29: The base point of the Ruins, feeding on star debris.

Cold. Dead silence. Absolute darkness.

His consciousness felt like it had sunk into a deep sea of congealed ink, and every struggle brought the excruciating pain of his Soul being torn apart.

Chen Feng felt as if he were being kneaded and crushed by invisible giant hands, the auditory hallucination of his bones shattering inch by inch echoing within his skull.

At his Dantian, the base point that once rotated like a Chaos Universe was now nothing more than a hollow space riddled with spiderweb-like cracks, cold and deathly silent.

The core starfire had been extinguished.

【chaos base point: Deep silence... Core starfire extinguished... Cracks everywhere... Near death...】

The excruciating pain in his chest was particularly vivid.

It was not the pain of a torn wound, but a sense of emptiness originating from his Soul, as if some existence had been forcibly gouged out.

The fragment of the fate plate... had shattered... leaving only that gray speck of light, resembling an entrance to the Universe's nirvana, slowly rotating deep within his broken Dantian, exuding an aura of cold and greedy void.

【life plate Core Imprint (Nirvana State): Sinking into the dao foundation... Unknown Fusion in progress... Energy depleted...】

Beneath him was a rough, cold sensation, carrying the decaying scent of rusted metal and weathered rock.

A thick "stone shell" encased him, like the coffin of a star.

The dead, cold, stellar pressure of the Burial Star Corridor was omnipresent, seeping into his very marrow.

Is it... over?

Just as this boundless darkness and despair were about to completely devour his last remaining shred of consciousness—

Boom... Rumble...

A low, viscous rumble, as if emerging from the deepest depths of the earth, produced by the friction and compression of billions of star corpses, pierced through the thick stone shell and slammed violently into Chen Feng's dying consciousness!

It was not a sound, but... hunger!

A cold, ancient, terrifying hunger that had accumulated over endless eons, capable of devouring galaxies!

This hunger did not act upon his Physical Body, but directly upon the fate disk nirvana mark floating deep within his Soul!

Like a deep-sea giant beast that had caught the scent of blood, the slowly rotating gray speck of light suddenly paused, then erupted with an unprecedented desire to devour!

Hum—!!!

Deep within Chen Feng's broken Dantian, the silent, cracked ruins of the chaos base point suddenly, without warning... began to vibrate!

It was not the base point reviving, but the "space" of the base point ruins themselves being forcibly twisted and torn by the devouring will of the ruins abyss imprint!

A miniature pitch-black vortex, with edges flowing with chaotic gray Qi, slowly formed atop the ruins of the base point, with the ruins abyss imprint at its core!

nirvana base point!

The moment it appeared, that terrifying hunger originating from the depths of the earth seemed to find an outlet for its release!

A viscous, cold, dark red torrent of energy, carrying the stench of decaying star corpses, lava, and sulfur, like filthy blood bursting through a dam, ignored spatial barriers and Chen Feng's broken Physical Body, being brutally torn and devoured by the newly born nirvana base point!

Gurgle... Gurgle...

The terrifying sound of a giant beast swallowing echoed within Chen Feng's body and deep within his Soul!

【nirvana base point (Initial Stage): Forcefully activated! Devouring in progress... Target: Unknown star corpse Origin (dark red decay)... Energy conversion efficiency (extremely low)... Warning: Unknown erosion!】

Excruciating pain! A pain more terrifying than death instantly swept through Chen Feng's remaining consciousness!

The devoured dark red torrent of energy, containing an intense will of stellar death and unknown erosive pollution, was like billions of red-hot steel needles, crazily piercing and corroding his broken Dantian, torn Meridians, and his Physical Body on the verge of collapse!

The nirvana base point was like a greedy tumor; it only focused on devouring but could not effectively convert this malicious energy, allowing it to run rampant within Chen Feng's body!

"Urgh... Ah!!!" A shriek that sounded inhuman, squeezed out from the deepest depths of his Soul, echoed within the dark stone shell.

Chen Feng's body convulsed violently in agony, and the thick stone shell encasing him let out a groan of being overwhelmed, its surface instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks!

Outside the stone shell.

That land of star debris, flowing with dark red lava veins, was now writhing like a living creature!

Centered on Chen Feng's landing point, the massive rocky surface for a hundred zhang was slowly and irresistibly collapsing downward!

