56: Ruins of the Graveyard, Ice Core Burial of Stars

Guixu Dead Sea · Star Vault Expedition

The nirvana star dome ark tore through the solidified void, plunging into the deeper regions of the Sea of Guixu like a sharp arrow shot into an ink pool. The 'sea' here was no longer a turbulent flow of energy or shattered Laws, but an absolute, cold, and deathly silent 'non-existence.' There was no light, no darkness, no up or down, and no perception of the passage of time—only an eternal silence that could freeze even the Soul, as if sinking into the bottommost layer of the graveyard of ten thousand worlds.

On the surface of the star dome ark, the dark armor formed by the Fusion of Primal Chaos Dao Rhyme and the Star Vortex Barrier now flowed with an even deeper radiance. At the core of the vessel, the remnant spirit of Zhang Shouzhuo's guardian will transformed into a bronze-colored navigational stream of light, closely linked to the life plate mark deep within Chen Feng's true spirit, guiding their course. Su Wanzhao sat cross-legged at the bow, the nirvana guixu star core rotating slowly like a lighthouse, sensing any potential homologous fluctuations within this dead sea.

Chen Feng stood at the bow, his Chaotic Eyes (Guixu Left Eye) as deep as an abyss. His Breakthrough to the Guixu Realm had allowed his perception of this deathly silent place to reach a whole new level. He could 'hear' the wails of stellar remnants slowly disintegrating in the absolute cold, and 'see' the ancient imprints of Laws that had long since fallen but remained due to the characteristics of Guixu, floating like ghost fires. This place was the end of all things, yet it might also... harbor the starting point of the Rebirth of the Primal Beginning.

"The resonance point guided by the life plate... is right ahead in the depths of that 'Sunken Star Ice Domain'." Chen Feng's voice echoed directly within the ark's space, carrying the cold texture unique to Guixu. He pointed toward the edge of his vision, where it was not absolute darkness, but a vast, deeper region emitting a faint ice-blue glow. Countless massive stellar remnants floated there like frozen whales, radiating a heart-palpitating chill.

The star dome ark accelerated silently, breaking through the viscous silence as it sailed toward the Sunken Star Ice Domain.

Sunken Star Ice Domain · Path of Slaughter Soul Pursuit

Just as the star dome ark was about to enter the edge of the Sunken Star Ice Domain—

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three terrifying fluctuations that tore through the eternal silence suddenly exploded in the void far behind the star dome ark, like meteors crashing into a still lake!

Three colossal behemoths tore through space and descended violently!

They were more than ten times larger than the previous crime hunting star ark, with even more ferocious forms. Their entire bodies were covered in dark-gold armor inscribed with Law runes as heavy as mountains. The bows were not cannon muzzles, but the phantom images of three massive dark-gold battle-axes condensed from pure Laws of order and divine slaughter sigils! Above the axes, a bloody crossed-axe emblem radiated a terrifying pressure that could exterminate everything! Around the hulls, countless fine golden chain phantoms coiled and flowed, forming powerful Law shields and spatial anchoring fields!

The Immortal Court's highest-Rank pursuit unit—the war star arks of the Slaughter Dao Divine Punishment!

The command core of the largest star ark in the center was not a Law Clone, but three flesh-and-blood bodies seated upon dark-gold divine thrones! They wore ferocious armor emblazoned with the bloody giant axe, their faces hidden in the shadows of their helmets, with only a pair of cold eyes burning with the divine fire of order exposed. Their condensed aura and pure killing intent far surpassed the previous Crime Hunting Immortal Officials, appearing like three demon gods of destruction stepping out of the Purgatory of Divine Punishment!

"Target: Forbidden Dao Fetus Chen Feng, accomplice Su Wanzhao. Location: Edge of the Sunken Star Ice Domain, Guixu Graveyard. Energy signature locked... Confirmed!" The leader of the Slaughter Dao Divine Punishment, code-named 'Punishment Calamity,' spoke with a voice like grinding metal, cold and merciless. On the Ten Thousand Worlds Law Retrospective Light Screen floating before him, the blurred energy dots representing Chen Feng and Su Wanzhao were located at the edge of a region emitting an ice-blue deathly glow.

"Sunken Star Ice Domain... one of the core danger zones of the Guixu Graveyard. Laws are chaotic, time and space are stagnant, and interference is extremely strong," analyzed the deputy commander, 'Punishment Slaughter,' his gaze beneath the helmet sweeping over the turbulent Law readings on the screen. "The targets have fled here, intending to use the environment to hide."

