An eight-wheel Heaven-and-Earth should still be manageable.
Lin Moyu let out a breath.
The Heaven-and-Earth core was an eight-story pagoda, which meant this Heaven-and-Earth was an eight-wheel Heaven-and-Earth and had not reached nine wheels.
Hongmeng Gem said,
"Even among eight-wheel Heavens-and-Earth there are differences in strength.
"This Heaven-and-Earth should be stronger than the Silver-White Heaven-and-Earth.
"Master still needs to be careful."
"Of course."
Lin Moyu had always been very cautious.
With a wave of his hand, the World-Burning Fire immediately flew toward the eight-story pagoda.
As long as the World-Burning Fire could fall upon the eight-story pagoda, the battle here would be as good as over, and this Heaven-and-Earth would not escape the fate of being refined.
The Heaven-and-Earth core was both strong and weak.
The Heaven-and-Earth took it as its center.
It was the origin of all rules and could control the entire Heaven-and-Earth, but its body at the same time was pitifully weak and very easy to shatter.
No matter how powerful the Heaven-and-Earth rules were, as long as one could control the Heaven-and-Earth core, one could take control of the entire Heaven-and-Earth.
The instant the World-Burning Fire appeared, it was like cold water thrown into hot oil, instantly setting off a thousand layers of waves.
The eight-story pagoda spun madly, and as it turned it spewed out endless black mist.
All of that black mist was rule lifeforms.
The black mist wrapped the eight-story pagoda completely.
In an instant the pagoda vanished without a trace.
Hongmeng Gem exclaimed,
"It actually ran.
"The Heaven-and-Earth core actually ran."
This was something that had never happened before.
Lin Moyu was also surprised.
How had the Heaven-and-Earth core slipped away so nimbly.
The darkness rules spewed out by the Heaven-and-Earth core blocked sight, and he could not determine what direction it had fled in.
The rule lifeforms whose attributes had been reversed by the Element Gem were once again devoured by the darkness, and the surroundings returned to endless black.
The World-Burning Fire was burning, but Lin Moyu could not see it.
Countless rule lifeforms were slamming into the World-Burning Fire.
They were not normal living beings and were so tiny they had no souls.
The World-Burning Fire was not particularly effective on them.
With a thought, Lin Moyu detonated the World-Burning Fire, turning it into a sea of flames.
A great many darkness rules were burned away, but immediately even more and stronger darkness rules surged over, pressing back against the World-Burning Fire and rapidly shrinking the range of the fire sea.
It was the first time the World-Burning Fire had been suppressed.
Lin Moyu had no choice but to put it away.
This Heaven-and-Earth was indeed not simple.
It was probably already invincible among eight-wheel Heavens-and-Earth.
Hongmeng Gem said,
"Dark Heavens-and-Earth are rare to begin with.
"Now it seems their rarity has a reason.
"When weak, they are many; when strong, they are few.
"Dark Heavens-and-Earth are few, but they are strong."
The darkness rules pressed in again, and within them those uncountable insects that were the rule lifeforms were continuously consuming the power of death.
Lin Moyu was already surrounded.
Because of the Heaven-and-Earth core, the darkness rule density here was dozens of times higher than before.
The Element Gem and the power of death could at most keep him safe.
If he wanted to find the Heaven-and-Earth core smoothly here, the difficulty would be very high.
He would have to think of another way.
"You may be many, but I am not few either.
"And…"
A thought stirred in Lin Moyu's heart, and a trillion Undying Spirit Soldiers were all summoned out.
Every Undying Spirit Soldier carried the power of death.
In an instant, countless rule lifeforms were corroded by the power of death, and the shrieks became many times more frequent than before.
Lin Moyu had activated his trump card.
It was the first time he had used all of his Undying Spirit Soldiers, a full one trillion of them.
That number was enough to sweep across a Heaven-and-Earth.
Carrying the power of death, they surged out in a mighty tide and in a flash corroded an enormous amount of darkness rules.
Originally Lin Moyu had not wanted to do this, because it would consume a huge amount of the Undying Dao's power, which would be hard to recover in a short time.
The Undying Dao was his fundamental Dao.
Its power was not truly endless.