Countless star fragments were pulverized by an invisible force, sucked into a rotating dark red vortex that had appeared out of thin air on the surface!

Deep within the vortex, one could vaguely see the outline of... scales, huge and undulating like mountain ranges, covered with a dark red lava shell!

And, two dark golden giant eyes slowly opening, burning like a furnace at the earth's core with endless hunger and tyranny!

What was devouring Chen Feng was not the earth, but... an unimaginably terrifying Star Remnant Giant Beast, sleeping deep within this land of star corpses, feeding on star remnants!

The residual Chaos aura on Chen Feng, the shattered life plate Origin, and the scent of fresh "flesh and blood" were like the most tempting bait, awakening it from an eon-long slumber!

Rumble—!

The ground collapse accelerated! The dark red devouring vortex erupted with terrifying suction!

The stone shell encasing Chen Feng instantly shattered! His body, like a fallen leaf in a gale, was swept up by that irresistible force and plummeted rapidly toward the dark red vortex below, which resembled the maw of an abyss!

As he fell, Chen Feng's consciousness, tortured to the verge of collapse by agony, caught a fleeting glimpse through the pervasive star dust and dark red energy of the tip of the iceberg of that terrifying existence deep within the vortex—

What a colossal head it was! Covered in dark red lava armor that rose and fell like mountain ranges, with viscous, sulfurous-smelling dark golden "blood" flowing through the gaps in the armor.

At the top of the head were two broken, twisted spiral star horns, like pillars supporting the sky, bearing the terrifying marks of impact.

Most horrifying of all were those eyes! Huge as lava lakes, burning with dark golden flames of pure, mindless hunger and a desire for destruction!

Merely gazing at them made Chen Feng's remaining consciousness feel like a candle in the wind, ready to be extinguished at any moment!

Star Remnant Giant Beast! The true scavenger of the Burial Star Corridor! An ancient ferocious creature that feeds on star corpses!

"Hungry..."

A terrifying thought, originating from the level of the Soul and woven from the wails of billions of stars and the boiling of lava, slammed violently into Chen Feng's Divine Soul!

This was the will of the Star Remnant Giant Beast! Simple, pure, yet capable of crushing a True Immortal!

Death! This time, it was truly a hopeless situation with no chance of survival!

Just as Chen Feng's body was about to be completely devoured by the dark red vortex and crushed by the Star Remnant Giant Beast's abyssal maw, which was filled with jagged star-remnant teeth—

Hum!!!

Deep in his Dantian, the newly born nirvana base point, which was frantically devouring the dark red decaying energy, seemed to be stimulated by the Star Remnant Giant Beast's pure, terrifying will and the even larger, purer star corpse Origin close at hand, and it suddenly erupted with an unprecedented desire to devour!

It was no longer a tumor that only took in and never gave out! The pitch-black vortex suddenly accelerated its rotation, and the chaotic gray Qi at its edges spread wildly!

A cold and overbearing will of assimilation, originating from the deepest depths of the ruins abyss imprint, erupted with a roar!

It no longer passively accepted the erosive dark red energy, but actively and viciously began to tear, refine, and purify it!

Sss, sss, sss—!

The dark red energy torrent pouring into Chen Feng's body was like being thrown into strong acid, its will of death and erosive pollution forcibly stripped away and annihilated by the overbearing power of the nirvana!

Leaving only the purest, most primordial dark golden energy essence, carrying the aura of star extinction!

This purified energy no longer rampaged or destroyed; instead, like a sweet spring, it trickled into Chen Feng's broken Dantian, torn Meridians, and his Physical Body on the verge of collapse!

Even more of it was greedily absorbed by the nirvana base point itself!

【nirvana base point: Devouring in progress... Energy conversion efficiency increased (30%)... Erosion stripped... Core stabilized...】

【Physical Body: Nourishing with star corpse Origin (dark gold)... Cracks repairing (0.5%)... Extremely slow...】

【life plate Nirvana Imprint: Weak energy replenishment... Unknown Fusion deepening...】

The excruciating pain remained, but there was now a hint of... the numbing itch of repair! It was like injecting a drop of ice spring into a raging inferno!

"Roar—?!"

