Paragon of Sin

Absorb!

Ori heard their shouts loud and clear; it harnessed its greatest strength, exerting a kind of exceptional spiritual will of affinity and control over the elements—all elements! Trusting its siblings' orders, despite the agonizing pain and heart-throbbing fear that it felt, an extraordinary suction force erupted from its Astral Core!

Every iota of elemental energy present stirred, especially the innate energies within Wei Wuyin, even those that laid dormant after refining his physical cells, especially the Hellfire imbued within Wei Wuyin's bones and Nirvanic Flames emanating from Bai Lin's condensed drop of Essence Blood. These energies began to flow into Ori's Elemental Origin Core at a stupendously fast pace. In the blink of an Ascended's eye, Wei Wuyin was sucked almost entirely dry.

His body was extracted of all its latent and innate water energies, transforming his newly forged physique into a disturbing example of a desiccated corpse; everything, including his body heat and the icy aura, was siphoned out. In the briefest of times, he resembled a long-deceased corpse; he wasn't even breathing.

The air in his lungs had been stripped too, and all the ambient atmospheric gas in the room was sucked entirely toward Wei Wuyin. The Original Dawn Palace was heavily fortified by Elemental Forces and proceeded to collapse with Wei Wuyin as the epicenter.

The glorious palace couldn't last one second before all of it was sucked into Wei Wuyin! Fortunately, only Bai Lin and Wei Wuyin were present. The latter enveloped Wei Wuyin protectively despite her body experiencing an unfathomable degree of discomfort! Bai Lin was a Fire Phoenix—an literal Embodiment of Flames, and her innate energies were being siphoned all the same. Despite her terrifying strength, the desperate suction power of Ori was unstoppable!

It didn't stop at the Original Dawn Palace!

The beginning of a Stellar Region was prompted by an explosion of profound laws, and of those laws beneath the heavens, the laws of the Nine Elements were crucial. The Heavens could not do without it! The Mortal Dao thrived on it!

Ori's desperation and single-mindedness to follow its siblings' orders were driven to the point of madness as it tapped into a latent potential that was terrifically divine!

It was said that Elemental Origin Energy, true Elemental Origin Energy, only existed at the beginnings of a Stellar Region and that it could be found no other way. Shortly after a Stellar Region's initial formation, the Elemental Origin Energy would have already divided itself into profound and exceptional proportions, creating Solar Stars, Planets, Lunar Satellites, and other types of Celestial Bodies. This was commonly known, and yet it was incorrect.

It was incorrect to say that true Elemental Origin Energy only existed at the 'birth' of a Stellar Region; it always existed because it was the foundation by which the Stellar Region thrived!

Ori's suction began to spread out to lengths that went far beyond what Wei Wuyin's Spiritual Sense could reach. As if summoned by an Imperial Edict, the Elemental Origin Energy of the Desolate Dragnet Stellar Region, every ounce of it, began to heed Ori's call! EVERY LAST BIT!

"Kree?!" Bai Lin's body quivered as she felt the Dark Void warp, twist, and distort until signs of a vortex of white mist began to form with her at the center. Her heart raced as she witnessed a magical sight. Twinkling lights manifested within the white mist, resembling the starry night skies she would often see from a planet's surface, and they flowed around her beautifully.

The Tiangou's ears twitched slightly, but she remained largely unbothered, currently in a state of deep hibernation. However, except for that tiny movement, the Star-Devourer was unaffected by the surging white mist that came from millions of miles in every direction, all gathering into a single location—Wei Wuyin!

The purest energies within the deepest folds of the Dark Void began to appear. If a Mystic Overlord had seen this phenomenon, they would be gawking without words!

The heavens governed many laws, and these laws were adapted into various Daos seamlessly. One of these laws, one of the greatest and most essential laws used by the Mortal, Mystic, and Immortal Daos equally, was none other than the Laws of the Elements. This was not a single law but a collection of laws that included but were not limited to, the four basic elements—Water, Earth, Wind, and Fire, and the five advanced elements—Metal, Lightning, Wood, Magma, and Ice. Additionally, there was Light, Darkness, Decay, Rejuvenation, and many, many others.

Even the War Dao included the Laws of the Elements within itself.

However, these collections of Laws were varied, and while they could be comprehended individually, they weren't what Ori was calling upon at this moment. Ori was calling upon the Law that allowed those varied Laws to merge, to have many variations, endless permutations, and countless transformations—the Law of Origin!

It was one of the most abstruse Laws in existence, nearly impossible to come into contact with. However, at this very moment, Ori was doing so!

"What's happening?" King asked as it spun with Omega Saber Light, primed to strike.

Eden was similarly awed by the events happening. It was as if Ori was absorbing, no, as if the entire Desolate Dragnet Stellar Region's innate energies were rushing toward Wei Wuyin out of their own will. "This…? Do you remember this?" Eden asked instead, reveling in the latent will permeating the Stellar Region.

"..." King quietly sensed, and then a splash of saber light later, it shockingly said: "Origin State?"

Eden's Astral Core spun as if nodding, "Origin State! It reminds me of how it felt while we were transforming, this feeling of unity in Spirit."

