The intense pain made Lin Qi furrow his brow, and his body trembled uncontrollably.
This was not physical pain, but agony that came from his soul.
Like surging, crashing giant waves, one wave after another, the pain grew increasingly intense.
If Lin Qi had not cleared the first hundred stages of Dreamland, the pain alone would have completely scattered his focus.
He might not even have been able to continue splitting his Soul Mark.
But Lin Qi's willpower had already entered an entirely new realm.
So he could endure this kind of pain.
Still, the process would be extremely unpleasant, exceptionally torturous.
"Crack, crack!!"
The originally smooth Source Core began to develop countless cracks, each one slowly splitting along special Secret Patterns.
"Boom!!"
No one knew how much time had passed when the golden Source Core suddenly shattered into countless pieces!
At that instant, intense pain crashed into him like the explosion of the Universe, like heaven and earth falling into annihilation.
The horrifying pain left Lin Qi's mind utterly blank, and he lost consciousness.
"Whew~"
Invisible purple power spread through his Consciousness Space, swiftly gathering back the consciousness that had been scattered by the shock.
Lin Qi quickly adjusted his breathing.
His consciousness gradually recovered. Within his Consciousness Space, the original golden Soul Core had vanished, replaced by countless tiny golden fragments.
Every fragment was covered in countless emerging Secret Patterns, all of which represented fragments of his soul.
Moreover, the Soul Suppressing Cauldron no longer had anything it needed to protect.
Lin Qi felt the power of the Heaven Soul Grass protecting his consciousness from annihilation.
Without the Heaven Soul Grass, relying on himself alone would leave him with an extremely high chance of death.
The same was true for other races.
At the beginning of the Universe,