106: Ultimate sublimation, the pinnacle of Saint King? Slay him!

Grand Elder Zhu Kun swung the Time Staff, unleashing "Time Like a Blade."

This strike was formless and immaterial, yet more terrifying than any physical or energy attack.

It acted directly on the life Origin, invoking the Law of time to accelerate Lin Dao's life progression, forcing him to experience ten thousand years of vicissitudes in an instant, ultimately causing his blood and Qi to dry up, his Divine Soul to decay, and him to turn into dust!

The moment that power of time touched his body, the ten-thousand-zhang-tall Divine Demon Incarnation Lin Dao had transformed into shuddered violently!

He clearly felt a cold, heartless force frantically eroding his vitality.

His blood and Qi, as vast as the sea, felt like floodgates had been opened, beginning to drain away uncontrollably!

On his dark-gold skin, tiny cracks, like those on ancient porcelain, began to appear—a sign that his life force was being rapidly consumed!

Even his indestructible Divine Soul felt a sense of fatigue and old age!

"The Law of time... it is indeed eerie!" Lin Dao thought, his heart solemn.

Grand Elder Zhu Kun's comprehension of the Law of time was extremely profound, far exceeding that of an ordinary Saint King.

If he didn't possess the Primordial Divine Demon Body and an incredibly thick life Origin, any other Saint King Realm First Level would have likely turned into withered bones under this blade!

"I must end this quickly!"

Lin Dao let out a roar toward the heavens. It was no longer a human voice, but a Divine Demon's roar from the primordial Chaos, shaking the entire Nine Provinces Continent!

The dark-gold Divine Demon runes burning around him suddenly erupted with unprecedented light, like billions of miniature chaotic stars shining simultaneously!

"Chaos Furnace, refine my body! Myriad Laws Inviolable, time shall not touch me!"

The rumbling of a great furnace echoed from within him as all the Chaos Qi circulated frantically!

The encroaching power of time was forcibly drawn into his body, using himself as the furnace and Chaos as the flame to refine it!

The tiny cracks on his skin healed and vanished at a visible rate. The lost blood and Qi were replenished by an even more violent new power, becoming even more pure and vast!

He had head-on withstood "Time Like a Blade"!

"What?! He can actually refine the power of time?!" Grand Elder Zhu Kun's pupils shrank, the shock on his face no longer concealable.

This completely exceeded his understanding! The Law of time was one of the supreme laws; how could it be refined so easily?

"This boy... his Primordial Divine Demon Body has likely touched the threshold of a true 'Major Achievement'! He must not be allowed to live!"

Grand Elder Zhu Kun's killing intent boiled to the extreme. He gripped the Time Staff with both hands, pouring his Peak Saint King Realm Ninth Level cultivation base into it without reservation!

"River of Time, appear!"

He roared, slamming the Time Staff into the Void Realm!

Rumble!!!

As if the river of space-time from ancient times had been invoked, a hazy and illusory phantom of a vast river, composed of countless time fragments and historical dust, spanned across the sky, appearing behind Grand Elder Zhu Kun!

The river surged endlessly, kicking up waves where each wave was a silhouette of an era, containing endless vicissitudes and great power!

This was Grand Elder Zhu Kun's trump card Divine Ability, using his own cultivation base and the Time Staff as a medium to summon a projection of the River of Time!

Although it was only a projection, its power had already touched a sliver of the Great Saint Realm Domain!

"In the name of time, be buried!"

Grand Elder Zhu Kun swung the Time Staff, guiding the vast phantom of the River of Time. It transformed into a grey torrent that swept across the Myriad Heavens and Myriad Realms, burying all of space-time, as it washed toward Lin Dao!

Wherever this torrent passed, space did not just collapse; it directly "aged" and returned to nothingness!

Even the Laws grew dim and failed under the scouring of time!

This was a true killing blow! Zhu Kun was confident that even a fellow Saint King Realm Ninth Level would perish on the spot when faced with the scouring of this River of Time!

Facing this terrifying torrent that seemed capable of burying an era, the ten-thousand-zhang Divine Demon that Lin Dao had become showed no fear. Instead, a more intense and frenzied battle fire burned in his eyes!

"Good!"

