229: The Sea of Bones and the Gate of Guixu
The Federal Secret Armory No. 7, the air was filled only with the smell of cold metal and disinfectant, immaculately clean like a mausoleum.
Lin Qianqian was putting the finishing touches on her final armament.
At the same time, Su Lei's consciousness was immersed in his Sea of Consciousness.
The willow tree, formed from the Origin of Demon Shadow's Soul, had been revitalized under the nourishment of stellar power, its myriad branches flowing with a dreamlike, ethereal blue glow.
"The Return to the Void is a place of death, but also a place of Opportunity."
Su Lei's will materialized beneath the tree, looking up at the willow leaves, which were as brilliant as a galaxy: "Heroes and monsters who died in the last era wander there, where reality and illusion intertwine."
"Your Soul, go and see through those illusions of life and death for me."
The willow branches swayed gently, and an ancient and pure thought flowed out: "Your strength is my recovery."
"I am with you."
Before he finished speaking, a more refined power of Soul Origin than before surged into Su Lei's Divine Soul without reservation.
Federal First Special Talent Training Base, Gravity and Space Stabilization Room No. 01.
"Ah ah ah!!!"
Chen Mo knelt on the ground in agony, his entire body convulsing.
The space around him twisted wildly like a pot of boiling water.
His talent for space affinity, at this moment, was not a divine gift, but a wild beast trying to break free from its cage, and his body was that fragile cage.
He felt as if he was being torn apart inch by inch from the inside.
Just as his consciousness was about to be swallowed by the pain, a hand pressed down on his head.
The hand was warm and strong, and a gentle, vast power surged in like a clear spring, instantly calming the spatial power that was about to go berserk within him.
Chen Mo gasped for air, weakly looking up to see the man who had appeared like a ghost.
"Governor Su Lei?"
"Don't fight it..."
Su Lei's voice was calm but reached the depths of his Soul: "Listen, listen to what it's saying."
He stretched out his hand and gently clenched it in front of Chen Mo, and a fist-sized energy orb appeared out of thin air, emitting an aura of destruction.
"Your talent is not for you to destroy, but to become a part of it."
"Feel it, don't fear it."
Chen Mo looked at the energy orb that could blast him into powder at any moment, and then at Su Lei's unfathomably deep eyes.
He gritted his teeth, suppressed his instinctive fear, and, imitating Su Lei, slowly extended his hand... The moment his fingertips touched it, the power within him became agitated again.
But Su Lei's Divine Soul always enveloped him, like a patient mentor, guiding him to understand the order beneath the chaos.
Finally, his hand grasped the energy orb.
A miracle happened.
The violent energy orb in his palm gradually calmed down, like a tamed wild dog.
Su Lei withdrew his hand: "From today on, you are no longer a student."
"You are my team member, the key to opening the Return to the Void."
East Sea, Secret Deep Sea Shipyard.
The Lightless floated silently, entirely composed of a matte black Material that could devour light, its hull without any edges or seams, as if carved from an extraterrestrial meteorite.
Su Lei, Lin Qianqian, and Chen Mo, the expedition team of three, boarded the ship in sequence.
From the distant command tower, Chen Xuan, Ye Qingyun, and other elders watched in silence, bidding farewell to this perilous expedition with the most solemn military salute.
The heavy hatch closed, and in an almost imperceptible spatial ripple, the Lightless disappeared.
It appeared directly at the gravitational boundary of the abyssal vortex.
"Warning! Gravity parameters increasing non-linearly! Space curvature exceeded! Conventional physical laws invalid!"
Alarms shrieked in the bridge, and lights flickered wildly.
Through the enormous crystal porthole, the scene outside was enough to drive any scientist insane.
Countless beams of light were mercilessly swallowed and twisted, and at the end of the world were the carcasses of countless gigantic Demonic Beasts, captured by terrifying gravity, piled layer upon layer into an boundless Continent of Bones!
Billions of brilliant life essences were being forcibly extracted from these dead behemoths, converging into a vast river of energy, plummeting into the bottomless eye of the vortex below, and mercilessly devoured as nourishment by the sleeping Lord of the Abyss.
The whale fall here existed only to sustain the sole King.
"The spatial structure here is like a crumpled piece of waste paper..."
Lin Qianqian's fingertips flew across the tactical panel, all precision equipment having failed: "Spatial faults and energy storms could appear at any moment!"
Just then, the ancient star map in Su Lei's Sea of Consciousness suddenly shone brightly!
"The time has come."
No sooner had he spoken than a brilliant starlight pierced through ten thousand feet of seawater, precisely projecting into the center of the vortex.
The canvas of reality was forcibly torn open with a narrow slit!
The Gate of the Return to the Void opened!
"Chen Mo, stabilize it!"
Su Lei commanded in a low voice.
Chen Mo endured the severe pain, concentrating all his spatial power into his palms, and pushed vaguely towards the rapidly closing rift.
Miraculously, the rift's closing momentum was delayed for an instant!
The Lightless's engines roared with unprecedented power, transforming into a phantom and rushing forward!
However, just as it was about to enter, mountains made of giant beast skulls below exploded!
Dozens of hideous warships, pieced together from bones, soared into the sky from within!
It was the fanatics of the Forgotten Ones Sect!
"Offer everything to the great Divine Master!"
Mad thoughts echoed.
They piloted these blasphemous stitched monsters, pushing their energy cores to the brink of self-destruction, launching a purely suicidal charge!
Dozens of filthy energy torrents intertwined into a net of death, covering them from above!
"Shields full power! Extreme maneuver!"
Lin Qianqian immediately took over piloting, and the Lightless dodged and weaved like a ghost through the gaps in the gunfire.
Several beams of light grazed the hull, but more attacks heavily pounded the shields, stirring up violent energy ripples.
"Warning! Shield energy instantly dropped 30%!"
"They want to wear us down."
Su Lei's eyes were cold.
Just then, a bone flagship, modified from a complete Dragon whale skull, brutally rammed through its allies, its bow ram condensing destructive energy, targeting not the Lightless, but directly at Chen Mo, who was maintaining the entrance and whose face was as pale as paper!
They wanted to destroy the key first!
"Never!"
A cold light flashed in Lin Qianqian's eyes, and several miniature torpedoes shot out, creating a complex force field quagmire in front of the flagship.
The flagship's speed abruptly decreased, but in just one second, all the cultists on board visibly shriveled, injecting all their remaining life force into the core!
"For the Divine Master!!!"
With a fanatical roar, the flagship broke free and charged madly at an even faster speed!
It was too late.
At this critical moment, Su Lei's figure disappeared from the bridge.
The next instant, he had appeared outside the bow, alone, suspended in the chaotic seawater, directly facing the bone flagship that came bearing destruction.
He slowly raised his hand and, in a tone as if a god was declaring his will, gently uttered a single word.
"Still."
As he spoke, the Dao followed.
Time was drawn away, sound was stolen.
Centered on Su Lei, a supreme order forcibly covered this chaos.
The flagship that came with endless fanaticism, along with all the cultists on it who had burned their lives, suddenly, abruptly, stopped less than ten meters from Su Lei.
The energy about to erupt from its ram, the surging wake, every particle of the explosion, all were frozen, like an ancient, unchanging sculpture Seal in amber.
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