13: The Immortal Pool forms the foundation, and chaos begins to unfold.

"Then... let's die together!!!"

Chen Feng's blood-stained roar echoed in the silent Immortal Transformation Pool space, like the last cry of a trapped beast! Facing the dark-gold vortex pressed down by the Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy, emanating soul-refining and annihilation energy, there was no fear in his eyes, only a madness that would burn everything to ashes! His will, like a red-hot branding iron, fiercely pressed down on the almost certain death option on his life plate in his sea of consciousness!

[Yes!]

The moment his will landed, Chen Feng felt as if his soul had been thrown into the millstone of eternal tribulation! The last 10% of his divine soul origin, like the most precious lamp oil, was greedily absorbed and ignited by the cracked gray life plate! An unprecedented, soul-tearing agony plunged his vision into boundless darkness. His consciousness, like a flickering candle in the wind, was extinguished by more than half in an instant, leaving only a faint, unwilling spark of obsession flickering in the abyss of endless pain.

However, just as his divine soul was about to be completely annihilated—

Buzz—!!!

In his sea of consciousness, the cosmic destiny plate, which had absorbed the last of his divine soul origin, erupted with an unprecedented, soul-piercing, hazy gray light! All the profound runes on the disc completely detached from the plate, transforming into countless fine gray light threads. They disregarded the barriers of his sea of consciousness, instantly pierced through his shattered physical body, and plunged into the external immortal spirit mist, which was as heavy as mercury and vast and majestic!

The life plate became a greedy and dangerous lightning rod!

Rumble—!

The entire Immortal Transformation Pool space seemed utterly enraged! The milky-white immortal mist, which had been slowly flowing and as heavy as a mountain, instantly became violent, as if a star had been cast into an ocean! Countless strands of immortal spirit energy, condensed to the extreme and containing terrifying assimilation and annihilation will, were forcibly drawn and gathered by the life plate's gray light threads, transforming into roaring milky-white angry dragons. They disregarded the spatial distance and furiously poured down towards Chen Feng, who lay collapsed by the pool like a broken rag doll!

"What?!" The soul-searching vortex pressed by the Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy was less than three inches from Chen Feng's head, but it was violently thrown back by this sudden, extremely violent immortal spirit tide! He stood precariously on his golden flying sword, steadying himself in the air, his eyes filled with unbelievable horror! "Inciting the Immortal Transformation Pool to riot?! This ant... is he mad?! No... it's that exotic treasure! That exotic treasure that can glimpse heavenly secrets!"

He stared intently at Chen Feng, who was submerged in endless immortal light, his face showing gravity and a hint of... apprehension for the first time! The immortal spirit energy of the Immortal Transformation Pool was formed by the rules of this world, containing the supreme power to reshape the dao foundation of ascenders, but it also contained a terrifying will of annihilation! Let alone a low-realm Qi Cultivator ant whose foundation was completely destroyed, even a true immortal like him, if they dared to recklessly draw such a massive amount of immortal spirit energy into their body without protection, would only face the fate of body and spirit being utterly annihilated!

This ant was committing suicide! No! He was using the most tragic method to incite the rules of this place, attempting to... drag him down with him?!

While the Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy was in shock and uncertainty, Chen Feng, completely submerged by the immortal spirit angry dragons, was enduring torment more horrifying than hell!

Pain!

Indescribable pain!

Every immortal spirit angry dragon that rushed into his body was like a star exploding within him! The pure and vast immortal spirit energy, no longer the slow, heavy repulsive sensation from before, transformed into the most violent destructive torrent! His meridians, already fractured inch by inch and like ruins, were instantly crushed and annihilated into their most primitive particles under the impact of this power, like fragile sandcastles! Muscles, bones, internal organs... everything was disintegrating!

Wherever the immortal spirit energy passed, it brought not vitality, but complete annihilation! It was erasure at the rule level! It sought to completely wipe this "rule-breaking" low-realm ant from this world!

