42: Boundary Core Returns to Ruins, Stardust Begins to Resonate

Chaos. Annihilation. Creation.

The concepts of time and space completely vanished amidst absolute disintegration and reshaping.

Chen Feng felt as if he had been cast into the center of a cosmic singularity, only to be thrown into the abyss of the Returning Ruins where all things end in the next instant.

Physical Body? It had long since been crushed into the most basic particles the moment he actively collided with the disintegrating core of the Xuanhuang Realm, pulverized by the violent torrent of filthy Profound Yellow Mother Qi and the counter-impact of destructive Laws!

Consciousness? It was like a candle in the wind, torn into billions of fragments within the chaotic storm of Returning Ruins and creation!

Only one core remained—that guixu xuanhuang origin point which had forcibly devoured his own Star Returning Ruins Dao Foundation, fused with a portion of the essence of Profound Yellow Mother Qi, and been forcibly "forged" under the bombardment of the Immortal Envoy's Annihilation Immortal Law—spinning and pulsating crazily in the center of the chaotic storm like a newborn, violent star in a dark Universe!

At this moment, it was no longer a base point attached to Chen Feng's Dantian, but rather... it had become the temporary "carrier" for the shattered core of this Xuanhuang Realm that was currently disintegrating!

Like a greedy, out-of-control black hole, it was madly devouring the filthy Profound Yellow Mother Qi surging from all directions, the fragments of disintegrating mountains and rivers, the resentful wails of billions of living beings before their annihilation, and even... the broken Law remnants of this world!

【guixu xuanhuang origin point (World Core Prototype): Forced Fusion in progress... Devouring disintegrating Origin of the Xuanhuang Realm (Filthy State)... Stripping and Assimilating... Energy index soaring... Form extremely unstable... Warning: May lose control and explode or collapse into the Returning Ruins at any moment!】

Excruciating pain! Tearing! Annihilation! Every sensation transcended the limits of the Physical Body, acting upon the deepest depths of his consciousness!

Every crazy rotation and devouring action of the Origin Point was like billions of red-hot files, fiercely scraping against the remaining fragments of Chen Feng's Divine Soul!

The guixu will that constituted the Origin Point and the creative power of the Profound Yellow clashed and merged violently amidst the wild devouring, like two Universes colliding crazily within a tiny singularity!

"Shou... Zhuo..."

Just at the moment when his consciousness was about to be completely obliterated by this endless pain and Chaos, a faint yet incomparably clear thought, like the only cursor of light in the darkness, pierced through the chaotic storm!

It was Zhang Shouzhuo! No, it was that wisp of protective will that Zhang Shouzhuo had finally merged into the ancestral hall's stone tablet. Amidst the cataclysm of the Xuanhuang Realm's core disintegration and the Origin Point's forced devouring and Fusion, it had been awakened, assimilated, and become the only "anchor point" within this violent Origin Point that carried a clear, protective will!

This wisp of will was now acting like the most precise navigator, guiding the violently rotating Origin Point to accurately capture, strip, and devour those extremely rare—yet containing the initial, purest Origin of this world—Profound Yellow Mother Qi "True Seeds" from within the endless torrent of filthy Profound Yellow Mother Qi and fragments of disintegrating Laws!

It was like panning for the most brilliant gold sand in a muddy debris flow!

"Guide... True... Suppress... Filth..." Zhang Shouzhuo's thought fragments struggled to transmit within the Origin Point storm.

Chen Feng's remaining consciousness grasped at it like a life-saving straw, desperately clinging to this wisp of protective will!

He no longer tried to control that violent Origin Point, but instead poured all his thoughts, all his survival instincts, all his... obsession with Su Wanzhao, entirely into guiding the Origin Point to devour and strip away those rare, pure "True Seeds"!

Boom—!!!

Nourished by the pure True Seeds, the Origin Point core erupted with a brief, relatively stable, intense light!

The chaotic form seemed to solidify for an instant!

A pure and vast torrent of energy, containing the will of earth's creation and the balance of the Returning Ruins, was forcibly split off by the Origin Point under the guidance of the protective will. Ignoring the obstruction of the chaotic storm, it projected toward a specific direction within the disintegrating realm—the location where Su Wanzhao was!

Realm Disintegration Layer · Profound Yellow Mother Qi Reshaping Vortex

Su Wanzhao floated within a huge energy cocoon made of pure Profound Yellow Mother Qi.

The cocoon walls flowed with earth-yellow light of the Origin, but the interior was not calm.

Her eyes were tightly closed, and her beautiful face had recovered its jade-like luster under the nourishment of the pure Mother Qi, while the Chaos Star Vortex mark on her forehead was spinning and expanding crazily with unprecedented, brilliant light!

That deep phantom of the Star Vortex Universe had now solidified, appearing like a real miniature Universe!

