30: Star-Devouring Purgatory, Returning to the Fundamental Realm

Darkness. Viscous. Absolute suffocation.

Chen Feng felt as if he had been thrown into the core furnace of a boiling star. From all directions, unimaginable, terrifying pressure bore down on him. Viscous, dark-red "lava" reeking of pungent sulfur and decaying stars frantically squeezed his body, corroding his skin, flesh, and bones. With every "breath" (if it could be called that), scorching, soul-poisoning energy flooded his lungs. His bones groaned, his internal organs shattered, and his consciousness floated and tore amidst endless pain and corrosion.

This was the "stomach" of the Star Remnant Giant Beast—a living star purgatory!

[Physical Body: Being eroded by Star Remnant Corpse Origin (highly corrosive)... Crack repair halted... Disintegration accelerating (2%)... Warning!]

[fate disk nirvana mark: Energy weakly supplementing... Unknown fusion deepening... Resisting erosion...]

However, right in the core of this desperate situation, which could instantly turn a Golden Core cultivator into pus and blood, deep within Chen Feng's dantian, the newly formed nirvana base point, like a demonic flower rooted in a poisonous mire, not only did not wither but bloomed with an even more ferocious devouring light!

Buzz—!!!

The pitch-black vortex spun madly at an unprecedented speed! The chaotic gray mist emanating from its edges, like billions of hungry tentacles, brutally tore at the surrounding viscous, dark-red "lava"! The intense will of death, corrosive energy, and the violent resentment accumulated over billions of years from the Star Remnant Corpse contained within were forcibly stripped away and crushed by the nirvana base point's domineering assimilation will! Only the purest, most fundamental, dark-gold energy torrent, imbued with the essence of stellar demise, remained, greedily devoured and transformed!

Gurgle... Gurgle... Hiss hiss hiss... terrifying sounds, like a giant beast swallowing mixed with strong acid corrosion, resonated both inside Chen Feng's body and externally! A portion of the dark-gold energy devoured and transformed by the nirvana base point nourished his collapsing physical body, very slowly repairing cracks and resisting the stronger external corrosion; a larger portion was frantically absorbed by the base point itself, strengthening the pitch-black vortex, making it spin more violently and its devouring power more formidable!

[nirvana base point: Devouring accelerated! Energy conversion efficiency (65%)! Core stable... Crack repair (physical body 2.5%)... Extremely slow...]

[Warning: External pressure and corrosion index continue to rise! Star Remnant Giant Beast's will backlash intensifies!]

"Roar—!!!"

The pain and rage of the Star Remnant Giant Beast, like substantial sound waves, penetrated the thick flesh and internal organs, fiercely striking Chen Feng's divine soul! Its massive body frantically rolled and crashed deep within the shattered star-rock earth! The entire Burial Star Corridor shook violently, countless enormous star remnants fell like a torrential rain from the "sky," smashing onto the writhing dark-red earth, only to be dragged underground by the omnipresent devouring vortex!

Chen Feng was like a small boat in a raging storm, frantically tossed and crushed within the giant beast's rolling internal furnace! The intense pain was like endless torture! If not for the energy frantically devoured and transformed by the nirvana base point barely maintaining a sliver of life, he would have long turned into a speck of dust in this star purgatory!

"Hungry... Pain... Die... Tumor... Crush!"

The Star Remnant Giant Beast's chaotic, tyrannical, and endlessly hungry will, like billions of red-hot steel needles, continuously pierced into Chen Feng's remaining consciousness. This will itself carried terrifying corrosiveness, attempting to pollute and disintegrate his will, completely assimilating him into a part of this purgatory!

"Get... out!" Chen Feng roared from the depths of his soul! The nirvana base point seemed to sense its host's will to resist; the cold gray light point (fate disk nirvana mark) at its core suddenly erupted with an even more biting will! A nirvana aura, transcending stellar stillness and representing the end of all things, permeated, forcibly resisting the giant beast's will erosion!

Devouring and anti-devouring! Erosion and anti-erosion! The clash of wills engaged in the most primitive, bloodiest tug-of-war in the viscous darkness!

Just as Chen Feng's will was about to be completely crushed by this terrifying internal and external assault—

Boom! Boom!!!

