Heaven Sundering True Lord laughed wildly without end. His own Heaven and Earth had already shattered, yet he had not expected to borrow a body to be reborn, arrive in Chaotic Wild Desolation, and just so happen to run into a Heaven-and-Earth great tribulation. He could completely use this chance to prove the Dao again and climb back onto the Supreme throne.
Through Calamity Great Supreme's memories, he had already understood most of what had happened. As for Lin Moyu and Lin Mohan, he did not take them seriously at all. After all, he had once been a Supreme, not someone Calamity Great Supreme could compare to.
Lin Moyu's calm voice broke his laughter.
"Calamity Great Supreme schemed for a lifetime and laid out this Heaven-and-Earth game. Who would have thought he would fall in such a way. Truly pitiable."
Heaven Sundering True Lord snorted.
"That was just a fool. Scheming for a lifetime? What would he know about scheming? Supremes are never schemed into existence. Supremes are only killed into existence."
Lin Moyu said, "After obtaining his memories, you should know he was not like this before."
Heaven Sundering True Lord said, "He did fight and kill in the past, full of blood and boldness. Back then, it looked like achieving the Dao was within reach. But after he became a Great Supreme, he began to grow cautious and liked to scheme in everything.
"His so called Heaven-and-Earth grand game is, in my eyes, nothing but crap. From that moment on, his path to achieving the Dao was already cut off.
"What kind of game can scheme out an entire great tribulation? Worthless nonsense."
Lin Moyu smiled.
"That is not quite fair. Planning to achieve the Dao is not impossible. He simply lacked the ability, that is his own problem.
"Just like you, Senior. By coincidence you arrived here and want to use this great tribulation to achieve the Dao. I cannot even tell whether you are lucky or unlucky."
Heaven Sundering True Lord's gaze tightened.
"What do you mean?"
Lin Moyu said, "You arrived here, borrowed a body to be reborn, and encountered a great tribulation, that is good luck.
"But you just happened to run into us, so that is bad luck."
Heaven Sundering True Lord suddenly let out a snort of laughter.
"What a joke. You people think you can stop this Lord?"
Lin Moyu said, "Then why not try?
"Big Sis, rested enough? Time to move."
"One Sword to Slash the Soul."
Sword light burst into brilliance as Lin Mohan struck again.
Lin Moyu had spoken those extra lines only to buy Lin Mohan time. He understood her sword Dao well. Her sword could seek out an enemy's weakness, but it needed time.
This sword was empty and ethereal, aimed purely at the soul. It looked as if its power was not great, yet it made Heaven Sundering True Lord's expression change dramatically.
He had been reborn using Calamity Great Supreme's body. To merge into Chaotic Wild Desolation, he needed not only the body but also the soul. Merging into the body was relatively easy, but merging the soul was far harder. Even though he had once been a Supreme, he still needed time. During this period, his soul was unstable.
Lin Mohan had seen exactly this and struck to slash the soul. The voidlike sword light fell, locking onto the soul. There was no way to dodge.
Heaven Sundering True Lord snorted.
"Courting death."
The Heaven Sundering Seal rapidly expanded, radiance flaring in all directions as it turned into a vertical shield. The Heaven Sundering Seal was his treasure, a Supreme level treasure. Even damaged, it could easily block Lin Mohan's sword.
And when he controlled the Heaven Sundering Seal, he did not need to drive it like Calamity Great Supreme did with essence blood and soul.
Lin Mohan's sword momentum did not change. Her red lips parted slightly.
"Explode."
Boom.
Sword energy suddenly detonated from within Heaven Sundering True Lord's body. He immediately spat blood and cried out in pain.
With the master injured, the shield formed by the Heaven Sundering Seal weakened sharply. Lin Mohan's soul slashing sword landed at just the right moment, blasting through the seal's defense and striking Heaven Sundering True Lord.
Another scream sounded. His soul was injured again and a spray of blood exploded from his body. His soul seemed about to separate from his body.
Heaven Sundering True Lord spat blood and roared,
"Good, good, good. I truly underestimated you."