"Hide?" The other deputy commander, 'Punishment Severance,' let out a disdainful cold snort that sounded like cracking ice. "Before the Slaughter Dao Divine Punishment, there is only... annihilation!" He abruptly raised his armored arm and pointed toward the star dome ark's position on the screen: "'Star Burial' class main cannon charging! Law Divine Axe locked! Target vessel... erase!"

The order was given!

At the bows of the three Slaughter Dao Divine Punishment star arks, the three massive dark-gold battle-axe phantoms suddenly lit up with a blinding blood-gold divine light! Vast Divine Power of order and pure Path of Slaughter Laws were frantically extracted, compressed, and poured in! The battle-axe phantoms rapidly solidified, radiating a terrifying pressure that froze time and space, severed Karma, and buried stars! The space around the star arks was forcibly solidified and anchored by this power, forming an absolute Domain of death!

"Lock complete! Star Burying Divine Axe... fire!" A cold electronic voice announced death!

Buzz—!!!

Three indescribable streaks of dark-gold blood-colored axe light tore through the silence of Guixu! The axe lights were not energy beams, but were composed of pure 'Star Burial' Laws! Everywhere they passed, even the slow annihilation process of Guixu was forcibly accelerated, leaving behind three short-lived channels of absolute void that seemed to have been completely 'erased'! Their speed surpassed all perception, slashing behind the star dome ark in an instant!

Slaughter Dao Divine Punishment · Star Burying Divine Axe!

Ice Field Star Burial · Origin Point Devour

"It's coming!" Su Wanzhao snapped her eyes open, a dark Star Vortex spinning rapidly in the depths of her pupils! The nirvana guixu star core at her chest erupted with a blinding dark light! Without needing Chen Feng's reminder, the moment the Star Burying Divine Axe locked on, she had already felt that terrifying pressure capable of burying stars!

"Star Vortex Barrier... Guixu Assimilation... Extreme!" Su Wanzhao shouted, her hand Seals moving as fast as a phantom! The dark Star Vortex Barrier enveloping the ark's hull instantly contracted to its limit, and the countless tiny star vortices on the barrier's surface spun in reverse at an unprecedented speed! A powerful force of annihilation and devouring, homologous with this Sea of Guixu, was triggered, forming a deep Guixu vortex on the outer layer of the barrier!

At the same time!

Chen Feng moved!

He did not look back, his Chaotic Eyes deadlocked on the Sunken Star Ice Domain ahead! At the critical moment just before the Star Burying Divine Axe was about to strike the Star Vortex Barrier, he slammed both hands forward into the air!

"Guixu... Xuanhuang... Origin Point... Guide!"

The power of the guixu xuanhuang origin point erupted! But this time, it was not for defense, but... guidance!

The vast Origin power transformed into an invisible pull, precisely acting upon a massive stellar remnant at the edge of the Sunken Star Ice Domain that radiated a dense ice-blue deathly glow! This stellar remnant was like a frozen iceberg, and at its core, a point of extremely condensed Guixu Ice Soul radiated a terrifying chill that could freeze ten thousand Laws!

The Origin power acted like the most masterful lever, prying at the 'existence' base point of this massive stellar remnant! Under Chen Feng's extremely precise control, this stellar remnant, which was larger than a small planet, was actually forcibly shifted by a minute angle. Its trajectory was instantly changed, like a marble flicked by an invisible giant hand, and it moved unerringly... right into the path of the Slaughter Dao Divine Punishment's Star Burying Divine Axe!

Boom!!! Crackle—!!!

The three dark-gold blood-colored axe lights that could bury stars slammed heavily into that massive Sinking Star Ice Soul!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only the most brutal confrontation between annihilation and freezing at the level of Laws!

The 'Star Burial' Laws of the Star Burying Divine Axe frantically eroded the 'Freezing' Laws of the ice core! Dark-gold blood light and ice-blue deathly light intertwined and annihilated each other violently! The massive stellar ice core emitted an unbearable, ear-piercing wail like ten-thousand-year-old profound ice splitting! Its surface was instantly covered with a web of terrifying cracks, and ice shards sprayed out like stellar dust!

