179: Sequence 043: Pure Lotus Sea

Mo Yu transformed into the endless Return to Ruins, using the Dao of gentle water to forcefully withstand the black rain of the Return to Ruins sent down by the Heavenly Dao.

The azure water-element world and the annihilating black rain clashed crazily; with every breath, vast amounts of water element were completely annihilated, turning into nothingness.

Mo Yu's aura declined rapidly amidst the intense consumption of the water world; that tragic, steadfast defense seemed as if it would collapse completely in the next second.

Below, Ink Snow's eyes were split with rage, the light of the Reincarnation Butterfly Seal burning to its limit, desperately supporting the crumbling barrier to protect the remaining true spirit of her eldest sister and the sleeping Father.

She knew that her second sister could not hold on for much longer.

However, the Heavenly Dao's rage seemed endless.

Within that giant eye of the Heavenly Dao, the dark red, turbid light grew increasingly dense; the black rain falling down not only did not weaken but became even denser and heavier!

It was as if it would not stop until it completely annihilated this water world along with the 'anomaly' beneath it!

The range of the water-element world transformed by Mo Yu began to shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye; the azure light dimmed rapidly, and even the edges began to turn turbid, as if it could no longer support itself and was about to be assimilated and polluted by that endless, deadly black rain!

The crisis had reached its peak!

Just at this critical moment—

Inside the magic bottle, that towering Dao Fruit Tree suddenly swayed without wind; all its branches and leaves swayed violently toward the same direction—the direction where Mo Yu was fighting bitterly!

It was not fear, but a kind of... sensing and resonance!

The Dao Fruit Tree was rooted in the Chaos Thunder Pool, absorbing the power of the good corpse dao fruit; it itself contained the true meaning of the Laws of supreme good, order, and purification.

And the black rain of the Return to Ruins sent down by the Heavenly Dao was the ultimate annihilation, deathly silence, and chaos!

The two were like water and fire, naturally opposed!

At this moment, the extremely dense, deathly, annihilating aura outside, piercing through the bottle wall, strongly stimulated the Origin of the Dao Fruit Tree!

Between its branches and leaves, which were composed of countless Law runes, all mature or immature fruits lit up with dazzling light, especially those few fruits containing the Laws of 'purification,' 'vitality,' and 'radiance,' which reacted most violently!

The power of the entire giant tree seemed to instinctively want to resist and purify that deathly silence outside!

The artifact spirit's calculation core instantly captured this resonance and need!

A brand-new sequence plan, based on the essential capabilities of the Dao Fruit Tree to deal with the current desperate situation, was instantly generated!

'Extreme annihilation Law invasion threat detected!'

'Starting Dao Fruit Tree emergency response protocol!'

'Calling materials: Dao Fruit Tree 'purification', 'vitality', 'radiance' Law branches and leaves (excessive extraction), Chaos Thunder Pool lightning energy (full power supply), 'Ruoshui Black Tortoise' partial purification Dao patterns (structure optimization)...'

'Cultivation direction: Range purification Domain, targeting annihilation Law...'

'Naming: [sequence 043: Purifying Lotus Sea]!'

As the order was issued, the Dao Fruit Tree emitted a slight moan; more than half of its branches and leaves containing purification and vitality power instantly withered and fell, their essence forcibly extracted!

At the same time, the golden lightning energy in the Chaos Thunder Pool was mobilized in large quantities and fused with these essences!

Amidst the flashing light, it did not condense in the Thunder Pool, but directly transmitted this new power through the weak connection between the magic bottle and Mo Yu's water-element world outside!

Mo Yu, who was struggling to hold on, suddenly felt a warm current, pure, vast, and full of infinite vitality and purification power, surge from the direction of the magic bottle and inject into her nearly exhausted water-element world!

As soon as this power entered the water-element world, a strange change immediately occurred!

Within that azure water element that was constantly being annihilated by the black rain and turning turbid, countless soft, milky-white points of light suddenly emerged!

These points of light grew and bloomed rapidly, turning into flowers... pure, flawless, jade-white lotus flowers!

These lotus flowers were not physical objects, but were composed entirely of the purest Laws of purification and the power of vitality!

Their petals swayed slightly, emitting a soft and firm purification halo, like lanterns in the dark night!

[Purifying Lotus Sea]! Born in the rain of destruction!

Wherever the white lotuses reached, that terrifying black rain seemed to have met its nemesis!

Chi chi chi—!

The black raindrops fell on the jade-white lotus flowers, no longer causing silent annihilation, but making violent sounds like cold water dripping into hot oil!

A large amount of black rain was directly evaporated and purified by the purification halo emitted by the lotus flowers! It turned into harmless gas of nothingness!

Although every time a drop of black rain was purified, the light of a lotus flower dimmed a bit, the edges of its petals turned charred, and it eventually withered and dissipated.

But immediately, more lotus flowers grew from the water element, rushing forward one after another to meet that rain of destruction!

