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

The destructive storms of the real world and the ancient world, like two invisible millstones, sandwiched Lin Xuan's consciousness in the middle, crushing and tearing it apart.

In the real world, before the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Array.

The Dark Singularity of the Heavenly Demon Lord, which was filled with endless destructive power, was like a black hole at the end of the universe, and it was the first to crash into the newly repaired Starlight Barrier!

"Boom—!!!"

This collision was far greater than any before! It was no longer a single, deafening roar, but a mournful cry as if billions of stars were collapsing simultaneously! The solid starlight barrier twisted violently, and in the central area struck by the singularity, swathes of starlight were annihilated. The cracks that had just been repaired reappeared and spread at an even faster rate! The entire formation emitted a piercing hum, as if it were about to disintegrate at any moment due to the unbearable strain!

The destructive energy storm that escaped was like billions of invisible scythes, sweeping across the surrounding starry sky! Some of the nearby allied starships had their protective shields instantly overloaded, and the cultivators inside were vaporized and evaporated! Many more cultivators were shaken to the point of staggering and coughing up blood.

Lin Xuan's main body stood atop the main star, his form swaying slightly. Holding off such an attack while maintaining the grand formation was a tremendous drain on his magical power and mental strength. He had to fully activate his Nine-Turn Golden Core and mobilize stellar power from further afield just to barely keep the formation intact.

And then, the Demon Lord, after the initial collision, followed closely with its massive demonic body. Its giant claws, burning with black demonic flames and carrying a terrifying power capable of tearing apart galaxies, fiercely slashed at the area with the most dense cracks in the barrier! It was determined to forcibly tear open this defensive line!

Outside the Ancient Wilderness, outside the Rock Tribe.

Almost simultaneously with the impact on the real world, Lin Xuan's projection also moved.

He stepped out of the light barrier of faith, facing alone three Nascent Soul experts and a massive allied army. Without uttering a word, he pointed his fingers like a sword, and the immense power and annihilating Dao aura within him, driven by his own consciousness, erupted with a deafening roar!

"The Finger of Annihilation of Stars!"

A gray finger strike, condensed to its extreme and seemingly formed from shattered stars and the void of nothingness, tore through the sky, its target aimed directly at the Fire Lizard King, whose attack had just been thwarted and whose mind was shaken!

This finger strike contains the killing intent of the real world in fighting against the Heavenly Demons and the resolute heart of the Ancient Realm in protecting its faith. Its power far exceeds the limits that the previous projection could unleash!

The Fire Lizard King's pupils constricted, sensing a deadly crisis! It roared, unleashing the white flames around its body to their fullest extent, and held its giant lava axe in front of it, attempting to withstand the attack head-on!

"Pfft!"

However, where the Annihilation Finger Force passed, all laws vanished! The white flames, powerful enough to burn mountains and boil seas, dimmed and extinguished instantly, as if they had encountered their nemesis! The indestructible axe blade of the lava giant axe was easily pierced by the finger force, and then, with its remaining momentum, it struck the Fire Lizard King's chest!

"No--!"

The Fire Lizard King let out a mournful and desperate roar. Its powerful demonic body, starting from the finger hole in its chest, rapidly turned gray and decayed, as if it had gone through countless ages. Finally, with a "bang," it turned into dust all over the sky, and its soul was completely obliterated by the Dao of Annihilation!

One finger, and he instantly killed a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator!

This terrifying scene terrified the Shadow Demon leader and the Hill Giant King, who were preparing to launch a joint attack, causing their offensive to halt instantly. Below, the allied forces of gods and demons erupted in a massive uproar and screams of fear.

but!

Just as Lin Xuan's projection instantly killed the Fire Lizard King with a single finger, reaching the peak of its power—

In the real world, the Demon Lord's giant claws finally tore fiercely into the cracks in the Starlight Barrier!

"Snap—!!!"

A resounding crash, clearer than any other, like the shattering of glass, shook the entire Xuan Tian Star Domain!

The starlight barrier of the Zhou Tian Star Array was forcibly torn open, creating a massive gap stretching tens of thousands of miles! Endless demonic energy, as if finding an outlet, surged wildly through the gap! The Heavenly Demon Army, which had been waiting for a long time, let out a deafening, ferocious laugh, and surged into the gap like a black torrent of death!

"The barrier has fallen!" "It's over!" "Leader!"

The allied monks let out desperate cries, and their last line of psychological defense seemed to collapse.

