Devouring the Stars: Rising from the Snow Eagle System

Hunyuan Space.

Although Zhou Lin can use cause and effect to descend to various regions, the Record Corridor is not a place he can explore right now, so he still needs the starlight to guide him.

Only after fully experiencing the Starburst Main Battle Avatar's journey did Zhou Lin understand why the God Emperor couldn't withstand it.

That speed transcends infinity, transcends the concepts of time and space, as if leaping across a map, able to traverse endless distances in the blink of an eye.

“I originally thought that reclaiming the territory would not go smoothly, but in the future I see, those ancestors are very wary of you,” Starlight said with a smile.

Zhou Lin's strength has been thoroughly investigated, and the terrifying talent he has displayed has made many progenitors tremble.

Especially that sword strike that entered the progenitor's camp.

The boundless sword energy tore through everything. At that time, Zhou Lin had absolutely no array support, yet he still managed to kill the Ancestor single-handedly, accomplishing the greatest feat in the Hunyuan Space.

How many people could possibly survive against him and Xingmang?
Most factions will choose to return it. Perhaps the Ice Peak faction will argue back, but they will understand that circumstances are beyond their control.

"You seized my territory, killed my people, and now you want to return the territory to settle the karma?" Zhou Lin replied, "These karmas will be repaid one day."

Xingmang was stunned. He knew Zhou Lin's personality before; he had never been so righteous and indignant.

Little did he know how much the causes and effects of all living beings, and their wishes, would influence Zhou Lin. According to Zhou Lin's understanding, if he continued down this path, he might have a chance to achieve the Chaotic Origin Soul Path.

As the two chatted and laughed, a separate space-time appeared before them.

This spacetime distortion is extremely large, and its location is very hidden. If Zhou Lin were to search for it on his own, he probably wouldn't find it even after billions of years.

"I sensed a causal calling within space and time." After Zhou Lin and Xingmang entered, a sudden longing arose in his heart.

That was the ultimate desire.

Soon, a corridor appeared before Zhou Lin's eyes.

Although it was called a corridor, it was billions of times more magnificent than the long river of time in the Origin World. He felt countless intertwined causes and effects, and perhaps even the charm of time and space.
"This is truly the supreme sacred ground of cause and effect!" Zhou Lin exclaimed in awe.

Standing in this recording corridor, one can overlook any place in the endless primordial space; similar functions exist in medium-level mysterious places.

Xingmang did not urge Zhou Lin, but waited for him to slowly look at the various carvings on both sides of the corridor. The most original scene was the Demon Ruins, where these two were first born.

Ultimate attack, ultimate defense.

Only the Hunyuan Space could give birth to such a miraculous life form.

“That’s Elder Brother.” Zhou Lin pointed to the carving in front of him. It was also of great significance to the Hunyuan Space, as it represented the first supreme powerhouse born from the Origin World.

Yuan left the Origin World and from then on shouldered the responsibility for countless beings in the Origin World. In those endless dark years, he was the hope of all living beings.

Therefore, Zhou Lin experienced the most cause and effect through Yuan.

All seven lords are in debt of primordial energy, and all living beings are also in debt of primordial energy. It's just that he himself does not cultivate cause and effect; otherwise, with endless cause and effect weighing on him, he would very likely have mastered the Record Corridor.

After that, lords such as Jin and Minghuang were born one after another.

The birth of an ordinary progenitor is not something worth recording in the Hunyuan Space. Over the long years, progenitors of this caliber often perish, and new progenitors are born.

The last scene in the corridor is Zhou Lin killing the progenitor.

“In the Hunyuan Space, you may not be the only one who can kill the progenitor in a one-on-one fight. I, Shazhou, Moxu, Kafshu, and Mogus all have this ability.”

Starlight also acted as the commentator: "But their ability to escape is also very strong, so you are still the first lord to accomplish this feat in such a long time."

Zhou Lin nodded, his desire for the altar growing stronger. He immediately stepped inside, with Xingmang following behind.

The altar was extremely grand and massive, engraved with various ancient and mysterious patterns.

As soon as Zhou Lin stepped inside, he saw a series of illusory images flashing by, including a sand boat, the Infinite Serpent Ancestor, and even a scene of Luo Feng in the future.

"Luo Feng," Zhou Lin murmured, "I suppose he should be becoming a lord soon. When that happens, our cultivators will be even stronger, and we can consider declaring war on the innate chaotic life form once again."

In the past, fighting was a way to hone oneself.

Zhou Lin now wishes he could slaughter all the primordial beings in the Origin World who dared to devour it as soon as possible.

