Powerful Time Walker, Sinister Primordial Force

His Soul Power Level had also steadily risen to level seventy during this period.

Fourteen levels in four years!

This speed once again confirmed his previous guess—

So-called Innate Full Soul Power at level twenty merely meant receiving an extra ten levels of Soul Power as a starting bonus.

His cultivation speed was still at the standard of Innate Full Soul Power at level ten.

Granted, treating Gu Yuena's injuries over the past few years had occasionally required prolonged Soul Power output, delaying his cultivation somewhat, but the impact had not been significant.

Thinking back to the Shrek Seven Devils' progress during their five-year agreement, although they had received assistance from Spirit Rings and Spirit Bones, their actual rate of improvement had not been much slower than Lin Hai's.

After all, the seven devils who had consumed Immortal Herbs all cultivated no slower than those with Innate Full Soul Power.

Lin Hai's advantage in cultivation speed lay solely in his Meditation Method.

Of course, the Meditation Method's advantages extended far beyond cultivation speed alone.

Lin Hai chose the Inkstone of No Return for his Sixth Spirit Ring without any suspense.

Dimensional Perception: Passive skill. Continuously enhances spatial perception.

It also allows one to clearly perceive spatial fluctuations, predict the trajectory and force of attacks, and interfere with Spirit Skill targeting. Spiritual Power targeting is excluded.

Space Control: Distorts two spatial nodes, breaks through spatial barriers, and enables instantaneous movement across extremely long distances.

The distance of Teleportation depends on the caster's Soul Power strength.

Seals space, forming an invisible spatial barrier that cannot be breached without violent means or a higher level of understanding of the spatial path.

Time Walker: Can only be used once the caster has completely mastered the Laws of Time and space of a given world.

Within the range covered by those laws, one may travel to any spacetime node and freely alter the life trajectories of those involved.

With Dimensional Perception, merely relying on the targeting mechanisms of Soul Power or Spirit Skills would no longer be enough to lock onto Lin Hai.

If an opponent wished to lock onto him, they would have to expend additional Spiritual Power to perform a spiritual lock.

Even then, its effectiveness would be greatly reduced compared to Spirit Skill targeting.

Time Walker could be understood as—

Only by completely mastering a world's laws of time and space could one freely travel through any point in time and space within that world.

The ability to "freely alter the life trajectories of those involved" was nothing short of heaven-defying.

For example—

Lin Hai could choose to kill Tang Hao before Ah Yin became pregnant, while also choosing whether to completely sever Tang San's chance of being born.

This ability was no longer limited to the power of time and space; it even touched upon the profound mysteries of Destiny.

Its prerequisite, however, was extraordinarily harsh—

Complete mastery of the Laws of Time and space!

One could still passively comprehend part of the profound meaning of the Space Law through Dimensional Perception.

But the Law of Time? Even in the Douluo World, how could it possibly be easy to completely master it?

Still, Lin Hai did not dwell on it.

The first two Spirit Skills alone were already enough to ensure that he remained undefeated against any opponent below God Level.

That was the conclusion he had reached after practical tests with Di Tian and Gu Yuena.

Di Tian had been utterly helpless against him.

Gu Yuena did not dare use her full strength for fear of alerting the Divine Realm. Yet with Divine Will alone, she could continuously keep Lin Hai locked on.

This meant that for gods who were not proficient in the Space Law, although they might be unable to catch Lin Hai in a short period of time, Lin Hai would eventually exhaust his Soul Power if the battle became a prolonged war of attrition.

After all, the Soul Power recovery speed brought by Inexhaustible Life could not make up for the immense cost of high-intensity, long-distance Teleportation.

Now that Lin Hai's Soul Power had reached level seventy, he had arrived at the most crucial milestone before becoming a god—

Martial Soul Avatar!

He had contemplated his Martial Soul Avatar for many years already.

A hundred-thousand-year seventh Spirit Ring likewise had only one skill: Martial Soul Avatar.

Then what form would the seventh Spirit Ring transformed from the Mercy Sword... ultimately take?

He would most likely awaken a domain as well, but what kind would it be?

With the intense curiosity and anticipation that had built up over several years, Lin Hai calmed his mind and began absorbing and fusing with the Mercy Sword.

Yet the Spirit Ring Absorption that had always gone smoothly in the past showed an anomaly today.

It did not come from the Mercy Sword itself, but from the "big boss" that had been asleep all this time—

The Primordial Force seemed to be showing signs of awakening, and a trace of its power actually seeped out.

Alarm bells rang in Lin Hai's heart. Afraid of causing too great a disturbance, he immediately erected a spatial barrier around himself and had Old Bodhi Tree add another layer over it.

At that moment, Lin Hai was shrouded in strange red mist, while an unprecedented, overwhelming killing intent began crazily breeding from the depths of his heart.

The sheer intensity and violence of that killing intent nearly shattered Lin Hai's mind in an instant!

At the critical moment, Old Bodhi Tree promptly fired a gentle green beam that struck Lin Hai.

Immediately afterward, all eight divine artifacts, including the Bu Yuan Cauldron, appeared at once.

The power of the divine artifacts jointly absorbed and shared the terrifying force, allowing the surging killing intent to gradually subside.

Damn! Even the big boss turning over in its sleep is this dangerous?!

Having narrowly escaped disaster, Lin Hai cursed inwardly.

He had originally thought that the Primordial Force was fairly "well-behaved," and that only that brat Demon God was especially restless, always shattering his Martial Soul.

Only now did he understand that it had merely been lying dormant, waiting for him to level up.

A mere trace of its aura, drawn out by the Mercy Sword, had nearly made him lose his mind!

The Bodhi Ancient Tree's voice came at just the right time, carrying a soothing tone:

"Sarira, form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form; form is emptiness, emptiness is form..."

Lin Hai rolled his eyes irritably.

"Stop giving yourself extra scenes! I taught you that! I'm not Zhang Wuji—do you want to be my godfather or something?!"

The Bodhi Ancient Tree immediately fell silent in embarrassment. It had simply felt, for no apparent reason, that the scene of Lin Hai nearly losing control resembled a certain plotline from the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber he had told it about.

Lin Hai steadied himself and continued.

"Still, I really have to thank you for earlier. You felt that power again—how was it? If I lose control again next time, are you confident you can handle it?"

The Bodhi Ancient Tree's tone was full of helplessness.

"The power inside you is far too tyrannical. It contains not the slightest trace of evil aura, as though it were formed from the purest will to slaughter..."

"You still want there to be a next time?! That one incident just now exhausted the power I had accumulated over several months!"

"And that was only to help stabilize your mind. If those divine artifacts had not stepped in to absorb it, the consequences would have been unimaginable..."

Its meaning could not have been clearer—

It could not handle it. Lin Hai had better not provoke that power again.

Why would Lin Hai himself want to touch the Primordial Force? He had no choice.

Still, after this incident, there should not be any more problems in the short term, right?

He had finally crossed the crucial threshold of a level-seventy Martial Soul Avatar.

The next danger would probably have to wait until he reached Level 100 and became a god.

It was already this dangerous now. Lin Hai truly did not want to think too deeply about what becoming a god at Level 100 would be like.

He shook his head and cast aside his stray thoughts. Since he was here, he might as well take things as they came.

Overcome by emotion, Lin Hai began singing aloud:

"Fate lets us meet beyond the troubled times... yet Destiny demands that we meet amid danger... Morning, Little Dragon Cub!"