59: As the sea of ​​fire first descended, chaos ignited the spirit.

Archaic Domain Rift · Sea of Fire Trajectory

The dark red vault of the Primordial Ancient Domain was violently torn asunder as the star dome ark, trailing burning ice-blue astral flames and mottled scars, dove headlong into that twisted, violent rift in time and space! Inside the rift, it was no longer the icy silence of a Nirvana jump, but a space filled with violent chaotic turbulence, shattered remnants of ancient laws, and energy storms so scorching they distorted vision!

The ark's hull jolted violently, like a lone sail in a tempest. The light of the Star Vortex Barrier flickered uncertainly under the wash of violent energy, while the thin layer of primal chaotic halo on its surface struggled to smooth out the most lethal impacts of the laws. Su Wanzhao sat cross-legged at the control core, her breath as weak as a gossamer thread. The nirvana guixu star core at her chest held only a dim, ghostly light, and every violent tremor of the ark caused blood foam laced with starlight to spill from the corners of her mouth. Under the dual erosion of the aftereffects of forcibly igniting her star core and the Slaughter Dao curse from the Punishment Calamity, her dao foundation was on the brink of collapse.

“Hold on... Wanzhao...” Chen Feng's voice came through the violent turbulence, carrying the heavy pressure unique to the Archaic Realm and a trace of barely perceptible concern. He stood at the bow, his Archaic Dao Body radiating a dull bronze Primordial pressure that blocked most of the impact. In his ancestral aperture at the center of his brow, the golden life plate's origin Star Vortex spun frantically like the most precise chaotic compass, firmly anchoring the direction guided by the life plate's star map within the chaotic rift—the coordinates of a massive vortex burning with chaos-colored flames!

As they delved deeper into the rift, the surrounding violent energy was gradually replaced by a more primitive, more overbearing heat. The distorted space-time turbulence was dyed with a dark red halo, and the air was thick with the scorched scent of sulfur, lava, and incinerated stars; even space itself seemed to twist and groan under the high temperature.

“Roar—!!!”

A dull roar, seemingly from the core of the earth, pierced through the rift's barriers and faintly echoed! It carried an ancient, violent chaotic will that sought to burn all things!

The Chaos Sea of Fire... was close!

Rumble—!!!

The star dome ark, as if struck by an invisible giant hammer, smashed through the spatial barrier at the end of the rift and burst into a... burning universe!

Chaos Sea of Fire · Arrival at the Incinerated Universe

The scene before him caused Chen Feng, who had experienced the silence of the Nirvana Void and the Primordial battlefield, to feel an unprecedented shock to his mind!

There was no sky, no earth, and no stars!

There was only a boundless, boiling, and rolling dark red sea of fire! The flames were no ordinary fire, but flames of laws ignited by the purest chaotic source energy! Their color was like a weave of solidified lava and dark blood, and their form was like billions of roaring, rolling fire pythons devouring, merging, and exploding into one another! Every surge of the flames tore open short-lived spatial black holes, spewing out chaotic fire currents that could incinerate stars!

Above the sea of fire, countless massive, burning stellar remnants floated! They were like fuel cast into a purgatory furnace, slowly melting and collapsing within the chaotic flames, releasing their final astral essence to become brilliant but fleeting meteor showers that fell into the deeper abyss of the sea of fire below!

The air was filled with terrifyingly high temperatures and chaotic laws capable of incinerating the souls of True Immortals! The moment the star dome ark charged in, the Star Vortex Barrier outside the hull emitted a piercing 'sizzle' sound! The dark light dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the surface of the barrier instantly became red-hot, with countless fine cracks spreading across it! Had it not been for the primal chaotic halo radiated by Chen Feng's Archaic Dao Body forcibly smoothing out the most lethal law flames, the hull would likely have been melted through in an instant!

“The Chaos Sea of Fire... a place where laws are incinerated...” Su Wanzhao held onto her last shred of consciousness. With her star core power exhausted, she could only barely maintain the basic stability of the ark. In this incinerated universe, her power of Nirvana Guixu suffered unprecedented suppression and erosion.

