93: Nirvana returns to its source, the star cocoon begins to stir.

Boom!!!

The deep blue beam of Annihilation Returning to Origin, like a spear of judgment from the Universe's ultimate order, instantly tore through the brief tranquility of the star source sea of consciousness. Carrying an absolute will to forcibly return all chaos and termination to cold order, it slammed fiercely toward that primordial ultimate end crystal attempting to hide!

This strike was faster than thought, ruthless and without reservation! It was the instinctive counterattack of the star remains pedestal after its birth, having fused the Source of Annihilation, Guardian Will, and Chen Feng's lingering obsession!

The gray light on the surface of the primordial ultimate end crystal flickered frantically, conveying unprecedented terror and fury! It instinctively wanted to escape into the deeper Laws of the pedestal, but that deep blue beam seemed to lock onto the essence of its existence, ignoring all physical and energetic barriers!

Sss—!!!

The beam accurately struck the rice-grain-sized gray crystal!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a bizarre screech that froze the Soul, a sound of the Law level being forcibly "corrected" and "reordered"!

The deep blue beam was not destruction, but... assimilation! It was the forcible incorporation of chaos by order!

The primordial ultimate end crystal trembled violently! The cold, dead gray light on its surface, representing absolute termination and chaos, twisted and struggled frantically under the wash of the Annihilation Returning to Origin beam, as if encountering a higher-order ruler, yet it could not resist being forcibly "smoothed out" and "regularized"! Wisps of pure end aura were stripped away, not purified, but forcibly absorbed and assimilated by the Annihilation order Law contained within the beam, becoming part of the deep blue light!

"Roar—!!!" A silent, excruciatingly painful shriek emanated from inside the end crystallization! Its volume shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, the gray light dimmed sharply, and the devouring instinct and chaotic will bred within it were forcibly suppressed and frozen! It was like an unruly Vicious Beast, shackled by cold chains of order!

[end crystallization (Primordial): Hit directly by the Annihilation Returning to Origin Cannon! Activity significantly reduced (85%)! Erosion instinct forcibly silenced! Energy fluctuation (extremely weak) | Status: Order Seal (Elementary)]

Effective! The pedestal's instinctive counterattack actually managed to temporarily suppress this terrifying seed of finality!

However, the star remains pedestal, which unleashed this earth-shattering strike, also paid a huge price!

Hum... Rumble... The star runes flowing across the surface of the pedestal dimmed by more than half in an instant! The entire pedestal trembled violently, emitting a groan of being overwhelmed! The light of the rune array at the bottom, which was extracting the Source of Annihilation, flickered unsteadily, and even tiny cracks appeared! The pedestal structure, which had only just formed, had clearly endured immense pressure after overloading to drive the "Annihilation Returning to Origin Cannon"!

[star remains pedestal: Energy overload! Structural stability -20%! Annihilation Returning to Origin Cannon enters a long cooldown period!]

[Warning: Pedestal energy level dropping sharply! Guardian force field intensity decaying!]

A facade of strength! This strike had almost drained the pedestal's nascent power!

And almost at the same time the pedestal bombarded the end crystallization and fell into weakness—the sturdy outer wall of the star source sea of consciousness, at the location previously impacted by the guixu will and xingtians will, was suddenly—without warning—penetrated by three extremely tiny, yet intensely filthy and malicious dark gray specks of light, like filthy leeches clinging to an eggshell!

It was precisely those three Gravediggers who had forcibly opened a temporary passage using the blood sacrifice filthy blood mark!

They seemed extremely adept at traversing such dead and filthy environments. The moment they entered the Sea of Consciousness, the filth covering their bodies resonated with the residual Annihilation aura in the Sea of Consciousness, greatly offsetting the repulsion of the star dome laws against them! Like three drops of filthy blood merging into ink, they appeared silently at the edge of the Sea of Consciousness. Their dark red eyes instantly locked onto the dark star pedestal in the center, which was emitting starlight but was clearly dim and weak, and the pulsating will star cocoon at the core of the pedestal, which was emitting an alluring aura!

"star vault... pedestal... weak!"

"Will... core... transformation... critical moment!"

"Seize... seed... destroy... remnants!"

Hoarse, greedy, and chillingly murderous thoughts were exchanged instantly between the three Gravediggers! Without any hesitation, and even ignoring the temporarily sealed end crystallization deep within the pedestal (their primary targets were the will star cocoon and Chen Feng's residual mark), they transformed into three streams of dark gray, filthy light. Carrying malice that tore through the starlight, like moths flying toward a flame, they launched a fierce charge toward the star remains pedestal!

Their speed was extremely fast. Their bodies twisted and deformed during flight, and the filth armor covering them squirmed like a living creature, emitting an evil force field that insulated them from the erosion of the star dome laws! The broken bone blades in their hands and the bone staffs embedded with dark red crystals lit up with filthy light, aiming directly at the will star cocoon at the pedestal's core!

Internal trouble had just eased, and external threats had arrived! And the timing was vicious to the extreme!

The star remains pedestal had just completed its suppression of the end, its own energy was exhausted, its structure was unstable, and its guardian force field was decaying! And the will star cocoon was at the critical moment of transformation, unable to be interrupted or moved at all!

Chen Feng's will mark, which had merged into the pedestal, flickered frantically at this moment! An intense sense of crisis and an obsession to protect surged like boiling magma, yet it could not mobilize any more of the pedestal's power! The pedestal was too "new," too "weak"!

It could only... resist head-on!

Hum!

The remaining star runes on the surface of the pedestal lit up desperately, forming a thin shield of starlight, attempting to block the Gravediggers' impact!

