Gu Yue Righteously Declared: "I Moved Most of This World's Matter Back! Why Do You Get to Keep It All?"

"Dragon Might."

An old Soul Master with white hair and beard trembled as he spoke those two words.

"This is Dragon Might—no, it's more than Dragon Might."

"Ordinary Dragon Might couldn't make martial souls feel this level of fear."

"This is bloodline suppression, a crushing gap in rank, the aura of some ancient ferocious beast far beyond the scope of our understanding."

Before he had even finished speaking.

A seven-colored pillar of light burst out of the testing room.

It pierced through every floor from the third level of the Spirit Pagoda to the top floor, shooting straight into the sky.

It exploded above Eastsea City into a seven-colored cloud of light that covered the entire city.

The sky was dyed like flowing aurora.

Even the sunlight was suppressed.

The entirety of Eastsea City was shrouded in a dreamlike radiance.

Then, terror descended.

It was a terror without any reason.

A trembling rooted deeper, more primitive, etched into the deepest parts of one's genes.

Like a rabbit smelling a wolf.

Like an antelope seeing an eagle's shadow—

You did not even know where the danger was.

Yet your body had already reacted before your mind could.

On the streets of Eastsea City, pedestrians suddenly stopped in their tracks.

Not one person. Everyone.

The entire street seemed to have been paused by an invisible hand.

Men and women, young and old, Soul Masters and civilians alike, all froze where they stood.

Their expressions were astonishingly uniform—

First came confusion, then terror, and finally that instinctive shudder that seeped from the marrow, as though facing a natural predator.

Everyone sensed the fluctuation and turned in unison toward the Spirit Pagoda.

They did not know what it was.

But they knew—

Something was awakening inside the Spirit Pagoda.

That sensation could not be described in words.

It was like an ant suddenly realizing that a foot was descending above its head.

"What the hell did you do?"

Inside the testing room, Lin Yan's face had gone black as a pot's bottom.

He raised his head and looked through the window at the figures outside, as though they had been frozen in time.

A dreadful premonition shot from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.

Something was wrong.

He suddenly turned, and his spiritual power surged toward the Small World like a tide.

The World Membrane was perfectly intact.

But inside it, the basketball-court-sized Small World was shaking violently.

The ground cracked, the ocean boiled, and the clouds in the sky were churned into a vortex by an invisible hand.

And Gu Yue's consciousness—

Damn it—

Most of that stupid dragon's consciousness was not in the real world at all.

It was sunk deep within the core of the Small World, desperately trying to pull something out.

That was the World Origin.

Within a tenth of a second, Lin Yan's gaze shifted from confusion to icy cold.

The temperature in those unrealistically perfect eyes, transformed by the evolution of his life essence, plummeted below freezing.

He understood everything.

On the surface, that stupid dragon was helping him put on a show.

In reality, she was taking advantage of his inattention to steal his World Origin.

Gu Yue was so frightened by his low shout that every scale on her body stood on end.

The entire dragon reflexively shrank her neck, nearly burying her head in her own round belly.

"I don't know..."

Her voice was thin and weak, like a cat caught red-handed stealing food.

The tip of her tail twisted uneasily.

"I just wanted to get a little Destiny Power, so our Soul Beast clan could have an easier time..."

She was telling the truth.

Though she had been working herself to the bone in the Small World these past few days.

On the surface, she obediently did whatever this brute told her, but the string in her heart had never loosened.

This brute was too terrifying—

Not because of his strength, but because of his heart.

He had destroyed nine epochs whenever he pleased, without even blinking.

She did not care whether those humans lived or died.

But the Soul Beast clan was her foundation, the bottom line she had to protect as the common ruler of all Soul Beasts.

If this brute ever went mad again and decided to destroy the world, at least her Soul Beast clan would have the means to protect themselves.

So, taking advantage of this chance to help him display a "God Rank martial soul," she secretly guided the Destiny Power toward the Soul Beast clan.

She had planned it well: she would only guide a tiny bit. It would not be noticed.

Who knew that the moment she touched it, that mass of dazzling seven-colored Destiny Power would burst like a soap bubble?

It did not just burst—it directly pierced through the World Membrane and scattered into the entire world.

She desperately tried to scoop it back, but the more she tried, the faster it dispersed.

In the end, she could only watch as those seven-colored motes of light merged into the heaven-and-earth energy of the real world.

"Destiny Power?"

Lin Yan frowned.

He quickly understood.

The so-called "Destiny Power" Gu Yue had mentioned was likely the World Origin he had obtained through repeatedly destroying worlds.

Most of that origin had already been exhausted when he underwent the transformation of his life essence.

What Gu Yue had mobilized now was the entire amount accumulated over the past few days since this new world had been born.

It was not necessary to rely on destroying worlds.

Life naturally growing old and dying, civilizations naturally rising and falling, could also accumulate origin.

And for someone who possessed the Time Authority, time was what he lacked least.

Still, in Gu Yue's words, this thing was actually "destiny"?

Time gave birth to life, and life gave birth to destiny.

The supreme laws were linked one after another.

It was just that this "destiny" was completely different from what he had imagined.

It was not some illusory metaphysical concept dependent entirely on luck.

It was a more tangible power—one capable of interfering with reality and rewriting rules.

Gu Yue guiltily shrank her neck.

She knew she had caused trouble.

But even if she lost, she could not lose face.

She craned her neck, puffed herself up despite her lack of confidence, and bared her teeth at Lin Yan. "D-Don't yell at me! How was I supposed to know this thing would disperse the moment I touched it?!"

The more she spoke, the more justified she felt, and her voice grew louder. "Besides, I worked myself to death like a beast of burden moving most of this world's matter back! I have a share too! Why do you get to keep it all?"

The more she spoke, the more aggrieved she became.

Her purple eyes filled with mist.

She lifted her chubby chin high, looking exactly like a little cat with no grounds to stand on but plenty of attitude.

Lin Yan's frown deepened.

It was not that he was stingy.

The main problem was that the Destiny Power had scattered into the world, and no one knew what kind of mutation it might trigger.

Though this thing had many uses, it was exceptionally scarce and precious.

This epoch was countless times stronger than the previous nine.

Yet the World Origin it had produced was still pitifully little.

It was nowhere near enough to support his next transformation of life essence.

If it were merely used to raise Soul Ring levels, it would be an utter waste.

And Gu Yue was telling him that it was luck, destiny—something that could change one's fate and increase one's fortune.

He had some doubts, but he did not voice them.

Inside the Spirit Pagoda, everyone stared dumbfounded at the dragon shadow emerging behind Lin Yan.

Someone had already raised a communicator and tremblingly pressed the recording button.

The next moment, the entire world seemed to have boarded a high-speed train and jolted violently.

They had arrived in another world.

It was a projection of the passage of time.

Fragments of memory engraved in the deepest reaches of the River of Time.

At that moment, they were forcibly dragged out by the dragon shadow's power and laid bare before everyone.