Compared to a thousand years ago, the “egg” within his internal world, formed by myriad rules, had already turned solid. Even Lin Yuan could sense the vast fluctuations within that egg.
“This should be where the Chaos Rule is incubated,”
Lin Yuan thought as he gazed at the towering giant egg.
In some sense, this egg was the Dao Fruit he had condensed from his thousand years of enlightenment—more precisely, from his ongoing comprehension of countless rules up to now.
The fact that the massive egg had fully taken on a solid form meant Lin Yuan was infinitely close to grasping the Chaos Rule. At least now, the Chaos Rule was no longer intangible to him; it truly existed, like that egg in his internal world.
“The Chaos Rule…” Lin Yuan sighed inwardly.
No wonder that at the eleventh rank, comprehending the Chaos Rule is like a legend among legends. Even for existences of the level of His Majesty the Mysterious Sovereign or the Master of Devil Jade Tower, they had only heard of it in theory. They had never actually witnessed it in the Chaos Void.
That’s because grasping the Chaos Rule at the eleventh rank is unimaginably difficult.
Lin Yuan possessed Unrivaled Insight as well as the Gate of the Myriad Realms, allowing him to transmigrate through Myriad Realms. By leveraging the differences between various dimensions and taking advantage of the opportunities of each world, he had finally made it this far.
For any other eleventh-rank expert to attempt grasping the Chaos Rule, how many detours would they have to take, how many resources would they need?
“Maybe if there were a Chaos-level expert giving me a complete demonstration of the Chaos Rule in person, that would help me comprehend it a bit more,” Lin Yuan mused silently.
A twelfth-rank Chaos-level expert has essentially mastered the Chaos Rule and can fully manifest their understanding. Yet manifesting something and enabling an eleventh-rank being to comprehend it are two different matters entirely.
The universe, the Chaos Void, is brimming with limitless mysteries, but how many beings have truly reached the end of that path?
“The Martial Dao Eleventh-Rank Manual.”
Bits and pieces of the Eleventh-Rank Manual floated through Lin Yuan’s mind.
He had begun drafting the Martial Dao Eleventh-Rank Manual back when he was still at the tenth rank, and upon reaching the eleventh rank, he formally worked on perfecting it. Only in the past few decades, with the help of the Immortal Realm’s source core and countless rules, did Lin Yuan finally complete it in its entirety.
The Martial Dao Eleventh-Rank Manual is the final realm of the ultimate leap, a comprehensive elevation of the previous ten realms.
The Eleventh-Rank Manual that Lin Yuan created is based on his space-time fused rules, establishing 33,333 space-time models for time-space from the first level to the fifth level.
Rule models are a concept introduced by those great scholars of evolution within human civilization, who present universal rules in a manner that is easier to grasp.
Think of it like various physics or math formulas—those formulas did not originally exist; they were deduced by brilliant scientists after endless calculations.
Rule models work the same way.
They were painstakingly distilled from the universe’s most fundamental rules by the great scholars of evolution in human civilization.
The foundational models Lin Yuan initially understood—space rule’s basic model, the core model of space rules, and the time rule model—are also of that nature.
However, because the great scholars of evolution in human civilization were limited by their perspective, they only managed to formulate a few thousand time-rule models. Even if someone fully understood these thousands of time-rule models, that would still leave quite a distance from truly grasping time in its entirety.
Within human civilization, the highest-level rule models they had fully systematized were those for time. Anything beyond that, such as space-time fused rule models, was beyond them.
This wasn’t because those scholars were withholding anything; they were simply constrained by their starting point.
Lin Yuan, on the other hand, was different. With his Unrivaled Insight, his comprehension of the rules soon surpassed the collective understanding of all evolutionary scholars in human civilization. The help he received at the Immortal Realm’s source core only pushed his knowledge to unprecedented heights.
Through his space-time fused rules at the seventh level—plus comprehension of millions of pillar-level fused rules—Lin Yuan finally created a set of space-time fused rule models covering space-time from level one to level five.
Of course, to create those models and to master the rules are two different concepts.
Within human civilization, there are indeed some eleventh-rank Perfected evolvers whose understanding of space-time reaches five levels, but none have ever created even one space-time fused rule model for general use.
The same is true for the Nine Strongest of humanity: their space-time fused rule comprehension reaches the sixth level, yet attempting to build a universal model of space-time for all evolvers remains as difficult as climbing the skies.
In addition to these space-time fused rule models, Lin Yuan also included some other rule models in the Martial Dao Eleventh-Rank Manual. These were special rules he had refined over time when he was at leisure.
“Those 33,333 space-time fused rule models should make it a bit easier for future Martial Dao evolvers to gain an understanding of space-time,” Lin Yuan thought.
Although these models can be applied to other evolutionary systems, they work best for Martial Dao practitioners. That said, even with these clearly structured models, fully grasping all of them is by no means easy.
