37: Darkness descends upon Fairy Infant Town, a new journey begins with the Star Map.

With the chaos immortal infant formed, Lu Qingxuan felt as if he had become the center of the Universe, and with every movement, he drew upon the vast, boundless power of Chaos.

The darkness, originally violent and capable of eroding all things, was no longer a fatal threat in his eyes, but rather a "resource" that could be controlled and refined.

He slowly opened his eyes, and within them, Chaos Qi swirled, fluctuating between creation and destruction, as if the phenomena of creation and Reincarnation were playing out within them.

The darkness permeating the bronze immortal palace had nowhere to hide under his Chaos eyes, and even emitted faint sounds of fear, retreating like the tide.

"Is this the power of the chaos immortal infant..." Lu Qingxuan felt the immortal infant sitting cross-legged in his Dantian. It looked exactly like him but exuded an ancient, supreme aura, and his heart was filled with pride.

The immortal infant was surrounded by Chaos Qi, with subtle runes flickering within—the natural manifestation of the Chaos Law and the Dao patterns of the Azure Emperor Longevity Art.

With a slight thought, without using any complex techniques, he mobilized a trace of the chaos immortal infant's Origin power.

Hum—! An invisible field expanded from him as the center.

Wherever it passed, the thick, ink-like darkness hissed like snow meeting the sun, rapidly dissolving and disintegrating, assimilated and devoured by the Chaos Qi, which in turn replenished the Origin Qi he had consumed while stabilizing his Realm.

The Dao Refining characteristic operated automatically, stripping away the purest trace of darkness origin (dilute) from these devoured dark substances and suppressing it deep within the immortal infant.

The remaining complex destruction, annihilation, and chaotic Dao rhymes were quickly refined and integrated into his own Chaos Law, making it increasingly profound and powerful.

"System, simulate the possibility of a preliminary Fusion between the darkness origin (dilute) and the destruction dao rhyme fragment." Lu Qingxuan thought silently.

He knew that the Darkness Origin was extremely dangerous, but the Concepts of "Returning Ruins" and "End" contained within it seemed to have some potential for complementarity with his all-encompassing Dao Refining characteristic and the extreme destructive power of the destruction dao rhyme fragment.

"Ding! Instruction detected. Requires consumption of Divine Sense to perform the simulation... Simulating..."

"Prompt: The darkness origin (dilute) is of an extremely high rank and contains unknown risks.

Fusion with the destruction dao rhyme fragment has a 73% probability of deriving the Annihilation of the Returning Ruins, a Chaos branch Law with strong erosion and destruction characteristics, a 17% probability of triggering an Origin conflict leading to power dissipation, and a 10% probability of an unknown mutation."

"Suggestion: Under conditions of absolute control, you may attempt a micro-Fusion."

"A 73% success rate is enough." Lu Qingxuan's lips curled slightly.

What the chaos immortal infant gave him was exactly this absolute control.

He separated a thread-like trace of the Darkness Origin, then drew an equal amount of the destruction dao rhyme fragment, and carefully wrapped and melted the two together at the core of the chaos immortal infant using the Dao Refining characteristic.

The process was not dangerous. Under the absolute dominion of the power of Chaos, the trace of darkness and destruction blended smoothly, eventually turning into a deeper, more terrifying dark purple current, within which the terrifying scenes of stars dying and all things returning to the ruins seemed to float.

This new power circled quietly between the immortal infant's fingers; although subtle, it made even Lu Qingxuan feel a hint of palpitations.

"Annihilation of the Returning Ruins... A good power." He satisfiedly put away this new seed of Law and turned his gaze to the deeper parts of the main palace.

Although the darkness here had retreated, the dangerous aura coming from the deep corridor ahead, which resembled the throat of a giant beast, was even stronger.

He stepped forward, Chaos Qi circulating naturally around his body, forming an invisible barrier.

Beneath his feet was the cold, ancient bronze floor, engraved with long-faded ancient totems. On both sides were huge bronze pillars, also covered in traces of erosion by darkness, and the divinity in many places had already dimmed.

Not long after walking, the shadows in the corridor ahead twisted, and accompanied by teeth-grinding roars, several pitch-black figures condensed into shape.

They had no fixed form, like flowing shadows, with only two scarlet lights as their eyes, full of tyranny, Chaos, and hatred for all life.

"Shadow Demons spawned from dark erosion?" Lu Qingxuan's eyes were calm.

These Shadow Demons were not weak, roughly equivalent to Nascent Soul Late Stage or even Peak Cultivators, and because of their characteristics, they were extremely difficult to kill by conventional means.

However, to Lu Qingxuan now, they were nothing more than mere obstacles.

He did not dodge or avoid them, walking straight ahead.

The leading Shadow Demon let out a sharp mental roar, turned into a black line, and pounced, with dark power capable of corroding the Primordial Spirit rushing toward him.

