19: At the core of the Battle Ruins, the evil veins transformed into dragons.

Heavy footsteps crushed the scorched earth, the dull thuds echoing like war drums in the depths of this ancient battlefield, which had been silent for countless years.

With every step that fell, the cracked, charred ground beneath Chen Feng trembled slightly, leaving shallow footprints that flowed with a dark golden Chaos luster.

A formless and heavy pressure permeated his body, like a primordial Vicious Beast awakening and stepping into its territory, frightening the peering eyes hidden in the shadows of giant remains and the depths of scorched cracks into fleeing in panic, retreating like a tide into the deeper darkness.

Foundation Establishment! Chaos builds the Immortal Foundation!

This was not Foundation Establishment in the traditional sense, with surging spiritual power and profound Dao techniques.

Chen Feng could not feel the expansion of his Dantian Qi Sea, nor could he mobilize any brilliant Spells.

But he could clearly "hear" the slowly rotating chaos base point within his body, like the core of the Universe.

Every faint pulsation drove the Qi and blood throughout his body like a surging river, bringing a sense of boundless, peerless power!

His sinews and bones were as if cast from divine metal, his muscle fibers were dense and knotted, and a dark golden Chaos luster flowed beneath his skin.

With every gesture, the air emitted a low, overwhelmed hum.

He lowered his head and opened his right hand.

In his palm, the dark golden malevolent bone still emitted a warm and vast aura, but the mysterious dark silver patterns flowing on the bone fragment seemed a fraction dimmer than before.

Most of the Origin Evil Qi fed back from devouring the Skeleton Tyrant and the three great evil objects had been absorbed by the chaos base point to stabilize his Realm and repair the cracks, while a small portion had been "intercepted" by this bone fragment.

"It is not enough..." Chen Feng muttered to himself, his voice hoarse, carrying the texture of metal friction.

Deep within his gray, chaotic pupils, cold flames flickered.

The ice-blue star light dancing between Su Wanzhao's brows was like a coordinate branded deep in his Soul, pointing toward the northwest, yet it was severely interfered with by the battlefield Evil Qi, which was so thick it could not be dissolved, and the chaotic spatial Laws, leaving it as weak as a candle in the wind.

The path ahead was unknown, and the dangers were unpredictable.

He needed stronger power!

He needed the power to tear through this dead, silent ancient battlefield, trample over every obstacle, and find her!

He raised his head, his gray gaze piercing through the slightly thinner mist of Evil Qi, locking firmly onto the northwest—there, was the true source of the Evil Qi in this vast ancient battlefield!

The lead-gray sky there hung even lower and more oppressively, like solidified lead blocks.

The Evil Qi there was no longer a pervasive mist, but had condensed into a viscous, dark red river that flowed slowly like a living creature!

Vaguely visible were the outlines of countless terrifying remains as large as mountains, bobbing in the dark red Evil Qi river.

A terrifying aura, far exceeding that of the Skeleton Tyrant and filled with Chaos, violence, and destruction, washed over him like an invisible tide, bringing a palpitation that froze the Soul!

Battlefield Core! Origin Evil Qi!

"Hiss..." Chen Feng took a deep breath, and the viscous, heavy Evil Qi entered his body, actually causing his newly stabilized chaos base point to vibrate slightly, sending a faint... craving!

It was as if a long-parched desert was thirsting for sweet rain!

He hesitated no longer, lengthening his heavy strides toward that core area where the Evil Qi was heaven-shrouding, walking firmly like a warrior marching to his death.

Every step was heavier, and every step made the ground's trembling more pronounced.

The dark golden malevolent bone clutched in his hand seemed to sense the vast, majestic aura of the same source ahead and began to heat up slightly, the dark silver patterns on the bone fragment flowing faster and faster.

As he ventured deeper, the cruelty of the environment escalated sharply.

The Evil Qi permeating the air was as thick as viscous blood; every breath was like swallowing scalding sand, bringing a burning pain to his lungs and viscera.

Had it not been for the gray chaotic airflow spontaneously circulating from the chaos base point to protect his internal organs, an ordinary Qi Refining Cultivator would have long since had their Meridians corroded by this Evil Qi and turned into pus and blood.

The ground was no longer scorched earth, but covered with a thick layer of dark red "moss" like solidified blood, sticky and slippery to step on, emitting a pungent stench of mixed blood and rust.

Huge weapon remains and the dry bones of unknown creatures were denser, like a thorny forest, exuding a cold aura of death.

"Woo..." A low, mournful wail filled with endless resentment and pain echoed from the depths of Hell, reverberating through the thick Evil Qi.

This sound did not come from any specific existence; it was more like the lament of the land itself, which had been soaked in the blood and bones of billions of creatures!

Every time the wailing sounded, it was accompanied by a subtle distortion of space, like ripples on water, bringing waves of dizziness at the level of the Soul.

Chen Feng's gray pupils suddenly contracted!

