supreme deity

Chapter 829 The Origin World
When Luo Wangshu passed through the Eastern Continent Heavenly Abyss Passage and entered Purgatory, he looked around.

This vast cave system, located 200,000 kilometers underground, remains unchanged from the past.

The dome and the jagged cave walls here are inlaid with countless crimson crystals, which emit a red light that illuminates these caves, which span thousands of miles, into a scarlet color.

The ground is a vast plain, dotted with crisscrossing rivers and sulfur lakes.

Luo Wangshu could sense a large number of low-level demons and half-demons, wild beasts, and a few Tianji Star humans who could maintain their sanity living there. They mostly relied on the underground fern forests and giant fungal communities that covered the mountains and plains for survival.

They occasionally catch prey and eat their flesh raw—these prey are diverse, including all kinds of demons and various beasts from the underground.

Those powerful demons either occupy their own territories or roam around plundering and preying on weaker demons and creatures.

However, according to the research of the Earth Federation, these demons underground are actually of the same kind, all of them are Celestial Star people, also known as 'dragons'.

Even those wild beasts were evolved from demons and monsters.

This place is like a giant petri dish, filled with chaos, madness, and mutation, teeming with endless unknown terrors and possibilities.

Luo Wangshu looked into the distance again, his gaze falling on a colossal city 72,000 kilometers away, standing majestically atop a vortex of lava, exuding an aura of endless mystery.

It resembles a primordial behemoth slumbering in a crimson inferno, exuding a chilling sense of oppression. Inside the city, rows upon rows of demonic buildings rise from the ground, the twisted architectural complex resembling sharp teeth growing from the abyss, engraved with ancient runes of the demonic civilization, their bizarrely shaped spires piercing the clouds, as if trying to pierce the chaotic sky shrouded in crimson light.

This is the renowned 'Divine Pivot City', the core hub of the entire Purgatory World, where almost all the nobles and royalty among the Purgatory demons who have regained their sanity gather.

That is also the supreme divine palace of the three gods of Purgatory, like the beating dark heart of the Purgatory world, controlling all the laws and order of this underground world.

However, at this time, none of the 'Three Gods of Purgatory' were in this city.

Although their inspiration pervades the city and even covers tens of thousands of miles around, especially the Lord of Darkness, whose perception range extends to most of the Purgatory world, their primordial spirits are indeed not within Purgatory.

At this time, the artificial canopy was about to be completed, and almost all the abysses combined their primordial spirits and true souls, hiding them in the outer layer of the canopy world.

That is the closest location to outer space of the Celestial Pole Star, and also the closest to the fourteen Celestial Demon Homelands, allowing for immediate response.

The gods are also searching for the whereabouts of the 'Supreme Celestial Venerable' and the one who is suspected to be the 'Lord of Destiny'.

However, this 'Master of Fate' is very good at hiding and enduring, and has not yet revealed his whereabouts.

Logically speaking, if that 'Supreme Celestial Venerable' wanted to recover quickly, it would definitely affect the celestial curtain and the source, and also trigger the ethereal spiritual tide.

But now, not only the gods, but even Luo Wangshu cannot sense the location and situation of this 'Supreme Celestial Venerable'.

Of course, she had the Eastern Abyss and the gods led by Lin Rui to help shield her, so the person opposite her couldn't sense her.

Although the three gods of Purgatory were not in their lair, Luo Wangshu still focused all his efforts on controlling his spiritual energy and carefully rode his escape light to a chasm 130000 kilometers away from 'Divine Pivot City'.

Beneath the abyss lies a vast lava lake, where crimson magma surges between ravines, viscous flames lick at the jagged rock walls, turning the surrounding rocks red-hot, distorting the air, and filling it with the pungent smell of sulfur.

However, hovering above that boiling, churning lava lake was a massive demon warship, three kilometers long.

This is the Earth Federation's newest Bright-class battleship—thanks to technological breakthroughs in recent years, the Earth Federation's new battleship can maintain near-Eternal-class defensive capabilities even at a length of three kilometers.

Wider and longer warships could accommodate more powerful Star Destroyer cannons.