In the Star Remnant Giant Beast's dark golden lava eyes, for the first time, there flashed a hint of extremely human-like... astonishment and rage!

It felt it! It felt that the "food" it had swallowed had actually birthed a "tumor" inside that was now turning back to devour and refine its own Origin essence!

This was simply the greatest blasphemy!

Its abyssal maw slammed shut, its jaws, filled with star-remnant teeth, erupting with the terrifying power to crush a star core!

It wanted to chew this damned "tumor," along with that tiny shell, into cosmic dust!

However, the moment the maw slammed shut—

Hum!

Deep in Chen Feng's Dantian, the newly born nirvana base point, having devoured a large amount of purified star corpse Origin, suddenly saw a tiny, yet cold enough to freeze the Soul, gray speck of light ignite at the center of the rotating pitch-black vortex at its core!

That was the manifestation of the fate disk nirvana mark!

A supreme will, transcending stellar death, representing the end of all things and the nirvana of the Universe, permeated from that gray speck of light!

The moment this will appeared, the Star Remnant Giant Beast's maw, which was about to close, seemed to strike an invisible wall of sighs composed of absolute void!

Its terrifying bite force, capable of crushing stars, was forcibly... delayed by a ten-thousandth of a second!

It was not a lack of strength, but... fear, originating from the deepest depths of its life instinct! Fear of that ultimate void!

It was this ten-thousandth of a second delay!

Chen Feng's consciousness, tortured by both agony and the process of repair, was briefly awakened by this sudden nirvana will!

The instinct to survive overcame everything! Leveraging the faint strength converted by the nirvana base point, he no longer tried to resist the fall; instead, like a fish, he followed the Star Remnant Giant Beast's suction, fiercely "burrowing" into the depths of its throat, filled with sharp teeth, toward the "stomach" region, which was even darker but filled with even more intense and violent energy!

Plop!

It was as if he had fallen into a viscous pool of lava blood! Even more terrifying pressure and erosion surged in from all directions!

But at the same time, even larger and purer star corpse Origin energy was being frantically torn, devoured, and refined by the nirvana base point!

【nirvana base point: Devouring accelerated! Energy conversion efficiency (50%)! Core stabilized... Cracks repairing (Physical Body 1%)...】

【Warning: Star Remnant Giant Beast's will is fighting back! Unknown digestion Law erosion intensifying!】

"Roar—!!!"

The Star Remnant Giant Beast was completely enraged! Its massive body twisted and rolled frantically deep within the land of star debris!

The entire Burial Star Corridor trembled violently under its rage! Countless massive star remnants collapsed and fell like building blocks!

It wanted to use the most violent star lava and digestion Law to completely crush and dissolve this "tumor" that had burrowed into its body!

A desperate and crazy tug-of-war of devouring and counter-devouring, erosion and counter-erosion, unfolding within the Star Remnant Giant Beast, was staged in blood deep within its dark viscera!

In the direction of the altar.

The massive Chaos star cocoon floated quietly, the star runes and Chaos dao marks flowing on its surface flickering intermittently.

Inside the star cocoon, Su Wanzhao's aura was silent and profound, undergoing an unknown transformation.

The Star Guardian, kneeling on one knee, stared intently with its burning deep blue flame eyes at the direction of the terrifying earthquake triggered by the Star Remnant Giant Beast's rampage, and occasionally looked toward the star cocoon, its flames fluctuating violently, conveying intense struggle and... a hint of extremely subtle worry?

It seemed to sense between the star cocoon and the source of the rampage (Chen Feng) some kind of homologous, forcibly torn link of aura...

In the distant Void Realm.

The golden scanning beams of two boundary-breaking immortal shuttles pierced through the chaotic star dust and energy storms, firmly locking onto the core area of the Star Remnant Giant Beast's rampage.

"Target locked! The aura of the Chaos fragment is inside the Star Remnant ferocious beast!"

"Energy reaction inside the ferocious beast is abnormal! Suspected... to be being devoured?!"

"Forced attack! Force out the fragment! If necessary... refine it along with this ferocious beast!"

The cold order was issued. At the bows of the two immortal shuttles, devastating golden boundary-breaking light shone once more! The target was pointed straight at the Star Remnant Giant Beast, which was rolling frantically deep within the earth!

Burial Star Corridor, the killing trap descends once again!