Earlier, when Heaven Sundering True Lord was merging into the Heaven-and-Earth rules, Lin Mohan had already infused her sword intent into it. At that time, she had detonated most of it, but some remained hidden. It erupted just now, attacking from inside and out in tandem, severely injuring Heaven Sundering True Lord in one blow.
Lin Moyu commented, "This is what effective planning looks like, far more useful than Calamity Great Supreme's kind. Some plans are simple and effective. Some are long and useless. Calamity Great Supreme was the latter, looking impressive but in truth just trash."
Heaven Sundering True Lord stabilized his body and soul. He slapped the Heaven Sundering Seal, and it immediately transformed into countless phantoms, crushing toward Lin Mohan from all directions. A terrifying pressure swept the void.
He had once been a Supreme, his raw power far beyond Calamity Great Supreme and the others. If one compared only power, Lin Mohan could not match him.
Sword light exploded. Lin Mohan's sword intent swept the void. The seal phantoms trembled under the impact of the sword light, but did not shatter.
Heaven Sundering True Lord said coldly, "Until you reach the Supreme realm, you will never understand how terrifying a Supreme is. Even if you are only one hair's breadth away, you are still ants."
Lin Moyu chuckled.
"Is that so?"
He spread his Heaven-and-Earth Wings and the Nine Heavens Fate Arts activated. The Heaven-and-Earth rules were forcibly altered. The Heaven-and-Earth punishment that had previously been suppressed appeared again.
Boundless lightning descended, blasting the Heaven Sundering Seal. At the same time, a surge of Heaven-and-Earth power fell upon Heaven Sundering True Lord.
The Heaven-and-Earth rules did not acknowledge him at all. They used Heaven-and-Earth power to expel him. What would be expelled was Heaven Sundering True Lord, while the body and remnants of soul that had belonged to Calamity Great Supreme would be kept within this Heaven and Earth.
In that instant, the soul that Heaven Sundering True Lord had only barely fused together was torn apart again. Even his control over the body fell sharply. The seal phantoms dispersed one after another.
Heaven Sundering True Lord abruptly raised his head to stare at Lin Moyu.
"Primordial Dawn Arts."
His eyes were sharp. He could tell Lin Moyu had used the Primordial Dawn Arts to change the Heaven-and-Earth rules.
Lin Moyu smiled.
"Worthy of Heaven Sundering True Lord. Your eye is very good."
Heaven Sundering True Lord said in a low voice, "You... how can you possibly master the Primordial Dawn Arts? That is something only a Supreme can master."
Lin Moyu smiled. "That is not something you need to worry about.
"I said your coming here is both good luck and bad luck.
"Originally, I only had ninety percent confidence of stepping into the Supreme realm. Now I have a full hundred percent."
His arrival was like an invasion. If Heaven Sundering True Lord were at full strength, this Heaven and Earth might collapse merely from his presence. To this Heaven and Earth, he was an invader. Killing him would bring a Heaven-and-Earth reward.
Heaven Sundering True Lord understood this, so he had to borrow Calamity Great Supreme's body and soul to blend into this Heaven and Earth.
With disdain, Heaven Sundering True Lord said, "Bold indeed, using this Lord as your stepping stone."
Lin Moyu shook his head.
"Not a stepping stone. A chance to achieve the Dao. Such a good chance should naturally be seized."
Heaven Sundering True Lord said in a low voice, "Even if this Lord cannot yet fully merge into this Heaven and Earth, with the Heaven Sundering Seal protecting me, you cannot do anything to this Lord.
"Once I fully fuse my soul and adapt to this Heaven-and-Earth's rules, I will carve you up. Not one of you will escape."
As he spoke, he slowly sank into the Heaven Sundering Seal.
Let the Heaven-and-Earth rules attack. The seal remained unmoved.
The Heaven Sundering Seal flew toward the Divine Wood Sea. With it suppressing, no one could obtain the Divine Wood Sea.
In Heaven Sundering True Lord's view, as long as he pinned down the chance to achieve the Dao, no one could become a Supreme. Once he recovered, he could slaughter everyone.
How could Lin Moyu allow that?
