584: Chapter 583 The Burial of Immortals Amidst Myriad Calamities, A Single Sword Strike

Ancient God Abyss.

The moment Shen Yuanmo's voice fell, the Medicinal Pill bottle in Immortal King Guyuan's hand dropped to the ground.

The crisp sound of the bottle shattering was exceptionally harsh in the eerily quiet Forbidden Ground.

His first reaction was not anger, but to look at the communication light screen of the Nine Nether Immortal Dynasty on the dark gold altar.

The light screen was dim.

No signal.

The Nine Nether Third Expeditionary Fleet had not sent back any news.

A chill shot from the base of his spine to the top of his head.

Immortal King Guyuan's lips trembled twice, his mind racing.

"Impossible. The Pluto was the main warship of the Nine Nether Immortal Dynasty, and General Yuansha was a genuine Early Stage Immortal King with countless elites under his command."

"Even if that Shen fellow had broken through to a Half-Step Immortal King, he should have been held up for ten days or half a month."

"How could it be this fast!"

He had paid with the control of seventy percent of Ancient God Abyss's resource Star Domain, a free conscription order for three million immortal troops, and all the unique copies in the Ancient God Abyss Scripture Pavilion.

That was the entire Foundation of the Ancient God Abyss accumulated over countless years.

The result of trading that was that the opponent didn't even slow down and killed their way directly to his doorstep?

"No..."

Immortal King Guyuan looked up at the sky.

The blood-colored light screen of the Myriad Calamity Immortal Burial Array remained thick, spreading in layers to the end of his vision.

This array was the Foundation of the Ancient God Abyss's founding, forged with the painstaking efforts of seventeen generations of Immortal Kings.

Back then, that expert at the Perfection Immortal King level besieged the Ancient God Abyss for a full one hundred and twenty years and didn't even manage to chew through the outer layer of Restrictions.

This thought gave Immortal King Guyuan infinite hope.

He clenched his fists, his fingernails digging into his palms, using the pain to forcefully suppress the surging fear.

The voice squeezed out from his throat, hoarse and sharp, echoing back and forth in the vast Forbidden Ground.

"Myriad Calamity Immortal Burial Array! Even a Perfection Immortal King has to stare blankly from the outside for a hundred years! Can a Half-Step Immortal King like you even get in?!"

Outside the array.

Deep in the starry sky.

Shen Yuanmo stood in the Void Realm, his white robes fluttering.

The Chaos Dao Palace hovered tens of thousands of miles behind him, the glow of its engines extinguished.

He looked at the blood-colored light screen that covered most of the Star Domain, not rushing to act.

Deep within his pupils, fine light patterns began to interweave, arrange, and calculate.

Insight into Origin, activate!

Perfect Deduction, activate!

The Myriad Calamity Immortal Burial Array was peeled away layer by layer in Shen Yuanmo's perception.

The surface layer was a nine-fold Immortal King-level Law barrier, each layer constructed from the interweaving of different attributes of Immortal Dao Laws.

The second layer was the array Foundation, with 360,000 energy circulation hubs distributed throughout the Star Domain.

They connected with each other, forming a self-consistent closed loop.

But what really made Shen Yuanmo stop and take a second look was the third layer: the source of energy.

At the bottom of those circulation hubs, dense, semi-transparent chains extended, so numerous they were impossible to count.

The other ends of the chains were embedded into every life planet, every city, and every living creature within the Star Domain governed by the Ancient God Abyss.

From Mortals to Cultivators, none were spared.

These chains were continuously extracting Lifespan, blood energy, and potential.

Transforming living lives into fuel to maintain the operation of the array.

In Shen Yuanmo's deduction visualization, in a Mortal village, a newborn infant already had three Law chains wrapped around its body.

The infant's cries grew weaker, its skin shriveling at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The mother nearby was still smiling and coaxing the child, completely unaware that her child was being eaten bite by bite by the array.

Shen Yuanmo withdrew his gaze.

His expression didn't change; he had seen too much.

But his hand gripping the sword hilt tightened slightly.

"Such a crudely cobbled-together, blood-sucking rotten array, and it dares to call itself 'Myriad Calamity'?"

The voice was very soft, so soft that only he could hear it.

The great evolution immortal slaying sword was unsheathed.

There was no sword whistle, no light, and even the Law fluctuations were actively constrained by him within the sword blade.

From the outside, it was just a young man in white, holding a dark, heavy longsword, walking toward the blood-colored light screen.

Immortal King Guyuan stared fixedly at the scene outside from within the array.

He didn't see any large-scale attack methods, didn't see any Dharma manifestations filling the sky, didn't see any Law storms.

He only saw that white figure walk up to the light screen and casually insert the sword tip into it.

Just like inserting a key into a lock.

Hum—

The 360,000 energy circulation hubs of the Myriad Calamity Immortal Burial Array all stopped rotating at the same instant.

First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity, Chaos Return to Origin.

It transformed into an invisible singularity, seeping from the sword tip into the interior of the array.

