Lin Moyu's changes naturally could not be hidden from Hongmeng Gem.
He had watched Heavens-and-Earth for countless years and seen innumerable powerhouses; his eye was incomparably sharp.
The little tree mostly echoed along, joining in with the flattery.
Anyway, whatever Hongmeng Gem said would not be false.
Lin Moyu smiled.
"There was a small breakthrough."
Hongmeng Gem said,
"At Master's current realm, every tiny breakthrough is worth congratulating.
"In the past those fellows might not gain anything even in tens of millions of years.
"Master really is remarkable."
That was indeed true.
At this kind of realm, every bit of progress required a long accumulation of time.
Only by having sudden enlightenment like Lin Moyu could one move another step forward.
Lin Moyu said,
"Alright, let us handle proper business.
"Little tree, help me construct a space passage."
The little tree asked,
"Alright. I do not know where Master wants it to lead?"
Lin Moyu said,
"Lead the passage to the Life-Forbidden Zone."
"Ah?"
The little tree froze for a moment.
"Master, are you really sure you want to do this?"
Hongmeng Gem also asked,
"Master, you should not yet be at the time to go to the Life-Forbidden Zone."
Lin Moyu said,
"I have no intention of going in.
"I only want to do a small experiment and see whether my idea is feasible."
Hongmeng Gem's eyes lit up.
"Master means the method to find the virtual side of the body?"
Lin Moyu nodded.
"Construct the passage. I will go and take a look."
Constructing a space passage was no difficulty for the little tree.
The other end of the passage was the Life-Forbidden Zone, which was even easier for the little tree.
He did not build the passage through a leaf this time, but directly used the roots to establish a passage.
The little tree's roots were in the Life-Forbidden Zone, and moreover were right near the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth.
Lin Moyu had no requirement regarding distance.
As long as it was within the Life-Forbidden Zone, it was fine.
Lin Moyu walked to the end of the space passage and stood at the exit, looking at the Life-Forbidden Zone.
No matter from what position one looked at the Life-Forbidden Zone, one could feel its terror.
That deathly stillness that seeped into the deepest part of the soul was enough to shatter one's Dao-heart.
Once, within the Life-Forbidden Zone, there had also been many Heavens-and-Earth.
Life flourished inside those Heavens-and-Earth, speckling the Life-Forbidden Zone.
Those Heavens-and-Earth were like a shred of vitality within death, making the Life-Forbidden Zone slightly different.
But that vitality had already been wiped out.
They had all become Heaven-and-Earth remnants one after another, and the innumerable living beings within all died.
The Life-Forbidden Zone lost its vitality and became like a graveyard of Heavens-and-Earth.
The Chaos Ancient Wilds had evolved to completion within this graveyard and became the only ember that remained.
Now it had to include the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth as well.
They had become the only two existences within the embers.
Lin Moyu also looked at the little tree's roots.
The roots coiled and twisted, piercing into the Life-Forbidden Zone.
The annihilation power of the Life-Forbidden Zone seemed to have no hostility toward the little tree.
On the contrary, the little tree was constantly absorbing the annihilation power of the Life-Forbidden Zone and then transforming that annihilation power into its own nourishment, allowing itself to grow and at the same time feeding back the Language-God Heaven-and-Earth.
The little tree's wonder could be seen from this.
However, as for why the little tree's roots could freely survive in the Life-Forbidden Zone, Lin Moyu did not know.
He had thought about this problem and the answer he arrived at was vague and uncertain.
The little tree was a Hongmeng Spirit Tree, and it should have something to do with the two characters Hongmeng.
It was just that he had never been able to figure out what meaning those two characters truly represented.
The little tree's voice came.
"Master, this space passage is built relying on my roots and cannot extend too far. Is this alright?"
"It is enough," Lin Moyu said.
"Bring two roots over and wrap my soul and body."
The little tree did as he was told.
A root drilled into the space passage and wound once around Lin Moyu's soul and body.