At the center, that gray-silver point of chaotic light, under the infusion of the majestic Profound Yellow Mother Qi, erupted like a supernova, transforming into a slowly rotating—Chaos Star Vortex core—constructed from both chaotic Qi currents and Star Vortex essence!

【Chaos Star Vortex Dao Body: Reshaping accelerating (50%... 60%...)! Star Vortex core stable! Origin qualitative change (Profound Yellow Fusion)! Flame of life vigorous!】

However, the reshaping was not all smooth sailing!

That remaining Immortal Curse, like the most stubborn tumor, not only failed to disintegrate under the impact of the majestic Profound Yellow Origin, but instead, like an enraged venomous snake, erupted with its final madness!

Countless tiny yet incomparably tough golden chains of order, like maggots attached to bones, drilled out from the depths of her reshaping Origin. Ignoring the scouring of the Profound Yellow Mother Qi, they carried the supreme will to freeze thoughts and disintegrate Laws, fiercely wrapping around and tightening toward the newborn Chaos Star Vortex core!

【Immortal Curse Erosion (Residual): Ultimate counterattack! Target: Pollute/Destroy Star Vortex core!】

"Argh—!"

Su Wanzhao, who was in the midst of deep reshaping, suddenly trembled violently! A painful muffled groan escaped her lips!

The brilliant Star Vortex mark on her forehead dimmed instantly, its rotation nearly coming to a halt!

The newborn Star Vortex core was tightly wrapped and constricted by the golden chains, emitting a groan of being overwhelmed! The newly stabilized Origin vibrated violently once more!

【Chaos Star Vortex Dao Body: Reshaping obstructed (70%)! Star Vortex core damaged! Immortal Curse erosion intensifying!】

The shadow of death, following the ultimate counterattack of the Immortal Curse, loomed once again!

Just at this critical moment—Hum!!!

That torrent of energy projected from Chen Feng's Origin Point, which had fused the essence of the guixu xuanhuang origin point with the protective will, struck into the energy cocoon where Su Wanzhao was like a light of creation tearing through Chaos!

This energy was not pure Profound Yellow Mother Qi, but contained the domineering will of the Guixu Origin Point that annihilates all things and assimilates Laws!

Like the most precise scalpel, it instantly slashed onto the golden Immortal Curse chains wrapping around the Star Vortex core!

Sizzle—!!!

Like a red-hot iron pressed onto ice! The golden chains containing the supreme order of the Immortal Dao emitted a piercing wail before the annihilation power of the Guixu Origin Point, which stood above ordinary Laws!

The order runes constituting the chains flickered and collapsed crazily! A portion of the chains themselves was forcibly melted and annihilated!

"Break!"

A cold, indifferent thought, mixed with Chen Feng's final obsession and the will of the Origin Point, exploded within Su Wanzhao's Divine Soul!

Taking advantage of this one-in-ten-thousandth-of-a-second opportunity, Su Wanzhao's consciousness, which had been suppressed by pain and the Immortal Curse, was abruptly awakened under the stimulation of the protective will!

"Annihilation... Star Vortex... Explode!"

Her tightly closed eyes snapped open! In them, it was no longer the cold moonlight, but... a cosmic storm burning, cold, and containing the will of chaotic destruction and falling stars!

The dimmed Star Vortex mark on her forehead erupted with unprecedented light! The newborn Chaos Star Vortex core no longer resisted passively, but reversed crazily at an unprecedented speed!

Boom—!!!

A torrent of destruction, condensed from nearly half the Origin after the reshaping of the Chaos Star Vortex Dao Body, mixed with the annihilation power of the Guixu Origin Point and Su Wanzhao's own annihilation will, erupted from the reversing Star Vortex core like the ultimate flash of a supernova explosion!

Target—the remaining Immortal Curse chains wrapped around her body!

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Like crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood! Under the pincer attack of the dual internal and external powers of destruction, those incomparably tough chains representing the supreme order of the Immortal Dao snapped and annihilated, inch by inch!

The core runes constituting the Immortal Curse were like weathered stone carvings, instantly turning into fly ash!

【Immortal Curse Erosion: Core structure completely disintegrated! Residual energy annihilated!】

Immortal Curse... Broken!

"Pfft!" Su Wanzhao spat out a mouthful of blood (Immortal Curse residue) tinged with a faint golden glow, but her aura instantly skyrocketed!

The Star Vortex Universe on her forehead shone brilliantly, its rotation becoming smoother and more stable than ever before!

Her aura was restrained yet vast, like a newborn Star Domain Dominator!

【Chaos Star Vortex Dao Body: Reshaping complete (100%)! Origin qualitative change (Fusion of Profound Yellow · Chaos Star Vortex)! Status: Stable!】

On her exquisitely beautiful face, there was no longer a trace of pain, only cold determination and a hint of... a palpitation stemming from the depths of her Soul.

