187: It looks very durable.

On the bluestone stairs after the illusion shattered, the atmosphere was quite awkward for a moment.

Su Lin's face was dark as he walked in front with his hands behind his back, his steps so fast it seemed like he wanted to shake off the three troubles behind him.

"Revered Master, slow down!"

Chu Weiwei ran after him, holding her skirt, still tightly clutching those two cups of spiked wine in her hands, seemingly thinking about what opportunity she could find to pour them down his throat again.

"Old Man! Are you shy?"

Su Hongling carried the giant sword, jumping to Su Lin's side in a few steps, poking her head around to peek at Su Lin's expression.

"I saw everything in the illusion just now. Your hands were shaking when you lifted the veil! You definitely wanted to get married too, right?"

"I was shaking from anger!"

Su Lin glared at her crossly, "Shaking from being angered by you three wretched disciple!"

"Tch, saying one thing but meaning another."

Luo Ximei walked on the other side, her platinum-gold right eye flickering with a light that saw through everything.

"Revered Master's physical reactions can't lie. Just now in the illusion, your heartbeat accelerated, and your blood flow speed also increased.

This shows that you... don't dislike that kind of scene."

She leaned close to Su Lin's ear, her breath like orchids:

"Since Revered Master likes the Chinese style, should we try the style of the Western Region's Demon Race next time?

Tie you to the altar, and I'll wear that..."

"Shut up! Say one more word and you'll go back and copy scriptures ten thousand times!"

Su Lin brought out his ultimate move.

The world finally became quiet... Although this Path to Heaven was long, with the four's leg strength, it was only half a day's journey.

As the height increased, the surrounding gravity had reached a terrifying thousand times.

The air became thin and viscous; every step required a huge amount of physical strength.

But for this Revered Master and his three disciple, it was still within an acceptable range.

Finally.

When stepping onto the last step, the scene before them suddenly opened up.

It was a huge platform floating at the peak of the Void Realm, spanning a hundred miles, paved with solid pieces of black jade, polished like a mirror.

In the center of the platform stood a palace so magnificent it was breathtaking.

The palace doors were tightly closed, and two Coiling Dragon Pillars ten thousand zhang high stood before the gate, emanating a desolate aura from ancient times.

Between those two pillars lay a gargantuan beast.

It was an Ink Jade Qilin, its entire body pitch black with scales shining like ink jade.

It was too big; its head alone was as high as a small mountain.

At this moment, it was closing its eyes, and the two streams of white air exhaled from its nostrils turned into two surging rivers of clouds.

In the center of its forehead was embedded a fist-sized crystal emitting a destructive purple-black light.

The third world core!

The core representing "Destruction"!

"Is this... the guardian beast?"

Su Hongling thumped her giant sword onto the ground, making a muffled sound.

"It looks like it can take a beating."

"Shh!"

Chu Weiwei made a gesture for silence, her face pale.

"Don't wake it up... The pressure on this thing... is stronger than all five foreign race commanders combined!

My poisonous insects... were all scared to death."

In the small jar she held, those Gu insects that were usually incredibly fierce were now all belly-up and stiff.

"half-step Undergoing Tribulation..."

Luo Ximei's expression was more solemn than ever before.

The True Immortal Origin within her was trembling; it was an instinctive warning when encountering a higher-order existence.

"This Ink Jade Qilin is only one step away from Undergoing Tribulation.

With the enhancement of that Destruction Core, I'm afraid even if a Mahayana Great Perfection came, they would have to die with regret on the spot."

"Then what do we do?"

Su Hongling gripped the sword hilt, her palms sweating slightly.

"Steal it? Or snatch it?"

"Neither will work."

Su Lin shook his head.

He looked at the sleeping giant beast, took out the black box, and removed the stone seal.

"Since it's a gatekeeper beast left by a True Immortal, it should recognize this token."

He took a deep breath and injected Qi into the seal.

"Buzz!"

The seal lit up with a soft white light, turning into a pillar of light that shot directly at the Ink Jade Qilin.

"Wake up!"

Su Lin gave a low shout, his voice echoing on the platform like a great bronze bell under the enhancement of the Space Law.

"Roar!!!"

A world-shaking roar rang out.

The Ink Jade Qilin snapped its eyes open.

Its left eye was like the sun and its right like the moon, but at this moment, both eyes were filled with crazed bloodshot veins, and the depths of its pupils were dyed an eerie purple-black by the Destruction Core in its forehead.

It didn't lower its head submissively as Su Lin had expected.

Instead, it was filled with tyranny and killing intent!

"Roar!!"

It stared at the seal in Su Lin's hand, the madness in its eyes intensifying.

"It's out of control!"