"Send my body into the Life-Forbidden Zone."
Lin Moyu continued giving instructions.
The little tree likewise followed his orders.
The soul remained in the space passage, while the body entered the Life-Forbidden Zone, but the connection between the two did not thereby break.
For the first time Lin Moyu truly felt the complete annihilation power, annihilation power that had not undergone any filtering, fusing, or alteration.
In less than one hundredth of a breath, his body rapidly turned into powder, not a trace remaining.
But because his soul was intact, the rebirth ability was not activated.
With his body destroyed but soul intact, Lin Moyu did not die, and naturally rebirth would not activate.
In his eyes the body had already been destroyed, but in Lin Moyu's soul-sight, viewing at the microscopic level, the body had been ground into extremely tiny, invisible powder.
In truth it still existed.
Lin Moyu's soul sent out the Undying Dao, and vast power of life flowed along the little tree's roots into the place where the body had been, attempting to restore it.
However, as soon as the power of life entered the Life-Forbidden Zone, it was likewise blocked by the annihilation power and could not fall upon the shattered body powder.
The little tree had no idea what Lin Moyu was doing.
In his sight Lin Moyu's body was already gone.
However, for a cultivator, the physical body was not that important.
As long as the soul remained, it was fine.
He trusted Lin Moyu and did not ask more.
After trying for a while and finding that the power of life could not be sent across, Lin Moyu could only give up in the end.
He sighed.
"It failed."
His soul then voluntarily shattered.
In the instant his soul shattered, rebirth activated.
Lin Moyu completed rebirth within purple light.
After rebirth, he used the soul-sight again to look at the place where the body had shattered earlier, but the powder of his body there had already vanished.
Lin Moyu had previously researched his own rebirth talent.
Rebirth would retrieve his former peak state from his time imprints.
Now there was one more point to add: rebirth would at the same time erase the imprints left in time by his body after death.
Therefore, when he completed rebirth, the body powder that belonged to him in the Life-Forbidden Zone naturally disappeared as well.
"It seems this method will not work either," Lin Moyu thought.
He had just conducted two experiments.
The first time he kept his soul undying and tried to use the power of life to heal the shattered body, but it was obvious that the Life-Forbidden Zone blocked external powers, so his idea failed.
The second test was for him to complete rebirth within the space passage.
If, after rebirth, some of his body powder remained in the Life-Forbidden Zone, he could attempt the next step.
But this plan of his also failed.
Things truly were much harder than he had imagined and could not be done easily.
Lin Moyu fell into deep thought.
He needed to find a more suitable method.
He deduced again and again, but the final results were all unsatisfactory.
The virtual side of the body was too difficult.
To search for the virtual side of the body, he had to realize it within the death and rebirth of the body.
From how things currently looked, the only feasible method was for him to enter the Life-Forbidden Zone and, at the moment the body was destroyed, keep the soul from perishing while at the same time activating rebirth, using the soul to observe.
This was too difficult and seemed unworkable.
His current soul could not remain unextinguished within the Life-Forbidden Zone, and moreover he could not truly enter it.
Once he truly went in, there would be no road of retreat.
"My soul is not strong enough yet.
"The Heaven-and-Earth is not strong enough yet.
"Once my soul grows stronger, and the Heaven-and-Earth stronger, perhaps there will be another path to find."
"It seems now is not yet the time to seek the body's virtual side.
"When the time has not yet come, I must not force it."
Lin Moyu felt something in his heart and vaguely understood something.
"Little tree, let us go back."
"Alright."
The little tree did not hesitate and immediately brought Lin Moyu back.
Hongmeng Gem consoled him.
"Master, there is no need to be disheartened.
"Just because it does not work now does not mean it will not work in the future."
Lin Moyu smiled.
"I know.
"When I become a Supreme in the future, I will come seek it again."
In the Chaos Ancient Wilds, Lin Moyu flew out from the Heaven-and-Earth Source Water.