Almost at the same instant the barrier was torn apart, on the other side of the Desolate Ancient Realm, because the main body's mind was strongly impacted by the dramatic changes in the real world, a one-in-a-billionth of a moment of stagnation occurred!

This slight, insignificant pause was keenly noticed by the terrified Shadow Demon leader!

"He's distracted! Kill him!"

The Shadow Demon leader transformed into an almost imperceptible shadow, like a persistent leech, instantly traversing space. Countless shadow spikes, imbued with extreme corrosiveness and soul poison, rained down on Lin Xuan's projection's back! At the same time, the Hill Giant King reacted, roaring as he hurled his giant stone hammer, like throwing a small star, sealing off Lin Xuan's projection's escape route!

Caught in a pincer attack, the situation was extremely dangerous!

With the defenses of the real world breached, the projection of the Ancient Realm is in a hopeless situation!

The pressure from the two worlds reached an unprecedented peak at this moment! Lin Xuan's consciousness seemed to be torn in two by these two destructive forces, or as if he had been thrown into a boiling pot of oil, enduring extreme torment and torture.

His physical body in the real world needs to immediately deal with the influx of demons and repair the barrier; his projection in the Desolate Ancient Realm needs to defuse the deadly sneak attacks of two powerful figures.

Any mishandling will lead to disastrous consequences!

In this desperate situation where consciousness was almost torn apart and the two battlefields were about to collapse simultaneously—

Lin Xuan's indestructible Dao heart, which had withstood countless tribulations, was like divine iron placed in a deadly situation, bursting forth with a light that surpassed all limits amidst the flames of destruction!

"The mind is not singular, the spirit can manifest in a thousand..." "Past and future are but a single thought..." "I am the universe, what distinction is there?"

A profound and mysterious enlightenment, like the first ray of light at the beginning of the universe, suddenly illuminated his chaotic mind!

He no longer tried to forcibly split his consciousness into two parts to deal with the crises of two different worlds. Instead... he sublimated!

His core consciousness seemed to transcend the limitations of the "individual" at this moment, transforming into an invisible, higher "observation point" and "computing core." The stars in the real world shifted, magical power surged, and demons roared; the faith burned in the ancient realm, the Dao of annihilation resonated, and the enemy launched an offensive... All this information, like a vast data stream, was simultaneously received, processed, and instantly given optimal instructions by this core!

This is not simply multitasking, but the true meaning of divine thought transforming into a thousand, and consciousness dominating!

His dominant will, like the lofty Heavenly Dao, simultaneously encompasses both worlds!

"Freeze!"

In the real world, Lin Xuan's gaze sharpened. Ignoring the torrent of demonic energy surging into the breach, he pointed his fingers like a sword at the Demon Lord, who was about to burst through the rift. A refined, purplish-gold sword aura, imbued with the purer essence of annihilation he had just comprehended, struck first, instantly piercing the Demon Lord's vertical pupil, which resembled a pool of blood! This forced the Demon Lord to retract its claws and hastily defend itself.

At the same time, the main star beneath his feet shone brightly, and more stellar power was forcibly gathered, like silver divine needles, quickly mending the huge gap in the barrier!

"change!"

In the Desolate Ancient Realm, just before the shadowy spikes struck his body, Lin Xuan's projection, as if without substance, slightly shifted to the side in an unnatural trajectory. He didn't completely dodge, but rather avoided a vital point. Simultaneously, he struck behind him with his palm, where the Dao of Power and the Flame of Faith merged, transforming into a solidified purple-gold shield!

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!" Most of the shadow spikes were blocked and annihilated by the shield, but two still pierced through the defense and stabbed into the projection's shoulder blade, bringing a sharp pain and corrosive sensation to the soul.

Facing the colossal stone hammer hurtling towards them like a star, the projection neither dodged nor evaded, but instead spread its other hand, fingers outstretched, and made a grasping motion forward! "Force Imprisonment!"

The whistling stone hammer seemed to sink into an endless swamp of power in an instant, its speed decreased sharply, and the violent power on it was stripped away and dissolved layer by layer!

In the blink of an eye, the main body forced back the Heavenly Demon Lord and repaired the barrier; the projection withstood the Shadow Demon's sneak attack and imprisoned the Giant King's attack!

He miraculously resolved the deadly situation between the two worlds in such an incomparably mysterious way!

Lin Xuan stood between the two "bodies" of reality and projection, his eyes still calm, but beneath that calmness lay a kind of divinity that seemed to be able to see through all things and control everything.

A sudden enlightenment in dire circumstances leads to the spontaneous attainment of supernatural powers.

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