He let out a world-shaking battle cry. His ten-thousand-zhang Divine Demon body shuddered violently, and the Chaos Qi swirling around him was no longer scattered but began to rotate and condense frantically according to some extremely mysterious trajectory!

"Roar!" "Awoo!" "Screech!" "Moo!"... One after another, distinct yet equally primordial, ancient, and domineering roars echoed from within Lin Dao!

It was as if countless Primordial Divine Demon wills sleeping deep within his Bloodline were being fully awakened at this moment!

Then, under the gaze of countless horrified eyes, blurry yet terrifyingly oppressive Divine Demon phantoms emerged behind Lin Dao!

There was a Thunder Divine Demon with a dragon's head and a human body, wielding lightning!

There was a Wind Divine Demon with wings on its back, controlling storms!

There was a Fire Divine Demon stepping on raging flames, burning the eight directions!

There was an Ice Divine Demon controlling profound ice, freezing space-time!

There was a Strength Divine Demon with a body like a mountain and immense strength!

There was a Reincarnation Divine Demon controlling life and death with Reincarnation in its eyes!

...Thousands upon thousands! Although most were just extremely blurry phantoms, the combined aura of primordial, domineering, chaotic, and powerful energy from the beginning of creation instantly crushed the vicissitudes and deathly silence brought by the River of Time!

This was the Primordial Divine Demon Body approaching Major Achievement, invoking the Divine Demon Dao Shadows imprinted deep within the Bloodline!

Although they were only Dao Shadows and not real, they contained a sliver of the corresponding Divine Demon's Origin Law intent!

"Ten Thousand Demons Acknowledge the Ancestor, Chaos Returns to One!"

Lin Dao roared, and the thousands of Divine Demon Dao Shadows behind him let out a synchronized roar. Then, like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, they frantically surged toward his ten-thousand-zhang Divine Demon Incarnation, merging with him completely!

With every Divine Demon Dao Shadow merged, his aura surged, his dark-gold Divine Demon body became more solid, and the Chaos Qi flowing around him became heavier and more destructive!

When he merged the final Divine Demon Dao Shadow into himself, his entire body seemed to transform into Chaos itself!

His height remained ten thousand zhang, but he gave off the feeling of propping up the entire Universe!

The dark-gold runes on his skin had turned into living things, like miniature Chaos Divine Dragons swimming about!

His pupils had completely turned into two rotating Chaos vortices, seemingly capable of swallowing all light and matter!

At this moment, his aura actually temporarily broke through the limits of his Saint King Realm First Level, infinitely approaching the Peak Saint King Realm!

It even faintly carried a sense of transcendence beyond the Saint King, reigning above the myriad Daos!

This was the true Heaven-Defying power that the Primordial Divine Demon Body could unleash at the Saint King Realm stage!

Using his own Chaos to manifest ten thousand demons, then drawing them back to the source for an ultimate sublimation!

"Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal!"

Lin Dao pressed his palms together in front of his chest. Countless Divine Demon runes and Chaos Qi were frantically compressed and condensed between his palms, finally transforming into a simple, ancient seal only about a foot wide. It was Chaos-colored and seemed to contain all the mysteries of the creation of heaven and earth!

The moment this seal appeared, all the Laws of the entire Nine Provinces—no, of this entire Star Domain—let out a mournful cry, unable to bear the burden!

Even before it was launched, the fluctuations it emitted made the Saint King Realm experts watching from afar tremble in their souls, feeling an urge to bow down in worship!

Grand Elder Zhu Kun's expression changed wildly. He felt an unprecedented crisis of death from that Chaos Seal!

He even felt that the seal truly possessed the great power to open the heavens and redefine order!

"Impossible!!" he roared frantically, injecting all of his cultivation base, along with the power of the River of Time projection, into the Time Staff without reservation, driving that time torrent that buried everything to rush toward Lin Dao even faster!

"Suppress!"

Lin Dao spoke the word of truth and slowly pushed out the Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal with both hands.

The seal left his hands and did not grow large; it remained only a foot wide, flying forward lightly as if it had no power at all.

However, when it made contact with the surging torrent of the River of Time—

Sizzle!

Like a red-hot knife cutting through butter.

