41: Collapse countdown, body merges with the primordial chaos

"Ant... so you are here!"

A cold, majestic voice, containing supreme Immortal Dao Law and bone-deep hatred, exploded directly within Chen Feng's remaining Divine Soul fragments like thunder from the Nine Heavens!

The Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy!

At the very moment the Xuanhuang Realm Seal shattered and the Profound Yellow Mother Qi core was exposed, he had accurately torn through the barrier of this turbid world and descended!

Boom!

Following the Immortal Envoy's voice, which sounded like a Law of Heavenly Dao, a gigantic hand—wrapped in golden chains of order yet carrying an unstable aura—tore through the turbid sky above the ancestral hall.

Ignoring spatial distance, it carried a terrifying pressure that froze time and space and crushed all Dao, grabbing fiercely toward the core where energy was clashing violently below—Chen Feng's palm pressed against the stone tablet, and the torrent of Profound Yellow Mother Qi gushing from beneath it!

This grab had a clear target!

Not only did he want to completely crush Chen Feng, this anomaly who had escaped repeatedly and possessed a Heaven-Defying dao foundation, but he also wanted to forcibly seize the exposed, violent Profound Yellow Mother Qi core!

The Immortal Envoy's greedy gaze had already pierced through the turbid Evil Qi and seen the source "True Qi" hidden within the core, which nurtured all things!

A true disaster!

Attacked from within and without!

The Immortal Envoy's lethal hand was upon him!

The ground beneath his feet cracked, and the torrent of Profound Yellow Mother Qi rose into the sky like an apocalyptic tsunami, intending to swallow and assimilate everything!

"Ugh... Ah—!"

Under the pincer attack of dual destructive forces, Chen Feng let out a final, inhuman scream!

His body felt as if it had been thrown into the center of the vortex of the Universe's birth and end!

The terrifying Law suppression brought by the Immortal Envoy's giant hand caused the Profound Yellow Dao Seed he was forcibly driving to instantly verge on collapse!

The prototype of the Chaos Origin Point at the core flickered crazily, unstable!

And the torrent of Profound Yellow Mother Qi surging from beneath his feet was like billions of red-hot steel needles, frantically piercing and eroding his accelerating disintegrating Physical Body and dao foundation!

[Profound Yellow Dao Seed: External Law suppression (Immortal Dao)! Core Origin Point prototype shaking! Assimilation process interrupted! Verging on collapse!]

[Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation: Disintegration accelerating (11%)! Structure completely chaotic!]

[Physical Body: Critical damage! Life essence exhausted! Cracks spreading everywhere!]

[Immortal Curse erosion: Subjected to multiple impacts! Shackles loosening (0.01%)! Erosion speed briefly stalled...]

Death!

Annihilation of body and Soul!

It would happen in the next instant!

However, at the one-ten-thousandth of a second before his consciousness was about to be completely annihilated and everything returned to nothingness—

Hum!

Deep within Chen Feng's Dantian, the Profound Yellow Dao Seed core, which was on the verge of collapse due to the suppression of the giant Immortal Dao hand, and that prototype of the Chaos Origin Point, felt the absolute malice of the Immortal Envoy's pure Law of order, felt the pure Origin longing hidden in the torrent of Profound Yellow Mother Qi beneath his feet, and felt the desperate situation of his own impending annihilation... It was completely ignited!

A cold will, stemming from the deepest part of the fate disk nirvana mark, indifferent to life and death yet carrying an extreme madness born of desperation, mixed with the Profound Yellow Dao Seed's instinct to protect the Earth Mother Qi Origin, erupted!

"Ruins... Abyss... Bury... Immortal! Profound... Yellow... As... Guide!"

The cold thought exploded within Chen Feng's disintegrating consciousness fragments like a declaration of the Universe's end!

The Profound Yellow Dao Seed on the verge of collapse suddenly collapsed inward!

The prototype of the Chaos Origin Point no longer flickered but instantly solidified!