The lakes formed by the Heaven-and-Earth Source Water were nearly half gone.
To recover would probably take tens or hundreds of millions of years.
Great Supreme Baizhong had no objection to this at all.
The Heaven-and-Earth Source Water belonged to him, true, but it was not his foundation and had no real impact on him.
For him, as long as he could grow stronger, a trifling Heaven-and-Earth Source Water was nothing.
When Bai Zhong and Boyang saw Lin Moyu, a trace of shock flashed through their eyes at the same time.
The two looked at each other and confirmed their feeling.
In their perception, Lin Moyu's realm had not changed, but his aura had changed and become even stronger than before.
They felt that when facing Lin Moyu, it was like facing an existence on another level.
They even had an illusion that if Lin Moyu wanted to kill them, it would not be hard.
Lin Moyu noticed their gaze and roughly guessed what they were thinking, then smiled.
"Fellow Daoists, is there some problem?"
Bai Zhong and Yang Bo came back to themselves and spoke in unison.
"Congratulations to Fellow Daoist Lin on another advance in cultivation."
Lin Moyu smiled.
"It was just a bit of small insight.
"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Baizhong, for providing me with so much Heaven-and-Earth Source Water."
Bai Zhong repeatedly said,
"This is a small matter.
"That this Heaven-and-Earth Source Water could be used by Fellow Daoist Lin is its good fortune."
Only now did Lin Moyu realize that Great Supremes could also flatter people without blushing or their hearts pounding.
Great Supreme Yang Bo's eyes flashed with a hint of red.
"Fellow Daoist Lin, what do you plan to do next?"
Lin Moyu noticed the change in his eyes and knew it was not intentional.
Rather, the Heaven-and-Earth Great Calamity had already begun to influence the Great Supremes.
He himself was constantly shifting between the two identities of Heaven-and-Earth enemy and Heaven-and-Earth Great Supreme, and at the same time he was also an ought-to-respond one.
Within the great calamity, countless people would see him as opportunity.
When the great calamity reached its peak, even Great Supremes would inevitably be affected.
Right now Yang Bo and the others could still control their thoughts; even if there was some effect, they could suppress it, but after some time, it would be hard to say.
Lin Moyu did not hide it.
"I will activate the last grand array and see Heaven Calamity Great Supreme's true scheme.
"At the same time, I will go seek passages leading to other Heavens-and-Earth.
"If the two of you can find similar passages, you can also trade with me."
The eyes of Bai Zhong and Boyang lit up slightly.
They also needed Heaven-Origin Qi.
As Lin Moyu had said, as long as they could find passages leading to other Heavens-and-Earth, they could exchange them for Heaven-Origin Qi.
This seemed to be their opportunity.
Lin Moyu continued,
"But I also have to say one more thing.
"It would be best for the two of you to find a place to seclude yourselves and not seek too much, or it will be very likely that accidents occur within the great calamity."
Great Supreme Baizhong let out a sigh with a hint of bitter smile.
"Fellow Daoist Lin does not know.
"We are entangled in karma and afraid we cannot avoid it."
Great Supreme Yang Bo also sighed.
"Back when Heaven Calamity Daoist friend began his layout, we were already within the game.
"It is almost impossible to avoid it."
Lin Moyu knew that they were within the game and indeed entangled in karma.
Wanting to avoid it was not impossible, but it would be extremely difficult.
After a brief thought he said,
"The two of you and I likewise have karma between us.
"If you can firmly hold to your Dao-heart, you should be able to avoid the killing tribulation.
"If you truly cannot avoid it, my elder sister should be the right choice."
The two did have pursuit of higher realms, but they wanted even more to live well, and moreover Lin Moyu had told them the escape path: when choosing sides, they could stand on Lin Mohan's side.
"Many thanks, Fellow Daoist Lin."
The two bowed to Lin Moyu.
