199: Chapter 199 The Saints Sever Their Divine Souls
In the ruins below.
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
A series of dull thuds from knees hitting the ground rang out.
Blood Demon Great Sage, Great Strength Bull Demon Saint, and the other ten alien Great Sages, along with the heavily injured and coughing-blood Nine-Tailed Sky Fox, scrambled to the ground directly beneath Lin Fan and knelt in unison.
They buried their heads deep into the dirt, trembling all over.
"Master! This Slave deserves to die a thousand deaths!"
Blood Demon Great Sage frantically slapped his own face while howling at the top of his lungs.
"We Slaves are incompetent! We failed to protect Qingxuan City, causing Master to be distracted! This Slave deserves to die for his crimes!"
Nine-Tailed Sky Fox transformed into her human form, ignoring the wounds on her body that were deep enough to reveal bone, and lay prostrate on the ground, sobbing uncontrollably.
"Master, it was this Slave who brought about this disaster... This Slave is willing to die to atone for the crime!"
These eleven Great Sages, who once dominated the starry sky, were now filled with extreme terror. They had witnessed with their own eyes Lin Fan's heaven-defying methods: shattering a Saint Lord's physical body with a single blade strike and obliterating a Saint Lord's soul with a single thought. In their eyes, Lin Fan was not only a reincarnated immortal but also a living Yama who held the power of life and death!
Lin Fan looked down at this group of Slaves.
"You do deserve to die."
Lin Fan snorted coldly.
"I told you to guard the house, yet I had only been in seclusion for a few days, and the house was uprooted by someone else."
Lin Fan picked his ear.
"Is the security system of my Qingxuan City something I got from a discount slash on Pinduoduo? Dozens of people were almost swallowed like spicy strips by an old hag; is this all the competence you have?"
The eleven Great Sages kowtowed repeatedly.
"Master, calm your anger! Master, please spare our lives!"
Watching this group of Great Sages who had kowtowed until their heads were bleeding, Lin Fan remained expressionless.
He knew very well that this matter couldn't really be blamed on them. The gap between a Great Sage and a Saint Lord could not be bridged by mere numbers. In front of a true Saint Lord, ten Great Sages were no different from ten ants.
After wielding the stick, he still had to offer a sweet date.
"Alright, stop wailing here, it makes it look like I'm bullying the elderly."
Lin Fan waved his hand.
"If there is a next time, I won't need anyone else to do it; I will personally turn you into human lanterns."
The eleven Great Sages wept bitterly.
"Thank you, Master, for your mercy! Thank you, Master!"
Lin Fan didn't waste any words; he directly raised his right hand, and eleven clusters of brilliant golden light condensed at his fingertips.
"If your strength is insufficient, make up for it with formations."
Lin Fan flicked his finger.
Eleven beams of golden light submerged into the foreheads of the eleven Great Sages.
"This combined attack formation is called the 'Black Tortoise Heaven-Guarding Formation'; take it and practice it well."
Lin Fan put his hands in his pockets.
"This formation gathers the power of all eleven of you and can condense a Black Tortoise Dharma Form. I won't promise anything else, but if a Saint Lord comes knocking again, relying on this turtle shell will be enough to withstand a Saint Lord's offensive."
Upon receiving the massive amount of formation information in their minds, the eleven Great Sages were stunned for a moment.
Immediately after.
Blood Demon Great Sage's eyes widened.
"This... the complexity of these formation patterns..." Blood Demon Great Sage gasped, "This is actually a supreme divine formation that draws upon the Black Tortoise Origin!"
Great Strength Bull Demon Saint's muscles twitched all over.
"It can withstand a Saint Lord's offensive?! Heavens! If such a formation were placed in the depths of the starry sky, it would be enough to make those super-powerful clans fight until they broke their heads!"
Nine-Tailed Sky Fox felt the mysteries of the formation in her mind.
"To casually bestow a peerless formation that can withstand a Saint Lord... Master's background is simply unimaginable!"
