137: Chapter 137 The Forbidden Era Begins

Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore.

Within the Void Realm.

Lin Chuan's evil buddha golden body had now expanded to a massive size of a million zhang!

He sat cross-legged high in the sky, like a black star, shrouding the entire kingdom in his shadow.

"A...mi...ta...bha... Bud...dha."

As a Buddhist title, sounding as if from ancient times, rang out.

Around Lin Chuan, countless blood-red lotus phantoms began to bloom.

Atop each lotus sat phantoms of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats of various forms and hideous countenances.

Some were rotting all over, dripping black corpse water; some were covered in eyes, every single one spinning; others were simply masses of writhing flesh, with only rows of mouths constantly opening and closing.

They were either chanting sutras, reciting incantations, or letting out hair-raising, eerie laughs.

Countless twisted, evil, yet somehow sacred-feeling regulatory powers began to gush from Lin Chuan's body, merging into every inch of land and every wisp of air in the Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore.

Under the spread of Lin Chuan's taboo rules, these illusory and distorted existences began to overlap and fuse with the real world.

The earth began to tremble, and the sky began to change color.

The original sky was replaced by a black curtain of Chaos light, with countless distorted Sanskrit characters flowing across it.

On the ground, black equinox flowers burst through the soil one by one, emitting a blurred, faint fragrance.

At first glance, the entire Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore seemed to be being... stripped away from the real world!

It seemed to be turning into a "Divine Kingdom" that existed independently of reality, belonging only to Lin Chuan!

[Great and noble Master!]

[Congratulations! You have successfully constructed the prototype of the "Rebirth Buddha Domain"!]

[Within this domain field, your regulatory power will receive a permanent boost, and the rules of all hostile targets will be forcibly suppressed!]

[You are one step closer to creating a true Divine Kingdom and becoming a supreme deity!]

[Praise my Lord!!!]

Looking at the flattering prompts on the panel, Lin Chuan ignored them.

His mind was entirely immersed in the comprehension and Control of the rules.

Because this feeling of being the Dominator of a world was truly wonderful.

And within the regulatory space between his Buddhist palms.

The book of omniscience that had been imprisoned all this time had its pages flipping rapidly.

On its coarse book cover, dense clusters of eyeballs all snapped open, staring fixedly at Lin Chuan outside, their gaze filled with shock and fear.

"That is... that person's aura..."

"How is this possible..."

"It's illogical! This shouldn't be!!"

On the pages of the book of omniscience, ancient characters began to surface, only to quickly dissipate.

"A new Chief God... shall be born within a dream..."

"When dreams and chaotic reality overlap..."

"A new era... is approaching..."

The book of omniscience kept muttering, as if possessed.

However, halfway through its muttering, it suddenly seemed as if its neck had been squeezed, and its voice vanished instantly.

It closed its pages tremblingly and huddled in a corner, no longer daring to make a sound.

As if... it had spoken some forbidden words that should not be uttered... Just as Lin Chuan had finished constructing the Taboo Domain Field and the entire Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore was immersed in that immense Buddhist majesty.

Buzz—!!!

Above Rebirth City, space suddenly split open without warning, revealing a massive gap.

A colossal phantom of a bronze gear, ten thousand meters in diameter, slowly descended from the rift!

The gear was ancient and mottled, covered with the marks of time.

But the most terrifying thing was...

On the surface of the gear were embedded dense, hundreds of millions of... eyeballs!

Those eyeballs varied in size and color; some were still turning, some were shriveled, and some were oozing a black liquid like engine oil.

And behind the gear...

A terrifying space, chaotic and distorted, filled with the roar of machinery and the writhing of flesh, was vaguely visible!

It seemed to be... a deformed world forcibly created through the Fusion of machinery and flesh!

[Warning! Detected an intrusion of unknown high-tier rules!]

[Source: Mechanical God Domain · the shattered god (Illusory Form)!]

[Illusory Form Terror Level: SS-Rank Ninth Tier!]

[Objective: ???]

Looking at the terrifying gear that had suddenly appeared in the sky, Lin Chuan's Buddhist eyes narrowed sharply.

The Controler of the Mechanical God Domain??