It did not collide with those nine-fold Immortal King-level barriers, nor did it destroy any array Foundation nodes.

It just quietly jammed itself into the intersection point of all energy circulations.

Like a speck of dust jamming into a perfectly fitted mechanism.

The 360,000 hubs lost their energy feedback with each other, and the closed loop was broken.

Without the circulation, the energy stored within the array itself began to dissipate in a disorderly fashion.

The nine-fold barriers lost their supply and, from inside to outside, became transparent layer by layer.

Silent and soundless.

Above the Ancient God Abyss, that blood-colored light screen that had covered most of the Star Domain.

Like a giant curtain with its frame pulled out, it collapsed softly downward, turning into scarlet light dust that drifted away across the sky.

But the true tragedy was elsewhere.

The 30,000 core Elders and Formation Grandmasters of the Ancient God Abyss who were presiding over the array had their Divine Sense deeply bound to the array.

The backlash from the array's collapse poured back into their Sea of Consciousness through their Divine Sense.

The first to explode was a Late Stage True Immortal Elder.

He was sitting cross-legged on an array eye, his Meridians bulging all over his body, golden immortal blood overflowing from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose simultaneously.

Before he could shout a single word, his entire body swelled into a ball of light, and with a bang, he exploded into a mist of blood filling the sky.

Following that was the second, the third, the tenth, the one hundredth.

Like dominoes being pushed over, the golden blood mist filling the sky gathered into an eerie cloud layer above the Ancient God Abyss.

Screams rose and fell, then quickly vanished into nothing.

The whole process took no more than three breaths.

Immortal King Guyuan watched the sky screen shatter.

Watched those trusted direct subordinates who had followed him for countless years explode into minced meat one by one in mid-air.

His brain buzzed, his consciousness instantly blank.

Subsequently, something that surged up from his bone marrow, more primal than fear, crushed his final shred of reason into dust.

He turned abruptly, biting through the tip of his tongue, spraying Immortal King blood onto the dark gold altar.

"Since you won't give me a way to live! Then let's die together!"

His hands formed seals, the hand seals crazed to the point of deformation.

Deep within the earth veins of the Ancient God Abyss, a forbidden Formation that had been sealed for who knows how many epochs was forcefully activated.

The cost of activating the Formation was the lives of all remaining Cultivators within the Forbidden Ground.

The bodies of hundreds of thousands of Ancient God Abyss Disciples began to wither, their essence blood, dao foundation, and Lifespan being drained in the most violent way.

No one had room to resist, and no one even had time to escape.

Their lives were transformed into a turbid, blood-colored energy, pouring deep into the earth along the cracks in the earth veins.

Shen Yuanmo stepped into the Ancient God Abyss, sword in hand.

The blood rain falling from the sky landed on his white robes, but was isolated three inches from his body surface by the Chaos aura, not staining it in the slightest.

He did not look at the remnant soldiers scurrying about in panic, nor did he pay any mind to the few Elders in the distance kneeling and begging for mercy.

His gaze pierced through layers of ruins, pinning straight onto the blood-bathed, mad figure in the center of the Forbidden Ground.

The ground beneath his feet split open as he took his seventh step.

An extremely thick scent of decay surged from the crack, carrying a sense of vicissitudes that did not belong to this era.

That pressure was overwhelming, and the remaining Law order within the Star Domain was forcefully brought to a halt at this moment.

In some areas, the flow of time even showed signs of reversing.

Shen Yuanmo's footsteps stopped.

The cracks in the ground expanded rapidly, quickly tearing open an abyss ten thousand miles wide.

From the bottom of the abyss, a giant withered bone hand reached out first.

Five fingers braced against the edge of the crack, with dried flesh that had been rotting for who knows how many years hanging from the finger bones.

Then came the second hand.

Both hands exerted force simultaneously, and a blood-colored skeletal giant ten thousand zhang tall crawled out from underground.

It was once the First Generation Old Ancestor of the Ancient God Abyss, a peerless expert who had touched the threshold of Perfection Immortal King.

After death, its corpse was sealed in the deepest part of the earth veins, receiving blood sacrifices and offerings for countless generations.

It had long since transformed into a terrifying existence between the dead and the living.

Now that it had emerged, its aura had already reached Perfection Immortal King.

In the hollow eye sockets of the skeletal giant, two dark ghost fires lit up, locking onto Shen Yuanmo.

It opened its mouth; there was no tongue, no vocal cords.

But a roar, unlike anything any living creature could produce, spread throughout the entire Star Domain directly in the form of Law tremors.

The withered bone giant claw raised, its fingertips wreathed in solidified, tangible Law power.

As the giant claw descended, the space barriers where it passed did not shatter, but directly aged.

Large patches of gray-white rust spots appeared in the Void Realm, looking like metal that had been corroded by acid.

Immortal King Guyuan stood under the giant's feet, raising that face covered in blood.

"Old Ancestor is invincible! Kill him! Extract his Soul and use it to light a lamp!"

His voice no longer sounded human, his eyes were bloodshot, and his whole person exuded a kind of madness born of being driven to a dead end.