Chapter 4714: Deceiving Heaven and Earth
Dao's gaze fell on Lin Moyu, and an invisible force crashed down.
He grunted softly, his body trembling slightly as Technique World, Ten Directions Domain, and Linguistic God World all shook together to block the blow.
Dao's strike was terrifying; a single glance could seriously injure a quasi Supreme, yet it failed to harm Lin Moyu.
He did not use Ultimate Undying or any other trump card, wanting instead to feel Dao's true power for himself.
From Calamity Supreme's inherited memories, Dao could kill Supremes with ease; they were simply not on the same level.
Lin Moyu's defenses far surpassed those of an ordinary Supreme, so theoretically Dao would find it harder to kill him but only testing could prove how much harder.
This time was that test, and the result was easier than expected.
Dao's failure to injure him with a single look brought a flicker of surprise and anger to the giant eye.
Lin Moyu sneered. "You're not doing too well. Still injured, are you?"
Dao clearly lost patience; golden light blazed in the giant eye.
An attack slashed through the void without warning, arriving from another layer of spacetime so abruptly that even Dao did not react in time.
The giant eye was cut apart, shattering like a soap bubble amid a shrill scream.
While Dao had been gathering power, the Wild Shadow Broodmother had ambushed him, with excellent effect.
Lin Moyu knew this blow would not heavily wound Dao but would certainly make him very uncomfortable.
After all, Dao had not dared use full strength when descending, still guarding against Calamity Supreme and the Chaos Heaven Dragon.
Especially that dragon, his rival for countless years; when Lin Moyu dragged the dragon out into the open, no one had raged harder than Dao.
Lin Moyu exploited exactly that, ordering the Broodmother to strike from the shadows.
An instant later, the giant eye reappeared in a different spot.
Its dazzling light became swordlike beams slashing down, but the Broodmother intercepted them again, taking the blow for Lin Moyu.
Once more, Dao dared not go all out, and once more his effort failed.
The void twisted as countless eyes appeared at once.
Dao had not given up; he still meant to stop Lin Moyu from becoming Supreme.
Those eyes distorted space; Lin Moyu's advance on the Supreme seat came to a sudden halt as innumerable spatial barriers filled the short distance ahead.
Dao's true body was a Heaven Shrouding Beast, whose greatest talent was space control.
Under his manipulation, space folded and layered into endless walls so that a brief span became immeasurably far.
Lin Moyu was in no rush to ascend anyway.
He swept his gaze across the sea of eyes and locked onto one. "Do you know the price of doing this?"
He raised a finger and triggered the Nine Heavens Fate Technique.
Silently, he altered the rules, forcing the world's laws to accept that he had already attained Supreme.
This kind of deception of heaven and earth was something only Lin Moyu could pull off.
Punishment descended at once: black clouds bloomed from nothing, thunder rolling into a sea of lightning.
In a heartbeat, countless eyes were blasted apart.
By tricking the rules into briefly recognizing him as a Supreme, Lin Moyu made anyone blocking his coronation an enemy of the rules themselves and so they suffered divine punishment.
He used this loophole against Dao; the effect would be short lived, but more than enough.
This day, the world's laws were busier than ever; heaven's punishments surely outnumbered those of the past eons combined.
"Interesting."
Watching the lightning shred eye after eye, Lin Moyu laughed in delight.
He could feel the rules growing wildly unstable, as if the entire world were going mad.
Each time he manipulated them, chaos deepened, and the already peak level Calamity became even more turbulent.
In the blink of an eye, only one giant eye remained the very one he had singled out.
All the others had been wiped out by thunder.
Punishment stopped abruptly as the rules realized they had been duped and hastily corrected themselves, withdrawing the sanction.
But what had already fallen could not be taken back.
Lin Moyu had achieved his goal; as a declared enemy of the world, he was already under maximum punishment there was little more the rules could do to him.
Dao, on the other hand, had simply been unlucky and thoroughly disgusted.
He did not mind losing a few illusory eyes; what enraged him was being toyed with.
Lin Moyu had used the world's own rules against him.
Dao was supposed to be master of this world; the rules should obey him.
In the last remaining giant eye, countless smaller eyes appeared, followed by the shadow of a titanic beast.
It seemed about to roar, but before sound emerged, the Wild Shadow Broodmother's attack pierced spacetime and struck again.
The remaining eye shattered once more, pulverized by the blow.
The Broodmother always struck at the least expected moment; while weaker than Dao in raw power, she was vastly superior in ambush.
With the eye gone, the spatial barriers before Lin Moyu broke like glass, and space returned to normal.
He still did not move, instead speaking quietly. "Next. Don't hide come out."
He looked toward a corner of the void where a soul flame lay concealed dim yet of astonishing essence, already beyond Supreme.
As he finished, a dragon's roar split the air and a purple black divine dragon burst from the void, hurtling toward him.
The Chaos Heaven Dragon had finally acted after being called out.
He had hoped to play the oriole, letting Dao and Lin Moyu fight first while he waited in ambush.
Instead, Lin Moyu humiliated Dao and then exposed the dragon's hiding place.
As soon as the dragon moved, the Broodmother's attacks dropped in from another timeline, striking exactly where Lin Moyu willed.
Bang, bang, bang each blow slammed into the dragon but was blocked.
The Chaos Heaven Dragon's defenses were astounding; the Broodmother could not even scratch his skin.
Lin Moyu's eyes narrowed as his expression hardened.
This form was only a clone, yet even from it one could see why the dragon had once been hailed as number one.
He needed no fancy abilities.
With defenses second only to the Eternal Desolation Bull and an offense far beyond other beings, he had easily earned the top throne.
Brute force crushed all techniques; no matter what strange powers others possessed, they still lost to him.
The dragon's avatar barreled through the Broodmother's attacks and arrived before Lin Moyu in an instant, jaws opening to bite down.
His fangs were sharper than peak artifacts, infused with immense world power enough to kill any Supreme, and stronger even than Dao's earlier assault.
But killing Lin Moyu would still be difficult.
Lin realized the dragon was not actually trying to kill him, only to stop him from becoming Supreme.
The Broodmother tried to interpose herself again but was swatted aside with ease, unable to get close.
A massive force had already descended onto Lin Moyu, forming a prison that cut off any escape.
Hidden for countless years, the Chaos Heaven Dragon had continually fused with the world itself; the results were now clear.
Yet Lin Moyu remained calm and unruffled.
"Ultimate Undying."