For a time, in the water-element world transformed by Mo Yu, a sea composed of endless white jade lotus flowers that were constantly being born and dying appeared!

This lotus sea tenaciously resisted and purified the black rain filling the sky, greatly reducing Mo Yu's pressure!

The water-element world that had been shrinking rapidly had temporarily stabilized its footing, and even faintly had a trend of pushing back outward!

'This is... Father!' Mo Yu felt a shock in her heart, and a warm current and hope surged up.

She immediately cooperated with all her strength, guiding the power of the water element to nourish that sea of Purifying Lotus Sea that was constantly being born and dying, allowing it to bloom for longer.

In the sky, the scene became incomparably magnificent and tragic!

Above was the endless annihilation black rain sent down by the giant eye of the Heavenly Dao.

Below was the azure water-element world transformed by Mo Yu.

And in this water world, a vast ocean composed of endless white jade lotus flowers bloomed silently, using its own birth and death at the cost of constantly purifying the falling black rain!

Black, blue, and white, the three colors carried out a cruel and eternal confrontation.

The appearance of the Purifying Lotus Sea undoubtedly greatly delayed the process of destruction.

However, the power of the Heavenly Dao seemed truly endless.

The dark red light in that giant eye only fluctuated slightly, and the black rain falling down not only did not decrease, but the annihilation Law it contained seemed to be slowly... strengthening?

It was as if it was adapting to and analyzing this newly appeared purification power.

The purification speed of the Purifying Lotus Sea began to gradually fail to keep up with the speed at which the black rain was strengthening.

The growth speed of the lotus flowers began to slow down, and the withering speed accelerated.

The range of the white ocean began to be compressed again.

Mo Yu's heart, which had just lifted, sank again.

Although this Purifying Lotus Sea was strong, it was ultimately hastily catalyzed; its power source relied on the branches and leaves of the Dao Fruit Tree and the energy of the Chaos Thunder Pool, and it was not endless.

And the black rain of the Heavenly Dao seemed to have no limit.

Just as the lotus sea was about to collapse again, and Mo Yu was about to run out of oil and lamp, a change occurred again!

But it did not come from the Heavenly Dao, nor from the magic bottle.

It came from... below!

Seeing that on the broken Mo Capital land guarded by Ink Snow's Reincarnation barrier, those lands that had received a trace of vitality nourishment due to Mo Yun's sacrifice, and those surviving low-Rank spiritual plants that had not completely fallen asleep, at this moment seemed to have been summoned by the vitality and purification Dao rhyme of the Purifying Lotus Sea, and actually spontaneously lit up with a faint emerald green light!

These little bits and pieces of emerald green light, like fireflies, rose from the ground, drifting and floating, merging into the azure water-element world above, and merging into the Purifying Lotus Sea that was struggling to support it!

These lights were extremely weak, but what they contained was the purest vitality bred by this land itself and the... gratitude and response to the guardian!

A single spark can start a prairie fire!

The integration of this little insignificant vitality seemed to have ignited some kind of opportunity!

The Purifying Lotus Sea, which had originally begun to run out of strength, seemed to have been injected with new vitality, and its light lit up again!

Although it still could not reverse the situation, it forcibly stabilized for a while!

Immediately afterwards, an even more moving scene happened!

Among those sleeping and remaining sequence units, some low-Rank, simple-structured, yet still retaining a trace of instinctive consciousness, plant sequences and low-Rank Worker Bees began to silently decompose their bodies, turning into the purest, weak basic energy flows, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, actively investing in that lotus sea!

They were using their last existence to contribute a portion of power to purify this rain of destruction!

They might not have wisdom, but they instinctively knew who was the guardian and who was the destroyer.

Subsequently, some injured Cultivators who were too severely injured to recover, after perceiving the situation outside, also silently chose to shed their physical forms, turning their remaining magic power and soul power into points of light supporting the lotus sea...

One point, two points, ten points, a hundred points...

Countless, weak lights rose from every corner of this broken kingdom, merging into that white lotus sea.

That was not powerful strength, but... the wish of all living beings! It was the thought of guardianship!

The Purifying Lotus Sea received this continuous, albeit weak but will-filled power supplement, and miraculously held up against the impact of the black rain again, and even that white lotus light became purer and firmer!

Mo Yu felt the countless weak but tenacious thoughts merging into the water-element world, and tears blurred her vision again.

She was no longer alone.

This kingdom she guarded, the living beings on this land, were fighting with her!

In the most humble way, interpreting the greatest persistence.

The Purifying Lotus Sea eventually turned to ashes.

But amidst the ashes, it flickered with an inextinguishable... light of hope.

The Heavenly Dao giant eye silently watched the sea of white lotuses tenaciously flickering below, as well as the starlight-like lights rising from the ground; deep within those cold pupils, a trace of an extremely subtle, incomprehensible... fluctuation seemed to flash.

Annihilation did not seem to be the only answer.

This confrontation between purification and annihilation was still continuing.

And the price was the... eternal silence of countless tiny existences.