Chapter 4779: The Purple Pearl
Even reduced to ruins, the Nine Cycle universe was still not much smaller than the Chaos Ancient Wilds.
It was not that it had grown enormous after breaking.
Even before its collapse, the Nine Cycle universe had only ever been about this size.
Because it was too powerful, after its laws shattered and it turned into remains, its overall size did not change much, still maintaining about eighty percent of its original scale.
Treading along the laws, Lin Moyu moved forward.
Even at his speed, it would still take him several days to reach the location of the core.
The road was smooth and without obstruction.
However, after walking for three days, Lin Moyu suddenly stopped.
The Hongmeng Stone spoke at the same time.
"Master, something seems off."
Lin Moyu said,
"So you see it too.
There is indeed a problem."
He had walked for three days, yet he was not much closer to the universe core.
At this rate, ten days would not be enough, and even a hundred or a thousand days of walking would not suffice.
No matter how large a Nine Cycle universe might be, it should not require so much travel time, especially considering that he moved along the laws, which made his speed terrifyingly fast.
The only explanation was that the laws in this Nine Cycle universe were affecting him.
Whoosh.
The Wings of Heaven and Earth spread open and poured down multicolored radiance, covering everything.
"Submit."
With a low shout, the Wings of Heaven and Earth drove the laws and commanded them to yield.
Wherever the radiance spread, the void twisted, as if something inside were struggling and resisting.
"Still trying to resist?
Suppress."
Lin Moyu's eyes shone with a piercing light.
The power of the Wings of Heaven and Earth surged, forcibly suppressing the rebellious laws.
Boom.
Ten thousand strands of violet lightning crashed down like a storm, densely striking Lin Moyu's body.
The Wings of Heaven and Earth had clashed with the laws of the Nine Cycle universe, and the changes that the Nine Heavens Fate Art had previously imposed on those laws were immediately nullified.
Lin Moyu once again became the public enemy of Heaven and Earth.
The Nine Cycle universe acted in accordance with its laws, and its punishment descended without delay.
To Lin Moyu, however, this so called punishment felt more like a massage.
Changing the laws earlier had only been because the interference was annoying and blocked his vision.
It had never been out of fear.
Lin Moyu bathed in the thunder.
Even the Wings of Heaven and Earth were coated with a layer of violet light, and the radiance became increasingly resplendent.
Within the twisting void, a hazy humanoid figure appeared.
It flickered in and out of existence in the air, as though it did not truly exist in this space.
"A law born lifeform, and one born from the laws of space at that.
Interesting."
"If this were earlier, dealing with it might have been troublesome; but now…"
The Nine Heavens Fate Art descended again, forcibly altering the laws.
Space itself turned into a cage, imprisoning this law born being within.
The cage then shrank rapidly, and as Lin Moyu clenched his fist, the cage popped like a bubble.
The law born lifeform inside was ground into dust.
Laws were formless, but Lin Moyu could force them to become tangible.
Law born beings all differed from one another.
They were born from laws, acted according to laws, wielded laws as their sword, and used laws as their shield.
To deal with them, one had to resolve things on the level of the laws themselves.
That was how Lin Moyu had done it in the past as well.
Now, however, it no longer required so much trouble.
He simply seized control of the laws and erased them outright without needing such a tedious process.
To someone who did not understand, this would sound utterly inconceivable and beyond imagination.
To Lin Moyu, it was as simple as eating or drinking water.
Refining a universe, driving and controlling its laws, was something a powerhouse had to learn.
Lin Moyu was not yet a true supreme, but he already possessed a soul no weaker than that of a supreme and was fully able to do this.
After the law born lifeform was destroyed, the scene before him suddenly changed.
Countless spaces shattered.
Those spaces had been like mirrors arrayed along the path of Lin Moyu's very first step.
His earlier slow progress had been the result of that law born being secretly interfering.
Every step that looked like he had advanced billions upon billions of miles had actually just taken him from one mirror space to the next.
"The laws of a Nine Cycle universe really are different.
