312: Chapter 312 Tracing Crossing Boundaries and the Abyss of Corruption

As Zhou Wannian took that step, the pure white halo behind him merged into the endless dark sea like a drop of water. It shrank and closed silently, ultimately transforming into an absolute singularity that could not be captured by any conventional Divine Sense, completely vanishing into the deepest reaches of the Great Primordial Void.

That was the Grandmist Source Core, interwoven from countless Major Thousand Worlds—the ultimate Holy Land, unattainable in the eyes of all living beings in the myriad realms. It was also the final resting place of the broken System that had once attempted to use Zhou Wannian as prime nourishment. And now, this forbidden land, whose full extent even Eternal Realm experts could not glimpse, was left behind by Zhou Wannian without a hint of lingering attachment.

The old shackles had completely shattered, and a new scroll was slowly unfolding beneath his feet.

Zhou Wannian stood quietly within this Great Primordial Void, where there was no direction, no light, and where even the concepts of time and space had been completely stripped away. His green robe hung naturally in the absolute dead silence without a breath of wind; his entire being exuded an ultimate composure, as if he had washed away all worldly dust and returned to his true self.

Once, when he had first stepped out from the world barriers of the Grand Void Firmament, he had needed to deliberately circulate the Law power of the Great Five Elements Illusory World Art to prop up an indestructible dimensional barrier around his body to resist the omnipresent forces of assimilation and erasure in this terrifying void that could reduce all matter and Laws to a primordial blank.

But now, the situation was entirely different.

After devouring the ultimate System core known as the primal heaven derivation disk and fully absorbing and assimilating the endless multiversal Luck and underlying logic code contained within, Zhou Wannian's inner universe had welcomed its ultimate transformation to Great Perfection.

He was no longer a cultivator who needed to struggle to maintain a defensive shield within the void.

Now, he himself was a flawless, ceaselessly self-sustaining, and vast Major Thousand World that, on a dimensional level, already faintly transcended this Great Primordial Void.

Those void erosion forces, sufficient to make a Half-Step Eternal Realm expert despair and turn to fly ash instantly, became as submissive as the gentlest sheep when they approached within three feet of Zhou Wannian's body. They did not even dare to generate a hint of hostility; instead, they were awed and attracted by the perfect Universe Aura inadvertently radiating from him, before being slowly and firmly pulled into his inner universe by an invisible, devouring maw.

Under the effect of the Great Perfection Five Elements Disintegration power, these violent void energies were easily dismantled into the most basic energy dust, eventually becoming prime nourishment for the chaos jianmu.

Zhou Wannian did not even need to breathe intentionally; every heartbeat and every flow of blood performed a high-dimensional energy exchange with this vast Grandmist Void.

Standing in this absolute darkness, he was as relaxed and comfortable as if he were strolling along a bluestone path in his own backyard.

Zhou Wannian slightly raised his head, his eyes deep as ancient wells and swirling with the scenes of the birth and death of galaxies, as he slowly scanned the boundless, heavy darkness ahead.

Zhou Wannian's tone was steady, carrying an absolute sense of relaxation that came from controlling all things, as he whispered to himself: "That fellow who looked like a mutated rat... the sour stench radiating from his body before he died is as conspicuous as a torch in the night sky within this pure void. Since you so-called Void Plunderers love to treat others' Universes as rations, then as the newly appointed wanderer of these myriad realms, I naturally must pay a proper visit to your nest and see just how much shameful, moldy grain you've hoarded."

He slowly raised his right hand, pressing his long, fair index and middle fingers together, and made an extremely casual, light swipe in the void before him.

Buzz.

Accompanying his swipe...

One hundred and eight clusters of time dao patterns, brilliant as blazing suns, suddenly condensed at his fingertips into a long line of time radiating piercing golden light. This time line was like an ancient divine dragon possessed of high intelligence, swimming flexibly through the void without any spatial medium. It ignored the obstruction of the absolute blankness ahead and cut directly into the underlying Karma logic of this dimension.

The Laws of Great Perfection Time Reversal and Karma Tracing intertwined.

Soon, at the very front of the time line, a wisp of Void Origin residue—nauseatingly grayish-black and radiating an extremely thick, decaying, and malicious Aura—was forcibly extracted from the depths of the void.