Chen Feng's Chaotic Eyes scanned this burning purgatory. In his left eye, ice-blue divine light flowed as the power of Guixu Ice Soul instinctively resisted the external chaotic heat, only to be forcibly suppressed and dissolved by the more violent fire laws the moment they made contact! In his right eye, the dark yellow light was restrained, and the power of Desolate Blood roared through his body; facing this chaotic fire that burned all things, he actually felt a trace of instinctive... excitement and longing!

Deep within the life plate mark, the resonance of that Primal Chaos Fire Core fragment was like a red-hot iron, searing his true spirit! The source of the resonance was at the very core of this sea of fire, in the region where the flames were darkest and the rolling was most violent—the center of a slowly rotating dark red fire vortex surrounded and guarded by countless burning stellar remnants!

“The Chaos Fire Core... is right there!” Battle intent surged in Chen Feng’s eyes! He could feel that the chaotic incineration power contained in that fragment would be the key to completing his Archaic Dao Foundation and igniting the Primal Fate Wheel!

However, just as the star dome ark struggled to advance toward the fire vortex—

Roar—!!!

The roar from before, seemingly from the earth's core, suddenly magnified a billion times! The entire Chaos Sea of Fire boiled violently!

Rumble—!!!

The rolling dark red sea of fire ahead suddenly bulged upward! Countless burning stellar remnants were tossed aside and melted by a violent force! An indescribably massive giant claw tore through the sea of fire and boldly reached out!

The giant claw was composed entirely of dark red chaotic crystals, its surface flowing with lava-like law patterns, and its tips burning with chaotic flames that could incinerate time and space! The size of the claw tips alone exceeded that of the star dome ark! The moment the giant claw appeared, the surrounding space was directly melted through and collapsed by the terrifying heat, forming an absolute fire purgatory!

Then!

A second giant claw tore through the sea of fire and reached out!

Then came a hideous head like a mountain, burning with chaotic flames! On the head, there were no facial features, only two constantly rotating dark red fire vortexes that devoured light, radiating a terrifyingly violent and chaotic will that sought to burn everything! And then, a massive body covered in chaotic crystal scales that stretched for countless miles!

A Chaos Fire Spirit Great God—nurtured by the source of the Chaos Sea of Fire and feeding on burning stars—awoke from the depths of the sea of fire!

The Great God’s eyes, formed by fire vortexes, instantly locked onto the star dome ark, which was as tiny as a speck of dust before it! A terrifying will—a mixture of greed, rage, and the instinct to protect its territory—pressed down like billions of volcanoes erupting simultaneously!

“Ant... fire-thief... die!!!”

The grand thought exploded directly in the souls of Chen Feng and Su Wanzhao! That reaching giant claw, carrying chaotic fire that incinerated all laws, ignored spatial distance and swatted down toward the star dome ark like it was striking an insect!

Incinerating Universe Great Claw · Origin Soul Burning

Before the giant claw even arrived, the pure, ultimate chaotic incineration power made the star dome ark feel as if it had fallen into the core of a star! The Star Vortex Barrier let out a final wail as its red-hot surface instantly melted and vaporized! Su Wanzhao felt as if she had been struck by a heavy hammer and spat out a large mouthful of blood burning with astral flames. The dim light of the star core at her chest flickered violently like a candle in the wind, threatening to go out at any moment! The Slaughter Dao curse mark from the Punishment Calamity flashed frantically on her dao body like a maggot in her bones, seizing the chance to erode her last bit of life force!

“Wanzhao!” A sharp light burst from Chen Feng's eyes! His Archaic Dao Body erupted with an unprecedented bronze Primordial divine light, forcibly withstanding the terrifying pressure that incinerated souls! He took a step forward, appearing directly in front of the star dome ark to face the descending Incinerating Universe Great Claw!

Flee? Within the absolute domain of this Chaos Fire Spirit Great God, there was nowhere to run! There was only battle!

