214: Death! The resurrected golden eyes

Lin Luo crawled out from the cracks of the collapsed ground in a sorry state, his Face covered in dust and looking frighteningly dark.

Hachi-shaku materialized beside him, her voice carrying a rare urgency and softness: "Master, it's too dangerous here. Let's leave quickly."

"Mm," Lin Luo responded dully. He had already intended to leave, but who could have known he'd be targeted by a Dharma Warhorse? Judging by its size, it was likely just a foal. Foals were playful and had big tempers, yet their strength was terrifying.

He no longer hesitated, a halo of light swirling around him as he prepared to flee with all his might.

However, the Dharma Warhorse foal, which he had knocked down with a Divine Sense hammer and felt it had lost Face, clearly had no intention of letting these two "interesting insects" go. Seeing Lin Luo trying to run, its nostrils flared, and it spat out another solid pillar of air!

However, compared to the air cannon previously fired casually by an adult giant horse that had nearly blown him to bits, the power of this foal's attack was undoubtedly much smaller. Lin Luo didn't even bother to dodge, enduring it head-on with his protective halo.

Bang!

The air pillar slammed into the multi-colored halo with a dull thud. The halo flickered violently a few times but ultimately held firm without breaking.

Yet, in the eyes of the Dharma Warhorse foal, this scene was undoubtedly a blatant provocation! Two insects, meant to be "trampled for play," actually dared not to dodge and took its attack head-on? How arrogant!

The foal's fury was instantly ignited, its neighing filled with the irritability of being offended.

"I gave it too much Face!" Lin Luo was already fuming with suppressed anger. Being repeatedly harassed by this ignorant foal, he finally reached the end of his patience!

Even a clay man has three parts of anger, let alone him!

A cold light burst from his eyes. No longer holding back, he struck out boldly!

Buzz—!

A punch was thrown!

The moment his fist swung out, a massive energy fist—composed entirely of multi-colored energy condensed to the extreme and comparable in size to a mountain—suddenly materialized in the Void Realm behind him!

The textures on the fist were clear, carrying a terrifying Aura capable of splitting mountains and seas. Synchronized with Lin Luo's movement, it smashed toward the Dharma Warhorse foal's massive head with lightning speed!

Dong—!!!!

A dull explosion sounded, as if two mountain peaks had collided!

The giant energy fist slammed solidly onto the foal's forehead! The massive impact and penetrating energy explosion caused the caught-off-guard foal to let out a pained neigh. Its entire massive body was knocked backward, and its head was slammed into the ground below, which was already softened by previous trampling!

Boom!

Dust and smoke soared into the sky! Half of the Dharma Warhorse foal's head, along with its neck, sank into a giant crater it had smashed itself into. It couldn't struggle out for a moment, only letting out angry and somewhat dazed whimpers.

Lin Luo withdrew his fist and stood still, the energy around him fluctuating slightly as he caught his breath. This punch had used almost all his strength in his current state; the effect was significant, but the consumption was also great.

He didn't even dare to look back. Without further delay, he said to Hachi-shaku: "Let's go!"

This time, they had to leave the Hill of the Horse Kings immediately at full speed! If they stayed any longer, he feared they would truly attract the gaze of those adult giant horses, or even... that King.

"Don't!"

Hachi-shaku's ethereal voice suddenly spiked, filled with unprecedented terror and resolve!

In the instant Lin Luo knocked down the Dharma Warhorse foal, while his breath was uneven and his mind slightly relaxed, a cold, indifferent force—far surpassing any previous attack—descended from the heights without warning!

At the critical moment, Hachi-shaku's phantom suddenly erupted with an unprecedented brilliant white light. Using all her strength, she turned into a soft yet irresistible push, violently shoving Lin Luo toward the side and rear!

"Mas..." Her voice couldn't even finish transmitting.

Puff—

Like a bubble being pricked, or light and shadow being erased.

