75: Sacrificing soldiers to break through the ranks, starry sky guarding the palace.

The burning staircase! It was composed of solidified Chaos grey star Origin, yet it flowed entirely with scorching white Guixu Tribulation Fire!

It was like a spear of judgment piercing into the storm of destruction, ignoring the boiling, roaring sea of Chaos grey Origin ahead, ignoring the terrifying beams of light that intertwined and annihilated everything, pointing straight to the core source of the annihilation storm—that truly core inheritance seal that was condensing!

xingtians will roared behind him like world-ending thunder, filled with the fury of being toyed with by rules and naked greed: 'Tamper... with rules... block my... path... this Hall... shall... collapse!'

In the direction of the throne, the throne phantom's body, imprisoned by invisible chains of rules, fluctuated violently.

The grey Origin power struck wildly at the restraints, but could only futilely stir up ripples of rules.

Chen Feng stepped onto this burning staircase.

Beneath his feet, there was no longer just the cold and the heavy pressure of rules, but an added layer of scorching pain that burned everything!

The Guixu Tribulation Fire licked at his dao foundation.

Every burn brought bone-deep agony, but it also tempered every inch of the trajectory of the guixu fate wheel, burning away every trace of the filth of the Path of Slaughter left by xingtians will.

Inside his Dantian, the Universe guixu fate wheel roared and operated!

The vortex, with its solidity stabilized at 65%, had its mysterious Dao patterns on the spiral arms become increasingly clear and profound under the calcination of the tribulation fire.

Beneath the dark background, scorching white fire patterns flowed, emitting a majestic pressure of world-purification and Rebirth.

At the core, that star seed which had fused the Origin Point of Returning Ruins and Su Wanzhao's will floated in the tribulation fire like a star embryo bathing in fire.

Although temporarily silent, it radiated a resilience like a rock.

The faint starlight at his heart, adjacent to the frantically pulsating Punishment Calamity imprint (23%), was like a lighthouse in the darkness, silently transmitting a warm current of protection.

However, the path ahead was a true purgatory!

Where the staircase extended was the core area where the annihilation beams erupted!

Countless beams of destruction, thick as galaxy rivers and composed of pure Chaos grey Origin, were like enraged Universe Vicious Beasts, spitting and sweeping madly around the staircase!

The terrifying will of annihilation almost solidified.

Every time a beam of light grazed the staircase, it caused the star Origin that composed the staircase to tremble and disintegrate violently!

In the face of such world-ending power, the burning Guixu Tribulation Fire could only barely maintain the staircase so it wouldn't instantly collapse, like a boat of fire in a raging storm, ready to capsize at any moment!

Each of Chen Feng's steps was accompanied by a destructive impact!

His body felt as if it were being repeatedly struck by billions of heavy hammers.

His bones groaned under the unbearable burden, and his newborn flesh and blood constantly disintegrated and struggled to regenerate under the scouring of the annihilation will.

The operation of the guixu fate wheel was sluggish due to the impact of the violent chaotic rules, struggling to maintain its solidity at the edge of 65%.

Every time he resisted the aftermath of the light beams, the vortex shook violently.

Under the tearing of the annihilation storm and the burning of the tribulation fire, his consciousness felt as if it had been thrown into a double purgatory, the excruciating pain almost tearing away his last bit of clarity.

'Step across!'

The obsession to protect the star seed was like a stabilizing needle, supporting his bloody steps.

His eyes were blood-red; his left eye reflected the ultimate darkness of annihilation, while his right eye burned with the scorching white tribulation fire of world-purification.

He submerged his mind completely into the guixu fate wheel, guiding the power of the tribulation fire to arduously carve out a path in the gaps of the destruction storm.

He was getting closer and closer to that core inheritance seal light cluster!

The light cluster floated in the very center of the annihilation storm, pulsating slowly and powerfully like a chaotic heart, emitting an aura of rules more ancient and more fundamental than the throne.

Every pulsation triggered the surrounding violent annihilation beams to rise and fall, as if all the runaway power of the Hall of Fate Wheel originated from this!

Hope was right before his eyes!

As long as he touched that light cluster and completed the Legacy, perhaps he could control this terrifying power and resolve all crises!

However, would xingtians will sit idly by?

'Ignorant... ant... attempting to... covet... fortune...'

Xingtians grand and tyrannical will penetrated the roar of the annihilation storm, carrying a cold killing intent of being thoroughly enraged, 'This road... is blocked... with your... steps... sacrifice to... my... divine weapon!'

Hum—!!!

The Punishment Calamity imprint frantically pulsating on Chen Feng's chest suddenly erupted with unprecedented dark red blood light!

This time, the blood light was no longer runes, but gushed out like boiling magma!

Deep within the imprint, xingtians will roared in a desperate gamble: 'Path of Slaughter... sacrifice weapon... eternal... wreckage... condense!'

Rumble—!!!

