The backlash power flew into the void, pierced through space, and vanished without a trace.
Calamity Great Supreme's expression suddenly changed. He shouted harshly,
"What did you do?"
He had thought everything was about to succeed, but what Lin Moyu did shattered that idea.
Lin Moyu had not borne the backlash of the formation at all, and had even sent that backlash off into the void, destination unknown.
Destiny Venerable chuckled to the side.
"Fellow Daoist Lin truly had a backup plan."
Lin Moyu smiled.
"Do not worry, Senior. It is only a bit of backlash.
"I merely sent it to where it ought to go.
"If I am not mistaken, this formation actually has thirteen sub arrays, and the last sub array should be in that direction."
Lin Moyu pointed into the distance, exactly where he had sent the backlash.
Calamity Great Supreme realized something, his face changing dramatically.
"How dare you."
The grand array behind Lin Moyu exploded with a roar, as if ripped apart by an immense force and collapsing from within.
This also meant that all the arrays laid across Chaotic Wild Desolation had been destroyed.
At this moment, Calamity Great Supreme's face was extremely ugly. His entire body trembled and he seemed greatly agitated.
Lin Moyu said,
"That thirteenth grand array should be where your avatar and those subordinates of yours were hiding, correct?
"Were you planning to become a Supreme and then replace all the Great Supremes in this Heaven and Earth with your own people?
"Too bad. They should all be dead now."
Back then, there had been many who followed Calamity Great Supreme in his schemes and arrangements. Besides a few Great Supremes, there were also beings like Heavenly Void Child and Divine Phoenix Ancestor.
Calamity Great Supreme had promised them that once things succeeded, he would grant them the position of Great Supreme.
Once he became a Supreme, who else would decide who held the Great Supreme realm but him?
Those who did not obey could simply be killed.
Though Lin Moyu had no hard proof, he had already guessed this much.
Since Calamity Great Supreme wanted him to bear the backlash, he simply sent that backlash away.
Backlash able to severely wound a Great Supreme guaranteed death for those people.
Calamity Great Supreme's face was as black as ink.
"How did you know?"
Lin Moyu smiled.
"Your formation skills are indeed not bad, but unfortunately still a bit worse than mine.
"If you can lay out such arrays, naturally I can alter them.
"The backlash has to be borne by someone and since I did not want to take it, I had to find someone else.
"You just happened to have a group prepared.
"Not making use of them would be a shame."
Calamity Great Supreme took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.
"Very good. I still underestimated you.
"You, this chess piece, already jumped off the board and became a player."
Lin Moyu shook his head.
"No, you are wrong.
"This chess piece already laid out a new game.
"You have long since become a piece in the new game."
Calamity Great Supreme said coldly,
"Fine. I indeed miscalculated this time and let you gain the upper hand.
"But do you think that means you have won?"
Lin Moyu said,
"Do you still have other methods?"
"Of course I do," Calamity Great Supreme replied.
"And they are more than enough to deal with you."
He had always been cautious.
When he schemed against others, he naturally also considered all sorts of outcomes and prepared multiple contingencies.
The spacetime sword in his hand hummed.
He drew two strokes through the air, slicing open spacetime.
From the spacetime fissure, another Calamity Great Supreme stepped out.
In an instant, two Calamity Great Supremes appeared in the void, sharing the same aura and both extremely powerful.
Then he sliced open spacetime again and a third Calamity Great Supreme walked out.
After that second summoning, the Time Essence Stone in the sword shattered into dust.
"Summoning yourself from different points in time," Lin Moyu said.
"It is indeed a fine method.
"Others could not do it even if they wanted to.
"Only someone who has fully mastered the Great Dao of Time and also possesses Time Essence Stones can summon versions of themself from other times.
"Yet it is extremely dangerous.
"When different temporal selves gather in one place, their souls easily resonate, which can lead to soul disorder, madness in mild cases and death in severe cases."
At that moment, Time power flowed over Calamity Great Supreme's body.
There was a Time Essence Stone in his hand and with its power he temporarily blocked the soul resonance.
Lin Moyu looked at him.
"To think you actually found so many Time Essence Stones.
"Your luck is fairly good."
Calamity Great Supreme snorted.
"I am not done yet.
"Today I will show you what real contingencies and trump cards are."
He waved his hand and shouted sharply,
"I am lord of Time.
"Ancient war spirits, heed my command.
"Appear."
A patch of void was cut out and Time within it reversed, instantly spanning billions of miles.
It was as if this void reflected Chaotic Wild Desolation in the ancient era.
Countless powerful beings were vying and battling within.