This residue was precisely the faint scent accidentally left in the dimensional rift by that hunched figure crushed by Zhou Wannian's finger when it tore through space to cross realms.

For any other expert, such a faint Aura remaining under the erasure of conceptual zero would have no possibility of being tracked. But before Zhou Wannian, who had completely mastered his own absolute timeline and could manipulate the Karma of the heavens at will, this Aura was the clearest and most lethal guiding light.

Zhou Wannian looked at the grayish-black residue struggling like a living thing within the golden light, attempting to flee, and a faint smile touched with mockery curled at the corner of his mouth.

Zhou Wannian commented in an easy-going tone: "Rats who hide their heads and show their tails... even the scent they leave behind reeks of shameful decay. I'd like to see just what kind of foul gutter could breed such a disgusting thing."

He did not summon any massive starry sky warships for traversing the void, nor did he need to rely on some depleted sun to provide the power for distorting space like Elder Wu Ya.

He simply placed his hands behind his back in an ordinary fashion, his green robes elegant, and took steady, relaxed steps in the direction guided by the golden time line, walking unhurriedly toward the deeper reaches of the Great Primordial Void.

The first step was taken.

The Great Perfection Space Law surged beneath his feet.

The endless dark void in front of Zhou Wannian was like a soft piece of cloth forcibly folded billions of times by an invisible giant hand. A terrifying distance that would originally take a Creation Realm expert tens of millions of eons to fly across was forcibly compressed into a single inch beneath Zhou Wannian's step.

He seemed to walk extremely slowly, like a Mortal strolling through a forest, but in reality, with every flash of his figure, he had already crossed countless abandoned Universe wrecks on the brink of birth and death, and bypassed void storm eyes from which even light could not escape.

This crossing was no longer flight or teleportation in the traditional sense, but a dimensional descent that transcended physical rules. As long as his Divine Sense could lock onto a coordinate, his Physical Body could resonate with the Laws of his inner universe and appear at that location instantly, with no power capable of obstructing his path.

In this Great Primordial Void, the concept of time was originally blurred.

But for Zhou Wannian, his inner universe possessed an extremely precise time scale.

After approximately three days had passed in the inner universe's time...

Zhou Wannian's steady, forward-moving steps finally came to a slow halt.

With his hands behind his back, he stood quietly in the void, his deep gaze piercing through the darkness ahead to look at the vastly different and strange sight before him.

Far ahead in the depths of the void...

It was no longer that pure, impurity-free black silence.

What entered Zhou Wannian's vision was a terrifying monstrosity large enough to make the Divine Soul of any living being seeing it for the first time tremble in fear.

It was a world barrier that appeared dark purple, its surface covered in countless ugly ravines that pulsed like giant blood vessels. The shape of this barrier was extremely irregular; it was like a massive tumor that had rotted for countless eons in the depths of the Universe, or a gargantuan heart riddled with holes from being gnawed by countless parasites.

Surrounding this tumor was a layer of grayish-black miasma so thick it almost couldn't be dispersed. Within this miasma floated hundreds of millions of shattered Major Thousand World wrecks, shriveled stellar skeletons, and countless massive vengeful soul shadows produced by the destruction of Universes, twisting and struggling in extreme agony.

These dregs, which should have been completely purified in the Grandmist Void, were now firmly attracted to the dark purple world barrier like a magnet, becoming the most natural and malicious defensive shield for this dimension.

This was the nest of those Void Plunderers, a deformed multiversal collective known as the "Corrupted Abyss."

It was not a normal Universe opened by some creator deity, but a sinful fortress of devouring, decay, and absolute malice formed over long years as the Void Plunderer race plundered and devoured other Major Thousand Worlds, forcibly piecing and stitching together indigestible Universe wrecks and poisonous Laws.

Zhou Wannian stood outside the void shrouded in grayish-black miasma, looking at the massive tumor ahead that pulsed constantly, as if radiating a nauseating stench.

His brow furrowed slightly—a rare occurrence—and a look of undisguised disgust and loathing appeared on his originally calm and handsome face.