In the core area of the entire Hall of Fate Wheel, among the Chaos grey Origin shattered and vaporized by countless annihilation beams, countless fine, filthy dark red streams of light, exuding endless slaughter and resentment, were forcibly extracted and gathered from the destruction storm in all directions, as if summoned by a supreme call!

These dark red streams of light were not Xingtians power!

They were summoned and condensed by xingtians will through the imprint, using its own Origin as a guide... the Path of Slaughter Era Wreckage!

They were the fragments of resentment and slaughter Origin belonging to the countless fallen powerhouses, broken stars, and even the Dao rules themselves of the Path of Slaughter Era, which had long been buried deep in the river of time!

Under the forced blending of xingtians will, they rapidly condensed, compressed, and deformed in the annihilation storm in front of the staircase!

Finally, they took the form of... a giant weapon!

Not a physical object!

But a terrifying phantom, condensed from endless dark red blood light and filthy resentment, so massive it obscured the vision!

Its shape was like a giant guillotine axe, the blade broken but radiating a sharpness that could sever eternal Reincarnation; the axe body was twisted, composed of the faces of countless struggling and wailing vengeful spirits; the handle was like a solidified river of blood, flowing with the endless grief and killing will of the destruction of the Path of Slaughter Era!

Xingtian Axe!

The resentment projection of the innate Path of Slaughter divine weapon of Xingtian, the ancestor of the Path of Slaughter Era!

The moment this giant phantom axe took shape, a terrifying killing intent, pure to the extreme and existing only for destruction, instantly overwhelmed the Chaos of the annihilation beams and enveloped the entire staircase!

The Guixu Tribulation Fire burning on the staircase was actually suppressed and dimmed in the face of the killing intent of such a Path of Slaughter source weapon!

'Break!'

xingtians will gave the order!

The Xingtian Axe phantom spanning in front of the staircase, carrying the monstrous resentment of the destruction of the Path of Slaughter Era and the ultimate slaughter that severed everything, ignored the intertwined annihilation beams in front and slashed down fiercely... at the burning staircase under Chen Feng's feet!

Fast! Ruthless! Absolute!

The timing was precise to the peak!

It was the moment when Chen Feng was bearing the greatest pressure from the annihilation storm, his mind concentrated on the inheritance light cluster ahead, and the staircase's defense was at its weakest!

This slash was not an energy attack, but a 'severing' at the level of rules!

The target—to completely destroy this inheritance staircase reconstructed by the rule will of the Hall of Fate Wheel and carrying the hope of the Guixu star seed!

To sever Chen Feng's last path!

The warning of death instantly climbed to the peak!

Chen Feng's pupils shrank!

He felt it!

What this slash contained was the absolute negation and severing of 'rules' themselves by the ancestor of the Path of Slaughter!

Although the Guixu Tribulation Fire could burn away filth, it was difficult to instantly withstand this kind of Path of Slaughter slash targeting 'existence' itself!

Once the staircase was severed, he would instantly fall into the boiling sea of annihilation Origin below, never to return!

Couldn't dodge!

Couldn't block!

At the critical moment!

A flash of almost desperate madness crossed Chen Feng's eyes!

He suddenly looked up, no longer looking at the slashing Xingtian Axe, but staring fixedly at the core of the annihilation storm ahead, at the thickest and most violent Chaos grey annihilation beam that was erupting frantically!

'Guixu... Tribulation Fire... guide... annihilation!'

A thought that staked everything took shape in a flash of lightning!

He no longer tried to stabilize the staircase's defense, but instead pushed the guixu fate wheel in his Dantian to the limit, the core star seed erupting with unprecedented light!

The burning Guixu Tribulation Fire no longer protected the staircase, but turned into a scorching white, condensed-to-the-extreme line of fire, like a precise fuse, instantly shooting into the most violent annihilation beam!

Boom—!!!

Like throwing a spark into boiling oil!

That annihilation beam, which was already violent to the extreme, was instantly injected with a violent Soul the moment it was guided by the Guixu Tribulation Fire, and its energy level soared tenfold in an instant!

Its destructive eruption direction was forcibly twisted and pulled by the will of the tribulation fire that burned everything, no longer sweeping without pattern, but turning into a Chaos grey mad dragon that destroyed everything, fiercely... counter-charging against the slashing Xingtian Axe phantom!

Using annihilation... to counter the severing!

Rumble—!!!!

An indescribable great collision of rules!

The sharp slaughter of the Xingtian Axe phantom that severed eternal Reincarnation collided fiercely above the burning staircase with the ultimate will of the core annihilation beam of the Hall of Fate Wheel to erase existence!

There was no sound, only an annihilation storm at the level of pure rules!

The dark red Path of Slaughter killing runes and the Chaos grey annihilation Dao laws clashed, tore, and annihilated each other madly!

The blinding light instantly swallowed his vision!

The destructive shockwave spread in a spherical shape, and wherever it passed, space shattered like fragile glass!

The boiling Origin sea below was blown open, creating a huge void!

Crack—!!!

The burning staircase bore the brunt!

