Devouring the Stars: Rising from the Snow Eagle System

Chapter 305 Lord of Hunyuan
No one knows how Zhou Lin manages to maintain this state.

They were infinitely close to death, their will had not broken through, but they managed to withstand the world-class pollution, which even the lords did not understand.

Perhaps only Mogus in the entire Hunyuan Space can understand it.

"Freedom..." Zhou Lin unconsciously murmured the word. He always remembered that the essence of the soul is freedom, and he never forgot it even when he was tainted by endless illusions.

As long as his thought remains, his soul will never perish.

Once this breath dissipates, Zhou Lin will instantly die and vanish.

In those illusions, where the real and the unreal intertwine infinitely, he never forgets who he is, no matter how long it has been, whether it is billions, trillions, or hundreds of millions of years.

Although the mind may be polluted, the soul becomes increasingly clear!
World-class primordial pollution targets the mind, memory, and soul, but what ingenuity does Infinite Serpent possess in the realm of the soul?

The vast majority of them rely on willpower to crush their opponents, and on the overwhelming power of their infinite memories and information. Even the minds of lords have their limits, let alone the God Emperor.

Only then could Zhou Lin maintain a sliver of clarity in his soul, allowing his soul and will to be completely independent, calmly observing the scenes unfolding within the illusion.

The beings devoured by the infinite serpent ranged from mortals to perfected god-emperors; their lives, whether short or long, were all extraordinary in their own way.

An ordinary life can be just as wonderful.

Needless to say, cultivators were even more so; Zhou Lin was searching for his own reflection in them.

His first battle, his first kill, his first apprenticeship—these scenes filled him with a myriad of emotions, and every moment of his cultivation journey was so fascinating.

Various technological civilizations and cultivation civilizations have emerged one after another, and they have also sparked brilliant ideas. However, these are only the tip of the iceberg in the cultivation camp.

The emotions of all living beings influenced Zhou Lin. At this moment, the illusion and reality merged. He smiled and said, "The illusion is also real. These beings all have their own joys and sorrows, loves and hates. Wonderful, wonderful."

Hatred and despair could no longer affect him in the slightest.

A vast and boundless illusory realm descended, but it quickly shrank to envelop Zhou Lin's entire body, like a cocoon, with various illusions emerging inside.

The level of the illusion also gradually began to increase.

From illusion to reality, it perfects its various structures and can also bear increasingly powerful illusionary killing moves. Illusion becomes reality, and reality is also a kind of illusion.

"Huh?!!" Yuan opened his mouth in surprise. He knew that Zhou Lin had a high level of attainment in the path of the soul, even reaching the second level of the God King realm, and had also fused four meridians.

According to Xingmang, Zhou Lin would reach the ultimate soul realm, but he never imagined such a scene would occur. What was that cocoon-like illusion?
Completely beyond Yuan's comprehension, he carefully examined the various images on the body's surface. He wondered if he had been in the cage, Zhou Lin would have brought him to the point of almost losing his fighting ability.

"I will use the thoughts, wishes, desires, and causes and effects of all beings to evolve my ultimate illusion." Zhou Lin silently promised: "Although some source worlds have been destroyed, I swear that I will do everything in my power to revive you."

Even a Lord of Chaos cannot resurrect beings who did not belong to their own Origin World, let alone those Origin Worlds, many of which have already completely disappeared.

The Wan Que Origin World is relatively better, as Zhou Lin already has a native avatar in that world, which he can take over after breaking through. However, there is no way to manage most other Origin Worlds.

This path may be endlessly long, or it may never be realized, but Zhou Lin will certainly strive for it.

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Thirty epochs had passed in the outside world, but Zhou Lin had gone through countless reincarnations, and the level of that illusion had become higher and higher, more and more perfect.

The five veins of the Void Realm began to slowly merge. This time, Zhou Lin forged his own path entirely on his own, discarding the mysteries of those innate chaotic life forms.

The original Dao was gradually discovered by our predecessors and sages. Unable to obtain low-level Chaos Origin corpses, they observed all things in heaven and earth and imitated the original Dao.

The same applies to the path of the soul; all beings are fundamental, so what do other vessels matter?
The answer is that it doesn't matter at all. A true ultimate soul can freely merge into the origin of the world, and as long as the world exists, it will not perish.

boom!
The light of the soul suddenly blazed brightly!

What a dazzling light it was! It emanated from Zhou Lin's cave and instantly swept across the entire Primordial Land. All the high-level Chaos Origin beings and world-class Chaos Origin beings looked up to watch.

"What is that?!" Sirius suddenly looked up. Even those who were cultivating in their own caves could see this light of the soul. In terms of quality and quantity, this soul was inferior to his.