However, there are not many of these new battleships at present, with a total of less than 120 ships, of which the Forest Ruifang Group has only acquired 27.

One of them was given to the Divine Mechanic Angel for modification, giving it super stealth capabilities, allowing it to infiltrate right under the noses of the Three Gods of Purgatory and become Lin Rui's temporary base for the 'Root Project'.

When Luo Wangshu arrived, Lin Rui was hovering above the warship, waiting. He looked at Luo Wangshu with a smile and bowed with a look of satisfaction: "Congratulations, Master, on breaking through to the God Rank in the Law of Truth and advancing to the Abyss. From now on, you will live as long as heaven and earth and shine as brightly as the sun and moon."

"What's there to congratulate?"

Luo Wangshu shook his head, unconcerned, and said, "I am merely inheriting the legacy of the Supreme One. If I cannot guard my true self, I will most likely become a part of the Supreme One, and I will not be able to escape unscathed."

She then looked down at the majestic warship, the divine runes of truth in her eyes gleaming: "Judging from the message you just sent, it seems there has been progress here?"

Lin Rui nodded and gestured for him to follow: "Master, you've come at the perfect time. Please come with me."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and led the way, flying with Luo Wangshu toward the central hatch of the warship.

After entering the warship, the two walked through a long metal corridor and arrived at a laboratory located in the core of the warship, which was about 3000 square meters in size.

The place was brightly lit, with various sophisticated instruments and shimmering runes reflecting each other. The walls around the room were inlaid with complex arrays of runes, emitting a faint blue light.

In the center of the laboratory stood a massive exoskeleton armor, about five meters tall. It stood silently, radiating a mysterious dark golden luster. Its surface was engraved with complex runes, all of which were extremely mysterious and enigmatic, as if they contained the truth and secrets of the entire universe. The gilded and silvery light flowed over it, making it appear mysterious, sacred, and solemn.

Lin Rui stood at the laboratory entrance, his eyes burning as he looked at the exoskeleton armor: "This is a masterpiece created by Wei Fan, Huangfu Qing, and Tai Xuan over several months. It is tentatively named 'Divine Source'. It combines the supreme mysteries of divine runes, magic arrays, and machinery. It can temporarily resist the erosion of the Root World, allowing me to enter the Root World. According to the results of our live experiments, it can already withstand up to 55 minutes inside the Root World."

Luo Wangshu looked at the armor with a strange expression: "Live experiments? What kind of live experiments?"

If it's just ordinary beasts, it's of no reference value whatsoever. But for someone like Lin Rui, who has entered the Origin Realm at the Abyss level, the situation is definitely different.

Her disciple was crazy; he planned to go directly into the source world to inscribe His fundamental concepts.

He made countless deductions and plans, and realized that he could not obtain the fragment of the Abyss God Tablet in the hands of the Northern Abyss no matter what. So he simply did not bother with the effort and entered the Origin World directly in his original form.

In any case, the function of the Abyss Divine Stele is to allow martial arts practitioners to deeply contact the 'root', thereby accelerating the process of condensing concepts.

If Lin Rui could enter the Origin World in his original form, the effect would be the same.

Within the Root World, he can also accelerate the unification of the three thousand Great Daos within it using his 'One' Martial Intent.

However, this is very risky. There is a high probability that Lin Rui will fail to inscribe the concept of "One" and instead be polluted and assimilated by things in the Root World.

"It was a live experiment conducted on several ninth-realm martial artists. Considering their weak willpower, they should actually be able to endure it for longer. Based on Wei Fan and Tai Xuan's calculations, I should be able to stay inside for about twenty minutes."

Lin Rui stepped forward and gently stroked the surface of the armor: "However, this is only in theory. Just in case, I still need Master's help."

Only with Luo Wangshu's intervention, infusing the surface of this exoskeleton armor with the concept of truth, can its complete safety be guaranteed.

The Law of Truth is currently the only concept that can directly confront the internal forces of the Root World, and it was verified 300,000 years ago.

Lin Rui then looked at Luo Wangshu with suspicion: "I wonder to what extent you have mastered the Law of Truth, Master?"

