456: Purifying Fire

The moment the Light Blade pierced into the corpse star vortex, time seemed to be dragged into viscous asphalt!

There was no earth-shattering explosion as expected; instead, there was a heart-pounding silence of dissolution, and a Soul-level shriek that swept over, enough to drive stars into madness!

"Hiss--Woooooahhhhh--!!!"

This shriek did not come from physical sound waves, but from the depths of the corpse star vortex, from the resentment and intense pain erupting from its forcibly invaded and burned "heart"!

It was the howl of the corruption will itself on the brink of annihilation, the final wail of countless swallowed, polluted, and twisted star remnants resonating at this moment!

The edge of the Netherworld Judgment Light Blade and the core energy of the vortex engaged in the most fundamental collision—no longer a clash of energies, but a confrontation of Law against Law, the ultimate strangulation of creation versus decay, pure purification versus chaotic pollution!

"Ugh ah—!"

Su Han roared again, but this time it carried the sharp pain of his Divine Soul being torn apart.

His massive flame body trembled violently, and the energy forming the Light Blade showed a slight instability in its fluctuations, with the tip even showing signs of being forcibly tainted with a dark purple hue.

The massive corrosive wound on his side abdomen intensified its pain again due to this dual pressure, and the corpse star force at its edges showed a slight tendency to expand again!

Stalemate! A deadly stalemate!

The corpse star vortex on the giant demon's chest was continuously being burned away, dissolving and collapsing inward, like a huge wound set ablaze.

But at the same time, its frantic devouring power and mental pollution were constantly eroding the Netherworld Judgment Light Blade, consuming Su Han's Origin, and shaking his battle-hardened will.

The giant demon's twisted crystal head let out an unintelligible roar, mixed with pain and extreme fury; its massive body, covered in foul crystal armor, shook violently uncontrollably due to the core damage, each step backward crushing deep, bottomless canyons into the star-remnant earth beneath its feet, spewing lava!

It no longer had the energy to manage the corrupted star countercurrent torrent that had been severed and was uncontrollably hurtling towards the starry sky.

All its power was invested in this life-and-death core struggle in its chest!

What about Su Han?

In his burning eyes, the previous pain and madness were being replaced by an absolute, all-or-nothing calm!

He felt the frantic suction coming from the Light Blade, felt his Divine Soul being pulled and polluted by that abyss. The wound on his side abdomen pained him to his Soul, and every loss of power made the light of his flame body dim slightly.

But none of this caused the will of judgment in his eyes to waver in the slightest; instead, it became even more condensed!

In fact, a hint of mockery appeared in that light.

"...Core will? Nothing more than this! Give me... open!!!"

The low roar was no longer an outburst, but a manifestation of the will to declare the final judgment!

He poured all his remaining Divine Thought, the fire of life, and even the indomitable fighting spirit integrated into his Bloodline, without any reservation, into the Netherworld Judgment Light Blade like a bursting dam!

"Buzz—!!!"

At the core of the Light Blade, that will core, like a platinum star, suddenly broke through its limits in brightness!

It was no longer merely incandescent, but transformed into an almost transparent, extreme white, somewhere between solid and ethereal!

Unspeakable high temperatures and purification Law erupted from that core, flowing along the blade of the Light Blade, transforming into billions of platinum light rays, thinner than a hair, yet containing the power to reshape molecular structures, wildly shooting and piercing into the depths of the corpse star vortex and all the polluted veins it connected to!

This was the internal combustion of the World-Burning Flame!

This was the ultimate detonation performed by the will of judgment within the enemy's body!

"Pfft! Crack! Snap!!!"

The sound of dissolution turned into dense, scalp-numbing sounds of penetration and explosion!

Inside the corpse star vortex, it was as if small purification supernovas were forcibly detonated!

The giant demon's entire massive chest was no longer just the core vortex collapsing, but like a chain of dynamite barrels ignited internally!

The incredibly tough foul crystal armor suffered a devastating rupture from the inside out, spreading from points to surfaces!

Spiderweb-like white cracks instantly covered dozens of meters of the giant demon's chest, and white-gold purifying flames wildly gushed from the crack fissures, burning away the escaping corrupted black Qi!

"Awoooohhhhh—!!!"

The corpse star giant demon let out the most mournful and desperate wail since the start of the battle!

This was no longer the pain of energy collision, but the true fear of its core will and life Origin being ignited and disintegrated from within!

Its body began to uncontrollably retreat violently, curling up, attempting to extinguish the "holy flame" in its chest; that terrifying body, constructed from the power of star remnants, now experienced overall energy disorder and unstable flickering due to the core damage!

The scales of victory, after an extremely tragic collision and sacrifice, finally tilted decisively in Su Han's favor with this resolute, world-burning strike that transformed himself into a torch thrown into the enemy's belly!

The fire of purification has ignited the heart of decay. (End of Chapter)