85: Star charts return to their origin, ultimately crystallizing.

Consciousness drifted in boundless darkness, icy and deathly silent. It was like sinking into the deepest ice ocean of the Universe, where even time lost its meaning.

Only deep within the Dantian, that tiny, pure, and warm star-blue flame, like an unsinkable lonely boat, swayed in the endless darkness, maintaining a faint thread of vitality.

That was the Nirvana Star Fire, formed by Su Wanzhao burning herself.

It burned steadily, driving the newly born nirvana star vortex life wheel to rotate slowly. Faint starlight flowed through Chen Feng's broken Meridians, like a trickling stream nourishing the parched and cracked earth, arduously maintaining this crumbling shell from total collapse.

It was unknown how much time had passed; perhaps it was an instant, perhaps an eternity.

A faint, purple halo carrying tenacious anticipation, like a distant lighthouse on a dark sea, quietly lit up at the edge of Chen Feng's silent consciousness.

It swayed gently, carrying a sigh and guidance from across the ages, gently yet persistently seeping into that darkness.

"Latecomer... beneath... the throne... truth... the way home..."

The vague and ancient thought, like a stone thrown into a deep pool, sent a weak ripple through Chen Feng's deathly silent consciousness.

Hum!

The inheritance seal, which had been tightly clutched in Chen Feng's palm and whose light was equally dim, seemed to be strongly summoned by the same-Origin will, and its core purple starlight suddenly erupted with unprecedented brilliant light!

This light was no longer guidance, but a kind of... intense resonance and call!

Chen Feng's frozen-like consciousness was suddenly... dragged back by this intense fluctuation of inner and outer sympathy!

"Ugh..." A moan, so weak it was almost inaudible, spilled from his cracked lips.

His heavy eyelids were like lead; he struggled, using all his remaining strength, and only then managed to pry open a slit.

Bone-chilling cold instantly enveloped him.

Gray ice crystals covered his body, and every weak breath carried the excruciating pain of ice shards rubbing against him.

His vision was blurred; he could barely distinguish the huge, tilted, ice-sealed skeleton throne in front of him, as well as the crystal star skeleton on the throne, which was leaning on a broken sword and exuding solidified Battle Intent.

The inheritance seal was scalding hot in his palm, and the purple light at its core beat violently like a heart, transmitting a strong pulling force pointing to the base of the skeleton throne!

Beneath... the throne!

Chen Feng moved his eyeballs with difficulty, casting his gaze below the huge base of the skeleton throne.

There, thick gray ice crystals covered it, merging with the frozen ground as if it were just the solid Foundation of the throne.

"Truth... the way home..." That ancient thought brushed across his Sea of Consciousness again.

Must... go down!

The instinct for survival, the longing for the truth, the pain of Su Wanzhao's sacrifice, and the deep fear of that strange gray light all turned into the final strength supporting his broken body at this moment!

"Cough... cough..." He coughed violently, every vibration pulling at the tearing pain all over his body, and filthy blood mixed with ice shards spilled from the corners of his mouth.

He tried to mobilize the power of the newly born nirvana star vortex life wheel within his body.

Hum...

The life wheel turned a fraction with difficulty, and the pure star-blue flame rose slightly, dispelling some of the ice crystals on his body and bringing a trace of faint warmth.

But just this slight activation made the phantom of the Star Vortex Universe burning at the core of the life wheel dim by a visible fraction! Su Wanzhao's will... was being continuously consumed!

Chen Feng's heart twitched violently, and he dared not force it again.

He gritted his teeth, using all his strength, like a worm, relying on the strength of his remaining physique and the support of his will, moving bit by bit toward the base of the skeleton throne.

The ten-step distance felt like crossing a chasm.

The cold ice surface rubbed against his wounds, leaving dark red bloodstains, which were quickly frozen by the gray ice.

Every movement was accompanied by the groans of dislocated bones and the dizziness of blurred consciousness.

Finally, like a dying traveler, he crawled beneath the huge base of the skeleton throne.

The purple light of the inheritance seal was about to break through the Seal, burning his palm.

Trembling, he pressed his right hand, which was burning with the last trace of Nirvana Star Fire, with determination, fiercely against the seemingly unremarkable gray ice surface beneath the base!

The moment his palm touched the ice!

Hum—!!!

The purple light at the core of the inheritance seal suddenly exploded!

A powerful, irresistible force of the star vault Origin, carrying endless vicissitudes and anticipation, poured into the thick gray ice layer like a floodgate opening through Chen Feng's palm!

Chi chi chi—!

It was like a red-hot branding iron pressed against solid ice!

The power of the Legacy clashed violently with the Source of Annihilation and the power of the end of time contained in the ice layer!