That pure, holy phantom that had always guarded Lin Luo's side was instantly shattered and annihilated under a gentle "brush" of that absolute power. Without even a struggle or a cry, she turned into countless motes of light and vanished completely into the heavy air, as if she had never existed.

Buzz... The multi-colored halo and Hachi-shaku's white light that had been interweaving around Lin Luo were forcibly stripped away as she was annihilated! His Aura visibly plummeted, as if he had lost his most important support and buffer.

Before he could recover from this lightning-fast upheaval—

A piercing, bone-gouging pain erupted simultaneously in his body and Soul!

"Ugh, ah—!"

Lin Luo's eyes snapped wide, the sharp divine light within them instantly dimming and scattering! He looked down and saw a faint bloodline, thin as a hair yet piercing through his entire torso, appearing on his chest at some unknown moment.

The next moment.

Chila—!

That bloodline suddenly split open! From the center of his forehead straight down, the entire person was precisely and effortlessly divided in two by that invisible force!

His vision was instantly segmented, overturned, and blurred.

His consciousness rapidly sank, as if falling into an endless, cold, dark abyss.

His last remaining perception seemed to capture that mountain-like figure at the center of the Hill of the Horse Kings... perhaps letting out a snort?

Was it him?

This thought flickered for a moment like a firefly before the total darkness, then extinguished.

Lin Luo's two body halves fell powerlessly to the sides, blood staining the dust, his life force nearly non-existent.

In this moment of dead silence—

Buzz... The simple pendant hanging at his chest, which had always been silent, suddenly floated up on its own, detaching from his neck and hovering in mid-air between the two halves of his corpse.

An invisible, intangible wave—yet one containing an unspeakable power of Law—diffused from the pendant, gently yet irresistibly enveloping Lin Luo's two remains.

The next moment, those two separated body parts were precisely joined as if by an invisible hand. At the wound, flesh, bone, Meridians, and even minute cells wriggled, healed, and connected at high speed, defying common sense under that power! Light flickered at the break, and it became perfectly intact; even the bloodstains rapidly faded and disappeared!

Immediately following—

In the pitch-black space, a pair of cold, majestic, emotionless golden vertical pupils snapped open!

Boom—!!!

An unspeakable, unimaginable, terrifying Aura descended upon this world along with the opening of those golden eyes! This Aura wasn't just powerful; it carried a "scale" that was out of place, transcending the current world's Law, as if it had forcibly squeezed into this Universe in the most violent and overbearing manner!

The entire Eighth Continent—no, it felt as if the entire Gourmet Earth—trembled at the moment this Aura descended! The Law of heaven and earth let out an overburdened hum!

Horse King Heracles, who had been lying at the center of the Hill of the Horse Kings indifferent to the life or death of ants, saw its always calm and indifferent gaze freeze. Then, like something physical, its gaze shot toward the body of Lin Luo, who should have been dead! For the first time, clear shock, solemnity, and even a trace of... disbelief appeared in its eyes!

Almost at the same moment!

Deep within the other seven vast continents of the Gourmet World, the seven other Kings who similarly reigned supreme—no matter where they were or what they were doing—unanimously crossed endless distances and spatial barriers to cast their gazes toward the center of the Eighth Continent, the Hill of the Horse Kings!

Buzz buzz buzz—

The light between heaven and earth suddenly dimmed, as if all light and energy were swallowed and suppressed by that descending Aura! The flow of time for the entire world seemed to experience a moment of stagnation and disorder!

A faint sigh, seeming to come from the end of ancient time and space and echoing in the depths of the Soul, rang out softly, reverberating through the frozen heaven and earth.

The next moment.

On the ground, the eyelids of Lin Luo's newly healed body twitched slightly.

Then, they slowly opened.

What was revealed was a pair of golden eyes that had completely shed all human emotion, leaving only absolute indifference and supreme majesty!

