Chapter 832
Refining the Void
"Causal weapon?"
"No, this is a logical distortion that transcends cause and effect!"
Damn it!
"How could someone possess such methods!"
Su Chen's scalp tingled slightly, but instead of backing down, the fighting spirit in his eyes exploded as if doused with kerosene!
"but……"
"Tampering with my past?"
"I have defied the heavens all along, slaying gods and Buddhas alike. How dare you, a deformed monster, smear my past!"
"The Origin of the Daoist Method—[Severing Cause and Effect, I Alone Am Supreme]!!!"
Su Chen had no intention of dodging. He gripped the Origin Demon Blade tightly with both hands, the Origin Divine Fire within his body burning wildly, and even the primal power of his inner universe was drawn out and gathered on the blade!
At that moment, he chose to confront them head-on.
boom!
He met the gray-white beam of logic head-on and slashed out with his sword!
"Shh!"
This strike did not cut through space, nor matter.
What it cut was the "altered logic" carried by that beam of light!
"Since you wish to alter cause and effect, then I will make my 'existence' the most irrefutable and absolute first cause in this world!"
Boom!!!
Su Chen's eyes shone with a dazzling light.
At this moment.
The dark golden blade light and the grayish-white beam of light collided fiercely in the void sea.
There was no earth-shattering energy explosion, only an extremely piercing "crunching" sound, like glass being frantically rubbed together.
In this pure "conceptual clash", Su Chen's Origin Dao, which had merged with the origins of millions of universes and entered the late stage of the eighth realm, displayed an extremely domineering and completely unreasonable assimilation ability!
The beam of logic that attempted to erase Su Chen's existence began to crumble inch by inch under the blade's cutting force. Su Chen's sword intent forcefully reversed that paradoxical power, turning it against the paradoxical behemoth!
"Pfft!"
The blade's edge was unstoppable, cleaving directly through the massive body of the paradoxical beast.
"Roar—(silent scream)"
The behemoth's body, composed of countless contradictory mirrors, convulsed violently.
It tried to heal its wounds, but the primordial divine fire remaining on Su Chen's blade, like a leech, frantically burned its logical core, forcibly burning the paradoxical concepts within it into nothingness.
At this moment, a hint of fear seemed to appear on its face.
Faced with Su Chen, it felt the most innocent fear.
Fear of death.
Fear of power.
"Die!"
Su Chen traversed the void in a single step, instantly appearing above the colossal beast. He sheathed his longsword and thrust his two demonic palms, burning with black flames, fiercely into the beast's gaping wound!
He wanted to use the most primitive and violent methods to tear this prehistoric monster apart alive!
kill!
"Tear—!!!!!"
As Su Chen's arm muscles bulged high, the chaotic paradox beast, which was comparable in size to hundreds of galaxies, was actually torn in half by him with his brute force and the power of the Origin God!
The remains of the colossal beast rapidly disintegrated in the void sea, transforming into countless gray-white specks of light.
At the very center of the collapsing beast's body, a crystal core, no bigger than a fist, with an eerie gray-black color and its surface constantly changing shapes, floated silently.
This crystal core exudes a high-dimensional primordial aura that is even more ancient and purer than the Grand Elder's 'Great Thousand Dao Core'! This is the [Void Concept Dao Seed], which was formed after countless years of compression following the destruction of the universe in the previous era!
"nice one!"
Su Chen grabbed the concept seed in his hand, feeling the enormous energy within it that was enough to cause another qualitative change in his inner universe, and his eyes blazed with extreme excitement.
"This Great Void Sea is indeed an untapped treasure trove!"
"A prehistoric monster roaming the fringes actually possesses a Dao Seed that transcends the common sense of the present universe. If only I could kill a few more..."
Su Chen licked his lips, turned around and looked into the deepest, darkest part of the Great Void Sea, a place filled with endless dangers and unknowns.
"The opportunity to reach the Ninth Realm lies here."
Su Chen put away the Dao Seed, picked up the blood-dripping longsword, and like an ancient hunting god patrolling his territory, resolutely strode forward into the deepest part of the Great Void Sea.
This ultimate journey to explore the origin of all things and seek the ninth heaven has only just begun!
