Chapter 4745: Each Fulfills Its Role
After breaking through the Great Venerate realm, Lin Moyu's soul had reached the level of a Supreme and, with virtual and real fused, his soul was stronger than that of most Supremes.
He now stood on equal footing with the rules themselves, and if he used the Nine Heavens Fate Art, even the rules of heaven and earth would have to make way for him.
Under such conditions, he could completely command the rules, letting them show him the way and guide him to the world core.
In this state, any world other than his own should, in theory, reject him and might even collapse entirely just because he appeared.
Unfortunately for those worlds, Lin Moyu's Nine Heavens Fate Art was too powerful, forcibly altering the rules and making them acknowledge his existence.
Even if that acknowledgment was only temporary, it was more than enough for Lin Moyu to accomplish a great many things.
In other words, Lin Moyu had become a Supreme who could freely walk through the remnants of worlds, surpassing every expedition team that had ever existed and becoming a transcendent existence among them.
If it had been someone else, perhaps it would not matter much.
But Lin Moyu possessed the World Burning Fire, the embers of worlds, and the one and only newborn world that had not yet experienced a full life and death tribulation or fully taken shape: the Yu God World.
Back then, Emperor Po Cang had believed that the Chaotic Ancient Desolation was the very last world, the only hope remaining among the embers after the great annihilation.
Yet none of them had imagined that the true final world was in fact Lin Moyu's own Yu God World.
The existence of the Chaotic Ancient Desolation seemed, in truth, to be for Lin Moyu's sake.
"Let's go."
Lin Moyu headed toward the world core.
The rules themselves pointed the way for him, their positioning even more precise than that of the Hongmeng Gem.
The Hongmeng Gem muttered, "I feel like I'm going to be out of a job…"
Lin Moyu laughed.
"Not that bad. You are still very useful."
The Hongmeng Gem grunted.
"Of course. I can still smash people."
Lin Moyu shook his head.
"Not just smashing people. The meaning of your existence is different. When the time comes, you will definitely have an astonishing use."
The Hongmeng Gem sounded doubtful.
"Really? How come I don't know that?"
"You will know in the future."
Lin Moyu drifted leisurely toward the world core.
He was in no hurry, because refining this world required working in tandem with his soul clone.
At that moment, the soul clone had just arrived in the other world and was already using the Nine Heavens Fate Art, letting the rules guide it toward that world's core.
Body and clone cooperated, simultaneously using the Nine Heavens Fate Art to employ the rules of heaven and earth as a guide and precisely locate each core.
Two eight tier pagodas revolved in the void, and the last remaining power of the worlds spurted from them into the heavens, barely keeping the worlds from collapsing outright.
Body and clone both gazed upon a different pagoda.
After studying them for a moment, Lin Moyu said calmly, "The two pagodas appear the same, but there are slight differences. Their refining speeds will differ as well."
"If we want the greatest benefit, we must carefully control everything. Hongmeng, get ready. It will be your turn in the end."
The Hongmeng Gem knew exactly what Lin Moyu wanted from it and made a sound of assent.
"Rest assured, Master. I've been ready for a long time."
With a sweep of his hand, Lin Moyu had both body and soul manifest the World Burning Fire at once, dropping them together onto the two world cores.
Refining began.
After multiple world refinements, the World Burning Fire had grown many times stronger, and even refining two eight cycle world cores at the same time did not slow it down much.
Large numbers of rule crystals drifted out of the flames and were taken away by Lin Moyu.
He precisely controlled the intensity of the World Burning Fire so that both cores would be refined at the same pace.
The two worlds shuddered non stop, thunder echoing with earth shattering booms that shook the souls of anyone who heard it.
The worlds were collapsing.
Gap after gap shattered in succession, and the links between the worlds steadily dwindled and disappeared.
In their place, the annihilation power of the Forbidden Zone of Life surged in.
Without the tempering of the world rules, that annihilation power was now flooding in madly, turning everything it touched into nothingness.