The eleven Great Sages looked at each other, the awe in their hearts reaching an unprecedented peak. They kowtowed heavily again, their hearts filled with complete and utter submission.
"This Slave will definitely practice this formation to the death! If we disappoint Master again, we will bring our heads to meet you!"
After dealing with these trifles, Lin Fan did not linger too long in the outside world.
Now that the powerful enemy had been eliminated and the rear had been properly arranged, he had no more worries.
"Instant Shadow Space Step!"
Lin Fan took a step, his figure turning into a streak of golden light, directly penetrating layers of the mantle and descending once again into the Sea of Origin at the deepest part of Blue Star.
Chaotic mist churned, and the violent repulsive force of the rules remained.
Lin Fan sat cross-legged, completely severing his connection with the outside world, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the final refinement.
Time lost its meaning in this chaotic Sea of Origin.
Outside, the sun rose and set, and the four seasons changed.
A year passed in the blink of an eye.
At the deepest part of the Sea of Origin.
Chaotic air currents churned wildly, and the violent repulsive force of the rules was suppressed by a power of a higher dimension.
Lin Fan sat cross-legged, suspended in the void. Inside his body, the eight billion-zhang Qi Seas emitted a roar that shook the ages, true essence surging and kicking up monstrous waves.
Four distinct yet homologous terrifying auras rose from his body, directly opening up this chaotic space.
Directly above his head, a vast and boundless scroll of Splendid Mountains and Rivers slowly unfolded, with mountains, rivers, sun, moon, and stars flourishing within, emitting a Saintly might that suppressed the ages.
In the void to his left, endless mist churned, the palace complex of the Six Paths of Reincarnation rose from the ground, the Naihe Bridge spanned life and death, and an ancient bronze tripod brewed reincarnation, emitting a heart-stopping power of annihilation.
In the sky to his right, a huge black and white disk slowly rotated, the Yin-Yang Life and Death Diagram flowing endlessly, with black qi depriving vitality and white qi creating all things.
And directly beneath Lin Fan, in a sea of chaos, a green lotus emitting an aura of endless creation broke through the water. The flower bloomed with three thousand petals, each lotus leaf inscribed with a law of heaven and earth—Chaos Seeds a Green Lotus!
The four great supreme Phenomena appeared simultaneously!
Under the baptism of this power, which was powerful to the extreme, Lin Fan's soul sublimated to the limit, and his thinking was clearer than ever before.
"So this is the threshold of the Saint Lord Realm."
Lin Fan opened his eyes, golden light erupting from his pupils.
"There is no construction without destruction; one must destroy to build. To master the true rules, one must first sever all past causal entanglements."
Lin Fan sneered, his hands quickly forming seals in front of him.
"When others level up, it's smooth sailing; with me, I have to perform a physical transcendence on myself first."
He held his breath and focused, the level 96 Origin Dao spinning crazily.
"Three Thousand Great Dao Blade! Condense for me!"
Hum!
Three thousand complete Dao laws were forcibly extracted from the four great Phenomena, frantically compressing and weaving together in Lin Fan's palm.
A three-foot-long blade, entirely transparent and emitting no light, condensed into shape.
Lin Fan gripped the hilt.
"Sever the Soul!"
Without the slightest hesitation, he gripped the blade backhanded and slashed down fiercely at his own forehead!
Ssh!
The transparent blade ignored the physical body's defenses, directly plunging into the depths of Lin Fan's sea of consciousness, slashing toward the cluster of soul origin that represented all his past causalities, obsessions, and entanglements.
"Ah—!!!"
Lin Fan let out a low roar, veins bulging on his forehead, his muscles twitching violently.
Pain!
Bone-deep agony!
This slash severed all his weaknesses from his time as a mortal, and severed the complicated causalities he had incurred over the past years.
Under this slash, his soul shattered directly into billions of fragments!
If it were an ordinary Great Sage, they would have completely died and vanished the moment their soul shattered.