Chapter 656: The End of Shadow Demon and Nine Phoenix

With Lin Yuan's Foundation and roots, stepping from Sovereign Realm into Chaos Realm did not present the slightest threshold or difficulty.

The reason he waited until now was simply to let all aspects of himself grow to their limits, so that the improvements gained when stepping into Chaos Realm would be even greater.

"Direct Breakthrough."

Lin Yuan did not hesitate. The moment he reached extreme Perfection within himself, he began the transition and enhancement of his life essence.

Boom!

Lin Yuan's mental will began to roar, as if breaking through some Bottleneck and shackle—

His Physical Body and physique began to crazily improve.

His Soul and will also began to rapidly surge.

His inner Universe likewise began to rapidly undergo a metamorphosis.

Everything was greatly enhancing.

Prior to this, Lin Yuan's several Breakthroughs—such as mastering the third layer of Infinite Void or evolving the Chaos power path and so on—only improved certain aspects for him, or rather, focused on specific aspects.

But now?

Lin Yuan was experiencing an all-around enhancement.

This kind of enhancement was not merely from Sovereign Realm to Chaos Realm, but directly from Sovereign Realm to Chaos Realm Perfection.

Lin Yuan had already evolved the Chaos power path. Stepping into Chaos Realm directly brought him to the Perfection level, completely eliminating the need for polishing and Cultivate.

Swish, swish.

The inner Universe was boundless.

When Lin Yuan chose to Breakthrough to Chaos Realm, his inner Universe welcomed expansion once again. The Dao rules, time, and space grew increasingly close to Perfection, drawing closer to the Chaos Void.

The jade gourd trembled, and the Red-Clothed Girl stood to the side, distantly observing the changes in the inner Universe.

"Finally stepped into Chaos Realm."

The Red-Clothed Girl heavily breathed a sigh of relief.

If Lin Yuan still didn't step into Chaos Realm, she estimated she would start doubting her own cognition.

Which family's Sovereign Realm Experts could smash through such a large piece of eternal fine gold and directly possess the battle power of an Invincible Great Saint?

The Red-Clothed Girl could be said to have watched Lin Yuan grow from his initial entry into the Twelfth Order to this current step, and she was quite clear about his growth speed and combat power at each Realm level.

"Possessing the battle power of an Invincible Great Saint even at the Sovereign Realm, just how strong would he be when reaching the Chaos Realm?"

Even the knowledgeable Red-Clothed Girl couldn't help but look forward to it at this moment. Although the Invincible Great Saints of the Chaos Void lacked the opportunity to fight each other and determine superiority, there were indeed distinctions of strength among them.

The Red-Clothed Girl wasn't clear about other Invincible Great Saints, but as a Cultivate successor of Infinite Void—normally speaking, mastering the fifth layer of Infinite Void granted the battle power of an Invincible Great Saint.

And mastering the sixth layer of Infinite Void also yielded an Invincible Great Saint, but their strength would definitely be a huge cut above the fifth layer.

"If nothing unexpected happens, this should be the strongest Invincible Great Saint of the Infinite Void lineage, right?"

The Red-Clothed Girl thought silently in her heart. She could sense that Lin Yuan's inner Universe at this moment had already reached a degree comparable to the sixth layer of Infinite Void.

Yet in reality, Lin Yuan's Cultivate in Infinite Void still remained at the third layer, with the fourth and fifth layers still ahead.

There was simply too much room for improvement.

"Those unformed special places?"

The Red-Clothed Girl's gaze looked towards certain special positional nodes within the inner Universe. Those were precisely the smaller-sized special places evolved by Lin Yuan using the source objects of special places.

At this moment, accompanying the enhancement of the inner Universe, these smaller special places were also rapidly undergoing metamorphosis.

"The Time Lifeforms are high above. The fact that they deliberately carve out these special places and occasionally cast their gazes down to overlook them is certainly not because they are idle and bored."

The Red-Clothed Girl thought silently in her heart.

With the height at which Time Lifeforms stood, they wouldn't care at all about matters below the Thirteenth Order, nor would they care too much about the Legacy they created and left behind, yet they were quite "concerned" about the numerous special places.

The Red-Clothed Girl could be certain that if any special place suffered complete destruction, it could almost be said that it would absolutely attract the gaze of the Time Lifeform behind it or even lead to a direct descent.

Deep within the Milky Way Chaos Continent.

Lin Yuan sat cross-legged. Compared to his previous Proving Dao and stepping into the Sovereign Realm, this Breakthrough was incomparably calm, causing almost no major anomalous vibrations.

The metamorphosis of life essence and enhancements in all aspects were completed silently.