As long as it was not consumed in huge amounts in a short time, the Undying Dao could replenish and recover on its own.
But the current situation left him no choice.
He could not keep grinding away here.
Lin Moyu knew his own situation very well.
He could not afford to fight a war of attrition with an eight-wheel Heaven-and-Earth, even if this Heaven-and-Earth was already a remnant.
Never mind him.
Even if Po-Cang Emperor in his prime came, he could not afford such attrition either.
He had to finish the battle quickly and resolve it within a short time, then refine the Heaven-and-Earth core.
The Undying Spirit Soldiers, carrying the power of death, charged out in all directions.
Everywhere they passed, a sea of darkness rules was corroded.
After that, the Undying Spirit Soldiers formed battle formations, sweeping outward in ring after ring.
Although the Heaven-and-Earth core had run, Lin Moyu was sure it could not have gone far.
The Heaven-and-Earth core being able to move at all had already exceeded his expectations.
If it could also run very fast, that he simply would not believe.
In the blink of an eye a vast region was cleared out.
The darkness retreated, and the gray white light given off by the Undying Spirit Soldiers illuminated a huge area.
"Find the Heaven-and-Earth core."
Lin Moyu gave a quiet order.
The power of the Undying Dao was being consumed at a shocking pace, and more darkness rules were surging over from the distance.
He could not afford to waste time.
Hongmeng Gem had already begun searching.
Very quickly he pointed in a direction.
"Over there."
With a thought from Lin Moyu, several hundred million Undying Spirit Soldiers turned into arrows and shot toward the Heaven-and-Earth core's location.
Along the way, innumerable darkness rules were corroded and shrieks rang throughout the Heaven-and-Earth.
Lin Moyu quickly followed and once more saw the Heaven-and-Earth core.
The Heaven-and-Earth core seemed very flustered.
It spun rapidly, spewing black mist, and tried to run again.
"You cannot escape."
The World-Burning Fire flew out again toward the Heaven-and-Earth core.
The Heaven-and-Earth core seemed very afraid of the World-Burning Fire and turned even faster.
Endless black mist gushed from the pagoda, and suddenly an angry roar many times louder than before rang out.
It was not a scream, but a roar.
Outside the eight-story pagoda a black giant insect appeared.
It was a magnified version of a Heaven-and-Earth rule lifeform, and was also a conglomeration of countless rule lifeforms.
The eight-story pagoda drilled into the giant insect's body and was protected by it.
Countless rule lifeforms had condensed into a huge insect.
It had gone from silent infiltration to openly snatching.
"It is useless."
Lin Moyu shook his head slightly.
He had long anticipated that something like this might happen and was not surprised.
This Heaven-and-Earth core was different from all those he had seen before.
It seemed to have a bit more awareness than simple instinct.
A Heaven-and-Earth core should not give rise to awareness, but countless living beings had died here, and their consciousness would inevitably, through the darkness rules, influence the Heaven-and-Earth core.
Thus, one could say that the Heaven-and-Earth core had gained a sliver of awareness, or one could say that there was here a stronger rule lifeform that was even more formidable.
This stronger rule lifeform used the Heaven-and-Earth core as its vessel and controlled the entire Heaven-and-Earth, including all rule lifeforms within.
The giant insect slammed into the World-Burning Fire, and the World-Burning Fire suddenly dimmed.
A great many rule lifeforms were burned to death, but at the same time a portion of the World-Burning Fire's power was consumed.
In that instant, the number of rule lifeforms burned to death was beyond counting, probably in the hundreds of billions, or even more, otherwise the World-Burning Fire would not have weakened, even a little.
Under the giant insect's protection, the World-Burning Fire had difficulty reaching the Heaven-and-Earth core.
If it could not burn the Heaven-and-Earth core, this battle would never end.
Countless Undying Spirits charged at the giant insect, and the darkness rules that made up the insect were rapidly consumed, yet immediately more darkness rules poured in to replenish it.
This was its home ground, its main battlefield.
Lin Moyu could not win a contest of attrition.
"Utmost Undying."
Lin Moyu activated Utmost Undying.
His aura rose sharply and he entered the state of undying and indestructible.