It transformed into a guixu xuanhuang origin point—imperceptible, yet emitting a terrifying aura capable of swallowing the heavens and assimilating all Origins!

The moment the Origin Point appeared, an indescribable, terrifying suction force was suddenly generated!

This suction was no longer limited to swallowing energy, but... swallowing "Law"!

Swallowing "existence" itself!

The first to bear the brunt was not the Immortal Envoy's giant hand, nor the torrent of Profound Yellow Mother Qi beneath his feet, but... Chen Feng's own accelerating disintegrating Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation!

Sizzle!

Like ice and snow under the sun!

The dark red lava Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation, covered in cracks and on the verge of disintegration, silently melted and annihilated the moment it touched the invisible force field of the guixu xuanhuang origin point!

The power of the Ruins Abyss, the remaining source of the star corpses, and even the golden light of the Immortal Curse wrapped around it... every existence was forcibly erased and assimilated!

It turned into the most primordial Chaos energy, frantically rushing into the newly born Origin Point!

[Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation: Completely disintegrated and annihilated! Energy swallowed and assimilated by the guixu xuanhuang origin point!]

[Immortal Curse erosion: Part of the shackle structure forcibly assimilated and annihilated by the Origin Point! Total erosion reduced (15%)! Remaining shackles loosening (0.02%)!]

Breaking then standing!

In a desperate situation, Chen Feng had actually actively sacrificed and annihilated his own heavily damaged Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation with the guixu xuanhuang origin point as the core!

He exchanged this for the Origin Point's instantaneous eruption and... the opportunity to break free from part of the Immortal Curse's shackles!

The Origin Point swallowed the remains of the dao foundation and erupted with unprecedented light!

It no longer passively endured, but actively rushed toward the descending giant hand of the Immortal Envoy and the soaring torrent of Profound Yellow Mother Qi!

Rumble!

Time seemed to be stretched and twisted at this moment.

The giant hand of the Immortal Envoy, wrapped in chains of order, carrying the will to crush the heavens, grabbed fiercely onto the guixu xuanhuang origin point!

No earth-shattering explosion!

Only a sound like shattering glass, crisp enough to freeze the Soul!

Sizzle!

The fingertip of the giant hand touching the Origin Point, that Immortal Dao Law power condensed into substance and capable of piercing stars, collided with the wall of sighs of the Universe and silently... melted!

The chains of order constituting the giant hand disintegrated and annihilated inch by inch!

It was as if it had been thrown into the absolute void of the Guixu Left Eye!

"What?!"

Outside the crack came the Immortal Envoy's unbelievable roar of shock and anger!

His blurry golden-robed figure fluctuated violently, clearly having suffered a terrifying backlash!

At the same time, the torrent of Profound Yellow Mother Qi rising into the sky also slammed into the Origin Point!

Hum!

This time, the Origin Point did not completely annihilate it, but acted like a huge, greedy filter!

The violent, turbid torrent was frantically torn and drawn in by the Origin Point's terrifying suction!

The Evil Qi, resentment, and miscellaneous thoughts of all living beings within it were instantly stripped, crushed, and turned into nothingness by the domineering guixu will!

Only the purest, most primordial Profound Yellow Mother Qi essence remained, greedily swallowed and absorbed by the Origin Point!

[guixu xuanhuang origin point: Swallowing and assimilating... Stripping away turbidity... Absorbing pure Profound Yellow Mother Qi... Form stabilizing and growing...]

Rumble!

The entire Black Stone Village seemed to be facing the end of the world!

The ancestral hall was completely turned into dust under the impact of the torrent of Profound Yellow Mother Qi!

The earth was like a boiling sea, rising and falling violently, arching up, and cracking open into bottomless chasms!

The turbid sky was torn apart, and the earthy yellow clouds rotated wildly, forming a huge vortex!

Mountains collapsed, and rivers flowed backward!

Countless villagers were swallowed by the churning earth in terrified screams and turned into dust by the erupting turbid energy!

