304: The origin of the Burial God Abyss

The primordial azure lotus dao embryo projection swayed violently, and the blurry nascent form of the Grandmist being at the lotus's center emitted a clear, mournful vibrato. Lin Yuan's Dao Heart felt as if it were being simultaneously sliced and churned by billions of Blades of Gui Xu. His fearless Dao Heart, as solid as Chaos Divine Iron, developed unprecedented cracks at this moment! A tidal wave of anger, grief, and disbelief instantly crushed the absolute rationality he had been desperately maintaining!

Why?!

This thought bit at his Soul like a venomous snake. He had paid a massive price to commission Teacher Li Xuan to dispatch countless Spirit Martial Hall Deacons to search the Three-Star World and hundreds of thousands of neighboring worlds, yet there had been no news at all.

He had once thought his parents might have perished in some unknown corner during that teleportation accident, their Souls returning to heaven and earth. He had even prepared himself to search the long river of time to find their true spirits after he became a Saint in the future!

But he never expected the truth to be so cruel! His parents' Souls had actually been polluted and imprisoned, becoming the core nourishment for this Burial God Abyss to erode his home planet! They had become a part of this Dark Abyss filth!

“ROAR—!!!”

Burial God Abyss seemed to sense the violent tremors in Lin Yuan's Dao Heart, letting out an even more frenzied roar filled with mockery and malice!

The eye of the abyss, sealed within the spatial bubble, saw the filth vortex at its core spin at a terrifying speed. Countless distorted Soul phantoms within it emitted even more shrill wails. A torrent of filth, condensing the life force of half the polluted Blue Star, the planetary core's Origin, and the desperate resentment of billions of beings, crashed heavily against the Chaos Seal's light membrane like an apocalyptic dark purple starry river!

BOOM—!!!

The light membrane, already suffering from the backlash of stripping the pollution core, let out an overwhelmed wail! Dense cracks instantly spread across the entire shroud. The gray gui xu runes flickered wildly and were annihilated like a candle in the wind!

In the sealed half of the Blue Star, the spatial structure distorted violently. Continental plates groaned as if it were the end of the world, and massive cracks swallowed city ruins while the ocean whipped up towering waves of filth!

“Ugh!” Lin Yuan suddenly spat out a mouthful of dark-gold Dao blood, which contained energy capable of creating heaven and earth, burning tiny black holes into the Void Realm. Forcibly stripping the pollution core already caused immense backlash; now, with his Dao Heart wounded and his mind shaken, his control over the Seal and the power of stripping weakened instantly!

The purple-black pollution core that was about to be completely extracted from the planetary core—that eroded saint soul embryo—shuddered violently! Countless snapped filth roots regenerated and counterattacked like venomous snakes, burrowing deeper into the Blue Star's already weakened Origin!

His parents' extremely weak Soul fluctuations became even dimmer under the impact of the filth, as if they would be completely annihilated in the next moment!

“No—!” Lin Yuan's eyes were nearly splitting, the blood-colored Gui Xu vortexes in his pupils spinning frantically! Towering rage instantly suppressed the agonizing pain in his Dao Heart, transforming into a destructive will that could incinerate the heavens! His parents' Souls were in critical danger; he would never allow this filthy thing to harm them another bit!

“Chaos Fearlessness! Suppress!!!”

Deep within his Sea of Consciousness, the primordial azure lotus dao embryo erupted with an unprecedentedly brilliant clear radiance! Within the lotus pedestal's miniature universe, the star trajectories were forcibly stabilized, and an indestructible will, purer and more resolute than before, came crashing down! It forcibly suppressed the cracks and instability in his Dao Heart!

“Dark Abyss scum! What did you do to my parents?!” Lin Yuan's roar was like Chaos thunder, containing bone-deep hatred and icy killing intent, piercing through the Seal's light membrane and stabbing directly into the core of the eye of the abyss!

The response he received was the even more frenzied spinning of the eye of the abyss, along with a cold, chaotic, and malicious wave of thought fragments that crashed against him like a filthy tide:

[...Saint... fallen... remnant Soul... drifting... delicious... coordinates... hub... low-dimension... perfect container... erosion... assimilation... anchor... descent...]

[...Accident... Soul... weak... Fusion... core... nourishment... pain... despair... taste... even... better...]

[...Ji's... pain... anger... awaken... destruction... program... accelerate... devour... sacrifice... welcome... true... descent...]

The shattered information was full of Chaos and evil, yet it allowed Lin Yuan to instantly connect everything!

The truth! The cruel truth!

An unknown amount of time ago, a Saint realm being from an unknown powerful plane had fallen in a tragic battle! Its tattered saint soul drifted through the Chaos Void Realm like rootless duckweed. This was undoubtedly the most enticing "delicacy" in the eyes of the terrifying existences of the Dark Abyss Plane who fed on negative energy!

Whether by a trick of fate or the guidance of the Dark Abyss's will, this wisp of tattered saint soul actually drifted to the Central Universe, where the Origin energy level was relatively low, and locked onto the coordinates of the Solar System where the Blue Star was located!

The consciousness space generated by that saint soul eroded by the Dark Abyss's will formed the Burial God Abyss that isolated the Blue Star from the world! After an unknown number of eons, it "woke up," and it needed a "container" to stabilize itself, accelerate erosion and assimilation, and completely transform this Star Domain into a new forward anchor for the Dark Abyss Plane!

And Lin Yuan's parents had likely had their Souls swept into a spatial turbulence during an accidental teleportation, unexpectedly coming into contact with this tattered saint soul that was searching for a container! Two weak Mortal Souls, yet for some reason carrying the residual aura of Primordial Purple Qi, had caused them to be chosen!

Their weak strength made them like fireflies before a bright moon in the face of the saint soul; they were instantly devoured, polluted, and assimilated! Their pain, despair, and their longing and obsession for their son were, in the eyes of the Dark Abyss's will, the most delicious catalysts!

This was why the Spirit Martial Hall couldn't find a single clue despite exhausting all their efforts! Their Souls were no longer in that Three-Star Small World, but were imprisoned, polluted, and integrated into the core of this Burial God Abyss!

And previously, deep within the Chaos Mother Sea, in order to save the Hongmeng Divine Domain, Lin Yuan had boldly severed the shackles between the Lord of the Dark Abyss "Ji's" projection and the primordial dao embryo, severely wounding his will! This world-shaking act was like stabbing a sleeping giant beast! The intense pain and anger, across endless time and space, had stimulated this saint soul wreckage that was deeply polluted by Ji's will and entrenched in the Central Universe!

It was as if a destruction button had been pressed! The erosion program belonging to the Dark Abyss Plane preset within this saint soul wreckage was completely activated! It was no longer satisfied with slowly eroding and assimilating the Blue Star; instead, it initiated the most efficient and cruel mode—destructive devouring and sacrifice!

Using the Blue Star, the entire Solar System, and even the entire Purple Cloud Galaxy as sacrifices, it accelerated the gathering of power, attempting to construct a more stable channel. When the time came, what would descend would be the most aggressive claws of the Dark Abyss Plane from the Chaos Mother Sea.

This was the true reason why Burial God Abyss had accelerated its spread like a maddened beast in just a few days, devouring the Kuiper Belt and heading straight for the Blue Star! It was not a natural phenomenon, but an invasion war by the Dark Abyss Plane against the Central Universe, indirectly "awakened" by Lin Yuan himself!