224: Chapter 224 Panic Leads to a Breakdown?

Where his fingertips touched, there was a biting cold.

That was not the cold of ordinary iron, but Death Qi originating from the depths of the Void Realm, having endured eons of silence.

Su Changge's Divine Soul trembled; the craving originating from the depths of his Bloodline instantly turned into a prairie fire, sweeping through every inch of his Divine Sense.

"Found it!"

This ecstasy transformed into surging blood and Qi, rushing violently through his Meridians.

Suppressing the long howl that was about to escape his throat, he reached out and grabbed violently toward the position of that fragment!

In the Void Zone, there was nothing to push off from.

His grab, filled with excitement, used too much force, and the remaining inertia instantly caused him to lose his balance.

His entire body tumbled in the endless darkness, and the surrounding scene of Chaos transformed into streaks of distorted light.

The warm stone tablet in his embrace nearly flew from his grasp, disappearing into the boundless nothingness.

Alarm bells rang in Su Changge's heart, and a cold sweat seeped from his spine.

He forcibly composed his mind, exerted strength from his waist and abdomen, and in an extremely twisted posture, abruptly stopped his tumbling momentum.

He dared not be careless again; his outstretched palm became gentle and cautious, expelling a trace of True Essence to slowly counteract his own momentum, and his fingertips finally rested steadily on the second fragment again.

It felt ice-cold to the touch, followed by a familiar weight, no different from the object in his embrace.

He carefully gripped it tight, then took out the first fragment from his embrace.

The two fragments floated quietly before his palm, their jagged edges interlocking like a miniature of shattered mountains and rivers.

Su Changge held his breath and slowly brought the two fragments together.

They attracted each other, yet seemed to resist one another.

An invisible force field generated between the fragments; Su Changge could clearly perceive that this was two independent yet homologous Laws conducting their final collision and probing.

His heart roared, every thought urging him to complete this final step.

"That's it! Piece it together!"

His arm muscles bulged slightly, and with a stable and powerful force, he violently aligned the broken ends of the two fragments!

"Click."

A soft sound, not the clashing of metal and stone, but more like the gears of Heaven and Earth finally re-meshing after having stopped for endless eons.

The sound rang directly in the depths of his Divine Soul, shaking his mind into a blank state.

The two fragments fit together perfectly.

The moment they completely merged into one, a blood-colored divine radiance erupted from the seam of the junction!

That was not an ordinary light; where the radiance reached, the surrounding chaotic nothingness disintegrated inch by inch, revealing a deeper, more primitive darkness beneath.

Countless Great Dao runes, as fine as dust, were born and died in the blood light, evolving the magnificent scene of the world from birth to extinction.

Su Changge bore the brunt of it, the divine light piercing through his body.

His eyes stung; even with his eyelids tightly shut, a blood-red color remained before him.

An indescribable soul-burning pain spread crazily from the part of his palm touching the heart of the realm to his entire body.

The temperature far exceeded ordinary fire, as if it were the Origin flame of the Heaven and Earth furnace, intent on refining his mortal flesh and Divine Soul into nothingness.

His clothes turned to ash in the high heat, and his palm holding the heart of the realm saw its skin char inch by inch, emitting a "sizzling" sound.

Under the intense pain, the muscles on Su Changge's face twitched violently, and blue veins bulged from his temples, extending to his neck.

But he still gritted his teeth tightly, not even a single muffled sound of pain escaping his throat.

He knew someone was watching from behind, and someone was watching from the shadows. He was a King, and a King could not show weakness.

Deep in his heart, another voice was howling crazily.

"It burns! I'm going to melt! What the hell is this thing! It's not going to explode, is it!"

Lin Waner stood behind him, stunned on the spot by this sudden phenomenon.

The blood-colored divine radiance did not harm her in the slightest, merely enveloping her; a warm and ancient aura caused the Spiritual Qi within her body to begin circulating autonomously.

She stared dazed at Su Changge's back, that figure standing tall in the blood-colored divine radiance with a resolute expression, so beautiful it made her heart tremble.

"Fellow Daoist... what a magnificent sight this is..."

Su Changge squeezed a few words through his teeth, his voice sounding terrifyingly calm.

"The heart of the realm returns to one, and Heaven and Earth celebrate together. This is an Origin phenomenon."

"Damn it! I can't hold on much longer! My hand is going to be ruined!"

Meanwhile, in the distant Chaos, the Divine Sense of The Three Princes fluctuated violently due to this blood light rising to the sky.

"What is that!" The Shadow Kill Prince's voice trembled with a loss of composure for the first time, "This... this is not a Divine Ability! This is creation! The King is declaring his existence to this Chaos!"

Prince Jimie's pupils contracted; the Law of Annihilation he had comprehended had actually developed an instinctive fear before this blood-colored divine radiance.

He muttered to himself, his tone mixed with awe and fanaticism: "The Void Zone Laws are retreating... no, they are submitting! The King's Will is the only Heavenly Dao of this place!"

