Chapter 706

RUMBLE—

As Lin Yuan dragged the tail, it was as if he were pulling the entire Source World itself. The boundless demonic energy filling the heavens began to boil simultaneously.

Beneath the sky, the Demon God, who had been looking down indifferently, suddenly staggered. Its massive tail struggled with all its might, coordinating with the demonic energy around it, and only then barely managed to wrench itself free from Lin Yuan's grasp and pull it back behind.

“Hahaha, not bad strength.”

Lin Yuan glanced at his right hand—its surface was covered in countless black pits, all signs of the corrosion sustained while grabbing the tail.

The Demon God’s tail wasn’t something that could be gripped easily. The immense backlash generated from doing so was enough to give even a stage thirteen time-life a headache.

Lin Yuan had only dared attempt it because he had fully completed the infinite particle world within him. Each particle world shared the backlash, making it bearable.

“Lord Milky Way actually…”

Inside the hidden world, the sect masters were completely stunned.

If earlier Lin Yuan had only been defending against the Demon God's attacks—

Then just now, when he forcefully dragged the Demon God’s tail and nearly unbalanced it entirely, it meant Lin Yuan already possessed the power to shake the Demon God directly.

“Lord Milky Way isn’t an Eternal Lord… so how can he possibly shake the Demon God?”

The upper echelons of the Eternal Sects were left utterly blank.

Barely managing to block the Demon God’s attacks and counterattacking to shake it—were two entirely different things.

The latter meant their powers were no longer far apart—perhaps even on the same level.

Across the heavens, countless Supreme Sacred Sects and Sacred Sects had their attention fixed on the scene.

After Lin Yuan revealed his towering true form, he was visible even from afar—clearly seen resisting the Demon God’s onslaught.

“Lord Milky Way shook the Demon God?”

“Wasn’t the Demon God said to rival an Eternal Lord?”

One expert after another looked on in disbelief. Although the clash between Lin Yuan and the Demon God was steeped in countless mysteries, what they saw was plain—blow for blow, fist against tail.

It wasn’t hard to grasp.

The black pits across his palm healed rapidly.

Lin Yuan looked at the Demon God, his eyes burning with battle intent.

After refining the Eternal Sources, the infinite particle world inside his body was fully complete. Each world echoed with the others, and the power he could now unleash was ten or a hundred times what it was before.

That was why—

He had gone from barely defending against the Demon God to now being able to physically shake it.

If he struck with all his strength, he could truly pose a threat—not fatal, perhaps, but enough to make the Demon God take him seriously.

“A gift demands a return.”

Lin Yuan smiled at the stunned Demon God.

His figure merged into spacetime and vanished on the spot.

"Hm?"

Seeing this, the Demon God's hollow gaze grew solemn. This world was saturated with demonic energy—its domain. Wherever the energy stretched, the Demon God's control followed.

But the moment Lin Yuan vanished, the Demon God realized it had lost control of its surroundings.

A forced loss. No warning at all.

The next moment—

Lin Yuan’s massive form appeared right beside the Demon God, raising his hand and slapping down.

The Demon God’s body immediately began to expand, matching Lin Yuan’s size. Its enormous tail whipped out again—

Clashing directly with Lin Yuan’s palm.

CRASH—

Vast swathes of spacetime and reality shattered. This was not ordinary destruction, but root-level erasure—enough to irreversibly damage the Source World’s very foundation. But at that moment, neither Lin Yuan nor the Demon God paid it any mind.

Though Lin Yuan hadn’t stepped into stage thirteen, with his foundations now complete, he dared not hold back at all when facing a Demon God.

BOOM!

In that clash, it was the Demon God who clearly came off worse. Lin Yuan’s sudden disappearance and reappearance had caught it completely off guard—it barely managed to defend.

The result: the Demon God was forced to stagger back several steps.

Before it could react—

Lin Yuan disappeared again.

“ROARRRR!!”

Without any hesitation, the Demon God let out a howl!

A roar like heaven’s fury—a true world-ending scream.

The sound formed visible ‘black ripples’ that swept in all directions. The land tore apart. Space and time collapsed. The central area of the world was ravaged, falling into ruin.

As for the hidden world not far off, another defensive Eternal Treasure activated just in time. Plus, the Demon God’s roar wasn’t directly aimed at it, allowing it to barely hold.

The ‘black ripples’ spread, forcing Lin Yuan’s form to reappear in the distance. He stared back at the Demon God.

The ripple’s power was immense—but even that couldn’t shake Lin Yuan. The infinite particle world within him was in full operation, dispersing the destructive force of the ripple instantly.

No matter how strong an attack, if it was divided into infinite grain-sized threats and spread across all his particle worlds, it ceased to be fatal.

“The Demon God’s Roar. That’s the Demon God’s Roar—its ultimate move.”

Within the hidden world, the sect masters stared in awe at the spreading black waves.

In the many futures the Eternal Lords had foreseen, this roar only appeared after the Demon God fully suppressed the Source World’s consciousness and turned its attention on the hidden world.

And when this roar appeared, it meant the Source World was in dire straits.

Because even with all the Eternal Treasures protecting it, the hidden world wouldn’t last long under this move.