Breaking through to the divine level in terms of the concept of truth is different from having 100% mastery of the truth. Lin Rui mastered the method of tranquility several years ago, but it was only in the last six months that he truly mastered this concept and applied it with ease and control.

Luo Wangshu smiled nonchalantly: "I told you, I am the true self of the Supreme Celestial Venerable!"

Since she is the Supreme Being, what is there to control? Having entered the divine realm, she will naturally understand its profound mysteries, wield it freely, and do as she pleases.

Luo Wangshu then bowed to the three people in the laboratory.

At this moment, the Divine Mechanized Angel and the true forms of Tai Xuan Tian Zun were in this laboratory, with Lin Rui's mother, Li Weiliang, standing beside them, analyzing some data.

The reason why Dream Celestial Venerable placed an order for twelve artificial sky canopy bases with Lin Rui several months ago was to occupy the time and energy of Divine Mechanic Angel and Tai Xuan Celestial Venerable, so that they would have no time to do anything else for three months.

However, Lin Rui was one step ahead. A year ago, he combined the Heavenly Demon Supercomputing Group and Rune Technology to develop a powerful magic weapon that could assist Ninth Realm Divine Illumination and Tenth Realm Longevity level experts in enhancing their thinking and computing power, and strengthening their primordial spirit power.

This is actually a byproduct of Ruifang Group's research and development of "one-element, two-component" auxiliary instruments.

Lin Rui's initial idea was that his high-level martial artists could use this technique even without practicing 'One Yuan Two Transformations', thereby increasing the utilization rate of his alien walkers and armed forces.

From then on, his employees—no, his cattle and horses—became two from one, but their salaries didn't increase much. How cost-effective was that?

Later, Huangfu Qing believed that the fundamentals of the "One Yuan Two Transformations" method were: first, communication, which required synchronous connection between the original body and the different bodies of heaven and earth; second, thought and computing power, which could take into account multiple aspects; and third, the power of the primordial spirit, which could control two bodies simultaneously from hundreds of thousands of miles away. Therefore, he made improvements and developed a magical artifact called "Ten Thousand Gods Heavenly Pivot".

This is a combination of an array, a magical artifact, and a supercomputing cluster. Lin Rui used this kind of instrument during his three-year seclusion.

Its usage requirements are very high, demanding that the user possess strong primordial spirit power. However, its upper limit is also very high. Powerful beings like the Divine Mechanized Angel and the Supreme Celestial Venerable can, with the help of this 'Piercing Pivot of Myriad Gods,' split their spiritual consciousness into dozens of streams, simultaneously controlling dozens of bodies to handle different matters. As for Li Weiliang, she was here for two reasons: firstly, she was worried about Lin Rui and wanted to personally follow up on Lin Rui's Origin Project; secondly, she wanted to use the Origin to evade the gods.

To be precise, it was to avoid the gods' perception of the divine essence within her body, so that Lin Rui could easily eliminate and refine it.

The gods would do everything they could to avoid any contact with the source. Therefore, Lin Rui's cleansing near the source world would not only prevent the gods from being alerted or sensing it, but also weaken the gods' resistance to the source matter to the lowest level.

"Fairy Luo!" Li Weiliang turned around and returned the greeting to Luo Wangshu. She looked at the silver-haired goddess in front of her and a strange smile appeared on her lips.

Luo Wangshu felt slightly embarrassed. When she stood up for Lin Rui and injured Li Weiliang, she never expected that Li Weiliang would be Lin Rui's mother.

She immediately noticed the data graph on the holographic screen next to Li Weiliang, and her eyes narrowed slightly: "This data was collected three months ago near Luojing?"

She recognized Lin Rui at a glance. The fluctuations in the soul power magnetic field of the Lord of Fate and the Lord of Dreams were related, and the data was more detailed.

Li Weiliang is an expert in computers, electromagnetism, and the soul, and his expertise in these areas even surpasses that of the academicians.

