483: The final sound in the dead silence

The ray struck, silent and invisible, yet carrying the resentment and malice of the entire shattered Void Realm.

It was not a torrent of energy, but a cancerous mutation of a Law, a surge intent on reducing "existence" itself back to "nothingness"—the ultimate negation.

Wherever it passed, the Void Realm seemed to be scoured clean, becoming even more barren, more deathly silent.

Su Han's dying body was immersed on a bed of scorching lava, shattered and charred like a piece of charcoal about to burn out.

His consciousness had long since sunk to the bottom of eternal night, and even the faint glimmer of his remnant Soul was about to extinguish.

Facing this ultimate malice, born of a mutual destruction, he couldn't even muster the thought of lifting a single finger. Death was a foregone conclusion.

However, just as the "Existence Stripping Ray," which condensed the metal giant's final mad will and carried the deep malice of the Void Realm, was about to touch Su Han's glabella—

Buzz!

An extremely faint tremor, yet carrying an endless sorrow and an unyielding lingering echo, resounded.

It did not come from Su Han's broken body, but from the extremely thin, almost invisible air above his body.

These were the last remnants of dust after the Phoenix True Fire, which had previously pierced the giant and purified all things, had burned out. They were originally about to cool, extinguish, and dissipate in this desperate space.

But just as this destructive ray invaded the area, these imperceptible golden-red sparks, like a dying beast's final roar sensing a fatal threat, were utterly enraged!

The unyielding will originated from the ignition of Su Han's life and Soul!

The subtle imprints originated from the Eye of Law's penetration of illusion!

These dual imprints had already quietly merged into these scattered flame embers, becoming their last anchor point of existence.

Sizzle—!

Like a red-hot branding iron suddenly plunged into cold corpse oil.

The moment the "Existence Stripping Ray" entered the area covered by the Phoenix True Fire embers, a violent reaction suddenly erupted!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a harsh, sharp ringing sound, as if the Law itself was tearing apart. The golden-red glow was instantly "ignited," no longer a weak ember, but transforming into a layer of almost transparent yet incredibly tough veil of will!

This veil did not directly confront the ray with powerful energy, but "resisted" it in a more fundamental way.

The death-gray ray and the golden-red veil of will clashed head-on!

The ray frantically "parsed" and "erased," attempting to pulverize the veil, along with Su Han behind it, into the most primitive Void Realm dust.

And the veil of will stubbornly "bit" onto the ray. Su Han's lingering will of "destruction," "penetration," and "unyieldingness," as if imprinted in every single flame particle, stubbornly resisted the process of "stripping" with the aid of the Eye of Law's minuscule characteristics of "insight" and "stability."

It was like an indestructible ice shard, fiercely stabbing into a glowing, tough fire net.

The ice shard was melting, the fire net was tearing, and both emitted a wail on the verge of their limits.

Space at their point of contact violently twisted and folded, even showing subtle black cracks, as if the Void Realm itself, which bore this confrontation, could not withstand such a conceptual tearing.

Although the ray was greatly delayed and weakened, the core of that trace of "malice" and "negation," pure to the extreme and originating from the deep abyss of the Void Realm itself, was not completely eliminated.

Like a viper's fangs, it stubbornly penetrated the last line of defense of the veil of will, continuing to stab towards Su Han's glabella!

Hiss—!

A subtle yet chilling soft sound.

The charred skull, under the ray's ultimate "negation" power, cracked open with a subtle fissure, like brittle, fired pottery.

Through the crack, a pale interior was revealed.

The icy touch of death was imprinted more clearly than the scorching heat of the lava, deep within Su Han's completely sunken Soul.

It was not physical pain, but the void-like sensation of existence being dissolved, more despair-inducing than the burning fires of Hell.

His Soul fire was about to extinguish, and memories surged.

Just in this final moment, as the "Malice Ray" from the deep abyss of the Void Realm penetrated the skull barrier, about to completely "disintegrate" the core of Su Han's remnant Soul—

Buzz...!

An ancient, desolate, and deathly silent fluctuation, yet containing an incredible despair of "life," suddenly erupted from the crack in Su Han's skull!

It was not Phoenix True Fire!

It was not spiritual power!

It was not even the power of the Eye of Law!

It was something deeper, more fundamental.

It was as if it were the sigh of billions of withered bones, the crystallization after endless death had settled, the stubborn persistence of a burial ground for tens of millions of years!

The Burial Ground Origin Substance!

As a part of Su Han's Soul Foundation, it usually lay deep beneath his Soul fire. (End of Chapter)