The piercing sound of melting was accompanied by the twisting fluctuations of the space Law!

Chen Feng's palm was in extreme pain, and he felt as if his entire arm was about to be torn apart by this terrifying power confrontation!

But the power of the Legacy was exceptionally pure and tenacious; it did not clash head-on, but carried a unique resonance frequency, like a key inserted into a keyhole, precisely disintegrating the Law structure inside the ice layer!

Crack... crackle!

With Chen Feng's palm as the center, spiderweb-like fine cracks instantly spread across the gray ice surface!

Deep within the cracks, it was not cold rock or metal, but a deep, dark blue light that seemed to contain the entire starry sky!

Boom!

The ice layer suddenly collapsed downward!

A dark blue portal of light, only large enough for one person to pass through, suddenly opened in front of Chen Feng!

A more ancient, purer aura of star Origin, as if from the beginning of the Universe, mixed with an indescribable, heavy sense of historical dust, rushed toward him!

Beneath the portal was not a pitch-black cave, but a small circular space illuminated by dark blue light!

At the center of the space was not a physical object, but a three-dimensional star chart suspended in mid-air, composed of countless flowing starlight points!

This star chart was vast and exquisite, depicting the operation trajectories of countless galaxies and star Systems, and its complexity far exceeded imagination.

Some areas of the star chart were shining brightly, like active stars; while most areas were dim, like silent graveyards; and some areas were covered and eroded by viscous, wriggling dark red stains, exuding a heart-palpitating Path of Slaughter aura!

Chen Feng's gaze was instantly attracted to an area in the center of the star chart that was heavily surrounded and almost completely covered by countless dark red stains!

At the center of that area, a huge dark red light point, composed of pure destruction runes and constantly pulsating, emitted the familiar, yet more original and more terrifying tyrannical will of xingtian main body will!

[xingtian main body will Seal Core Coordinates: Path of Slaughter Blood Hell (Pollution Degree: 97%)] A cold message automatically appeared in Chen Feng's Sea of Consciousness.

xingtian main body will's lair! Its main body was sealed there! And the Seal was on the verge of collapse!

However, what shocked Chen Feng even more was not xingtian main body will's coordinates. It was the star chart itself!

The layout of this star chart, the trajectories of the stars, the architecture of the core Law... actually had an astonishing, essential, same-Origin feeling with the phantom of the Star Vortex Universe slowly rotating at the core of the nirvana star vortex life wheel in his Dantian!

It was as if the Star Vortex in his body was a miniature projection of this vast star chart!

A sense of resonance originating from his Bloodline, from the depths of his Soul, arose spontaneously!

[star vault Myriad Worlds Origin Flow Chart (Damaged)]

[Status: Core Area Severely Polluted | Nirvana Star Fire Legacy Node (Inactive) | Origin Returner Permission (Not Met)]

[Hint: The inheritance seal is the Origin Returner key. The Origin Returner must draw the Nirvana Star Fire, burn themselves, activate the Origin Chart, only then can... reshape the Star Pivot and re-set the Universe!]

"Origin Returner..." Chen Feng muttered to himself, instantly understanding the ultimate meaning of the inheritance seal!

It was not just a key, but a responsibility!

The Origin Returner must use their own Nirvana Star Fire (the Way of Eternal Burning of the star vault) as a guide to ignite this ancient star chart representing the Origin Flow of the star vault, activate its power, only then is it possible to fight against xingtian main body will, and even... reshape order!

But what was the cost? The three words "burn yourself" were like a cold blade!

Just at this moment—

An anomaly occurred suddenly!

Deep in the Dantian, that strange gray light that had fallen into silence after the three-party collision, the moment it sensed the ancient and pure star Origin aura of the star vault Origin Flow Chart... suddenly fluctuated again!

This time, the fluctuation was no longer just longing, but carried a kind of... greedy excitement!

It was as if a hungry glutton had seen supreme delicacies!

Hum!

The gray light suddenly brightened!

A suction force, clearer and more domineering than before, erupted!

The target was not Chen Feng himself, but... the tribulation imprint suppressed by the Nirvana Star Fire deep in his Divine Soul!

"What?!" Chen Feng's heart was severely shocked!

Chi chi chi—!

The tribulation imprint entrenched deep in his Divine Soul, its gray aura, as if encountering a natural enemy, let out a shrill scream, and was forcibly torn and stripped away by the suction of the gray light!

The gray light of the imprint flickered and resisted crazily, but in front of the higher-level "finality" aura emitted by that tiny gray light, it was like snow meeting the scorching sun, rapidly melting and disintegrating!