Two dull yet extremely penetrating explosions suddenly came from outside! Immediately after, the Star Remnant Giant Beast let out an even more violent, more painful, earth-shattering roar!

Rumble!!!

The "lava stomach" where Chen Feng was located violently vibrated and twisted! An extremely domineering, terrifying energy shockwave, carrying the aura of tearing space and destroying laws, penetrated the giant beast's thick flesh and carapace, fiercely pouring into this internal organ purgatory!

Immortal Dao attack!

It was the two boundary-breaking immortal shuttles! Taking advantage of the Star Remnant Giant Beast's distraction and rampage due to the "tumor" inside its body, they brazenly launched an attack! The two golden shuttle-shaped streams of light, imbued with the will to pierce through all realms, fiercely struck the giant beast's exposed back, covered in dark-red lava carapace!

Rip—!

The indestructible dark-red lava carapace, strong enough to withstand stellar collisions, was actually torn open by the full force of the boundary-breaking immortal shuttles, creating two massive, terrifying wounds from which dark-gold "blood" flowed! The golden power of destruction, like maggots on a bone, frantically eroded and destroyed the giant beast's vitality through the wounds!

"Roar-ao-ao-ao—!!!"

Attacked from both inside and out! The Star Remnant Giant Beast went completely mad! Its dark-gold lava eyes burned to the extreme with pain and rage! The damned "tumor" inside its body was frantically devouring its origin, and outside, two damned "bugs" were biting its flesh! It wanted to crush everything!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Star Remnant Giant Beast's massive body erupted with destructive power, no longer rolling, but like a mad warhammer, fiercely slamming into the "barriers" on both sides of the Burial Star Corridor, which were composed of countless star remnants! It wanted to use the most violent method to shatter the "tumor" within its body! To bury the "bugs" attacking it from outside, along with this entire space!

The entire Burial Star Corridor was met with a doomsday-like scene! Huge star mountains were smashed to pieces, broken stellar rings were flung away like dead snakes, and solidified nebulae turned into dust in the shockwaves! The two boundary-breaking immortal shuttles were like fallen leaves in a hurricane, desperately dodging amidst the terrifying impact waves and splashing star fragments. Cracks deepened on their hulls, but the golden light scanning and locking onto Chen Feng (or rather, locking onto the chaos base point and life plate imprint within him) remained firmly fixed on the giant beast!

Inside the internal organ purgatory.

The Star Remnant Giant Beast's violent, self-destructive collision was nothing short of a catastrophe for Chen Feng!

Boom!!!

The terrifying shockwaves were like billions of invisible giant hammers, fiercely smashing into his body! His already collapsing physical body instantly split open with countless new wounds! Golden-red chaos blood mixed with dark-red "lava" spurted out wildly! His consciousness was like being thrown into a shredder, instantly becoming fragmented!

[Physical Body: Severely wounded! Disintegration accelerating (5%)!]

[nirvana base point: Violent vibration! Devouring process interrupted! Core gray light dimmed... Warning!]

It's over! This was the only thought left in Chen Feng's remaining consciousness. Under the internal and external assault, no matter how strong the nirvana base point was, it couldn't turn the tide... However, just as his consciousness was about to be completely annihilated—

Buzz!!!

Deep within his dantian, the violently vibrating, dimly lit core of the nirvana base point, that cold gray light point, upon sensing its host's life was about to completely end, upon feeling this world-destroying shock, and the threatening golden destruction law aura from the external boundary-breaking immortal shuttles... was completely enraged!

A supreme will, originating from the deepest part of the fate disk nirvana mark, cold enough to freeze time, indifferent enough to disregard life and death, erupted with a roar! This will was no longer merely about self-preservation, but... devouring! Assimilation! Turning all these internal and external attacks, threats, and energies... into nourishment for nirvana!

"Nirvana... Returns... To... Truth!"

A cold thought, as if from the end of the universe, exploded deep within Chen Feng's shattered consciousness!

The next moment, the nirvana base point's pitch-black vortex violently collapsed inward! Not a collapse, but an extreme condensation! All the chaotic gray mist instantly retracted, forming an imperceptible, absolutely dark singularity that seemed to devour all light!

