155: Nirvana...willing to serve the Supreme Lord

To return to the Peak, this temptation was too great for an existence that had fallen from the Emperor Realm and struggled in Silent Extinction for eons!

So great that it could crush all pride!

He had dreamed of returning to his Peak state, but the damage from severing his Dao foundation was like a maggot in the bone. Even after stealing the residual Dao Rhyme of heaven and earth for ten thousand years, he only dared to hope to delay the decline of his Dao, never imagining a complete recovery.

Gu Changge's tone was too certain, and the confidence in his eyes made him involuntarily want to believe.

But reason screamed, 'How is this possible?!'

A self-severed Dao foundation, like broken porcelain, is difficult to restore to its original state, even with Heaven-Defying divine objects!

Although this person was unfathomable, the Heaven-Defying promise of 'returning to the Peak' was simply too unbelievable... His eyes were filled with extreme longing and deep suspicion, two emotions fiercely intertwined, making it difficult for him to decide.

The pride of an Emperor made him unwilling to easily bow his head, and his instinctive doubt about the impossible made him dare not easily believe this seemingly illusory hope.

Gu Changge seemed to see through his inner struggle and said no more, only slowly raising his right hand.

Above his palm, an object silently appeared.

It was not some radiant Sharp Weapon, but an irregular stone about the size of a fist.

Above his palm, an object silently appeared.

This was the Heaven-Mending Stone Gu Changge had obtained from a previous check-in. It looked ordinary, but it contained the supreme power to reverse incompleteness. Its core function lay in the word "completion," and it covered all existences at or below the Emperor Realm, including Great Emperors.

The stone body presented a grayish color, like unformed Chaos, its surface covered with profoundly mysterious natural patterns, as if encompassing the rotation of galaxies, and also seeming to contain a wisp of vitality from the primordial beginning of heaven and earth.

It did not emit any powerful spiritual fluctuations; instead, it had an ancient charm of returning to simplicity, as if it had existed there since ancient times, coexisting with heaven and earth.

However, the moment this stone appeared, the Lord of Annihilation's entire Divine Soul trembled violently!

His body, condensed from Silent Extinction Death Qi, almost failed to maintain its form!

He felt a... an ineffable Origin Qi!

Within that stone, there seemed to be the most fundamental power of "creation" and "completion," diametrically opposed to his Dao of "Silent Extinction," yet like Yin and Yang poles, they were mutually originating.

Just by feeling that Qi, a faint 'life force' uncontrollably emerged from the depths of his Divine Soul, which had been dead silent for eons like a dry well!

This feeling... this feeling far surpassed any divine object in heaven and earth that he knew of! This was absolutely not something that should exist in this world!

"This... this is...?"

The Lord of Annihilation's voice was filled with uncontrollable trembling, and all his doubts vanished at this moment.

To be able to produce such a Heaven-Defying divine object beyond his comprehension, the methods of the person before him were already beyond his ability to fathom!

Returning to the Peak... perhaps it was truly not an empty promise!

The hall fell silent again, but this time the Lord of Annihilation's breathing became heavier, a manifestation of extreme excitement and longing.

Gu Changge's voice remained calm, yet it was like the final decisive weight: "Just serve me for a hundred years. After a hundred years, I will return your freedom."

To exchange a hundred years of freedom for the hope of returning to the Peak, and even touching a higher Realm?

At this moment, all the anger, humiliation, and pride completely collapsed before the shock and hope brought by that mysterious stone.

After a long struggle, the Lord of Annihilation's figure, condensed from Death Qi, slowly bowed down. The head, representing an Emperor's pride, finally lowered at this moment.

A hoarse and difficult voice echoed in the silent palace, carrying endless complexity and a rekindled, extreme longing for "life."

"...Silent Extinction... is willing to serve you, Honored One."

Gu Changge looked at the Lord of Annihilation, who had finally lowered his proud head, and nodded slightly.

"Good."

Before his voice fell, he flicked his finger, and the Heaven-Mending Stone in his palm transformed into a stream of Chaos light, silently disappearing into the core of the Lord of Annihilation's Divine Soul, which was condensed from Death Qi.

"Focus your mind and Qi, guide the Origin within the stone, and recast your Emperor foundation."

Gu Changge's voice resonated directly in the depths of the Lord of Annihilation's Divine Soul.

The Lord of Annihilation dared not delay and immediately fully activated the Silent Extinction Emperor Scripture, which had been dormant for eons.

Initially, the power of the Chaos Heaven-Mending Stone was incompatible with his own Silent Extinction Death Qi, even causing violent repulsion, like ice and fire intertwining, making him suffer immensely.

But soon, under the guidance of a wisp of Gu Changge's invisible Qi, the Dao Rhyme contained within the Chaos Qi began to penetrate his long-dried and shattered Great Emperor Dao foundation like warm spring water.

"Buzz—!"

An indescribably vast life force suddenly erupted from the core of the Lord of Annihilation's Divine Soul!

The originally dead silent and decaying Qi rapidly melted and transformed, like frozen earth touched by a spring breeze!

The Dao injuries he had sustained over eons from self-severing and the erosion of the Silent Extinction intent began to heal rapidly under the nourishment of the Heaven-Mending Stone's Origin.

Even more astonishingly, his originally shattered Dao foundation, which had fallen from the Emperor Realm, actually emitted a 'cracking' Dao sound, as if broken porcelain was being reassembled and melted by an invisible large hand, becoming even stronger and more perfect!

An Emperor's might, far vaster and more terrifying than before his slumber, uncontrollably emanated from his body, beginning to impact this black palace that had existed for eons, and even passing through the palace, spreading towards the entire Silent Extinction Ancient Abyss, and even the more distant external heaven and earth!

At the same time, in the Xuanhuang Great World, in the depths of several of the oldest and most mysterious forbidden zones.

Some ancient existences, also clinging to life in slumber, were awakened almost simultaneously!

"Hmm? This Qi... is it that old fellow from the Silent Extinction Ancient Abyss?"

"Such violent fluctuations... life force and Death Qi intertwined, so chaotic... It seems he can no longer hold on and will soon completely return to Silent Extinction."

"Hmph, back then we invited him to emerge with us and devour the essence of living beings to prolong our Emperor's life. He prided himself on being noble, saying he didn't want to get involved in great Karma.

Now it seems, it was nothing but pedantic nonsense! If he had been willing to act with us, how could he have ended up in such a depleted state today!"

"What a pity... a generation's Great Emperor of Silent Extinction will eventually dissolve into the Dao. It would be a shame if all his Silent Extinction Origin were to dissipate."

"Let each follow his destiny. He chose the Dao of Silent Extinction, and this is his ultimate destination."

Powerful and unparalleled intentions intertwined and collided between the forbidden zones, filled with indifference, mockery, and a faint touch of sadness for their own kind.

They all thought this was the Lord of Annihilation's final flicker of life before his demise, a sign of his Dao foundation collapsing and his Emperor's body dissolving into the Dao. No one even considered the possibility of "recovery."

After all, there had never been a precedent for a self-severed Emperor's foundation to truly recover throughout the ages!