229: Breaking through the formation alone, striking straight at the core.
Ye Chen's figure, like a Chaos meteor shooting against the dark abyss, crashed fiercely into that boundless dark red meat carpet and the frenzy of predators!
To the Bedrock Giants, his actions were tantamount to suicide, yet they ignited the last bit of hot blood and determination in their chests!
"For the glory of Panshi! Kill—!"
Commander Rock Mountain let out a roar that shattered the Void Realm. His massive body erupted with unprecedented earth-yellow light. Like a burning mountain, he was the first to leap out of the fortress, the giant hammer in his hand carrying the power to collapse stars, smashing fiercely into the tide of predators surging below!
Behind him, the surviving Panshi Warriors let out roars of suicidal determination, following their commander as they launched a desperate counter-charge!
At this moment, the will to survive and the responsibility to protect transformed into light that tore through despair!
Meanwhile, Ye Chen had already penetrated deep into the enemy Formation!
He fully expanded his Chaos Domain, turning it into a hundred-zhang radius!
Within the Domain, the grey, hazy airflow was no longer merely a defense, but had transformed into the deadliest killing machine!
Once a predator entered the Domain's range, its body structure would be instantly analyzed and disintegrated by the Chaos airflow. Whether it was hard carapaces, viscous acid, or chaotic mental fluctuations, everything was like ice thrown into a furnace, quickly melting, annihilating, and converting into pure energy to be absorbed by the Domain!
He did not entangle himself too much with these endless cannon fodder; his goal was clear, pointing straight at the core of the World-Devouring Mother Nest!
The guixu sword was not even unsheathed; he simply held his fingers like a sword, pointing, slashing, or cutting!
Wherever his fingertips pointed, spatial faults appeared out of thin air, swallowing swathes of predators;
Where his palm wind passed, the Law of power manifested, like an invisible giant hammer, blasting giant predators blocking his path into powder;
With a thought, the power of life and death rotation permeated. Predators that approached would see their flesh grow crazily until it exploded, or instantly decay into ash!
He was like a Chaos Dominator walking in the mortal world. Wherever he passed, all Laws collapsed, and rules retreated!
The frenzy of predators that had brought despair to the Bedrock Giants could not stop him in the slightest; instead, it became resources for the growth of his Chaos Domain!
However, the World-Devouring Mother Nest clearly realized that the threat of this intruder far exceeded the ordinary.
The meat carpet writhed violently, and accompanied by a sharp hiss filled with tyranny and majesty, the thick, mountain-like meat carpet in front suddenly split to the sides, revealing those waiting in strict Formation behind it—the Mother Nest guards!
These guard predators were far larger and more ferocious than ordinary predators!
Their entire bodies were covered in dark golden bone armor flowing with energy runes. Their forms were closer to human, yet they possessed multiple blade-like arthropod arms, wielding huge bone blades condensed from the flesh of the Mother Nest that emitted corrosive energy!
Their aura had surprisingly reached the eighth or even ninth level of the Tiangang Realm! There were as many as a hundred of them!
Behind these guard predators, a region of space-time appeared abnormally distorted and dim, as if shrouded by an invisible force field—this was exactly the "assimilation force field" Rock Mountain had mentioned!
Within the force field, even the Laws seemed to become inert and sluggish, filled with an oppressive feeling of being completely dominated by the will of the Mother Nest!
At the core of the force field, one could vaguely see a pulsating dark red tumor, like a giant heart, emitting a heart-palpitating desire for devouring and evolution!
That was the core of the World-Devouring Mother Nest!
"Skree—! Intruder! Become nutrients for the Mother Nest's evolution!"
The guard predators let out a synchronized mental roar filled with cold killing intent, and hundreds of figures moved at once!
They did not swarm forward, but like a well-trained army, instantly formed a profound battle Formation!
Dark golden energy surged from their bodies, connecting with each other, condensing in the air into a huge, viscous dark golden energy spider web that covered thousands of zhang!
The spider web flowed with powerful forces of imprisonment and assimilation, covering Ye Chen from above!
At the same time, all the guard predators swung their bone blades in unison, and hundreds of dark golden blade gleams, condensed to the extreme and capable of easily tearing apart stars, were like a violent storm, blocking all space for Ye Chen to dodge!
This was one of the Mother Nest's ultimate means of dealing with powerful enemies—the Guard Spider Web Formation!
Integrating imprisonment, attack, and assimilation, its power was enough to trap and kill ordinary powerhouses at the threshold of the Law Realm!
Facing this attack that would make any Cultivator in the Tiangang Realm despair, Ye Chen finally stopped his footsteps.
He raised his head, looking at the dark golden spider web and the sky full of blade gleams descending, his eyes calm and waveless.