He lunged to the side!

"Chhh-la!" An invisible, pale white wind blade condensed from pure resentment brushed past the spot where he had just been standing, slicing through a huge metal pillar behind him—thick enough for three men to embrace—as if it were tofu!

The cut was as smooth as a mirror, exuding Death Qi that froze the Soul!

Resentment taking form! A spatial trap!

This was just the beginning!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Several more invisible, intangible, yet lethally aura-filled resentment wind blades generated out of thin air from different angles without warning, cutting toward Chen Feng with shrill shrieks!

Some went straight for his throat, some slashed at his waist, and some even cunningly sealed off all his angles of evasion!

Cold light exploded in Chen Feng's eyes!

He did not try to dodge—in this environment where the Evil Qi was as thick as a quagmire and space was twisted like a maze, clumsy evasion would only lead to more traps!

He let out a low roar, his right fist gripping the dark golden malevolent bone, and the chaos base point operated at full power!

The dark golden Chaos luster instantly covered his entire body, and the chaotic airflow flowing beneath his skin was like boiling magma!

He did not retreat but advanced, meeting those incoming resentment wind blades with a fierce punch!

Boom! The space in front of his fist collapsed violently!

A condensed fist aura, mixed with chaotic gray and dark golden ancient evil, hit those resentment wind blades like a Chaos cannonball exiting a barrel!

Bang! Bang! Bang! Like a hammer smashing ice crystals!

Those resentment wind blades, which were capable of slicing through refined metal, were like fragile glass in the face of Chen Feng's overbearing fist aura, which contained the power of the chaos base point and had been tempered by the Origin of ancient evil; they were instantly shattered and annihilated!

The remaining momentum of the fist aura did not diminish, slamming fiercely into a seemingly ordinary patch of "dark red moss" ahead!

Boom! That "moss" exploded violently!

It revealed a bottomless trap underneath, churning with viscous, filthy blood and the faces of countless painful, resentful Souls!

The filthy blood surged several feet high like a fountain, emitting a pungent, corrosive stench!

Had he stepped on it, the consequences would have been unimaginable!

Chen Feng did not even look at the trap; his footsteps never stopped, his heavy body like a giant ship breaking through the waves, brutally crashing through the pervasive Evil Qi as he continued forward.

The power of the chaos base point was unparalleled and overbearing, but the consumption was equally massive.

Every full-power eruption made the newly stabilized cracks in his body ache faintly.

The closer he got to the core, the more bizarre and unpredictable the dangers became.

There were Evil Qi insect swarms resembling giant scorpions hidden in the eye sockets of giant skeletons, spitting out pale green poison mist that corroded metal; there were Evil Qi heroic spirits condensed from countless broken battle flags, waving chains of resentful Souls and emitting battle roars that bewitched the mind; and there were even bizarre evil objects like transparent jellyfish formed from the combination of pure space fragments and resentment, capable of teleporting and launching invisible, intangible spatial cuts!

Chen Feng was like a tireless, fearless war machine!

He no longer easily used the high-consumption Chaos fist aura, but instead pushed the terrifying physical power granted by the chaos base point to the limit!

Facing the poisonous insect swarms, he took a deep breath, his chest expanding violently, and a low roar mixed with chaotic airflow and ancient evil Origin blasted out like a tangible sonic hammer!

Wherever the sound wave passed, the poison mist rolled back, and the insect swarms burst instantly into foul-smelling green pulp like ants thrown into boiling oil!

Facing the Evil Qi heroic spirits waving chains, he approached like a ghost, his left hand, covered in dark golden Chaos luster, like red-hot iron tongs, ignoring the entanglement and icy cold of the resentful Soul chains, and grabbed the phantom neck of the heroic spirit fiercely!

Chaotic airflow and ancient evil Origin poured in brutally, and the heroic spirit, condensed from resentment and broken Battle Intent, let out a silent wail and was instantly torn apart and annihilated!

Facing the jellyfish evil objects of spatial cutting, a gray light flashed in his eyes.

Relying on the chaos base point's faint sensing of spatial fluctuations, the moment the spatial ripples appeared, his cracked right leg lashed out like a battle axe, faster than the eye could see, carrying a shriek that tore through space, kicking fiercely into the invisible cutting surface that was about to form!

The violent power directly shattered the fragile spatial structure, kicking the transparent evil object along with the space fragment it was hiding in to pieces!

Kill! Kill! Kill!

No fancy Spells, only the most primitive, most barbaric, yet precise and lethal violence!

The Immortal body granted by the chaos base point was like an indestructible divine weapon, and the dark golden malevolent bone became the key to invoking the Origin of ancient evil.

In this core area of Evil Qi where there was a lethal trap at every step, Chen Feng had carved out a bloody path!

Wherever he passed, the Evil Qi monsters collapsed one after another, leaving only the more concentrated Origin Evil Qi to be greedily absorbed by the bone fragment in his hand, fed back to the chaos base point, stabilizing his Realm and repairing the cracks.