Su Lin's expression changed, "That core has eroded its sanity! It doesn't recognize the token at all now; it will only treat us as intruders!"

Before he could finish his words.

The Ink Jade Qilin had already moved.

It didn't use any Spells; it simply raised a front claw and slammed it down hard toward the position where the four were!

As this claw fell, before it even touched the ground, the terrifying wind pressure already caused the black jade ground to crack inch by inch.

Space was locked, and time seemed to freeze.

This strike was unavoidable!

"I'll take it!!"

Su Hongling roared, advancing instead of retreating.

Her entire blood and Qi burned to the extreme, and a blood-colored giant phantom that towered between heaven and earth appeared behind her.

"For this old lady... hold it!!!"

She raised the giant sword no edge with both hands, as if lifting a piece of the firmament, meeting the sky-blotting beast claw head-on.

"Clang!!!"

A loud sound, enough to shatter the Divine Soul.

Su Hongling's figure beneath this claw was as tiny as an ant.

But she held it!

Although her feet instantly sank into the ground up to her knees.

She really held the casual strike of this half-step Undergoing Tribulation Vicious Beast!

"Aaaaaah!!"

Su Hongling hissed, the muscle fibers in her arms snapping and instantly reorganizing, "Old Man! Quickly think of a way! I can't hold on for long!!"

"Move!!"

Luo Ximei and Chu Weiwei acted simultaneously.

The Demon God Manifestation behind Luo Ximei extended a thousand arms, turning into black and white chains that frantically wrapped around the Qilin's limbs.

Chu Weiwei threw out tens of thousands of poisonous Gu, turning into a green poison cloud that crawled into the gaps of the Qilin's scales.

However.

"Roar!"

The Ink Jade Qilin just impatiently shook its body.

"Snap, snap, snap!"

Luo Ximei's chains all snapped.

Immediately after, the Destruction Core on its forehead lit up with a purple light.

"Sizzle!"

Chu Weiwei's poison cloud was directly evaporated by the purple light, and even her beloved Gu insects were all turned to ash.

"Pfft!"

The two women spat out a mouthful of blood simultaneously and were sent flying.

Too strong!

This was simply not a battle on the same level!

"Damn it..."

Su Lin watched this scene, a trace of ruthlessness flashing in his eyes.

Conventional means were useless.

He had to get that core out!

"Hong Ling! How much longer can you hold?!"

"Three breaths! Three breaths at most!!" Su Hongling's leg bones had already begun to crack.

"Enough!"

Su Lin's figure flashed, and he actually disappeared from the spot.

The next instant.

He appeared on top of the Ink Jade Qilin's head!

In a flight-prohibited Domain and thousand-fold gravity, this was an almost impossible operation to complete, but Su Lin managed it by relying on his extreme understanding of Space Law.

He stood on the bridge of the Qilin's nose, less than three zhang away from the Destruction Core.

"Roar?"

The Qilin noticed this "little bug," its eyes rolled, and a purple destructive light beam was about to be shot.

"Freeze!"

Su Lin pressed the stone seal in his hand hard onto the Qilin's forehead.

Although the Qilin was out of control, this seal was, after all, a control center left by a True Immortal, and it had a natural suppressing force on its Physical Body.

"Buzz!"

The Qilin's movements suddenly stiffened, and a brief struggle appeared in the madness of its eyes.

Now!

Su Lin's right hand made a grasping motion.

"destiny!"

The golden ancient sword appeared in his hand.

He didn't use the sword tip to pierce, because the Qilin's defense couldn't be broken even by the Mahayana Stage.

He used the sword hilt!

"Come... out!!"

Su Lin poured all his Qi, including the blood and Qi power of the Immovable Wisdom King Body, as well as that trace of the devouring power from the heart of the primordial demon, into the sword hilt.

Then, he slammed it down hard against the core embedded in the flesh!

This wasn't an attack.

This was a "vibration"!

Using the principle of spatial vibration to shake loose the connection between the core and the flesh!

"Clang!!!"

A loud bang.

The Qilin let out a painful roar, its massive body trembling violently.

Under this strike, the Destruction Core actually loosened a bit, protruding outward by an inch!

"It's working!"

Su Lin's eyes shone brightly.

"disciple! Hold it down for me!!"

"Understood!!"

The three disciple on the ground also saw the key.

Su Hongling spat out a mouthful of bloody foam, her eyes crazed.

"For this old lady... kneel down!!"

She suddenly withdrew her giant sword, then her body leaped high, and using all her remaining strength, she sat on the Qilin's slamming claw and held it tightly!

"God-Locking Chains!"

Luo Ximei burned her Origin, her black hair instantly turning completely white.

