629: Chapter 632 Divine Light Hall

A faint smile played at the corners of Lu Chen's mouth.

He reached out his hand.

He reached toward that wisp of gray thread.

The moment his fingertips touched the thread,

The trace of the Law of Entropy within his body suddenly resonated.

The thread trembled violently.

It began to be slowly swallowed by his palm.

Lu Chen's hand was as steady as a rock.

In the eyes of the Clan Chief and the guards,

It seemed as if he were simply grasping at the air within the Void Realm.

But for Lu Chen, what he was touching was the Origin of decay.

The instant their fingertips met,

A bone-chilling cold spread up his arm.

It wasn't an ordinary cold, but a deathly silence approaching "nothingness."

The negligible 0.1% Law of Entropy inside him

Now throbbed wildly, like a hungry Vicious Beast.

Lu Chen began to slowly apply force, pulling the thread out bit by bit.

What he was saving

Was not just a dying girl,

But was also severing a shackle from another world.

For every inch of thread pulled from Selene's chest, it would be completely swallowed by his palm.

The moment the thread entered his body,

Lu Chen felt a sharp pain in his Sea of Consciousness, as if it were being ground by sandpaper.

Apocalyptic visions of collapsing stars and dying galaxies even flickered before his eyes.

"This is definitely not a product of natural formation."

Lu Chen's brow furrowed as he thought to himself.

"This thread bears an obvious man-made mark; the technique is precise, clearly a deliberate act."

A terrifying thought emerged in his heart:

To be able to set such a sophisticated anchor and lock onto the favored daughter of a powerful Family,

Either there was an entity from the Anti-World lurking among them,

Or that Hunter had already personally marked this girl.

This so-called "strange illness" was actually a slow process of consumption.

The hunters of the Anti-World were using her as a living "entropy energy battery."

Converting her existence into entropy energy bit by bit.

Lu Chen's heart sank instantly.

He had come here to evade the Hunter,

Only to unexpectedly stumble into a web woven by the Anti-World.

"I must completely master this Law."

Lu Chen's mind raced, and fine beads of cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"If I can harness entropy energy, I can turn the passive into active and transform the hunter into the prey."

"The power they rely on for survival will become the blade that stabs them."

The thought of upgrading the space magic cube became increasingly urgent.

He vaguely felt

That a massive net sweeping across the heavens was slowly closing.

The eternal war between the Positive Plane and the Anti-Plane

Was not some far-off legend,

But a catastrophic storm that was about to descend.

An hour passed quietly.

The room was dead silent.

Only the Clan Chief's heavy breathing echoed in the air.

Just then,

The last wisp of gray mist completely merged into Lu Chen's palm.

The waxen pallor on Selene's skin quickly receded,

Replaced by a healthy, ruddy glow.

Her chest rose slightly, and she let out a long, trembling breath.

Her eyelids flickered.

She slowly opened her eyes.

The first figure to enter her sight was Lu Chen.

He was leaning over, gazing at her.

The strange light in his silver eyes was slowly fading, returning to their original color.

His face bore a trace of focus and exhaustion,

And a kind of ancient, weathered wisdom that seemed to see through the ages.

In this moment,

In Selene's eyes, there was nothing else in the world, only the figure of the man before her.

That heart, which had been silent for months, suddenly began to beat violently.

An indescribable heat instantly rushed to her cheeks.

She felt a throb for him coming from the depths of her Soul.

That gratitude was so intense that it actually transformed into the heartbeat of love at first sight.

"You..."

She spoke softly, her voice raspy yet clear and pleasant.

The door was suddenly pushed open.

The Clan Chief and the girl's father rushed to the bedside, tears streaming down their old faces.

"Selene! My child!"

The Clan Chief cried out excitedly.

Even his Void Emperor Realm pressure trembled violently due to his extreme joy.

They gathered around the bed,

Anxiously checking her pulse and Soul.

She was completely unharmed.

She was even stronger than before she fell into the coma.

The Clan Chief turned around, his gaze toward Lu Chen filled with incredibly deep respect.

"Physician... no, Your Excellency Eternal Light, you have achieved what even the Creator Supreme of this world could not."

"From this day forward, you are the eternal benefactor of the Vernas Family."

"Our Bloodline is now linked with yours!"

Lu Chen stood up and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

There was no joy on his face,

Nor the slightest bit of pride.

"It is time to fulfill your promise. Take me to your treasury."

The Clan Chief did not hesitate for a second.

"Naturally! My word is my bond! Guards! Clear the way! Our benefactor is going to the Hall of Divine Light!"

Lu Chen was led toward the heart of the mountains.

The passageway along the way was paved with obsidian,

And both sides were filled with Restrictions sufficient to turn a Transcendent Holy Master level expert into ashes in an instant.

Finally,

A massive door forged from astral essence iron appeared before his eyes.

"Your Excellency, please proceed as you wish."

The leading guard bowed deeply.

"The Family has prepared a feast for you and awaits your good news."

The guards slowly withdrew,

Leaving Lu Chen alone standing before the treasury door.

But just as he raised his hand to push the door open,

The surrounding space suddenly distorted.

A vast, boundless, and ancient pressure slammed down on his shoulders like Mount Tai.

That pressure seemed to originate from the very beginning of time.

"An Innate Origin being?"

Lu Chen's eyes narrowed.

He never expected

That the Vernas Family treasury would have a Guardian of such a level.

"Who are you?"

The voice did not enter his ears but resonated directly within the depths of Lu Chen's Soul.

An elderly figure slowly emerged from the shadows beside the giant door.

He looked incredibly frail, wearing a tattered hemp robe that looked as if it were about to crumble into dust.

But those eyes were like two dying stars, containing power that could destroy heaven and earth.

"You do not possess the Vernas Bloodline."

The old man's voice was raspy. "Outsiders may not step into the place of Origin."

Lu Chen did not back down.

Though the pressure was like a mountain, his own Origin power spontaneously formed an indestructible barrier.

He calmly took out a crystal card.

"I come by order of the Family; this is the passage token they gave me."

The old man's gaze

Fell upon the crystal card, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

That was the Heart of the Family...

A token he had personally forged ages ago.

When he had handed this token to the Family, he had left an instruction:

Only one who can save the Family from a crisis of extinction may hold this token.

The old man had been in seclusion in this treasury for far too long—so long that he had even forgotten the passage of time.

He knew nothing of Selene's strange illness, let alone the earth-shattering treatment.

"Elder," Lu Chen's voice pierced through the layers of pressure as he spoke bluntly, "you must be the Old Ancestor of this Family, aren't you?"