Accompanied by a scream audible only to the soul, the world core trembled violently before falling completely silent.
The last remnants of its will had been utterly annihilated.
The next step was simple: leave a spirit imprint on the world core and claim this masterless object as his own.
Suddenly, Lin Moyu’s soul blared a frantic warning, and the Nine-Colored Dragon Soul Crystal erupted with a thunderous roar.
An overwhelming sense of deadly danger descended upon him.
A sharp sword appeared out of nowhere, thrusting directly toward his throat.
At the same time, another sword materialized inside his soul world, piercing straight toward his soul main body.
A simultaneous attack on both body and soul.
The strike came without any sound or warning.
Inside the soul world, the Nine-Colored Dragon Soul Crystal surged forward and collided head-on with the incoming sword.
The soul world shook violently as the sword shattered instantly.
In the real world, however, the sword sliced across Lin Moyu’s throat.
Yet Lin Moyu remained completely unharmed, as though nothing had happened.
Only his undead army suffered some damage, but nowhere near enough to collapse.
The attack was inferior to the light of destruction.
Lin Moyu possessed the Physical Resistance passive law art, granting immunity to physical attacks.
Even attacks infused with physical-type laws would have their damage reduced by 8,100 times.
The enemy’s strike had come so suddenly that Lin Moyu failed to detect their presence until after the attack had landed.
A soft gasp of surprise echoed through the air when the strike failed.
Then another sword strike shot toward him, again targeting both body and soul.
“Again? You’ve got some nerve!”
Lin Moyu muttered inwardly as Bone Armor wrapped around him.
The soul attack was once again crushed by the Nine-Colored Dragon Soul Crystal.
The Bone Armor shattered under the physical strike. Even so, the sword was forcibly halted mere inches from Lin Moyu’s neck.
A burst of white light flared nearby.
The attacker had triggered the linkackage law art and was instantly trapped inside a Bone Prison.
Immediately afterward, Bone Fangs and Bone Spear erupted simultaneously, exploding into a storm of dazzling white radiance.
Within the light, a faint gray figure emerged.
The figure wore tight-fitting specialized clothing that concealed everything except the eyes.
Though humanoid in appearance, it was clearly not human.
Its hands had only four fingers, each razor-sharp, and a tail extended behind it.
Most notably, not a trace of aura leaked from its body. Had the linkage law art not forced it into the open, Lin Moyu would never have found it.
But now that it had revealed itself, things became much simpler.
The opponent was undeniably powerful. The Bone Prison lasted only a brief instant before shattering apart.
At that exact moment, Lin Moyu pointed a finger.
Fused law art: Time Curse!
A shrill scream rang out.
The opponent’s soul was instantly set ablaze before being corroded by Soul Poison and numerous curses.
Then the law of time took effect, compressing damage that should have accumulated over a long period into an extremely short span.
Screaming in agony, the figure retreated rapidly, fading back into space.
Lin Moyu restored his Bone Armor but made no move to pursue.
His Comprehensive Rebirth talent had already been triggered and was still on cooldown. He had also used the Undeath Undead law art several times already and was no longer in peak condition.
With the enemy’s identity unknown, Lin Moyu chose caution over recklessness and decided to wait until his talent’s cooldown ended.
Judging from the two attacks, he estimated the opponent’s strength to be somewhere between the Transcendent God 7th tier and 8th tier.
Although someone at that level would struggle to kill him, Lin Moyu could not be certain the opponent lacked stronger hidden trump cards.
After all, the attacker likely originated from the greater world.
Against an unknown threat, Lin Moyu dared not lower his guard.
The figure vanished completely.
Even after his talent’s cooldown had ended, the attacker never appeared again.
“Gone?” Lin Moyu let out a faint laugh.
The figure truly lived by the creed: if the first strike fails, flee a thousand kilometers.
Were people from the greater world always this cautious?
He hadn’t even dared attempt a second assault.
Lin Moyu knew the enemy couldn’t kill him—and likewise, he wouldn’t have an easy time killing the enemy.
Since the figure had retreated, so be it. It saved unnecessary trouble.
The undead army stood guard, surrounding Lin Moyu in layers of protection.
He closed his eyes and resumed imprinting his soul onto the world core.
As his soul force flowed into it, the world core emitted a soft glow.
Suddenly, his soul world trembled violently.
That sword had returned.
The Nine-Colored Dragon Soul Crystal roared and surged forward.
With it guarding his soul, the opponent’s attack was doomed to fail.
In the real world, the sword appeared again, this time wrapped in the light of law.
At least two different laws intertwined around the sword, making the strike far more powerful than before.
Lin Moyu snorted softly and flicked a finger.
The Undead Eye appeared in the air.
The instant his Bone Armor shattered, the attacker’s position was exposed.
A Bone Prison trapped the enemy for the briefest moment. But a moment was all Lin Moyu needed.
A gray figure emerged a hundred meters away, yet his sword was already close to Lin Moyu’s throat.
His outstretched hand seemed to pierce through space itself.
Undead Gaze descended, unleashing a torrential soul attack.
An eye for an eye.
Without hesitation, Lin Moyu pointed forward and cast Time Curse again.
A scream tore through the space, sharper and far more agonizing than before.
The enemy’s soul had already been damaged by the previous strike, and this assault only made things worse.
Between Time Curse and Undead Gaze, even a Transcendent God 8th tier wouldn’t fare well.
Soul attacks were Lin Moyu’s specialty.
Amid the screams, the gray figure vanished once more.
Lin Moyu’s gaze remained icy. He knew this time the enemy had truly been injured.
If the figure dared to return again, Lin Moyu might truly be able to have him stay here forever.
Taking a deep breath, he prepared himself to deal with the opponent.
At the same time, soul force continued to pour into the world core to complete the imprinting.
Yet, to his surprise, the enemy truly never returned.
…
In a corner of the deep layer, a gray figure tumbled from the space and slammed into the ground, writhing in agony and unleashing earth-shaking screams.
It felt as though his soul were burning in eternal flames, tormenting him without end.
“Curses! Damn human, I won’t let this go!”
“I’ll carve your flesh off piece by piece! I’ll cut you into one hundred and eight thousand pieces!”
“I’ll make sure you die without even an intact corpse left behind!”
He cursed Lin Moyu endlessly, despite not even knowing his name.
Trembling violently, he crushed a talisman in his hand.
A glow enveloped his body, and he slowly faded away, disappearing from the deep layer.
…
Lin Moyu, of course, knew nothing of this.
In any case, anyone who tried to seize his world core was a mortal enemy.
He continued channeling soul force into the world core until his imprint was fully established.
The world core then entered his soul world, appearing in the hands of his soul main body.
At once, a surge of energy erupted from the world core and poured into the soul main body like a divine tonic.
Brilliant light radiated from the soul main body.
The final gap preventing his soul grade from reaching peak 2nd grade vanished instantly.
His iron armor shone brilliantly, truly stepping into peak 2nd grade.
Through his soul, Lin Moyu sensed countless laws contained within the world core.
Yet these laws were fragmented and incomplete.
At the same time, he sensed another power inside, a power beyond laws themselves.
The most primal power of the world core: world force.
Lin Moyu had heard of it before.
The true value of a world core didn’t lie in the laws it contained, but in the world force.
As the world core was absorbed into his soul world, the independent world disappeared.
Lin Moyu returned to the deep layer and slowly exhaled.
The journey had been a complete success.
It was time to return.
