Chapter 4824: The Key
The Primal Chaos Spirit Tree was bearing a vast number of heaven and earth remnants.
During the more than eight thousand years of Lin Moyu's absence, Little Tree had continuously drawn remnants over, taking all of them regardless of how strong or weak they were.
By now, the number of remnants it carried had surpassed five thousand.
As Little Tree grew, the speed at which it attracted remnants did not slow but instead increased.
At the current pace, in another five thousand years, the number of remnants it carried could reach ten thousand.
Unfortunately, these were all heaven and earth remnants, not complete heavens and earth.
Relying on remnants alone, the Word God Heaven and Earth could still slowly evolve and grow into a Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth, but the speed of growth would be very slow.
Once it became a Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth, the core pagoda that represented its strength and level would break past the nine floor limit and reach ten floors, and beside the pagoda a palace would manifest.
This palace would be called the Primal Chaos Palace, the exclusive palace of a Primal Chaos apex powerhouse.
After that, every time the heaven and earth grew stronger, the pagoda would gain another floor, the palace would expand, and the Primal Chaos apex powerhouse's strength would also rise.
The growth of a Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth was nearly without upper limit.
As long as there was sufficient power, it could continue to grow.
Yet that growth depended extremely heavily on the worlds it carried.
When a single Primal Chaos Spirit Tree drew in and carried all heavens and earth of the current great destruction, the Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth would reach its limit and find it difficult to advance any further.
In the past, the Purple Gold Emperor's heavenly world had reached forty nine floors.
When he later failed to step into the next stage, he refused to accept it and tried to endure the great destruction by force.
As a result, the Primal Chaos Spirit Tree was destroyed, and the worlds it carried collapsed as well.
From then on, his Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth fell into decline.
No matter what methods he tried, he could not revive the Spirit Tree, and without it, the Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth could only continue to wither.
So, during the current great destruction, he scattered the last remaining parts of the Spirit Tree, hoping that some heaven and earth would replant it and gain the foundation to ascend to a Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth.
He planned to refine that new heaven and earth, replace his own, and live a few more lifetimes.
If that method worked, he could continue living generation after generation.
After all, those apex powerhouses who did not yet have a Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth would never be his match.
Those apex cultivators would need an ocean of time before they had the ability to enter the Forbidden Zone of Life, while before a being like him, they could only be slaughtered.
Unfortunately for him, he happened to meet Lin Moyu and failed.
Luckily, his remnant soul stayed within the God Servant Hall, so he did not truly die and instead became a God Servant.
By now, Lin Moyu had fully understood everything about a Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth and knew what to do next.
He had heaven and earth remnants, and that was enough.
There were no complete heavens and earth right now, but that did not mean there would be none later.
Little Tree carried the remnants and absorbed the world force within them, bringing those worlds under its control.
Lin Moyu did not even have to enter them.
He could directly use the Primal Chaos Purple Flame to refine them.
Once the flame had eaten its fill and the remnants collapsed, their world cores would be left as hollow shells, and he could then use the Heaven Burst Earth Shatter technique to re enact the worlds.
The world force born when a heaven and earth was re enacted was the purest of all and brought the greatest benefit to the Word God Heaven and Earth.
Lin Moyu had done this many times already.
The only difference from before was that previously the Word God Heaven and Earth absorbed the power directly, whereas now the Primal Chaos Spirit Tree absorbed it first and then fed it back into the Word God Heaven and Earth.
After passing through the Spirit Tree, the world force gained a special aura.
It was precisely that aura which allowed the Word God Heaven and Earth to evolve into a Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth.
No one had ever tried to cultivate a Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth in this manner, as no one else possessed a heaven defying technique like Heaven Burst Earth Shatter.
The Primal Chaos Purple Flame burned fiercely, the re enactment of worlds was in full swing, and the Spirit Tree acted like a bottomless pit, able to absorb however many worlds were re enacted at once.
