Devouring demons, I attain immortality.

The bronze hairpin cracked inch by inch in Lin An's palm. What flowed out of the cracks was not a stream of data, but a viscous, blood-like karmic force.

The phantom of Empress Su'e twisted in the karmic flames, the pearls on her crown transforming into three hundred weeping blood-red dragon eyes: "You think you can escape the River of Life? Every living being is woven from the primordial chaos..."

"Noisy."

Lin An shattered the illusory image with a flick of his fingers, but what leaked out between his fingers were bronze sand.

The sand and gravel fell into chaos, and surprisingly, they recreated a scene from 100,000 years ago on the ruins of Guixu—before the majestic bronze altar, his younger self was nailed to the Dragon Suppression Pillar, and the one who ripped out his scales was none other than the gentle and beautiful Su'e!

The illusion of memory suddenly froze. Su'e abruptly turned the scale-carving knife in her hand and plunged it into her own heart.

Between reality and illusion, Lin An heard a heart-wrenching cry that transcended time and space: "Run! They're using reincarnation to tamper with..."

The illusion collapsed with a roar. On the ruins of Guixu in reality, seventy-two bronze chains burst from the ground, their heads tied to the corpses of powerful enemies he had devoured throughout the ages.

These corpses, bearing the inverted scale mark on their foreheads, formed a world-destroying dragon-slaying array.

"System, deconstruct the core of the array."

Lin An instinctively called out, only to find that the Devouring Wheel in his sea of ​​consciousness had turned into bronze fragments.

The half of the reverse scale that floated up from the debris suddenly became scorching hot, and the original text of the "Dragon Devouring Law" that appeared on the back of the scale was burning—this is the true Primordial Contract!

The space at the core of the formation suddenly collapsed, and the purple-robed Taoist priest who emerged caused Lin An's pupils to shrink sharply.

Each silver strand of the whisk in the Taoist's hand was a thread of emotion that had been extracted from him in a certain lifetime, and the life-soul bead of Su'e was inlaid at the end of the whisk handle!

"A love tribulation is the best trap."

The Taoist chuckled, and three hundred bronze sword cases appeared behind him.

"From the moment you shielded that woman from the first tribulation, the game was already decided."

The moment the sword sheaths were opened, a towering wave of blood surged from the ruins of Guixu.

The waves carry not only powerful enemies from past dynasties, but also countless scenes of encountering Chang'e in reincarnation.

Lin An plunged his dragon claw into his heart, forcefully tearing out the pulsating dragon heart blood essence. Sealed within the blood essence was the true memory of Su'e when she gouged out the scales—

In the scene, Su'e's face is covered in blood and tears, and the scale-carving knife is being controlled by some force to stab Lin An.

Her final lip movements clearly said: "Reverse scale...back..."

"I see!"

Lin An crushed the blood essence, and the splattered blood essence turned into a rain of fire.

The original text of "Dragon Devouring Law" that appeared amidst the fire rain suddenly reversed, transforming into "Dragon Rebellion Edict" and covering the dragon-slaying formation.

The corpses of those powerful enemies suddenly turned around and wrapped the bronze chains around the purple-robed Taoist.

The Taoist's whisk exploded, and three thousand strands of emotion transformed into a cage: "Even if you comprehend the laws and reverse them, so what? The primordial chaos has already been imprinted upon you..."

The words stopped abruptly. The dragon wings on Lin An's back completely peeled off, revealing three hundred reverse scale markings on his spine.

The pattern formed by the engravings is the complete picture of Guixu, and the position of the core array eye corresponds exactly to a point of cinnabar in Su'e's life soul pearl!

"Thank you for your guidance."

Lin An pointed his fingers like a sword, piercing his own spine, and pulled out a bronze ruler instead.

The ruler is engraved with the reversed "Dragon Devouring Law," and the cinnabar inlaid at the top resonates with the Life Soul Pearl.

"It's time to settle the score for this karmic debt spanning ten thousand years."

The moment the ruler fell, the Ruins of Guixu began to reverse time and space.

The seventy-two immortal mountains re-formed, and what emerged from the mountains were the refined Dragon-Feeding Guards.

The purple-robed Taoist was horrified to discover that the threads of emotion within his whisk were turning against him, each one transforming into a dragon-locking nail that pierced his immortal bones!

"Impossible! When did you unravel the mystery of destiny...?"

"When he drank the Meng Po soup in his ninth incarnation."

Lin An walked towards the Taoist priest, stepping through the reversed flow of time, with three hundred lifetimes of memories sealed within the blood-red lotus flowers blooming beneath his feet.

"You think you've erased my feelings? In reality, you've planted the shackles within me."