"But…but it's in everything? Unity of the world?" King was, for the first time, extremely stunned by this discovery. During their Sky Ruler Astral Tribulation, they had transformed from Zenith Mortal State to Zenith Origin State. This was later discovered to be the key component to reach the Heavenly Saint Phase of the Mystic Ascendant Realm, but they had done so largely out of Ori's urging of condensing the Sky-World Lightning! It was the start of their reckless antics to manipulate the Astral Tribulations for their benefit!

If Wei Wuyin knew who was responsible, he wouldn't know whether to praise or berate, surely not whether to laugh or cry, as the siblings took equal blame.

"Not all of it," Eden clarified in awe.

"I can feel Ori's Spiritual Aura everywhere!" King remarked. By now, an absolutely monstrous amount of energy had gathered around Ori, spinning into a vortex no bigger than thirty meters. Wisps of pure white energy flowed after it spun a certain number of times as if expelling out all the impurities.

"Orianna's Spiritual Aura?" Eden questioned, confused. Then, it suddenly shone a glow of seven-colored light. "Divine! It's the Divine Core!" Unlike King, who 'evolved', Ori was still a Divine Soul, and this characteristic allowed it to connect its Spiritual Attributes perfectly with its other qualities, and it seemed to be deeply connected to its Origin State, spreading to all its core powers!

To put it simply, Ori's Divine Soul perfectly connected its Origin State and Elemental Origin Intent, producing this event to which the entire world was reacting! To which the entire world answered its call!

It only took three minutes.

The entire Desolate Dragnet Stellar Region had vanished; it became a dead region without anything but Chaos Mana and could no longer be officially classified as a Stellar Region! Even those hidden Solar Stars undergoing the Star Ascension, awaiting their chances to be born in this region, began to move away to a proper Stellar Region by the heavens.

The Mortal Dao, Mystic Dao, and Immortal Dao abandoned it.

Shockingly, the Tiangou grew increasingly relaxed. Her breathing steadier and less forceful. Bai Lin similarly felt strange. She didn't know how to describe it.

While this was happening, Wei Wuyin was writhing in pain, but not waiting to be saved! Moreover, this wasn't something his Astral Souls could save him from. His Primary and Secondary Minds were in extreme agony, and the only way to survive could be described in a single word: Persevere!

Stay alive!

Just stay alive!

Wei Wuyin's Primary Mind manifested into a solid form, shivering in and out as if on the verge of inevitable collapse, but with gritted teeth and shocking mental strength, he accepted the agonizing, soul-rending pain and strode towards his Second Mind with heavy steps that shook his Sea of Consciousness. Eden was currently reinforcing it, so he had some stability, and he used this to approach the growing mass that was his Second Mind.

In its current state, his Second Mind could be described as having acquired a type of Mental Cancer, an amalgamation of stressed mental energies that attacked or was attacked by the standardized, healthy mental energy. It was a fierce battle of trying to either survive the pain or lose oneself to it.

Wei Wuyin soon trudged over and placed his hand on the mass that had already grown to cover half his Sea of Consciousness. Wei Wuyin's plan had ingeniously bypassed the Third Calamity's rule, but it caused his Second Mind to suffer all this unfathomably horrific pain. It was enough to break any mortal mind.

The fact that his Second Mind was still present was evidence of his abnormally terrifying willpower and mental strength that it inherited.

"Give. It. To. Me!" Wei Wuyin cried out, exerting his mental strength to extract the cancerous portions of mental energy from his Second Mind. Of course, there was some resistance from his Second Mind; the last trace of conscious will knew that this action would bring immense damage to Wei Wuyin.

"GIVE IT!" Wei Wuyin's shout boomed throughout his Sea of Consciousness. He didn't have time to explain, but he had devised the Neo-Dawn Paragon-Forging Pill for this exact reason! So that he would never be crippled again! If this continued, his Second Mind would become permanently disabled, if not destroy itself entirely. It knew that mental surgery was impossible! If it could be likened to real life, the Second Mind had terminal cancer across 99% of its body!

"...!" The amalgamation of mental energies twisted and hesitated for a while until Wei Wuyin clawed at it viciously, and then using its last ounce of remaining strength, it began to transfer the experiences to Wei Wuyin! It had to trust itself!

"..." Wei Wuyin closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and accepted all the cancerous mental energy into his Primary Mind's Incarnation, and then sat down and stayed completely quiet.

Right now, Wei Wuyin was experiencing Hell—quite literally. The slicing pain from the Blade of Mountains and the soul-searing heat of Hellfire were all funneling into his mind.

Wei Wuyin didn't try to resist; Wei Wuyin didn't try to erase it; Wei Wuyin accepted it all!

The countless neurons within his brain were hyperactive, reflecting every ounce of the pain that could make one wish for death! The desiccated, flailing limbs of Wei Wuyin kept going, but despite the horrific experience, the inexhaustible eternity of his newfound physique was unable to be broken!

While Wei Wuyin was experiencing such torture, Ori was undergoing its own experience!

A Law Seed had formed!

And its Astral Soul was transforming!

Currently, its Astral Core was surrounded by white flames that contained endless starry light, all its cracks had healed, and it no longer trembled!