"So this is the Chaos Realm?"

Lin Yuan opened his eyes, and the Chaos Void in his vision underwent changes once again. The essence of time and space, as well as the essence of Dao operation, were all thoroughly comprehended and understood.

The elevation of his life essence made Lin Yuan's vision take on a completely new look, as if coming from a small hill to a ten-thousand-meter-high peak, overlooking all smaller mountains.

"Chaos Void."

Lin Yuan looked towards this world that nurtured countless lives. Even for a Peerless Great Saint, the Chaos Void was boundless and unimaginably vast, making it difficult to traverse completely in one's lifetime.

Yet at this moment, Lin Yuan vaguely felt that the Chaos Void had boundaries. Of course, where the specific boundaries were was temporarily unclear, but they definitely existed.

"Too vast."

This was the first time Lin Yuan felt the Chaos Void so clearly.

"Hmm?"

Lin Yuan's gaze looked towards certain nodes in the Chaos Void, which faintly contained other heavens and earths.

"Those nodes must be the special places."

Lin Yuan's expression was thoughtful. "The Thirteenth Order lifeforms deliberately carved out these special places and occasionally cast their gazes of attention because these special places are making up for the flaws and hidden dangers of the Chaos Void."

By Lin Yuan's current Realm, even though he was still far inferior to the Thirteen Step Time Lifeforms, he could already see through many essences, and he vaguely understood the slight uses of those special places.

Even something as massive as the Chaos Void was not truly perfect; some flaws still existed.

Of course, these shortcomings were not fatal, but they truly existed. One million cosmic eras or ten million cosmic eras could not affect the operation of the Chaos Void, but if the timeline was stretched hundreds of millions of times and small amounts accumulated into a lot, the influence would gradually grow larger, and ultimately even push the entire Chaos Void into a great destruction.

Therefore.

To maintain the eternal operation of the Chaos Void, the Thirteen Step Time Lifeforms took action to carve out some special places, suppressing them at those critical nodes to eliminate hidden dangers.

This behavior was not only beneficial to the Chaos Void, but also beneficial to the Thirteen Step Time Lifeforms, capable of enhancing their Foundation in certain aspects.

"No wonder in the future timeline I viewed with the Heavenly Void Cauldron, after completely destroying a special place, a Time Lifeform descended immediately."

Lin Yuan thought to himself. In fact, normal Experts, even Invincible Great Saints, could not shake those special places. Lifeforms below the Thirteenth Order couldn't destroy them even if they wanted to.

Yet Lin Yuan… With Lin Yuan's terrifying strength, coupled with driving the Thirteen level weapon Heavenly Void Cauldron, the erupting might was unimaginable, and that special place was completely destroyed in an instant.

"However, viewed from this aspect, the Thirteenth Order is not invincible either. At least the future timelines they see are not comprehensive. If they truly saw through all timelines, then I wouldn't have had the opportunity to destroy that special place at all."

Lin Yuan thought silently in his heart.

Countless timelines would derive at every instant, and the Thirteen Step Time Lifeforms could only view a portion of the timelines. Perhaps the Thirteen Step Time Lifeform behind that special place did not view the timeline where Lin Yuan destroyed that special place.

"My inner Universe uses the Chaos Void as a template. The hidden dangers and flaws present in the Chaos Void should also exist in my inner Universe. Fusing source objects and establishing smaller-sized special places indeed has great benefits for the inner Universe."

Lin Yuan's thoughts spread out. The Red-Clothed Girl telling him to fuse source objects was indeed correct.

"Go out and stroll around."

After carefully sensing his own changes, Lin Yuan slowly stood up.

Hum!

In an instant, Lin Yuan left the Milky Way Chaos Continent, appearing outside thousands and tens of thousands of Void Domains.

With another step forward, thousands and tens of thousands of Void Domains were left behind.

Even a Chaotic Great Saint would need quite a bit of time to cross a single Void Domain—several years, decades, or hundreds of years.

Crossing thousands or tens of thousands of Void Domains? The time required would probably be calculated in tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years.

A Peerless Great Saint's speed was somewhat faster, but at most it was only reduced by several folds.

Yet Lin Yuan, with every step he took, crossed thousands and tens of thousands of Void Domains. Such speed was unimaginably fast.

"Huh?"

After taking three or four consecutive steps, Lin Yuan suddenly stopped and looked towards a certain direction.

At that location, Lin Yuan sensed two sources of Karma related to himself.

"Nine Phoenix, if you want to die yourself, can you not drag me along."

Amidst the fierce collision of black and red power, the Shadow Demon Great Saint looked angrily at the Nine Phoenix Great Saint who was entangling him.