Seeing the phantom, Lin Chuan immediately thought of the former Gear Society.

The taboo worshipped by the Gear Society was the taboo Logos, formed from a fragment of the shattered god.

"Zizhi... Zizhi..."

While Lin Chuan was deep in thought, a piercing sound of electric current suddenly came from the massive gear.

Immediately following that.

A cold, mechanical, synthesized electronic voice devoid of any emotion echoed throughout the Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore.

"Observing... high-energy level regulatory reaction..."

"Observing... prototype of a new Divine Kingdom..."

"Observing... prior Karma..."

"Assessment: Valuable."

"Executing command: Contain... Assimilate... Fuse..."

Boom!!!

Before the voice had even faded.

The massive gear began to turn slowly.

Countless thick mechanical tentacles extended from the void behind the gear, reaching down toward Rebirth City with a suffocating pressure!

Those tentacles were not merely metal.

They were a mixture of countless precision gears, levers, circuit boards, and... still-pulsating blood vessels, muscles, and nerves!

Half-mechanical, half-flesh!

Filled with extreme grotesqueness and horror!

"Impudent!"

Lin Chuan snorted coldly.

On his own turf, they wanted to forcibly contain his kingdom?

"Rise!"

With a thought from Lin Chuan.

The newly constructed [Rebirth Buddha Domain] erupted instantly!

Countless black Sanskrit chains shot out from the void, like a multitude of black Dragons, meeting the mechanical tentacles.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Intense sounds of collision exploded in the sky.

The confrontation between rules caused violent tremors in space.

"Hmm?"

The gear seemed somewhat surprised.

It hadn't expected this newly born "Divine Kingdom" to possess such powerful resistance.

"Re-assessing: Threat level... upgraded."

"Executing plan: Plan B... Destructive strike."

Zizizizi!!!

The rotation speed of the gear accelerated instantly.

The hundreds of millions of eyes on the gear's surface widened simultaneously, emitting a blinding red light.

Countless destructive laser beams poured down like a rainstorm!

Each laser contained terrifying high temperatures and regulatory power sufficient to annihilate matter.

"na mo amitabha buddha!!"

Seeing this, Lin Chuan activated the [Life-Reaping Sanskrit Sound].

The six [six taboos of meishan] Protectors behind him acted simultaneously.

Six massive figures soared into the sky, turning into six indestructible barriers that blocked the space above Rebirth City.

At the same time, Lin Chuan's divine authority, [Weakening], was instantly activated.

Under the influence of the [Weakening] rule, the rotation speed of the massive gear suddenly stalled, and the power of the laser beams was also significantly weakened.

Taking advantage of the gear being suppressed, Lin Chuan condensed a regulatory Buddhist palm and slammed it toward the gear!!

However, just as the Buddhist palm was about to touch the gear... the gear suddenly stopped rotating.

On the gear, all the eyeballs closed.

"Zizhi... Observing... force majeure..."

"Mission... terminated."

"Returning."

Buzz!

The spatial rift closed instantly.

The massive gear, along with those mechanical tentacles, vanished into thin air as if they had never appeared.

It fled?

Lin Chuan's Buddhist palm grasped at empty air.

He frowned slightly, looking at the sky that had already returned to calm, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes.

The opponent clearly possessed SS-Rank Ninth Tier strength, even stronger than the previous [Heavenly Dog Taboo].

Why did it flee after only a brief probe?

Force majeure?

Meaning him?

No! It couldn't be himself!

Even if he activated three layers of the Taboo Domain, plus the regulatory boost from the domain field... he could at most barely contend with an SS-Rank Ninth Tier taboo!

Just him alone wouldn't be enough to make the opponent wary.

Thinking of this, Lin Chuan shifted his 360-degree vision to look at his chest.

There, a blood-red handprint was currently glowing slightly with heat... With the end of this small interlude.

The Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore returned to peace once more.

Lin Chuan did not lower his guard.

He knew this was just the calm before the storm.

Whether it was that mysterious Mechanical God Domain, the soon-to-arrive Yellow-Clad Cult Master, or those awakening dangerous taboos, all were signs that the true era of horror... had already begun.