Li Weiliang nodded: "At that time, Lin Rui deployed a large number of detection instruments in the range of 300 to 3,000 kilometers from Luojing. Most of them within 1000 kilometers were destroyed or burned by the power of the gods, leaving not even ashes. However, although the instruments outside 1000 kilometers were damaged, their storage devices were mostly intact. We have recently done data repair and are conducting further analysis."

She paused, looking at the holographic screen in front of her with a complicated expression: "Xiao Rui's judgment was almost correct. This result is truly shocking."

Luo Wangshu looked at the data charts and curves above, his eyes slightly clouded.

At this moment, Lin Rui's voice came through: "Master, since you have the confidence to master the Law of Truth, why not give it a try today? Help me to explore the Root World today!"

The people present looked at Lin Rui in surprise, then exchanged glances.

The Divine Mechanic Angel Wei Fan crossed his arms and said, "Then let's give it a try. Actually, the following biological experiments are not very meaningful. The data collected can no longer be used as a reference. If the Lord himself does not go in, we will never know whether this 'Divine Source' armor can achieve the expected performance."

Luo Wangshu nodded: "Then let's give it a try!"

Luo Wangshu knew that Lin Rui didn't have much time left.

The gods are waiting for the day the artificial celestial canopy is completed. The Great Sun Heavenly Venerable and the Lord of Destiny are also waiting, waiting for the day when the gods have no time to attend to other matters.

Judging from the current situation, the artificial canopy will be operational in at least another month, with at least 15 more artificial canopy bases being put into use simultaneously. In addition, the 45 bases that the Abyss has been holding back and not connecting to the artificial canopy will provide a capacity of at least 1550 billion people.

An hour later, Lin Rui, piloting the 'Divine Source' exoskeleton armor that had undergone final adjustments and enhancements, arrived at the lava lake with the Divine Mechanic Angel and the Supreme Immortal Venerable.

Luo Wangshu remained in the temporary base.

There was a line on the back of Lin Rui's exoskeleton armor, the end of which was connected to a formation base plate under Luo Wangshu.

This foundation not only facilitated Luo Wangshu's perception of Lin Rui's situation, but also served as a tool for her to instill the truth of the law.

Tai Xuan Immortal Venerable stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the lava lake below with great apprehension: "This armor should be fine, it can last for about 20 minutes, but Your Majesty still needs to pay close attention to the armor and your own mental state. If things go wrong, you must evacuate as soon as possible."

The tentacles of the 'Origin World' that have reached into the Celestial Star World are mainly located in the Divine Pivot City, about 7,000 kilometers away from it.

The one-third of the root that the Supreme Celestial Venerable severed in the past was actually one-third of these tentacles.

However, to enter the 'Origin World', one does not necessarily have to go through the Divine Pivot City. Three miles below the lava lake where they are, there is actually a tentacle of the 'Origin World' reaching into the Celestial Star.

Tai Xuan Immortal Venerable was extremely wary of the Root Source. If Lin Rui hadn't had a purification method, he would never have wanted to come to this place so close to the Root Source.

Lin Rui nodded, then piloted the divine source armor into the lava lake.

Lin Rui piloted the "Divine Source" exoskeleton armor and slowly submerged into the bottom of the lava lake. The surrounding magma was like a raging sea of ​​fire, but the extreme high temperature of tens of thousands of degrees could not shake the armor in the slightest.

He quickly found the tentacle of the 'Origin World'. The surface of this thing shimmered with an eerie light, as if it were breathing, pulsating rhythmically, seemingly beckoning Lin Rui, or perhaps hiding endless danger, emanating a chilling aura.

As Lin Rui approached the tentacle, a powerful pulling force suddenly struck, as if it would swallow him whole.

Lin Rui remained expressionless, maneuvering the armor to follow the power and merge directly into it.

Suddenly, the scene before him changed, and a chaotic, bizarre world appeared in his field of vision.

The 'Divine Source' armor emitted a buzzing warning sound, and the runes on its surface shone brightly, doing its best to resist the powerful alien forces around it.

The sky here is a chaotic mix of colors, all intertwined, twisting and churning, like paint being stirred up at will.

