329: Nest of Corruption

"Authority? Surpassing the rules of the Heavenly Dao?" A sharp glint exploded in the eyes of the Saint of Withered Glory. "As I thought! The Divine-Grade lord status granted by that Level 10 mark brings far more than just construction advantages! Could it be the slaughter value? ... These additional spoils are the core secret to his rapid development!"

A cold arc curled at the corner of his mouth. "It seems that if I want to catch up to him, or even ... surpass him, just burying myself in development is not enough."

He looked toward the direction of the Rotten Star Nest, where Lin Yuan's army was charging, a hint of calculation flashing in his eyes.

"Rotten Star Nest ... an important node of the Dark Abyss ... Lin Yuan, you want to swallow this tough nut? Be careful not to break your teeth! However ... this might be an opportunity ..."

He turned to the grey-robed figure: "Notify our deep-cover agents in the 'Eternal Dynasty' and 'Death Divine Temple' that the plan can be initiated. Target: the peripheral resource points of Lin Yuan's Chaos Origin City! Act quickly and stealthily! Before he can withdraw from the Rotten Star Nest, we must obtain enough 'samples'!"

"Also, find a way to 'inadvertently' leak the intelligence we gathered regarding the possible existence of a 'Dark Abyss Plane stabilizer' deep within the 'Rotten Star Nest' to that arrogant Heavenly Emperor Cang of the 'Cangqiong Imperial Dynasty' ... I think he will be very interested."

"Understood!" The grey-robed figure's silhouette seemed to merge into the shadows and vanished instantly.

The Saint of Withered Glory stood alone on the altar, watching the torrent of Chaos in the crystal ball that was charging toward the Rotten Star Nest like a storm of destruction, and whispered to himself: "Lin Yuan ... your authority, your secrets ... will soon be mine. The chess game of this New Divine Domain has only just begun ..."

Meanwhile, in another location, within the Life Sanctuary shrouded in holy radiance.

Su Yao stood beneath the emerald, crystalline ancient tree of life. Her Natural Resonance talent allowed her to clearly sense the fierce offensive about to erupt against the Dark Abyss stronghold in the distance, as well as the unreserved killing intent of Lin Yuan contained within it. The look of worry on her beautiful face deepened.

"Rotten Star Nest ... what lurks there is not just the remnants of Dark Abyss monsters, but also the will of stars that have been completely corrupted ... Lin Yuan, you are too radical ..." She closed her eyes and pressed her hands against the ancient tree of life, attempting to use the perception of Natural Resonance to "see" the situation inside the Rotten Star Nest more clearly.

Suddenly, her delicate body trembled slightly. She opened her eyes abruptly, a flash of horror in her gaze!

"The core ... it's not just the will of the rotten star ... there is also ... a trap! A contingency left by the Blood Abyss Saint King!" She immediately took out an emerald, leaf-shaped communication jade talisman; this was a token she had exchanged with Mr. Yuan Mie Xu during a time they joined forces to resist the corruption of the Dark Abyss.

She unhesitatingly injected the dangerous information she had perceived into it. The jade talisman turned into a stream of emerald light and tore through the air, heading straight toward the direction of Imperial Dao Dragon City where Mr. Yuan Mie Xu was located!

"Mr. Yuan Mie Xu, I hope you receive this in time ... Lin Yuan, please, you must not let anything happen to you ..." Su Yao murmured a prayer, watching the direction in which the stream of light disappeared.

The Rotten Star Nest was located at the core of a death Star Domain composed of countless broken, rotting star remnants oozing with viscous pus.

The spatial structure here was extremely fragile, permeated with a nauseating scent of decay and dense Demonic Energy from the Dark Abyss. Countless corrupted star-remnant worms, pus-aggregation monsters, and wailing star souls roamed within the ruins, resembling a scene from Hell.

The hundred-man Chaos Dao Soldier legion led by Lin Yuan, like a peerlessly sharp blade, brazenly pierced into this land of death!