Grasping the World-Burning Fire, he turned into an arrow and slammed into the giant insect.
The giant insect was made of countless rule lifeforms, so densely packed that it had already reached the limit, as if it had a substantial flesh body.
When Lin Moyu crashed into it, it was like crashing into a Heaven-and-Earth.
A massive force rolled back at him, almost shaking him away.
The power of the rule lifeforms surged and crashed, instantly crushing the power of death of the Undying Dao so that for a moment there was no follow up.
Even the Element Gem did not have time to reverse them.
An eight-wheel Heaven-and-Earth, using the rules of the entire Heaven-and-Earth to evolve a rule lifeform, was terrifyingly powerful, already surpassing most Supremes.
Lin Moyu knew this as well, which was why he could not afford attrition.
He had to kill in one blow.
Now that he was undying and indestructible, no matter how the rule lifeforms invaded, he was unafraid.
Forcing down the rebound force, he raised the Heaven-Scourge Scepter and used it to open a way, scattering the rule lifeforms.
Until now he had not used the Heaven-Scourge Scepter because rule lifeforms could not be killed off and using it would not change anything.
Now, the Heaven-Scourge Scepter would decide the outcome.
The Heaven-Scourge Scepter projected a phantom, which collided with the rule lifeforms.
A layer of black light appeared on its surface.
Even the Heaven-Scourge Scepter was somewhat affected and its surface was contaminated.
Fortunately, it was only on the surface.
The Element Gem flared and reversed the contamination on the surface of the Heaven-Scourge Scepter.
The Heaven-Scourge Scepter swept continuously, forcibly cutting a path open for Lin Moyu.
The giant insect's body was forcibly torn open, straight through to the Heaven-and-Earth core.
The Heaven-and-Earth core seemed to sense something was wrong and wanted to run again.
Lin Moyu narrowed his eyes and said quietly,
"You are not getting away."
"Nine Heavens Fate Technique, Wings of Heaven-and-Earth."
With a hum, a pair of radiant wings spread out behind Lin Moyu.
The wings beat, raising ten thousand ripples.
Space twisted like waves wrapped in endless radiance.
Rule lifeforms shone on by that radiance all froze.
The Wings of Heaven-and-Earth held the authority of Heaven-and-Earth and made all things bow.
The Heaven-and-Earth here did not mean the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth, but any Heaven-and-Earth.
However, with Lin Moyu's current strength, he still could not make any Heaven-and-Earth submit, but he combined them with the Nine Heavens Fate Technique.
The Nine Heavens Fate Technique forcibly altered the rules of this Heaven-and-Earth, and then the Wings of Heaven-and-Earth forcibly compelled the rule lifeforms to submit temporarily.
It was the first time Lin Moyu had used Wings of Heaven-and-Earth, and the effect was quite good.
Changing the Heaven-and-Earth rules to make the rule lifeforms submit temporarily would only last a very short time, at most a few breaths, but a few breaths were enough.
In the instant the rule lifeforms submitted, Lin Moyu issued an order.
The rule lifeforms covered by the radiance all turned around together and attacked their own companions.
The giant insect collapsed with a crash, and the Heaven-and-Earth core was completely exposed.
With no more obstruction, Lin Moyu sped up and in a flash rushed to the Heaven-and-Earth core.
He reached out and pressed toward the Heaven-and-Earth core.
The eight-story pagoda, the core of the Dark Heaven-and-Earth, spun madly and spewed endless black mist, trying to stop Lin Moyu.
The black mist was full of rule lifeforms, enough to contaminate a Great Supreme in an instant and kill them on the spot.
Flames roared up on Lin Moyu's hand, and the World-Burning Fire wrapped him and erupted with terrifying power.
The World-Burning Fire was not adept at burning these rule lifeforms, but that did not mean it could not burn them.
It was just that doing so was laborious and consumed a great deal of power.
Now Lin Moyu went all out.
He did not care about the cost.
Relying on his undying and indestructible body and the World-Burning Fire, he forced his way through the dense black mist and pressed his hand on the pagoda.
Boom.
The World-Burning Fire surged skyward and engulfed the eight-wheel pagoda.