However, how terrifying was the Guixu freezing power contained within the core of the Sunken Star Ice Domain? It was the essence of extreme cold accumulated over eons in the Sea of Guixu! Although the Star Burying Divine Axe was powerful, it was ultimately an external Law of order, encountering resistance from an equivalent Origin Law on this Guixu home turf!

Sizzle—!

The light of the three Star Burying Divine Axes dimmed and stagnated at a visible rate! The front of the axe lights was forcibly frozen and shattered by the terrifying Guixu ice power! A large amount of Star Burial Laws were frozen and sealed within the cracks of the ice core! Although the ice core itself was heavily damaged and on the verge of disintegration, it had ultimately... blocked this killing blow!

"What?!" Inside the Slaughter Dao Divine Punishment star ark, the cold metal-grinding voice of Punishment Calamity showed a clear fluctuation for the first time! "The target can actually mobilize a Sinking Star Ice Soul?! To interfere with the Star Burying Divine Axe?!"

"Guixu Realm... his control over this dead sea... far exceeds our estimates!" Punishment Slaughter's voice carried a hint of solemnity.

"The ice core is shattered! The target vessel is right behind it! Second sequence, 'Space-Rending' Divine Spears volley! Overlapping strike! Force them to reveal themselves!" Punishment Severance's killing intent grew even stronger as he unhesitatingly issued an even more violent command!

The armor plates on both sides of the three star arks slammed open, revealing dense launch ports like a honeycomb! Countless slender, sharp dark-gold divine spears entwined with space-rending divine sigils, like a rain of death, instantly covered the entire area where the star dome ark was located! Wherever the spears passed, space was sliced into countless fine black cracks, sealing off all room for evasion!

Ice Field Star Burial · First Cry of the Origin

The shockwave from the Star Burying Divine Axe being blocked by the ice core, mixed with the terrifying cold tide from the ice core's disintegration, slammed toward the nearby star dome ark like a world-ending tsunami!

"Star Vortex... Guixu... Devour!" Su Wanzhao's face was pale, but she showed no fear! She fully activated the nirvana guixu star core, and the Star Vortex Barrier outside the ark's hull spun in reverse to its limit! That deep Guixu vortex erupted with a powerful suction, like a giant whale drinking water, frantically swallowing and drawing the slamming turbulent energy flows and cold deathly Law fragments into the Star Vortex core for annihilation and assimilation!

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The Star Vortex Barrier vibrated violently, its dark light flickering erratically! Thick layers of ice-blue frost even condensed on the surface of the barrier! Su Wanzhao let out a muffled groan, spitting out icy, crystalline blood laced with starlight from the corner of her mouth; it was clear she was enduring immense pressure!

Following closely behind was the 'Rift Universe' Divine Spear, descending like a deathly torrential rain! Space was sliced into shreds, sealing off all avenues of retreat!

Just at this desperate juncture—with the chilling tide striking from the front and the divine spears covering the rear—

Chen Feng moved!

He stopped turning his back on his pursuers and suddenly spun around! Within the Chaotic Eyes, the Guixu Left Eye blazed with a profound light, locking tightly onto the countless Rift Universe Divine Spears tearing through space! The Xuanhuang Right Eye contained its divine light, stabilizing his own dao foundation! In the ancestral aperture between his brows, the golden Origin point of the life plate deduced and calculated the trajectory and Law weakness of every single divine spear with unprecedented speed!

"Guixu... as the blade... Xuanhuang... as the sheath... the life plate... as the guide..." Chen Feng's voice was low and icy, like a proclamation from Guixu itself.

He slowly raised his right hand, spreading his five fingers, and aimed them at that rain of deathly spears!

"Origin Point... Annihilation!"

Buzz—!!!

The power of the guixu xuanhuang origin point and the deduction power of the life plate's Laws perfectly merged and collapsed at Chen Feng's fingertip! A minuscule singularity, whose color defied description and seemed to embody the concept of 'nothingness,' quietly materialized before his finger!

The instant the singularity appeared!

Time seemed to halt!

Space solidified because of it!

The overwhelming Rift Universe Divine Spears, which tore everything apart, were suspended in the void less than a hundred feet from the star dome ark, as if pressed by an invisible giant hand hitting the pause button!

It wasn't freezing; it was... existence itself being forcibly 'anchored' at the critical point of annihilation!

Immediately after!

Chen Feng's fingertip moved slightly, and that tiny annihilation singularity was gently pushed forward!

Hiss—!!!