The Time imprints left behind in Heaven and Earth by Chaotic Wild Dragon and Dao and others appeared at this moment and were summoned out by Calamity Great Supreme using Time power.
Though weaker than their true bodies, they were still extremely powerful.
Calamity Great Supreme said coldly,
"I know you have endless puppets.
"But I can summon endless war spirits.
"You have no advantage over me.
"Moreover, your war spirits…"
He pointed at Lin Moyu.
"Time Shackles."
The Time that belonged to Lin Moyu suddenly slowed.
The Undying Spirit Soldiers he had summoned were affected and their speed sharply decreased.
Lin Moyu's body trembled and his soul power surged, shattering the Time Shackles directly.
He recovered, but the Undying Spirit Soldiers were still several times slower and could not break free of the Time Shackles.
"I did not expect you to break the Time Shackles," Calamity Great Supreme said.
"But you will still die today."
Lin Moyu sighed.
"Actually, your opponent is not me.
"It is someone else."
Calamity Great Supreme paused.
"Who?"
"Me."
A sword light came from afar, slicing through the void and arriving before Calamity Great Supreme in an instant.
His face changed and he hurriedly raised his sword to block.
With a thunderous boom, he was blasted tens of thousands of miles away before he barely stabilized himself.
His expression was dark as he stared at the newcomer.
"You."
Lin Mohan looked at him, eyes ice cold.
"Long time no see, Fellow Daoist Calamity."
As she spoke, she waved her hand and tossed over a human head.
The head spun through the air and landed before Calamity Great Supreme.
Though it was only a head, it emanated a powerful aura.
The will within it had not yet completely dispersed and its resentment surged skyward.
This was the head of a Great Supreme.
"Darkcloud."
Calamity Great Supreme could not help but cry out.
What Lin Mohan had brought was Darkcloud Great Supreme's head.
Darkcloud Great Supreme had been his most loyal subordinate and close confidant, yet Lin Mohan had cut off his head and he had already fallen.
Calamity Great Supreme's killing intent soared as he stared at Lin Mohan.
"To think you have reached such a realm."
Lin Mohan smiled.
"I have to thank Fellow Daoist Calamity for your arrangements.
"Without them, I would not have had such an opportunity."
Her appearance surprised Calamity Great Supreme greatly.
He had schemed against countless others and had never put Lin Mohan into the equation.
Before, she had been Great Sword Sovereign.
After returning, she was still Great Sword Sovereign, so she had no effect on his plans.
He had not expected Lin Mohan at this moment to be in no way weaker than himself.
Lin Moyu stretched lazily.
"Big Sis, I will leave him to you."
Lin Mohan laughed.
"Just watch your big sis cut him down."
Her sword swept out and sword light flooded Heaven and Earth.
One sword to cut the Dao.
Lin Mohan was ruthless and spoke little.
In the past, her relationship with Calamity Great Supreme had been good and she had addressed him as Fellow Daoist Calamity.
Trusting him, she had not hesitated to disperse her body and throw herself into his scheme to help him.
She had not expected him to have set up a scheme within the scheme with impure motives.
Though she had not said much, her killing intent had long been boiling.
Now her sword light split the sky.
No wasted words, no need for explanations.
She spoke for herself with her sword, doing what she ought to do.
That sword shattered the Daos and seemed to cut Heaven and Earth themselves.
Under Lin Mohan's sword, Calamity Great Supreme's spacetime sword broke apart.
Her sword had been refined with her own sword intent.
As she grew stronger, the sword grew stronger.
It had already surpassed the Great Supreme level and was comparable to a Supreme's treasure.
Lin Mohan was sword cultivator to the extreme, pure to the extreme.
Her life was devoted to the sword and cultivation of the sword.
In the way of the sword, no one in this Heaven and Earth could surpass her.
With his sword destroyed, Calamity Great Supreme staggered back.
He waved and the two avatars he had summoned from other times attacked together.
These two Calamity Great Supremes came from different times and had the same strength as him.
Their battle power was frightening.
At the same time, the powerful ancient Time imprints he had summoned also struck out together.
For a time, Lin Mohan was surrounded.
Lin Moyu did not move. He simply watched quietly.
Primal Chaos Gem said,
"Master, you are not going to help?"
Lin Moyu shook his head.
"No need. Big Sis can handle it."
He believed in Lin Mohan and knew her capabilities well.
Those beings looked terrifyingly powerful, but they were still a bit lacking if they wanted to deal with Lin Mohan.
Her sword Dao was ultimate and perfect.
Unless someone could absolutely crush her in pure power, it made no difference whether they attacked alone or in a group.