Finally, he passed through the area that was like a forest of bone thorns, and the view before him suddenly... opened up?

No! It was a more desperate sight!

A huge, bottomless circular abyss, like a hideous scar on the earth, lay ahead.

Inside the abyss, it was not darkness, but dark red liquid boiling and churning like magma!

That was not magma, but the Origin battlefield Evil Qi that was so thick it could not be dissolved and had liquefied!

In the river of Evil Qi, countless huge remains, flashing with metallic luster or grim bone-white, bobbed like islands, exuding a chilling, ancient aura.

Above the river surface, the dark red Evil Qi, thick enough to almost solidify, was like a heavy curtain, obscuring the view, from which a low, scalp-tingling hum, like the wailing of billions of painful Souls, faintly emerged!

At the center of the abyss, a terrifying "island" like the skull of a giant beast, piled up from countless huge, broken immortal weapons and divine bones, floated quietly above the boiling river of Evil Qi!

In the center of the island, a massive dark red Evil Qi tornado, like one connecting heaven and earth, was crazily devouring the river of Evil Qi below, continuously sucking up massive amounts of Origin Evil Qi!

From the core of the tornado, a low rumble like a heartbeat faintly emerged!

Battlefield Core! The place where all evil returns!

An indescribable aura of Chaos, violence, and destruction, seemingly originating from the Chaos when the world first opened, permeated from the core of that Evil Qi tornado, pressing down on Chen Feng's Soul like a tangible shackle!

It made his breathing choke!

The chaos base point vibrated violently, sending a strong craving, but also a trace of instinctive... warning!

"That is it..." Chen Feng gripped the scalding dark golden malevolent bone, his gray pupils staring fixedly at the terrifying Evil Qi tornado in the center of the abyss.

After passing through this abyss, Su Wanzhao's faint cold-frost beacon seemed to have become a fraction clearer!

She, or the ruins where she was located, was very likely behind that tornado core!

However, to reach there, one must cross this boiling river of Evil Qi!

Chen Feng's gaze swept across the Evil Qi river.

Those huge remains bobbing on the river surface seemed to be the only landing spots.

But on every piece of remains, a powerful Evil Qi fluctuation no weaker than Foundation Establishment radiated!

Clearly, they were all nests of powerful evil objects!

And even more terrifying was the viscous Evil Qi itself churning in the river—that terrifying corrosive power, capable of eating through the Golden Immortal Dharma Body, was by no means comparable to the Evil Qi that had permeated before!

Just as Chen Feng was concentrating on observing and looking for a path to cross the river—

"Boom!!!"

The scorched earth beneath his feet suddenly shook violently!

It was as if a sleeping giant beast was about to break through the ground!

Chen Feng's expression changed slightly, and his figure instantly retreated dozens of feet!

Boom—!!!

The place where he had just been standing exploded like a fragile eggshell!

A terrifying giant pit with a diameter of over ten feet formed instantly!

In the pit, dark red Evil Qi, viscous like asphalt, shot into the sky like a fountain!

Accompanying the sky-rocketing Evil Qi was a deafening, terrifying roar filled with endless violence and hunger!

"Roar—!!!"

In the Evil Qi fountain, a figure so huge it was suffocating slowly rose!

Was that a... Dragon?

No! It was a bone giant snake as huge as a mountain range, forcibly melted and spliced together from the spinal bone joints of countless huge creatures!

Its head was incomparably hideous, covered with heavy bone armor like obsidian, shaped like a giant python, but it had three pairs of giant eyes flashing with magma-like crimson light!

Its huge lower jaw split open, revealing three rows of bone teeth like giant guillotine blades!

Its body wound like a mountain ridge, every spinal bone joint was as thick as a palace pillar, and viscous dark red Evil Qi like magma flowed between the gaps of the bone joints, emitting a high temperature that incinerated all things!

A huge bone tail composed of countless sharp bone blades, like a giant whip that could split the heavens, swung slowly in the Evil Qi!

What was even more terrifying was that this bone giant snake was not a dead object!

Within its body, liquefied Evil Qi surged like a river!

Those three pairs of crimson giant eyes were filled with cold, violent, and purely murderous intent to destroy everything!

A terrifying pressure, far exceeding ordinary Foundation Establishment and vaguely touching the threshold of the Golden Core, descended like the will of the entire abyss, locking onto Chen Feng firmly!

Evil Dragon of Ten Thousand Evils!

The guardian of this boiling river of Evil Qi!

Its three pairs of magma giant eyes instantly locked onto the dark golden bone fragment in Chen Feng's hand that was emitting the aura of pure ancient evil!

The huge snake mouth opened, and viscous Evil Qi saliva dripped like magma, emitting a greedy and violent hiss: "Hiss... Ancient evil relic... Devour... Evolve...!!!"