C2344 Three Things at Once
"Open," Yu Yuan commanded.
A pattern of flames materialized on his broad forehead, emanating a divine might capable of twisting the very rules of existence. Deep within his sea of consciousness, the Soul Altar flared to life, revealing the ultimate secrets of the world's myriad flames.
The Blazing Fire suddenly realized it had lost its dominion over the Earthfire. At Yu Yuan's command, the sea of fire that had already parted now receded even further, leaving no flame to obstruct his path to the Heart of the Everlands.
In this moment, Yu Yuan's Soul Altar within his sea of consciousness stood as a formidable force, capable of contending with the Blazing Fire itself.
Crack!
More violent lightning surged beneath Yu Yuan's feet, morphing into thunder dragons of apocalyptic might. Observing the dragons, refined from pure lightning, Yu Yuan flashed a grin and exhaled a breath of vital essence. Instantly, the thunder dragons gained flesh and bone, transforming into a continuous chain of dragons circling him.
The thunder dragons became tangible in an instant!
This act of creation, turning lightning into living thunder dragons, astonished Dark Phoenix Zhiya and left Lin Daoke with a stunned expression. The look in his eyes shifted as he gazed upon Yu Yuan.
"Haha," Yu Yuan chuckled, his real body standing proudly on the Dragon Slaying Stage. From the depths of his brow, the topmost tenth level of the Soul Altar emerged.
The Blood Altar, unexpanded, resembled a blood crystal the size of a fingernail nestled between his eyes. Within this tiny Blood Altar, there lay a miniature Tree of Life, a crimson stalactite, and a vibrant red heart!
Thump! Thump! Thump!
The heart beat softly within the Blood Altar, yet its rhythm left Zhiya reeling, forcing her to cough up blood in the vastness outside the Everlands.
Lin Daoke watched her with a puzzled look, wondering why she was so overwhelmed that she couldn't even withstand the heartbeat emanating from the blood crystal between Yu Yuan's brows.
"You don't understand. You never will!" Zhiya cried out in terror.
She was now utterly convinced that Yu Yuan held the power of life and death over her through the pulsating heart within the Blood Altar. If Yu Yuan willed her to live, she would live. If he desired her death, her heart would burst, and she would dissolve into a mere puddle of blood.
This was an all-encompassing suppression!
Confronted with the Origin Realm, embodying the pinnacle of life's bloodline, Zhiya had no strength left to resist; she was at its mercy.
Overcome with terror, Zhiya's only desire was to flee far away and to leave the Ashlands at once.
She managed to make it partway across the Star River, yet she discovered that the Blood Altar at Yu Yuan's brow was unaffected by the distance of the Star River!
Whether in the true Abyss, the Origin Realm, or the Wasteland, no matter where she fled, she could not break free from Yu Yuan's grasp.
Ultimately, she resigned herself to her fate.
"How can this be? After all my hard work and sacrifice, why is there still such an enormous gap between us?!"
Zhiya murmured in a state of shock, her spirit deeply shaken, feeling that surpassing Yu Yuan was an impossibility.
"The Heart of the Everlands is none other than the heart of the Old Titan Spinosaurus. Every Bloodline Revelation within it originates from this realm's Primal Blood."
Yu Yuan beamed as he gazed at the heart that shimmered like a crystal sphere.
A burst of bloody radiance emanated from the Blood Altar between his eyebrows, casting its glow upon the Heart of the Everlands.
The scarlet bloodlines that meandered across the crystal's surface grew still beneath the bloody light from his brow.
It was as if countless serpentine rivulets of blood had been extinguished in a moment.
A crisp crackling echoed from the stalactite-like Primordial Dao Elephant within the Blood Altar.
With the sound, the crystal heart enshrouding the deepest reaches of the Everlands, along with the green and black soul sea, began to fracture.
"This is the Way of Heaven's complete suppression."
Yu Yuan, with an air of calm, leaned the Dragon Slaying Stage against the crystalline Heart of the Everlands and reached out slowly.
"Shouldn't your fourth All Spirits Ban be making its appearance now?"
He hummed softly, his hand inching ever closer to the Heart of the Everlands.
He was aware that without the emergence of a new All Spirits Ban, the Heart of the Everlands, encasing the Primal Soul of the Abyss, would crumble under the power of his Blood Altar.
And indeed, it did.
A resplendent light, long hidden within the Heart of the Everlands, suddenly burst forth, enveloping the crystalline heart in a dazzling display and forming a brand-new All Spirits Ban.
The fourth All Spirits Ban swiftly materialized!
Huu! Huu! Huu!
With the emergence of the new All Spirits Ban, the cosmic energy surrounding the Everlands was irresistibly drawn in, furiously infusing itself into the ban.
However, numerous magic power halos left by Bertain were also manipulating the cosmic energy, preventing both the Earthfire and the newly emerged All Spirits Ban from unrestrainedly gathering the cosmic energy within the Ashlands.
"All Spirits Ban!"
"Yet another All Spirits Ban!"
Zhiya and Lin Daoke were internally screaming in astonishment, utterly stunned by the sight.
They had witnessed the fearsome nature of such seals in the Wasteland and the true Abyss.
