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Hearing Ruby’s answer, Lin Ming smiled. This smile contained warmth and affection, as well as hope and desire for the future.
“If you come with me, there may be terrifying things you will have to face. Ruby, are you not afraid?”
“I’m not!”
Ruby gripped her small fists and firmly shook her head.
“Good! Then let’s go!”
As Lin Ming spoke, he raised his right hand. In his palm, a gray cube slowly condensed from his flesh and blood, revolving in the air.
And as soon as Ruby saw this gray cube, her eyes could no longer move from it.
She could feel that this cube was the same as her life.
“I call this the Magic Cube. There are some things that you will slowly know of. This thing is originally the same body as you.”
As Lin Ming spoke, Ruby indeed felt that this thing called the Magic Cube shared her bloodline. It seemed to call to her with some strength she couldn’t explain. She turned into a flow of energy and submerged into the Magic Cube.
In that moment, Lin Ming could feel that his spiritual connection with the Magic Cube had deepened. The originally blurry Laws became increasingly clear. He knew that if he were to use the Magic Cube again, he would be able to display an even greater strength from it.
Lin Ming clenched his fist and the Magic Cube returned to his body. He stamped his feet and flew upwards, sinking into the void and directly vanishing.
After leaving the Soul Cave, Lin Ming’s destination was the ancient galactic battlefield within the Akashic Dream Universe.
He had to stay in the Akashic Dream Battlefield for the full three years before the exit would open. This was something that Lin Ming couldn’t change no matter how strong he was right now; it was one of the Laws of the Akashic Dream Universe.
So during this period of time, he would break into the half-step Empyrean realm.
He returned to the ancient galactic battlefield once more. As he looked at this lonely and desolate galaxy, he closed his eyes.
The last time he was here his boundary had been insufficient; he had only been able to vaguely feel the aura of the Asura Road Master and the Holy Scripture creator.
But now, from this ravaged galaxy, from the innumerable eternal space cracks that littered the starry space, he was able to make out more details of the battle between the Asura Road Master and the Holy Scripture creator.
All of this was thanks to Lin Ming’s higher understanding of the two great Laws.
Lin Ming wandered about in the void. The great echo of the ancient era seemed to flow into his ears across the vast river of time.
His deep understanding of the world’s Great Dao had never been so clear before.
Behind him, Ruby followed closely.
After arriving at a planet that had yet to be fully destroyed, Lin Ming sat down in the void.
“Ruby, in a moment I will use a supernatural technique to refine a great treasure. You’ll be fine if you watch from afar.”
“Mm!” Ruby nodded. Her form faded as she flew off to a distant end of the galaxy.
The heavens and earth fell silent.
Lin Ming sat in this silence. The strength within his body began to swiftly and wildly rise. He became a furnace, rapidly arousing the potential within his body.
Every pore and hole on his body began to emit a blinding light.
At this moment, Lin Ming had become a great burning star. He shone through eternity, burning away the dark, searing away the night, brimming full of vitality.
Suddenly, he formed tens of thousands of seals with his hand. Countless runes swelled out in all directions of the galaxy like ripples, instantly spreading for tens of millions of miles.
The originally dying and ebbing stars seemed to come back alive, shining with overwhelmingly bright starlight.
Starlight shined down from the core of these stars, turning into silver pythons in the air.
They wove together in the air, slowly wrapping Lin Ming within and forming the Galaxy Void Furnace.
Not just that, but behind the Galaxy Void Furnace, the giant phantom of an Asura appeared. It grasped a long spear, its bloody killing intent soaring into the stars. It stood behind Lin Ming like a guardian god.
Lin Ming’s mind was as steady as a rock, disallowing any outside interference. Within his palm, the demon relic appeared, shining like pitch black jade and exuding a bloodthirsty and ominous aura.
This relic only had 70% of its strength remaining. He had to take this remaining strength and refine and swallow it in one attempt!
This was a crazy decision.
He chose to borrow the power of stars within this ancient galactic battlefield. By arranging the Galaxy Void Furnace and then drawing support from the remnant marks of the fierce battle that occurred between the Asura Road Master and Holy Scripture creator, he would use this power to suppress the demonic power of the demon relic.
The potential in his body erupted without end. Within Lin Ming’s pupils, stars were born and destroyed, suns and moons rising and falling.
His aura rose to an extreme, and the roar of a True Dragon echoed out from his body. At this time, Lin Ming took the demon relic in his hands and tossed it into the Galaxy Void Furnace, refining it with starlight. Then, he leapt in with it.
Within the final trial’s seventh level, Lin Ming had already mastered the secret skill behind the Galaxy Void Furnace.
The demon relic tumbled about in the phantasmal starlight. It became hungry and wild, filled with eager desire to devour Lin Ming’s body.
After all, this demon relic was refined from the essence of an abyssal. Although the demon’s soul had been erased, the demon relic itself still retained its swallowing instinct.
It longed for a powerful body, longed for a strong blood vitality. Thus, Lin Ming’s body possessed an infinite temptation for it.
As soon as the demon relic’s power entered Lin Ming’s body, the strength within him erupted like a volcano.