……
……
The Great Void Sea, this ultimate dead zone that has buried countless cosmic eras and completely distorted even the concept of "existence" itself, has today welcomed an uninvited guest who defies all common sense.
In the dark, viscous, fluid seawater, there is no up or down, no directions, and no past or present.
All the rules of physics are like crumpled pieces of paper here, completely illogical.
Sometimes time flows backward, turning into sharp reefs; sometimes space fractures, folding into an abyss that devours everything.
Su Chen, dressed in a green robe, stood with his hands behind his back in this chaotic ocean.
His body was surrounded by an absolute black [Origin Barrier], like a stabilizing pearl standing firm in a storm, firmly isolating him from all the paradoxical gales that attempted to assimilate him.
In his palm, the [Nothingness Concept Seed], which had just been torn from the body of the Chaos Paradox Beast, floated silently.
This seed was only the size of a fist, and its entire body was a dizzying gray-black color.
Its surface has no fixed shape; one moment it looks like a burning cold fire, and the next it transforms into a melting block of ice.
It does not emit any spiritual energy fluctuations, but it exudes a "source annihilation" power that would make even eighth-realm experts tremble.
"The ultimate crystallization formed by the fusion of the most fundamental logical remnants of the universe and the resentment of the Heavenly Dao after the destruction of the previous era..."
In Su Chen's abyss-like eyes, the ever-changing, bizarre form of the Dao Seed was reflected, and deep within his eyes flickered an extremely fervent flame of the Great Dao.
"This kind of extreme object, which completely violates the common sense of the multiverse in the present world, may be a deadly poison to those fools in the high-dimensional council. But for the Origin Dao that encompasses all things and devours everything, it is the most rare and supreme tonic in this world!" Su Chen took a deep breath, and the dark, ethereal liquid around him was stirred by his long, whale-like breath, which actually formed a huge vortex in mid-air.
He did not seek any safe place for seclusion, because in this vast void, the concept of "safety" simply does not exist.
"Right here, for me to refine!"
Su Chen's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he opened his abyssal maw, which seemed capable of devouring all the heavens and myriad worlds, and threw the [Void Concept Dao Seed], which exuded an extremely dangerous aura, into his mouth!
"Gudu!"
The moment the seed of Tao enters the abdomen.
"boom------------!!!!!"
Within Su Chen's body, it was as if ten thousand great worlds had exploded at the same time!
A terrifying, paradoxical force, indescribable in words, raged wildly through his limbs and meridians. This force did not destroy his physical body, but directly affected his "logic of existence"!
Under the erosion of the power of the Dao Seed, Su Chen's left side of his body began to age and decay rapidly, as if it had weathered for billions of epochs. His skin became withered, and the dark golden Origin Dragon Scales lost their luster and peeled off one by one.
However, the right half of his body was frantically reversing time, degenerating into the most primitive state of chaotic embryonic breathing!
Half alive, half dead! Half old, half newborn!
This is the most terrifying aspect of the conceptual seed nurtured in the Great Void Sea—it forcibly alters Su Chen's life paradox!
"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"
Even with Su Chen's rock-solid Dao heart, forged in mountains of corpses and seas of blood, he couldn't help but let out a low roar like a wounded beast.
The pain of having one's true spirit forcibly torn apart and one's logic distorted madly is countless times more terrifying than having one's body tortured ten thousand times.
"A mere remnant from the last era dares to attempt to alter the cause and effect of my true self?!"
"My life is beyond the control of even the heavenly laws of the mortal realm, let alone the resentment of a dead universe like you!"
Su Chen roared to the sky, his black hair dancing wildly in the void sea. He bit his tongue sharply, spitting out a mouthful of primordial blood containing the power of the late-stage peak of the eighth realm into the air, and instantly formed countless ancient and domineering origin seals with his hands!
"Divine Power—[Originating from the Inner Universe, Suppressing Eternal Paradoxes]!!!"
"Buzzing—"
With Su Chen's roar, the vast inner universe within him, which had evolved into an eternal great world, suddenly erupted with unprecedentedly brilliant divine light.
Within the inner universe, the Heavenly Dao Laws, forged from the fusion of millions of cosmic core origins, transformed into incredibly thick, dark golden chains that surged forth from Su Chen's dantian, instantly binding and locking the Dao Seed that was frantically releasing paradoxical power!