Ever since that Galactic Great Saint killed his and the Nine Phoenix Great Saint's main battle Physical Bodies in the Xuanhuang Universe, the Shadow Demon Great Saint had realized that the Galactic Great Saint was very dissatisfied with him.

To be precise, he was dissatisfied with both himself and Nine Phoenix. Otherwise, why didn't he accept the conditions proposed by the two Great Saints and instead directly strike to kill?

Although he didn't know the reason, having offended an Expert like the Galactic Great Saint, the Shadow Demon Great Saint was naturally incomparably terrified.

Yet right at this moment, the Nine Phoenix Great Saint recklessly continued to entangle him, even actively releasing her aura.

From that moment on, the Shadow Demon Great Saint realized that the Nine Phoenix Great Saint was seeking death, wanting to actively attract the gaze of the Galactic Great Saint and thereby have him hunt them down.

Precisely because of this.

The Shadow Demon Great Saint chose his escape direction to be far away from the Void Domains near the Xuanhuang Universe. Over these years, relying on some spacetime dangerous vortexes in the Chaos Void, the Shadow Demon Great Saint had briefly crossed large areas of Void Domains. Now, he was a full nearly one hundred thousand Void Domains away from the vicinity of the Xuanhuang Universe.

Only until now did a sense of security rise in the Shadow Demon Great Saint's heart.

A distance of nearly one hundred thousand Void Domains—let alone a Chaotic Great Saint, even a Peerless Great Saint would need to expend a massive amount of time to cross it.

"Nine Phoenix, I know you want to attract the Galactic Great Saint, but obviously, the Galactic Great Saint hasn't chased after us." The Shadow Demon Great Saint spoke.

"Regardless of whether the Galactic Great Saint chases or not, I will entangle you." The Nine Phoenix Great Saint's will was firm.

Earlier outside that Xuanhuang Universe, seeing the hope of stepping into the Thirteenth Order, the Nine Phoenix Great Saint chose to truce with the Shadow Demon Great Saint. After all, as long as she could step into the Thirteenth Order, her elder brother, younger sister, and numerous other clansmen could all be resurrected.

Killing the Shadow Demon Great Saint could not resurrect her clansmen, but stepping into the Thirteenth Order could.

After weighing options, the Nine Phoenix Great Saint prioritized the Xuanhuang Universe.

"Meaningless." The Shadow Demon Great Saint looked coldly at the Nine Phoenix Great Saint. "I am a Great Saint, and you are also a Great Saint. What can you do by entangling me? Even as strong as the Galactic Great Saint is, he can at most kill my main battle Physical Body. Wanting to completely kill me is simply impossible."

Every Chaotic Great Saint had secretly arranged countless backup measures. Completely killing a Chaotic Great Saint was something ordinary Invincible Great Saints could not do.

The reason the Shadow Demon Great Saint felt panicked after perceiving the Galactic Great Saint's malice was entirely because he worried he would become a rat crossing the street next.

Indeed, the Galactic Great Saint couldn't kill him, but he could make the Shadow Demon Great Saint's life extremely miserable.

Hearing this, the Nine Phoenix Great Saint did not reply.

She just continued to stubbornly entangle the Shadow Demon Great Saint.

"Idiot."

While angered, the Shadow Demon Great Saint was also somewhat helpless.

Thousands of Void Domains away.

Lin Yuan's gaze was profound as he distantly watched the entanglement between the Shadow Demon Great Saint and the Nine Phoenix Great Saint.

"I didn't expect to run into them here?"

Lin Yuan's thoughts spread out.

After leaving the Xuanhuang Universe, Lin Yuan had sensed that the Nine Phoenix Great Saint and the Shadow Demon Great Saint had once again brazenly entangled and fought each other.

At that time, Lin Yuan indeed had the thought of hunting them down, but ultimately gave up.

First, during his trip to the Xuanhuang Universe, Lin Yuan harvested massively, acquiring the Thirteen level weapon Heavenly Void Cauldron, and didn't want to cause extraneous complications.

Second, even if he pursued them and killed the Shadow Demon Great Saint and the Nine Phoenix Great Saint, the opponents would not die completely; they could 'resurrect' through life-saving backup measures, so the significance wasn't very great.

Therefore, Lin Yuan didn't pay much attention to them at the time.

Just that now?

After stepping into the Chaos Realm, Lin Yuan's strength was still inferior to His Majesty Xuan Huang, who had stepped half a step out of the Twelfth Order.

Yet the Nine Phoenix Great Saint and the Shadow Demon Great Saint were not Peerless Great Saints either, but merely newly-promoted Great Saints. His Majesty Xuan Huang could completely execute Peerless Great Saints, and Lin Yuan could also attempt to completely kill newly-promoted Great Saints like the Nine Phoenix Great Saint and the Shadow Demon Great Saint.