Streams of blood threaded with endless power of Laws stubbornly tied up the demon relic like shackles.
Lin Ming’s blood vitality was monstrous. It soared to the heavens, directly rushing over the demon relic.
Every time his blood vitality washed over the demon relic, it would take away a portion of that cruel and evil power.
This power turned into fiery demons that floated up and down in the sea of blood. The demons roared out at the top of their lungs, but soon, a mystical power of thunder crashed down from up high, killing off these demons!
Rumble rumble rumble!
Divine thunder crashed down without end. The demon relic’s tyrannical aura was cleansed away, turned into the purest form of strength that then fused with Lin Ming.
Compared to the last time he refined the demon relic, Lin Ming was much more calm and composed.
He had already swallowed a massive amount of demon power and had formed a seed of demon power in his body. This time, what he needed was pure strength. Then he could use this pure strength to break into the half-step Empyrean realm.
Time passed. Of the remaining 70% of the demon relic’s power, another 30% was absorbed by Lin Ming. All that was left over was the core section that pulsated like a heart.
No matter how much Lin Ming washed the demon relic with his blood vitality, he still couldn’t wash out the core.
This was the most essential part of the demon relic and also the most difficult to refine. As Lin Ming was slowly digesting this strength, a wisp of black light exploded from the demon relic. Finally, the wisp of black light condensed into an abyssal demon phantom within Lin Ming’s spiritual sea.
As this abyssal’s massive figure became fully visible, one could see the two dark metallic horns on its head. Its entire body glittered with arcs of lightning and it was covered with pitch black scales that exuded a metallic sheen. It stood in a pool of blood and it held a towering demon palace within its hand. It rampaged straight through Lin Ming’s spiritual sea.
Roar!
That demon palace carried with it a momentum that seemed as if it could crush apart anything in its way. It savagely flew through the air, and wherever it went, great tracts of Lin Ming’s soul force would be destroyed – the abyssal wanted to completely raze Lin Ming’s spiritual sea.
Lin Ming’s pupils shrank. The final moments of refining the demon relic had arrived.
Facing the core strength of the demon relic, he was far more prepared than the first time he swallowed its strength. He had more experience and his strength had risen considerably.
Within the Galaxy Void Furnace, the Laws of the Holy Scripture and Heavenly Sutra were drawn into his spiritual sea through his soul force.
As the remnant marks of two great supreme powerhouses met the rampaging abyssal, they suddenly became active.
After all, whether it was Immortal Sovereign of the Asura Road Master, they were both intelligent life forms of the 33 Heavens. And all intelligent life forms shared a mortal hatred with all abyssal demons. This was something branded into their very beings, a part of their instinct that would never change.
The marks of these two highest Laws worked to suppress the abyssal together!
Chapter 2000.2: B – Half-step Empyrean
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The marks of these two highest Laws worked to suppress the abyssal together!
Although this abyssal was powerful, it had already been slain by the Asura Road Master and had an inherent fear of him. As it felt the aura of the Asura Road Master, its cruel and barbaric killing intent suddenly faded away by a great deal.
In these circumstances, the two Laws continuously barraged the abyssal phantom, causing it to cry out in pain and misery again and again. Then, with a loud explosion, the abyssal completely exploded beneath the onslaught of Laws!
Lin Ming knew that at this moment, he had already completely refined the final wisp of demonic will within the demon relic and was now in full control of this strength!
Within the Galaxy Void Furnace, the endless starlight pierced into Lin Ming’s body. Endless star runes emitted an ancient intent as they wrapped around Lin Ming.
At this time, the final dregs of the demon relic’s core exploded, turning into the purest essence of power and spreading into Lin Ming’s body.
His appearance changing technique had already vanished. His appearance had reverted to that of a formidable and handsome youth.
“Little Black, come out!”
At this time, Lin Ming called for the little black dragon to emerge. The little black dragon happily cheered as it dived into the sea of energy.
A God Beast’s body possessed an incredible carrying capacity. At this time, Little Black was like a withered sponge thrown in water, greedily absorbing all the surrounding strength!
Energy flowed into its open jaws, flowing into its organs and starting to transform its body.
Over a thousand years had passed since Little Black had gone to the final trial. Its body was already as large as a young dragon of the dragon race, and its ability to absorb this pure demonic energy was even greater.
Ka ka ka!
Little Black’s horn became longer and thicker, and fierce spikes like those on an abyssal demon appeared on its tail. If this tail were to swipe across someone, the damage it would cause could be imagined.
Slowly, Little Black’s spine, wings, claws, everything was affected by this demon power and became increasingly fierce.
After absorbing this demon power, its body had become different from ordinary royal Black Dragons.
But at this time, Lin Ming couldn’t bother with these things. Great noises rang out from within his body, like the beatings of a great drum.
Bits of demon relic essence burned like stars as they blazed through Lin Ming’s body.
As Lin Ming and Little Black swallowed the remaining 70% of the demon relic’s strength, over 50% of that had been swallowed by Lin Ming. Even though he was strong, the pain was so intense that veins stuck out on his forehead. It felt like his flesh and blood and even his divine soul was being burned cleanly away by the demon relic’s essence.