Zhou Wannian commented coldly, with a very obvious sense of physical discomfort: "Truly a garbage dump that feels like it soils the eyes with just a glance. Stitching the corpses of countless Universes together like a Frankenstein monster and delusional enough to think it can create an eternal fortress. This crude desecration of the Great Dao Laws is even more disgusting than those old fellows in the Grand Void Firmament."

He casually dusted the sleeves of his green robe, as if dispersing the putrid smell drifting over from the void.

Although he felt extreme nausea at the sight before him, Zhou Wannian did not stop his steps to exterminate the pests.

He did not summon any Magic Treasures to forcibly blast open that malicious defensive shield composed of countless world wrecks and resentment.

For an existence like him whose inner universe had reached Great Perfection, using brute force to break through such a polluted barrier would be as undignified and foolish as a Mortal using their bare hands to clear a septic tank full of filth.

Zhou Wannian slightly raised his chin, and the Great Five Elements Illusory World Art began to circulate very gently within his body.

He took steady, relaxed steps, treading on the void with his hands behind his back, strolling directly toward that layer of grayish-black miasma that was as thick as a solid substance.

The moment the corner of his green robe touched the edge of the miasma...

Those massive vengeful soul shadows floating in the miasma, filled with endless resentment and the power of curses, seemed to catch the scent of a peerless delicacy. They let out ear-splitting, shrill shrieks and lunged madly at Zhou Wannian's body. They attempted to tear this seemingly defenseless intruder to pieces and drag his Divine Soul into this Corrupted Abyss of eternal damnation.

However...

An incredible scene of purification quietly played out on the outer perimeter of this shield filled with sin.

Those baring-fanged and claw-waving terrifying vengeful souls, capable of instantly corroding the Physical Body of a Creation Realm expert, were like hitting a blazing sun condensed from pure Vairocana True Fire the moment they approached within thirty feet of Zhou Wannian's body.

No violent energy collision occurred.

The perfect inner universe within Zhou Wannian—constructed from grandmist mother earth, great sea true water, Primal Gengjin, nine nether earth core lotus, and chaos jianmu—revealed its supreme power to encompass all methods and purify all things at this moment.

The Great Perfection Five Elements Disintegration Law acted like an invisible halo of purification, enveloping Zhou Wannian's surroundings.

The grayish-black miasma and phantom vengeful spirits that touched the halo were forcibly dismantled and stripped of their decay and Curse Laws with extreme dominance in a ten-thousandth of an instant. The energy dust that formed their foundation was completely restored to the most primitive and pure harmless Spiritual Qi under the wash of Time Reversal.

Chi chi chi.

A very faint sound of melting, like snowflakes falling into boiling water, constantly echoed around Zhou Wannian.

He walked through the miasma so plainly, his pace without the slightest pause, and his expression without a hint of tension.

Wherever he passed, the originally thick grayish-black miasma was forcibly split open like a wide transparent passage by an invisible peerless divine sword. The shattered world debris automatically retreated to both sides under his powerful spatial repulsion, and those phantom vengeful spirits didn't even have time to scream before being completely purified into nothingness.

In just a few dozen breaths of time.

Zhou Wannian's handsome, upright, and spotless green figure easily penetrated that layer of malicious defensive shield—which was enough to block countless cross-realm giants—as if passing through a thin layer of morning mist, and stood steadily before the dark purple, deformed world barrier.

Looking at this dark purple barrier up close, it appeared even more hideous and terrifying. The surface of the barrier constantly oozed a viscous black liquid. These liquids emitted a strong corrosive smell in the void, and every drop would corrode a tiny black hole in the void that could not heal for a long time.

Zhou Wannian looked at this disgusting barrier and did not reach out to touch it.

He simply took a step forward, quite casually.

The Great Perfection Space Law surged beneath his feet, and a spatial assimilation power that transcended the dimensions of this deformed Universe rippled out from his body.

The moment his body struck the dark purple barrier, that incredibly tough barrier—which even Eternal Realm extreme path weapons would find difficult to pierce—was like butter meeting a red-hot iron, silently melting into a gap large enough for one person to pass through.

With his hands behind his back, Zhou Wannian calmly stepped into this Corrupted Abyss that had been ruled by the Void Plunderers for countless eons.

The moment he crossed the barrier.

