34: The ruins of fallen stars, the immortal messenger's path wounded.

"Immortal Envoy... today... the Land of Falling Stars... shall be your... Ruin of Dao Fall!"

Su Wanzhao's icy voice, wrapped in newborn Star Will and chaotic wildness, struck the Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy's mind like a raging stellar tsunami! She broke free from the cage, suspended in the void. Her Star Radiance Battle Skirt fluttered without wind, and the deep Star Vortex Universe in her glabella circulated the light of destruction and rebirth, subtly stirring the residual Star Will of the entire Burial Star Corridor, transforming it into an invisible pressure that stood in opposition to the Immortal Dao Auspicious Clouds!

At the bottom of the deep pit, the vortex above Chen Feng's head, which faintly revealed the Origin Point of Returning Ruins, tightly "bit" the dim, law-disintegrating Immortal Dao Karmic Punishment Turning Wheel like a greedy Taotie, frantically tearing and swallowing it! The golden tribulation lightning that formed the Turning Wheel was forcefully stretched and decomposed, turning into a pure yet destructive torrent of energy, which was ruthlessly assimilated and absorbed by the Origin Point of Returning Ruins! [Immortal Dao Karmic Punishment Turning Wheel: Law Disintegration (60%)! Energy Swallowed (50%)! On the verge of collapse!]

[Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation: Currently swallowing Immortal Dao Karmic Punishment energy... Core ruins abyss imprint strengthening... dao foundation stability increasing (slight)... External pressure sharply reduced...]

A threat! A naked threat!

The Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy's blurred face twisted violently beneath the Golden Cloud Mist! The Golden Flames of Order burning in his eyes flared up, almost bursting out! Shock, fury, greed, and a trace of... dread that he himself was unwilling to admit, gnawed at his Immortal Heart like a venomous snake!

A mere Foundation Establishment ant! Possessing a Heaven-Defying dao foundation is unheard of throughout the ages! Yet, while his True Body descended and activated the Eye of Immortal Dao Karmic Punishment, one managed to break free from the Seal, and the other forcibly swallowed the tribulation! Such an anomaly is no longer a mere opportunity, but a... critical hidden danger! He must be completely wiped out at all costs before his dao foundation is fully stabilized and his wings are fully grown!

"Good! Very good!" The Immortal Envoy's voice was no longer icy, but a suppressed, lava-like rasp, "Rebellious Species are rampant, blaspheming Immortal Might! Today, this Lord shall let you know what... true Immortal dao foundation is!"

Before his voice faded, his hands, shrouded in golden light mist, abruptly clasped together before his chest, forming a complex and profound Ancient Seal that seemed capable of influencing the trajectories of the stars in the heavens! The hovering Golden Immortal Edict, as if summoned, instantly flew between his palms!

"In the name of my Immortal Edict! I summon... Heavenly... Star... Severing... Platform!"

RUMBLE—!!!

Following the Immortal Envoy's decree, which sounded as if it had exhausted all his strength yet carried supreme majesty, the Heavenly Domain of Golden Auspicious Clouds above the Burial Star Corridor suddenly boiled! The endless auspicious clouds were stirred by an invisible giant hand, frantically collapsing inward and condensing! An aura of terror, far older and more ancient than the previous karmic punishment, containing the power to sever the life force of stars and annihilate the Star River Source, descended with a crash!

In the center of the auspicious clouds, an unimaginably massive phantom slowly condensed into form!

It was not a tower or a palace, but a... guillotine! A Star Severing Platform! It was constructed from countless broken Star Chains, shattered Star Core Remnants, and solidified Star Cloud Tribulation Ash! Its form was gruesome, its momentum magnificent. Merely the manifestation of its phantom caused the space of the entire Burial Star Corridor to groan under the unbearable weight, and countless stellar fragments silently turned to dust! Even the Star Will mobilized by Su Wanzhao was forcefully suppressed and scattered!

