119: Finally reunited with loved ones, the road to stardom is endless (Grand Finale)

After a brief rest, having initially suppressed the immense energy he had devoured, Lin Yang put away the demon crystal and the great halberd, then led The Four Women forward.

Passing through the ruined square guarded by the Demonized Battle General, ahead was a long, downward-sloping passage filled with the light of shattered Restrictions. The deeper they went, the more turbulent the surrounding spatial fluctuations became, and the chaotic energy currents almost solidified, tearing everything apart. If Lin Yang hadn't forcefully opened a stable area with his Chaos Domain, even with The Four Women's current cultivation, they would have been unable to move an inch.

Finally, after forcefully breaking through the last colorful but extremely dangerous energy current barrier, the scene before them suddenly opened up.

This was an enormous underground space, stretching as far as the eye could see. The center of the space was not solid ground, but a Void Realm. Countless profound and ancient runes, shimmering with various colors, floated in the Void Realm like stars, connecting with each other to form an extremely complex, massive, and awe-inspiring giant Seal Formation.

At the core of the great Formation, countless chains, entirely composed of energy and emanating a cold, eerie glow, extended from all directions of the Void Realm, tightly coiling around and imprisoning a light blue, almost transparent female phantom.

Her figure was slender, her eyes closed, and her long eyelashes cast faint shadows on her pale, bloodless face. Her beauty was heartbreakingly haggard, yet the contours of her delicate brows and eyes bore a striking resemblance to Lin Yang's. Her aura was extremely faint, as if she would completely dissipate like a bubble in the next second. Only a trace of unyielding spirit and concern, tightly furrowed between her brows, proved that her remnant Soul was still struggling to hold on.

"Mother...!"

Lin Yang's heart felt as if it had been fiercely clutched by an invisible giant hand, paining him to the point of near suffocation. His voice trembled, his eyes instantly turned red, and he walked step by step towards the great Seal Formation. Each step was as heavy as a thousand jun, seventeen years of longing, grievances, anger, desire... all transformed into an indescribable bitterness that surged into his heart at this moment.

The female phantom, imprisoned by layers of chains, seemed to sense something. Her eyelashes trembled violently a few times, and she slowly, with great difficulty, opened her eyes. What tired and sorrowful eyes they were. When her hazy gaze focused and she saw Lin Yang walking towards her, her eyes first filled with disbelief, then were overwhelmed by immense excitement and ecstasy, but immediately after, they turned into an even deeper, more urgent worry!

"Lin Yang... is, is that you? No... hurry and leave! Get out of here! Danger... they..." Her voice was as faint as a whisper, broken and intermittent, yet filled with a mother's deepest concern for her child, urgently wanting Lin Yang to leave this dangerous place.

"Mother! It's me! I'm Lin Yang! I've come to save you! Don't be afraid!" Lin Yang's voice choked. He forcefully suppressed the emotions that were about to burst forth, forcing himself to calm down. He carefully observed the massive Seal Formation. This Formation was ancient and powerful, with an incredibly complex structure, and it was connected to the core ley lines of the entire Misty Forbidden Land. To break the Formation by brute force, not only was success uncertain, but the backlash would first completely shatter his mother's fragile remnant Soul!

He tried to sink his mind into his shanzhong point, communicating with the chaos star core. As if sensing the aura of his loved one and his grief, the chaos star core became unprecedentedly active, emitting a soft and warm Chaos light. Lin Yang carefully guided this wisp of Chaos light, slowly approaching the massive Seal Formation.

A miracle occurred. Those cold, solid, immortal-aura-emitting rune chains, upon contact with this gentle Chaos light, seemed to have met their nemesis. Instead of inciting a fierce counterattack, they began to silently melt and decompose like ice and snow in the sunlight!

It's effective! The power of the chaos star core is indeed the key to breaking this Seal!

Lin Yang was overjoyed, but he dared not be impatient in the slightest. He concentrated fully, carefully controlling that wisp of Chaos light, like the most delicate embroiderer, peeling away and melting the shackles wrapped around his mother's remnant Soul little by little. This process was extremely slow and consumed a great deal of mental energy. Fine beads of sweat soon seeped from Lin Yang's forehead, but his gaze was focused, and his movements were incredibly steady.

