Chapter 4844: Chapter 4844: Breaking, Then Reforging Chapter 4844: Breaking, Then Reforging Previously, Lin Moyu had already poured two thousand nine hundred Dao heart Worlds into the grand array, which granted him a certain degree of control over it. Now that the array was fully activated, those two thousand nine hundred worlds erupted with the power of heaven and earth. That power was gathered through the formation and condensed into multicolored divine light that fell upon Lin Moyu. His collapsing body and soul were instantly stabilized; they continued to break apart, but at a rate more than ten times slower. At the same time, under the shroud of this rainbow light, the remaining hundred worlds solidified far faster. One loss, one gain it bought him enough time. The hundred worlds solidified in rapid succession. With a sweeping motion of his hand, Lin Moyu sent them all into the grand array, filling the last hundred stars. Three thousand stars were now complete, and the array was whole. The vanished starry firmament reappeared once more. Looking into the void, he saw that the three thousand filled stars interlinked with each other, forming an array clearly distinct from the surrounding region. "Using a grand array to evolve a Dao heart... No, that is wrong." "I am seeing it incorrectly." "This is using the Dao heart to evolve a grand array. "What I am seeing is an authentic Dao heart. "So the Dao heart can be used like this." A sense of sudden clarity washed over him. He finally understood: it was not the array mimicking a Dao heart, but a grand formation laid out inside the Dao heart. The Dao heart Worlds were joined together in the form of a great array, making the Dao heart itself more stable. In turn, this fed back into the worlds, strengthening each of them. That then influenced his body and soul, making his own power mightier and the formations he laid even more terrifying. "Is this Nine Heavens Divine Lord’s inheritance?" It felt very much like the Divine Lord had released a piece of true inheritance, revealing to him the proper way to use a Dao heart. The starry field lingered only for a moment before vanishing again, and all three thousand worlds returned to his body and soul. With them came a beam of divine light. It descended in unison with the worlds, enveloping him. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖 His body and soul began to strengthen once more. First, their collapse accelerated. But when they neared total disintegration, they suddenly began rapidly recovering. Breaking, then reforging emerging anew like a butterfly from its cocoon. Lin Moyu had gone through rebirth countless times. Life and death had long since become a trivial matter to him, and each previous rebirth had required both body and soul to be utterly shattered before returning, in fact far more extreme than what he was experiencing now. Yet paradoxically, this time the effect far surpassed all those past rebirths. As he broke and reformed, the power of the hall seeped into every inch, every fragment of his body and soul, as though giving them a complete baptism and pushing them to undergo a fresh qualitative change. The baptism was anything but pleasant. The agony that came from the deepest depths of the soul would have made a peak Hongmeng Supreme howl in torment. Lin Moyu, however, merely grunted a few times and endured it. He had simply died too many times to be bothered. When his body and soul finally finished this process of breaking and reforging, they shone with dazzling radiance. Immense power coursed through him like a surging river. Shock flickered in his gaze as he muttered to himself, "No wonder Nine Heavens Divine Lord could bear a million worlds. "To think a body and soul could be tempered to this degree." In this journey through the halls, the first seventy each boosted his physical body by ten percent not cumulatively, but by ten percent according to his original base. Over seventy halls, his body and soul had grown sevenfold, placing him beyond the limit of a Hongmeng Supreme and touching a new threshold. To others, even that was already unthinkable. Yet those seventy halls and that sevenfold increase had only laid the groundwork for what was to come. Without it, his body and soul would never have borne the next leaps in strength. From the seventy first hall onward, each hall had doubled his body and soul. And this doubling was based on his already sevenfold strengthened state. Each new doubling equalled the total of that previous sevenfold increase. After ten such halls, his body and soul had grown ten times stronger again, reaching a frightening level. He was now in no way inferior even to the weaker Primordial Savage Fiends; he only lagged slightly behind the terrifying ones encountered toward the end. Even so, he had yet to truly step into a higher level, and at times he had almost suspected that the "next realm" did not exist at all. Unexpectedly, that too had only been a foundation this time, the foundation for his current rebirth. Without those earlier steps, he could not have borne three thousand Dao heart Worlds or passed this hall’s trial, and thus could never have accomplished this breaking and reforging. Now, his body and soul had once again increased tenfold atop their previous base. "A tenfold increase enough for me to carry over ten thousand Dao heart Worlds. "Yet even now, I have still not touched the next realm." "What exactly is that step beyond a Hongmeng Supreme? "Why is the gap so vast?" "Nine Heavens Divine Lord uses Hongmeng Supremes as divine servants, but does a being that powerful really need such followers?" He still had no idea how strong the Divine Lord truly was. Even so, his current self could easily erase a Hongmeng Supreme. What use was such a so called "divine servant"? "Forget it. "I have not reached that height myself; why bother thinking about it?" "Once I walk through all ninety nine halls, perhaps the mystery will naturally unravel." "I wonder what the next hall’s reward will be. "Judging from prior experience, it will likely be another boost to body and soul. "Could it be another tenfold increase?" Beyond that tenfold strengthening, there was something even more important: Lin Moyu sensed that his body and soul had undergone a qualitative transformation. It was no longer a mere question of "stronger or weaker"; he had stepped into another tier of existence altogether. Compared with ordinary beings, the difference now lay at the very level of life itself, not something that could be described with simple measures of power. Passing along the divine road, he came before the eighty second hall. Just like the previous one, it was again a grand array evolved from a Dao heart. Stars appeared within the array and then faded, leaving twelve thousand empty positions twelve thousand Dao heart Worlds needing to be filled by Lin Moyu. He looked at the void with an "as expected" expression. "So it really is like this. "My limit for bearing Dao heart Worlds should be between ten thousand and eleven thousand, yet I am being asked to evolve and solidify twelve thousand." "No fancy tricks, just a straightforward push beyond my limit. "I have no choice but to do it; this is an open scheme." Nine Heavens Divine Lord’s design made it clear: there was no road of retreat for him. Thanks to his previous experience, even though he now had to exceed his limit by a full thousand worlds, he already had a way to cope. He had even predicted what he would go through body and soul shattering would be unavoidable. Yet once the formation was filled, the hall’s reward would surely restore him to peak condition and likely trigger another breaking and reforming. Another tenfold strengthening of body and soul was virtually guaranteed; he had already grasped the Divine Lord’s pattern. "In that case, these ten halls can make my body and soul a hundred times stronger." "Who knows what state I will be in by then? "And when I pass these ten halls, how will the final nine be arranged?" "Will it be more Primordial Savage Fiends? "Or even more Dao heart Worlds?" "Nine Heavens Divine Lord still has not appeared. "I wonder when he will finally show himself." Evolving and solidifying ten thousand worlds would take considerable time, and Lin Moyu was in no hurry. He proceeded step by step, while also studying this Dao heart formation in detail, drawing out its essence and making it his own.