Above the phantom of the Star Severing Platform, a dark gold execution blade, also formed by a phantom but radiating an aura that severed karma and annihilated reincarnation, slowly lifted! The edge of the blade was not physical, but flowed with countless fine black runes representing ultimate laws like "Star Fall," "Dao Destruction," and "Soul Obliteration"! The target locked by the execution blade was precisely Chen Feng and Su Wanzhao below, whose auras were linked, along with their Heaven-Defying Chaos Star Vortex Dao Body and Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation!

"Sever!"

The Immortal Envoy slammed his palms down! He spat out a mouthful of pale gold Immortal Essence Blood, which merged into the Golden Immortal Edict before him! The Immortal Edict erupted with light that pierced the heavens, instantly sinking into the phantom of the Star Severing Platform!

HMM—!!!

The phantom of the Star Severing Platform suddenly solidified by several degrees! That dark gold law execution blade, carrying the terrifying will to sever all ages and annihilate star rivers, ignored spatial distance and crashed down toward the heads of Chen Feng and Su Wanzhao!

This severing was not a physical attack, but... annihilation at the law level! It was meant to sever their Karmic Links to their own dao foundations! Annihilate their source cores! And grind away their True Souls! In the truest sense, it was... eradication from the root of existence!

Before the execution blade arrived, a Power of Annihilation that froze thought and dissolved will had already descended!

"Pfft!" "Pfft!"

Chen Feng and Su Wanzhao simultaneously spat out large mouthfuls of blood (Chen Feng's was dark gold, Su Wanzhao's was silver-gray)! The Ruin's Abyss Vortex above Chen Feng's head, which was swallowing the Turning Wheel, instantly collapsed! The ruins abyss imprint wailed and shrank back into the depths of his dao foundation! The Dark Red Crystal Carapace covering his body cracked inch by inch! [Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation: External law suppression (Star Severing Annihilation)! Core silenced (forced)! dao foundation cracks increasing (5%)! Warning!]

The rotation of the deep Star Vortex Universe in Su Wanzhao's glabella abruptly halted! The Star Vortex Barrier flickered erratically, instantly covered in fine black cracks! Her beautiful face was pale as paper, and her aura instantly withered! [Chaos Star Vortex Dao Body: Star Vortex Barrier on the verge of shattering! Source injured (10%)! Law suppression (Star Severing Annihilation)! Status: Critical!]

The shadow of death had never been so cold, direct, and irresistible! The Immortal Envoy's True Body summoned the phantom of the Heavenly Star Severing Platform, expending his Immortal Essence Blood for this ultimate killing blow! Its power far surpassed the previous karmic punishment!

Just as the dark gold law execution blade was about to strike, annihilating both their dao foundations and souls—

HMM!

An unexpected change occurred!

It did not come from Chen Feng or Su Wanzhao, but... from the Burial Star Corridor itself! From the countless Star Corpses that had been silent for hundreds of millions of years!

When the law aura of the Star Severing Platform, which annihilated stars, descended, and when the Immortal Dao Will of the Immortal Envoy, full of plunder and destruction, was released without reservation, this ancient graveyard, constructed from the Star Sadness Vow and Dead Silent Will of countless stars, was finally... thoroughly enraged!

RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE—!!!

The entire Burial Star Corridor shook violently! It was even more ferocious than when the Star Remnant Giant Beast had rampaged earlier! Countless massive Star Remnants, regardless of size or material, simultaneously lit up with a faint but incredibly stubborn light! This light was not energy, but... the last remaining fragments of unwillingness, sorrow, and protection left by countless stars before their demise!

These faint lights converged into a stream, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, ignoring spatial barriers and instantly surging toward the Altar! They surged toward the last trace of the Core of Remnant Consciousness of the Star Guardian, who had long since turned to dust, kneeling on one knee!

"Star... Fall... Un... Yielding..."

A collective thought, formed by the lingering consciousness of billions of stars, filled with endless grief, indignation, and resolve, boomed throughout every corner of the Corridor!

The next moment!

Above the Altar, the nine massive Black Star Monuments, whose surfaces flowed with Star Veins, suddenly burst forth with a dark blue glare that pierced the Immortal Dao Auspicious Clouds! Countless Ancient Star Maps on the monuments, long since dimmed and covered in dust, instantly lit up and burned! A Vast Star Will, which had slept for countless ages and far surpassed that which the previous Guardian had mobilized, violently awakened!

