258: The old monster makes his move, unaware of the oriole behind.

The sun and moon divine light wove into a boundless web of death, and the rain of fire transformed from billions of stars had already sealed off the heavens and the earth, cutting off every path of survival for Shen Yuanmo.

Shen Yuanmo was completely enveloped within this absolute zone of death constructed from Law, leaving no room whatsoever for evasion.

Leaning on his sword, he gasped violently, each breath triggering excruciating pain in his chest, as if countless red-hot steel needles were churning through his internal organs.

The great five elements destruction glazed armor on his body, a fifth-tier Dao Artifact that had once helped him block countless fatal attacks, was now emitting a groan of unbearable strain.

Those hideous cracks spread wildly across the armor like spiderwebs, flickering with their final brilliance, ready to disintegrate into a sky full of fragments at any next moment.

Is it over?

Am I really going to die here?

A fleeting trace of confusion flashed through Shen Yuanmo's mind.

Since his Transmigration, he had moved with calculated caution, leaving no strategy to chance, and relying on his extraordinary Comprehension Ability, he had walked step by step to this height today that was difficult for ordinary people to reach.

He had once turned the tide against the wind, defeating countless seemingly invincible powerful enemies.

He had also created miracles, forging countless seemingly impossible legends.

But this time, what he faced was a dimensional reduction strike in the truest sense.

It was the crushing weight of the unfathomable foundation from the Imperial clan of the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty, which had been passed down for unknown ages.

No matter how peerless your talent, no matter how heaven-defying your calculations, in the face of absolute power and a more Advanced Magic Treasure, everything seemed so pale and powerless.

"Hahaha! Why aren't you struggling? Where is your arrogance? Where is your sword?!"

Ji Changkong's rampant laughter, filled with satisfaction, echoed in Shen Yuanmo's ears, each word like a heavy hammer smashing fiercely against his heart.

"Before this seat's heaven and earth community map, you are nothing but an ant that is slightly stronger! If this seat wants you to live, you live! If this seat wants you to die, you must die!"

Holding the scroll, Ji Changkong looked arrogant; he did not deliver the killing blow immediately.

Instead, like a god looking down upon the mortal world, he enjoyed the pleasure of completely playing a peerless Prodigy in the palm of his hand.

He wanted to slowly, bit by bit, wear down the other's will and destroy the other's Dao Heart; he wanted to admire this ant moving from hope to struggle, and finally watch him die, wailing in endless pain!

Shen Yuanmo slowly raised his head.

In his deep eyes stained with blood, the last trace of confusion was completely burned away, replaced by a madness that consumed everything and destroyed the heavens and the earth.

Death?

The life of me, Shen Yuanmo, has always been determined by myself!

Even if I die, I must never die at the hands of a self-righteous clown like you!

A thought of extreme determination exploded in his heart, instantly occupying his entire mind.

Shen Yuanmo slowly stretched out his left hand, covered in bloodstains, and trembling, opened his palm.

The heart of chaos origin, which he had been clutching tightly and which flowed with a soft and mysterious Chaos light, hovered quietly on his palm.

This was the greatest gain from Shen Yuanmo's trip to the Guixu Divine Palace.

He had originally intended to rely on this object to comprehend the Dao, helping himself reach a higher level, and perhaps even glimpse the legendary Immortal Dao.

But now, it seems there is no chance.

Since there is no future, then seize the present!

If so, then let this supreme divine object, which carries the Origin of the world, bloom with the most brilliant and final radiance of its life!

Detonate it!

Severely injure Ji Changkong and seek life through death!

Use the power of creation contained within this heart of chaos origin to blast this fake heaven and earth community map, along with Ji Changkong, this self-righteous "god," back into the most primitive Chaos!

Even if I am also reduced to ashes, with my form and spirit destroyed in this earth-shattering explosion, it is worth it!

In Shen Yuanmo's eyes, determination and madness wove together into a blood-red color, with no trace of concealment left.

He mobilized the last trace of remaining magic power in his body, turning it into a resolute fuse, and fiercely pointed it toward the heart of chaos origin!

"Hmm?! Want to self-destruct the divine object? Naive!"

What kind of person was Ji Changkong? Almost the instant Shen Yuanmo made his decision, he had discerned his crazy intention.

The playful smile on his face instantly froze, turning into endless fury, and in the depths of his eyes flashed a trace of uncontrollable panic.

This Little Beast is a complete lunatic!

That is the heart of chaos origin! It is a supreme treasure that even the Immortal Emperor would be tempted by! He actually wants to destroy it!

"In front of this seat, you don't even have the qualifications to self-destruct! Be suppressed for this seat!"

Ji Changkong dared not have any playful heart anymore; he roared sternly, his Divine Power surging wildly, intending to activate the scroll and use the great power of the entire world to completely imprison Shen Yuanmo and seize the divine object!

However, just at the moment he was about to act.

Just at the instant Shen Yuanmo's magic power was about to touch the core of the heart of chaos origin.

A long, lingering sigh sounded without any warning.

It seemed to come from the long river of time from ages ago, piercing through the barriers of space and time, and it also seemed to sound directly in the deepest part of everyone's Divine Soul.

"Sigh……"

This sigh was very light, very faint, carrying an indescribable weariness and vicissitudes.

Yet it contained a certain supreme power of words becoming Law, defining all things.

The moment this sigh sounded.

Time seemed to have been pressed on pause.