"Give me—fusion!"
Su Chen activated the [Origin True Fire], which was no ordinary flame, but an extreme fire capable of burning even nothingness and concepts.
The black Origin True Fire, following the dark golden chains, frantically scorched the conceptual Dao Seed.
"Hiss hiss hiss—"
The Dao Seed emitted a chilling shriek, as if billions of ancient gods were wailing in the true fire. It desperately released all sorts of chaotic laws: water can generate fire, earth can overcome metal, life is death, existence is non-existence... Countless absurd concepts collided wildly within Su Chen's body.
This is a protracted war without visible smoke, but it is far more dangerous than killing the Dao Lord of the Epoch.
Su Chen gritted his teeth, and his strange, half-old and half-young body began to regain its balance little by little under the forceful binding of the Origin God Power.
"Before heaven and earth were separated, this was the origin! No matter what era you are the remnant of, no matter what paradox you represent, before the origin of this being, you will all be reduced to the most primordial 'one'!"
"Swallow!"
The enormous [Gluttony Divine Ring] behind Su Chen's head manifested. The ring slowly rotated, unleashing an extremely domineering tearing force, forcibly tearing a large piece of gray-black primordial fragment from the Dao Seed and forcibly pulling it into the inner universe!
As the fragment entered his body, Su Chen's inner universe trembled violently.
The once flawless edge of the inner universe has developed a mysterious "void" due to the addition of this paradoxical fragment.
This is not a flaw, but rather "nothingness"!
"I see……"
Despite the agonizing torment, Su Chen's eyes suddenly flashed with a look of sudden enlightenment.
"The ultimate goal of the Eighth Realm is to control all 'existence' in the present world. But to step into the legendary Ninth Realm, which transcends everything, one must comprehend the true 'nothingness' within this endless 'existence'!"
"Only by embracing paradox and integrating nothingness can we achieve the ultimate return to truth!"
"Hahaha! Excellent! What a wonderful conceptual seed!"
Su Chen burst into wild laughter, completely releasing the protection of his inner universe and letting the Origin True Fire melt the Dao Seed completely.
"Boom!!!"
With the complete disintegration of the Dao Seed, the incredibly vast ancient primordial source transformed into a surging gray-black torrent, completely merging into Su Chen's limbs, bones, and inner universe.
His physical body underwent an extreme transformation at this moment!
On the originally dark gold Origin Dragon Scales, strange gray-black Dao patterns, seemingly naturally formed, have appeared. These Dao patterns exude a terrifying aura of "impervious to all laws and empty of all paths".
At that moment, his cultivation level, having advanced from the late stage of the eighth realm, decisively crossed that insurmountable chasm and stepped firmly into the next realm with overwhelming force.
[Eighth Realm - Indescribable - Peak]!!!
"call……"
Su Chen exhaled a long breath of turbid air, which transformed into a gray-black sword aura in the void sea, instantly splitting the viscous liquid millions of miles ahead in two, from which it could not heal for a long time.
He slowly opened his eyes.
At this moment, Su Chen no longer possessed that domineering aura that once shone brightly and overwhelmed the heavens. He stood there quietly, like a lifeless piece of withered wood, or a stone that floated forever in nothingness.
Back to basics!
However, if a powerful being at the half-step ninth realm were present, a single glance at Su Chen would reveal a despairing realization: Su Chen had already formed an extremely profound resonance with this vast void sea. He was no longer an intruder; he seemed to have become a part of this endless paradox and destruction!
"Peak of the eighth realm...just one step away from the final ninth realm."
Su Chen clenched his fist, feeling the terrifying power within him that could almost knead the multiple universes of the present world at will.
"However, this conceptual seed has only allowed me to touch the threshold. To truly cross that door, I need more and more ancient historical foundations."
Su Chen raised his head, his divine eyes, now as deep as an ancient well, gazing into the far reaches of the Great Void Sea.
"This sea is vast. And there's plenty of prey."
A cold yet expectant smile curved Su Chen's lips. With a sway, he transformed into a streak of gray-black light, speeding towards the deeper reaches of the Great Void Sea in a bizarre manner that ignored spatial barriers.
……
...(End of this chapter)