This Will carried the sorrow of stellar annihilation, the monstrous hatred for the invaders, and a kind of... mutual destruction resolve!

"With... Ten... Thousand... Stars'... Remnants... Bury... Your... Immortal... Dao!"

BOOM—!!!

In the center of the nine burning Black Star Monuments, where the fragments of the star core had previously floated, an enormous dark blue vortex, condensed from pure Star Sadness Vow and Dead Silent Will, materialized out of thin air! The vortex spun, emitting an aura of annihilation older and purer than that of the Star Severing Platform! It did not attack Chen Feng or Su Wanzhao, but... like a massive, inverted Ruin's Abyss Eye, its target was directed straight at the descending phantom of the Star Severing Platform above, and... the blurred Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy's True Body at the center of the rift!

The ultimate counterattack of the Burial Star Corridor—the Ten Thousand Stars Burying Immortals Vortex!

HMM!!!

The instant the dark blue Burying Immortals Vortex appeared, the dark gold law execution blade, which was about to strike, slowed abruptly, as if stuck in an extremely viscous stellar mire! The annihilation law runes on it flickered and collapsed wildly! The phantom of the Star Severing Platform violently shook, its edges becoming blurred and unstable!

"What?!" The Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy cried out in shock, his voice carrying clear horror for the first time! "Star Sadness Vow Backlash?! Impossible! A mere graveyard of remnants..."

Before he could finish speaking!

RUMBLE—!!!

The massive dark blue Burying Immortals Vortex suddenly erupted! A dark blue beam of light, condensed to the extreme, as if compressed from the last bit of light of billions of stars before death, ignored spatial distance and fiercely slammed into the phantom of the Star Severing Platform, carrying the supreme will to bury all immortals and annihilate the Dao of Heaven!

There was no earth-shattering explosion!

Only a crisp sound, like shattering glazed glass, that terrified the soul!

CRACK—LE—!

The phantom of the Star Severing Platform, condensed from the Immortal Envoy's Immortal Essence Blood and Immortal Dao laws, was instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks the moment it touched the dark blue light beam, as if it had been thrown into the core of the stellar graveyard! The law structure forming the phantom was forcibly eroded and disintegrated by the pure Star Sadness Vow and Dead Silent Will! The entire phantom trembled violently, its light rapidly dimming!

Pfft—!

At the center of the rift, the Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy was struck as if by a heavy hammer! The Golden Light Mist covering his body fluctuated violently, and he violently spat out a large mouthful of pale gold Natal Essence Blood, thick with the aura of Immortal Dao laws! His blurred face became clear for a moment, revealing the face of a majestic middle-aged man, now etched with shock and pain!

The phantom of the Star Severing Platform was connected to his mind; the severe injury to the phantom immediately caused a terrifying backlash to his True Body!

"Ants... destroyed... my... Dao... Foundation...!" The Immortal Envoy let out a painful and resentful roar, his gaze toward Chen Feng and Su Wanzhao below filled with deep-seated hatred! He knew that if not for these two rebellious species stirring up the Star Sadness Vow, he would never have suffered such severe injuries!

However, the counterattack of the Burial Star Corridor did not stop!

After shattering the phantom of the Star Severing Platform, the dark blue Burying Immortals Light Beam, its momentum undiminished, shot like a vengeful venomous dragon, following the aura of the Natal Essence Blood spat out by the Immortal Envoy, fiercely bombarding the blurred golden figure at the center of the rift!

"How dare you!" The Immortal Envoy was furious and terrified, instantly placing the Golden Immortal Edict in front of him!

BOOM—!!!

The dark blue light beam slammed hard into the Golden Immortal Edict! Blinding light instantly swallowed the rift! A terrifying energy storm swept out!

"Ah—!"

A scream of extreme agony came from the center of the light! Faintly visible, a subtle but hideous crack was actually blasted onto the surface of the ancient and powerful Golden Immortal Edict! And the Immortal Envoy's blurred figure was violently blasted away like a broken kite, crashing into the rolling Golden Auspicious Clouds outside the rift! Only a string of pale gold blood beads, radiating the aura of Immortal Dao Source, scattered across the Burial Star Corridor like falling stars!