The pure gray aura carrying the Slaughter Dao Origin of xingtian main body will was greedily swallowed by the gray light!

The outline of the imprint became blurred and dim at a speed visible to the naked eye!

[tribulation imprint: Suffering from unknown Origin swallowing! Structure disintegrating! Recovery degree: 10.0%... 8.0%... 5.0%...] The System alarm flashed crazily!

"Roar—!! Ant! What is that thing... in your body?!" The roar of xingtian main body will seemed to cross endless space, carrying extreme shock and anger and a trace of... unbelievable fear, exploding in Chen Feng's Sea of Consciousness!

It clearly sensed the rapid loss of its imprint power!

Swallowing! The gray light was swallowing the power of the tribulation imprint!

Before Chen Feng could digest the shock brought by this sudden change, an even more bizarre change occurred!

The gray light, which had swallowed a large amount of the tribulation imprint Origin, began to change its form...

That tiny speck of gray light, as small as dust, did not expand in volume, but its core... began to collapse and condense inward!

A tiny, yet flashing with cold, deathly luster... prototype of a gray crystal was slowly forming at the center of the gray light!

The moment this crystal prototype appeared, a purer, more ancient "finality" aura, which seemed to represent the ultimate destination of the Universe, spread through Chen Feng's Dantian like a cold tide, and even faintly suppressed the warmth of the Nirvana Star Fire!

The aura it emitted was increasingly similar to the existence named "Devour" in the crack behind the throne!

It seemed to be a higher-level existence of the same Origin!

"seed of finality... crystallization..." Last Light's weak but extremely terrified thought came, "It is... transforming... evolving... toward a more complete... more terrifying form! Swallowing the xingtian main body will imprint... is its... nourishment!"

The gray light... the seed of finality... was swallowing the power of the tribulation imprint, crystallizing itself!

It wanted to "mature"?!

And what made Chen Feng feel like falling into an ice cellar was that with the appearance of the gray crystal prototype, he clearly felt that the connection between him and the nirvana star vortex life wheel, and between him and Last Light's burning will... seemed to be blocked by an invisible, cold membrane!

The aura emitted by the crystal prototype was like a curtain of finality, slowly falling, attempting to completely isolate and freeze Last Light's Nirvana Star Fire!

"No..." Boundless chill and fear surged in Chen Feng's heart.

This gray light crystal not only threatened his life, but also threatened Last Light's last existence!

Just at this moment!

Boom—!!!

Behind the throne, deep in the huge crack blocked by gray ice crystals, an unprecedented vibration and furious roar erupted!

"seed of finality... crystallization?! No—!! That is... my... Dao fruit!!"

The existence named "Devour" finally clearly sensed the aura of the gray light's transformation and crystallization!

It went completely crazy!

A destructive will, more violent, greedier, and desperate than before, mixed with pure Lu Dao Source Power, like a burst dam of world-destroying flood, fiercely impacted the gray ice layer blocking the crack!

Crack! Crack!

The gray ice layer, tens of feet thick, was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks under the desperate, crazy impact of "Devour"!

Terrifying dark red blood light shone through the cracks, illuminating this frozen space like Hell!

The frozen Lu Dao Source Power stains seemed to come alive, wriggling violently, accelerating the disintegration of the ice layer!

"Nirvana Star Fire... Origin Returner... on the... throne..." The inheritance seal sent a hurried and clear thought again!

Pointing to the skeleton throne itself!

It seemed that only by ascending the throne could the "Origin Returner" ritual be performed!

With "Devour" about to break the Seal in front, and the gray light crystal isolating the Nirvana Star Fire behind!

The tribulation imprint in his body was on the verge of disintegration but released unknown risks!

The star vault Origin Flow Chart was waiting to be ignited...

Life and death hung by a thread!

The final, beast-like crazy purple light erupted in Chen Feng's eyes!

He suddenly raised his head, looking at the tilted skeleton throne, looking at the crystal star skeleton on the throne that was guarding with a sword!

There was no retreat!

Only... ascend the throne!

Ignite the Nirvana Star Fire!

Before the gray light completely crystallized and "Devour" broke the Seal and entered, complete the Origin Return!

"Last Light! Hold on!" He let out a silent roar in the depths of his consciousness, pouring all the remaining strength in his body, regardless of the cost of accelerating the consumption of the Nirvana Star Fire, into his legs!

Boom!

The star-blue flame exploded weakly under his feet!

Chen Feng's body, like an arrow off the string, with indomitable determination, amidst the collapse of the ice layer, the gushing of blood light, and the symphony of the desperate situation of the gray light crystallization, rushed fiercely toward the top of the skeleton throne that symbolized protection and the unknown!