Suddenly, the Soul Pearl exploded, and Su'e's remnant soul rushed out of the pearl, transforming into a bronze hairpin that pierced the Taoist's brow.

The moment the Taoist's physical body disintegrated, Lin An saw the mark that appeared on the top of his head—it was the Dragon-Feeding Sword Seal, a secret technique of the Heavenly Sword Sect!

"Sword Sect...Supreme Elder..."

Lin An gripped the ruler tightly, and suddenly ten thousand wronged souls appeared on its surface.

These are all dragon descendants refined in the cycle of reincarnation, and their resentment is burning towards all the heavens and myriad worlds along the lines of cause and effect.

A bell tolled from the depths of the Ruins of Return, and the seventy-two immortal mountains simultaneously burst forth with azure light.

Lin An looked up and saw that the sky had split open with a huge crack, and a bronze chain hanging down from the crack was dragging some ancient behemoth.

The two characters "玄机" (mystery) engraved on the chain resonated with the engraving on his spine.

"Finally revealing your true form?"

Lin An shattered the shackles binding his body, and the Reverse Scales reappeared on his body.

Each dragon scale reflects a blood-red world, the three thousand smaller worlds he devoured wailing within the ruler.

The bronze chains suddenly tightened, and a pressure powerful enough to crush a Grand Luo Immortal emanated from the cracks: "You beast! How dare you..."

"I dare."

Lin An transformed into a ten-thousand-foot-tall dragon body and crashed into the sky. His reverse scales peeled off during the impact, revealing the beating chaotic dragon heart beneath.

"In this life, I will possess all the heavens and myriad worlds—"

The dragon's roar shattered three thousand laws, and the ruins of Guixu were completely annihilated.

In the final glimmer of light and shadow, Su'e's remnant soul clung to the ruler, and from the depths of the crack where the ruler's tip pierced, came the crisp sound of bronze shattering.

The sound of bronze shattering rippled through the deepest part of the Ruins of Return.

Lin An's dragon claw tore open a crack in the sky, but what gushed out was not a chaotic torrent, but a thick, honey-like amber liquid.

Countless dragon-shaped embryos slumber within these liquids, each with a reverse scale pattern branded on its forehead.

"So this is the true nature of the Dragon Feeding Hall."

Lin Anlong's pupils reflected the opening and closing of the embryos' third eye, and the pupil pattern was exactly the same as the cinnabar mark in Su'e's life soul pearl.

The ruler in his hand suddenly trembled, and the faces of the wronged spirits on the ruler simultaneously emitted shrieks.

With a whistling sound, the amber liquid suddenly solidified.

The bronze hairpin, formed from the remnant soul of Chang'e, suddenly disintegrated, and the cinnabar at the tip turned into blood rain, which fell on the ruler.

The wronged souls, stained by the blood rain, suddenly fell silent. Their faces twisted and merged, eventually solidifying into Su'e's complete soul within the ruler's body.

"Uncle, look at his chest!"

The reborn Su'e suddenly shouted. Lin An looked down and discovered that half a bronze key had been embedded in the dragon's heart, which was covered by the reverse scale—the very same Return to the Void key that the woman in green had originally held!

The key suddenly spun, and three hundred and sixty bronze chains erupted from Lin An's body.

These chains pierced his reverse scale, with the other end connected to the dragon-shaped embryo floating in the crack.

Each embryo opened its vertical pupils, from which beams of light containing the immense pressure of the Great Luo were emitted.

"You think you've escaped fate?"

All the embryos opened their mouths at the same time, and the sounds overlapped, creating the sound of a bronze tripod.

"From the moment you were born in the Blood Sea of ​​Guixu, you were destined to be a cauldron for nurturing your Dao Source!"

Su'e's soul suddenly merged into the ruler, and the blood-red light emanating from the ruler tore a gap in the pillar of light.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lin An shattered the reverse scales on his body. Each flying scale transformed into a miniature void, swallowing the bronze chain into it.

When the last reverse scale left his body, he revealed a crystal dragon body covered in cracks, and what was jumping in his body was half a broken Dao Fruit!

"The spark of the Dao?"

The embryos' vertical pupils suddenly constricted, "No wonder they could tamper with the 'Dragon Devouring Law'..."

"Wrong."

Lin An crushed his glass left arm, and the flying fragments formed a star map in the void.

"This is the seed of Nirvana that Chang'e stole during your thirteenth reincarnation."

Under the starlight, the amber liquid deep within the crack began to boil.

The embryos let out terrified roars, their dragon bodies melting in the high temperature and solidifying into three hundred bronze Dao patterns.

Su'e's voice came from the ruler: "Quick! The Dao patterns are about to return to the Dragon Feeding Hall's main body!"