Countless thick chains emerged from the void，It tightly strangled the Qilin's neck and the other three legs..

"Thousand-Thread Myriad-Poison Web!"

Chu Weiwei also went all out; she sacrificed her Natal Golden Silkworm, spitting out a huge sticky web that covered the Qilin's mouth and eyes.

The three disciple were using their lives to buy time for Su Lin.

"Aaaaaah!!"

The Qilin struggled frantically, every shake causing the three women to spray blood.

"Hurry up, Old Man! We're about to fall apart!!"

"Almost there!!"

Su Lin was also bleeding from his seven orifices at this moment.

He was in the center of the Qilin's pressure storm, bearing the greatest pressure.

He threw away the ancient sword, his hands forming claws, tightly gripping the protruding core.

"Get... out of here!!!"

The heart of the primordial demon inside Su Lin's body operated frantically, generating a terrifying suction force.

"Pop!"

Like pulling out a stubborn nail.

Accompanied by the Qilin's extremely shrill scream.

The world core, emitting destructive purple light, was forcibly pulled out of the Qilin's forehead by Su Lin!

"Boom—!!"

Once the core left the body, a terrifying energy shockwave instantly erupted.

Su Lin bore the brunt of it, his whole body being blown away like a kite with a broken string, heavily crashing onto the black jade ground hundreds of zhang away.

"Pfft!"

He spat out a mouthful of blood, but his hand was still tightly clutching the still-pulsating core.

"It's done..."

Having lost the control of the core, the purple-black color in the Ink Jade Qilin's eyes quickly faded, restoring its clear black and white.

It looked at the mess around it, then at the human in the distance holding the core, and at the three heavily injured women beside it.

The tyranny in its eyes disappeared, replaced by deep exhaustion and... relief.

It slowly lowered its noble head, let out a low whimper toward Su Lin's direction, and then its front legs softened, and it knelt on the ground.

This was submission.

And also gratitude.

[Ding! Detected world core (Fragment 3/3).]

[Congratulations to the host for collecting all fragments!]

[Mission complete!]

[Special reward issued: Myriad Heavens Star Chart!]

Boom!

A golden pillar of light descended from the sky, enveloping the heavily injured Su Lin.

The injuries in his body healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his aura rose steadily.

Su Lin's Void Refining Stage Primordial Spirit shattered with a bang at that moment.

But this was not destruction; it was the final darkness before a butterfly emerged from its cocoon.

The shattered Primordial Spirit fragments did not dissipate but were enveloped by the starlight released from the Myriad Heavens Star Chart, beginning to frantically reorganize, compress, and undergo a qualitative change.

His Qi Sea and Dantian turned into a deep starry sky.

The original Primordial Spirit figure disappeared, replaced by a "Star God" that looked exactly like him but was composed of countless brilliant stars.

His Physical Body was burning, and his bones were being recast.

The Body Integration Realm was rapidly forming within his body.

Body Integration Stage, the body merging with the spirit, and the spirit merging with the Dao.

And the Dao that Su Lin merged with was not the incomplete Dao of this world, but the complete Great Dao from the ancient Immortal Realm recorded in the Myriad Heavens Star Chart!

However.

Just as Su Lin was about to take that final step and completely step into the Body Integration Stage.

"Crack!!!"

The sky of the foreign land, which was dim all year round and covered with purple clouds, cracked open without warning.

Like a mirror, it was forcibly crushed by an irresistible external force.

A terrifying aura that froze the Soul poured down from that crack.

It wasn't the Evil Qi of a foreign race, nor the ferocity of a demon cultivator.

It was... Heavenly Might.

A pure, emotionless order will that descended to obliterate "anomalies."

"It's here again..."

Su Lin snapped his eyes open, galaxies revolving within his pupils.

He was too familiar with this aura.

And this time... it seemed to be completely enraged.

Because it felt the forming Law of the Immortal within Su Lin's body, which did not belong to this world.

"Buzz."

The crack in the sky grew larger and larger, finally turning into a huge hole covering ten thousand miles.

Within the hole, there was no thunder, no fire.

There was only an eye.

A silver, cold giant eye that occupied the entire sky.

It gazed at Su Lin, who was in the middle of a Breakthrough.

"Anomaly."

"To be executed."

A voice so grand it could shatter stars exploded directly in everyone's minds.

Immediately after.

From that giant eye, a silver tear dropped.

That was not water.

That was liquefied Heavenly Dao Law, the "Primal Water" capable of assimilating and erasing all matter.

It was only a single drop, yet it was as heavy as a thousand jun, carrying the momentum to destroy everything as it fell straight toward the crown of Su Lin's head.