But in terms of level, she is far superior to him!

The seven avatars of the lords Yuan, Xingmang, Naigu, Moman, Jin, Minghuang, and Wulan also stepped out. They gazed at the pale golden light and smiled with satisfaction.

"The ultimate realm of the soul." Minghuang laughed, "The path of the soul is truly special. To have such divine charm at the ultimate realm, I believe I would have been instantly killed by him during my God Emperor era."

"Don't even mention you, I'm the same way." Xingmang waved his hand, naturally entering the endless spacetime layer, and then grasped a few wisps of soul light.

Only Starburst possesses such miraculous abilities.

The other lords were simply unable to capture this light of the soul.

“Every ray of light is his mark.” Xingmang magnified the light particles in his hand, revealing them to be the image of Zhou Lin’s soul: “The ultimate soul realm is indeed very special.”

The lords were very excited.

According to the future seen by Xingmang, as long as Zhou Lin reaches the ultimate soul realm, it won't be long before he becomes the Lord of Hunyuan!
At this moment, Zhou Lin withdrew all his soul light. Unlike Dongbo Xueying, when he broke through, he had unconsciously released all his power.

When a normal, fundamental Dao breaks through to the ultimate realm, it can shake the source world even without deliberately suppressing movement or stillness, let alone the Dao of the Soul.

"My thinking speed is much faster than before, and my soul has transformed, and my will is comparable to a world-class Hunyuan." Zhou Lin carefully experienced this change.

Most importantly, the moment his soul broke through to the ultimate realm, his Yuan Shi Dao also reached the semi-primordial state, and the two naturally merged.

In just a few billion years, he will be able to break through the laws of magic and become the Lord of Hunyuan.

"The mysteries of the semi-primordial world actually require the intervention of another force to maintain stability." Zhou Lin also understood why he had been unable to succeed for so long.

The God Emperor's Perfect World is inherently perfect in its structure, and it can remain stable after incorporating cause and effect, without any problems even in the later stages of the God Emperor's reign.

To reach the semi-primordial level, one must integrate another power, which doesn't necessarily have to be the Void Realm. If Zhou Lin is skilled in other paths, that's fine too.

The most stable structure is one where the three forces are mutually inclusive and harmonious.

Such a world can be considered the ultimate perfection within the cage. To break free from the cage requires achieving perfection in a higher dimension, while the semi-chaotic origin is perfection within the cage.

Neither of these two forces can maintain world stability.

This is why the original world cannot be created now.

He merely manipulated the rules, combined them with the mysteries of the Hunyuan level, and incorporated the primordial system to create the Origin World. At that time, his Yuanlun strength was still inferior to Luo Feng's. However, in terms of stability and inclusiveness, he far surpassed Luo Feng.

"Zhou Lin, you absolutely mustn't rush back to refine the Origin World," Xingmang specifically instructed. "Your soul breakthrough caused too much of a commotion; no one in the Primordial Land is allowed to leave right now."

It's not that there were traitors in the original land, but that once you leave, there's a possibility that the progenitor will discover you.

The refining of a source world also caused a great stir. When a source world is unclaimed, it is extremely loose, and even a strong ancestor can destroy it instantly.

Once it has a master, it can gather all its power to rival the progenitor.

Zhou Lin quietly awaited the process of breaking the law with force. After his soul and body merged, the path was pointed out to him, and he didn't need to spend any effort to comprehend it.

A normal simulation will suffice.

Xingmang personally intervened, activating a billion-fold acceleration for Zhou Lin and consuming a bunch of treasures to enhance his soul and mind, turning what was originally billions of years into a billion years.

With a speedup of a billion times, only ten years have passed in the outside world.

For the Lord Ancestor War, this might just be a matter of time before they could make their move. They were all very patient and provided Zhou Lin with information about their own tactics and the methods of the Ancestors.

The path of the soul and body merging was too smooth, and Zhou Lin's semi-primordial world path naturally began to break through, with various secret patterns outlining and countless inspirations flashing.

"An unprecedented three-proportion Hunyuan Dao." Every lord was looking forward to it. Zhou Lin had just broken the law with force, so he might not be very strong.

But he is a monster who has the potential to comprehend the three Hunyuan Daos.

Not to mention that there is a supreme soul among the three Hunyuan Paths.

Even with his highest level of soul power, Mogus could rank among the top ten in the Chaos Origin Space. Before the birth of the Star Lord, no life form could do anything to him.

"My karmic path is 50% world, 30% cause and effect, and the remaining 20% ​​is the illusory realm."