Time passed bit by bit. One, two, three... more and more energy chains dissipated under the Chaos light.

Finally, the last and thickest core chain, enveloped by the Chaos light, emitted a slight crisp sound, completely breaking and dissipating!

Buzz... The entire massive Seal Formation seemed to have lost its core; its light rapidly dimmed, and the floating runes also flickered unsteadily.

Lin Yang immediately stepped forward, carefully extending his hands, transforming pure and gentle Chaos True Essence into the warmest swaddling cloth, gently supporting the weak, almost dissipating light blue phantom.

"Mother..." he whispered, and tears finally uncontrollably streamed down.

"Lin Yang... my child... you've truly grown up... become a man who can stand tall..." His mother's remnant Soul gazed at Lin Yang's face gently and greedily. Her ethereal hand lifted, wanting to touch his cheek, but passed through without any obstruction. Her eyes were filled with relief, pride, and endless heartache.

At this moment of mother and son reunion, as Lin Yang's heart surged and his entire being relaxed, immersed in a mix of immense joy and sorrow, his cultivation, which had long reached its critical point and been forcibly suppressed, could no longer be contained!

The chaos star core within his shanzhong point vibrated violently. The vast and unparalleled immense energy, far beyond imagination, from devouring the Demonized Battle General earlier and the emotional surge of the power of heaven and earth at this moment, erupted like a volcano that had accumulated for ten thousand years! In an instant, it broke through the Realm barrier, which had long been as thin as a cicada's wing, with destructive force!

Rumble!!!

A majestic aura, far surpassing that of a typical Minor Accomplishment of Spirit Sea Realm, erupted from Lin Yang's body like a tsunami, soaring into the sky! If not for being in this underground space, perhaps the entire continent would have felt this terrifying pressure! Within his Dantian, vast and boundless Chaos True Essence furiously gathered, compressed, and underwent qualitative change, finally liquefying into a sea—a truly magnificent Chaos Spirit Sea was successfully opened!

He officially stepped into the Spirit Sea Realm!

The sudden surge in strength brought about a complete transformation! His comprehension of the Chaos Dao, his control over his own power, and his affinity with the energy of heaven and earth all reached a new, unprecedented level! Purple-gold light flowed around his body, and his Chaos aura became even more profound and vast.

However, at the moment of his Breakthrough, perhaps due to the immense commotion of the Breakthrough, or perhaps because the broken Seal triggered something, in the deepest part of this underground space, within the endless dark Void Realm, an even older, more terrifying consciousness, filled with malevolence, greed, and cold killing intent, seemed to awaken slightly from its ten-thousand-year slumber, coldly "sweeping" over the area.

Lin Yang's hairs stood on end, and a fatal sense of crisis suddenly descended!

Without hesitation, he immediately carefully placed his mother's weak, sleeping remnant Soul into the warmest core space within the chaos star core for nourishment, and urgently said to The Four Women, "A terrifying existence has awakened! This place is not suitable for long stays, let's go!"

The five of them transformed into five streaks of light, frantically retreating along the original path at a speed faster than their arrival. They rushed out of the underground space, broke through the energy currents, swept past the ruined square... until they rushed out of the misty range of the Misty Forbidden Land and boarded the starship, which had been on high alert.

"Maximum speed! Get out of here!" Lin Yang ordered.

The starship's engines roared, transforming into a streak of light, tearing through the sky, rapidly moving away from that unsettling Forbidden Ground.

Standing before the Bridge viewport, Lin Yang looked back at the gradually shrinking, mist-shrouded canyon, his eyes deep and sharp. He gently touched his chest, where his mother's remnant Soul was sleeping peacefully. He then looked at the four beautiful women beside him, who had experienced life and death and accompanied him all the way, his eyes filled with tenderness and determination.

The Spirit Sea Realm is by no means an end, but merely a new beginning. His mother's Soul needs a method to be completely restored, the Legacy path of the Chaos Star Lord has just begun, the terrifying existence awakened in the depths of the Forbidden Ground, the deeper secrets that may be hidden behind the Misty Immortal Palace, and the vast, boundless myriad worlds filled with infinite possibilities... The road ahead is long, and the challenges are endless.

But he was fearless.

(The End of the Book)