The All Spirits Ban signified his presence; only something of paramount importance would be encased by it.
The appearance of the All Spirits Ban also indicated that he would soon manifest and make his presence known.
Neither Zhiya nor Lin Daoke had anticipated the existence of an All Spirits Ban hidden within the Heart of the Everlands.
It was only now that they realized an All Spirits Ban had always been there, never fully revealed.
Even Yu Yuan himself had been unaware of it, as the All Spirits Ban had not been fully refined.
Yet, he was certain that another All Spirits Ban was secretly safeguarding the Heart of the Everlands!
Within the Heart of the Everlands lay the fusion of spiritual sense, Soul Power, and rule – the origin of his being. After awakening, he would never overlook the Heart of the Everlands.
Blazing fire was clearly not his ultimate or most formidable support.
He would always place the greatest trust in his own power.
"It's just like you to figure that out," came a voice as a wraith unexpectedly materialized.
On the crystal-clear surface of the Heart of the Everlands, all traces of bloodline light and electricity vanished, yet it remained detached and serene.
The bloodline mysteries that Yu Yuan had extracted from the beings of the Everlands and the Solar Spirit were now utterly suppressed following Yu Yuan's offering at the Blood Altar.
Any force related to bloodlines, life, and vital energy belonged exclusively to Yu Yuan's domain!
In his presence, anyone daring to meddle with the essence of these powers would be as foolish as brandishing a broadsword before Guan Yu.
"I know you can merge with every All Spirits Ban, but now... you shouldn't be able to," Yu Yuan said with a sneer.
His phantom, emerging from the Heart of the Everlands, hovered above the green and black soul sea, shrouded in the depths of the mist.
As Yu Yuan's mocking gaze bore down on him, he was about to retort but abruptly fell silent.
"Wasteland!"
He let out a piercing scream.
...
The Wasteland.
Home to thirty-six springs connecting to the extraterrestrial realms.
A colossal deity of five-colored crystal jade was desperately contracting, managing to shrink to a mere ten million feet in height.
He stood dominantly in this realm, his boundless vital energy radiating across the heavens of the Wasteland, spreading his bloodline mysteries.
The once lifeless Star River Heaven and Earth now teemed with new species, invigorated by his Life Seed.
Tiny sparks of life, fused with his Secrets of Life from the Way of Heaven, would evolve into intelligent beings destined to forge a new civilization and a thriving kingdom in the Wasteland.
He was the wellspring of life, the progenitor of all creatures.
In that moment, he grasped the magnified Wellspring of Creation in one hand and the diminutive Peak of Creation in the other.
The Wellspring of Creation resembled an inkstone, while the Peak of Creation was akin to a sharp cone.
He hoisted the Wellspring of Creation and hurled it at the star-like black eye, striking the All Spirits Ban with tremendous force, scattering billions of dazzling sparks.
These sparks showered down on several springs, transforming into meteoric firestorms in the Otherworld.
In some unfortunate Otherworlds, countless intelligent beings perished in the firestorms, their deaths shrouded in mystery.
The tip of the Peak of Creation, held in his other hand, concealed the profound truths of the rules of lightning, the Tree of Life, light, and earth. He thrust it viciously into the All Spirits Ban.
Puff!
As the All Spirits Ban was punctured, creating a gaping hole, Yu Yuan swiftly retracted the Peak of Creation, shaped like a stone spire.
Puff! Puff!
He repeatedly stabbed at the All Spirits Ban, surrounding the green-black eye with numerous additional perforations.
The All Spirits Ban immediately began to voraciously absorb the cosmic energy of this world's starry sky. The punctured holes swiftly mended themselves, returning to their original state in a short time.
The area that had been struck by the Wellspring of Creation, which had previously caved in, now took the opportunity to swell back up.
Yu Yuan, in fact, was unaware of the significance of the massive green-black pupil to the Primal Soul.
All he knew was that he needed to do his utmost to annihilate everything the All Spirits Ban was desperately trying to protect.
It was by this method that he pressured the All Spirits Ban, preventing it from integrating with the two from the Genesis Continent, as well as the fourth All Spirits Ban from the Heart of the Everlands.
His colossal body, transformed from the multicolored flesh, gained the capacity to wreak havoc on a cataclysmic scale once his wraith descended into it.
He had the sense that with this body, he could effortlessly obliterate Otherworlds one after another.
Should he exert his full force, the All Spirits Ban would swiftly fracture, its residual power would disperse to other All Spirits Bans, and the Primal Soul would irrevocably lose this eye.
Yet, he refrained from doing so.
Instead, he persistently hammered and jabbed at the Wellspring of Creation and the Peak of Creation with the All Spirits Ban.
Each time the All Spirits Ban neared the brink of rupture, he would abruptly cease his assault, allowing the All Spirits Ban to consume cosmic energy and heal itself.
His aim was to coerce the All Spirits Bans in the other two regions to channel their strength into it.
Alternatively, he could shift one or two All Spirits Bans to safeguard this enigmatic green-black eye.
His strategy aimed to alleviate the pressure on the Great Demon God Bertain and to enable his real body to more deftly breach the Heart of the Everlands.
