ancient Desolation to be completely purified and have no further relation to the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
That Di‑Ting beast ancestor would still be able to listen in on the Chaotic Ancient Desolation just as before, with no apparent difference, but in reality, things were already no longer the same.
Lin Moyu had not completely severed the connection between the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth and the Chaotic Ancient Desolation, because in his upcoming plans, the Chaotic Ancient Desolation still had great use.
Lin Moyu continued to set up formations.
One grand array after another took shape in the deepest part of the Ancient Desolation.
These grand arrays were both concealed and powerful; once formed, they lay dormant, waiting for the right time to be activated.
Given Lin Moyu's current level in the Dao of Formations, his arrays had long since surpassed the limits of a single heaven and earth.
Any one grand array could be driven at will, and whatever function he wished it to have could be realized with a single thought.
Yet now he laid down a total of eighty‑one grand arrays within this small region of merely a hundred million li across at the deepest part of the Ancient Desolation.
Moreover, he employed the method of nesting grand arrays within one another.
On the surface, there were only nine grand arrays, but inside each was another, and within each ring another, for a total of eighty‑one.
With the grand arrays nested together, their power became even greater, and it would be extremely difficult to destroy them.
"Little Tree, bear the Chaotic Ancient Desolation!"
Lin Moyu ordered, and Little Tree carried it out.
The coordinates of the Chaotic Ancient Desolation had long been locked.
Little Tree's roots stretched out from the Forbidden Zone of Life, dragging the Chaotic Ancient Desolation back.
Little Tree's ability was to bear a heaven and earth.
The true body of that heaven and earth would attach itself to Little Tree's roots, while its projection would appear on the leaves of the Hongmeng Spirit Tree.
In this way, even if Lin Moyu completely left the Chaotic Ancient Desolation, he could still go there at any time.
Once the attachment was complete, the Chaotic Ancient Desolation would also fall under Little Tree's protection and become even safer.
After finishing all of this, Lin Moyu's clone sat cross‑legged in the void.
He was positioned at the formation eye and would not leave.
He had to wait, to wait another hundred years before taking the next step.
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Yushen Heaven and Earth, the Game of All Beings.
Things went exactly as Lin Moyu had envisioned.
Trillions of Undying Spirit Soldiers slaughtered in all directions within the game until the game entered the middle stage, at which point the Undying Spirit Soldiers disappeared.
By then, Lin Moyu had already seized more than seventy percent of the territory.
The resources were so abundant that it was beyond imagination.
The armies of the various factions had been completely routed and scattered by him, their territories fragmented so that it was hard for them to form alliances.
After the middle stage, Lin Moyu continued to maintain an overwhelming posture, sweeping all before him.
Relying on the accumulation of the early and middle stages, he still stood in a dominant position in the late stage, until final victory was his.
Threads of enlightenment bored into his soul, as though someone were whispering beside his ear, explaining to him the myriad ultimate principles of the rules within the Game of All Beings.
Lin Moyu understood that this was the reward given by the Game of All Beings to the victor.
Only a victor had the right to comprehend the rules within this game and, in the end, obtain the Game of All Beings itself.
Moreover, one victory was not enough.
He needed to win again and again, endlessly, until he had completely comprehended all of the rules within.
Each instance of the game was different, but Lin Moyu swept through them all time after time using his own methods and emerged victorious by his own methods.
No matter what rules existed within the Game of All Beings, to him there was only one: the fist is the only hard truth.
His Dao‑heart grew ever more resolute, and the rules he comprehended from the Game of All Beings increased without end.
Gradually, Lin Moyu noticed that his connection with the Game of All Beings was becoming closer and closer, and he faintly had a sense of control.
"At the current pace, in as little as two hundred years, or at most three hundred, I will be able to completely control the Game of All Beings."
"At that time, I will naturally understand where the Game of All Beings came from.
"This supreme treasure has never felt that simple to me…"
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A hundred years later, the space channel quietly established by Little Tree opened.
Lin Moyu once more flew in as a speck of soul and entered the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
After entering, the speck of soul remained completely still.
Once he confirmed that he had not been discovered, he again merged into the rules and roamed across the heaven and earth.
This time, he did not go to the core of heaven and earth, but instead surveyed the entire Hongmeng Heaven and Earth, searching for the traces left behind in time and from them extracting the answers he wanted.
The history of the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth was long, and countless secrets were hidden within it.
If he could understand them, it would be of tremendous benefit to his own Yushen Heaven and Earth.
He had already obtained a great deal of information on his previous trip, gaining some understanding of the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth.
Now he could make that understanding complete.
With such a good reference, it would be a great waste not to make use of it.
The speck of soul drifted through the heaven and earth, observing bit by bit, viewing things from the deepest layers of heaven and earth and comparing them with the Yushen Heaven and Earth.
Lin Moyu advanced on multiple fronts, not wasting a single moment.
Several years later, the speck of soul arrived at a corner of the Hongmeng Heaven and Earth and saw a stretch of wasteland.
"This is…"
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