She suddenly raised her head, her gaze piercing through the churning Chaos Mother Qi and the disintegrating spatial turbulence, locking firmly onto the core of the storm—the guixu xuanhuang origin point, which was frantically devouring and fusing with the disintegrating Origin of the Xuanhuang Realm!

She clearly sensed, deep within the Origin point, Chen Feng's remnant will, which was like a candle in the wind, yet holding on tenaciously!

"Chen... Feng..." A whisper, carrying the clear resonance and determination of the first cry of a Star Vortex.

Core of the Chaos Storm · Origin Point of Returning Ruins

"Roar——!!!"

Outside the Chaos storm where the realm was disintegrating, came the Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy's suppressed yet furious roar, like that of a wounded Vicious Beast!

He watched helplessly as Chen Feng merged his body with the embryonic form of the realm core, and watched as Su Wanzhao, with his "help," broke the Immortal Curse and reshaped her Dao Body!

He watched as the guixu xuanhuang origin point, in the process of devouring the disintegrating Origin of the realm, grew increasingly terrifying and elusive in its aura!

This was no longer a simple anomaly! It was a Chaos calamity currently gestating, one capable of threatening his Immortal dao foundation!

"Realm-stealing rebel! How dare you!"

The Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy's blurred figure fluctuated violently outside the rift. The golden Immortal Artifact, with blazing white immortal flames flowing from its cracks, appeared once more. This time, its light was so blinding that it caused the edges of the disintegrating Xuanhuang Realm to distort!

"By my Immortal Edict! I command the heavens! Descend... Ten Thousand... Dao... Tribulation... Chains! Lock... the Realm... Refine... the Origin!"

Boom——!!!

Following the Immortal Envoy's edict, which exhausted his immortal essence and carried supreme majesty and madness, the golden Immortal Artifact exploded with a roar!

It transformed into countless fine golden chains, burning with blazing white immortal flames and branded with various Tribulation Laws (Law-breaking, Soul-shattering, Dao-burning, Annihilation, Suppression...)!

These chains ignored the chaotic Laws of the disintegrating realm, and like billions of world-destroying venomous dragons, they instantly pierced through the Chaos storm, striking fiercely at the frantically rotating guixu xuanhuang origin point at the core of the storm!

Their goal was no longer destruction, but... to forcibly lock and refine this newborn embryonic realm core!

Ten Thousand Dao Tribulation Chains! This was the Immortal Envoy's trump card, a forbidden immortal art capable of locking the Origin of a Small World!

He intended to refine this gestating Chaos calamity, along with the entire remains of the disintegrating Xuanhuang Realm, for his own use!

Sss! Sss! Sss!

Billions of chains burning with immortal flames instantly pierced into the violently rotating Origin point force field!

This time, the power of the Origin point's annihilation Law, under the superimposed impact of ten thousand different Tribulation Laws, could not immediately dissolve them!

The blazing white immortal flames scorched the Chaos shell of the Origin point, and countless fine golden Tribulation runes, like living creatures, spread wildly along the chains, attempting to brand, erode, and control the core of the Origin point!

【guixu xuanhuang origin point (embryonic realm core): Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Law Tribulation Chains invasion! Law erosion! Refinement process initiated! Assimilation efficiency plummeted! Form oscillating violently! Warning: Core consciousness (Chen Feng) under attack by Immortal Dao will!】

"Ugh... ah——!!!"

Deep within the Origin point, Chen Feng's remnant Divine Soul fragments felt as if they were being pierced simultaneously by billions of red-hot steel needles!

The Immortal Envoy's terrifying Divine Thought, cold, greedy, and carrying a supreme will of refinement, bombarded him along the chains, intending to completely extinguish his last shred of consciousness and brand him as a slave!

At the same time, the erosion of the Ten Thousand Dao Tribulation Chains severely interfered with the Origin point's process of devouring and assimilating the disintegrating Origin of the Xuanhuang Realm, causing the efficiency of stripping the pure "True Seed" to plummet, and making the guidance of the protective will extremely difficult!

Attacked from both inside and out! Consciousness about to be extinguished! Origin point about to be refined!

"Twelve... hours... past... halfway..." The fragments of the protective will, under the Immortal Dao impact, struggled to convey the warning of passing time.

Despair! Like the cold deep freeze of the Universe, it engulfed Chen Feng once again.

Just at this moment——

Hum!!!

A brilliant, silver-blue light, carrying the clear resonance of the first cry of a Chaos Star Vortex, like a spear of creation tearing through Chaos, ignored the blockade of the Ten Thousand Dao Tribulation Chains and struck fiercely upon the guixu xuanhuang origin point!

It was Su Wanzhao!