In Ji Changkong's heaven and earth community map, the billions of stars that were burning the heavens and destroying the earth, whistling and falling, suddenly froze in mid-air!

The high-hanging golden sun and silver moon, the scorching heat and icy Law divine light flowing upon them, also dimmed and extinguished in an instant, returning to deathly silence!

The rushing rivers stopped flowing, the towering mountains stopped breathing; in the scroll world, the clamor and prayers of those billions of living beings also ceased abruptly at this moment.

This powerful fifth-tier High Grade Dao Artifact was actually forced to cease all operations by this sigh, reverted from a living world into an ordinary, dead scroll!

"Pfft!"

Ji Changkong only felt an irresistible great power, following his mental connection with the community map, violently backlashing against him.

He was struck as if by lightning, his whole body trembling violently, and a mouthful of blood sprayed out, staining his purple-gold imperial robe red!

The close connection he had with the heaven and earth community map, like blood and flesh, as if they were one, was actually shaken to the verge of breaking by this sigh!

"Who is it?!"

The color drained from Ji Changkong's face; he could no longer maintain the dignity and arrogance of an Imperial Uncle of Great Qian, replaced by a shock and fear as if he had seen a ghost or god!

He abruptly raised his head, looking in horror toward the direction the voice came from.

He saw that in that dim annihilation space storm, which still retained the aura of destruction.

An old man wearing the simplest hemp clothing, with withered yellow hair, a hunched figure, and leaning on a walking stick made of unknown dead wood, had appeared silently not far away, he knew not when.

He just stood there quietly; clearly in the midst of the storm, yet not even a corner of his clothing fluttered, as if he had merged with this storm of destruction, and yet also as if he transcended beyond this world, existing eternally.

It was none other than the Half-step Void Return who had been watching from the sidelines from the very beginning, as if everything had nothing to do with him, Old Monster Cang Xuan!

Seeing the person who had arrived, Ji Changkong's heart plummeted into a bottomless abyss in an instant.

The thing he worried about most had happened after all.

The mantis stalks the cicada, but the oriole is behind.

Ji Changkong thought he was the oriole with victory in hand, but he did not expect that behind himself, the oriole, there was hiding an even more terrifying, even more ancient goshawk!

"Have you played enough?"

Old Monster Cang Xuan's eyes, turbid and devoid of any luster, looked calmly at the pale-faced Ji Changkong, and he spoke hoarsely.

His voice was not loud, even somewhat weak.

But every word seemed to contain the supreme rule of defining this world, heavy as ten thousand jun.

Just these four words caused Ji Changkong to be severely injured again, his Divine Soul shaking violently, and blood gushing from his mouth and nose!

He felt that his incomparably stable dao foundation of the Great Perfection of Soul Transformation, achieved after a thousand years of bitter cultivation, actually showed signs of instability in the face of these four words, as if it would collapse at any moment!

Is this the strength of a Half-step Void Return?

Words become Law!

One word can determine life and death! One sentence can determine the rise and fall of all Laws!

"Cang……Senior Cang Xuan!"

Ji Changkong could no longer care about any Imperial clan dignity; his voice was filled with uncontrollable fear and a trace of unwilling pleading.

"This kid has an irreconcilable feud with our Great Qian Immortal Dynasty! He is a wanted criminal of the imperial court! I ask Senior, for the sake of His Majesty the Immortal Emperor, to hand this kid over to Junior for disposal. Junior……the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty will definitely reward you heavily!"

He tried to bring out the Great Qian Immortal Dynasty, to bring out that mysterious and unfathomable Immortal Emperor whose prestige suppressed the world, to make a final struggle.

However, Old Monster Cang Xuan did not even wait for him to finish.

"Noisy."

On his old face, which looked like dried orange peel, flashed a trace of undisguised disgust.

He didn't even look at Ji Changkong, as if he were just a buzzing fly; he just casually flicked his finger toward the direction where he was.

A light and casual action.

An invisible and intangible force of Qi, which even Divine Sense could not capture, and which did not even cause the slightest ripple in space, flashed and vanished.

The next instant, the pleading and fear on Ji Changkong's face completely froze.

He only felt an irresistible, incomprehensible, terrifying power, as if the entire world had collapsed into a single point and was crashing into him, smashing fiercely into his chest.

The protective divine light on his body, condensed from the Human Emperor's Dragon Qi and known as immune to all Laws, could not even hold for a single breath before shattering silently like a bubble under the sun!

"No——!"

Ji Changkong let out a syllable filled with unwillingness, regret, and despair.

His whole body, along with the imitation of the national treasure heaven and earth community map in his hand that he had not yet had time to put away, was as if struck head-on by a star flying from outer space!

Like a kite with a broken string, he was knocked flying backward, tumbling countless times in the violent annihilation space storm, shattering countless tiny space blade currents.

Finally, he disappeared at the end of the storm, completely losing his trace, life or death unknown.

In the flick of a finger, he vanished like smoke and clouds.

That arrogant Imperial Uncle of Great Qian, Ji Changkong, who held the heaven and earth community map and compared himself to a god, was just like that flicked away by Old Monster Cang Xuan, disappearing into the depths of the storm, life or death unknown.

This scene caused Shen Yuanmo, who had already been prepared to detonate the heart of chaos origin and perish together with Ji Changkong, to have the determination that had just ignited in his heart instantly doused by a basin of ice water poured from above his head, chilling him to the bone.

His heart, at this moment, sank into a bottomless abyss.

It's over.

This is the true desperate situation, with no road to the heavens and no door to the earth.