Chapter 608 - 604: Profound Mystery of the Extreme Realm

Chapter 608: Chapter 604: Profound Mystery of the Extreme Realm

When the blow struck Lin Hao, his eyes shone with unprecedented brilliance.

This strike was like a bolt of lightning that parted the mists, dispelling all of Lin Hao’s doubts.

Lin Hao could have dodged, but he no longer needed to.

BOOM!

Lin Hao’s mind was annihilated in the Third Layer of the Divinity Realm.

However, the person who had landed the blow felt no excitement. Lin Hao’s final gaze had given him a bad premonition.

"Whew... That scourge’s mind has finally fallen." Many who witnessed this breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Hao had fought in the Third Layer of the Divinity Realm for five days, annihilating the minds of no less than a thousand Martial Artists from the Divine Demon Destruction Domain. Now, it was all over.

The Martial Artists of the Divine Demon Destruction Domain all considered themselves superior to those from the lower realms, but Lin Hao’s performance had been a slap in the face to many of them. Now that his mind had fallen, no one uttered a word of mockery; they just felt relieved.

It was no exaggeration to say that in the Third Layer, Lin Hao had been like a great mountain, crushing so many that they could barely breathe.

Thank goodness it was all over.

Only the man who had just fought Lin Hao stood motionless like a statue, thinking about Lin Hao’s final gaze.

PTHOO!

In the Saha World, at the place where Lin Hao had discovered the Divine Illumination Scripture, his physical body suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

Immediately after, Lin Hao’s cross-legged body pitched forward and collapsed to the ground.

Then, Lin Hao’s eyes fluttered open. He was awake.

At this moment, Lin Hao was incredibly weak. His eyes held none of the brilliance they had in the Divinity Realm; instead, they resembled the eyes of an old man flickering like a candle in the wind.

When one’s mind falls in the Divinity Realm, the physical body suffers a grievous injury. Moreover, Lin Hao’s mind had endured too many blows in the Divinity Realm over the past few days.

It seemed as if the current Lin Hao could perish at any moment.

However, a smile could be seen on Lin Hao’s face.

Lin Hao couldn’t help but be pleased.

In his final moments in the Divinity Realm, he had grasped the connection between the Divine Illumination Scripture and the Dao Sound. He was now seventy percent certain he could merge the Divine Illumination Scripture into the Dao Sound.

This was why Lin Hao had given up resisting at the end, choosing instead to protect a sliver of his mind’s core.

Lin Hao remained motionless for a long while, but the area around him began to darken.

The scene then shifted, and Lin Hao seemed to appear beneath a vast, open sky.

The sky was dotted with countless stars, and Lin Hao’s body seemed incredibly small.

However, the power of the stars was being drawn into his body.

At the same time, the world’s primal energy surged, frantically pouring into Lin Hao’s body.

At some unknown point, Lin Hao was sitting cross-legged again. The stars in the sky above grew more and more numerous...

Finally, the stars filled the entire sky.

A star directly above Lin Hao began to glow, and then all the surrounding stars started to converge upon it.

The convergence accelerated. Before long, all the stars in the sky had merged into one, forming a massive, full moon.

The power of the stars transformed into an incredibly thick pillar of energy that poured down. Lin Hao’s True Self Divine Soul burst forth from his body and began to absorb it.

At this moment, the originally weak True Self Divine Soul was now nearly the same size as Lin Hao’s physical body.

The Soul Gathering Realm nourishes the soul. Now that Lin Hao had cultivated to the Peak of the Ninth Layer of Soul Gathering Realm, his Divine Soul was complete.

The True Self Divine Soul’s absorption of the starlight was terrifyingly powerful; the entire thick pillar of energy was consumed by it.

By now, the True Self Divine Soul was incredibly solid, having almost become another living, breathing Lin Hao.

At this moment, Lin Hao circulated the Divine Illumination Scripture to its absolute limit. After his True Self Divine Soul emerged, it too began to circulate the Divine Illumination Scripture. Instantly, the power of the stars became even more violent.

If the stellar power from before was a ceaselessly flowing river, then the stellar power now was the surging, torrential waters of the galaxy pouring down from the heavens.

The two of them circulating the Divine Illumination Scripture at the same time was boundlessly terrifying.

But Lin Hao didn’t stop. At this very moment, he divided his focus, beginning to manifest the Dao Sound in his mind.

From the Dao Sound, Lin Hao had obtained the "Lin" word technique, but the Dao Sound was vast and profound. He had yet to even fully comprehend this single technique.

However, in the Divinity Realm, Lin Hao had grasped a crucial point: the Dao Sound was unfathomably mysterious, beyond his ability to control. But he *could* control the Divine Illumination Scripture!

The abstruse, difficult-to-understand characters of the Dao Sound appeared in Lin Hao’s mind, then resounded throughout his sea of consciousness.

At this moment, Lin Hao spoke within his mind, infusing each character of the Divine Illumination Scripture into the Dao Sound.

’Merging the Divine Illumination Scripture into the Dao Sound will definitely yield unexpected rewards.’

This was the conclusion Lin Hao had reached after countless deductions during his battles in the Divinity Realm.

The Divine Illumination Scripture was an imperial art. Merging it into the Dao Sound was an unimaginably colossal undertaking.

Lin Hao wanted to push the Soul Gathering Realm to its absolute extreme. This was a form of Dao.

This Dao was currently like a severely injured patient yet to recover. The Dao Sound was the "human body," and each character of the Divine Illumination Scripture was a silver needle.

To make this patient recover, one had to completely unblock all the body’s acupoints and clear its pathways, without the slightest error.

The silver needles had to be placed precisely on the human body.

If it were a common ailment, it would be a simple matter, as there would be established remedies left by predecessors. But the key was that this severely injured patient’s condition had never been recorded.

There was no technique to speak of, only trial and error.

Every single character of the Divine Illumination Scripture had to be broken down and infused into the correct position for Lin Hao to succeed.

This was a complex and incredibly perilous process.

One day passed, then two... Five days passed.

Lin Hao had been continuously breaking down the characters of the Divine Illumination Scripture and merging them into the Dao Sound, but it was far too difficult.

During this period, Lin Hao lost his way countless times, nearly dissolving into the Dao itself.

For five days, Lin Hao was immersed in this wondrous world, yet he was still unable to fully succeed.

Although only five characters of the Divine Illumination Scripture remained unmerged with the Dao Sound, he had reached a life-or-death juncture.

Now, Lin Hao feared that a single misstep would lead to his demise!

It took a full half-day for Lin Hao to infuse just one more character into the Dao Sound.

When this character was infused, the True Self Divine Soul suddenly flared with brilliant light, and a terrifying pressure surged forth.

’Success!’

A look of joy appeared on Lin Hao’s face. Spurring himself on, he spent another day and a half infusing two more characters.

At this point, only the final two characters of the Divine Illumination Scripture were left to be merged with the Dao Sound.

By now, the might of the True Self Divine Soul was terrifying and immense, dominating this entire stretch of heaven and earth!

Another two days passed, but Lin Hao remained motionless.

This penultimate character was the key to success or failure.

If this character was wrong, everything would be for naught.

It wasn’t until the third day that Lin Hao finally controlled his mind and merged the character into the Dao Sound.

When this was done, the terrifying pressure emanating from the True Self Divine Soul vanished. It became utterly ordinary.

But a look of ecstasy appeared on Lin Hao’s face.

At this moment, he felt a comfort he had never experienced before.

With this character successfully placed, there was no need to even think about the last one. Lin Hao directly infused it, as there was only one position left.

As this final character was infused, an entirely unexpected scene appeared...