"Hehehe... deathbed... struggle!" The leading Gravedigger issued a hoarse mockery, the dark red crystal at the tip of its bone staff erupting with blinding, filthy blood light, smashing fiercely onto the starlight shield!

Bang!

The thin shield fluctuated violently, instantly covered in cracks! The bone blades of the other two Gravediggers also slashed fiercely onto the shield!

Crack—!!!

The shield only supported for a breath before shattering with a roar! It turned into sky-filling dim stardust!

The three Gravediggers, carrying a ferocious aura, instantly pounced onto the surface of the pedestal! Filthy energy began to frantically erode the pedestal's material structure, emitting a "sizzling" corrosive sound! Their goal was clear—dig open the pedestal and take the core directly!

[star remains pedestal: Suffering from filthy energy erosion! Structural integrity -5%! -7%!]

[Warning: Gravediggers are breaking through the pedestal's external defenses! Risk of will star cocoon exposure rising sharply!]

The pedestal was wailing! Chen Feng's will mark was burning frantically! Yet it could not stop those three filthy hands from tearing and eroding like maggots on a bone!

Was the newly forged pedestal about to be destroyed by the hands of these bizarre Gravediggers? Was Su Wanzhao's transformation to be forcibly interrupted?

Just at this most critical juncture—

Hum!!! The pulsating will star cocoon at the core of the pedestal, as if sensing the extreme malice from the outside and the pain endured by the pedestal, suddenly... changed its pulsation frequency!

It was no longer a steady, rhythmic pulsation, but became a... rapid, intense, frantic throbbing, like the last struggle before a heart stops beating!

Inside the cocoon, that expanse of liquid Star Vortex space was already boiling! Countless starlight runes collided, shattered, and were reborn at an unprecedented speed! The rotating will vortex in the center increased its rotation speed to the limit, and its form began to undergo a blurred... change! It was as if something was enduring immense pressure inside, about to... break out of the cocoon!

[guardian will star core: Morphological transformation accelerating! Guardian Law sublimation: 78%... 82%... 89%...]

[Status: will star cocoon (Fetal Movement Period) | Energy fluctuation climbing sharply! Unknown evolutionary critical point approaching!]

The light emitted by the will star cocoon was no longer a gentle purple, but became blazing and dazzling! It was as if a star was burning and exploding frantically inside! A vast, irresistible energy, carrying a resolute will of Rebirth and protection, erupted uncontrollably from within the will star cocoon... with a roar!

Boom—!!!

Like the prelude to a supernova explosion! A blazing pillar of starlight shot out from within the will star cocoon, piercing through the pedestal's material barrier and washing fiercely over the three Gravediggers who were frantically eroding the pedestal!

"Ah—!!!" A shrill, inhuman scream rang out instantly!

This erupted starlight was not ordinary energy, but a highly condensed power of guardian purification and annihilation, containing Su Wanzhao's transformation will and the star vault Origin Law! It had an innate restraint against the filthy energy on the Gravediggers, which originated from the Annihilation Graveyard!

It was like pouring scalding holy water onto dark creatures!

The filth armor covering the bodies of the three Gravediggers, under the wash of the blazing starlight, was like snow encountering the scorching sun. It emitted a terrifying "sizzling" melting sound, instantly giving off thick, foul-smelling black smoke! Their dark red eyes dimmed instantly, and they let out agonizing howls. Their bodies, as if struck hard by an invisible giant force, were instantly bounced off the surface of the pedestal!

They rolled miserably in the star sea, their bodies scorched with large patches of charred marks by the starlight, and filthy energy leaked from their wounds like a bursting dam! Their aura withered by more than half in an instant!

[Gravedigger: Struck by guardian purification starlight! Filthy Origin severely damaged! Combat power significantly decayed!]

This sudden, fierce counterattack from the prey completely disrupted the Gravediggers' formation! They stabilized their figures in suspicion and uncertainty, their dark red eyes staring fixedly at the brilliant, star-like blazing will star cocoon, filled with unbelievable terror!

And the star remains pedestal, after enduring this uncontrollable eruptive energy from the will star cocoon, saw its already weak structure worsen, with cracks spreading on the surface and roaring incessantly. But Chen Feng's will mark, at this moment, transmitted a fluctuation of extreme worry mixed with a hint of anticipation—

The transformation of the will star cocoon had been forcibly pushed by this external lethal threat... to the final and most dangerous... critical point!

Inside the cocoon, in the center of that boiling liquid Star Vortex, the rotating will vortex had become too blurred to see its form. Replacing it was the outline of a... light embryo that was constantly expanding, contracting, and seemingly breathing with difficulty!

A more massive, more difficult-to-control new power was accumulating frantically inside the embryo!

The purple crystal threads on the surface of the will star cocoon began to emit cracking sounds of being overwhelmed! It was as if they could no longer bind the existence inside that was about to break out of the shell!

Fetal movement! True fetal movement!

Meanwhile, deep in the pedestal. That end crystallization, temporarily sealed by the Annihilation Returning to Origin Cannon, shrunk to the size of a needle tip, with its gray light almost completely extinguished, upon sensing the massive new power frantically accumulating and about to erupt within the will star cocoon, as well as the pure filthy Origin dissipating after the Gravediggers were severely damaged...

The tiny, deep blue Seal rune on its surface, composed of the Annihilation order Law... quietly... dimmed by a sliver.

A wisp of gray gas, ten thousand times thinner than a hair and almost imperceptible, like the most cunning poisonous snake, quietly drilled out from the gap in the Seal...

Carrying greed to the extreme, it swam silently... toward that brilliant, about-to-undergo-final-transformation... will star cocoon.

The internal and external storms, at this moment, were both pushed to their apex!