In an instant, the entire Heaven-and-Earth screamed.
The World-Burning Fire directly burned the origin of the Heaven-and-Earth, destroying the Heaven-and-Earth rules from the root and refining the Heaven-and-Earth.
This was the World-Burning Fire's specialty.
The entire Heaven-and-Earth shook without end, and a vast number of rule lifeforms died on the spot.
The collapsed giant insect would never have another chance to reform.
The darkness was receding at an astonishing speed.
"Done."
Lin Moyu gave a light laugh.
Once the World-Burning Fire fell on the Heaven-and-Earth core, the end was already decided.
He had won this great battle.
The Utmost Undying time limit was up.
His body and soul shattered with a bang.
With his last thread of consciousness, Lin Moyu stared fixedly at his own destruction.
He had just comprehended the body's virtual side and did not want to let any chance at insight slip by.
Unfortunately, his body and soul shattered together, and he had no way at all to observe his body after its destruction.
On the translucent leaf, Lin Moyu stepped out of the space passage.
The space passage collapsed, and collapsing along with it were those Undying Spirits.
Lin Moyu abandoned the Undying Spirits.
They had been polluted by the rule lifeforms of the Dark Heaven-and-Earth, and to be safe he did not take them back.
Before leaving, Lin Moyu had used them for an experiment.
The Dark Heaven-and-Earth collapsed completely, and the space passage was assaulted by the annihilation power of the Life-Forbidden Zone.
On his return, Lin Moyu had those Undying Spirits enter the Life-Forbidden Zone, borrowing them to feel the annihilation power.
The moment they entered the Life-Forbidden Zone, they were wiped out.
They did not even last one ten-thousandth of a breath.
It was practically as many went in as were wiped out.
After their deaths they could not obtain rebirth in the Technique Domain.
That meant they were really dead.
This made Lin Moyu truly realize how terrifying the Life-Forbidden Zone was.
It was a kind of terror he had never seen before.
These Undying Spirits had at least been members of expedition teams.
Their bodies and souls were no weaker than those of Great Supremes.
Even a Supreme would not be able to kill them within one ten-thousandth of a breath.
The Life-Forbidden Zone lived up to its name.
It was indeed a forbidden zone for living beings.
Back in the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth, the leaf of the little tree completed its task and quickly withered.
It would take some time before it could grow again.
The little tree swayed gently.
"Welcome back, Master.
"Congratulations, Master, on another harvest."
Lin Moyu smiled.
"When did you learn to flatter me too?"
The little tree smiled and did not answer directly.
Near cinnabar, one turns red.
Even without the little tree saying so, Lin Moyu knew who it had learned from: if not Chaos Child then Hongmeng Gem.
Lin Moyu glanced at the remaining thirty-five leaves.
They had not yet found a new Heaven-and-Earth.
After giving a few instructions, he took one step and vanished.
He chose a stretch of empty void, took out the core shell of the Dark Heaven-and-Earth, and looked at this eight-story pagoda that had only its shell left.
Compared to the previous Silver-White Heaven-and-Earth, it was even stronger.
Though both were eight-wheel Heaven-and-Earth cores, the Dark Heaven-and-Earth's core was already at the peak of eight wheels and not far from nine.
It might allow the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth to advance to an eight-wheel Heaven-and-Earth.
Even if not, at least it could bring it close, so that next time it could advance.
Lin Moyu pointed a finger at the eight-story pagoda.
Heaven-Burst Earth-Rend.
Boom.
The eight-story pagoda exploded on the spot.
A ball of light bursting with vitality suddenly shot out.
The Undying Dao descended and the power of life poured down in torrents into the light ball.
A brand new Heaven-and-Earth began to evolve.
Fresh and powerful Heaven-and-Earth power gushed out like a fountain.
The Language-God Heaven-and-Earth began to work busily, absorbing the Heaven-and-Earth power and Heaven-Origin Qi at the fastest speed.
Now that the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth had undergone a qualitative change and its essence had become stronger, its absorption speed was more than ten times faster than before.
The problem was that the Dark Heaven-and-Earth had been too powerful, and the Heaven-and-Earth power gushing out was also more than ten times faster.
