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

Lin Xuan's projected divine sense, like an invisible ghost, wandered through the vast and ancient desolate mountains.

Since his first encounter with the giant scaled ape, he had faced several more attacks. There were centipede monsters hiding in swamps that could spew corrosive poisonous mist; there were giant eagles soaring through the sky whose wings could tear mountains apart; and there were packs of bloodthirsty, ferocious wolf-like beasts whose teeth and claws could tear apart magical artifacts.

These ancient creatures, born from the malevolent energy of heaven and earth and the chaotic power of the universe, possess unparalleled physical strength and overwhelming power. Most of them lack intelligence, possessing only the instinct to kill and devour. Any one of them, placed in the Xuan Tian Star Region, would be enough to become a scourge.

However, they encountered Lin Xuan.

Faced with these ferocious beasts, Lin Xuan didn't even need to use complex spells or supernatural powers. His divine sense condensed into a tangible form, sometimes transforming into a sword of annihilation to sever life force; sometimes into a lock of stars to imprison the void; sometimes drawing upon a trace of the Great Dao of "Power" to crush them with pure force. Every clash was a ruthless triumph of the Great Dao over brute force.

With each kill, he would circulate his profound energy to devour and refine the life essence and scattered fragments of laws left behind by these ferocious beasts. These essences and fragments contained the most primitive and violent power rules of the ancient world, which had an indescribable benefit on his tempering of the Great Dao of "Power".

His projected divine sense, in the process of constantly devouring and refining, not only did not deplete, but became more solid and stronger, and its adaptability to the power of this world also became stronger. He could even feel that the Dao patterns of "power" on the Nine-Turn Golden Pill in his body in the Xuan Tian Star Domain became more active in this process, faintly shimmering with light.

On this day, he followed an unusually rich and pure energy fluctuation and arrived at a strange place.

This was a vast valley, brimming with life (or perhaps death) compared to the surrounding mountains. This place was filled with an aura of death and destruction. The earth was scorched black, riddled with massive, crisscrossing cracks, as if it had been scorched by unimaginable heat. Countless enormous skeletons, gleaming with metallic luster, lay half-buried in the scorched earth, their forms varied—some resembling dragons, others phoenixes, and still others unidentifiable behemoths—all radiating a chilling, lingering pressure.

This place seems to be a battlefield of ancient gods and demons!

The energy fluctuation that drew him there came from the very center of the valley.

Lin Xuan cautiously approached with his divine sense. The closer he got to the center, the clearer and purer the power fluctuations became, even triggering a slight resonance in the Dao patterns of "Power" within his body.

Finally, on a relatively flat, scorched patch of land, he saw a stone tablet.

Rather than a stone tablet, it is more like a huge, irregular, dark brown boulder, mostly broken, with only the bottom section stubbornly standing. The surface of the boulder is covered with traces of wind and frost erosion, as well as deep scratches left by countless weapons and claws, as if it has endured the baptism of countless ages and the ravages of cruel war.

The source of that pure power fluctuation was the broken boulder itself! More precisely, it was a blurry, yet naturally formed, mark on the surface of the boulder that seemed to contain the ultimate truth of heaven and earth!

It wasn't any known writing or runes, but an extremely ancient and simple pattern. It looked like a person in a primal posture, lunging, twisting their waist, and throwing a punch! The entire movement was seamless, full of explosive tension, as if the application, transmission, and explosion of all the "power" in the world were condensed into this simple stroke!

Just by gazing at this mark, Lin Xuan's divine sense seemed to hear a tremendous roar that seemed to open the heavens and the earth, and felt a pure power and will that was enough to shake the stars and shatter the void!

"This is... an innate divine script!" Lin Xuan was greatly shocked.

The so-called innate divine script is not a script created later, but rather a primordial imprint naturally manifested and condensed by the laws of the Great Dao at the beginning of the universe! Each innate divine script represents a most fundamental rule of the universe! They are the oldest language, the source of power, and the carrier of the Dao!

Although the mark before me is incomplete and blurry, its core meaning has not been lost. It is an innate divine script representing the origin of "power"!

No wonder this place became an ancient battlefield. This giant rock containing innate divine runes of power is itself a supreme treasure, enough to attract the covetousness and struggle of countless gods and demons!