But Lin Ming’s body had been tempered to an abnormal state. He forcefully withstood this immense demonic strength and even drew it to attach to different places all over his body.
Bang!
When the energy was condensed to the peak, a great door seemed to be pushed open within Lin Ming. Endless and boundless essence energy became a giant hammer that crashed into Lin Ming’s inner world!
Within Lin Ming’s inner world, a vast and limitless strength started to crazily gather, condensing in the center of his universe. It slowly evolved into the giant phantom of a person!
This human phantom was terrifyingly large. By stretching out a palm it could grasp a planet!
The phantom’s face was majestic and dignified, as if it stood above all living beings, so high and lofty that nothing could face it.
It was like a god king who rose up, its aura frightening the vastness of space, its divine light illuminating the galaxy!
And looking at this giant’s appearance, it was actually somewhat similar to Lin Ming.
This was an Empyrean that belonged to Lin Ming!
The so-called Empyrean was the Supreme of the heavens and earth. Once a martial artist reached this realm, they could form a true Supreme within their inner world.
A half-step Empyrean was only a virtual phantom.
As for a true Empyrean, they would produce a true material Supreme, able to shock and awe their own world.
From a Great World King to a half-step Empyrean, this was an incredibly difficult step. Many powerhouses were stuck at this checkpoint for their entire lives.
But once one became a half-step Empyrean and formed their own Supreme phantom, then transitioning to their own true material Supreme wasn’t difficult at all.
In other words, for most half-step Empyreans, as long as they didn’t perish they would eventually be able to become Empyreans.
Even between a half-step Empyrean and Great World King, there was an essential difference. Once a half-step Empyrean condensed their own Supreme phantom, killing a similarly talented Great World King became simple.
As the Supreme phantom formed, Lin Ming’s self-created inner world began to experience heaven-shaking changes as it was nourished by the essence of the demon relic.
Although he had formed his inner world, that inner world had been filled with endless fog and blurriness. It was vast, but the strength within was disorderly and too varied.
But with so much demon relic essence pouring in, carrying with it an aura of cold and death, it actually began a chain of miraculous changes.
From Lin Ming’s strength, whether it was the power of divinity from the Laws of the 33 Heavens, or the power of life from the Holy Scripture, it was inevitably biased towards the power of light.
But the power of the demon relic that Lin Ming absorbed was actually the power of pure darkness.
These two strengths represented extreme polar opposites.
And yin and yang were the greatest source foundation of the world, where all of existence derived from.
As the two strengths mixed together and collided, thunderous sounds echoed out. The disorderly strength turned chaotic, and soon, traces of vitality appeared.
This part of the world was also sliced open by the yin and yang energies. A dim brown strength vaguely evolved from between them. It became like a mystical turtle, carrying the earth on its back. A sacred and holy energy wafted out, roaming through the deep blue skies…
The world continued to expand. Beneath the aura of the yin and yang, the chaotic world Laws began to be brought to order.
The truth was that when Lin Ming became a World King, his inner world had already been completely different from the inner world of a normal martial artist.
And now this difference increased even further!
The power of divinity, the power of demons, these two strengths tangled within his inner world, causing more things to appear within it.
In addition to the two highest Laws of the Holy Scripture and Heavenly Sutra, Lin Ming’s inner world had become a miracle that no one had been able to accomplish in the vast and endless river of the years.
Even heroes like the Asura Road Master, even talented geniuses like the Holy Scripture creator, although the two of them had travelled to the extremes of their roads, one had travelled to the extremes of the world universe and one had travelled to the extreme of the body universe.
And Lin Ming evolved a world in his body; this was the same as combining the world of the universe and the world of the body together.
Then, by gathering the power of divinity and the power of demons, he had slowly stepped onto a path that no one had ventured on before.
If he could truly refine his inner world to completion, then Lin Ming would undoubtedly become someone who surpassed any genius who existed or who had existed.
As the Supreme phantom within Lin Ming’s inner world stabilized itself, he tossed his head back and roared into the heavens, his body hurtling up and impacting into space!
Bang!
The Galaxy Void Furnace was blasted open!
Lin Ming’s blood vitality surged like wild waves, like a peerless god king. At this time, his entire body blazed with blinding brilliance, dazzling like a sun.
He could feel that his body had never been as powerful as it was today, as if he could reverse rivers of stars and slaughter gods and buddhas!
Weng!
The Black Dragon Spear leapt into Lin Ming’s hand. It violently wobbled and a resounding echo spread through the world.
Then, with a dragon’s horrifying roar, a massive black dragon rushed out from the shattered starlight, its two wings shaking the void behind Lin Ming!
Lin Ming stood atop the black dragon’s head. He grasped the Black Dragon Spear, his eyes as sharp as electricity. He gazed at the endless starry skies above him.
His goal had never been the saints, but had been this vast and endless galaxy, the cosmos of the 33 Heavens, the eternal world.
As for humanity’s great calamity, perhaps… it was his smelting trial!