"Open fire!" At Lin Yuan's command, the ten gui xu annihilation turrets that had already locked onto the peripheral coordinates simultaneously erupted with destructive light from the direction of Chaos Origin City!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Ten immensely thick beams of dark gold energy, with edges flowing with ultimate gui xu runes, like divine punishment from Star City, instantly crossed the distant void and struck precisely at several areas on the periphery of the Rotten Star Nest where monsters were densest and spatial nodes were weakest!

Hiss, hiss, hiss—!!!

The terrifying Power of Gui Xu annihilated everything! In the areas that were struck, whether it was corrupted star remnants, dense swarms of monsters, or filthy Demonic Energy, everything was instantly decomposed, annihilated, and turned into the most primitive void! Ten massive absolute vacuum zones, their edges still flickering with the Power of Gui Xu, appeared on the outer barrier of the Rotten Star Nest like ugly scars!

"Roar—!!!" From deep within the Rotten Star Nest came a roar mixed with the wails of stars and endless malice! The entire death Star Domain shook violently, and more corrupted monsters, like an enraged swarm of bees, poured out frantically from deep within the ruins and spatial rifts, charging toward Lin Yuan's army!

"Dao Soldiers! Form the Chaos Return to Ruin battle formation! Crush them!" Lin Yuan's eyes were cold. His wings unfolded behind him, and his Chaos Domain was the first to meet the tide of monsters!

"Kill!!!" One hundred Origin Guards roared in unison, instantly splitting into ten squads. Their auras connected, and their gui xu battle blades were raised high! A hundred strands of Chaos blade light intertwined, actually condensing in the void into ten incomparably huge phantoms of "Chaos Heaven-Opening Giant Blades" composed of pure Power of Gui Xu!

The giant blades swept across! Wherever they passed, space was torn into pitch-black trails! The charging corrupted monsters were easily severed, decomposed, and annihilated like wheat stalks! The slaughter value on both the personal and territory panels was jumping frantically like a geyser!

Lin Yuan himself was like a demon god descending to the world, charging at the very front of the battle formation. His targets were those corrupted star-remnant giant beasts and pus lords hiding deep within the monster tide, whose auras reached the Hunyuan Realm! His gui xu Void-Shattering Finger struck and killed across the battlefield, and his Chaos Heaven-Opening Fist crushed stars! He was invincible!

The army, like an unstoppable torrent of destruction, advanced along the gaps blasted open by the gui xu annihilation turrets toward the core of the Rotten Star Nest, which was composed of rotting stars!

The resistance along the way crumbled before absolute power. However, as they delved deeper, Lin Yuan keenly felt that something was wrong. The pressure ... seemed too light? Those corrupted leaders of the Hunyuan Realm seemed more like cannon fodder pushed out to be sacrificed.

"A trap?" A sense of alarm rose sharply in Lin Yuan's heart! The plane favor status bestowed by the primordial dao embryo made him exceptionally sensitive to the malice of the Dark Abyss.

Just at this moment!

"Leader Lin! Beware of the Rotten Star core! There is a Dark Abyss contingency inside! It is not just a simple will, but ... a plane rift stabilizer! Forcing your way through may invite disaster!" A calm yet urgent telepathic transmission exploded in his Sea of Consciousness like a thunderclap! It was the voice of Mr. Yuan Mie Xu!

Almost at the same time!

Boom—!!! In front of everyone, the core of the massive nest, formed by the twisting and adhesion of countless rotting stars, suddenly erupted with unprecedented dark purple demonic light!

The entire nest began to squirm like a living giant beast! At the core, a "Rotten Star Demon Eye," composed of pure Dark Abyss Demonic Energy crystals and covered on its surface with countless painful, twisted faces, suddenly opened!

What was reflected within the Demon Eye was not Lin Yuan's army, but ... a massive spatial rift that was deep and lightless, connecting to the Origin of the Dark Abyss Plane! From within the rift, a terrifying will, even deeper and more ancient than the projection of the Blood Abyss Saint King, like a sleeping primordial Vicious Beast, was forcibly awakened by a sliver!