31: Returning to the void, star remains; celestial messengers descend to the mortal realm.

“ROAR—!!!”

The painful roar of the Star Remnant Giant Beast, woven from the wails of billions of stars and boiling lava, exploded loudly in the Burial Star Corridor, only to abruptly cease!

It wasn't that the sound was blocked, but rather... the very “existence” that constituted the roar was forcibly erased and devoured by an even colder, more tyrannical will!

The blazing white golden light, carrying an aura of self-destruction and condensed at the bow of the boundary-breaking immortal shuttle, vanished silently the moment it touched the invisible devouring force spreading from the massive wound on the Star Remnant Giant Beast's back, like a meteor cast into the cosmic ruin's abyss.

There was no explosion, no roar of clashing energies.

The two boundary-breaking immortal shuttles, along with the Immortal Dao Will, the Law of Destruction, and the highly condensed destructive energy contained within them, were swallowed by an invisible maw composed of absolute nothingness! The golden runes flowing across the hull flickered wildly and collapsed. Immediately, the hulls themselves, starting from the bow, melted away inch by inch like snow under the sun, transforming into the purest energy particles that were violently torn and devoured by the greedy Power of Returning Ruins!

“No—!!” The cold Immortal Dao Will let out a shriek of disbelief and fury on the level of Law, before being completely annihilated!

BOOM!!!

The massive energy that devoured the two immortal shuttles surged like a breached Star River into the dark visceral hell within the Star Remnant Giant Beast, rushing into the extremely collapsed—Ruin's Abyss Singularity—deep within Chen Feng's Dantian!

“Ugh... Ah—!!!”

Chen Feng's shattered body suddenly arched in the viscous dark red lava! It was as if a burning star had been forcefully shoved inside him! The unimaginably terrifying energy torrent rushed in through the Ruin's Abyss Singularity, instantly shattering his fragile meridians which he had just barely repaired, and tearing open his unhealed wounds! Under the impact of the rampant energy, his consciousness was instantly torn to shreds like a paper boat in a raging sea! [Physical Body: Overload Critical Damage! Disintegration Intensified (8%)! Warning!]

[nirvana base point (Singularity Form): Energy Overload (300%)! Core Oscillation! Assimilation Efficiency Plummets! Warning: Singularity Unstable! Risk of Collapse!]

Excruciating pain! Pain beyond comprehension! The Ruin's Abyss Singularity spun wildly like a balloon stretched to its limit, attempting to digest this sudden massive “nourishment.” However, the energy level of the Immortal Dao Law of Destruction far surpassed the Star Remnant Corpse Origin, and the Order Will contained within it violently clashed with the chaotic essence of Returning Ruins! The cold gray light spot at the core of the Singularity (fate disk nirvana mark) flickered madly, emitting a groan of being overwhelmed!

“Hungry... Pain... Crush... Tumor... Bug... Die!”

The fragments of the Star Remnant Giant Beast's residual chaotic will, stimulated by the fierce internal and external energy conflict, erupted in a final frenzy like a dying viper! Inside its massive body, countless dark red energy tendrils condensed from the Star Death Will and lava resentment, like billions of red-hot steel needles, ignored the obstruction of the visceral lava and fiercely stabbed towards Chen Feng's body, targeting the violently oscillating Ruin's Abyss Singularity in his Dantian! It wanted to detonate this cursed “tumor” and perish together!

Attacked from inside and out! The Ruin's Abyss Singularity was on the verge of collapse! Chen Feng's physical body and soul were about to be completely annihilated!

Just at this moment of eternal doom—

Buzz!!!

The cold, flickering gray light spot at the core of the Ruin's Abyss Singularity, upon sensing the host's imminent demise, the destructive threat from within and without, and perceiving a trace of extremely pure aura—originating from the Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy's natal imprint—within the massive Immortal Dao energy... was completely ignited!

A will, originating from the deepest part of the fate disk nirvana mark, cold enough to freeze time and space, indifferent enough to disregard life and death, yet carrying a supreme wrath at being provoked by an ant, erupted violently!

“Return... to... Ruin... Draw... Truth! All... Sources... as... Fuel!”

The cold intention exploded in Chen Feng's rapidly annihilating fragments of consciousness, like the declaration of the universe's end!

The extremely collapsed Ruin's Abyss Singularity did not explode, but instead... underwent a deeper, inner qualitative change!

At the center of the all-devouring dark singularity, an “Origin Point”—whose form and color defy description—suddenly emerged! It was not light, not energy, not matter, but the “Nothingness” before the birth of all concepts, the primal “Point” before Chaos was separated and the Great Primordial was opened! It was the ultimate form of Returning Ruins—Origin Point of Chaos!

The moment the Origin Point appeared, time, space, energy, matter, and even Law... all forms of visible and invisible “existence” lost meaning around it!

The rampant Immortal Dao energy surging into Chen Feng's body, the billions of dark red energy tendrils stabbing towards him, the fragments of the Star Remnant Giant Beast's residual tyrannical will, and even the viscous visceral lava enveloping him... the instant they touched the Origin Point's invisible force field, they were silently “zeroed out,” as if cast into the beginning and end of the universe!

