Devouring demons, I attain immortality.

Lin An opened the dragon's mouth and swallowed all three hundred patterns into its belly.

His crystal-clear body was instantly covered in bronze rust, but the broken Dao Fruit suddenly emitted a blue light, and a chaotic lotus with a cinnabar fragrance grew from the rust.

The pearl, cradled by the lotus heart, reflects a scene from 100,000 years ago—

Deep within the Dragon Feeding Hall, Su'e knelt before the bronze cauldron, her body covered in blood.

She held the stolen Nirvana Seed in her hands, and behind her were countless broken Dragon-Suppressing Locks. Floating in the boiling liquid in the cauldron was a dragon egg engraved with the words "Mystery".

"So it turns out I was the one who..."

Lin An's dragon claw brushed against the Dao Fruit, and its crystal-clear body suddenly erupted with chaotic lightning and fire. "A god-slaying weapon you cultivated?"

All the embryos suddenly exploded, and the splashed bronze liquid formed a giant curtain that blotted out the sky.

A bronze Great Wall spanning the heavens appeared on the giant screen, with each brick and stone on the wall sealing a rampaging chaotic dragon.

At the end of the Great Wall, the Empress, who looks exactly like Su'e, is making hand seals. The altar beneath her feet is an enlarged version of the Key to Return to the Void!

"Now do you understand why I've been chasing you for three hundred lifetimes?"

The Empress's voice shattered the thunder and fire, "What the Dragon Feeding Hall nurtures is never the Source of Dao, but rather those capable of devouring the Dragon Feeding Hall..."

"monster."

Lin An suddenly spoke, and the lightning and fire around him transformed into a dragon that devoured the bronze giant screen.

Three thousand chaotic roots extended from his broken Dao Fruit, piercing into various parts of the void and beginning to draw upon the origin of all the heavens and myriad worlds.

"Then so be it."

Su'e's soul suddenly burst forth from the ruler, burning as she lunged at the illusory figure of the Empress: "Brother An, destroy the Dao Fruit! That's the last one in the Dragon Feeding Hall..."

The Empress shattered Su'e's soul with a flick of her sleeve, but the scattered soul fire ignited the Nirvana Seed within Lin An's body.

The glass-like body cracked inch by inch, and what gushed out of the cracks was not blood, but viscous bronze Dao source.

Wherever the Dao Source passed, the ruins of Guixu were re-condensed into a huge bronze alchemy furnace, the furnace mouth swallowing and spewing out the essence smelted from the seventy-two immortal mountains!

"Thank you so much for helping me complete the final Dao pattern!"

Lin An's voice suddenly turned cold and mechanical, and a phantom image of the bronze codex appeared in his vertical pupils.

"Now, it's time to refine you parasites!"

The moment the furnace lid slammed shut, the illusory image of the Empress and the Great Wall of Bronze were both sucked into the furnace.

From the deepest part of the Ruins of Return came the roar of some being, shattering the stars beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.

And from the chaotic fire burning inside the furnace, Su'e's final sigh could be faintly heard.

The chaotic fire inside the bronze alchemy furnace suddenly turned bluish-white, and three hundred and sixty cracks appeared on the furnace body.

Lin An pressed his azure-colored dragon claw on the top of the furnace, and the reverse scale pattern on his palm perfectly matched the crack.

From within the furnace came the Empress's maniacal laughter: "You think I'm one of those embryonic puppets? Take a good look at the bottom of the furnace!"

Suddenly, the bronze at the bottom of the furnace became transparent, reflecting a vast starry sea.

Each star is the core of a refined world, and floating in the center of the star sea is a ten-thousand-foot-tall dragon corpse—the reverse scale pattern of that dragon corpse is exactly the same as Lin An's body before he shed his scales!

"Where did your glass bones come from?"

The empress's voice was filled with cruel pleasure.

"That monstrous dragon that devoured its master 100,000 years ago was the same color when it was skinned and had its tendons pulled out!"

The dissipated soul fire of Su'e suddenly seeped out from the furnace wall and condensed into a broken jade pendant.

Lin Anlong's eyes stung, and the image reflected in the jade pendant made his scales stand on end: on the spine of the Star Sea Dragon Corpse, there was a bronze short blade engraved with the two characters "Su'e"!

"Now you understand why the Scale-Slicing Blade chose her?"

The illusory image of the Empress reformed in the fire, her fingertips holding the remnant soul of Su'e.

"This girl is the reincarnation of the spirit of the Dragon-Slaying Blade. Her love tribulations and her cycle of reincarnation were all prepared for this day..."

Lin An suddenly shattered Liuli's left arm, and the broken bones transformed into three hundred Chaos Swords.

The instant the sword formation shattered the empress's illusory image, the starry sea at the bottom of the furnace suddenly reversed, and the dragon corpse opened its scarlet vertical pupils on its forehead.

The remnant soul of Su'e let out a piercing scream and actually threw itself into the vertical pupil!

"Ang...kill me..."

Su'e's voice came from the dragon corpse's mouth, accompanied by a metallic scraping sound.

"My very soul has long been forged into a dragon-slaying blade... Ah!"

The dragon corpse suddenly sprang up, and the bronze Dao source condensed at its claw tip was actually of the same origin as the one within Lin An's body.

