Chapter 4696: The Seven Level Pagoda
Finally, Lin Moyu saw the world's core the core of a Seven Wheel world, completely different from any other he had encountered before.
This world core took the form of a pagoda, with seven levels, clearly indicating its status as a Seven Wheel world.
The Primal Gem said, "Worlds of Seven Wheels or above are fundamentally different from those below. They have undergone a qualitative transformation, and all their world cores take the form of pagodas.
Seven levels for Seven Wheel, eight levels for Eight Wheel worlds."
Lin Moyu pondered, "Does that mean a Seven Wheel world can be promoted to Eight Wheel?"
The Primal Gem replied, "You guessed it. Previously, Lord Xunzhi mentioned upgrading a Five Wheel world to Six Wheel, which means there's no qualitative leap between the fifth and sixth just a matter of strength.
Seven Wheel, however, is a threshold: the transformation here prevented his promotion. For worlds above Seven Wheel, the cores are similar the difference is only in strength, not nature.
So, realms above Seven Wheels can ascend."
The Primal Gem confirmed, "Yes, it's happened before: one world rose from Seven to Eight Wheels, though why that worked, I don't know. Another fell from Eight to Seven. I didn't see the details, just the result."
The Gem was a mere observer many secrets inside were beyond its knowledge.
Lin Moyu said, "I think I've found a way to upgrade my own world, and right now is the perfect time."
Seven Wheel is a real threshold above and below are almost two different planes, nearly impossible to leap.
The world's rank is decided at its first tribulation, the "Heaven and Earth Life Tribulation." When a world is newly born, it has no rank.
Now, before his Linguistic God World faces its first tribulation, it is still malleable this is the best chance for promotion.
He only needed to strengthen his world so that it could reach Seven Wheel at tribulation. Then, maybe, it could rise to Nine Wheel in time.
Of course, jumping straight to Nine Wheel would be better but that is very difficult.
Another goal: Lin Moyu wanted to become a Supreme before the first tribulation.
The sooner he reached "the Way," the greater his benefits and ultimate potential.
Both must be pushed to the limit to break through the "Forbidden Zone of Life" and reach the place no one had reached before.
Difficult, but Lin Moyu was confident.
The Seven Level Pagoda glowed with a mesmerizing light, each beam twisting like a thread, filled with all sorts of rules.
Inside, Lin Moyu could see a soul flame a Rule Lifeform integrated with the pagoda. Its exact rule was unknown, but it didn't matter; he now understood the deepest logic of rules and didn't need to probe further.
He casually threw a ball of World Destroying Fire at it.
The World Destroying Fire could directly refine a world core, purifying rules into the world's power for absorption.
Yet, as the fire floated within a hundred meters of the pagoda, it vanished then reappeared thousands of meters away.
Lin Moyu frowned and tried again same result: get within a hundred meters, the fire disappeared and popped up elsewhere, sometimes far, sometimes near, always unpredictably.
"It's not teleportation but related to space," he muttered.
He snapped his fingers; a horde of undead soldiers surged toward the pagoda.
Every one vanished at the hundred meter mark and reappeared somewhere random, each in a different location, their bodies quickly disintegrating obviously subjected to intense attacks.
Lin Moyu, always linked to their vision, saw only a moment of blur, then found himself somewhere else, with no clue how or when the attack struck.
It was all incomprehensibly weird.
"What rule is this?" Lin Moyu frowned.
The Primal Gem replied, "It must be some kind of space rule, but I can't tell for sure.
It's as if there's an invisible gate a hundred meters from the pagoda step through, and you emerge somewhere nearby, but during that brief instant you're hit by a destructive force that could kill a peak Chaos Realm expert."
All this was created by a rule much more profound than mere teleportation.
Lin Moyu tried several more times; even the World Destroying Fire took damage, but it was strong enough to ignore it. Undead soldiers couldn't endure.
Yet Lin Moyu kept a close watch, missing not a single detail.
Eventually, he noticed a tiny change: every time something approached within a hundred meters, the soul flame in the pagoda flickered subtly almost invisible without close observation.
That soul reaction meant the Rule Lifeform was activating its rule.
Clearly, burning it up would not be simple; without breaking this rule, he could never refine the world core.
Lin Moyu kept experimenting, believing constant attempts might reveal a solution.
After all, undead soldiers couldn't truly die they could always respawn in the spell world.
So, wave after wave, Lin Moyu sent in his forces, even personally attacking, but there was no breakthrough always repelled.
It seemed a hopeless, endless cycle...
The Primal Gem finally said, "Want me to try?"
Lin Moyu shook his head, "Let me keep trying I sense this rule is different."
The Gem agreed, "I think so too. This isn't a single rule, but a fusion of multiple ones: space, destruction, concealment, and others."
Rules fused within the Rule Lifeform truly made this puzzle fiendishly hard even Lin Moyu felt it was almost unsolvable.
After much study, Lin Moyu fixed his attention on the pagoda itself.
If he couldn't break the rule, he'd strike at the source.
He took out the corpse of a peak Chaos Realm expert (he still had a few left thought he'd never need them, but they came in handy).
He targeted the Seven Level Pagoda.
Spell: Heaven Shattering Earth Exploding!
The corpse vanished, exploding into dust. At the same time, a huge rumble erupted inside the pagoda the whole world trembled...