“Chaos Fire Spirit... Incineration Source...” Chen Feng's Chaotic Eyes stared fixedly at the sky-covering giant claw, and the origin Star Vortex of the life plate at his brow began to deduce at an unprecedented speed! “Your fire... is also Chaos! Then let us see... whose Chaos... is closer to the Primal Source!”

He no longer defended! Instead, he opened his arms as if to embrace the giant claw that burned all! Upon his Archaic Dao Body, the newly forged power of the Archaic Realm burned and boiled without reservation! Deep in his left eye, the Guixu Ice Soul origin erupted with its final ice-blue divine light, attempting to freeze the giant claw's fire laws, but it was like a mantis trying to stop a carriage—most of it was incinerated in an instant! In his right eye, the dark yellow light was restrained, and the power of Desolate Blood roared through his body, yet it was difficult to resist the external incineration dao charm!

Only the golden life plate origin Star Vortex in his ancestral aperture erupted with an unprecedented brilliant golden light under the pressure of this desperate situation! It frantically deduced and analyzed the chaotic incineration laws flowing on the giant claw, capturing its core operational rhythm and... that trace of resonance originating from the Primal Chaos Fire Core fragment!

“Found it!” Golden light blazed in Chen Feng's eyes! The moment the life plate origin captured that trace of resonance, his hands suddenly formed a profound ancient seal that transcended understanding! Within him, the power of Desolate Blood, the remaining power of Guixu Ice Soul, and the power of Dark Yellow Bearing were forcibly merged and collapsed under the absolute command of the life plate origin in an unprecedented way!

“Primal Fate Wheel... Phantom... Source Induction!”

Buzz—!!!

A four-colored wheel phantom—more solid than before and flowing with Dark (Guixu), Dark Yellow, Bronze (Desolate Blood), and a faint but resilient primal chaotic divine light—suddenly emerged before Chen Feng! At the center of the wheel phantom, the golden life plate divine light was like a lighthouse, firmly locking onto the resonance of the Primal Chaos Fire Core at the heart of the giant claw!

This time, the wheel phantom was neither for defense nor attack, but for... assimilation and attraction!

The moment the wheel appeared, the descending Incinerating Universe Great Claw actually experienced an extremely brief stagnation! The violent chaotic fire laws on the giant claw, upon coming into contact with the older and purer Primal Chaos Dao Rhyme radiated by the wheel phantom, felt like a tributary meeting its source, producing an instinctive... resonance and confusion!

Now was the time!

“With my Dao as the guide... Chaos Fire Core... return!” Chen Feng let out a roar from his soul! He violently pushed the ancient seal in his hands forward!

The four-colored disk phantom expanded and rotated instantly! The divine light of the golden life plate at the center turned into an invisible bridge, piercing fiercely into the Primal homologous fluctuation within the core of the giant claw!

Hum—!!!

Deep within the giant claw's core, a dark red crystalline edge, heavily wrapped in chaos flames and radiating the intent of incinerating ten thousand worlds while nurturing new life, was awakened by an invisible force, suddenly erupting with a sun-like blazing radiance! A vast, violent primordial fire power, seemingly capable of igniting the chaos origin, surged frantically toward the four-colored disk phantom in front of Chen Feng along the bridge of the life plate's divine light!

"Roar—!!!" The Chaos Fire Spirit Great God let out a roar of extreme rage! It felt it! It felt a part of its power core being forcibly stripped and pulled away! Instead of continuing to strike down, the descending giant claw trembled violently under the dual effects of the disk phantom's assimilation attraction and the movement of the fire core fragment! The chaos flames burning on the giant claw became disordered and violent, like an out-of-control torrent of lava!

"Not enough! Just a bit more!" Chen Feng felt the disk phantom frantically devouring the incoming Chaos Fire Core power, but the resistance of the giant claw's core remained strong! The fire core fragment was like it was bound by invisible chains, unable to completely break free!

At this critical moment of stalemate—

"Chen... Feng..."

An extremely weak yet incomparably resolute voice sounded behind Chen Feng!

Su Wanzhao struggled to stand up, burning her last life origin! Her nirvana guixu star core, which was about to be extinguished, actually erupted with a final... Nirvana Star Fire under the violent pressure of the Chaos Sea of Fire, the erosion of the Punishment Calamity curse, and the pull of the Chaos Primal Dao charm radiated by the life plate disk phantom!