Lu Qingxuan didn't even raise his hand; he just had a thought.

"Hum!"

Behind him, the Void Realm shook, and a swaying green lotus phantom quietly appeared.

The lotus leaves were emerald green, like the highest quality immortal jade, and the lotus flower was the color of Chaos, slowly rotating while shedding endless clear light.

Miracle—the chaos seed green lotus!

Under the illumination of the green lotus's clear light, the pouncing Shadow Demons were like snow thrown under the scorching sun.

Their figures instantly solidified, emitting miserable screams, black smoke rolling, and their originally solid shadow bodies became illusory and transparent at a speed visible to the naked eye, finally vanishing with a "pop," leaving only a trace of pure dark energy, which was absorbed by the lotus roots and fed back to Lu Qingxuan himself.

The remaining Shadow Demons saw this, and their scarlet eyes actually revealed anthropomorphic fear, retreating one after another.

"Suppress."

Lu Qingxuan spoke, his words like the sound of the Great Dao.

As he spoke, the chaos immortal infant shook slightly, and a massive pressure of Chaos pressed down like the sky falling.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The remaining Shadow Demons couldn't even scream, directly crushed and purified by this irresistible mighty force, turning into the most original energy particles and dissipating in the air.

The corridor was cleared.

Lu Qingxuan did not stop his pace, the chaos seed green lotus miracle floating behind him, repelling all Laws and evil.

All dark creatures lurking in the shadows, attempting to sneak attack, were like moths to a flame under the illumination of the green lotus, instantly annihilated.

He had a more intuitive understanding of the power of the chaos immortal infant and the Azure Emperor Longevity Art.

The power of the Azure Emperor was endless and naturally had a strong restraint against dark erosion.

Combined with Chaos, which encompasses all things and assimilates all Laws, the effect produced was by no means as simple as one plus one equals two.

Passing through the long corridor, breaking through several ancient Restrictions that had become incomplete due to the passage of time and dark erosion (these Restrictions were full of flaws under the insight of the chaos immortal infant and were easily resolved by Lu Qingxuan with clever force), he finally arrived at the core area of the main palace.

This was an extremely vast space, like an indoor square.

In the center of the square was a huge circular altar.

The altar was cast from some unknown material that was neither metal nor jade, engraved with dense, more complex, and more ancient runes than those outside.

However, at this moment, the center of the altar, where something should have been enshrined, was empty.

Only a mass of darkness, concentrated to the extreme and almost liquefied, was slowly squirming, emitting suffocating evil and ominousness.

This mass of darkness was purer and more terrifying than any dark substance Lu Qingxuan had encountered before.

And above the altar, two things were suspended.

One was a long sword phantom, green all over, as if carved from green jade.

This phantom was extremely solid, the sword body flowing with gentle and vibrant light.

Although it was only a phantom, it exuded a supreme Sword Intent that surpassed all things, faintly resonating with the Azure Emperor Longevity Art in Lu Qingxuan's body.

At the hilt, two ancient Dao characters flickered— "Longevity".

The other was a palm-sized crystal fragment emitting hazy starlight.

Inside the fragment, a miniature starry sky of the Universe seemed to be sealed, with countless light spots floating, outlining complex and mysterious trajectories.

"The imprint phantom of the Longevity Sword... and, a memory star map?" Lu Qingxuan's eyes narrowed.

The liquid darkness in the center of the altar seemed to sense the breath of a living person and suddenly boiled, emitting a low and malicious roar.

Immediately afterward, it twisted and stretched crazily, finally turning into a giant ten zhang tall, wearing broken bronze armor, holding a giant axe condensed from dark energy, with a blurry face but scarlet eyes like blood!

On this giant, not only was there a rich dark aura, but it also carried a trace of the ancient, vast, residual will of the guardian of the bronze immortal palace, only this will had been completely polluted and twisted by darkness.

"Roar!"

The dark Palace Spirit remnant waved the giant axe, carrying the terrifying power of tearing space, and slashed down at Lu Qingxuan's head!

The power of this blow had already surpassed the Soul Transformation Peak and faintly touched the threshold of the Body Integration Stage!

"Well come!"

Lu Qingxuan was not surprised but happy; just right to use you to test the sharpness of my immortal infant!

He pointed his fingers like a sword, the chaos immortal infant in his body suddenly opened its eyes, and the massive Chaos immortal power surged and roared.

"Azure Emperor Longevity, Chaos as the base—Slash!"

He did not use any physical weapons, just using his fingers as a sword, driving the Azure Emperor Longevity Art.

In an instant, the emerald green Longevity Sword Intent soared into the sky.

In this Sword Intent, the tolerance and vastness of Chaos were integrated, no longer pure vitality, but the supreme Dao containing life and death, creation and return to silence.

