642: Lu Xueqi and Biyao (25)

Lu Xueqi moved in sync with her sword.

The tianya sword transformed into a deep blue rainbow.

Everywhere it passed,

cold air raged,

and starlight froze.

Several Star Beast pouncing toward her

slowed down visibly to the naked eye.

Immediately afterward, a thread of Sword Qi, condensed to the extreme,

silently swept across their necks.

They shattered into a sky full of light spots.

The two of them, one on the left and one on the right,

were like two sharp knives,

boldly charging forward through the swarm of Star Beast!

The Starlight Corridor was still functioning at this moment.

The Star Beast on both sides seemed to still have misgivings,

not daring to step directly onto the corridor to attack.

This gave the two of them a sliver of hope.

They only needed to face those blocking the path ahead

and the Star Beast pouncing down from the sky.

The pressure decreased sharply.

But there were simply too many Star Beast!

They came one after another,

endless and impossible to kill them all!

What was even more terrifying

was that the three powerful guards

moved!

The first to move

was that Star Power Black Tortoise.

It slowly raised its head

and looked at the two people rushing forward.

In its indifferent starlit eyes,

there was neither sorrow nor joy.

It simply opened its massive maw,

and a peerlessly condensed torrent of starlight,

like the Milky Way pouring backward,

erupted forth with a roar!

Everywhere it passed,

space itself distorted!

"I can't dodge it!"

Su Han's pupils constricted.

The coverage of that starlight torrent was too vast!

Its speed was too fast!

"Let me!"

Lu Xueqi gave a clear shout.

Instead of retreating, she advanced,

her figure leaping gracefully,

facing that destructive starlight torrent head-on!

"Snow Dance, Ice Seal!"

Holding the tianya sword vertically before her,

the icy blue light in Lu Xueqi's eyes flared brilliantly.

Her long hair drifted as if blown by an unseen wind,

and the temperature around her plummeted!

Centered on her,

endless, frigid Sword Qi gushed out!

It wasn't an attack,

but a condensation!

In front of her,

layer upon layer,

countless translucent ice crystal shields condensed in an instant!

One, ten, a hundred!

They stacked one after another!

The starlight torrent arrived with a roar!

Like crushing dry weeds and rotten wood,

it shattered shield after shield!

Explosive bangs rang out in succession!

Ice crystals exploded throughout the air!

But with every ice shield destroyed,

the power of the starlight torrent was neutralized a bit more,

and its color dimmed slightly!

Lu Xueqi's face quickly paled,

and a trace of blood seeped from the corner of her mouth.

But her gaze remained as cold as ever.

Her hand maintained the sword seal,

and ice shields continued to form

and shatter repeatedly.

Finally,

after shattering who knows how many hundreds of ice shields,

that terrifying starlight torrent

exhausted its power.

Three feet in front of Lu Xueqi,

it completely dissipated.

Thud!

Lu Xueqi landed,

stumbling for a step.

She propped herself up with her sword,

her breathing ragged.

Clearly, she had exhausted herself greatly.

“Senior Sister!”

Su Han called out urgently.

“It's nothing!”

Lu Xueqi wiped the blood from her mouth,

her gaze still sharp.

“Go, quickly!”

In just that moment of delay,

more Star Beast had already closed in.

And that Star Power Giant Lion

had also risen,

letting out a roar that shook heaven and earth!

With its four claws pushing off the ground,

it turned into a streak of golden starlight

and pounced straight for Su Han!

Its speed was at the absolute limit!

Su Han's hair stood on end,

and the shadow of death loomed over him.

He gave a wild roar,

and the star seed within his Dantian spun at an unprecedented speed!

Silver light erupted from his entire body!

“Starlight, Gather!”

The starlight gauze robe's glow surged,

as if it were about to burst into flames.

He forcibly absorbed countless Star Power from all directions,

pouring it into his body.

“Seven Stars Shine Upon the World!”

He formed a sword hand with his fingers

and pointed toward the sky!

Seven pillar-like beams of stellar sword light

emerged from the Void Realm behind him,

forming the shape of the Big Dipper.

Then,

they crashed down!

They weren't aimed at the giant lion,

but slammed into the ground directly in front of him!

Boom—!!!

The violent stellar Sword Qi exploded!