"With my... remnant star... I ignite thy... dao path!"

She gave a soft cry, using her last bit of strength to fiercely push out that nirvana guixu star core burning with Nirvana Star Fire! The star core turned into a stream of light trailing dim starlight, ignoring the incinerating flames, and accurately... crashed into the core of the four-colored disk phantom before Chen Feng—into that golden life plate origin Star Vortex!

Boom—!!!

Like a spark splashing into boiling oil!

Like a star igniting a nebula!

That nirvana guixu star core, containing all of Su Wanzhao's dao foundation origin and nirvana will, erupted with a final, indescribably brilliant chaos star flame the moment it merged into the life plate origin Star Vortex!

This power, carrying the annihilation of Guixu, the silence of the star vault, the vitality of Xuanhuang, and her obsession to protect, acted like the purest catalyst, instantly igniting the life plate origin Star Vortex! The golden Star Vortex's light surged tenfold! Its power to govern all laws and analyze all Daos instantly rose to an unprecedented peak!

Bolstered by this power, the four-colored disk phantom shuddered! Its rotation speed increased exponentially! The assimilation attraction force toward the Primal Fire Core Fragment in the giant claw's core suddenly increased a hundredfold!

"Crack—!!!"

A crisp sound that could only be perceived at the level of laws!

Deep within the giant claw's core, that dark red crystalline edge wrapped in chaos flames finally broke free from its shackles! It turned into a dark red stream of light that could incinerate eternity, and along the bridge of the life plate's divine light, it instantly vanished into the radiant four-colored disk phantom before Chen Feng!

Fire Core Returns to Origin · Primal First Cry

The moment the dark red light merged!

Rumble—!!!

The entire four-colored disk phantom suddenly collapsed inward and then expanded! It erupted with an indescribable Chaos Primal divine light! Within the light, the four origin divine lights—darkness, Xuanhuang, ancient bronze, and the newly merged dark red chaos fire—mingled and flowed frantically in an unprecedented way! The golden life plate origin Star Vortex at the center, like a king governing all, forcibly harmonized and harnessed the violent Chaos Fire Core power!

A more ancient, vaster Chaos Dao charm, closer to the universe's origin, diffused from the collapsing and expanding ball of light! This Dao charm carried the scorching heat of incinerating all things yet contained the warmth of nurturing new life; it carried the cold silence of Guixu yet surged with the wild life of the Primordial! As if at the dawn of chaos, it was the first wisp of... Primal Source Power that divided light and darkness and ignited the star fire!

Primal Chaos Fire Core fragment... fusion complete!

primal disk phantom... solidified and manifested!

The ball of light suddenly retracted inward!

Chen Feng's figure reappeared!

At this moment, his entire body was shrouded in a flame halo flowing with four-colored Chaos Primal divine light! Deep in his left eye, beside the Guixu Ice Essence origin, a dark red Chaos Fire Core origin rotated slowly, emitting an incinerating heat! Within the Xuanhuang light of his right eye, the Archaic Blood origin pulsed more powerfully, with a hint of fire texture added to the dull ancient bronze color! In his brow's ancestral aperture, the golden life plate origin Star Vortex had turned into a slowly rotating, four-colored interwoven miniature chaos disk! Each rotation of the disk resonated with the laws of the surrounding Chaos Sea of Fire!

His aura had completely transcended the Archaic Realm and stepped into a more mysterious, more unfathomable level—the Primal Realm (embryonic form)!

"Roar—!!!" The Chaos Fire Spirit Great God let out a roar of pain and fury! The loss of the fire core fragment was like having its heart gouged out! The descending giant claw instantly lost most of its power and luster, becoming dim and illusory! Its massive body rolled violently in the sea of fire, triggering a world-ending tsunami-like tide of flames!

"Even if it incinerates the universe... so what?" Chen Feng's voice was calm, yet carried a majesty that transcended all laws. He slowly raised his right hand, and above his palm, the solidified four-colored chaos disk phantom rotated slowly.