They naturally understood the reasoning in it.
Lin Moyu flew toward the formations behind the Heaven-and-Earth Source Water.
A rune flew out and easily activated the grand array.
With Lin Moyu's current formation attainments, he had transcended the Heaven-and-Earth and far surpassed Heaven Calamity Great Supreme.
The formations laid down by Heaven Calamity Great Supreme no longer held any secrets from him.
"Let me see what you really want to do."
Lin Moyu entered the array.
Familiar with the route, he went straight into the core of the formation.
Inside the core, the statue of Heaven Calamity Great Supreme still stood.
Upon seeing Lin Moyu, the statue uttered a deep voice.
"You finally came."
Lin Moyu heard the tone and it seemed somewhat impatient.
He replied lightly,
"There were too many matters and it was delayed.
"You know my situation.
"Many people want to kill me now."
He could fool Heaven Calamity Great Supreme, who was located within the Ancient Wilds.
Regarding what happened within the Chaos, he could only know roughly.
So Lin Moyu could come up with any excuse.
Heaven Calamity Great Supreme did not doubt him.
"This is the path you chose yourself and also the path you must walk."
Lin Moyu chuckled.
"That is not right.
"Was this not the path you chose for me?"
Heaven Calamity Great Supreme said,
"This sovereign merely pointed you in a direction.
"The road is one you walk yourself.
"Since you have come, this sovereign will leave."
He obviously did not want to stay longer.
Lin Moyu also knew he would not stay much longer, because he himself was already a Great Supreme.
If Heaven Calamity stayed talking too long, he might reveal something.
Heaven Calamity perhaps did not yet know that he was already leaking everywhere.
Lin Moyu said,
"Alright, you can go.
"I will refine the formation now."
Space shattered and the statue drilled into it and vanished.
Looking at the space that was repairing itself, Lin Moyu smiled slightly.
"So it was here."
The path the statue had taken when it left was a grand array Heaven Calamity Great Supreme had prepared in advance, similar to a cross-domain array but far more powerful, directly targeting a fixed point.
Previously Lin Moyu could only determine that the point was within the Ancient Wilds, but now he clearly knew the specific location of that point, with an error of no more than a thousand li.
That point was basically Heaven Calamity Great Supreme's hiding place.
Heaven Calamity would never have thought that the place he was hiding would be exposed like this.
Once the space was fully repaired, Lin Moyu smiled and began refining the grand array.
This refining was completely different from before.
Previously he had been following Heaven Calamity Great Supreme's plan, but this time he was walking his own road.
Light dots flashed in his mind.
The twelve grand arrays located in the Chaos Ancient Wilds linked into one piece, interweaving into a great net.
This great net almost covered the entire Heaven-and-Earth, except for the deepest part of the Ancient Wilds.
Now Lin Moyu refined the final grand array, filling in the last corner of the net.
"So the true control authority of this formation is here."
Lin Moyu had already discovered that even if he refined these twelve grand arrays, the ultimate control authority of the formation still would not be in his hands.
What a good plan.
His own existence was just to bear the formation backlash.
A grand array that covered almost the entire Heaven-and-Earth and possessed astonishing power, gathering many Daos together, the Dao of Karma among them.
Once the grand array was activated, it would generate a terrifying backlash, and someone had to bear that backlash.
The apparent master of the formation, himself, was what had been prepared to bear the backlash, while the one truly controlling the formation was Heaven Calamity Great Supreme hiding behind the scenes.
One could imagine that once the formation was activated and he bore the backlash, even as a Great Supreme he would have to be heavily injured.
Heaven Calamity Great Supreme's layout seemed to be for his sake, but in truth it was to make him step into the trap voluntarily, dying while still helping count Heaven Calamity's money.
"He thought too beautifully.
"In that case, let me add some seasoning."
With a thought, countless runes flew out from Lin Moyu's mind.
Some runes fell into the current formation, and some runes, through the connections between formations, teleported to the other arrays.
