C2344 Threepronged Attack
"Open," Yu Yuan commanded with authority.
A pattern of flames emerged on his broad forehead, radiating a divine might capable of warping the very laws of nature. Deep within his sea of consciousness, the Soul Altar blazed to life, revealing the ultimate mysteries of all the world's flames.
Extreme Flame suddenly found himself stripped of control over the Geocentric Fire. The sea of fire, already parted, retreated even further at Yu Yuan's command. Not a single flame dared to impede his connection with the heart of the inferno.
In this moment, Yu Yuan's Soul Altar within his sea of consciousness stood as a formidable force, matching Extreme Flame's power over fire.
Crack!
Beneath Yu Yuan's feet, violent thunder and lightning began to transform, morphing into colossal brontosauruses of destruction.
Yu Yuan looked upon these thunder-crafted dragons with a smirk, then exhaled a breath of vital essence. The dragons were instantly endowed with flesh and sinew, becoming a chain of brontosauruses that soared around him.
The brontosauruses became tangible in an instant!
This act of conjuring creatures from the raw elements of thunder and lightning left Zhiya and Lin Daoke in awe, their gazes fixed on Yu Yuan as their expressions shifted in amazement.
"Hehe," Yu Yuan chuckled casually, as the highest, the tenth level of his Soul Altar, emerged from within his true form atop the Dragon Slash Platform.
The Blood Stage, no larger than a fingernail, was nestled between his eyes. Within this diminutive platform, there lay a miniature Tree of Life, a crimson stalactite, and a vibrant red heart!
Thump! Thump! Thump!
The heart pulsed gently within the Blood Stage, yet its rhythm sent Zhiya reeling, forcing her to expel blood into the vast emptiness beyond.
Lin Daoke watched her with a puzzled look, wondering why she was so overwhelmed that she couldn't withstand the heartbeat emanating from the Blood Crystal between Yu Yuan's brows.
"You don't understand. You will never understand!" Zhiya cried out in terror.
She was suddenly convinced that Yu Yuan, through the pulsating heart on the Blood Stage, held the power of life and death over her. If Yu Yuan wished her to live, she would live. Should he desire her death, her heart would burst, and she would dissolve into a mere puddle of blood.
This was the absolute dominance of the source!
Confronted with the Origin that embodied the pinnacle of life's bloodline, Zhiya found herself utterly powerless to resist, left at the mercy of his will.
Overcome with terror, Zhiya's only desire was to flee as far as possible, to hastily retreat from the Gray Domain.
She managed to escape across a swath of the galaxy, yet she discovered that the binding power of the Blood Stage on Yu Yuan's forehead was unaffected by the vast distances of space.
Whether in the true Abyss, the Origin Realm, or the Desolate Realm, she realized that no matter where she fled, Yu Yuan's shackles were inescapable.
Ultimately, she resigned herself to her fate with a heavy heart.
"How could this be? After all my efforts, after sacrificing everything, how can the gap between him and me be so vast?!" Zhiya murmured, her spirit shattered by the realization that she could never surpass Yu Yuan.
"The Heart of Vast Water is none other than the heart of the ancient Titan Spinosaurus. Every bloodline and its profound truths stem from the primordial blood of this realm," Yu Yuan said with a radiant smile, admiring the peculiar heart that glimmered like a crystal ball.
A sudden burst of bloody radiance emanated from the Blood Stage on his forehead, casting its light upon the Heart of Vast Water.
The myriad scarlet bloodlines that had been coursing along the crystal face came to a sudden and eerie standstill beneath the glow from his brow, as if countless serpentine rivulets of blood had been extinguished in a single moment.
From within the heart, a sound akin to a stalactite snapping echoed, signaling the origin of the Dao.
At that sound, the crystal heart, nestled deep within the Vast Water and shrouded by the dark green sea of souls, began to show fractures.
"This is the complete suppression by the Great Dao," Yu Yuan stated calmly, positioning the Dragon Slash Platform near the crystalline Heart of Vast Water and extending his hand slowly.
"Shouldn't your fourth Myriad Spirit Restriction make its appearance now?" he hummed, his hand inching ever closer to the heart.
He was aware that without the emergence of a new Myriad Spirit Restriction, the Heart of Vast Water, encasing the Abyss Origin Soul, would crumble under the force of his Blood Stage.
And indeed, it did.
Whoa!
A dazzling radiance, hidden at the heart of the Vast Sea, suddenly burst forth, enveloping the crystal-like heart in a spectacular display and forming a brand new Myriad Spirit Restriction!
The fourth Myriad Spirit Restriction swiftly materialized!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
As the new Myriad Spirit Restriction emerged, the starry sky's energies outside the Vast Sea were irresistibly drawn in, frantically funneling into the Restriction.
However, numerous demonic energy halos left by Beilstein were also manipulating the starry sky's forces.
This prevented both the Geocentric Fire of the Vast Sea and the Myriad Spirit Restriction from unrestrainedly collecting the stellar energies within the Gray Domain.
"Myriad Spirit Restriction!"
"Yet another Myriad Spirit Restriction!"
Zhiya and Lin Daoke were internally screaming in astonishment, utterly overwhelmed by the sight.
They had witnessed the terrifying might of such seals in the Desolate Realm and knew well what they signified.