The scene before Zhou Wannian's eyes suddenly opened up, but what followed was an extreme stench and bloody smell a thousand times more intense than outside.

The interior of this Corrupted Abyss did not have clearly defined Star Domains and lower worlds like the Grand Void Firmament.

This place was entirely a giant slaughterhouse filled with chaos, blood, and disorder.

The sky presented a sickly dark red color, with no sun, moon, or stars. There were only countless eerie eyeballs the size of houses, bloodshot and densely embedded at the top of the firmament, gazing down at this vast land with indifference and greed.

On the land, there were no mountains, rivers, flowers, or trees.

Instead, there were Bone Mounds piled up from the white bones and severed limbs of countless living beings. These mounds were tens of millions of feet high, piercing into the clouds. At the top of each mound hung a giant head that was still constantly dripping blood—the materialized remains of the Heavenly Dao will of some Major Thousand World devoured by the Void Plunderers.

Between these Bone Mounds flowed incredibly wide black rivers. What tumbled in the rivers was not ordinary water, but highly concentrated void corruption Origin. Countless void creatures with sharp mouthparts, resembling giant leeches, fought and devoured each other frantically in the river, making hair-raising chewing sounds.

Zhou Wannian's appearance was like a drop of incredibly pure divine spring emitting an alluring fragrance, suddenly dropping into a giant pit of manure filled with rotten meat.

His clean green robe and his restrained yet impossible-to-completely-hide perfect inner universe Aura seemed so out of place and eye-catching in this world filled with death and decay. At the same time, it emitted an extreme temptation that was fatal to these void creatures.

Almost at the same instant Zhou Wannian stepped onto this land.

The entire Corrupted Abyss seemed to boil because of this alluring Aura.

In the black river closest to Zhou Wannian, the water surface exploded.

Hundreds of void demon leeches, over ten thousand feet long and covered in dark black scales and sharp barbs, let out deafening greedy roars. Like hundreds of black cannonballs, carrying a sky full of fishy wind and bloody rain, they pounced frantically toward Zhou Wannian's location.

Corrosive venom capable of melting Space Laws spewed from their mouthparts, and their pairs of crimson compound eyes were filled with extreme desire for that perfect Physical Body.

Facing such a terrifying siege that would cause an ordinary Creation Realm powerhouse to instantly despair and flee in panic.

Zhou Wannian still stood steadily in place; he didn't even pull his hands out from behind his back.

He slightly raised his chin, his deep eyes looking indifferently at those void demon leeches pouncing from all directions.

Zhou Wannian's voice was steady, carrying an absolute calmness of one who holds the power of life and death, as he faintly spat out a single word.

Zhou Wannian said indifferently: "Extinguish."

Buzz.

Accompanied by this extremely weak yet Heavenly Dao-judgment-like word falling.

The perfectly self-consistent inner universe rules of the Great Five Elements Illusory World Art instantly expanded an absolute Domain of ten thousand miles around Zhou Wannian's body.

One hundred and eight clusters of time dao patterns erupted with blinding golden divine light within the Domain.

Great Perfection Space Collapse.

Great Perfection Five Elements Disintegration.

An incredible scene of crushing was shockingly staged on this filthy, blood-colored land.

Those hundreds of aggressive void demon leeches, enough to sweep through an ordinary Star Domain, seemed to hit an invisible wall of death the moment they rushed into this golden Domain.

No world-shaking Spell collisions occurred, nor were their shrill screams heard.

The moment their massive, indestructible scaled bodies touched the golden divine light, they were like candles encountering extreme heat, melting and collapsing frantically at a terrifying speed visible to the naked eye.

The corrosive venom they spewed was forcibly restored to harmless water vapor in mid-air by the power of Five Elements Disintegration. Their powerful flesh and blood, containing the void Origin, were crushed into powder finer than dust under the squeeze of Great Perfection Space Collapse.

A ten-thousandth of an instant.

Under Zhou Wannian's casual single-word mantra, hundreds of ten-thousand-foot-long void demon leeches didn't even leave behind a single complete scale, turning into a sky full of flying gray Ashes of the Calamity ( Ashes of the Calamity - Kalpa Ash) that scattered onto those Bone Mounds.

An instant kill.