The moment the singularity appeared, an indescribable, terrifying suction force suddenly generated! This suction was no longer limited to devouring energy, but... devouring "existence" itself!

Hiss—!

First to be devoured was the golden destruction law power that rushed into the internal organ purgatory! This immortal dao power, capable of tearing Golden Core cultivators and polluting origins, upon contact with the dark singularity, was silently erased and assimilated like snow under sunlight! It transformed into a trace of pure energy with destructive properties, merging into the singularity!

Next, it was the surrounding frantically squeezing and corroding dark-red "lava"! The viscous energy torrent was brutally torn and devoured by the singularity, as if it had found the eye of nirvana of the universe! This time, the conversion efficiency reached an astonishing one hundred percent! All the will of death and corrosive pollution were instantly stripped away and annihilated, leaving only the purest dark-gold stellar origin, nourishing the singularity and also feeding back into Chen Feng's shattered physical body!

[nirvana base point: Forced Form · Nirvana Singularity! Devouring efficiency (100%)! Assimilating all things!]

[Physical Body: Being nourished by Star Remnant Corpse Origin (pure)... Crack repair accelerating (3%...4%...)!]

Even more terrifyingly, this power of devouring "existence," like an invisible tentacle, spread outwards through the Star Remnant Giant Beast's massive wound! It frantically tore at and devoured the dark-gold "blood" flowing from the giant beast's wound and... its tyrannical will fragments!

"Roar?! No—!"

The Star Remnant Giant Beast's violent crashing motion suddenly paused! In its dark-gold lava eyes, for the first time, an extreme fear, originating from life's instinct and transcending pain, was revealed! It felt that the "tumor" within its body had become a true... black hole! An Eye of Nirvana that was devouring the very foundation of its existence!

Towards the altar.

On the surface of the huge Chaos Star Cocoon, the intertwined stellar runes and chaotic Dao marks, when the Star Remnant Giant Beast let out that roar filled with extreme fear, suddenly erupted with unprecedented brilliant light! The entire star cocoon vibrated violently! A vast, cold, and majestic aura, carrying the will of a nascent star, spread out with a roar, as if a sleeping giant had opened its eyes!

The Star Guardian, kneeling on one knee, suddenly looked up, its burning, Dark blue (Azure Blue) flame eyes instantly locked onto the source of the nirvana devouring power within the Star Remnant Giant Beast (Chen Feng), and the flames intensely surged and twisted! It seemed to sense a terrifying power, of the same origin but heading towards a completely opposite ultimate path, awakening! This power made its body, composed of stellar dust, tremble!

"Target's internal energy reaction... abnormally soaring! Detected... unknown high-tier devouring law fluctuation! Exceeding current cognitive sequence!"

"Danger! Extreme danger! Immediately focus fire! Destroy target!"

Inside the boundary-breaking immortal shuttle, an unprecedented alarm and killing intent were transmitted by the cold immortal dao will! The golden boundary-breaking light at the bow of the ship recklessly lit up again, this time, the light even carried a trace of scorching white, indicating a willingness to damage its own foundation! The target was directly at the depths of the huge wound on the Star Remnant Giant Beast's back!

Inside the Star Remnant Giant Beast.

The Nirvana Singularity frantically devoured everything! Chen Feng's shattered body, nourished by this extremely pure stellar origin, healed its cracks at a visible speed! His consciousness forcibly condensed amidst the tearing sensation of pain and surging power! He "saw" the power of nirvana extending outwards, devouring the giant beast's will and blood! He "heard" the destructive charging shriek of the immortal shuttles!

"Base point... returns to truth... devour... destroy!"

A cold and insane thought formed in his rekindled will! He no longer passively endured, but actively guided the devouring power of the Nirvana Singularity, like wielding an invisible blade capable of devouring laws, along the Star Remnant Giant Beast's wound, fiercely "stabbing" towards the two boundary-breaking immortal shuttles about to fire outside! He wanted to devour this fatal immortal dao attack, along with the two immortal shuttles... all at once!

In the Burial Star Corridor, the storm of destruction, at the center of the devouring and anti-devouring vortex, was about to reach its final eruption!