"Originally, I did not want to interfere. But since you have a treasure like the Heaven Sundering Seal, I have to move."
He waved his hand and the Calamity Scepter shot out like lightning, smashing heavily into the Heaven Sundering Seal.
At first, Lin Moyu had not wanted to use the Calamity Scepter. He believed Lin Mohan could solve it. But the Heaven Sundering Seal was too strong. As a treasure refined by a Six Wheel Heaven Supreme, even if all the Heaven-and-Earth power of Chaotic Wild Desolation exploded at once, it still could not harm it at all. This was a difference in kind.
No matter how brilliant Lin Mohan was, she could not break the Heaven Sundering Seal. The fact she could scheme against Heaven Sundering True Lord and injure his soul was already astonishing.
If Lin Moyu did not act and Heaven Sundering True Lord fully adapted and fused, then with the Heaven Sundering Seal, that would be a true catastrophe.
So Lin Moyu acted.
The Calamity Scepter smashed down viciously upon the Heaven Sundering Seal.
Heaven Sundering True Lord sneered.
"A mantis trying to stop a chariot."
His laughter stopped abruptly.
Cracks appeared across the Heaven Sundering Seal, so many that he could no longer laugh. The cracks rapidly spread and in the blink of an eye covered the entire seal.
Then, with a crisp crack, the Heaven Sundering Seal shattered completely.
The Calamity Scepter flew back. Primal Chaos Gem laughed.
"Smash it and clock out."
Heaven Sundering True Lord stared at the seal breaking apart, stunned.
"Impossible. This is impossible."
He had spent his entire life, gathering the essence of a Six Wheel Heaven, refining this Supreme treasure. It had actually shattered just like that.
He had used the Heaven Sundering Seal to smash other Heaven and Earth apart, even smashing Supremes to death. And now someone had smashed it to pieces.
Sword light suddenly flared.
"One Sword to Slash the Soul."
Lin Mohan did not care whether it was possible or not. Before Heaven Sundering True Lord could even react, she struck decisively.
The sword light passed through the fragments, slashing straight at the soul.
Heaven Sundering True Lord was still stuck in the shock of the seal shattering. He could not react in time. By the time he sensed the sword light, it was already too late.
Sword light struck his soul, injuring it yet again.
Thunder roared. Countless lightning bolts fell and blasted him. Lin Moyu's altered Heaven-and-Earth rules still regarded him as an outsider. The Heaven-and-Earth punishment did not stop.
Heaven-and-Earth power formed invisible hands, forcibly trying to peel his soul away. Under layered assaults, Heaven Sundering True Lord almost lost all control over the body.
"One Sword to Cut the Dao."
Lin Mohan's sword light rose again. With no Heaven Sundering Seal to protect him, the body that had belonged to Calamity Great Supreme could not withstand Lin Mohan's sword.
Countless wounds appeared across the body, almost torn apart on the spot.
Heaven Sundering True Lord finally reacted. A cluster of soul flame rose from within the body.
He had to flee. If he did not leave now, he knew he would fall here.
But without the body's protection and without the Heaven Sundering Seal, his soul had nowhere to run.
Under boundless lightning, he suddenly locked onto Lin Moyu.
It was Lin Moyu who had used that unknown thing to smash his Heaven Sundering Seal. Lin Moyu was his greatest enemy. Without Lin Moyu, he would have revived smoothly.
"Die."
The soul flame shot toward Lin Moyu at astonishing speed. He meant to kill Lin Moyu with his soul. A Supreme soul was terrifyingly strong. Even injured, it was still frightening.
On the surface, Lin Moyu was only a Great Supreme. Against a Supreme soul, he should have had no chance.
But Lin Moyu was not flustered. He even relaxed.
If Heaven Sundering True Lord's soul had gone after Lin Mohan, that would have been troublesome. But now, it was coming to him.
The Soul Gem on the Calamity Scepter flared with light.
An earth-yellow radiance covered the area.
Heaven Sundering True Lord's soul slammed into it with a boom, nearly scattering on the spot. The earth-yellow light only trembled slightly and did not move at all.