That gaze was identical to the golden eyes that had opened in the pitch-black space.

The "existence" now dominating this body flexed its hands and slightly lifted a foot, the movements appearing somewhat stiff, as if adapting to this "new vessel."

However, just from these slight movements, this Physical Body that had just been forcibly healed could not bear it; the surface skin began to crack inch by inch! Within the cracks, a strange energy flow of dark red mixed with strands of brilliant gold constantly repaired the fractured areas.

The body... is too weak!

He didn't care about the collapsing Physical Body, merely raising a finger and tapping lightly toward the Void Realm beside him.

Where his fingertip touched, space rippled like the surface of water. The next moment, a speck of pure milky-white light materialized out of thin air, then rapidly expanded, outlined, and solidified—it was none other than the Hachi-shaku phantom that had been completely obliterated by that terrifying power earlier!

"Eh? I... didn't I die?" Hachi-shaku appeared in a daze, her consciousness still stuck in the terror and resolve of the moment before annihilation, completely failing to realize what had happened.

"Incompetent!"

A familiar yet incredibly strange scolding voice, cold enough to freeze the Soul, exploded directly in her consciousness!

Hachi-shaku trembled all over, her dazed consciousness forcibly dragged back to reality. She followed the source of that voice—or rather, was drawn by that unavoidable sense of absolute presence—and looked up.

She saw "Lin Luo" standing there quietly, the cracks all over his body slowly being repaired under some force.

But in Hachi-shaku's perception, while her vision clearly saw a human form, her "eyes" seemed only able to "see" a pair of golden eyes hanging high above the endless Void Realm, indifferently looking down upon all living things!

Those eyes were too large, too magnificent, containing incomprehensible and irresistible Law and will.

"It's... it's you!" Hachi-shaku's illusory figure trembled violently, her voice filled with unbelievable awe and fear.

The moment she saw those golden eyes, a fragment of memory that had been deeply Sealed and almost forgotten rushed back into her Sea of Consciousness like a bursting dam!

The one who had pulled her from the pages of the cicada song collection and then crudely Fusion-ed and reshaped her with the most fundamental fragments of this world's Law was this unspeakable, unnameable existence.

Hachi-shaku froze on the spot, even her thoughts nearly frozen, leaving only instinctive trembling and submission.

No longer paying attention to the trembling Hachi-shaku, those indifferent golden eyes slowly turned toward the distance—there, Horse King Heracles, whose time seemed completely frozen, maintained a posture of shocked gazing, solidified like a mountain.

"I'll borrow your heart for a bit."

A calm, almost cold statement rang out, as if stating a natural decision that required no consent.

The moment the words fell—

Puchi—!!!

A dull sound, as if the world's bedrock had been pierced, rang out!

In the center of the Horse King's chest—which was comparable to a mountain range and covered in ancient, tough skin and muscle—a massive hole opened without warning! There was no light, no energy leakage; it was as if the matter there had been erased out of thin air!

Through the hole, the Horse King's internal structure, complex as a labyrinth, could be clearly seen. And at the core of the hole was a massive heart, like a small blood-red star, pulsing with a slow and powerful rhythm.

The next moment, this mountain-sized King's Heart, containing the Horse King's endless life essence and the power of continental authority, vanished into thin air and instantly appeared before "Lin Luo."

Buzz—!

With just a glance, the Horse King's Heart collapsed at an incredible speed! It turned into a torrent of dark red life essence, pure to the extreme, surging turbulently into "Lin Luo's" fragile Physical Body!

The cracked skin rapidly closed, the dark red cracks neutralized and smoothed by golden light. Muscles and bones let out slight cracking sounds of reshaping, and blood began to flow like a reviving river. The strength, toughness, and biological activity of the entire Physical Body were skyrocketing at a terrifying speed!

A few breaths later.

"Lin Luo" tried moving his hands and feet again. His body no longer cracked inch by inch just from moving at will.