Very quickly, all twelve formations held Lin Moyu's runes.
With formation attainments far surpassing Heaven Calamity Great Supreme, Lin Moyu saw through the true purpose of the twelve grand arrays and Heaven Calamity's goal, and he also added some seasoning to the formations and modified them.
He knew very well that the reason Heaven Calamity chose him was because only he could do this.
Heaven Calamity Great Supreme's formation attainments were already number one in the Chaos Ancient Wilds.
Perhaps, except for the special existence of Lin Moyu, no one could refine all the formations.
As for how Heaven Calamity knew his formation talent was so high, that was surely because Heavenly Fate Venerable had discovered it while deducing the future.
But obviously Heavenly Fate Venerable had not told him that Lin Moyu's formation attainments could surpass his and could even turn his grand array back on him.
If he had told him, Heaven Calamity Great Supreme would certainly not have laid out things like this.
"Everyone has their own selfish motives."
Lin Moyu let out a soft sneer.
Everyone had their own selfish motives; this was only natural.
Heavenly Fate Venerable naturally had his own selfish motives.
He and Eternal Desolate Ox had lived from the era of the second great calamity until now, all for the sake of taking another step.
He said he had no ambition.
Who would believe that.
Heavenly Fate Venerable comprehended the Dao of Fate and possessed an advantage others could not match.
He could always lay out ahead of others in anything.
Just like he could enter Canglong Heaven-and-Earth, find the corpse of the Canglong, and absorb the Heaven-Origin Qi that leaked from the Canglong's corpse, and could even find Lin Moyu's past body and bring it back.
If Heavenly Fate Venerable wanted to scheme, he would be far more terrifying than Heaven Calamity Great Supreme.
He knew very well that under normal circumstances there would be no chance; only when the great calamity rose would opportunities appear.
It might be that right now Heavenly Fate Venerable was already together with Eternal Desolate Ox, having surpassed the Great Supreme realm and reached that new level.
If that were really so, then things would become lively.
Besides Heavenly Fate Venerable, Golden Supreme was the same.
Golden Supreme gave off a sense of danger.
He indeed had never said that he would participate in the struggle of this great calamity, but he had never denied it either.
Lin Moyu did not know what Golden Supreme wanted to do, but he faintly felt that what Golden Supreme wanted to do would be extremely dangerous.
As the great calamity approached its peak, all the things submerged under the surface would rise up.
After finishing adding seasoning to the formations, Lin Moyu left the grand array.
Now, on the surface, he was the master of these twelve formations and could activate them at any time to unleash astonishing attack power and strike at most parts of the Chaos Ancient Wilds.
But he knew very well that the true controller behind the formations was Heaven Calamity Great Supreme.
Just now he could have altered the structure of the formations and stripped Heaven Calamity of his authority, but he did not do so.
It was not yet time to startle the snake.
Standing inside the formation, Lin Moyu looked off into the distance.
"It is time to go see elder sister."
Within the Chaos Ancient Wilds, the matters were basically done.
Now he just needed to patiently wait for the great calamity to reach its peak and also wait for the little tree to find new Heavens-and-Earth.
As for the Heavens-and-Earth inside the Chaos Ancient Wilds, Lin Moyu could not be bothered to seek them.
Even if he occasionally found one or two, they might not be what he needed.
It had already been quite some time since Lin Mohan approached the breakthrough to the Great Supreme realm, and he should go take a look.
After all twelve grand arrays were refined, the formations intertwined into a great net and were connected to one another.
Through this connection, Lin Moyu could directly cross the void and go to any one of the formations.
Runes flew out to slightly modify the formations so that when they were activated, they would not attract anyone's attention.
Heaven Calamity Great Supreme, as the rightful master of the grand arrays, could naturally sense what was happening within them.
Lin Moyu did not want to alarm him and naturally had to put in some extra effort.
In the lower domain, Lin Moyu flew out from one of the formations.