“For Lord Milky Way to force the Demon God to unleash this so early…?”

The sect master of the Eternal Boundless Sect trembled. Watching from such a close distance, he could see clearly—the Demon God was on the defensive.

If it hadn’t used this roar, it would’ve been trapped in Lin Yuan’s endless vanish–strike–vanish loop.

If not forced into total disadvantage, it would certainly lose the initiative.

“So strong…”

The other sect elders swallowed hard.

The more they understood, the more they realized how terrifying Lin Yuan truly was.

That was the Demon God!

And Lin Yuan, who could fight it blow for blow—just what level had he reached?

In the distance—

After forcing Lin Yuan to reveal himself with its roar, the Demon God’s hollow eyes locked onto him. Then it raised its massive tail and charged.

Its fighting style was primitive. Unlike Lin Yuan, who could vanish into spacetime and ambush from the void—

The Demon God didn’t hide. With every step, the surrounding spacetime condensed and trembled, and the black ripples from its roar still shook the air.

BANG!

Lin Yuan charged forward too.

His path of martial evolution excelled at hand-to-hand combat. With his infinite particle world fully formed, every punch and kick carried boundless power.

He feared no brawling match.

In an instant, the two giants collided once more.

Buzz—

The Demon God’s eyes were filled with endless darkness—everything it looked at, tangible or intangible, began turning into demonic energy.

In response, Lin Yuan’s body lit up—countless particle lights ignited. The infinite worlds inside him spun, and with his internal universe as the core, he met the darkness with equal power. A head-on clash of energy.

Taking advantage of the moment, Lin Yuan reached with his left hand, grabbing at the Demon God’s tail, attempting to lift it off the ground—but the Demon God unleashed another round of its world-ending roars.

The black ripples, now at close range, shook violently. Even Lin Yuan had to divert part of his focus to defend.

“That move?” Inside the hidden world, the sect masters noticed the Demon God’s eyes now brimming with darkness—a scene that hadn’t appeared in any of the Eternal Lords’ predictions.

Clearly, even at the end of all those future timelines, they hadn’t forced the Demon God to this extent.

And the killing power in its gaze now far surpassed any previous move—even Lin Yuan had to treat it cautiously.

“Die.”

Lin Yuan grabbed the Demon God’s tail with one hand and locked its throat with the other, trying to tear it apart.

But the Demon God responded by wrapping both arms around Lin Yuan, the two of them clashing so violently that even the ever-present demonic energy was completely obliterated in the shockwaves.

Physically, the Demon God was stronger.

But Lin Yuan had the support of infinite particle worlds, with his internal universe reinforcing him.

For a moment, the fight reached a deadlock.

Roars echoed. Black waves swept.

The massive tail lashed again and again at Lin Yuan.

But he didn’t care.

With his deep foundation and numerous body-protecting divine abilities, even if wounded, he healed rapidly. He was trading blows directly with the Demon God.

Of course, the Demon God had infinite demonic energy to sustain it—also essentially immune to harm.

But it was now clear:

The Demon God couldn’t defeat Lin Yuan.

Inside the hidden world—

The experts watched in stunned silence as the two colossal figures clashed.

“Lord Milky Way can actually fight the Demon God like this?”

“An Eternal Lord? He must be an Eternal Lord, right?”

The sect masters exchanged glances. They had been certain Lin Yuan wasn’t an Eternal Lord—

Because since the great upheaval, there had been no signs in the heavens of a breakthrough to that level.

But now, they weren’t so sure.

Whoosh—

In a section of crumbling, annihilated spacetime—

The Demon God, locked in melee with Lin Yuan, suddenly swept its tail and leapt back.

“Hm?”

Lin Yuan also paused, looking toward the retreating figure.

Moments later—

Before Lin Yuan’s eyes—

The Demon God’s massive form dissolved into the surrounding demonic energy and vanished.

“The Demon God… withdrew?”

Lin Yuan understood instantly.

Clearly, the Demon God had realized that continuing the battle like this would only result in a stalemate.

Forget destroying the hidden world—it wouldn’t even be able to continue suppressing the Source World’s will through instinct alone.

Its initial strategy—endlessly attacking the hidden world—was based on a plan. With millions of years, it might have succeeded.

But a fight with Lin Yuan?

At this rate, even after a billion years, there’d be no clear victor.

So it chose to retreat.

The Demon God had no concrete will—no pride or complex emotions.

Once it realized something was of no benefit to it, it would always choose the most efficient path.

“That works too.”

Lin Yuan nodded slightly.

Inside the hidden world, countless beings looked up.

With the Demon God gone, Lin Yuan’s presence felt even more immense. His towering body radiated overwhelming power—fresh from a clash with the Demon God, his aura still roaring.

“It’s over?”

The sect masters’ eyes filled with emotion.

Outside the Source World.

In a warped section of space-time.

Over a dozen towering figures stood, occasionally glancing toward the distant Source World.

At the moment, the Source World was shrouded in endless demonic energy, as if swallowed by an abyss.

But just then...

One of the towering figures suddenly changed expression, turning to look sharply at the Source World again.

Their face showed a hint of disbelief:

"That is…?"

...

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