The Succubus Prince was already dazed; she clutched her chest, feeling that palpitation and submission originating from the deepest part of her Bloodline.

Her eyes rippled, and her voice was charming to the bone: "King... my King... you are the only deity in this world! I want to offer you everything I have!"

At the edge of the Void Zone, the Old Priest was already prostrate on the ground.

He kowtowed again and again toward the place where the blood light rose.

The flesh on his forehead was already blurred, and white traces of his skull could even be seen on the hard rock, but he was completely unaware, continuing this ancient and fanatical ritual in the most pious posture.

In Su Changge's mind, a series of cold notification sounds became his only consolation against that soul-burning pain.

【Obtained 1500 emotion points of worship from Prince Jimie】

【Obtained 1200 emotion points of worship from Shadow Kill Prince】

【Obtained 1800 emotion points of worship from Succubus Prince】

【Obtained 3000 emotion points of fanaticism from Old Priest】

"I'm rich! I'm really rich this time! Nearly eight thousand points! Once the System restores connection, all of these can be exchanged for life-saving special effects!"

This immense joy diluted the pain of his Physical Body. Su Changge gripped the complete heart of the realm in his hand, letting that power refine his body.

I don't know how long passed before that burning sensation began to fade slowly. The charred flesh on his palm fell off at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the newly grown skin was as smooth as jade, with Dao patterns even faintly flowing across it.

The dazzling blood-colored divine radiance also began to retract, finally turning into a ball of soft white light, lying quietly in his palm.

It was a complete stone tablet with rounded edges, warm and smooth throughout, as if it contained a newborn world.

"I survived..."

Su Changge let out a long breath of turbid air and tucked the complete heart of the realm away close to his body. He had finally obtained the qualification to live on.

He turned around, nodded slightly toward Lin Waner, then reached out to grab the thick rope at his waist, preparing to return to the Void Zone. He exerted strength with his arm and tugged backward.

The rope pulled taut, but the other end did not budge.

Su Changge frowned slightly, increased his force again, and the True Essence within his body began to circulate.

The rope still showed no reaction, as if it were being pressed down by an ancient divine mountain at the other end of the void.

His heart sank, and an ominous premonition arose spontaneously.

"The rope broke?"

He followed the rope, his fingertips feeling forward inch by inch. The rope was intact, with no trace of breaking.

The rope was intact, yet he could not pull it.

This was more heart-stopping than the rope breaking.

He looked up toward the dark end where the rope extended; that was the direction they came from, the position where the black iron rock was fixed.

As far as his sight could reach, there was only endless Chaos.

"Damn it! What's going on? Can't go back?"

Lin Waner noticed his abnormality and asked softly: "Fellow Daoist, is something wrong? Are we not going back?"

Su Changge turned around, his expression as calm as ever, his tone indifferent: "It's fine, just a small obstacle. I'll just clear it away."

Deep in his heart, he was already in turmoil.

"Clear it my ass! I don't even know what happened!"

He had no choice but to grab the rope, treat himself as a plumb bob, and move bit by bit toward the direction of the black iron rock.

In the void, there was no sense of distance. The fifty-zhang distance now seemed incredibly long.

As he drew closer, a faint, lingering Death Qi began to permeate the area ahead.

Finally, the outline of the black iron rock appeared at the end of his vision.

However, surrounding the rock were a dozen pitch-black figures.

They wore rotting armor, the plates covered in dried bloodstains and the mottling of time.

Beneath their helmets were faces that had long since rotted away, with ghastly white cheekbones and jawbones exposed.

Their hands, rather than being hands, were withered bone claws, tightly gripping rusted black long blades.

In their hollow eye sockets, two balls of scarlet ghost fire were burning dimly.

Low-level Walking Corpses of the Blood Abyss Realm.

At this moment, these dozen or so Walking Corpses were surrounding the black iron rock, using their ghastly white finger bones to scrape off the last trace of Spiritual Qi remaining on the rock, emitting a teeth-grinding friction sound.

The rope that maintained Su Changge's path home was being pressed tightly under the rock by the bodies of several of these Walking Corpses.

A chill shot straight from Su Changge's tailbone to his crown.

"Walking Corpses! Each one of them exuded a pressure comparable to a Foundation Establishment Cultivator!"

And he was just an ant at the Qi Refining First Layer. Let alone a dozen, even if there were only one, a single finger could crush him to death.

His legs went weak, and he almost couldn't control his body from floating backward. He used all his strength to anchor himself in place, not daring to move a muscle.

"System! System, come back quickly! Save me!"

As if sensing something, the dozen or so Walking Corpses that were gnawing on the Spiritual Qi suddenly paused.

They slowly, stiffly, raised their heads.

Those dozen pairs of eye sockets burning with scarlet ghost fire pierced through the endless darkness and locked onto Su Changge in unison.