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Xuan immediately immersed all his divine sense in it and began to comprehend this divine script of "Power".

In an instant, his consciousness was pulled into a strange world.

There is no light, no darkness, no concept of time and space, only endless "force"! Stretching force, compression force, rotational force, explosive force, gravity, repulsion force, life force, destructive force... All forms of "force" in the universe are presented, collide, intertwine, and evolve here in their most primordial state!

He "saw" stars coalescing due to gravity, and exploding due to internal repulsion; he "saw" life born from the force of growth, and withering due to the force of decay; he "saw" space folding due to the force of distortion, and time rushing forward due to the force of passage...

This divine script was like a key, opening the gateway to the deepest part of the treasure trove of the "Great Path of Power" for him!

His past understanding of "force" focused more on its application, amplification, and destruction. But now, he is encountering the "principle" of force itself, the underlying rules that constitute the concept of "force"!

His divine sense greedily absorbed and analyzed this infinite mystery. The innate divine script, like the most complex three-dimensional geometric figure or an ever-changing cosmological model, slowly rotated in his divine sense. With each rotation, countless truths about power were revealed and integrated into his understanding.

Meanwhile, far away in the Xuan Tian Star Region, inside the Xuan Zun Hall of the Dao Xuan Sect.

Lin Xuan's body suddenly trembled! His aura surged uncontrollably, and if it weren't for the array within the hall that kept it in place, the entire central divine mountain would probably have shaken!

The Dao pattern of "Power" on the Nine-Turn Golden Pill within his body lit up at an unprecedented speed, its light dazzling! The shape of the Dao pattern began to undergo subtle changes, becoming more complex and closer to the true meaning of that innate divine script, as if it were undergoing an essential leap!

An even more astonishing change occurred in his physical body!

"Crackling and popping—"

A series of rapid, popping sounds emanated from his body! His bones, fascia, muscles, blood, and even every tiny cell were undergoing a dramatic transformation! Faint purple-gold power patterns flowed beneath his skin, and the power contained within his flesh and blood was escalating at an alarming rate!

This is not an increase in magical power, but rather a strengthening and sublimation of the essence of life in the dimension of "power"! It is the tempering of the physical body's origin!

The insights gained from that wisp of divine thought projected from the Ancient Realm actually traveled across endless void dimensions and directly fed back to the main body! Moreover, it primarily affected the physical body and the understanding of the Great Dao!

After an unknown amount of time, the imprint of the innate divine script gradually faded in Lin Xuan's divine sense. It didn't disappear, but rather he had initially completed the absorption of the basic intent of this divine script; going any deeper was beyond what his current divine sense could bear.

His consciousness withdrew from that world of pure power and returned to the place before the broken monument.

Although it was only a preliminary understanding, the gains were already earth-shattering!

He felt that his control over the primordial power had reached a new level. Now, when he used supernatural abilities related to power, the power would increase by at least 30%, and he could do so with greater ease, directly addressing the essence of things.

The strengthening of his physical body was even more noticeable. He felt that with just this physical body, without using any magic power, he could now easily withstand the Sky-Piercing Immortal-Slaying Ship of the Heavenly Pivot Sect! The pure power had reached an unbelievable level.

"Truly worthy of being called an innate divine script..." Lin Xuan thought to himself in admiration. Even just the imprint on a broken stone tablet had benefited him immensely. If only he could obtain the complete innate divine script, or even more divine scripts of different attributes...

His gaze returned to this vast and boundless ancient realm, his eyes growing even more profound.

This world holds far more secrets and opportunities than he could have imagined.

At this moment, his powerful divine sense sensed that several auras, far stronger than the ferocious beasts he had encountered before and carrying obvious fluctuations of order and intelligence, were rapidly approaching this ancient battlefield valley from different directions.

Clearly, the power fluctuations he experienced when comprehending the divine runes, as well as the occasional aura emanating from the runes themselves, attracted some "real" indigenous powerhouses.

Lin Xuan's projected divine sense fluctuated slightly. Instead of concealing itself, it actively emitted a purer and more powerful aura of force after being tempered by innate divine runes.

He stood beside the broken monument, waiting for visitors.

Enemy, friend, or... new prey?