Chapter 223 - 222: Three Rebirths within the Thunder Rain Dao!
Lin Yuan frowned, his composure breaking into genuine confusion. "Qingyue, this is your fortune. You cast the line. You pulled the Ancestral Fish. The Dao of Three Rebirths is a supreme Dao that belongs to you."
"My fortune is your fortune," she argued, her voice rising with passionate intensity. She reached out, grasped his wrist, and physically pushed his hand closer to the glowing orb. "You are entering the second preliminary round tomorrow. You are a target now. Everyone in Chu Province knows that you humiliated Chu Kuang. They will be hunting you."
"I can handle them," Lin Yuan stated coldly.
"I know you can," she pleaded, her eyes shining with desperate love. "But why fight them with one sword when you can fight them with two? The Dao of Three Rebirths is a weapon, Yuan! It is a conceptual law that allows one to begin comprehending life and death! If you absorb this, it will give you an unparalleled edge in the tournament."
"I am fighting this tournament for you," Lin Yuan countered, his voice thickening with emotion. "I am doing this to cure you. How can I steal the very fortune that could elevate you once you are healed?"
"You are not stealing it!" she cried out. "You are sharing it! Yuan, if you fall in that crucible, if you die because you lacked the specific insight this essence provides, my cure means absolutely nothing! If you fall, I fall. We are tethered. You must take every advantage the universe hands us, regardless of whose hook caught it!"
Lin Yuan stared at her, his jaw tightening, the argument settling over him like an unwelcome but undeniable weight. Her logic crashed against his stubbornness, and piece by piece, it broke through.
She was right. The board was becoming infinitely more dangerous. Feng Yao was offering him Primordial Essence, and the Heavens, or perhaps just her impossible luck, had just handed him a supreme Dao. He thought of Chu Kuang’s humiliated face, of the countless enemies now watching his every move from the shadows, and felt the weight of her words settle firmly into place.
Perhaps this was the true nature of his fortune. Not that he possessed the Millionfold Return System, but that he possessed a wife whose very existence tipped the scales of the universe in his favor.
Lin Yuan let out a slow, heavy breath, yielding to her absolute devotion.
"Very well," Lin Yuan murmured. "I will bear this Dao for us both."
With slight, lingering hesitation, Lin Yuan stepped forward. He raised both hands, cupping the tri-colored orb of the Dao of Three Rebirths, feeling its immense, layered weight settle strangely light against his palms despite the power humming beneath its surface.
He closed his eyes and channeled his Qi, pulling the orb directly into his chest.
The physical world vanished from Lin Yuan’s perception.
Within his Sea of Consciousness, an event of spectacular magnitude began to unfold.
His Nascent Soul projection, a flawless, glowing miniature of himself, violently emerged from the golden-purple mist, rising high into the spiritual sky, its ascent trailing streaks of light that scorched brief, glowing paths across the void.
In its left hand, the Nascent Soul manifested a crackling sphere of pure, destructive purple lightning, the Thunder Dao Essence.
In its right hand, it manifested a swirling, heavy sphere of torrential, life-giving water, the Rain Dao Essence.
With a deafening roar that shook the very foundations of his mind, the Nascent Soul slammed its hands together. The two supreme elements collided, violently fusing into the Thunder Rain Merged Dao, the resulting shockwave rippling outward through his consciousness like thunder rolling across an endless plain.
But the evolution did not stop.
The tri-colored orb of the Dao of Three Rebirths descended from the cosmic sky, floating directly toward the Nascent Soul, unhurried and inevitable, as though drawn by some gravity older than the stars themselves.
The Nascent Soul reached out with both hands, grasping the Thunder Rain Merged Dao, and violently thrust it directly into the center of the Rebirth Essence.
Wooooom!
The collision of laws was absolute. The Dao of Three Rebirths wove itself perfectly into the destructive and nourishing cycle of his cultivation. It formed the concept of Three Rebirths within the Thunder Rain!
This was a Tri-Dao intersection.
By merging three supreme laws, Lin Yuan had just forcefully kicked down the door to a higher dimension. This intersection allowed him to take a massive, unprecedented step into cultivating the Origin!
Because he could now touch the periphery of Origin Dao, he unlocked a minor Origin Dao spell within his mind.
The Nascent Soul projection suddenly convulsed, its glowing form flickering violently, as though straining under the sheer magnitude of what it was becoming.
From its back, four massive, ethereal arms forged of pure, rotating tri-colored light violently erupted, joining its original two arms.
It was the Six Arms of Reincarnation!
It was an Origin Dao spell of unimaginable might, capable of shaking mountains, tearing rivers from the earth, and physically manipulating the life force of his enemies.
With this Tri-Dao intersection, with his Rank 10 Ancient Beast Body, and his Unshaken stage cultivation, Lin Yuan’s true combat power had just exploded past the Profound and Sovereign stages.
He was now functionally equivalent to a cultivator at the Supreme Stage of the Spirit Severing realm.
Lin Yuan opened his eyes in the physical courtyard.
The deep purple of his irises was gone. His eyes were now glowing with a terrifying, rotating tri-colored light, black, white, and crimson, crackling with residual arcs of purple lightning that danced faintly across his cheekbones before fading.
He looked at Bai Qingyue, his gaze burning with absolute might. Such might could no longer be looked down upon by anyone in the Nine Provinces.
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