"Very well, let us end this Karma."

Lin Yuan took a step forward and disappeared in place.

Black and red auras collided.

The Nine Phoenix Great Saint and the Shadow Demon Great Saint, who had originally been one chasing and one fleeing, suddenly felt the surrounding spacetime transform, and an unbearable pressure collapsed downwards.

"Who is it?"

The Shadow Demon Great Saint's expression was terrified. Such pressure already surpassed that of the Galactic Great Saint back then.

The Nine Phoenix Great Saint was also full of vigilance.

Right at this moment.

A figure appeared out of thin air, quietly looking at the two Chaotic Great Saints.

"Galactic Great Saint?"

The Shadow Demon Great Saint couldn't help but choke with suffocation; he hadn't sensed the slightest trace of Karma from the Galactic Great Saint at all.

"Galactic Great Saint?"

Compared to the Shadow Demon Great Saint, the Nine Phoenix Great Saint was not as terrified.

At least falling into the hands of the Galactic Great Saint, neither Shadow Demon nor she could escape.

"Galactic Great Saint, I don't know when I have ever offended you. I am willing to make amends, paying any price to make amends."

The Shadow Demon Great Saint immediately spoke. Although the fall of this Physical Body couldn't be counted as true death, continuing like this was not a solution. Forming a feud with an Expert of the Galactic Great Saint's caliber gave the Shadow Demon Great Saint a feeling of being unable to move an inch.

"Make amends?"

Lin Yuan looked at the Shadow Demon Great Saint and smiled slightly, saying, "No need."

The next moment.

The Shadow Demon Great Saint felt his vision begin to blur.

"This?"

The Shadow Demon Great Saint's scalp tingled. At this very instant, he sensed that all Karmic objects related to himself began to annihilate, including those life-saving methods and the like.

"Am I going to die completely?"

This thought suddenly surfaced in the Shadow Demon Great Saint's heart, and immediately he began to struggle, attempting to break free a trace of mental will to carry out 'Reincarnation'.

But immediately following that, all of the Shadow Demon Great Saint's mental will completely collapsed, and his Physical Body, Soul, and all related Karmic objects disappeared without a trace.

"Completely dead?"

Lin Yuan nodded slightly. Just now, he went all out, instantly locking onto all Karma-related objects of the Shadow Demon Great Saint and annihilating them simultaneously.

"Shadow Demon."

The Nine Phoenix Great Saint beside him had a stunned expression. She was not surprised by the fall of the Shadow Demon Great Saint.

With the strength displayed by the Galactic Great Saint in the Xuanhuang Universe, killing two ordinary Great Saints of theirs was very normal.

Yet what shocked the Nine Phoenix Great Saint was that after the Shadow Demon Great Saint died, there was unexpectedly no Karmic source whatsoever.

Given the grievances and Karma between her and the Shadow Demon Great Saint, as long as the Shadow Demon Great Saint was still alive, she would definitely be able to sense his Karmic source.

Karma could be obscured and could be blurred, but as long as it existed, it could be sensed.

Yet now?

The Nine Phoenix Great Saint indeed sensed that the Shadow Demon Great Saint's Karma was severed and vanished, leaving not a single trace behind.

This scene had only two possibilities.

First, the Shadow Demon Great Saint completely perished.

Second, the Shadow Demon Great Saint had already abandoned everything to carry out Reincarnation.

"Galactic Great Saint, Shadow Demon he…" The Nine Phoenix Great Saint did not show the slightest fear, instead immediately looking at Lin Yuan.

"He is already completely dead."

Lin Yuan looked at the Nine Phoenix Great Saint and likewise locked onto all Karma-related objects of the opponent, needing only a single thought to completely kill her.

"Dead, dead, hahaha, dead well, dead well!"

The Nine Phoenix Great Saint suddenly burst into maniacal laughter. The scene she had dreamed of seeing was now actually happening.

"Thank you, Galactic Great Saint."

The Nine Phoenix Great Saint's expression gradually calmed down, carrying a hint of detachment and relief. "Next, I won't need the Galactic Great Saint to make a move."

As soon as the words fell.

The Nine Phoenix Great Saint completely burned.

Her Physical Body, Soul, and mental will all began to burn.

Not only the true body of the Nine Phoenix Great Saint, but even all life-saving objects related to her Karma also began to burn.

"Elder brother, younger sister, I am coming to keep you company."

Amidst flames imbued with boundless vitality, the Nine Phoenix Great Saint walked towards complete destruction.