To think they could influence me without my noticing.
It seems more caution is needed."
The Wings of Heaven and Earth were no longer withdrawn.
Their light shone everywhere, and wherever Lin Moyu went, so did that radiance.
Within the glow, the laws took visible form and were completely captured by Lin Moyu's gaze.
Before long, another law born lifeform appeared, once more one of space.
Lin Moyu was not surprised.
The laws in a Nine Cycle universe were powerful, and law born lifeforms would not be limited to only one.
Even a single branch of laws, such as space, could give rise to multiple such beings.
There was only one way Lin Moyu intended to deal with them: send them to their deaths.
With the Wings of Heaven and Earth and the Nine Heavens Fate Art working in perfect concert, he truly moved forward without obstruction.
Law born lifeforms were continuously destroyed.
All the while, Lin Moyu remained bathed in lightning.
Even the punishment of a Nine Cycle universe could do nothing against him.
He drew closer and closer to the universe core.
After nine days, Lin Moyu finally saw what the universe core looked like.
Separated by billions of miles, he activated the Eye of the Soul and took the universe core into his view.
It was still a pagoda, except it had now become nine storied, representing that this was a Nine Cycle universe.
The nine storied pagoda stood in the void, slowly rotating.
Each level shone with colorful light, which extended like ribbons into the surrounding void.
Those radiant ribbons were the universal laws.
Lin Moyu had already seen this kind of scene many times and was not surprised by it at all.
What truly drew his attention was the violet pearl at the very top of the Nine Cycle pagoda.
He could feel that this violet pearl was not ordinary, but he did not recognize it.
"Do you know what it is?"
The Hongmeng Stone stared carefully at the violet pearl, then shook its head.
"I do not recognize it."
The fact that even the Hongmeng Stone did not recognize it only made Lin Moyu more certain that this pearl was extraordinary.
Suddenly, a thin strand of thunder power shot out from the pearl, piercing the sky and drilling into the body of the laws.
Lin Moyu instantly understood why the thunder striking him had been violet.
The source was here.
That violet pearl could coexist alongside the universe core and even change the color of the thunder.
Those two points alone were enough to prove it was no simple object.
As for what it was exactly, that would become clear once he seized it.
Lin Moyu took a single step and instantly arrived before the nine storied pagoda.
Sensing his arrival, the universe core erupted with a powerful aura.
Countless laws surged forth like a tidal wave, forcibly driving Lin Moyu back.
Pushed a million miles away in an instant, Lin Moyu said,
"The laws of a Nine Cycle universe truly are formidable."
The laws gathered into the form of a divine dragon of rules.
The violet pearl above the tip of the pagoda flew up on its own and entered the dragon's body, settling at its brow as a third eye.
The dragon formed from laws fixed its three eyes on Lin Moyu, cold and emotionless.
These were laws and had no feelings, only the function of annihilating any who approached.
"Suppress and kill."
The Wings of Heaven and Earth shuddered violently, and the Nine Heavens Fate Art descended.
The void twisted and the laws shattered.
The dragon's body was instantly torn into several pieces, but in the very next moment it recovered.
Its roars rang out again and again, and countless fissures opened in the void.
The universe itself was torn apart, and Lin Moyu felt a power from the Forbidden Zone of Life.
Violet thunder slammed down.
The Wings of Heaven and Earth shattered, and Lin Moyu was blasted into dust.
Violet light flickered, and his undying rebirth completed itself.
"How…?"
His eyes flickered.
The thunder just now was different from before.
Within it was mixed the destructive power from the Forbidden Zone of Life.
He also noticed another detail: the violet light of that thunder and the violet light that erupted when his body was reborn seemed somewhat similar.
Boom.
The universe was torn apart once more, and ten thousand streaks of lightning rained down again.
Lin Moyu was unsurprisingly shredded into pieces once more.
The destructive force from the Forbidden Zone of Life was still a power that he found difficult to resist.
Lin Moyu resurrected yet again, his gaze slightly narrowed.
"Can I use this lightning to court death deliberately?"