It would not be long before the worlds were completely destroyed.
The Hongmeng Gem became fully alert, pouring all its focus into observing the changing state of the worlds and waiting for the exact moment to act.
That moment could be neither early nor late: too early and they would not gain maximum benefit; too late and Lin Moyu would die.
Lin Moyu believed in it, so it could not let him down.
More than ten days later, the refinement was nearing its end.
The worlds had collapsed by ninety nine percent, leaving only the core regions still intact; the Forbidden Zone of Life was visible to the naked eye.
Annihilation power was constantly pressing in, intent on devouring the worlds.
Only a single passage remained between the two worlds, and even that passage looked as if it could break at any moment.
Right now, the Hongmeng Gem wore an expression of utmost seriousness.
The time was almost at hand; the refinement of the world cores had reached its final stage, just a little short.
The spatial passage constructed by the little tree emerged, revealing itself as Lin Moyu's only route back.
The last link between the two worlds this single passage began to crack and fall apart.
"It's now!"
The Hongmeng Gem shouted, and the Calamity Scepter erupted with astonishing power.
The Element Gem, Balance Gem, Domain Gem, and Soul Gem all shone with brilliant light at the same time.
The Hongmeng Gem transformed into a tiny humanoid figure and personally gripped the Calamity Scepter, bringing it down on the one remaining passage between the two worlds.
A colossal power swept out, shattering what remained of the worlds.
The Calamity Scepter forced a brand new path open along that spatial passage.
The new path connected the two worlds, temporarily forming a stable corridor.
The Element Gem gathered up all remaining world rules from both sets of remnants and poured them into the passage.
The Domain Gem radiated rosy light that surged into the passage, instantly stabilizing it.
The rules became fixed, turning the passage into a temporary domain that was even more stable than an ordinary spatial passage.
The Soul Gem's earthy yellow radiance likewise poured into the passage, directly constructing a soul pathway.
Lastly, the light of the Balance Gem enveloped both worlds and even extended into the Forbidden Zone of Life beyond them.
It balanced the rules of the worlds against the annihilation power of the Forbidden Zone of Life, strengthening the worlds while weakening the annihilation power.
The rate at which the Forbidden Zone of Life devoured the worlds dropped sharply.
The four gems each fulfilled their role.
Not only did they reconnect the two worlds that had been on the verge of flying apart, they also temporarily stabilized them, allowing them to linger for a short while even without their cores, buying Lin Moyu enough time.
Just as the Hongmeng Gem finished everything, the world cores were fully refined.
The soul clone, carrying the shells of one world core, dove into the passage and sped back.
The main body likewise put away the other core.
Once the soul clone had returned to its proper place, Lin Moyu hurled himself into the spatial passage built by the little tree and returned to the Yu God World.
The whole process went smoothly.
Not long after he left, the worlds were completely destroyed and shattered, swallowed up by the Forbidden Zone of Life.
The Hongmeng Gem said happily, "Master, I did a pretty good job, right?"
Lin Moyu praised it.
"Very impressive. Your timing was perfectly precise."
The Hongmeng Gem was delighted.
"Looks like I really am a bit useful after all."
"Of course. You have always been very useful."
The Calamity Scepter had always been Lin Moyu's greatest trump card, one he had never used lightly.
After returning to the Yu God World, Lin Moyu chose a stretch of empty void without any living beings and took out one of the world core shells.
"Heaven Burst, Earth Shatter."
He tapped it lightly with a finger.
The shell, bearing the final imprint of this eight cycle world, shattered, and a bright mass of light emerged, overflowing with vigorous life as the world began to re enact itself.
The power of life poured down in torrents, speeding up the re enactment of the world.
Vast amounts of world force were reborn, and primal heaven energy surged out like a fountain.
"Nine Heavens Fate Art."
With a thought, Lin Moyu altered the rules of the Yu God World, letting it devour with all its might.