There was no sound, only an absolute stillness on the conceptual level!

Centered on the annihilation singularity, a miniature spherical Domain of absolute darkness, devouring all light, instantly expanded. Like ink dripping onto water, it silently stained that 'anchored' space black!

Wherever the Domain spread!

Those countless 'anchored' Rift Universe Divine Spears, like ice crystals thrown into a void furnace, silently... annihilated! They decomposed into the most primitive dust of Law, without even a ripple of energy being raised! The spatial tearing divine runes wrapped around the divine spears were as fragile as a child's scribbles before the Origin Point of Annihilation!

Inside the command core of the Slaughter Dao Divine Punishment star ark, on the bombardment light screen, the countless red dots representing the Rift Universe Divine Spears collectively extinguished the moment they touched that miniature dark Domain!

"Annihilation... Law?!" The divine fire eyes beneath Xing Jie's helmet flickered violently for the first time! Xing Lu and Xing Jue also fell into a brief, dead silence! This terrifying method of directly erasing 'existence' had surpassed their understanding of the Dao Fruits of the Lower Realm!

However, Chen Feng's counterattack did not stop!

The instant the annihilation singularity devoured the Rift Universe Divine Spears, his gaze had already passed the momentary gap and locked onto the three massive Slaughter Dao Divine Punishment star arks! More accurately, he locked onto the enormous Sunken Star Ice Core in front of the star arks—the one heavily damaged by the Star Burying Divine Axe and on the verge of complete disintegration!

"Ice Core... Bury the Stars!" A cold, sharp glint flashed in Chen Feng's eyes! Deep within the Guixu Left Eye, the dark-gold Origin Point of Guixu suddenly lit up!

He violently brought his hands together, making a 'squeezing' motion!

"Guixu... Devour... Explode!"

Boom—!!!

That Sunken Star Ice Core, already riddled with cracks and on the verge of collapse, under the forced detonation of Chen Feng's Origin Point of Guixu power, erupted with its final and most terrifying burst—the Ice Burial Light of Guixu—like a detonated gunpowder keg!

The ice-blue, dead silent light explosion, whose color defied description, instantly swept across the entire area! Wherever the light reached, even the stillness of Guixu itself seemed frozen and shattered! The terrifying power of ice-cold annihilation, like billions of invisible ice blades, fiercely slashed toward the three Slaughter Dao Divine Punishment star arks nearby!

"Law Shield... Full Power!" Xing Jie's roar echoed inside the star arks!

The Law Rune Armor on the surface of the three star arks instantly lit up to the extreme, and countless golden chain phantoms wildly intertwined, forming three massive dark-gold rune great shields, attempting to resist this Ice Burial Light originating from the source of Guixu!

Sizzle—Crack crack!!!

The ice-blue, dead silent light fiercely collided with the Law Shields! The terrifying power of Guixu's ice-cold essence and the Law of the Order Shield engaged in a frantic annihilation struggle! The dark-gold runes rapidly dimmed, froze, and cracked under the erosion of the ice-blue light! The three great shields vibrated violently, and thick layers of ice instantly condensed on their surface, with countless fine cracks spreading outward!

Alarms blared wildly inside the star arks, and the Divine Power output instantly overloaded!

"Target... must... be eliminated!" Xing Jie's voice carried a trace of rage from being wounded by an ant, mixed with a trace of imperceptible shock! He slammed a fist onto the control divine seat! "Activate 'Doomsday' Protocol! Authority: Slaughter Dao-Grade! Lock target core Dao Rhyme... Divine Punishment... Descend!"

Deep in the Guixu Graveyard · Secret of the Ice Core

The star dome ark, using the terrifying shockwave and chaotic Law cover from the Ice Core explosion, had long since slipped into the depths of the Sunken Star Ice Domain like a swimming fish.

Inside the ark, Chen Feng was breathing shallowly, and the annihilation singularity on his fingertip had already vanished. Forcibly detonating the Sunken Star Ice Core and unleashing 'Origin Point Annihilation' to counter the Rift Universe Divine Spears had placed a significant burden even on his newly achieved Guixu Realm. Su Wanzhao's face was pale as she was fully focused on urging the star core, absorbing and assimilating the residual ice-cold, dead silent power that had infiltrated the barrier to repair the damage.

"We've shaken them off for now... but the lock from the Slaughter Dao Divine Punishment won't disappear," Su Wanzhao said in a deep voice, her starlight eyes filled with solemnity.