"What is this?" Heaven Sundering True Lord cried instinctively.
Flames rose before his eyes.
In the next instant, horrifying pain tore through the soul.
A scream shook Heaven and Earth.
Lin Moyu used the World-Scorching Fire to swallow him.
His screams echoed with Dao's screams, rising and falling in grim harmony.
Lin Moyu patted his hands.
"Truly unlucky. Of everyone you could have picked, you had to come for me."
Lin Mohan gave a small sound of acknowledgement. Her eyes locked onto Heaven Sundering True Lord.
Though he was being burned by the World-Scorching Fire, a Supreme soul was strong and could endure burning for a while. Lin Mohan prepared to add fuel, making the fire burn harder.
"One Sword to Slash the Soul."
Lin Mohan struck again. Sword intent became voidlike and cut at the soul. Heaven Sundering True Lord's screams grew even more intense.
With the World-Scorching Fire present, he had no room to resist. He could not even flee.
This was not his Heaven and Earth. This was Chaotic Wild Desolation. The Heaven-and-Earth power kept attacking him. No matter where he fled, he could not evade the eyes of Heaven and Earth.
Lin Mohan struck again and again. Until the enemy truly died, her sword momentum would not stop.
The continuous screams made Destiny Venerable in the distance shudder. He murmured,
"I knew before that Great Sword Sovereign was decisive, ruthless, and never showed mercy. Now it really is exactly so."
"Eternal Wild Ox" let out a low moo beside him, in agreement.
Lin Mohan was killing in full swing and did not care about anyone's thoughts. After all, it was a Supreme soul. She had to strike more than a hundred times to completely sever it. If it were Calamity Great Supreme's soul, it would have taken fewer than ten strikes.
"I am not willing. This Lord is not willing."
Heaven Sundering True Lord roared amid the screams. That was the only thing he could do.
His soul was utterly extinguished under sword light.
Heaven Sundering True Lord fell.
With the foreign enemy dead, Heaven and Earth bestowed rewards.
The reward should have split in two, half to Lin Moyu. But Lin Moyu used the Nine Heavens Fate Arts and transferred his half of the reward to Lin Mohan.
Radiance descended and Lin Mohan's aura rose sharply. At her level, improving further was extremely difficult and almost only possible through rare fortune. Now that fortune had arrived.
Once the radiance faded, Lin Mohan said in delighted surprise,
"I saw that throne. The throne of a Supreme. There is only one in this entire Heaven and Earth."
Lin Moyu said, "Seeing it is the first step. Next you should walk over to it."
Her sharp gaze swept across.
"You."
She locked onto Chaotic Wild Dragon.
Sword light surged.
"One Sword to Cut the Dao."
Chaotic Wild Dragon was still enduring the siege of the Undying Spirit Soldiers. He had been heavily injured earlier by Calamity Great Supreme's formation strike, and Lin Moyu had cut off his source of Heaven-and-Earth power.
With his power source gone and the Undying Spirit Soldiers attacking endlessly, his injuries could almost not recover.
He knew what was happening outside. Lin Mohan's arrival, Calamity Great Supreme's scheme, the reversal with Heaven Sundering True Lord, he had seen it all. But he could do nothing. Compared to any one of Calamity Great Supreme, Lin Moyu, or Lin Mohan, he was far inferior. He only knew he was doomed.
Lin Mohan's sword light fell. The Undying Spirit Soldiers simultaneously made way for the sword.
Sword light cut the Dao, crushed the Heaven-and-Earth rules, and likewise shattered Chaotic Wild Dragon's defense.
A defense second only to Eternal Wild Ox shattered under sword light. Sword energy pierced into the body and struck the soul.
A terrifying wound was ripped across the massive dragon body. Blood poured into the void.
Once Lin Mohan moved, she did not stop. Sword after sword, she would not stop until she chopped him to pieces.
Chaotic Wild Dragon's screams gradually weakened. This being who had survived from the ancient era and had once been called the strongest, was walking toward his end.
Eternal Wild Ox let out a soft moo, trembling all over.
Destiny Venerable tried to comfort him.
