Chapter 4709: Daring to Deceive Me
The Calamity Scepter swept through the void with unstoppable force.
No matter how strong these former expedition members had been even those at the peak of the Supreme realm they still crumbled at a touch from the Scepter, dying instantly.
Right now, Lin Moyu could only unleash a tiny fraction of the Scepter's power, but even that already surpassed the former Calamity Supreme.
With a single strike, the void cleared.
Only a seven story pagoda of ice and fire remained, slowly turning in midair.
Roar!
A furious bellow shook the void as power exploded before Lin Moyu, hurling him thousands of kilometers away and dragging out a long streak of ice and fire.
Ice and fire erupted from the pagoda, morphing into a massive beast.
Half its body was flame, the other half ice, with one red eye and one blue eye fixed on Lin Moyu.
"A rule lifeform."
Lin Moyu steadied himself and stared tens of thousands of meters ahead.
This rule lifeform was strong; its earlier strike had surpassed the Supreme realm, breaking through his body and soul defenses.
Art Law Realm, Domains, and Linguistic God World all helped share the blow, or he would have been injured.
Lin Moyu swung the Calamity Scepter, sweeping across tens of thousands of meters toward the ice fire beast.
The beast roared again and again as the void thundered and ruptured.
Ice and fire clashed, generating even more terrifying destruction, forcefully knocking the Calamity Scepter off course so Lin Moyu's blow failed.
"Very strong."
This was the Scepter's first real setback. The creature's power really surpassed the Supreme realm still not a true Transcendent, not on the level of "Dao," but its power tier had subtly changed.
That subtle change gave it shocking strength, enough to deflect the Calamity Scepter.
Its roars grew urgent as the void twisted, and countless explosions were born in an instant.
Ice and fire rules collided wildly, detonating all around Lin Moyu and plunging him into endless explosions.
The blasts went on without end. As a rule lifeform, it commanded the world's rules, and the rules of a seven cycle world were immensely strong and inexhaustible.
It could keep blasting for thousands of years without stopping.
Flames rose, ice bit deep, completely engulfing Lin Moyu.
"Utterly undying!"
A vast aura tore through fire and ice as Lin Moyu entered his undying state, ignoring the explosions while charging out with the Calamity Scepter in hand.
In a flash, he crossed tens of thousands of meters to arrive before the pagoda and slammed the Scepter into the ice fire beast.
Boom!
Another massive explosion knocked the Scepter off, while the beast dissolved into water and fire and vanished.
"Master, you missed. It merged into the rules," Hongmeng Gem shouted.
A rule lifeform fused with the rules existed anywhere and everywhere in the world formless yet omnipresent.
"It can run, but the world core can't."
Flames flared as the World Burning Fire fell on the pagoda, engulfing it in an instant.
"Done."
Once seized by World Burning Fire, it was only a matter of time before a world was refined.
But the next instant, Lin Moyu sensed something wrong; the fire wasn't refining the pagoda.
Flames flickered, and countless seven story pagodas appeared in the void.
Some were pure flame pagodas, some pure ice, and others mixed ice and fire.
Roars sounded again each pagoda birthed a beast: ice pagodas spawned ice beasts, fire pagodas birthed fire beasts, and mixed ones created ice fire beasts.
"Not just two rules."
Lin Moyu realized this world wasn't limited to ice and fire; those rules only stood out the most.
The pagoda he'd seen before the "world core" had been fake.
The real core was among these, but which one?
Infinite attacks fell a tide of pagodas and beasts launched a joint assault.
Rule force swept out, and Lin Moyu was swallowed by violent explosions again.
But in his undying state, he ignored the damage.
Hongmeng Gem yelled, "It even tricked me!"
He was clearly furious no one likes being deceived.
Lin Moyu said, "Find the real world core."
"Leave it to me, Master!" Hongmeng Gem answered.
The Elemental Gem blazed with light, and ice and fire rapidly faded.
The explosions stopped, and the void turned quiet.
The Elemental Gem controlled all elements; no matter which world they belonged to, it could command them.
Ice and fire withdrew into the pagodas, ignoring the rule lifeform's attempts to control them.
In that moment, the ice and fire rules of this world betrayed it.
The Elemental Gem acted domineeringly, seizing the rules with sheer force and reversing control.
As the Calamity Scepter's spirit, Hongmeng Gem could partially manipulate it, and this small display opened Lin Moyu's eyes.
"Detonate!"
Hongmeng Gem shouted, and ice and fire erupted, shattering countless pagodas.
In the end, just one seven story ice fire pagoda remained in the void the true world core.
Without needing a reminder, the World Burning Fire rushed over.
The beast seemed to feel the terror of that fire and screamed
The pagoda exploded, turning into pure ice and fire rules trying to escape.
"Running? No chance!"
Hongmeng Gem roared as the Elemental Gem shone, forcing the scattered rules to recondense into the pagoda.
World Burning Fire fell on it again, beginning a full refinement.
The beast screamed in agony as its aura weakened. No matter how it struggled, it couldn't avoid its fate.
Lin Moyu let out a breath. "Nicely done."
Hongmeng Gem replied, "Even without me, you could have handled it."
Lin Moyu smiled. "If there's a closer, faster route, why take the long way?"
He could have solved it with World Burning Fire alone, but it would have been more troublesome.
Hongmeng Gem snorted, "That guy almost fooled even me."
It actually had fooled him once, but for the sake of his pride, Lin Moyu didn't call him out.
From here, it was just a matter of time.
As World Burning Fire refined the world, it grew stronger, speeding up the process.
Large quantities of rule crystals were extracted and all flowed into Lin Moyu's hands.
The beast still had some fight left, but the Elemental Gem held it fast. All it could do was scream.
Lin Moyu's eyes gleamed. "Let's see if Linguistic God World can undergo a true transformation this time."