Chapter 4287: The Catastrophic Supreme's Game
In just eighty years, Lin Moyu had completed chaotification a path that took others thousands, even tens of thousands, of years to walk.
To help him complete it so quickly, Chaos Seed had spent a great deal of energy, and now dove back into the chaos to absorb more qi.
Lin Moyu harbored some doubts: with so little chaos qi, how could Chaos Seed possibly contend against the Dao?
When the real fight came, would it really be able to supply enough chaos qi?
Little Tree saw straight through his worry. "Master needn't be concerned. His strength will grow along with yours. Now that you've become Chaos Realm, a year of absorbing qi for him is worth a thousand years before."
Chaos Seed had always been nestled among Little Tree's roots, absorbing qi; no one understood its growth better than Little Tree.
"What about you?" Lin Moyu asked.
"I'm about the same," Little Tree replied. "The stronger you are, the stronger I'll be."
Little Tree didn't need to chaotify he had come from chaos itself, and adapted to it long ago.
Now his countless roots still drew power from it, and Lin Moyu suspected that if not for his own limits on it, Little Tree might already be far stronger perhaps Lin Moyu himself was holding it back.
After talking for a while, Lin Moyu entered the Ferry of Tribulation, while Little Tree went back to his own tasks.
He had four domains to oversee, with vast numbers of Chaos Fruits transforming into Chaos Spirits, roaming through the domains to adjust rules and mend defects, making them ever more perfect.
Only the Five Domain World had a rules administrator Soul less. The other domains had none, so the Spirits worked with no obstacles.
At the same time, Little Tree continued his own refinement of all that chaos qi he absorbed.
Already Lin Moyu's "New Life" resurrection count had passed 500 and was rising fast. The stronger Little Tree became, the faster that number would grow.
Aboard the Ferry, Lin Moyu came to the palace in the central section.
Beyond it lay the deepest core, where the fifth gemstone had flown.
To enter, one had to refine the Ferry; and to refine the Ferry, one had to be Chaos Realm.
Chaos Realm was only the foundation even then, refining the entire vessel wasn't guaranteed.
He passed through the central palace, only to be stopped by an invisible force, with another palace gleaming a mere kilometer ahead.
Compared to it, the central palace was a chicken coop beside a mansion.
Even from afar, the corner pieces of the opulent palace's exterior were of innate origin treasure grade materials indeed, the whole palace seemed built from them.
Lin Moyu wasn't surprised; he'd already seen a massive statue earlier made from the same class of material.
Between him and that palace was a field of invisible force ancient, powerful.
His soul force flooded into the Ferry, covering the portion he had already refined. But when he tried to extend further, there was no path forward.
To refine the Ferry, he needed not only great strength but also the right method.
He scoured it again and again with his spirit sense nothing. The thousand meters to the core palace remained impassable.
After multiple fruitless sweeps, his gaze fell to the statue of the Catastrophic Supreme.
There was nothing else to find.
Its face had been erased, like wiping away all trace that it had ever existed.
Before, Lin Moyu hadn't understood; now, he sensed the power behind that erasure it was immense.
His soul force filled every crevice of the statue, then drove into its center only to hit an invisible barrier.
"So it is the key!"
He was elated. If there was resistance, there was possibility a smooth path would have been far worse.
Striking it again and again, he recognized the barrier: exactly the same as that in the core of the Catastrophic Scepter.
"So this too is the work of the Catastrophic Supreme."
His soul force now far surpassed before; forming it into an arrow, he thrust in with all his might.
Crack!
His spirit pierced through and a small space unfolded within.
"You've come," came a voice he knew too well the voice from the Catastrophic Scepter.
It was the consciousness the Catastrophic Supreme had left behind not just in the Scepter, but here as well, and likely in other places.
His web of arrangements was vast, beyond imagination.
A dim, almost spectral figure stood there, featureless like the statue, yet Lin Moyu could feel its gaze upon him.
"Senior," Lin Moyu greeted respectfully.
"You've done well," said the Supreme.
"It's your chessboard that's well laid," Lin Moyu replied.
The other chuckled, shaking his head. "You're mistaken. I only set the board you're the one who's made the moves. You know you are me, and yet not me."
Lin Moyu remained silent unsure whether to believe the words. He had pondered the question and never had a clear answer. Without proof, he'd maintain his skepticism.
"That you doubt is fine it's good to doubt all things," the Supreme said.
"In time, you'll understand. You have come here to claim the complete Ferry and the fifth gemstone but also to inherit the karma that comes with them. Do you have the Ring of Seeking Cause?"
Lin Moyu started was the Ring tied to him as well? He had thought it a gift from the green or white robed elders.
If it came from the Catastrophic Supreme instead, the scope of his scheme was even greater than imagined.
"Before you finish refining the Ferry and claim the gem, you'd best use the Ring to remove as much karma as possible," the Supreme continued.
"Having effect without cause will be easy for you. The Chaos Ancestral Tree grants you many resurrections I don't know how many times you'll die, but it won't be few. So prepare."
"The events back then were too complex, the karmic threads too thick. The path ahead will not be smooth."
"If you do not wish to walk my path, you can always remain just a cultivator, under another's rule that's not such a bad life."
Lin Moyu shook his head by instinct. "If truly there were no road, I might stop. But if I know there is one and still refuse to walk it that's not me."
The Supreme was clearly pleased. "Good. In that case, let me tell you some old stories…"
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