Physical body disintegrating! Accelerating!

Chen Feng felt his body melting rapidly like a snowman under the scorching sun! His consciousness sank into boundless agony and a sense of annihilation. The spark of obsession protecting his spiritual platform, under the impact of the violent immortal light, was like a candle flame in a raging storm, liable to be extinguished at any moment!

Divine soul annihilation risk 99.99999%!

The life plate's prompt was cold and cruel, like a final judgment!

"No... I can't die... Su Wanzhao... is still..." That spark of obsession flickered wildly at the edge of annihilation, letting out a silent roar! Just at this moment of complete destruction, deep within his sea of consciousness, the ignited core of the life plate, the gray vortex that had absorbed his last divine soul origin, suddenly began to rotate in reverse!

"Reverse flushing! Reconstruct!" The life plate's pre-set emergency plan finally initiated its most crucial step amidst the torrent of destruction!

The violent torrent of immortal spirit energy, pouring in and capable of annihilating everything, had its destructive annihilation will forcibly twisted and transformed by a more ancient, more chaotic power within the vortex the moment it touched the life plate's gray vortex! The "reconstruction" rule contained within the immortal spirit energy was stripped away, while its violent "annihilation" power was guided and transformed into invisible hammers of destruction, imbued with the will of supreme rules!

At the same time, the dark-gold energy fragments from the Dragon Severing Ravine's earth vein ore marrow, which were already shattered but not completely gone in Chen Feng's body, surged forth from the disintegrating physical particles like summoned stardust, drawn by the life plate's gray vortex!

Using immortal spirit energy as hammers! Using the shattered physical body as an embryo! Drawing on the earth fiend ore marrow as a catalyst!

"Dong!!!"

The first invisible hammer of destruction, imbued with the annihilating might of immortal spirit energy, fiercely struck Chen Feng's "body," which had disintegrated into nothing but chaotic energy and dark-gold ore marrow fragments!

An indescribable agony instantly pierced through Chen Feng's remaining consciousness! It was as if the weight of the entire universe pressed down on his soul, threatening to grind him into nothingness! But amidst this destructive pain, the scattered dark-gold ore marrow fragments were forcibly hammered deep into the chaotic energy "embryo" by the immortal hammer's impact!

"Dong!!!"

The second hammer! The third hammer!... The invisible immortal hammers rained down relentlessly like a tempest! Each strike brought extreme pain, like bones shattering and soul tearing! But with each strike, a fragment of dark-gold ore marrow was brutally hammered into the chaotic embryo, forcibly merging with the violent immortal spirit energy and Chen Feng's own disintegrating flesh and divine soul particles!

Destruction! Fusion! Then destruction! Then fusion!

This was an unimaginable process, seeking new life amidst destruction! Each hammer strike completely shattered everything old; each fusion nurtured a new, faint, almost imperceptible vitality within the chaos!

Chen Feng's consciousness had long since completely sunk into endless pain, leaving only that most primal spiritual light, protected by the life plate's gray vortex, enduring one destructive impact after another like a lighthouse in a storm, yet never extinguishing! This spiritual light was imprinted with all his memories, all his obsessions, all his unwillingness—the struggle on Servant Peak, the dead end in the mine, the battle at Black Wind Cliff, Su Wanzhao's figure burning her origin... These imprints, under the destructive forging of the immortal hammer, not only did not dissipate but were forcibly refined and purified, like steel tempered a hundred times, deeply branded into the deepest part of the chaotic embryo that was repeatedly ravaged by destruction and rebirth!

After countless tens of thousands of destructive hammer strikes and forced fusions...

When the last piece of dark-gold earth fiend ore marrow fragment was fiercely hammered into the churning chaotic embryo—

Boom!!!

The entire Immortal Transformation Pool space violently shook! The violently pouring immortal spirit angry dragons suddenly stagnated! All the immortal spirit energy drawn by the life plate, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, frantically surged into the chaotic embryo!