"Formation? In the face of absolute power and Law, it is nothing more than a child's trick."
He slowly raised his right hand and finally gripped the hilt of the guixu sword.
"Clang—!"
The clear sword hum seemed to come from the end of ancient time and space, instantly overpowering all the noise of the battlefield!
The guixu sword was unsheathed. The sword body was no longer a single grey color, but flowed with the original color of Chaos—the color of Origin that encompasses all things, yet transcends all things!
The power of the four fragments—Heart, Eye, Power, and Origin—was perfectly integrated into this sword strike at this moment!
He did not perform any flashy sword moves, but simply raised the guixu sword above his head, and then... slashed down with one sword towards the dark golden spider web, the guard predator battle Formation, and the distorted assimilation force field behind it!
"Chaos—Heaven Opening!"
A Chaos Sword Aura, condensed to the extreme and seemingly composed of both the initial order and the final return to silence, erupted from the guixu sword!
The sword qi was initially only a zhang long, but the moment it left the sword body, it grew against the wind, transforming into a Chaos light blade that spanned heaven and earth, as if it would split this piece of Ancient Path space-time in two!
Wherever the light blade passed, all things returned to silence, and Laws were reshaped!
The dark golden spider web, containing powerful forces of imprisonment and assimilation, had its precise internal energy structure forcibly "cut off" and "disintegrated" from the root the moment it touched the Chaos light blade, like spider silk thrown into boiling oil, instantly collapsing and dissipating!
Those hundreds of condensed dark golden blade gleams were like waves crashing against a reef; without even stirring a ripple, they were all annihilated without a trace!
The Chaos light blade did not diminish in momentum, slashing directly into the battle Formation formed by the hundreds of guard predators!
"No—!!!"
The guard predators let out a terrified and desperate mental shriek!
Their indestructible dark golden bone armor was like paper in front of the Chaos light blade; their immense power appeared so pale and powerless before the Chaos Law; their tightly connected battle Formation was forcibly torn apart and crushed by that heaven-opening will!
"Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft—!"
Like a hot knife cutting through butter, or like a strong wind sweeping through dust!
Hundreds of powerful guard predators, under that single Chaos Heaven Opening Sword Aura, could not even last for a breath before they were like marks erased by an eraser, instantly turning into nothingness, without even leaving a speck of residue!
One sword strike, the guard legion, completely wiped out!
The remaining power of the Chaos light blade still existed, slashing fiercely onto that distorted "assimilation force field"!
"Boom—!!!"
It was like the loud noise of two worlds colliding!
The assimilation force field distorted and vibrated violently, with countless fine cracks appearing on its surface!
That force field, which made Laws inert, let out a groan of being unable to bear the burden before the great power of the Chaos Heaven Opening Sword Aura that reshaped Laws!
At the core of the force field, the pulsating dark red tumor (Mother Nest core) suddenly shrank, emitting a painful and furious shriek! It felt a fatal threat!
"Crack... Boom!!!"
The assimilation force field, after holding on for a few breaths, finally completely shattered!
The chaotic energy shockwave swept out, blasting large areas of the surrounding meat carpet and predators into powder!
The Mother Nest core was completely exposed under Ye Chen's sword edge!
Ye Chen stood holding his sword, his Chaos Domain around him like burning flames, his cold gaze locked onto that constantly twisting and pulsating dark red tumor.
He could feel that inside this Mother Nest core, there was extremely immense energy and a kind of twisted chaotic Law representing "devouring" and "evolution."
If he could devour and refine it, it would have huge benefits for the growth of the chaos ancestral talisman, especially for the improvement of the "Origin" fragment's repair ability!
However, just as he was preparing to step forward and deliver the final blow to this Mother Nest core—
The dark red tumor suddenly stopped pulsating, and a huge gap split open on its surface, like a cold, emotionless eye, staring fixedly at Ye Chen!
A terrifying will, far more condensed and colder than before, as if originating from the main body of the "Terminus Abyss," erupted from it like a flood breaking a dam, instantly enveloping Ye Chen!
"Chaos... Walker..."
"Your Soul... your authority... will become... the most delicious... offering... to the abyss..."
Accompanied by this cold will was an indescribable—ultimate devouring power, as if it could devour all light, all hope, and all concepts of "existence"—that surged crazily from the eye-like crack in the Mother Nest core, transforming into a pitch-black vortex that could distort and devour even space-time, sweeping towards Ye Chen!
This was no longer a simple energy attack, but a trace of Law power belonging to the main body of the "Terminus Abyss," triggered by the Mother Nest core burning its own Origin!
Ye Chen's pupils constricted sharply, and he felt an unprecedented life-and-death crisis!