The time torrent, capable of burying stars and decaying eternity, met its nemesis the moment it touched the Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal. All the time power and the Concept of vicissitudes were forcibly smoothed out, suppressed, and then... assimilated by the "Heaven-Opening" will contained within the seal!

Wherever the Heaven-Opening Seal passed, the surging phantom of the River of Time instantly solidified, then disintegrated inch by inch starting from the point of contact, reverting to the most basic time particles, and finally being swallowed and absorbed by the Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal!

The Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal destroys myriad Laws and redefines order! Time, too, was among what could be broken!

"No—!!!"

Grand Elder Zhu Kun let out a desperate and unwilling hiss. He watched helplessly as his strongest Divine Ability was broken by the opponent as if it were child's play; his Dao Heart nearly shattered!

The Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal's momentum didn't decrease, instantly crossing space to appear before Grand Elder Zhu Kun.

Grand Elder Zhu Kun frantically waved the Time Staff to block, while also sacrificing several life-saving Saint King artifacts, as the Law of time around him condensed into a thick barrier.

But before the Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal, all of this was like paper.

Crack!

The Time Staff, a treasure that had followed him for countless years and was comparable to a Great Saint artifact, snapped in the middle!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Several Saint King artifacts exploded one after another, turning into dust!

The time barrier was like a bubble in the sunlight, instantly vanishing!

Finally, that foot-wide Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal lightly pressed against Grand Elder Zhu Kun's chest.

Grand Elder Zhu Kun's movements froze. He looked down, staring in disbelief at the small mark on his chest.

There was no pain, no explosion, but he could clearly feel all of his life force, all of his Saint King Dao Fruits, and all of his Law insights being frantically swallowed, disintegrated, and returned to Chaos by that mark!

"I... am unwilling..."

He opened his mouth but could not make a sound.

Starting from the mark on his chest, his body was like a weathered sand sculpture, rapidly spreading to his entire body. Finally, with a "bang," he completely transformed into a cloud of Chaos Qi and dissipated between heaven and earth.

Along with the fragments of his broken Time Staff, he also turned into nothingness.

The foundation of the Ancient God Heavenly Domain, the Peak Saint King Realm Ninth Level Grand Elder Zhu Kun, had fallen!

Having completed its mission, the Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal also slowly dissipated, returning to Lin Dao's body.

Lin Dao's ten-thousand-zhang Divine Demon Incarnation swayed slightly, his aura instantly dropping, returning to the Saint King Realm First Level, and even appearing a bit weaker than before; clearly, that strike just now had been a massive drain.

But he still stood firmly in the Void Realm, divine light flowing on his dark-gold body as he began to recover rapidly.

All living beings who saw this scene, whether they were the high-and-mighty Saint Kings of the Ancient Great Clans or the local Cultivators of the Nine Provinces, were all rooted to the spot as if petrified.

A Peak Saint King Realm Ninth Level... was defeated head-on by a Saint King Realm First Level, and his body and soul were completely extinguished!

This was no longer just Heaven-Defying; this overturned all common logic of cultivation!

"Grand... Grand Elder Zhu Kun... is dead?" Saint King Jinyang's voice was dry, filled with fear.

"The Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal... was that... was that the Origin power that touches the 'Dao'?" Saint King Jian Wuya's hand holding his sword trembled slightly.

Saint King Cihang lowered her eyes, constantly chanting scriptures, yet she found it difficult to calm the turbulent waves in her heart.

The Nine-Headed Lion Saint King's remaining eight heads all shrank back, the ferocity in its eyes replaced by fear.

Saint King Qionghua's face was pale, her gaze toward Lin Dao filled with deep wariness.

Those hidden in the shadows, whose auras were no weaker than Zhu Kun's, also fell into silence at this moment.

They asked themselves, if they faced Lin Dao's final Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal, could they take it? The answer made their hearts tremble.

Lin Dao slowly raised his massive Divine Demon head, his chaotic eyes sweeping over the remaining experts of the Ancient Great Clans. His voice, like a great bell, rang in the hearts of every expert:

"Who else wants to try my Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal?"

His voice was calm, yet it carried an unparalleled deterrent power!

No one answered.

The Ancient Great Clans, who were previously arrogant and viewed the Nine Provinces as a prize in their pocket, were now completely silenced before Lin Dao, the Primordial Divine Demon who had forcefully killed a Peak Saint King.