The alchemy furnace exploded with a deafening roar, and nine bronze pillars rose from the ashes of the seventy-two immortal mountains. The vengeful spirits of all the creatures that Lin An had devoured over the past hundred thousand years appeared on the surface of the pillars.

"The ultimate secret of the Dragon Feeding Hall lies in the very first reverse scale you swallow."

The dragon corpse spat out Su'e's face, but bronze tears streamed from its eyes. "Back when I ripped out your reverse scale, I secretly switched to the 'Dragon Devouring Law'..."

Before he could finish speaking, the dragon corpse suddenly opened its mouth and bit at Lin An's neck.

The Chaos Sword Formation shattered between the dragon's teeth, but Lin An unusually withdrew his protective aura, allowing the fangs to pierce into his glassy bones.

The moment the bronze Dao Source surged into the wound, a vertical crack suddenly appeared on his forehead—what pulsed inside was not a dragon's eye, but half a blood-stained jade pendant!

"Finally, it's here."

The sound of Su'e came from Lin An's cleaved throat.

"Brother An, wake up! This is the real Dragon Taming Contract..."

The dragon corpse suddenly froze, and the short blade stuck in its spine hummed and vibrated.

The sound of chains breaking came from the depths of the starry sea. Lin An's glass body peeled away inch by inch, revealing the dark golden primordial dragon scales underneath. On the inside of each dragon scale was engraved the "Rebellious Dragon Pardon" written by Su'e with her life soul!

The Empress's scream pierced the void: "Impossible! Ten thousand years ago I clearly..."

"You extracted the bones of the Devouring Evil Dragon, but you forgot that the true dragon soul had long since coexisted with the artifact spirit."

Chaos fire ignited at Lin An's claws, and the real scene of Su'e carving out her scales appeared in the fire—the girl stabbed the Dragon-Slaying Blade into her own heart and replaced his corrupted reverse scale with the essence of the weapon spirit!

The jade pendant on the dragon's forehead shone brightly, and the remnant soul of Chang'e broke free from the vertical pupil.

Her illusory hands plunged into Lin An's chest, pulling out a pulsating bronze Dao seed: "Swallow it! This is the Dragon Feeding Hall's Achilles' heel..."

The moment the Dao Seed exploded, the Ruins of Guixu transformed into a massive vortex.

Seventy-two bronze pillars rose from the ground, and the vengeful spirits on their surfaces suddenly turned their spears, pouring all the resentment accumulated over 100,000 years into the illusory image of the Empress.

Lin An's rebellious scales all left his body, forming a sky-covering, sun-obscuring imperial edict stele in the air.

The moment the inscription fell, the Star Sea Dragon Corpse collapsed with a deafening roar.

The remnant soul of Chang'e smiled and dissipated in the chaotic flames, her final murmur transforming into a gentle breeze that carried a decree of pardon: "This time... don't enter reincarnation for me again..."

The moment the decree stele paused, the vortex of Guixu suddenly stopped.

The words of the pardon floating on Lin An's dark gold dragon scales began to peel off, each word turning into a bronze figurine as it fell.

These terracotta warriors have fragments of the Star Sea Dragon's corpse embedded in their foreheads, and they hold the soul fire of Su'e before she disappeared.

"You think the pardon is the end?"

From the depths of the still vortex came the harmonious sound of bells and chimes, and the seventy-two bronze terracotta figures spoke at the same time.

"This is merely the 3,600th simulation by the Dragon Feeding Hall."

Lin Anlong plunged his dragon claw into his own chest, tearing out half of the still-pulsating bronze Dao seed.

Thick, time-giving liquid seeped from the cross-section of the Dao Seed, and the images that appeared in the liquid made his dragon eyes shrink sharply—ten thousand versions of himself in parallel universes were making the same action at this moment, and in each universe, Su'e was scattered in different ways!

The bronze figurines suddenly melted and formed a mirror-like lake on the ground.

The image reflected in the mirror was not Lin An's true form, but rather the young Daoist master wearing the "Mysterious Secret" crown.

The causal thread wrapped around the Daoist's fingertip was tied at the other end to the Edict Stele.

"The Dragon Feeding Hall has never been a single entity."

The young Daoist master lightly flicked his crown, and the ruins of Guixu suddenly folded into a bronze silk book.

"It is an inevitable tribulation for all who attempt to transcend—including yourself."

The silk scroll moved without wind, revealing the full text of "The Law of Devouring Dragons" that Lin An had never seen before.

The first line of the law, annotated with cinnabar, stung the dragon's eyes: "Lin An, the dragon-raising guard of the three hundredth generation, betrayed his master after seventy thousand years of great destruction, murdered his master and seized the cauldron, and shall suffer the eternal torment of having his heart devoured."

The soul flames where Su'e had vanished suddenly reignited, and from within them came her mournful cry that transcended time: "Don't believe it! The law was written with your blood of rebellion..."

Lin An suddenly shattered all the bronze figurines, and the fragments formed a star map in the air.

At the core of the star map, a crack appeared on the crown of the young Daoist master—the shape of the crack was exactly the same as the broken pattern of his glass body!

"Finally found it?"

The young Daoist suddenly tore open his robe, revealing a pulsating bronze dragon heart embedded in his chest. "You thought you were devouring the Dragon Feeding Hall? In reality, you were feeding another version of yourself."