Little Tree cried out, slightly excited, "Master, at this speed, in less than a thousand years the Word God Heaven and Earth will certainly evolve to the Primal Chaos level."
As the core of the heaven and earth, Little Tree was familiar with its every change, and its judgment would not be wrong.
A thousand years was not a long time, and Lin Moyu needed that much time as well.
His understanding of the rune had already reached the utmost limit, and with a bit more time, he could break through.
When void and reality became one and Yin and Yang fused, he would step into the final destination of the Dao of formations.
At that time, the Primal Chaos Supreme Treasure would also be completed.
Lin Moyu murmured to himself, "Good.
"A thousand years from now will be when I assault the Wall of Worlds."
The Primal Chaos Gem asked, "Master, are you not going to wait for the Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth to grow stronger?"
Lin Moyu shook his head.
"No need.
"As long as a Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth exists, its strength does not matter.
"Everyone has fallen into a misconception:
"To take the final step does not require overwhelming strength.
"You merely need to satisfy certain conditions."
"It is like opening an indestructible door.
"As long as you have the key, you do not need much strength.
"But if you do not have the key, no amount of strength will work."
The Primal Chaos Gem was puzzled.
"Did Master not say before that overwhelming force can crush everything, that tremendous strength brings miracles, and that as long as your fist is hard enough, nothing is impossible?
"How come that has changed now?"
Lin Moyu smiled.
"It has not changed.
"Having a big fist is indeed a hard truth but only if your fist is big enough.
"In front of the Wall of Worlds, no one's fist is bigger than his.
"This is a restriction.
"The upper limit has already been fixed.
"No matter how strong a Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth becomes, it can never exceed him."
The "him" in Lin Moyu's mouth referred to the one the Hall Spirit called "Master."
All the rules had been set by that being.
No matter how strong a Primal Chaos apex powerhouse became, they were only fit to become his God Servant.
His power was so great that its end could not be seen.
Lin Moyu knew that as long as he remained in the Forbidden Zone of Life and had not taken that final step, no matter how strong he became, he could not break those rules.
That being's existence had already surpassed Lin Moyu's comprehension, and until he reached that level himself, he would not truly understand.
Within the Forbidden Zone of Life, the hierarchy of power was strict.
One could occasionally fight above one's level, but not by too many levels.
And between a Primal Chaos apex powerhouse and that being lay the greatest gap of all.
He believed this largely because he had seen the God Servant Hall.
To grant a Primal Chaos apex powerhouse a form of "eternal life" like that meant such an existence had long surpassed that realm.
Thus, the whole point of the Primal Chaos Heaven and Earth was simply to allow Lin Moyu to refine a Primal Chaos Supreme Treasure.
And the meaning of that Supreme Treasure was to serve as the key that opened the door.
Trying to break in by force would only leave his head broken and bloodied.
He might even die trying and it would still be pointless.
The Primal Chaos Gem clearly did not fully understand Lin Moyu's thinking, but it chose to trust him.
As long as Lin Moyu believed something was right, then it would not be wrong.
It had once seen one of Lin Moyu's past lives, and that face had shocked it.
Though it could not recall exactly who that person had been, the feeling imprinted deep in its memory was unmistakable.
From that moment on, the Primal Chaos Gem had completely changed its attitude toward Lin Moyu, and it was the same now.
Lin Moyu said, "Let us continue.
"It will not be long before everything becomes clear."
The Primal Chaos Purple Flame continued to burn, refining one heaven and earth remnant after another.
With the aid of Heaven Burst Earth Shatter, worlds were re enacted one by one, supplying a ceaseless stream of world force.
The Word God Heaven and Earth grew ever stronger, and Lin Moyu's own power increased alongside it.
The study of the rune never stopped, and he felt himself drawing ever nearer to the final destination.
All of this was done by his clones; Lin Moyu's true body stayed with Ning Yiyi and the others.
In the three hundredth year after Lin Moyu's return, Ning Yiyi finally became pregnant.