The Language-God Heaven-and-Earth still could not absorb it all in time.
Lin Moyu once again sent out all his soul micro-particles to join the feast.
The number of soul micro-particles was enormous, and their absorption speed surpassed that of the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth.
With them joining in, however much newly born Heaven-and-Earth power emerged, that much was absorbed, and not a bit was wasted.
Lin Moyu felt the changes in the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth.
The Heaven-and-Earth was gradually growing stronger.
After sensing for a while, he confirmed that this time the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth definitely would not advance.
Once a Heaven-and-Earth reached seven wheels, its advancement slowed greatly and the amount of Heaven-and-Earth power needed increased enormously.
At least one more seven-wheel Heaven-and-Earth, or even an eight-wheel Heaven-and-Earth, would be required for the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth to complete its advancement.
Everything depended on opportunity and could not be rushed.
Lin Moyu said quietly,
"At this point, being anxious is truly useless."
He quietly stood guard there, feeling the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth and feeling his own soul micro-particles.
From time to time he would connect to the soul micro-particles' vision and use their perspective to view the microscopic world.
Sometimes he would also use their vision to view himself, seeing his own body and blood and soul.
This angle was very novel.
Compared to inner sight, he could see far more details and would have a completely different perception of himself.
Lin Moyu watched the flow of his blood, watched the beating of his heart, watched the subtle changes in his body as the blood flowed past, the tiny changes in his muscles, fascia, and fibers.
He had never before examined himself from this angle.
He watched with some fascination.
For the first time he realized that his body was so exquisite, that every portion, every inch, was so perfect.
Only a perfect body could unleash the greatest power.
During his observations, Lin Moyu found a few issues and corrected them one by one, making his body even more perfect.
Over several decades, Lin Moyu made tens of thousands of tiny adjustments to his body, and his physical strength grew by another notch compared to before.
Only at this point did his body truly reach the peak of Great Supreme.
Dozens of years later, the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth finished absorbing.
It had not advanced but had become stronger.
Countless soul micro-particles were also more than half full and returned in droves.
They went back into his soul and returned to their positions.
Then the vast Heaven-and-Earth power they had absorbed was released and fed back.
Lin Moyu let out a low grunt, and his soul rapidly grew larger and stronger.
After the soul micro-particles had absorbed enough power, they converted Heaven-and-Earth power into soul power and fed it back to Lin Moyu, strengthening his soul.
This was different from the little tree.
The power the little tree absorbed could only replenish Lin Moyu's expenditure and could not push his growth, whereas the soul micro-particles were the opposite.
They could not replenish the soul power he had spent, but they could refine the power they absorbed and feed it back to Lin Moyu, pushing his soul to grow stronger.
His soul realm had not changed and was still at the peak of Great Supreme, but Lin Moyu clearly felt his soul growing stronger.
This strengthening was strange.
With the level unchanged, his soul could instantly erupt with much greater power.
After carefully sensing for a while, Lin Moyu finally discovered that the soul micro-particles he had tinkered out were merging with his soul.
The soul was the virtual side, the soul micro-particles the real side.
Previously, although they had filled his soul, in truth each had remained on its own, and virtual and real had not truly fused.
Now they began to merge, virtual and real truly uniting.
The essence of his soul grew stronger, and its combat power kept rising, stronger and stronger.
His entire soul shone brilliantly, almost tangible.
When his soul left his body, it rapidly condensed into a solid form.
Even a Great Supreme might not be able to tell at a glance that it was a soul and might take it for a second Lin Moyu.
"If this keeps up, I will be able to crush Great Supremes with just my soul alone."
Lin Moyu said softly, his voice full of joy.
This was what he wanted, true fusion of virtual and real, not like before when there was virtual and real but each went its own way.
The fusion of virtual and real in his soul was still continuing.
Lin Moyu once again came before the little tree.
At this moment Hongmeng Gem was chatting with the little tree, and Lin Moyu understood completely how the little tree had gone dark from proximity.
When Lin Moyu appeared, Hongmeng Gem's eyes lit up.
"Congratulations, Master, on your great increase in strength."
The little tree was a step slower, but followed right after.
"Congratulations, Master, on your great increase in strength."