The chaotic embryo erupted with an indescribably brilliant light! That light was no longer the singular milky-white of immortal spirits, nor the pure color of dark-gold ore marrow, but a chaotic color that mixed gray, white, gold, and black, constantly flowing, arising and perishing, as if encompassing the beginning and end of all things!

At the center of the light, a brand new "base point" was being born!

It was as tiny as a mustard seed, yet as heavy as a star! It was not a traditional cultivator's Dantian Qi Sea, but more like a rotating, all-devouring chaotic vortex! Within the vortex, hazy chaotic currents slowly circulated, containing an indescribable, ancient aura that seemed capable of evolving all things! The dark-gold ore marrow fragments forcibly hammered in transformed into star-like dark-gold light points, floating within the chaotic currents; and the vast and majestic immortal spirit energy was swallowed and transformed by the chaotic vortex, becoming nourishment for this nascent chaos!

A faint aura, yet ancient, profound, and encompassing all daos, like the primordial beginning of the world, permeated from this chaos base point!

Chaos dao foundation! Formed!

The moment this aura appeared!

"Pfft—!"

The Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy, suspended in the air, was struck as if by a heavy hammer, violently spitting out a large mouthful of pale-gold immortal blood! The golden flying sword beneath his feet let out a mournful cry, its radiance dimming! He stared intently at the figure below, shrouded in chaotic light, his eyes filled with unprecedented horror, fear, and even... a tremor from the depths of his soul!

"Cha... Chaos?! This... this is impossible! A low-realm ant... how could he forge a Chaos dao foundation?! This is defying heaven! It's a taboo! It's..." He spoke as if he had seen a ghost, his voice trembling! Chaos dao foundation! This was a supreme dao foundation that only existed in the oldest, most forbidden legends of the Immortal Realm! Legend had it that only innate gods and demons from the time of creation could possess it! Once this dao foundation was formed, it would be impervious to all laws, encompass all daos, and possess infinite potential! But it also meant... not being tolerated by heaven and earth! It would inevitably incur heavenly wrath!

As if to confirm his fear—

"Boom-crack—!!!"

A terrifying bolt of lightning, whose color was indescribable and seemed to contain the will of annihilation of all daos, tore through the dense immortal mist above the Immortal Transformation Pool without warning! Before the lightning even arrived, a terrifying heavenly might, capable of destroying everything and eradicating heresy, descended with a roar as if the entire Immortal Realm had collapsed! Its locked target was precisely the newly born chaos base point!

Heavenly Wrath! Descended!

The indestructible spatial barrier of the Immortal Transformation Pool, before this annihilating lightning, twisted and groaned violently like a fragile eggshell, on the verge of completely shattering!

The Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy's face instantly turned ashen! The power of this heavenly wrath, let alone a small welcoming Immortal Envoy like him, even a Golden Immortal would have to retreat far away! Being caught in it meant the annihilation of both body and spirit!

"Madman! All madmen!" He no longer cared about the Chaos dao foundation or any exotic treasure, his eyes filled only with boundless fear! He fiercely crushed a life-saving jade talisman inscribed with spatial runes at his waist!

"Buzz!"

A spatial ripple instantly enveloped him!

"Whoosh!"

The Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy's figure vanished from the spot like a startled rabbit, leaving behind only a rapidly dissipating spatial fluctuation. He had actually used his life-saving trump card, fleeing in panic at all costs, escaping this desperate place that was about to be completely destroyed by heavenly wrath!

And at this moment, Chen Feng, shrouded in chaotic light, or rather, the body slowly being reshaped by the power of the chaos base point, was completely unaware of the impending world-ending heavenly wrath.

That spiritual light, protected by the chaos base point, after experiencing billions of destructions and reconstructions, finally slowly recovered a faint trace of consciousness under the nourishment of the all-encompassing chaotic aura.

"I... didn't die?"