They were not destroyed, nor assimilated, but forcibly erased of their “existence” itself, reverting to the primal “Nothingness” of Chaos!

Hiss—!

Silent annihilation!

The terrifying energy torrent inside Chen Feng, enough to burst him, vanished! The billions of malicious tendrils stabbing at his body vanished! The fragments of the Star Remnant Giant Beast's residual frenzied will vanished! Even the viscous dark red lava surrounding him was forcibly cleared, leaving behind an Absolute Void Domain roughly ten feet wide!

[nirvana base point (Origin Point Form): Forced Activation! Existence Zeroed Out! Energy Release (Origin Point of Returning Ruins Radiation)...]

[Warning: Origin Point Form Uncontrollable! Constitutes a Threat to Host's Existence! Duration (Unknown)!]

The excruciating pain vanished, replaced by an absolute sense of nothingness that froze the soul! Chen Feng felt as if he had become part of the Origin Point, his consciousness floating on the edge of “existence” and “non-existence,” liable to completely revert to nothingness at any moment!

“Roar...?!”

The Star Remnant Giant Beast's massive body suddenly stiffened! In its dark golden lava giant eyes, all pain, fury, and hunger were instantly replaced by an uncomprehending, extreme terror originating from the core of life! It sensed that the “tumor” inside it had transformed into a genuine... Cosmic Singularity! An Origin Point of Returning Ruins that was erasing the very foundation of its existence!

Its massive body, composed of star remnants, began silently... dissolving, centered on the Absolute Void Domain where Chen Feng was located! Like ice melting under the scorching sun! Its dark red lava carapace, the flowing dark golden “blood,” the massive skeleton, and even the core of its tyrannical will... rapidly turned into nothingness under the Origin Point's invisible Zeroing Radiation!

“No—!!” The beast's final residual thought shrieked in terror, then completely reverted to silence!

RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE—!!!

Having lost the support of its core will, the Star Remnant Giant Beast's massive, mountain-like body collapsed like a sandcastle, disintegrating violently in the Burial Star Corridor! Countless shattered star rocks, solidified lava, and dark golden “blood” poured down like a mudslide, instantly submerging the Absolute Void Domain where Chen Feng was! All that remained was an immense, deep pit, its edges flowing with an Aura of Chaos!

Towards the altar.

The massive Chaos Star Cocoon suddenly erupted with dazzling silver-blue starlight that pierced the corridor the moment the Star Remnant Giant Beast completely died! The Star Runes and Chaos Dao Marks flowing across the cocoon's surface instantly solidified, then became covered in spiderweb cracks! A vast, cold, nascent yet majestic aura carrying the Will of a Star Dominator, swept violently across the entire Burial Star Corridor like the first ray of dawn!

Crack! Snap-snap-snap—!

The Star Cocoon shattered completely! Countless crystalline star dust fragments poured out like the Milky Way!

At the core of the cocoon, a figure slowly stood up.

Su Wanzhao.

Her eyes were tightly closed, her face sacred and cold, like Star Cold Jade that has remained unchanged for eons. The slowly rotating silver-blue Star Core Imprint on her brow had vanished, replaced by a deep silver-blue vortex covering her entire forehead, seemingly containing the entire Star Vortex universe! At the center of the vortex, a fixed gray-silver Chaos Light Point remained motionless, emitting the Supreme Dao Rhythm of merged Chaos and Order.

She wore a Star Radiance Battle Skirt woven from pure Star Origin and Chaos Qi flow, moving without wind. Her aura was restrained yet boundless, like a newborn Star Dominator! [Chaos Star Vortex Dao Body (Initial Completion): Star Origin (Stable)... Chaos Integration (Preliminary)... Status: Deep Enlightenment (Law Synchronization)...]

The Star Guardian, kneeling on one knee, suddenly looked up. Its burning ethereal blue flame eyes were filled with shock and an instinctive submission! It slowly lowered its massive head, constructed of star dust, toward Su Wanzhao.

However, Su Wanzhao did not immediately awaken. She seemed immersed in her newfound power and the vast Star Law, undergoing a deeper transformation. Her aura resonated miraculously with the residual Star Will of the entire Burial Star Corridor.

At the bottom of the deep pit of shattered star rock ruins.

Beneath the thick layer of covering rock.

The Absolute Void Domain, roughly ten feet wide, was slowly dissipating. The Origin Point of Returning Ruins Form could not be maintained indefinitely, as its terrifying Zeroing Radiation posed a huge threat to Chen Feng's own existence.

At the center of the dissipating Origin Point, Chen Feng's body quietly floated in the void. The viscous lava and shattered star rocks that had enveloped him had long since turned into nothingness under the Origin Point's radiation.

His body... underwent a strange transformation.