After cultivating for over forty million years, Zhou Lin had accurately determined the proportions of his Hunyuan Dao and could see the subsequent path. With the harmonization of the illusory realm, it would be easy to traverse.

If Zhou Lin hadn't broken through to the ultimate realm of his soul, he might not have found the way even after billions of years, and he would never have imagined that the Half-Chaotic Origin World required the harmony of three forces.

This is different from the cycle of birth and death; life can pursue extremes, but the world cannot.

Soon, ten years had passed in the outside world.

"Is this the complete Dao of Fate?" Zhou Lin stared at a speck of dust in his hand, which was the material manifestation of his Dao. It looked like dust, but in fact it was the condensation of an infinite world.

The world is contained within a tiny speck of dust, containing endless secret patterns, with rules governing its operation and harmony, and a fundamental source sustaining it.

The golden light of the soul emanates from the outer ring, accompanied by a vast world sea and endless causal lines. This is the materialization of Zhou Lin's Hunyuan Dao, far surpassing the single Dao of other lords.

The three-part Hunyuan Dao is still a Dao mixed with the soul.

"No wonder they say the lords are immortal." Zhou Lin also understood that the lords' immortality was a concrete manifestation of their existence, and it didn't depend on the source world at all.

He used to believe that a world-class Chaos Origin could rival a Lord within the Origin World, so a Lord was absolutely invincible in the Origin World, and even the combined forces of the Primordial Ancestors could not threaten him.

Zhou Lin now understood that the lord's way is the lord himself.

Far above the highest rules, eternal and indestructible, even if all things perish and the primordial space is destroyed, the Lord's Dao will still exist.

All dimensions of space and time are absolutely eternal.

Zhou Lin began to draw energy from the original place to construct his divine body. The endless energy was absorbed into his body, and the deepest part of his divine body was the Origin World.

The source world operates according to rules and possesses profound mysteries. The source world within Zhou Lin's body is somewhat lacking in mysteries, but in terms of sheer energy, it is truly no less powerful than a normal source world.

This is also Zhou Lin's greatest source of energy. Even with his Lord-level physical body, he can no longer create more worlds; he can only maintain one complete source world.

A complete Origin World provides great assistance. Once Zhou Lin's cultivation level is higher, combined with the Ancestral Body, he will be able to easily create a normal Origin World.

Putting aside hardness, the energy reserves of all lords are far inferior to those of a complete source world, not even those of the future creator of the World Heart Continent.

Apart from the vast world deep within his divine body, Zhou Lin's physical energy reserves are approximately one-eighth of Wu Lan's.

If you include that, it far exceeds the value of Wulan.

"How can he absorb so much energy?!" Naigu blinked.

The energy of the original land was terrifying, but at this moment it was being frantically absorbed by Zhou Lin. The energy vortex covered the sky and the sun, far exceeding the sum of the eight lords.

The lords were unaware that Zhou Lin was absorbing energy to evolve the source world within his main battle avatar; they assumed he could store that much energy on his own.

"Isn't he the Dao of the World? How come he seems even more exaggerated than the Dao of Life?" Minghuang was also surprised: "His energy reserves alone are more than all of ours combined."

After becoming a lord, Zhou Lin also had a main battle clone, which was different from the weak clone. He originally wanted to try to open up a source world for the weak clone.

However, non-combat avatars could hardly withstand the strain, so Zhou Lin could only simplify the world's structure as much as possible, turning it into a miniature version of the Holy Realm, so that the weaker avatars could quickly recover their combat power.

"Such terrifying energy," Jin murmured. "If he can store so much energy in just one path, then his killing ability must be incredibly powerful, right?"

"Perhaps," Xingmang smiled slightly. "We'll know once he makes his move."

Zhou Lin stood in the quiet room of the cave, his posture not particularly exaggerated. He held the Sword of Judgment in his hand and wore a magnificent robe.

Having just broken through, Zhou Lin still needs to consolidate his strength.

For example, his previous moves seemed weak from a lord's perspective, and he needed to refine various details and create a killer move.

“My strength should be about the same as Xingmang’s.” Zhou Lin arrived at the lakeside of the original land and met with the seven lords.

His first words left everyone somewhat bewildered.

"Your strength is about the same as Starburst's?!" Jin repeated.

“That’s starlight,” Minghuang emphasized. “He’s a master of dual Chaos Origin Paths and a controller of mysterious lands. Can you really be about as strong as him?”

How could someone become this strong right after breaking through? One Chaos Origin Path is comparable to two Chaos Origin Paths of Star Brilliance. Even the most knowledgeable lords were quite shocked.

(End of this chapter)