No matter how many enemies there were, she would cut them down with one sword all the same.
Moreover, this was a battle she had to experience.
It needed both outcome and process.
It was her battle to prove her strength to Heaven and Earth.
Through this battle she would tell Heaven and Earth that she was qualified to become a Supreme.
If Heaven and Earth did not permit it, then she would cut Heaven and Earth and then sit in that place.
Under the siege of Calamity Great Supreme and many ancient beings, Lin Mohan's aura did not weaken, but instead grew stronger and stronger.
Her sword intent pierced the sky and the Heaven-and-Earth rules made way for her.
Her sword intent stood above the Nine Heavens.
A colossal sword appeared in the void.
The sword was Lin Mohan and Lin Mohan was the sword.
One sword to stand above the heavens.
Countless Heaven-and-Earth rules poured into the sword.
The giant sword descended with a roar, its sword intent exploding and stretching over infinite distance.
The entire Desolate Scar was nearly cut to nothing.
The barrier between Chaos and Ancient Desolation shattered.
Within who knew how many billions upon billions of miles, there was no longer any division between Chaos and Ancient Desolation, only Lin Mohan's terrifying, boundless sword intent.
The sword intent became a long river flowing from the ancient past to the present, grinding away Time and crushing Space.
The ancient beings Calamity Great Supreme had summoned had their Time imprints completely erased by that sword and vanished from this Heaven and Earth.
Amidst the screams, he retreated in panic.
The two other Calamity Great Supremes he had summoned were also crushed by the sword intent and vanished from the world.
Only the main body of Calamity Great Supreme remained in the void, wounded and in disarray.
He stared at Lin Mohan in disbelief.
"Impossible.
"How can you be this strong?"
Her clear voice rang out.
"I have no need to explain anything to you."
Her sword intent rose further and sword light washed down.
Calamity Great Supreme roared and took out a formation disk.
He activated it and it turned into a giant shield.
Endless Heaven-and-Earth power gathered from all directions to support the shield.
It was useless.
Upon contact with Lin Mohan's sword intent, this Heaven-and-Earth power melted away like ice and snow and was annihilated on the spot.
Calamity Great Supreme screamed again and fell back, a monstrous wound opening on his body.
Lin Mohan had nearly torn him apart.
"It is done," Lin Moyu said softly.
Calamity Great Supreme had no idea why Lin Mohan was so strong, but Lin Moyu understood very well.
Both he and Lin Mohan were above the Great Supreme level but below the Supreme level and their realms were similar.
Yet her sword was too pure.
Extreme purity meant extreme strength.
While he was still using Heaven-and-Earth rules, her sword intent could already crush those rules.
She was herself and refused Heaven, refused Earth, and only listened to her own heart.
Under her sword, if the Heaven-and-Earth rules yielded to her, she would become a Supreme.
If the rules opposed her, she would cut down the rules and then become a Supreme.
This was her Dao heart and her sword heart.
Compared to her, Calamity Great Supreme was weaker by more than one level.
With such a sword heart, not to mention him, even Chaotic Wild Dragon could be cut down all the same, and Eternal Wild Ox might not be able to block her sword either.
Lin Moyu saw Eternal Wild Ox's shocked gaze in the distance.
Clearly he had also seen the truth.
In Destiny Venerable's eyes there was shock and also relief, relief that he had chosen correctly and had not opposed Lin Moyu.
Just Lin Mohan's sword alone was not something they could withstand.
Calamity Great Supreme's wound could not be stopped.
Golden blood flowed freely.
Her sword had cut not only his body, but also his soul and even his Dao.
She did not waste words and struck again.
If she killed the enemy, she would kill them completely.
Letting an enemy live was leaving behind future trouble.
She always preferred to remove the root.
"You forced me," Calamity Great Supreme roared.
At the brink of death, he finally revealed his last trump card.
A stone seal appeared in his hand.
One corner of the seal was missing, but this did not affect its power.
He spat a mouthful of essence blood onto it.
The stone seal instantly grew larger and erupted with terrifying might.
At the same time, the Heaven-and-Earth rules stirred.
Countless dark clouds gathered and lightning snakes danced.
The rules locked firmly onto the stone seal.
This was a Supreme's treasure, but not one belonging to this Heaven and Earth.
Lin Moyu saw its origin at a glance.
It came from another Heaven and Earth and had once belonged to some Supreme there.
Calamity Great Supreme had encountered many fortuitous opportunities.
Obtaining one or two Supreme level treasures was not surprising.
However, such treasures were not permitted by this Heaven and Earth and naturally drew the punishment of the rules.