The ground was devoid of familiar soil and rocks; instead, it was filled with constantly flowing, ever-changing fluids of energy, sometimes like surging waves, sometimes like solidified gel, exuding a chilling aura.

A thin layer of mist permeated the surrounding space. This mist was not ordinary water vapor, but rather a mixture of countless chaotic thoughts, emotions, and conceptual forces.

As soon as Lin Rui entered, he felt a sharp pain in his mind. All sorts of chaotic thoughts surged in like a tide: anger, fear, greed, and despair—these negative emotions were like countless sharp needles, piercing his soul.

"This must be the ultimate emotion that the Root World has absorbed from the beings of Celestial Star over the past hundreds of thousands of years—"

Lin Rui remained expressionless, releasing beams of clear light to resist the erosion of the surrounding emotional pollution.

At this moment, Luo Wangshu's concept of truth also enveloped his exoskeleton armor, helping him resist contamination.

Lin Rui also sensed that there were invisible eyes watching him from all directions, and powerful yet eerie auras were surging in from all sides.

Countless spiritual entities slowly emerged from the surrounding energy fluid. They took on various forms, some resembling ferocious beasts, others like distorted human figures, and still others like flickering lights and shadows, radiating a mysterious glow while exuding an aura of decay and decay.

"Could this be the 'spirit' left behind after that ascended race went extinct?" Lin Rui thought to himself, on high alert.

Although most of these spirits had lost consciousness, their instinctive greed and aggression made them see Lin Rui as an intruder, and they all let out sharp roars and pounced on him.

Lin Rui immediately used his fundamental concept to defend his primordial spirit, and holy white flames ignited outside his body at the same time. A large number of mysterious runes also appeared on the surface of his armor to resist the invasion of these spirits.

However, a piercing alarm still emanated from inside the armor.

Lin Rui narrowed his eyes, thinking that Tai Xuan and Shenhui's estimates were too optimistic. This armor would hardly last 15 minutes, let alone 20 minutes.

However, those fifteen minutes were enough for him to do a lot of things—such as recording preliminary concepts.

At this moment, a spirit left behind by an extinct ascended race suddenly appeared.

Its shape was indistinct, and it exuded a powerful sense of oppression. Its empty eyes seemed to see through everything.

The spirit let out a silent roar and lunged at Lin Rui. The surface of the 'Divine Source' armor immediately went into maximum power mode, forming a golden shield, but it still could not resist the spirit's erosion and penetration.

Lin Rui's heart tightened as he felt a dark golden sword light suddenly erupt from between his eyebrows, pulverizing the powerful spirit into dust.

"Is it Master, the Sword of Truth?"

Lin Rui felt much calmer; this was the value of having his master oversee things.

If he relied solely on this armor, he would likely be corroded and contaminated by now.

However, at the same time, Lin Rui also had a strange feeling, as if he himself was a part of the Root, and he also vaguely sensed the blurry and chaotic will of this vast, activated world—

Lin Rui knew the origin of this feeling, so he didn't pay attention to it. He opened his True Heavenly Eye and continued to observe his surroundings. The first thing he saw was those concepts. Countless intersecting conceptual forces were tangled together like a tangled mess, forming invisible chains, walls, and vortexes. Some flashed by like lightning, carrying an aura of destruction; others were like soft tentacles or invisible threads, wrapping around the armor.

Some conceptual forces made him feel that time had slowed down incredibly, as if every second had been stretched into endless years; some conceptual forces made him have an illusion of spatial direction, and what was originally a forward direction became backward in his perception; and some concepts even interfered with his thoughts and actions with the slightest contact.

The collision and fusion of more than two thousand conceptual forces produced a variety of strange phenomena that left Lin Rui dazzled.

The next task for Lin Rui is to integrate the parts of these concepts that are not affected by divine suppression with his own Martial Intent.

This job is a bit like being a maintenance worker in a computer room, connecting and integrating countless messy lines, which requires not only a lot of time but also a great deal of meticulousness and patience.

Before that, the first thing he needed to do in the world was to inscribe his martial intent and his concept of 'One'!

(End of this chapter)