A true, effortless, absolute crushing.

The other void creatures originally hidden in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity, were all so terrified by this shocking scene that their bodies trembled violently. They retreated frantically like a tide toward the distance, no longer daring to harbor the slightest covetous heart toward this Youth in Green Robe who looked like a Mortal.

Zhou Wannian ignored those fleeing low-level ants.

He frowned slightly, his gaze penetrating the thick dark red blood clouds in the sky, looking toward the core depths of this Corrupted Abyss.

There was a black mountain of flesh so massive it seemed to support the entire deformed Universe. On the surface of the flesh mountain, countless thick blood vessels were pulsing violently, emitting a terrifying pressure that made the entire space tremble.

There, the true Dominators of this Corrupted Abyss were hidden—the supreme existences that had devoured countless Major Thousand Worlds and created this junkyard.

The moment Zhou Wannian's gaze locked on.

From within that massive black flesh mountain, three world-shaking terrifying roars were heard.

These roars were mixed with endless anger, greed, and a high-and-mighty arrogance.

A sharp voice roared: "Where did this lowly native come from, to dare trespass into the great Corrupted Abyss and slaughter the servants under our command?"

Another cold voice then echoed: "What a pure Universe Origin Aura. This Physical Body contains a complete world. Hahaha, this is simply the most perfect advancement supplement bestowed upon us by the abyss's will."

A third coarse voice showed no hidden killing intent: "Tear him apart. Eat him. Let him become the top trophy on this Bone Mound."

Accompanied by these three deafening roars.

Three terrifying void Origins that surpassed ordinary Eternal Realm and truly reached the half-step Creator level, like three black tornadoes connecting heaven and earth, surged out from the depths of that flesh mountain. Carrying a power that could tear everything apart, they instantly crossed the endless distance and descended above the space where Zhou Wannian was.

The violent void hurricane made Zhou Wannian's green robe flutter loudly.

Three Void Lordss, with bodies exceeding a hundred thousand feet, varying forms, and emitting a suffocating malice, slowly revealed their hideous true forms in the hurricane.

The lord in the center was like a giant tumor forcibly kneaded from countless dead stars and twisted tentacles, with black venom that could corrode all things flowing all over its body.

The lord on the left was a humanoid monster entirely pieced together from concentrated dark shadows and countless wailing human faces, holding a Void Magic Blade that emitted an Aura of extinction.

The lord on the right had nine giant heads resembling ancient venomous pythons, each head spewing Chaos Poisonous Miasma capable of annihilating Time Laws from its mouth.

These three Void Lordss were the supreme rulers of this Corrupted Abyss, peerless malevolent beings who had personally destroyed countless multiverse Systems.

They looked down from above at Zhou Wannian, who stood on the ground like an ant. In their eyes, although this Youth in Green Robe with no cultivation fluctuations had used strange means to kill the demon leeches in an instant, he was still nothing more than a plate of alluringly fragrant snacks before great void Dominators like them.

The central lord composed of tentacles and dead stars opened the countless mouths hidden in the cracks of its tumor simultaneously, letting out a piercing grin like metal rubbing together.

The central lord's voice was sharp and filled with endless greed as it said: "Stupid native, you actually dare to deliver yourself to our door. Your inner universe is indeed so perfect it makes one drool. Obediently give up resistance, let me chew your bones inch by inch, and completely drain your Universe Origin."

Facing these three void Dominators emitting towering malevolence and their high-and-mighty arrogant declaration.

In Zhou Wannian's eyes, deep as an ancient well, not even a shred of fear or ripple appeared.

He quite casually picked his ear with his pinky, and a thick look of annoyance and extreme contempt appeared on his handsome face.

Zhou Wannian's voice was steady, as if speaking to three piles of foul-smelling non-recyclable trash, as he spoke faintly.

Zhou Wannian mocked indifferently: "Not only do you look disgusting, but even your voices are so unpleasant. Piling up a bunch of dead men's bones and rotten meat on yourselves, and you really think you're some kind of great creator? This Corrupted Abyss of yours is truly so dirty that standing here for even one more second makes me feel nauseous. Since you love to eat so much, then open your mouths wide and have a good taste of this big meal I've prepared for you."