[Name: Gao Wuyou (Lin Yuan)]
[Role: Master of the Gate of the Myriad Realms]
[Bound Talent: Unrivaled Insight]
[Divine Ability: Blood-Rebirth]
[Divine Ability: Mountain-Moving]
[Divine Ability: Enhancement]
[Divine Ability: Elemental Body]
[Divine Ability: World]
[Divine Ability: Tear the Sky]
[Current Status: Consciousness Descended]
[Time Remaining in This World: 98 Years]
Lin Yuan glanced at the illusory text that appeared before his eyes.
“Ninety-eight years left to remain here.”
He pondered for a moment, then vanished from where he stood.
Kaiyuan Martial City.
This was the first Martial City in the Immortal Realm, corresponding to the many Immortal Cities of the Immortal Dao system. Over the course of more than a thousand years, the number of Martial Dao cultivators across the thirty-three Immortal Domains had grown beyond count, and Kaiyuan Martial City had become a holy land in their hearts.
That was because this city was founded under the guidance of the Founder of Martial Dao, and its first City Lord had been one of the Founder’s direct disciples.
In the center of Martial City, there stood a grand Martial Hall.
A silent figure appeared atop the highest seat and slowly sat down.
“Teacher.”
Below, Li Qing seemed to sense something and immediately bowed in excitement to the figure on the throne.
Over a thousand years had passed, and Li Qing had seen Lin Yuan only a handful of times.
“Martial Ancestor!”
Likewise, the ninth-rank Martial Dao cultivators Shan Yang, Nie Yun, and others all felt their spirits surge. They, too, had come up from the Spirit Realm and followed Lin Yuan through more than one transmigration.
“Rise.”
Lin Yuan waved his hand, speaking casually.
Right now, the strongest Martial Dao practitioners were Li Qing and the others, who had reached the ninth rank of Martial Dao.
“This is the Martial Dao Eleventh-Rank Manual.”
Lifting his right hand, Lin Yuan caused the details of the Eleventh-Rank Manual to flow into the minds of Li Qing and the others.
Rather than saying Lin Yuan “wrote” the Eleventh-Rank Manual, it would be more accurate to call it a replication of his own insights—a process somewhat akin to what the Ancient Gods in the main universe do.
Those Ancient Gods disseminate their “Ancient God” evolution method based on replications of themselves.
Lin Yuan had no qualms about passing on the Martial Dao Eleventh-Rank Manual. Could future cultivators swiftly use it to reach eleventh-rank perfection and surpass him in pursuing the Ultimate before he got there?
Leaving aside how quickly Lin Yuan himself advances, there’s also the fact that as long as he, the system’s creator, remains alive, none of those later cultivators can truly surpass him.
This was a realization Lin Yuan had arrived at recently, when the number of Martial Dao cultivators skyrocketed.
Any evolutionary path or cultivation system whose founder has died will certainly allow its practitioners to vie for supremacy, with anyone potentially reaching the Ultimate. But if the founder is still alive, the system’s core imprint remains with them, suppressing everyone else who follows that path.
“The Eleventh-Rank Manual…?”
Li Qing and the others felt their minds turning to mush. They spent a good while just barely digesting the manual’s contents.
After all, it involves 33,333 space-time fused rule models, along with many others—an overwhelming undertaking for those at the ninth rank of Martial Dao. If Lin Yuan hadn’t sealed off most of the information so that it would only gradually unlock once Li Qing and the others reached certain levels, their minds might have collapsed on the spot.
“Teacher…”
Once they had barely recovered, Li Qing felt an underlying unease. At her level, she should be nowhere near qualified to access an eleventh-rank manual. Why had Lin Yuan granted them such a precious higher-level cultivation method?
“I plan to enter seclusion,” Lin Yuan said.
“For quite some time, I won’t involve myself in the affairs of the Immortal Realm.”
He was telling the truth. Ninety-eight years remained before his transmigration ended, and he intended to devote all his focus to rule comprehension during that time, hoping to master the Chaos Rule before his time was up.
“Yes,”
Li Qing and the other Martial Dao cultivators answered with bowed heads.
Lin Yuan gave a few final reminders, then that incarnation vanished from the Martial Hall.
The next instant, he appeared in the vast emptiness of space.
This was no longer within the Immortal Realm but in the boundless void outside it.
Here, the Immortal Realm stood as the highest plane, with countless subordinate worlds below it.
“Immortal Realm…”
Lin Yuan rose ever higher, regarding the Immortal Realm from above.
In his sight, the Immortal Realm was immeasurably massive, a “product” stabilized by the constant interweaving and interactions of myriad rules.
Meanwhile, another of Lin Yuan’s Avatars occupied the Immortal Realm’s source core, observing the fundamental rules at their finest details.
By combining both perspectives, it was as if heaven and earth collided, giving rise to destruction and new birth.
During this process—after over a thousand years of cultivation—Lin Yuan’s millions of comprehended rules began undergoing some kind of qualitative transformation. They started slowly collapsing and merging into one.
Boom.
A faint cracking sound reverberated in Lin Yuan’s consciousness.
He descended into his internal world.
Hanging there in the sky was the colossal egg woven from countless rules.
Somewhere upon its surface, a crack had silently appeared.
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