Chapter 4275: 4275 Chapter 4275: An Unexpected Development The Fifth Generation Heavenly Void Palace Master was not one to hesitate. After enduring Lin Moyu’s repeated verbal provocations and being suppressed and battered to such an extent, he had long since been pushed to his limit. In this moment, he exploded completely determined to drag Lin Moyu into death alongside him. Lin Moyu, standing upon the Ferry of Tribulation, fixed his eyes on the Palace Master. A gleam of light shone deep within his gaze. What he was staring at was not the Palace Master’s physical form, but rather the countless fine threads trailing behind it. These threads were formless and intangible, composed of the power of rules, and remained completely untouched amidst the battle’s destruction. Each thread connected to the divine runes within the domain core, their far ends anchored to the vortices behind those runes. If he detonated these threads, the divine runes could be damaged. And once those divine runes were destroyed, the domain itself would collapse. Destroy enough divine runes, and the domain core would shatter, taking the entire domain down with it. If the domain shattered, the Palace Master would die and so would Lin Moyu. A strange aura surged from Lin Moyu’s body. In his vision, these rule threads shimmered faintly as the Palace Master triggered their detonation. "You really do mean what you say, huh?" Lin Moyu’s thoughts moved, and the Catastrophic Scepter vanished from the World Tree’s hands, appearing in his own. He raised the Scepter high both the Domain Gem and the Balance Gem flaring into brilliant light. "Balance!" Where the Balance Gem’s light spread, the Palace Master’s aura plummeted and not only his aura, but even his rule power diminished rapidly. The Palace Master cried in shock, "What did you do what are you doing?!" Lin Moyu chuckled lightly. "Even if I told you, you wouldn’t understand." The Balance Gem’s radiance pierced the Sky Dome War Array, spilling across the entire domain. This was Lin Moyu truly unleashing the gem’s power using the entire domain as a scale, balancing all disparities. Every living being in the domain saw the light it was the glow from the Balance Gem. Some felt their auras surge, ordinary folk suddenly holding great power; others felt theirs weaken, hard earned strength ebbing away, drops in cultivation realm. Under the Balance Gem’s shroud, every force in the domain was equalizing. It wasn’t only living beings every Great Dao and rule within the domain was affected. The power of the Daos rose and fell; the rules shifted likewise, subtly altering the world’s entire framework. Most importantly, the Palace Master’s own strength was dropping along with the rule power he commanded. Following the Balance Gem came the brilliance of the Domain Gem. "Stabilize!" Lin Moyu intoned in his heart. The Domain Gem’s light shot directly into the domain core. The domain core instantly became solid and still, every divine rune within cloaked in a radiant sheen, their durability skyrocketing. At that moment, the vortices under the Palace Master’s control erupted. The runes took the brunt of the vortex explosions those Lin Moyu had refined were untouched; the rest sustained heavy shock. Normally, they would have been destroyed. But now, they only cracked under the strain none shattered. Once the domain’s core runes broke, the entire domain would be thrown into chaos. The domain wouldn’t collapse, because Lin Moyu controlled the core, but severe damage was inevitable, perhaps unrecoverable for millions of years. And with so many worlds destroyed, all life inside them would be wiped out. In the beginning, Lin Moyu had been prepared for such destruction. But after grasping bits of the gems’ powers, he devised another way: Using the Balance Gem, with the domain’s infinite beings as the counterweight, he forcibly weakened the Palace Master’s strength and his rule power. Thus, when the Palace Master tried to detonate the threads, the damage was greatly reduced. Then, wielding the Domain Gem, he stabilized the core and its divine runes, preventing their breakage. An impact was inevitable, but as long as the runes didn’t break, the domain wouldn’t be too badly harmed. And all this had to be timed exactly to the moment the Palace Master ignited the vortices. Lin Moyu had succeeded the domain was only in some disarray, not deeply wounded. The Palace Master stood there dazed, muttering, "How... how can this be...?" He couldn’t believe his gambit had been foiled again. From the very start of the battle, he had been countered and calculated against by Lin Moyu even in moments where he thought himself on top, he was still within Lin Moyu’s plans. He finally realized he had been in Lin Moyu’s grasp from beginning to end. Lin Moyu smiled faintly. "Well, your mutual destruction trick’s gone. Now you can die in peace." The Palace Master growled, "Who are you, really? Why are you targeting me?" Lin Moyu shook his head. "At this point, do you really think asking serves any purpose?" His answer came in the form of more soul shocks; the Catastrophic Scepter was once again in the World Tree’s grip, and the tree was already attacking. The Sky Dome War Array spun at full power, the "Fix" rune locking the Palace Master in place, giving him no chance to flee. Undead minions and war array giants swarmed in from all directions, surrounding him completely. No way up to heaven, no path down to earth the Palace Master began to despair. The siege started anew; the Palace Master fought back in desperation, but his counterattacks were feeble, each one snuffed out. A mighty Chaos Realm existence, step by step, was falling into death under Lin Moyu’s designs. After dozens of days, the battle reached its conclusion. As the Palace Master’s aura sank beneath the Chaos Realm, he gave one final plea: "I just want to die knowing why." Lin Moyu sighed softly. "You should know you should have died long ago. Living until now was a fluke; death was always your fate." The Palace Master suddenly seemed to understand. "So you’ve been to the Heavenly Void Territory. But... why didn’t he tell me? Did something happen to him?" By "him" he meant the avatar in the Heavenly Void Palace. Lin Moyu said, "He just became what he was meant to become. You should know that from the moment you were born, your fate was fixed. Fighting fate isn’t impossible, but it’s incredibly hard." "You failed. And failure means accepting the worst outcome. Honestly, you’ve already lived longer than the previous few before you." "Too bad you never enjoyed living. You just slept. Power is important, but not enough alone." "To escape fate, you needed to do far more, to prepare far more. You did nothing and that’s why you lost." Lin Moyu had said all that needed saying. Whether the Palace Master could comprehend it no longer mattered if not, then let him die without understanding. The World Tree raised the Catastrophic Scepter again. In Lin Moyu’s hand, the World Burning Fire blazed to life time to send him off. The Palace Master closed his eyes, as if accepting his fate. Lin Moyu remained wary he wouldn’t relax until the man was utterly dead. The void trembled violently a tentacle ripped through it, smashing into the Sky Dome War Array. The entire domain shook. A terrifying Chaos Realm pressure descended, like a great hand pressing upon the domain, halting all power and rule flows even the eerie glow upon the Catastrophic Scepter dimmed. 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