He looked at the fire spirit giant god, which had fallen into madness due to the loss of its core fragment but still emitted terrifying power; there was no pity in his eyes, only a cold insight.

"Since you were born of chaos... then... return to chaos!"

He lightly pushed the disk phantom in his palm forward!

"Primal... Guixu!"

Hum—!!!

The disk phantom silently pressed against the giant god's violently thrashing body!

There was no earth-shattering collision.

The moment the disk touched the giant god's body, the massive form composed of chaos crystals and law flames began to silently... decompose, assimilate, and return to nothingness, as if thrown into an invisible chaos furnace!

The giant god's roars turned into wails of terror! It struggled frantically, spitting out chaos fire streams that could incinerate star rivers, attempting to destroy the disk phantom! However, the moment the chaos fire streams touched the disk, they were like streams flowing into the sea, instantly devoured and assimilated, instead accelerating the disk's decomposition of the giant god's body!

In just a few breaths!

The Chaos Fire Spirit Great God, capable of incinerating the Great Thousand Worlds, was completely turned into pure chaos source energy under the devouring and assimilation of the primal disk phantom, merging into the disk! The disk phantom's light seemed to become a bit more solid and profound!

Above the sea of fire, only a briefly smoothed, slowly rotating chaos vortex remained, along with the figure hovering above the vortex, radiating a Primal Dao charm!

Inside the star dome ark, Su Wanzhao watched this shocking scene. A faint, gratified, yet weak smile appeared on her pale face, and then her vision went dark. She completely lost consciousness and slumped over the control console. On her chest, where the nirvana guixu star core had been, only a dim scorch mark burned by chaos flames remained.

Chen Feng instantly appeared inside the ark, supporting Su Wanzhao's slumping body. A wisp of warm, pure four-colored chaos source energy containing Primal harmonizing power flowed from his fingertip, gently injecting into her exhausted dao body to temporarily protect her last bit of life. His gaze swept over the scorch mark on her chest and the flickering Path of Slaughter curse, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

"Punishment Calamity... Slaughter Dao Divine Punishment... and... the Immortal Court..." Chen Feng's voice was icy. He looked up at the dark red, broken "sky" of the Chaos Sea of Fire. The four-colored chaos disk at his brow rotated slowly, and a grander, more dangerous star map unfolded in his consciousness.

On the star map, several coordinate points radiating different Primal Dao charms flickered like stars in the night in infinitely distant dimensions:

A silver ocean flowing with liquid star radiance... (Primal Star Marrow Sea)

A cold platinum light tower constructed from pure order laws... (Primal Law Core)

An ancient bronze hall floating at the end of time and space, entwined with the mists of fate... (Primal Hall of Fate Wheel)

And... Guicang Mountain! The light of the Star Vortex Barrier flickered weakly yet tenaciously on the star map!

The road ahead was even more dangerous, with powerful enemies surrounding them. Su Wanzhao's dao foundation was on the verge of destruction, and she needed to find a place for rebirth. Guicang Mountain might also be exposed under the curse of the Punishment Calamity.

However, there was no trace of confusion in Chen Feng's eyes, only a more blazing dao fire burning! He gently picked up the unconscious Su Wanzhao, his mind moving slightly.

The star dome ark erupted with a faint four-colored chaos light, laboriously turning around. No longer going deep into the core of the sea of fire, it followed the guidance of the star map toward the coordinate flowing with silver star radiance—the Primal Star Marrow Sea. There, perhaps, lay the life force that could nourish the star core and reshape her dao foundation!

Just as the star dome ark was about to leave this Chaos Sea of Fire—

Hum!

An extremely weak yet seemingly originating from the dawn of the universe, an ancient will fluctuation filled with endless loneliness and vicissitudes, quietly awakened deep within Chen Feng's true spirit without warning!

"Gather... fragments... return... to... disk..."

The blurred thought, like a dream, flashed by.

Chen Feng's figure suddenly froze! An unprecedented sharp light erupted from his Chaotic Eyes!

"Primal... Wheel?!"