"Do not be afraid, do not be afraid. Fellow Daoist Lin will not kill us."
At this moment, Lin Moyu looked toward the Divine Wood Sea, toward the lush divine trees at its center.
"Strength is average, but survival ability is top tier. Fine. You can keep playing a bit longer. Perhaps you still have some use."
Sword light swept the Four Extremities and Three Domains. No matter where one stood, one could feel sword qi trembling.
Countless sword cultivators, whether in the mortal realm or the cultivation world, even those inside small worlds, found the swords in their hands trembling.
Across Chaotic Wild Desolation, billions upon billions of swords rang together. Behind Lin Mohan, countless sword phantoms appeared.
In an instant, billions of miles of void became nothing but swords.
Endless swords turned into the Dao, pouring down like a galaxy and smashing into Chaotic Wild Dragon.
His screams did not stop. Body and soul were carved as if by slow execution, sliced apart by endless blades.
Lin Moyu watched and smiled calmly.
"Congratulations, Big Sis. Your sword Dao is complete. From today, sword Dao becomes a rule and stands equal with Heaven and Earth."
Her sword Dao was complete. Sword Dao turned into a rule and Lin Mohan became the master of that rule. With this alone, she had the qualification to become a Supreme.
Sword Dao becoming a rule and standing equal with Heaven and Earth meant far greater power. Chaotic Wild Dragon's defense was fully shattered. Under the slow carving of countless swords, he suffered miserably.
At this moment, the stronger one's defense, the more suffering one endured. If the defense were weak, one might have been killed in an instant.
Eternal Wild Ox trembled violently. He shivered and mooed without stopping. In defense, he was even stronger than Chaotic Wild Dragon, but he knew very clearly he could not withstand this slow carving of endless swords.
Destiny Venerable tried hard to comfort him, but could not stop his fear. He wanted to turn and flee, yet did not dare. He feared that if he turned, those endless blades would crash onto him.
The screams continued for a while, growing weaker and weaker, until they disappeared entirely.
The once strongest of all beings, Chaotic Wild Dragon, fully fell. Not even dust remained.
Heaven and Earth released radiance again, illuminating Lin Mohan and making her dazzling beyond compare.
At this moment, Lin Mohan was like the sovereign of Heaven and Earth, an unsurpassed existence.
In the next instant, the empress like gaze fell upon the World-Scorching Fire.
Dao was being refined by the World-Scorching Fire. Facing the nemesis of souls, Dao had no ability to resist. His life was already mostly gone, the remainder only clinging to survival. The screams were weak and he could not even beg.
Lin Mohan lightly pointed a finger.
"One Sword to Slash the Soul."
Sword Dao rule descended and slashed soul and spirit. The feeble screams stopped abruptly.
That existence, once overwhelmingly strong and suppressing Chaotic Wild Desolation, causing several Great Supremes to die, now died so easily.
In Lin Moyu's eyes, Dao was the weakest of them. Dao's strength came from manipulating space and using the nature of space to be everywhere and hard to kill, while launching unpredictable attacks through space with power beyond Great Supremes.
But once the trick was seen through and space was pinned down, forcing the soul to gather, Dao became the weakest. The World-Scorching Fire alone was enough to kill it.
When Dao died, Heaven and Earth released radiance again, and its power returned to Lin Mohan.
A space aura appeared around her. She seemed still here, yet also as if she were in another void, ethereal like an immortal.
She seemed present and not present, as if here and yet everywhere.
Dao's space rule was fully transferred to Lin Mohan. Wherever she wanted to go, a single thought was enough. Within Chaotic Wild Desolation, there was nowhere she could not reach.
This wonder had already completely surpassed the Great Supreme realm and was extremely close to a Supreme.
Lin Mohan did not stop. Her gaze turned toward the Heaven-and-Earth poison insect still entangled with the Wildshade Broodmother.
Gold Great Supreme had seen everything and, seeing Lin Mohan about to strike his Heaven-and-Earth poison insect, roared,
"If you act, this old man will destroy this Heaven and Earth."
Lin Moyu smiled.