The entire Xuanhuang Realm, with Black Stone Village as the core, began an irreversible... Great Collapse!

"The... Realm... has... collapsed..."

Old Man Shi had long been scared silly by the terrifying scene, lying paralyzed on the cracked ground, watching Chen Feng, who was suspended in mid-air like a demon god and shrouded in the light of the Origin Point, and the giant hand of the Immortal Envoy tearing through the sky, his mouth emitting unconscious mutters.

And at this moment, while the Origin Point core was frantically swallowing and converting pure Profound Yellow Mother Qi, a stream of Profound Yellow Mother Qi, far purer and more vast than before and carrying the will of the Earth's creation, was forcibly guided and poured toward the direction of the earthen kang like a breached galaxy!

The target—Su Wanzhao!

This was no longer a trickle, but a torrent of Origin that Chen Feng had forcibly plundered and converted at the cost of the annihilation of his own dao foundation!

Hum!

That stream of pure and vast torrent of Profound Yellow Mother Qi, like the Milky Way pouring backward from the Nine Heavens, instantly submerged Su Wanzhao's exhausted, cold body whose fire of life was about to be completely extinguished!

"Ugh...!"

Su Wanzhao, who had been in a deep coma with a breath as thin as a thread, trembled violently under the impact of this majestic, creative power originating from the Earth Mother Qi Origin!

Although her tightly closed eyes did not open, the Star Vortex imprint between her eyebrows, which had long been so dim it almost disappeared, suddenly erupted with unprecedented, brilliant silver-blue light as if injected with the primordial vitality of the Universe!

The deep phantom of the Star Vortex Universe appeared again!

It was no longer dim and on the verge of collapse, but rotating and expanding frantically at an unprecedented speed!

At the center of the Star Vortex, the gray-silver Chaos light point erupted with blinding light under the nourishment of the pure Profound Yellow Mother Qi, like a supernova explosion!

[Chaos Star Vortex Dao Body: Forcibly activated! Origin remodeling (1%... 5%... 10%...)! Fire of life reignited! Star Vortex Barrier reconstructed!]

[Immortal Curse erosion: Impacted by the majestic Profound Yellow Mother Qi Origin! Erosion structure disintegrated (30%)! Remaining erosion forcibly suppressed!]

A trace of color instantly returned to Su Wanzhao's paper-white cheeks!

Her exhausted Origin, like a dried-up riverbed welcoming the sweet rain from the Nine Heavens, began to reshape and strengthen at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The entrenched Immortal Curse, in the face of this creative power originating from the world's Origin, melted rapidly like ice and snow under the scorching sun!

However, this crazy plunder and conversion was devastating for Chen Feng!

"Pfft—!"

Chen Feng spat out a large mouthful of liquid mixed with dark gold crystal fragments and gray-black filthy blood!

His body suspended in mid-air trembled and twisted violently!

The Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation was completely annihilated, and his only source of power left was the guixu xuanhuang origin point that was frantically rotating and swallowing everything!

Losing the support of the dao foundation, his Physical Body accelerated its disintegration under the dual pulling of the Origin Point's violent power and the outside world's destructive energy!

The dark red crystal carapace on his body surface shattered and peeled off inch by inch, revealing the skin beneath that was full of cracks like broken glass, and golden-red blood mixed with gray-black turbid energy continuously seeped out!

[Physical Body: dao foundation annihilation backlash! Accelerated disintegration (40%)! Life essence exhausted!]

[guixu xuanhuang origin point: Energy overload (core swallowing and conversion)! Form unstable! Connection with Physical Body fragile! Warning: May detach or backfire on the host at any time!]

What was even more terrifying was that after the initial shock and anger, the Immortal Envoy was already furious!

"Scoundrel! How dare you destroy my Immortal Law! Steal the Mother Qi! Die for this seat—Annihilate!"

Outside the crack, the Immortal Envoy's blurry figure erupted with blinding golden light!

He clearly no longer cared about the backlash, the golden Immortal Command again appeared, and white-hot Immortal flames flowed from the cracks on it!