“You really are a warmonger,” Starlight chuckled. “After we finish touring this corridor of records, I’m going to deal with Mogus. Perhaps you can come with me.”

Mentioning Mogus, Starlight's smile turned cold.

This immortal ancestor had a particular fondness for devouring the souls of beings from the source world.

"We have to deal with him." Zhou Lin had also heard about Mogus's deeds, especially the fact that before the birth of the Starburst, cultivators could only let him devour them without any recourse.

The soul can exist within any mortal being, and the starlight can only erase its power as much as possible.

To truly annihilate him? Perhaps only after Zhou Lin masters the Chaotic Origin Soul Dao and has a means of restraint can this be achieved.

"After opening the altar, you can stay inside and keep records with the source. Perhaps you will have the opportunity to take control of this mysterious place."

Xingmang was very reasonable: "Zhou Lin, we'll take turns entering, each for a million epochs of time. Whoever can control it will own it."

Without Zhou Lin, Xingmang wouldn't have been able to get in.

He could help Luo Feng after Luo Feng was born, but what kind of relationship did Luo Feng have with Zhou Lin? If Luo Feng knew about a mysterious place centered on the Dao of Cause and Effect, why wouldn't he tell Zhou Lin?

So after much deliberation, Xingmang took the initiative to approach Zhou Lin.

The lord is not entirely selfless; if Starburst himself could come in and try to take control, he certainly wouldn't have revealed such a thing.

"A naturally born chaotic life form, has anyone ever entered here?" Zhou Lin really didn't want to take advantage of Xingmang, since Xingmang had always helped and cared for him during his God King era.

From the most basic cause and effect perspective, Zhou Lin owes Yuan more.

Deep down, Zhou Lin was very grateful to Xingmang, and he felt that he needed to pay a heavy price to repay the debt of karma in his heart.

“No.” Xingmang said confidently, “With their level of cultivation, how could they possibly enter the Records Corridor? You are underestimating the Dual Chaos Origin Path.”

With the dual-source starlight, even at 70% of his strength, he is comparable to an ordinary lord.

But that only destroys power. In actual combat, various aspects such as functionality need to be considered. Starburst's skills are so outstanding that in a one-on-one fight, even Sha Zhou couldn't select him.

“Alright, Brother Xingmang, I’ll provide you with the energy. You can go in first, and I’ll come back after a million epochs.” Zhou Lin insisted that Xingmang go first.

If Starlight can refine the Record Corridor within a million epochs, then this mysterious place should belong to him.

"Thank you very much." Xingmang did not refuse and directly burned his main battle clone. The vast energy pierced through billions of miles of space, and the aura was extremely terrifying.

Zhou Lin released a continuous stream of world energy from within his body, filling his body with it.

With the energy boost, Xingmang was finally able to open the altar, which contained a book. He sent an ordinary clone inside to stay there. The main combat clone still had many things to do.

"Mission accomplished!" Xingmang was very excited. He had finally seen the possibility of mastering a mid-level mysterious place, which was one of the few places where he could improve his strength.

To attain enlightenment, one must unite one's heart with the Dao. Xingmang knew very well that he had no chance of comprehending the third Hunyuan Dao.

His next direction must also rely on powerful external forces.

"If I stay here for three centuries, we can still kill Mogus, right?" Zhou Lin was a little reluctant to leave for the time being.

He comprehended the causal forces recorded in the corridor, and various flashes of inspiration began to emerge in his mind. With the mindset of a lord, he comprehended the Dao, and his improvement speed was incredibly fast.

The core of this mysterious place is cause and effect.

"Zhou Lin, do you think there's a difference in the levels of Dao?" Xingmang suddenly asked.

Some might think that the Dao is the Dao, and any path, when taken to its extreme, is powerful, with no distinction between high and low. But Zhou Lin replied directly: "Yes."

Starlight also agreed with this view: "Megus, with his supreme power alone, is strong enough to rank among the top ten in the Chaos Origin Space. Other progenitors don't have that ability."

If Mogus were to master just one more supreme power, he could catch up with Starlight and Sandboat in no time.

The path of the soul is indeed the path of those who are truly superior to others.

"It's not just the Dao of the Soul." Zhou Lin and Xing Mang are now almost on par in terms of their level of understanding, and both have their own insights into the Dao: "The Dao of the Void within the Cage is excessively strong even at the same level."

The Void Path is one of the nine strongest clones of the same level.

The cycle of birth and death, and the fusion of time and space, are even more exaggerated within the confines of this cage.

As for outside the cage, Zhou Lin's single path is comparable to dual paths. Even if they were all single paths, Jin, Minghuang, Moman, and Wulan's strength was not as good as Yuan's.

