Projection of the Heavens: I prove my immortality through slaughter.

The journey of consciousness is entirely different from the physical body traversing the void.

It was a gliding motion stripped of material form, guided solely by divine sense along the unseen laws. Endless streams of light flashed before his eyes, a bizarre spectacle formed by distorted time and space, countless phantoms of worlds appearing and disappearing like bubbles. Had Lin Xuan not already achieved the Nine-Turn Golden Core, greatly elevating the essence of his soul, the sheer torrent of information and dimensional pressure during this traversal would have been enough to cause the souls of ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators to collapse.

I don't know how much time passed, perhaps a moment, perhaps eternity. That intense feeling of weightlessness and the fleeting nature of time suddenly vanished.

Lin Xuan's "perception" has been restored.

The first thing to surge forth was an energy so dense it was outrageous! This was not simply spiritual energy, but a more primordial and violent mixture of chaotic energy and innate spiritual energy, imbued with the aura of the very beginning of creation. Every breath (the inhalation and exhalation of divine thought) seemed to absorb the concentrated essence of the entire star field, making even this projected divine thought feel comfortable and solid.

Then came heaviness! An unimaginable heaviness!

The spatial structure of this world is unimaginably stable. In the Xuan Tian Star Domain, he could cover three star domains with a single thought, but here, the range of his divine sense was drastically compressed, extending only about a hundred miles! Moreover, each extension of his divine sense felt like struggling to navigate through a viscous chaotic sea, consuming enormous amounts of energy. The omnipresent laws of heaven and earth were far clearer and more domineering than in ordinary worlds, firmly imprisoning everything.

Finally, there was that omnipresent, heart-pounding pressure!

Vast, ancient, savage, and powerful! It was as if we had returned to the primordial era when the universe was first created and all races vied for supremacy. A faint aura of malevolence and bloodlust permeated the air, and terrifying roars and the deafening clashes of laws echoed from afar, sending shivers down one's spine. This was a world where the strong preyed on the weak, a world where strength reigned supreme in a naked display.

Lin Xuan steadied his mind and began to "observe" his surroundings.

The place where he descended seemed to be the edge of an ancient mountain range. The trees here were thousands of feet tall, with branches and leaves like canopies and bark as rough as dragon scales; the rocks shimmered with a metallic luster and were incredibly heavy; even a random weed contained astonishing vitality, which would be considered a spiritual medicine in the lower realm.

His divine sense cautiously extended upwards, attempting to glimpse a wider world.

"boom!"

A magnificent and breathtaking panorama slowly unfolded before his eyes.

The sky was so high and distant that it inspired despair. It was not azure, but a chaotic, dark yellow color. Occasionally, enormous divine birds exuding a terrifying aura would fly by, their wings like clouds hanging from the sky, casting shadows that could cover thousands of miles of mountains and rivers.

The earth was so heavy it defied comprehension; the mountain ranges stretched like the spine of a giant dragon, winding to the horizon; the great river rushed like a silver ribbon, its roar filling the air, carrying a terrifying gravity.

And in this world, there exist all sorts of incredible beings.

He saw in the distant clouds a colossal serpent, its body covered in scales and bearing a single horn, breathing out clouds and mist, each breath stirring up lightning; he saw on the earth a giant, tens of thousands of feet tall, its body covered in rocky skin, chasing a group of ferocious beasts the size of mountains, each step causing the earth to crack; he even sensed, deep within the earth's veins, a slumbering being, its consciousness burning as brightly as a star…

Gods and demons! True innate gods and demons!

This is the Ancient Wilderness Realm, where gods and demons coexist and countless races coexist!

Just as Lin Xuan was awestruck by the vastness and primitiveness of this world, a powerful consciousness, imbued with greed and destruction, suddenly locked onto his divine sense, that of an "outsider"!

"roar--!"

With a deafening roar, a huge black shadow shot into the sky from the forest below!

It was a terrifying creature resembling a giant ape, but covered entirely in blood-red scales, with a lizard-like head and a single eye on its forehead. It stood nearly a hundred feet tall, its muscles bulging with explosive power, and its single eye gleamed with cruelty and hunger as it stared intently at the void where Lin Xuan's divine sense resided.

It clearly regarded Lin Xuan's pure and "unfamiliar" divine thought as some kind of rare and highly nourishing substance!

"How dare such an ant covet my true form?" Lin Xuan sneered inwardly. Although it was merely a projected wisp of divine thought, less than one ten-thousandth of the original body, the rank and Dao essence of the Nine-Turn Golden Core remained!

With a thought, he didn't mobilize too much power, but simply condensed this wisp of divine thought into a formless and intangible sword of divine thought that contained the Dao of "annihilation," and gently slashed at the ferocious beast that pounced on him!

There was no earth-shattering noise, only a subtle ripple that seemed capable of severing the cycle of cause and effect.

The ferocious beast, pouncing into the air, froze the cruel glint in its single eye, replaced by boundless fear and bewilderment. The next moment, its massive body seemed to have been drained of all life; its scales lost their luster, its flesh withered and rotted, turning directly into ashes in mid-air, fluttering down in a soft rustling sound!

One strike, and divine sense is annihilated!

This is the crushing power of the Great Dao level! Although this ferocious beast is strong, comparable to a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, its life essence is as fragile as paper in front of Lin Xuan's divine sense containing the Dao of Annihilation.

After slaying the ferocious beast, Lin Xuan's divine sense stirred slightly, and from the scattered ashes, he captured a trace of extremely weak yet incredibly pure blood essence and a fragment of brutal beastly laws.

"Huh?" He had a slight thought and tried to use his divine sense to guide the circulation of the Golden Core method.

That wisp of vital energy and fragments of laws were slowly absorbed and refined by his divine sense! Although this gain was negligible compared to his main body, he could clearly feel that this projected divine sense seemed to have solidified a little, and its adaptability to the "power" rules of this world had also increased slightly.

"It can actually directly devour the essence and law fragments of the beings in this world to strengthen the projection?" A hint of surprise flashed in Lin Xuan's eyes. This undoubtedly greatly increased the efficiency and value of this projection!

He raised his head, his divine sense gazing at the vast, endless ancient mountain range, and the direction from which even more powerful auras emanated in the distance. For the first time, his deep eyes revealed the gaze of a hunter regarding this journey.

This world of gods and demons is no longer just a training ground for him to comprehend the environment, but also a hunting ground full of things that can directly devour and nourish his own Great Dao!

His divine sense was no longer concealed; instead, it actively emitted a restrained yet dangerous fluctuation, like a stone thrown into a calm lake, leisurely moving towards the depths of the mountains.

He has arrived, bringing with him the bloody jungle law of the ancient wilderness. But this time, the roles of hunter and prey may need to be redefined.