It transformed into a destructive storm of sword light,

sweeping up the pouncing giant lion

along with dozens of surrounding Star Beast,

swallowing them all!

A huge crater was blasted into the jade ground.

Starlight and Sword Qi mixed together,

as roars and explosions rang out in unison.

Using the counter-shock force,

Su Han's figure charged forward once more,

while simultaneously grabbing Lu Xueqi.

“Go!”

The distance between the two of them and the altar steps

was now less than thirty zhang!

But...

the final

and strongest guard

moved.

That Humanoid Star Spirit,

which had always had its back to them,

slowly

turned around.

On its blurry starlit face,

its eyes, like two star vortices,

“looked” toward Su Han and Lu Xueqi.

There was no rage,

no roar,

only a kind of cold,

ant-disregarding

divine indifference.

It raised an arm made of starlight

toward the direction the two were rushing from

and gently

clenched its hand.

In an instant,

the space around Su Han and Lu Xueqi

solidified.

No,

it wasn't the solidification of space;

it was Star Power.

Endless Star Power

squeezed in from all directions,

forming an indestructible

starlight cage.

Their forward-charging figures

came to an abrupt halt,

like insects trapped in amber,

unable to move at all.

They couldn't even bend a finger.

A terrifying pressure bore down from all sides,

as if it wanted to crush them into powder.

Su Han let out a muffled groan,

and blood seeped from his seven orifices.

The starlight gauze robe let out a strained wail,

its light dimming rapidly.

Lu Xueqi was faring no better.

On her icy skin and jade bones,

fine blood streaks appeared.

The tianya sword buzzed and vibrated,

yet it could not cleave through this pure Star Power imprisonment.

The gap was too large.

A star spirit at the Pseudo-Nascent Realm,

in this core area where Star Power was as dense as a sea,

possessed a power

that was nearly that of a true Nascent Soul!

With just a single thought,

it could mobilize the vast Star Power of this place

to suppress everything.

The Humanoid Star Spirit slowly floated upward,

looking down from above

as it “watched” the trapped duo.

It raised its hand again,

starlight gathering in its palm

to condense into a spear composed purely of starlight.

Destructive ripples flowed along the spear's body,

locking onto Su Han.

Then,

it threw it.

The starlight spear was silent,

yet it was faster than thought.

Death

had never been so close.

In Su Han's eyes,

a rapidly expanding point of starlight was reflected.

Was he going to die?

Bi Yao... Just at this critical moment,

within his robes,

that scalding tortoise shell

suddenly jolted!

A vast, ancient, and sacred ripple

erupted with a bang!

Buzz—!!!

The tortoise shell flew out on its own,

hovering in front of Su Han.

Upon the tortoise shell,

those originally blurry patterns

now shone with brilliant light!

With something deep within the altar,

a certain existence,

it created a powerful resonance!

In the center of the altar,

from that empty offering position,

suddenly,

a peerlessly solid

silver pillar of light shot out!

The pillar of light crossed space in an instant,

enveloping the tortoise shell!

And it also enveloped Su Han!

The tortoise shell trembled slightly within the light pillar,

letting out a low, ancient hum that seemed to have traveled through endless years,

a buzzing sound.

It was like a sigh,

and also like... a calling.

And the starlight spear thrown by the Humanoid Star Spirit,

the moment it touched this silver light pillar,

was like snow meeting the sun,

silently

melting away.

It wasn't just the spear;

the starlight cage that trapped Su Han and Lu Xueqi

also disintegrated the moment the silver light pillar appeared.

It was a complete dissolution.

In the Humanoid Star Spirit's

starlit eyes, which had always been indifferent and cold,

for the first time,

a ripple of emotion appeared.

It was... blankness,

confusion,

and... a trace of deep-seated, Origin-level

awe.

It stopped,

hovering in mid-air,

looking at the tortoise shell and Su Han enveloped by the silver light pillar.

It did not attack again.

It wasn't just the spirit;

on the entire square,

all the boiling and pouncing Star Beast

at this very moment,

went still.

They all turned their heads in unison,

looking toward the altar,

looking at the silver light pillar connecting the altar and the tortoise shell.

Their eyes were filled with the same blankness and awe,

as if they had seen

something sacred engraved within their life's Origin.

Something holy. (End of Chapter)