A Law fluctuation, more terrifying than the previous Star-Slashing Platform and containing the will to annihilate all realms and reset the Universe, ignored the Chaos of the realm collapse and slammed into locking onto Chen Feng and his core Origin Point!

A kill shot!

True annihilation of body and Soul!

"Twelve... hours..."

Just at the moment when his consciousness was about to be completely torn apart by intense pain and the Origin Point overload, Zhang Shouzhuo's weak but clear thought before he died rang out frantically in the depths of Chen Feng's chaotic Divine Soul like a final alarm bell!

Twelve hours!

The final... time window for the Xuanhuang Realm to collapse that Zhang Shouzhuo had exchanged his life for!

It was also his only hope to merge with the Origin Point, control the Mother Qi, and save Su Wanzhao...!

"The... Realm... collapse... is... accelerating..."

Chen Feng's blood-stained mouth curled into an extremely crazy arc, the Guixu Left Eye and Xuanhuang Right Eye coexisting strangely, staring fixedly at the Immortal Envoy's imminent kill shot, and then looking at Su Wanzhao below, whose Origin was reshaping and whose aura was rising rapidly in the torrent of Profound Yellow Mother Qi.

Flee?

Nowhere to flee!

Fight?

Striking a stone with an egg!

The only path to survival... was deep in the collapsing earth beneath his feet!

In the source of the torrent of Profound Yellow Mother Qi being frantically swallowed by the Origin Point!

In the core node of the Profound Yellow Mother Qi that was being exposed!

"Merge... with... Profound... Yellow!"

A hoarse, broken, yet desperate roar squeezed out from the depths of Chen Feng's throat!

He no longer resisted the Immortal Envoy's lock-on, no longer tried to stabilize the Origin Point that was on the verge of detaching, but instead... used his last remaining will to guide the guixu xuanhuang origin point, which was rotating violently and swallowing everything, together with his own accelerating disintegrating Physical Body, like a meteorite falling to the ground, and slammed into the core of the Xuanhuang Realm's collapse beneath his feet—the place where the Profound Yellow Mother Qi was gushing and a huge abyss was cracking open!

Rumble!

Chen Feng's figure was instantly completely swallowed by the churning Profound Yellow Mother Qi and the cracked earth fragments!

Only a huge Chaos vortex remained in place, frantically rotating and swallowing all energy and matter!

At the edge of the vortex, the gray-black guixu will power and the earthy yellow Profound Yellow Mother Qi frantically intertwined, annihilated, and fused!

The Immortal Envoy's condensed-to-the-extreme annihilation Immortal Law slammed onto the vortex!

Boom!

The blinding light instantly swallowed everything!

The annihilation of Law, the clash of energy, the wailing of the realm... formed a chaotic storm of destruction!

In the center of the storm, the huge Chaos vortex vibrated and twisted violently, but it was not completely destroyed.

Instead, under the terrifying pressure of the Immortal Law, it was like a forged iron billet, rotating even more violently!

Swallowing even more cruelly!

A more primitive, more chaotic, terrifying aura that fused the annihilation of the Guixu and the creation of the Profound Yellow was struggling to conceive in the center of that destructive storm!

"Roar—!"

The Immortal Envoy let out an unwilling roar!

He felt that deep in the vortex, the aura of that anomaly had not disappeared, but was forcibly merging with the source of the collapsing Xuanhuang Realm!

A more terrifying variable beyond his control was being born!

"Last Light... Twelve... hours..."

Deep in the vortex, Chen Feng's last remaining thought, like a candle in the wind, was transmitted with difficulty to the beautiful figure reshaping in the torrent of Mother Qi.

The Xuanhuang Realm accelerated its collapse in wailing, and the countdown began.

The guixu xuanhuang origin point conceived new life in destruction.

Su Wanzhao reshaped her dao foundation in the torrent of creation.

The Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy watched like a tiger from outside the realm.

Twelve hours—it was the end, and also... the beginning of transcendence.