The star Origin constituting the staircase, in this rule collision storm that exceeded the limit, was like rotten wood thrown into a meat grinder, disintegrating and annihilating inch by inch!

The staircase under Chen Feng's feet disappeared more than half in an instant!

Like a bird with broken wings, he was fiercely blown away by the violent shockwave, falling rapidly... toward the deep, bottomless annihilation Origin void that had been blown open below!

'Pfft—!' Chen Feng spat out blood, the guixu fate wheel shook violently, and its solidity instantly fell to 60%!

The tribulation fire dimmed, the star seed wailed!

The Punishment Calamity imprint's pulsation took the opportunity to skyrocket, its recovery rate breaking through 25%!

Dark red patterns spread wildly!

It was over!

The staircase collapsed, falling into the abyss!

However, just at the moment when Chen Feng's body was about to completely fall into that destruction void—

Hum!!!

A faint, yet incomparably resilient azure starlight, without warning, tenaciously permeated from deep within the silent Punishment Calamity imprint on his chest...!

This starlight did not come from Su Wanzhao's star seed, but... deep within the imprint, the Star Dome Barrier fragment (Strength: 2.7%) that belonged to Zhang Shouzhuo, who had burned himself out to protect the star dome ark...!

This thread of protective imprint, weak to the point of almost dissipating, in Chen Feng's desperate situation of falling into the abyss and being on the verge of death, resonated with the protective will of Su Wanzhao's star seed, which was silent but transmitting, and like the last embers being awakened, erupted with power that exceeded the limit!

'star vault... inextinguishable... guard... a thread...'

Zhang Shouzhuo's old, tired, yet incomparably firm final will rang in the depths of Chen Feng's Soul like a sigh across time and space!

Hum!

That point of azure starlight instantly spread, turning into a tattered, crack-filled, yet radiating an ancient protective will, miniature Star Dome Barrier, which appeared just under Chen Feng, supporting his rapidly falling body!

Bang!

Chen Feng smashed heavily onto the broken Star Dome Barrier.

The barrier groaned under the unbearable burden, the cracks instantly expanded, and the light dimmed to the extreme (Strength: 0.3%), but miraculously, it did not shatter!

It was this protective power, weak to the limit, that won him... the last glimmer of life!

And at the same time!

In the center of the counter-charging storm of the Xingtian Axe phantom and the annihilation beam!

Another mutation occurred!

That violent rule annihilation storm, after destroying the burning staircase, its destructive aftermath was actually carried by the chaotic rule turbulence, like an out-of-control Universe giant hammer, hitting squarely... fiercely... on the higher... throne phantom imprisoned by invisible rule chains!

Boom—!!!

An unimaginably terrifying explosion!

The throne phantom's 'body,' composed of Chaos grey star Origin, under such internal and external attacks (imprisoned by rule chains externally, and bombarded by the annihilation storm internally), was like a glass statue hit by a heavy hammer, instantly... covered in spiderweb-like cracks!

'Ah—!!!' The throne phantom made a clear scream for the first time, mixed with pain, anger, and disbelief!

This scream was no longer a cold will, but carried a trace of... panicked... anthropomorphic emotion!

Even more shocking to the Soul was—

As the throne phantom neared collapse, the blurry silhouette that had been floating above the throne actually... became clear for an instant in the grey Origin where cracks were spreading!

Although it was only a flash, Chen Feng, the moment he was supported by the Star Dome Barrier, still clearly 'saw' it!

That silhouette... was not completely unfamiliar!

Its lower body was shrouded in Chaos grey, blurry and unclear.

But the outline of its upper body... especially the lines of that side face, the firmness vaguely discernible between the brows and... a trace of deeply buried fatigue and vicissitudes...

Actually had a seventy percent resemblance to... Zhang Shouzhuo!

'Zhang... Senior?!' Chen Feng's Soul was shaken, almost unable to believe his eyes!

However, the shock of this fleeting glance was immediately drowned out by a more grandiose change!

Rumble—!!!!

In the core area of the entire Hall of Fate Wheel, with the throne phantom nearing collapse, it went completely berserk!

The rotation speed of all nested light wheel structures suddenly went out of control!

Billions of annihilation beams lost their last restraint, like unbridled world-ending Vicious Beasts, crazily and indiscriminately bombarding in all directions... including the void where Chen Feng was falling... and the throne phantom that was nearing collapse...!

A true world-ending storm!

Indiscriminate cleansing!

And right at the core of this destruction storm, that true inheritance seal light cluster, because the throne phantom was severely damaged and the rule restraint was greatly reduced, its condensation speed suddenly accelerated!

The Chaos grey light was unprecedentedly scorching!

A cold and grandiose suction force, like the breathing of the Universe, instantly locked onto Chen Feng, who had just been supported by the Star Dome Barrier below and was in the path of countless annihilation beams!

The Legacy... was right before his eyes!

It was also the bullseye of destruction!

xingtians will roared in fury and greed deep in the imprint (recovery rate 26.3%), the throne phantom screamed and struggled in shattering, and the annihilation beams poured down like rain!