162: Across time and space, I have returned

Revered Xinghe's gaze fell on Su Lei's hand, and he slowly said, "I've seen it all."

Su Lei struggled to get up and bow, but a gentle force pressed him back down.

Revered Xinghe reached out and took the crystal, his fingertips gently tracing the star patterns on it.

"Hong Tian's Divine Soul has indeed completely dissipated."

He paused, his voice low.

"But we Cultivate the same Cultivation Technique, and we are blood brothers, possessing the same Soul Origin..."

Suddenly, he pressed the crystal to Su Lei's glabella.

A warm force, like a spring breeze, surged into his Sea of Consciousness.

Su Lei "saw" that the Small World being nurtured in his Sea of Consciousness suddenly lit up with countless starlight.

Countless points of light gathered like fireflies, dancing in the Void Realm.

"This is..."

Revered Xinghe's voice carried an unprecedented weariness, "I have entrusted it to your Small World."

The star map on the dome suddenly shone brightly, casting down a brilliant pillar of light that enveloped both of them.

Su Lei clearly felt that the Small World in his Sea of Consciousness was undergoing a miraculous transformation.

The starlight gradually condensed into a blurry humanoid outline, vaguely showing Hong Tian Venerable's face.

"Heaven and Earth nurture, creation is mysterious and wondrous."

Revered Xinghe withdrew his hand, his figure under the star robe seemed to stoop a little, his voice so soft it was almost inaudible.

"Perhaps one day, he can, with the help of this..."

The sentence was unfinished, but Su Lei understood its meaning. Just as he was about to make a solemn promise,

"Boom!"

The earth-shattering roar made the entire hall tremble.

Su Lei abruptly unleashed his Mental Energy field, his perception spreading outwards like a tide—

Outside the city walls, a dense army of Demonic Beasts surged forward like a tide, their footsteps on the ground sounding like muffled thunder.

Webber was covered in blood, yet he still stood firm on the city wall, his single arm wielding a bone blade to direct the defense.

With every flash of his blade, swathes of Demonic Beasts fell, but more monsters were climbing the city walls over the corpses of their kin.

"Webber survived?!"

A hint of surprise flashed in Su Lei's eyes, then he clenched his fists, his nails digging deep into his palms, his expression grim.

"It was I who drew all these monsters here..."

He turned to rush out of the hall but was stopped by Revered Xinghe's raised hand.

Star rivers flowed in the other party's eyes, showing no emotion.

"It's earlier than expected."

"But... this was always our destiny."

He waved his sleeve, and a swirling vortex of starlight suddenly appeared in the center of the hall.

The teleportation gate glowed brilliantly with starlight, vaguely revealing a desert scene with sand filling the sky on the other side.

"No! I want to stay and fight!"

Seeing Su Lei about to say something, Revered Xinghe gently shook his head, reaching out and pressing on Su Lei's shoulder with a force that wasn't heavy but felt like a thousand jun.

"Take our Legacy back, save your world, break this predetermined cycle of Reincarnation..."

"This is your true mission."

The next moment—

"Crack!"

The dome of the great hall suddenly exploded!

A giant claw covered in black crystals broke through the roof, its sharp tips only a few zhang away from the teleportation gate.

A terrifying pressure instantly enveloped the entire hall, and the air became thick.

Su Lei felt his bones creaking, as if his internal organs were about to be crushed.

Revered Xinghe's silver hair danced wildly, and an unprecedented brilliant starlight suddenly erupted from his body, as if the entire star river had condensed in that instant.

He took one last look at Su Lei, a hint of a relieved smile even appearing at the corner of his mouth.

"Go!"

With that soft shout, Su Lei was pushed into the teleportation gate by a gentle yet irresistible force.

At the last moment, as his figure was about to completely disappear into the starlight,

He saw Revered Xinghe soar into the air, his star-patterned robe flapping fiercely in the energy storm.

The Venerable formed hand Seals, and a massive star map appeared behind him. Thousands of stars lit up simultaneously, transforming into a star river that spanned heaven and earth, bravely rushing towards the sky-obscuring Demonic Beast!

"Venerable—!!!"

Su Lei's roar was swallowed by the starlight of the teleportation gate.

Before completely vanishing, the last thing he saw was two world-destroying forces colliding with a thunderous roar in the Void Realm, erupting into a white light capable of annihilating everything... He didn't know how much time had passed.

Su Lei's consciousness gradually cleared from the Chaos, and he slowly opened his eyes.

The temporary base was now unrecognizable; metal walls and the ground were twisted and deformed, as if torn apart by some immense force.

Twisted and deformed steel beams jutted out at strange angles, and broken joints still flickered with sporadic electrical sparks.

The ground was strewn with shattered instruments and documents, along with several puddles of dark red blood that had long since dried.

The surroundings were eerily silent.

"Something has already happened?"

"I... came too late?"

As this thought emerged, Su Lei's expression instantly turned extremely grim.

He abruptly stood up, his Mental Energy spreading out like a tide in all directions, penetrating layers of rock and soil, reaching deep underground.

Deep underground, at the core of the Seal, Revered Xinghe's remains floated quietly in a faint blue aura.

Not far away, only four chains remained that sealed the Demonic Beast.

Each chain was covered in fine cracks, emitting a creaking sound under the strain.

The once brilliant blue runes now flickered like candles in the wind, alternately bright and dim.

"Hiss—"

A wisp of black mist was seeping out from the largest crack, tentatively probing the outside world like a venomous snake flicking its tongue.

The mist was as if alive, sometimes condensing into sharp claws, sometimes dispersing into spiderwebs, constantly eroding the surrounding space.

Wherever the mist passed, the rock surface immediately developed decaying black patterns.

As Su Lei's Mental Energy touched the mist, he felt a bone-chilling coldness creep up his spine.

It wasn't ordinary cold, but an aura of decay and despair, as if it wanted to drag him into eternal darkness. He immediately withdrew his perception, fine cold sweat had already seeped onto his forehead, but his taut expression finally relaxed slightly.

At least, the worst had not yet happened.

Immediately after, he looked into the distance.

But as his perception deepened, his heart gradually sank.

The Death Desert, once devoid of life, was now crawling with mutated monsters.

Between the sand dunes, in the rock crevices, and even on the dry riverbeds, there were twisted, writhing black shadows everywhere.

Whether they were exotic beasts, Vicious Beasts, or Yao Beasts, their forms had undergone terrifying changes.

Desert wolves had tripled in size, with ferocious bone spikes growing on their backs.

Desert scorpions' carapaces had grown thicker, and their tail stingers glowed with a faint blue poisonous light.

Even the weakest desert rats had mutated into half-human-tall monsters, their mouths full of fangs dripping corrosive saliva.

Even more terrifying, they all exuded that familiar, heart-pounding black energy field around them.

And this was precisely the characteristic of being polluted and corrupted by the Demonic Beast's Qi field!

Su Lei took a deep breath, his Mental Energy continuing to extend outwards, finally capturing traces of human activity several hundred kilometers away.

The steel defense line constructed by the military was like a long Dragon.

The strong wind, carrying sand, lashed against the metal city walls, emitting a grating, teeth-grinding sound.

Countless Martial Artist warriors were engaged in fierce combat with the monsters outside the city walls.

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