And there's Naigu in the future.

“In my view, cause and effect belong to a higher level of Dao.” Xingmang said self-deprecatingly, “I call myself an observer of the Chaotic Origin Space, but the truly advanced means of observation are not space and time.”

The core of the record corridor is cause and effect, the billions of causes and effects woven together by the vast number of living beings in the Hunyuan space.

Countless beings will evolve endless causes and effects, and each timeline will repeat this process again. This is the fundamental reason why the corridor flashes with the future.

After the two stayed in the recording corridor for several centuries, Xingmang finally left with Zhou Lin.

The territory recovery went smoothly, and they were just waiting for the final negotiations with the Ice Peak faction, so Zhou Lin and Xingmang set off to hunt down Mogus.

“You should be the only one who can hunt down Mogus with me.”

After leaving the recording corridor, Starlight did not rush to act: "Give me some time. I want to search for all traces of Mogus in countless timelines of the past and future."

Finding Mogus is very difficult; only Starbringer can do it.

Zhou Lin said helplessly, "I haven't had any direct contact with Mogus yet. Although I have karmic ties with countless beings, I still have no way to find him."

His current path is very strange.

Normally, this kind of three-part proportion would be extremely strange, resulting in nothing standing out and becoming ordinary.

However, the addition of the illusory realm actually made the three-proportion Hunyuan Dao extremely powerful, with its causality and world strength comparable to that of a normal Hunyuan Dao.

Not to mention the mysteries of the soul.

If Zhou Lin were to comprehend another Chaos Origin Dao, he would be able to use the karma of any living being to find any life form in the Chaos Origin Space.

"Found it, let's go." Xingmang led Zhou Lin and they set off instantly, crossing the map and quickly arriving at a desolate area from the record corridor.

Mogus was unwilling to devour the primordial, undifferentiated realm of life.

The original worlds within those territories were in ruins, and the beings born there contained very little essence and were extremely few in number.

"You ran pretty fast," Xingmang said coldly, then in the blink of an eye, he carried Zhou Lin across an endless distance. He had already seen all the traces left by Mogus.

The two were pursuing various spiritual forces.

Mogus was also clever; it never engaged in direct combat with Starburst.

Even with his supreme level of soul power, which he was so proud of, he couldn't choose the starlight, and there were many ancestors stronger than him in terms of killing power alone.

Swish!Swish!Swish!
Each of the starlight's teleportations traversed the diameters of several world clusters, dazzling Zhou Lin. He hadn't even sensed any trace of Morgus's existence yet.

"No wonder it's said that before the birth of the Starburst, the lords were completely helpless against Mogus and could only let him devour the beings of the Source World." Zhou Lin had vaguely sensed the power of the soul.

It is far more advanced than the soul power he currently possesses.

After traversing hundreds of world clusters, the starlight suddenly struck the void ahead, causing a surge in spacetime power that shattered an area tens of thousands of times the diameter of the source world.

Like a shattered mirror, countless fragments of spacetime strangled the wisps of gray soul power.

"Ah!!!" Mogus screamed in agony. He was furious with the naturally born chaotic life form race. What happened to the promise to exterminate cultivators?

Before it could devour many souls, it was already being hunted down by the starlight.

Mogus was helpless. Every time he consumed some souls, the starlight would destroy most of his power, causing his progress to be extremely slow.

“This?…” Zhou Lin looked at those soul powers, which were completely different from the souls he knew. They were filled with illusions, endless desires, and a desire for control.

But he didn't have time to comprehend it in detail; he immediately began to analyze the various causes and effects based on his strength.

Swish!
In a split second, Magus escaped once again.

He would not disperse all his power unless absolutely necessary, because while that would end the pursuit, it would certainly wipe out 99% of his strength.

Escape slowly, kill slowly; Starburst can kill up to 97%.

“Soul power is the most invisible.” With a flick of his finger, Xingmang froze a vast world in front of him, freezing billions of living beings: “Don’t use such methods, Mogus.”

"Damn it, damn it!" Mogus was furious. The Starburst attack banished billions of beings to other dimensions, making them unable to be selected.

To prevent a Lord-level life form from being chosen, Starburst doesn't yet possess the strength of Na, but it's quite easy for a mere group of God-Kings and God-Emperors.

"Can we attack him?" Starlight pursued him calmly, while Mogus escaped quickly as well.

“Don’t rush, I’m studying causality.” Zhou Lin replied, “I just tried world coverage, but it couldn’t bind me at all. It seems that only a causal killing move can work.”

Mogus coldly sneered, "New lord, do you think you can join Starburst in attacking me with your methods? Save your breath." (End of Chapter)