The Myriad Spirit Restriction was a mark of his presence, enveloping only that which was of utmost importance.
The emergence of a Myriad Spirit Restriction also signaled that he would soon manifest and reveal his presence.
Neither Zhiya nor Lin Daoke had anticipated the existence of a Myriad Spirit Restriction within the heart of the Vast Sea.
It was only now that they realized a Myriad Spirit Restriction had always been there, covertly present but never fully revealed.
Even Yu Yuan himself had been unaware of it, as the Myriad Spirit Restriction had not been fully refined.
Yet, he was certain another Myriad Spirit Restriction was there, silently safeguarding the Heart of Vastness!
Indeed, the Heart of Vastness, a fusion of spiritual consciousness, soul energy, and laws, was the cradle of his origin. Upon his awakening, he would never overlook the Heart of Vastness.
Clearly, the Extreme Flame was not his ultimate or greatest support.
His unwavering trust lay in his own power!
"It's just like you to figure that out."
His shadowy figure unexpectedly materialized.
On the crystal face of the Heart of Vastness, all traces of bloodline light and electricity vanished, yet his demeanor remained cool and detached.
The arcane bloodline secrets he had stripped from all living creatures and imprinted by Yang God Yu were now utterly suppressed. Following Yu Yuan's offering on the Blood Stage, not a single strand of alien force could be utilized.
Any force related to bloodlines, life, and the essence of flesh and blood fell within Yu Yuan's exclusive domain! In the presence of Yu Yuan, any creature from the Three Realms who dared to manipulate the true essence of these forces would be as foolish as wielding a broadsword before Guan Yu himself.
"I'm aware that each of your Myriad Spirit Restrictions can merge with one another, but now... you should be incapable of such fusion," Yu Yuan remarked, his voice dripping with mockery.
His soul's image, emerging from the heart of the vast expanse, hovered above the dark green sea of souls, as if adrift in the depths of the mist.
As Yu Yuan looked on with derision, he was about to retort but abruptly fell silent.
"Desolate Realm!" he exclaimed with a piercing shriek.
The Desolate Realm, home to thirty-six springs connecting to foreign lands, now witnessed a colossal figure of five-colored crystal jade, resembling a deity that had cleaved open the heavens and earth. Struggling to condense its form, it managed to shrink to a towering height of ten million feet.
Dominating this realm, he unleashed his boundless blood energy, spreading his bloodline's path across the celestial expanse of the Desolate Realm. The once lifeless cosmos stirred with vitality, as his Life Seed sparked the emergence of a new species.
Bits of life's flame, merging with his laws of life, evolved into an even more superior intelligent race. They were destined to forge a new civilization and a flourishing kingdom within the Desolate Realm.
He was the wellspring of life, the progenitor of all beings.
In this moment, he grasped the magnified Creation Pool in one hand and the miniaturized Creation Peak in the other. The Creation Pool resembled an inkstone, while the Creation Peak took the form of a sharp stone cone.
He hoisted the Creation Pool and hurled it at the celestial black eye, striking the dazzling Myriad Spirit Restriction with force enough to scatter billions of glittering sparks. These sparks rained down upon several springs, transforming into a meteoric firestorm across the foreign lands.
In several unfortunate foreign lands, countless intelligent beings perished under the mysterious firestorm.
Meanwhile, the Creation Peak in his other hand, sharp as an awl and imbued with the fundamental truths of thunder, wood, light, and earth, thrust viciously toward the Myriad Spirit Restriction.
With a sudden pop, the Myriad Spirit Restriction was breached, and the Creation Peak, resembling a stone spire, was swiftly retracted by Yu Yuan.
Pop! Pop!
He launched a series of stabs, puncturing the Myriad Spirit Restriction that encircled the green-black pupil, creating numerous openings.
The Myriad Spirit Restriction desperately absorbed the celestial abilities of this world's starry sky, and the pierced holes rapidly healed as if they were never there.
The area bombarded by the Creation Pool, previously indented, now swelled opportunistically.
Yu Yuan did not truly understand the significance of the massive green-black eye to the Origin Soul.
All he knew was that he needed to relentlessly destroy whatever the Myriad Spirit Restriction was fiercely guarding.
By doing so, he prevented the Myriad Spirit Restriction from integrating with the two on the Creation Continent and the fourth within the Vast Ocean's heart.
His colossal form, evolved from a piece of vibrant flesh, had, after plunging into the Creation Pool, attained the formidable power to obliterate heaven and earth.
He felt that with this body, he could effortlessly demolish world after world in the foreign lands.
Should he exert his full might, the Myriad Spirit Restriction would swiftly crumble, its residual power would disperse to other Myriad Spirit Restrictions, and the Origin Soul would irreversibly lose this eye.
Yet, he refrained.
Instead, he persistently hammered away with the Creation Peak and the Creation Pool.
Each time the Myriad Spirit Restriction neared rupture, he would abruptly cease his assault, allowing it to consume the starry sky's power for self-repair.
His actions aimed to coerce the other two Myriad Spirit Restrictions in different regions to redirect their strength into this one.
Alternatively, to shift one or two Myriad Spirit Restrictions to safeguard this enigmatic green-black pupil.
His strategy was to alleviate the pressure on the Great Demon God Beilstein and enable his true form to more adeptly breach the Heart of the Vast Ocean.