The hideous fissures on his body disappeared. In their place, a thin layer of dark red crystal, resembling the Star Remnant Giant Beast's lava carapace, covered his entire body. Dark golden patterns, like Stellar Meridians, flowed across the crystal surface. This crystalline carapace was not physical; it was composed of the Star Remnant Corpse Origin and Immortal Dao Law of Destruction energy, forcibly assimilated and compressed by the Origin Point of Returning Ruins, emanating an aura of coldness, solidity, and deathly silence that devoured all vitality.

What was stranger was his Dantian.

The location that once represented the chaos base point was now empty. No, it wasn't empty, but suspended there was a... slowly rotating, fist-sized micro “Star Remnant”!

This “Star Remnant” was dark red all over, like a solidified lava star, its surface covered in crisscrossing dark golden “fissures,” with viscous dark golden “lava” flowing deep within the fissures. At the core of the “Star Remnant,” a barely perceptible pitch-black singularity, its edges flowing with Chaos Gray Qi, was faintly visible, emitting a cold and greedy Aura of Returning Ruins! [Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation (Nascent): Form (Star Remnant)... Core (Ruin's Abyss Singularity Imprint)... Energy Nature (Devouring, Deathly Silence, Zeroing Out)... Status: Dormant (Undergoing Deep Transformation)...]

He seemed to have become the... core of the Star Remnant Giant Beast! Or rather, he had devoured the essence of the giant beast and the laws of the two immortal shuttles, forming an unprecedented, bizarre dao foundation under the forced fusion of the Origin Point of Returning Ruins, using the star remnants as its shell and the Ruin's Abyss Singularity as its core!

[Physical Body: Star Returning Ruins Dao Body (Initial Completion)... Strength (Unknown)... Fissure Repair (100%)... Assimilation Complete...]

[fate disk nirvana mark: Deeply integrated into dao foundation Core... Status Unknown...]

Chen Feng kept his eyes tightly closed, his consciousness sinking into a Chaotic Abyss interwoven with star death silence and the void of Returning Ruins, undergoing an instinctive transformation.

The entire Burial Star Corridor fell into a brief silence. Only the rustling sound of shattered star rocks occasionally sliding, and the Star Dao Rhythm emanating from Su Wanzhao, resonating with the ruins.

However, this silence did not last long.

“Ant...”

A cold, hoarse voice, containing monstrous killing intent and a hint of... unbelievable shock and fury, suddenly rang out above the shattered firmament of the corridor, like the Nine Nether Cold Wind!

The moment the voice rang out!

BOOM—!!!

The already shattered spatial firmament of the Burial Star Corridor, like a fragile eggshell, was forcibly torn open by an invisible giant hand wrapped in Golden Order Chains, creating a terrifying rift over a thousand zhang in diameter! Beyond the rift was not the cold cosmic void, but a Magnificent Heavenly Domain shrouded in endless golden auspicious clouds and filled with Supreme Immortal Dao Law!

A terrifying coercion, surpassing the heavens and overlooking all things as ants, surged out from the rift like a tangible golden tide! The entire Burial Star Corridor wailed and trembled under this pressure, and countless shattered star rocks silently turned to dust! Even the Star Guardian, kneeling on one knee at the edge of the altar, instantly dimmed its burning ethereal blue flame eyes, and its body, composed of star dust, fluctuated violently, conveying an unbearable sense of oppression!

At the center of the rift, endless auspicious clouds churned, and a vague yet incomparably majestic Gold-Robed figure, stepping on a Golden Immortal Lotus, slowly descended!

Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy! True Body! Descends!

He did not fully step out of the rift; it seemed the laws of the Burial Star Corridor still held some repulsion toward him. But upon his vague face, a pair of eyes burning with Pure Golden Order Flames penetrated the spatial distance, instantly locking onto Chen Feng, covered in dark red crystal at the bottom of the shattered star rock pit, and Su Wanzhao, who was in a state of Deep Enlightenment above the altar!

“Fate-Stealing Renegade Seed... Chaos Star Remnant dao foundation?! And... Chaos Star Vortex Dao Body?!” The Immortal Envoy's voice carried a hint of uncontrollable shock and... even fiercer greed! “Good! Very good! Today, I shall use your broken dao foundations... to forge My Supreme Immortal dao foundation!”

He slowly raised a hand shrouded in golden light mist. In his palm, an ancient and profound Golden Immortal Decree, seemingly bearing the Laws of the Heavens, slowly emerged. The moment the Immortal Decree appeared, the Laws of the entire Burial Star Corridor twisted and wailed!

“Immortal Dao Tribulation Eye... Open!”

As the cold voice fell, the Golden Immortal Decree suddenly erupted with light piercing the heavens! At the center of the Decree, a vertical golden fissure, resembling the Eye of Heavenly Dao, slowly opened!

A terrifying Aura of Tribulation and Punishment, capable of freezing time and space and destroying ten thousand Daos, instantly locked onto Chen Feng at the bottom of the pit and Su Wanzhao above the altar!

The true catastrophe descended violently with the arrival of the Immortal Envoy's True Body!