Beneath his feet was Space God Mountain.
The Nine Heavens Fate Technique activated and the Heaven-and-Earth rules were forcibly altered by him.
Like teleportation, Lin Moyu stepped off Space God Mountain and vanished.
Using the connections between the formations, Lin Moyu carried out the teleportation.
The process was extremely smooth and could save a lot of time.
With one step he crossed billions of li, and Space God Mountain was thrown far behind.
Vast black clouds began to gather.
Lin Moyu's alteration of the Heaven-and-Earth rules might fool others, but it could not fool the Heaven-and-Earth itself.
Forcibly altering the Heaven-and-Earth rules would inevitably cause the Heaven-and-Earth to send down punishment, which was unavoidable.
Lin Moyu could not be bothered to avoid it at all and let the Heaven-and-Earth send down punishment as it pleased.
He strode forward through endless lightning, each step spanning billions of li as he went off into the distance.
He had long since grown used to Heaven-and-Earth punishment.
It did not count as anything.
Come whenever it wanted, however much it wanted.
Let alone his true body, even a single avatar could easily withstand it and would not be harmed in the slightest.
His bloodline was resonating.
Lin Moyu's purpose in altering the Heaven-and-Earth rules was to trigger bloodline resonance again.
By using bloodline resonance, he could accurately find where Lin Mohan was.
Lin Moyu was now a Great Supreme.
Space folded under his feet and, with his speed, even crossing the lower domain would take only a few days.
In just two days, Lin Moyu arrived at a corner of the lower domain.
He stopped and looked ahead.
A storm was raging before him.
This storm seemed to have been going on for a very long time and contained terrifying destructive power inside.
Any who entered would be torn to pieces by the storm.
"Elder sister's sword intent really has grown stronger again."
At a glance he could see that the terrifying power contained in the storm came from Lin Mohan's will.
Will evolved into endless sword intent and formed the storm.
Lin Mohan was at the center of the storm.
He knew his elder sister's character; even if she wanted to find a place to hide, it would not be a silent one.
Entering the storm, the gales turned into endless sword intent and slashed at his body.
The sword intent was strong enough to tear apart those at Chaos Realm perfection, and even a quasi Great Supreme would find it difficult to move within the storm, their actions heavily hindered.
But for him, this sword intent was nothing.
Braving the endless sword intent, he passed through the storm and entered its center, where he saw a giant sword lying across Heaven-and-Earth.
Lin Mohan was sitting on the sword with eyes closed as if cultivating.
In that moment she seemed to have become the center of the entire Heaven-and-Earth.
Everything within the Heaven-and-Earth had to bow its head to her, and anything that did not submit would be cut down.
"Little brother is here."
Lin Mohan's cool voice drifted out.
This place belonged to her domain, and no one could come without her knowing.
Lin Moyu landed on the sword and walked over.
"Elder sister, how are you feeling now?"
Lin Mohan said,
"My realm is completely stable.
"When does little brother plan to make a move?"
After the last bloodline resonance, a large amount of time had been saved for Lin Mohan, and her realm was completely consolidated.
Now Lin Mohan had already firmly planted her feet and could draw her sword at any time.
Lin Moyu said,
"There is no rush to make a move yet.
"I want to discuss our next plan with elder sister."
A pair of beautiful eyes slowly opened.
"Do we still need any plan?
"If I join hands with little brother, it should not be a problem to deal with them."
Lin Moyu shook his head.
"It is not only about dealing with them.
"There are other things to do.
"I need to explain in detail to elder sister the situation of this Heaven-and-Earth and this great calamity.
"We either do nothing, or if we do, we must do it perfectly."
Lin Mohan seemed to realize that things were not so simple, and that aside from fighting and killing, Lin Moyu had other matters to handle.
Lin Moyu said quietly,
"First, we have to start from the Heaven-and-Earth itself.
"This great calamity is the third round…"