437: Return to the source and the final command!

Smoke and dark red Calamity Ash had not yet dispersed, and the ground lava churned violently from Su Han’s fall.

He lay supine on the scorching lava-scorched earth, his left arm almost gone, the remaining Calamity Ash crystals on his right arm dull and lifeless, and his body, like shattered charcoal, was covered in terrifying cracks, with dark red crystalline light mixed with lava-like blood continuously seeping out and evaporating.

Every difficult breath felt like tearing his lungs, bringing out hot, fishy Qi.

His vision blurred, his ears filled with the shriek of the energy storm, and the whisper of death seemed to be right beside him.

However, deep within his nearly exhausted, shattered chest, the “Calamity Heart” had not extinguished!

It was… mutating!

“Ugh… H-h…”

Su Han uttered fragmented syllables from his throat, struggling to gather his will.

Excruciating pain and the suffocating sensation of near-death surged through his consciousness like a tide, but a more primal, more ferocious instinct was awakened in this desperate situation.

The “Calamity Heart” that should have completely shattered from the Starfall Collapse, not only did not extinguish, but instead, through countless cracks, the dark red light it emitted grew denser, its color approaching that of viscous molten blood crystals, no longer purely the Calamity Ash’s dark black, and within it, a faint, heart-palpitating dark gold Context subtly flowed!

This new power was filled with primal savagery and… corrosiveness!

“Hmm?”

At the center of the battlefield, the rampant spatial collapse storm was being forcibly smoothed and annihilated by an invisible force.

The Silver-haired Man stood amidst the gradually calming energy turbulence, his silver hair slowly drifting down with the wind, his spotless robes returning to absolute stillness.

However, his cold silver eyes for the first time showed clear fluctuations, tightly locking onto the faint but qualitative change in power Qi from Su Han’s crippled body in the distance.

“Core crystal source mutation?”

The Silver-haired Man’s voice was still cold, but the eternal layer of disdainful ice on it finally cracked with a trace of genuine solemnity.

“To burn out the remnants and actually induce such vile defilement… I cannot let you live.”

The air around him suddenly solidified! An even grander, more merciless intent of annihilation, far exceeding any previous move, permeated the area.

He did not raise the “Guixu” sword again; he merely placed his left hand, forming a sword-finger, in front of his chest, and the gray-white Death Qi swirling around his fingertip instantly transformed into tangible runic chains, silently circling his body.

“Eternal Silence Prison.”

He lightly tapped the Void Realm with his sword-finger!

Buzz—!

A silent tremor instantly swept across the entire lava battlefield!

Centered on Su Han, the space within a hundred-zhang radius was suddenly sealed!

It was no longer stripping or annihilation, but absolute “freezing” and “imprisonment”!

Space itself transformed into a gray-white, deathly silent cage barrier, layer upon layer, like cold hellish shackles pressing inward!

The ground lava instantly solidified into pale rock, the surging heat waves were forcibly drawn away, and even the air lost its right to flow, as heavy pressure from all directions crushed every inch of Su Han’s crippled body, intending to solidify him and his mutated Calamity Heart into an eternal “death” specimen!

This was an all-encompassing spatial suppression!

“Ugh ah—!”

The terrifying restraining force made Su Han’s entire skeleton groan under the unbearable pressure, and what gushed from his mouth was no longer blood, but solidified blood crystal fragments!

That nascent power was tightly suppressed deep within the Calamity Heart, almost frozen and strangled by this absolute annihilation!

Despair? No!

It was… fuel!

The excruciating pain and suffocation at the brink of death were like the last drop of oil poured into the nearly extinguished furnace remnants within Su Han’s body!

The dark red, gold-tinged power within the Calamity Heart suddenly surged in reverse!

It no longer resisted the external deathly silent imprisonment; instead, with a greedy posture, it frantically… sucked in the deathly silent power that sealed the space!

“Roar—!!!”

It was no longer a human roar, but more like the roar of a Vicious Beast on the verge of death! Su Han’s shattered body suddenly arched!

“Calamity Ash · Reversing Fate Burial!!!”

Boom—!!!

That cracked Calamity Heart finally erupted completely!

But what erupted was not dark red Calamity Flame, but a surging, gushing, blood-like viscous dark red crystal tide!

This crystal tide carried nauseating filth and corrosive power, instantly counterattacking the Eternal Silence Prison!

Chi chi chi—!

Piercing corrosive sounds broke through the deathly silence!

The gray-white spatial barrier, upon contact with the dark red crystal tide, actually began to rapidly melt and disintegrate like snow under the scorching sun!

The dark red crystal flow, like a greedy demonic creature with life, frantically gnawed at the Origin deathly silent energy of the “Eternal Silence Prison”!

The solidified space around Su Han emitted cracking sounds like shattering glass!

That fatal restraining force had actually become nourishment for the resurgence of his mutated power!

“What?!”

The Silver-haired Man’s brows truly furrowed for the first time!

He sensed that his “Eternal Silence Prison” was actually being polluted and assimilated in reverse!

This exceeded his understanding of all “life” powers!

Could the vile power unleashed by this dying ant actually corrode his ten-thousand-year-unmoving “Annihilation” Dao foundation?!

“Wretch!”

Silver light burst from the Silver-haired Man’s eyes, his true killing intent no longer held back! “Must annihilate!”

For the first time, he clasped his hands in front of him, the Guixu sword suspended above his head, its tip pointing at Su Han!

The ancient sword, bearing the Dao of Annihilation, hummed and vibrated, the gray-white Death Qi flowing on its blade instantly converged and condensed, all its power returning to that single faint glow at the sword tip.

It was no longer a void black dot, but a gray-white star compressed to the extreme, exuding an aura of ultimate return!

The light of the entire battlefield suddenly dimmed, as if all colors, sounds, and energy were forcibly extracted and poured into that star that was about to end everything.

This was a true Dao killing move!

“Origin · Final Edict!” (End of Chapter)