A Chaos Sword Qi that spanned the space burst out.

The edge of the Sword Qi was emerald green full of vitality, but the core was Chaos that devoured everything!

"Clang!"

The Sword Qi collided fiercely with the dark giant axe.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only an annihilation at the level of Law.

The moment the dark giant axe touched the Chaos Sword Qi, it was like meeting a nemesis, starting from the axe blade, rapidly collapsing, dissolving, being devoured, and assimilated by the Chaos Sword Qi!

The dark Palace Spirit remnant let out an unbelievable roar, trying to condense more dark power.

But Lu Qingxuan did not give him a chance.

"Dao Refining!"

He whispered, and the chaos immortal infant formed a Seal with its small hands.

The terrifying Chaos Sword Qi suddenly differentiated, turning into thousands of fine threads, like a huge cocoon, instantly wrapping the dark Palace Spirit remnant inside.

"Zzzzz—"

A teeth-grinding sound rang out.

The dark Palace Spirit remnant struggled and roared crazily inside.

The dark energy on its body and the residual bronze armor were like snow thrown into a furnace, quickly refined and stripped away.

The pure Darkness Origin and a strand of ancient and vast Palace Spirit Origin were forcibly extracted and poured into Lu Qingxuan's body through the Dao Refining threads.

In just three breaths, the dark Palace Spirit remnant, which was enough to make ordinary Soul Transformation Peak Cultivators drink hatred, was completely refined and disappeared.

Only the purest mass of darkness origin (dilute) and a strand of bronze Palace Spirit Origin (remnant) containing ancient information were collected by Lu Qingxuan.

The amount of darkness origin (dilute) was several times more than the sum of all the scattered dark substances refined before!

Easily solving this last guard, Lu Qingxuan flashed and appeared above the altar.

He first looked at the Longevity Sword phantom.

When he approached, the Longevity Sword phantom emitted a clear sword cry, actively turning into a stream of light, submerging into his brow, and completely merging with the Legacy imprint of the Azure Emperor Longevity Art in his Sea of Consciousness.

In an instant, a large amount of insights about the Azure Emperor Sword Dao flooded into his heart.

Although he was still far from fully mastering it, it had already pointed out a broad road for him.

His attack methods would become richer and more powerful because of this.

Subsequently, his gaze fell on the starlight crystal fragment.

He reached out and carefully took the fragment into his palm.

Divine Sense probed into it.

"Boom!"

A vast stream of information rushed into his Sea of Consciousness.

It was an incomparably vast and complex starry sky map!

The core of the map marked the bronze main palace where he was currently located, and in the deep, infinitely distant starry sky, it marked several other light spots exuding the same ancient aura, which were obviously other bronze immortal palaces.

More importantly, in an extremely remote area of this star map covered by dense dark marks, he felt a terrifying will that was homologous to the previous dark substances but thousands of times stronger!

There, it was marked as— "Void Abyss"!

Presumably, that was the location of the "source of darkness" mentioned in the Azure Emperor's imprint memory, and also the core suppression place of the "Eternal Demon Suppressing Array"!

At the same time, the star map also marked several relatively "safe" paths that could lead to several other secondary palaces, as well as a secret passage to leave the Godfall Forbidden Zone and return to the outside world.

"Sure enough, collecting the bronze immortal palace fragments, repairing and starting all the immortal palaces, is the key to completely suppressing or even eliminating the 'Void Abyss'." Lu Qingxuan realized in his heart.

This star map was of immeasurable value!

Just as he was digesting the star map information, behind the altar, the space twisted strangely, and a subtle, constantly opening and closing, extremely unstable pitch-black crack appeared.

From the other side of the crack came a heart-palpitating chaotic and dead aura, and vaguely, one could hear countless crazy roars and whispers.

"Space crack? Leading to... other severely eroded immortal palaces? Or directly connected to the periphery of the 'Void Abyss'?" Lu Qingxuan's eyes were solemn.

This crack was extremely unstable and might collapse at any time, but it might also become another channel for dark substances to penetrate.

After a little thought, he mobilized the Chaos immortal power, mixed with the newly comprehended Longevity Sword Intent, and laid a solid Chaos Seal around the crack, temporarily stabilizing and isolating it.

"This place should not be stayed in for long.

The time passed in the outside world is probably not short, and the Grand Void Holy Land may be facing trouble." Lu Qingxuan thought of the Black Fiend Cult, the remnants of the Heavenly Thunder Sect, and the forces behind those foreign Prodigies who fell on the Immortal Ancient Relic Road and the Forbidden Zone, and his eyes turned cold.

He took one last look at this bronze main palace full of ancient and sorrowful atmosphere, kept the star map information firmly in his mind, and then his figure turned into a stream of Chaos light, following the guidance of the star map, galloping towards the secret passage to leave the Godfall Forbidden Zone.