Her figure floated at the edge of the Chaos storm, her starlight battle dress flapping in the energy turbulence. The deep Star Vortex Universe at her brow slowly rotated, emitting a majestic Dao aura that suppressed the heavens!

Her hands formed an incredibly profound Dharma seal, invoking the Origin of her newly reshaped Chaos Star Vortex Dao Body, and unleashed a force condensed from the dual wills of Annihilation Star and Creation Star Vortex, blasting it without reservation into the Origin point!

This force was not attacking the Origin point, but... precisely striking the junction between the invading Ten Thousand Dao Tribulation Chains and the shell of the Origin point!

Boom——!!!

Like pouring ice water into boiling oil! A violent energy conflict erupted instantly!

The power of the Star Vortex Annihilation and the Laws of the Immortal Dao Tribulation Chains clashed and annihilated each other frantically!

The power of the Creation Star Vortex acted like the toughest adhesive, forcibly stabilizing the shell of the Origin point that was being eroded and violently oscillating due to the Tribulation Chains!

Furthermore, a Divine Thought containing Su Wanzhao's cold will pierced through the Immortal Dao blockade and struck fiercely into the depths of the Origin point:

"Hold... on! Devour... it!"

Devour it?! Devour these Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Law Tribulation Chains?!

Chen Feng's remnant will jolted violently amidst the excruciating pain! A cold and crazy thought, originating from the deepest depths of the Origin Point of Returning Ruins, was thoroughly ignited by Su Wanzhao's desperate support!

The Origin point... was meant to devour all things! Assimilate all Origins! Mere Immortal Law Tribulation Chains... why could they not be devoured?!

"guixu... Devour... Dao! Xuanhuang... as... Furnace!"

At the core of the Origin point, that speck of Chaos light suddenly erupted with an unprecedented will to devour!

It was no longer just passively defending or stripping away impurities, but... actively opening its giant maw! It viewed the billions of Tribulation Chains piercing into it, along with the blazing white immortal flames burning upon them, the branded Tribulation runes, and... the Immortal Envoy's refining will... as... nourishment delivered to its doorstep! It frantically tore, devoured, and dragged them into the Chaos furnace at the core of the Origin point!

Sss sss sss——!!!

Like a giant whale swallowing the sea! The Ten Thousand Dao Tribulation Chains were firmly bitten by the suddenly surging suction of the Origin point, frantically dragged into the interior of the Origin point!

The immortal flames were annihilated by Chaos! The Tribulation runes were forcibly assimilated! The Immortal Envoy's refining will was brutally torn apart and extinguished by the cold guixu will at the core of the Origin point!

【guixu xuanhuang origin point: Forcibly devouring Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Law Tribulation Chains! Energy overload (limit)! Law conflict (limit)! Form expanding rapidly! Core consciousness enduring impact (limit)! Warning: Critical point!】

"No——!!!" Outside the realm, the Immortal Envoy let out a roar of extreme shock and anger!

He clearly felt his connection with the Ten Thousand Dao Tribulation Chains being forcibly severed and devoured!

The phantom of the exploded Immortal Artifact trembled violently, the cracks instantly widened, and the blazing white immortal flames dimmed!

A terrifying backlash force followed the unseen connection and struck fiercely upon his Divine Soul!

Pfft——

A mouthful of pale golden essence blood, containing rich Immortal Dao Origin, sprayed wildly from the Immortal Envoy's blurred mouth!

His figure, shrouded in golden light, swayed violently, and his aura instantly withered significantly!

【Immortal Envoy status: Life-bound Immortal Art forcibly devoured! Immortal Artifact (Immortal Token) severely damaged! Divine Soul backlash! dao foundation shaken!】

At the core of the Chaos storm, that guixu xuanhuang origin point, having devoured the Ten Thousand Dao Tribulation Chains, had now expanded to the size of a small star!

The gray-black guixu power and the earthy-yellow Profound Yellow Mother Qi rolled, clashed, and merged on the surface like boiling magma, emitting terrifying fluctuations intertwined with destruction and creation!

Its rotation slowed down, yet it carried an even heavier, even more unshakable pressure! Like a Chaos giant egg... about to hatch!

The twelve-hour countdown, amidst the roar of the Origin point devouring the Ten Thousand Dao Tribulation Chains, quietly passed the halfway mark.

The disintegrating Xuanhuang Realm wailed as it accelerated its demise.

The expanding Chaos giant egg floated and pulsated in the storm.

Su Wanzhao stood suspended in the Void Realm, her star-like eyes cold, guarding the giant egg.

The Immortal Envoy gasped outside the realm, his golden robes stained with blood, his eyes burning with even crazier resentment and greed.

The final six hours were the gestation period of the Chaos giant egg, and also... the Gold-Robed Immortal Envoy's final moment of the hunt!