The Immortal Envoy... was severely injured! His dao foundation was damaged! His Immortal Artifact was cracked!

The phantom of the Star Severing Platform completely shattered, dissolving into scattered golden light points. The dark blue Burying Immortals Vortex, which had exhausted the last power of the Burial Star Corridor's sorrowful vow, slowly dissipated as well. The nine massive Black Star Monuments lost all light, their surface star maps completely collapsed, turning into ordinary huge black stones, even covered in cracks. The entire Burial Star Corridor seemed to have exhausted its last ounce of strength, becoming even more dead and ruined.

Thump! Thump!

Chen Feng and Su Wanzhao simultaneously fell from the air, crashing heavily onto the stellar fragments.

The Dark Red Crystal Carapace on Chen Feng's body was covered in cracks, the Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation in his Dantian was silent, and the core ruins abyss imprint was dim and lifeless, transmitting fluctuations of exhaustion and severe injury. [Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation: Severely injured and silent... Core ruins abyss imprint exhausted... Cracks (8%)...]

The light of the Star Vortex Universe in Su Wanzhao's glabella was dim, its rotation nearly stopped. Silver-gray blood continuously spilled from the corner of her mouth, and her aura was extremely weak. [Chaos Star Vortex Dao Body: Source severely injured (20%)! Star Vortex silent... Status: Dying...]

Struggling, the two looked up at the massive spatial rift that was slowly closing, and the Golden Auspicious Clouds rolling outside the rift. Although the Immortal Envoy was severely injured and forced back, his resentful consciousness lingered in this space like a maggot in the bone.

"Go... must... leave immediately..." Su Wanzhao squeezed out hoarse words from her blood-stained lips, her icy gaze fixed on Chen Feng, carrying an undeniable resolve. The Immortal Envoy could return at any moment, and in their current state, they could absolutely not withstand another attack!

Madness and calm intertwined in Chen Feng's chaotic left eye, and he nodded heavily. Enduring the intense pain, he staggered to Su Wanzhao's side and carried her cold body onto his back.

Just then, in the direction of the Altar, the last trace of the Core of Remnant Consciousness of the Star Guardian, which had long turned to dust, flickered extremely faintly upon sensing Su Wanzhao's (Star Lord's) critical aura. A subtle, Faint Blue Star Fire, like a final glow, drifted and merged into a large, cracked Black Stone Monument at the edge of the Altar.

Hmm... That massive Black Stone Monument trembled slightly. A tiny crack on its surface slowly seeped out faint Spatial Fluctuations, forming a highly unstable Faint Blue Spatial Vortex, just wide enough for one person to pass through. The other end of the vortex had a chaotic and unfamiliar aura, clearly leading to an unknown place.

This was the Guardian's final power, opening an... escape route for the Star Lord!

Chen Feng did not hesitate. Carrying the weak Su Wanzhao on his back, he stepped into the Faint Blue Vortex!

The moment their figures vanished—

"Rebellious Species! Where do you think you're going—!!!"

Outside the rift, the Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy's roar, full of resentment and madness, descended again, wrapped in terrifying Immortal Might! A Heaven-Shrouding Giant Hand, wrapped in Golden Chains of Order but carrying a hint of instability, fiercely grabbed at the rapidly dissipating Faint Blue Vortex!

BOOM!!!

The giant hand grabbed empty air, only crushing the last spatial ripple. All that remained was the dead silent Burial Star Corridor, the shattered Altar, and... the Immortal Envoy's unwilling and furious roar, echoing throughout the broken space for a long time.

Inside the Faint Blue Vortex, spatial turbulence cut at their bodies like billions of sharp blades.

Chen Feng desperately protected Su Wanzhao on his back, his consciousness sinking into pain and exhaustion.

The road ahead was unknown, and the powerful enemy was not dead.

But as long as they lived, there was hope.

The Light of Resonance, blooming from the Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation and the Chaos Star Vortex Dao Body in desperation, had ignited the first wisp of... Undying Star Fire for this Path of Heavenly Transcendence.

To be continued.