Calamity Great Supreme did not care.
The stone seal expanded a millionfold and crashed into the cloud of rules, scattering it.
The rules did not disperse, merely moved to another place and gathered again.
Lin Moyu knew very well that no matter how the rules struck, they could do nothing to this stone seal.
Its existence had already surpassed this Heaven and Earth.
Once it had swelled to its full size, it blocked Lin Mohan's sword.
Her sword intent left no mark upon it.
No matter how strong she was, she was still not yet a Supreme.
Faced with a true Supreme treasure, she was still a little lacking.
But she did not retreat at all.
She clenched her silver teeth and let out a low shout.
"One Sword to Cleave the Heavens."
Gathering boundless sword intent, she struck once more.
Boom.
With a thunderous crash, sword light burst forth and exploded.
The stone seal was forcibly knocked flying.
Calamity Great Supreme waved with one hand, spitting blood as he summoned it back.
Lin Moyu said calmly,
"A Supreme's treasure is not so easy to use.
"If he continues, it will probably drain him dry.
"But that is better too. It can count as Big Sis's kill.
"She should get the credit for the final reward."
He spoke with a light smile, completely unconcerned about the battle.
"One Sword to Cleave the Heavens."
Lin Mohan struck again.
The power of this sword was in no way weaker than the last, giving Calamity Great Supreme no chance to catch his breath.
He kept spitting essence blood, using his blood to forcefully drive the stone seal.
This Supreme treasure was too powerful for him and too difficult to drive fully.
It was unlike Gold Great Supreme's Insect Stele.
Though the Insect Stele had also reached the Supreme level, it had been refined by Gold Great Supreme himself and was truly his, quite different from this stone seal.
The seal grew yet larger, stronger than before.
Calamity Great Supreme was already fighting desperately.
Lightning formed from the rules fell like rain upon the seal, but the seal was too strong.
The rules had little effect upon it.
"Heaven Sundering Seal."
Calamity Great Supreme roared and his entire body sprayed essence blood.
Even his soul power was poured forth to drive the seal.
The seal grew ever larger and its power continued to swell.
The void shattered again and again.
The dark clouds of rules that had gathered were smashed apart.
An aura that seemed to crush all of Heaven and Earth emanated from it.
Just as its name implied, this was the Heaven Sundering Seal, a seal that shattered Heaven and Earth.
Lin Mohan's sword light was scattered once more, yet she did not step back.
Her sword light continued to explode and actually matched the Heaven Sundering Seal blow for blow.
Calamity Great Supreme had no retreat left.
Between him and Lin Mohan, only one could live.
He took out a bottle and poured a clump of violet-gold blood from it.
He swallowed it in a single mouthful and his aura soared.
His earlier injuries actually recovered by more than half.
He continued to spit essence blood without regard for his life and used his soul to further drive the Heaven Sundering Seal.
The seal grew stronger and stronger.
Lin Mohan slowly fell slightly to the disadvantage.
Lin Moyu watched with calm eyes.
He believed she could handle it and did not need to act.
Primal Chaos Gem said,
"If I am not mistaken, the Heaven Sundering Seal should be the treasure of that Heaven Sundering True Lord of long ago.
"Heaven Sundering True Lord was a Supreme from a Six Wheel Heaven who mastered the Primordial Dawn Arts.
"This Heaven Sundering Seal was the supreme treasure he spent his life refining."
Then it suddenly cried out.
"No, something is wrong with this Heaven Sundering Seal."
Lin Moyu replied evenly,
"Yes, there is something wrong.
"I think Calamity Great Supreme did not obtain it by coincidence, but because someone arranged it."
"In the Heaven Sundering Seal there seems to be another aura," Primal Chaos Gem said.
Light flashed in Lin Moyu's eyes.
He had already seen the problem before Primal Chaos Gem spoke.
Hidden deep within the Heaven Sundering Seal was a soul.
It had been concealed so deeply it had even fooled his Undying Eye.
Only when Calamity Great Supreme poured all his essence blood and soul power into the seal did that hidden soul reveal the slightest trace.
The Heaven Sundering Seal crushed the rules and endured their punishment.
At the same time, it was absorbing and adapting to the rules of Chaotic Wild Desolation.
The rules' punishment on it was gradually weakening, which meant it had begun to merge with this Heaven and Earth.
Once it fully merged, the soul hidden within would be able to deceive the rules and naturally become one of those belonging to Chaotic Wild Desolation.
With a soul, crafting a body afterward would not be difficult.
