Devouring Evolution: I Reborn as an Arctic Wolf Chapter 1743: 981: Breaking Through the Tenth Heaven

“The moment has arrived.”

Su Lin gave a gentle tap to the investment mark, causing the shimmering fluorescence upon its surface to gradually come to a standstill.

He remained uncertain, however, regarding what the “Unspeakable” would demand as repayment for the assistance they had provided him in the past.

In truth, Su Lin’s debt to them was relatively minor, consisting primarily of their help in deducing the “Nightmare’s” location and the acquisition of three Golden Direction Foils.

During their first encounter, they had been eager to invest in his potential regardless, assisting him in severing certain threads of cause and effect as a gesture of goodwill.

Furthermore, regarding the transaction for star energy weapons during that massive galactic conflict, Su Lin’s intelligence network and scouts had eventually determined that the “Unspeakable” had pocketed a commission of at least twenty percent after surveying the Sirius System.

Such a margin was a standard, guaranteed profit for any middleman dealing in star energy armaments.

Nevertheless, because the Wolf Pack Civilization lacked any external channels for information at that time, Su Lin had to acknowledge the favor, even if the “Unspeakable” had sold him those weapons at a significant markup.

Yet, in Su Lin’s heart, the weight of this obligation had already begun to fade.

He sensed that the recompense the “Unspeakable” now sought would likely dwarf the original favor by a substantial margin.

“Phew! No matter the cost, I must proceed. But before I depart, I shall achieve another breakthrough!”

Exhaling a deep breath, Su Lin rose slowly. Around him, a tempest of Rule power, Heavenly Boundary True Intent, and vast quantities of energy surged toward an intense peak.

While the Dimensional Truth was undoubtedly the rarest among them, the most concentrated force was the Vitality Force radiating from his physical form!

This Vitality Force resembled a blood-colored dragon of unstoppable power, a crimson pillar of heaven poised to shatter the firmament and the earth alike!

Despite being incredibly formidable—at the very zenith of power beneath the Taboo level—he had not yet stepped into the Tenth Heaven!

The path of Genetic Metamorphosis was one that demanded a quantity of resources beyond all comparison.

As he advanced further, Su Lin realized with increasing clarity just how grueling it was to breach every succeeding barrier.

Throughout the passing years, he had distributed the ten Heavenly Boundary Marks taken from the Lord of the Radiant Sun. Little Lone Wolf, the Serpent Emperor, the Roach Emperor, and the Twelve-winged Dream Butterfly had received two each, while the Desperate Evil Tiger and Black Gold Demon Ape were granted one apiece.

Su Lin had personally assimilated every other scrap of essence related to the Lord of the Radiant Sun, yet he remained tethered to the Peak of the Ninth Heaven. Even Evolution Essence had failed to push him over the edge.

The total essence of a half-step Taboo had barely allowed Su Lin to shuffle a single minor step forward.

To reach this point, he had spent four thousand years consuming a portion of the highest-tier resources available in the entire Sky Wolf System.

He had even absorbed the genetic flesh of trillions of beings from the various tribes within the current system.

Finally, this massive effort had brought him to the threshold of a new level!

While devouring the genetic flesh of these myriad tribes, Su Lin noted that his process of genetic metamorphosis—which had stalled following his consumption of the “Nightmare”—was finally beginning to stir again.

At that same moment, he felt a sensation he had not experienced in an age.

The Genetic Barrier!

Ten thousand years after his initial metamorphosis opened the Heavenly Boundary, Su Lin finally detected the Genetic Barrier once more.

Though the feeling was faint, it signaled that a fresh opportunity for Genetic Metamorphosis was finally within his grasp!

“Awoo!”

With a gaze of absolute resolve and a terrifying Wolf Howl that shook the air, Su Lin launched himself from the Destiny Stone Summit. He had remained at that peak for four millennia.

He tore through the atmosphere of Earth, piercing into a desolate, silent void of the cosmos where no life existed.

His ascension commenced as vast banks of Mysterious White Cloud materialized, following him into this corner of the universe.

Simultaneously, the embryonic form of a tenth Heavenly Boundary Mark began to manifest slowly within his body.

This signaled that if Su Lin could endure the tempering of the Mysterious White Cloud, he would truly breach the Tenth Heaven and begin his rise toward becoming a Peak Heavenly Venerate!

Furthermore, he held onto the hope that this trial by the Mysterious White Cloud might grant him deeper revelations regarding the Dimensional Truth!

He truly desired to witness the incomprehensible wonders that would be unleashed by a complete mastery of Dimensional Truth.

However, the tempering process of the Mysterious White Cloud operated by its own internal logic, entirely indifferent to Su Lin’s desires.

Despite his deep yearning for advancements in Dimensional Truth during this ordeal,

he soon observed that the Mysterious White Cloud showed no traces of Dimensional Truth at all this time.

Yet, the arrival of this particular Mysterious White Cloud was more deliberate and slower than any recorded in history.

Eventually, the cloud left only a few wisps to mask the Heavenly Mechanism, while the rest of the mass condensed into a single, focused point!

After several heartbeats,

as Su Lin’s lupine form expanded by several kilometers, reaching nearly a million meters in height,

the center of the gathering Mysterious White Cloud erupted with unprecedented tremors and fountains of Vitality Force that surged into the heavens.

Shortly thereafter, at the heart of this convergence, an entity appeared. Its eyes were vacant and dazed, yet it radiated a presence that suppressed the Myriad Tribes—the aura of the strongest!

This entity possessed only raw physical power, lacking any Spiritual Soul Force, Origin Power, Heavenly Boundary True Intent, Dimensional Truth, or Rule Power.

Nevertheless, through sheer bodily strength alone, it appeared capable of pulverizing the starry sky.

Its mere existence caused the surrounding cosmos to tremble, as if the fabric of space were splitting into black chasms.

Fortunately, a flicker of the Mysterious White Cloud acted to stabilize the universe and return it to a state of normalcy.

Though Su Lin’s specific hopes had been frustrated, he faced this immense pressure—akin to being scrutinized by a primordial horror of the cosmos—with a gaze full of solemnity and weight.