"They activated something even more dangerous," Chen Feng's Chaotic Eyes looked toward the depths of the ice Domain, where the resonance of the life plate imprint was becoming clearer. "Let's go! To the resonance point!"

The star dome ark shuttled between countless massive Sunken Star Ice Cores, moving as if traversing a graveyard of giant beasts. The deeper they went, the stronger the ice-cold, dead silent power became, making even space seem frozen into fragile glazed tile. Huge star remnants were encased in deep blue profound ice, maintaining the tragic posture of their moment of falling, radiating an ancient desolation.

Finally, after passing through a glacial canyon formed by countless frozen Star Remnant Giant Beasts, the scene before them suddenly changed!

In the center of a relatively open ice Domain floated an Ice Core... that was different from the rest! It wasn't massive like a mountain; instead, it was only about a hundred feet in size, its entire body presenting a depth of deep blue so extreme it resembled the purest eye of Guixu. The surface of the ice core was smooth as a mirror, without any cracks, yet inside, it seemed as if billions of tiny ice-blue starlight points were slowly circulating, generating and extinguishing, emitting a supreme Dao Rhyme that was pure, ancient, and seemed to contain the Origin of Guixu's ice-cold essence!

What shocked Chen Feng and Su Wanzhao's minds even more was—

The Guixu Dao Rhyme emitted by this deep-blue ice core resonated strongly, almost perfectly, with the life plate imprint (dark fragment) and the nirvana guixu star core deep within their true spirits! It was as if they were born from the same source, yet this one was older and more primordial!

"This is... the Origin Core of the Guixu Ice Soul?!" Su Wanzhao felt the excitement of the star core, her eyes bursting with disbelief.

"No... more than just the Origin..." Chen Feng's life plate Origin point furiously deduced within his Chaotic Eyes! He stared intently at the core of the ice core, those billions of circulating and extinguishing ice-blue starlight points! At the core of those starlights, an extremely tiny, yet condensed beyond imagination, crystalline facet, emitting the Primal Chaos Dao Rhyme of ice-cold essence... was faintly visible!

The Dao Rhyme of that facet was of the same Origin as the three-colored life plate fragments in his body, yet it carried an even older, purer... Primal essence!

"It's it!" Chen Feng's voice held a trace of suppressed excitement, "The Primal fragment guided by the life plate! A fragment of the primal disk containing the Origin of the 'Guixu Ice Soul'!"

However, the moment the two were emotionally stirred and the star dome ark slowly approached that deep-blue ice core—

Rumble—!!!

The entire Sunken Star Ice Domain violently shook! As if a sleeping giant beast had been thoroughly awakened!

The void surrounding that deep-blue ice core, countless frozen, massive star remnants began to tremble and shatter frantically! Within the star remnants sealed for eons, terrifying auras mixed with the dead silence resentment of the stars and the power of Guixu's ice-cold essence erupted!

What was even more chilling was that those shattering star remnants, driven by some ancient will, actually began to forcibly piece themselves together and assemble! Countless massive star remnants were kneaded by an invisible giant hand, accompanied by ear-piercing sounds of metal twisting and ice crystals shattering, rapidly coalescing into the prototype of an unimaginably vast and grotesquely distorted... Star Remnant Giant Beast!

In the position of the beast's 'head,' two deep-blue giant eyes, condensed from pure Guixu Ice Soul and radiating endless stillness and greed, slowly opened! Their icy gaze, like two sharp swords, instantly pierced through the void and locked tightly onto the star dome ark approaching the deep-blue ice core!

"Roar—!!!"

A terrifying roar, mixing the lament of billions of stars and the stillness of Guixu, echoed through the ice Domain like a funeral song! The not-yet-fully-formed Star Remnant Giant Beast already raised a giant claw made of countless shattered stars, carrying the terrifying might to freeze time and crush all things, and fiercely swiped toward the minuscule star dome ark!

The will guarding the fragment... had awakened!

Simultaneously!

On the periphery of the ice Domain, three even more terrifying and violent dark-gold divine punishment fluctuations, like maggots clinging to the bone, tore through the ice-cold stillness and locked on from afar once more!

In front, a Guixu Giant Beast blocked the path to seize the treasure!

Behind, the Slaughter Dao Divine Punishment pursued with a killing blow!

The star dome ark instantly fell into an unprecedented... deadly trap!