If someone could hide in the deepest part of the seal, who else could it be but Heaven Sundering True Lord?
Thus, Calamity Great Supreme obtaining the Heaven Sundering Seal from that Heaven-and-Earth remnant had not been a coincidence at all, but Heaven Sundering True Lord deliberately placing it into his hands.
Once all went as planned, Heaven Sundering True Lord would be reborn in Chaotic Wild Desolation.
With his Supreme soul and the Heaven Sundering Seal, and with no other Supremes in Chaotic Wild Desolation, who could oppose him?
Calamity Great Supreme clearly had no idea.
He kept driving the seal, hastening Heaven Sundering True Lord's revival.
"Master, will you act?" Primal Chaos Gem asked.
Lin Moyu shook his head.
"No need. Big Sis can handle it."
Primal Chaos Gem sounded unconvinced.
"Master is that confident?"
Lin Moyu smiled faintly.
"She has already seen through it.
"It will be fine."
Her sword intent had already changed.
It was no longer only clashing head on, but beginning to follow the flow.
On the surface she seemed to be constantly yielding ground, but in fact that was not the case.
Her sword intent was silently merging into the Heaven-and-Earth rules and seeping into the punishment of Heaven and Earth.
Riding the lightning of punishment, it flowed into the Heaven Sundering Seal.
Heaven Sundering True Lord's soul inside the seal was absorbing and merging with the rules of Chaotic Wild Desolation, and without realizing it, he had absorbed a vast amount of her sword intent.
"Explode."
A clear, crisp shout rang out.
The inside of the Heaven Sundering Seal erupted with a boom.
Sword intent exploded, boundless sword energy radiating outward from within.
Two screams rang out, one after the other.
One came from Heaven Sundering True Lord inside the seal, his soul wounded from the inside out by Lin Mohan's sword intent.
The other came from Calamity Great Supreme.
With the seal suddenly injured, he as its controller also suffered backlash.
She had felled two birds with one sword, leaving neither of them well off.
"See? I said she could handle it," Lin Moyu laughed.
Primal Chaos Gem flattered,
"As expected of Master's big sister, only second to Master."
Calamity Great Supreme still did not know what had happened.
He was the one using the Heaven Sundering Seal yet had never realized there was an old monster hiding within.
Once he barely managed to stabilize his injuries and tried to control the seal again, the seal suddenly went berserk.
Like a thunderbolt, it smashed into him.
A fresh scream sounded.
Half of his body was shattered to powder and not just his flesh, but also his soul.
His aura plummeted and his realm collapsed.
He fell from the clouds back to the Great Supreme realm.
"How could this be?"
He had no idea what had happened.
He simply could not understand what had caused the Heaven Sundering Seal to suddenly run out of control.
Yet this was only the beginning.
The Heaven Sundering Seal smashed into him again, completely obliterating his soul and body.
Then it turned into a vortex that sucked in all his broken flesh and scattered soul.
The seal buzzed, bursting with a terrifying power that no one could approach.
A blinding light shot up from it.
The Calamity Great Supreme who had just been smashed apart reappeared.
He looked unharmed, but his aura had changed.
He seemed even stronger than before.
In the distance, Destiny Venerable narrowed his eyes.
He could not understand what was going on, but he sensed danger and could not help warning,
"Fellow Daoist Lin, be careful.
"This one is strange."
He did not know whether to address Lin Moyu or Lin Mohan, but that did not matter.
The being in front of them was no longer Calamity Great Supreme.
Heaven Sundering True Lord had used his flesh and blood to be reborn and return to the world.
Standing atop the Heaven Sundering Seal, he swept his gaze across the land.
A terrifying aura spread out as he said,
"This Lord has returned."
Lin Mohan snorted lightly and pointed her sword directly at Heaven Sundering True Lord.
"Which idiot crawled back? Crawl right back to where you came from."
Lin Moyu said,
"Heaven Sundering True Lord, you picked the wrong time to come back."
"You actually know of this Lord?" Heaven Sundering True Lord was stunned.
Lin Moyu smiled.
"Surprised?
"Well, that is normal.
"Your return is also a kind of accident."
Heaven Sundering True Lord did not understand his words.
He slowly closed his eyes and opened them again a few breaths later, all confusion gone.
"So that is how it is.
"Your name is Lin Moyu and you are the tribulation responder.
"The chance to achieve the Dao at the peak of the great tribulation.
"Hahaha."
He suddenly burst out laughing.
"To think that as soon as this Lord returns, I encounter the peak of a great tribulation.
"Such fortune.
"This Lord will use it to achieve the Dao and take control of Heaven and Earth once more."