"Senior Gold, you and I do have some ties. There was karma between us. How about this, we each take a step back."
Gold Great Supreme kept his forceful tone.
"How do we each take a step back?"
Lin Moyu said, "I will have my sister give that Heaven-and-Earth poison insect a quick death, and you do not destroy this Heaven and Earth. How about it?"
Gold Great Supreme froze for a moment, then reacted.
"You dare toy with this old man."
Lin Moyu chuckled.
"Not at all. How about this. You do not destroy this Heaven and Earth, and we also spare your life. We only keep the poison insect and the Insect Stele. You can continue being your Great Supreme. How about it?"
Gold Great Supreme roared,
"Utter nonsense."
Lin Moyu sighed.
"Big Sis, talks broke down. Do it."
Lin Mohan nodded.
"Alright."
In the distance, Destiny Venerable's mouth twitched.
"Talks broke down? Was there ever any talking?"
Lin Moyu's conditions were never something to negotiate. Of course it would collapse.
"One Sword to Cut the Dao."
Sword light burst. Countless swords swept the void like a galaxy. Within that sword light, the poison gas was sliced to pieces. In an instant, the Heaven-and-Earth poison insect fell completely. Its poison gas was also erased by sword qi, leaving nothing behind.
With the poison insect killed, Gold Great Supreme as its master spat a mouthful of blood. The glow of the Insect Stele dimmed and several cracks appeared on it. One more shock might shatter it on the spot.
"Scoundrels."
Gold Great Supreme roared.
"Since so, then we die together."
He slammed his palm onto the Insect Stele. The stele erupted with blinding light and in an instant swept across all of Chaotic Wild Desolation.
Across Chaotic Wild Desolation, countless points of light lit up. Each point was a strange insect.
These insects usually hid and fused into the Dao. Now all were awakened by Gold Great Supreme.
They were called Dao-Destruction Insects. They could fuse into the Daos and self detonate, destroying the Daos.
If a few Daos were destroyed, it would not matter much to Heaven and Earth. But if a huge number of Daos were destroyed, Heaven and Earth would suffer severe damage. Worse, if the vast majority of Daos were destroyed at once, Heaven and Earth might be extinguished and turn into ruins.
Gold Great Supreme had laid this out for countless years. Using the Insect Stele, he had nurtured endless Dao-Destruction Insects and had long since embedded them into every Dao and every corner, spread throughout Chaotic Wild Desolation. This was his confidence.
He had the ability to destroy Heaven and Earth and make it fall silent. This was also his bargaining chip. Even if someone became a Supreme, he could use this chip to negotiate.
But he had not expected Lin Moyu to ignore him completely.
With his poison insect killed, Gold Great Supreme awakened all Dao-Destruction Insects to destroy the Daos and extinguish Heaven and Earth.
"Die together."
His eyes were feral and his laughter mad.
Lin Moyu sighed softly and snapped his fingers.
In an instant, all of Chaotic Wild Desolation lit up.
A vast net that covered the entire Heaven and Earth suddenly appeared.
Over these years, Lin Moyu had walked all across Chaotic Wild Desolation and laid down a peerless grand formation. This formation was not strong, but it was like a great net, covering the whole world.
Now the formation activated. The great net split into countless smaller nets, trapping every Dao-Destruction Insect within.
The insects self detonated, but their power was absorbed by the formation, causing no harm to the Daos at all.
Gold Great Supreme froze. His eyes went blank.
"How could this be? How did you do it?"
Lin Moyu smiled lightly.
"It is not that hard, really.
"What a pity. Taking a step back each would have been so good.
"Now then, Senior, safe travels."
Endless sword light fell. Gold Great Supreme and his Insect Stele turned to dust under the sword light.
Heaven and Earth radiance fell again. Lin Mohan's aura rose further.
She was dazzling beyond compare within the radiance.
A vast pressure covered Heaven and Earth.
At this moment, she seemed only one thin line away from a Supreme.
Her sword like gaze swept over.
Eternal Wild Ox shivered.
She had not achieved the Dao yet, still short by a little.
She would not kill me next, would she?