Chaos Heavenly Emperor Art

"Greetings... Your... Your Majesty!"

The skeleton's voice was hoarse and broken, filled with fear and weakness.

At this moment, he could not even maintain his form, leaving only a broken wisp of emerald green ghost mist, which was constantly dissipating and destroying its essence at an incredibly terrifying speed.

Within that ghostly mist, a distorted face flickered in and out of focus.

Clearly, his injuries were more severe than Ling Feng's.

After all, the self-destructing Bloodfire Demon God is a move that results in mutual destruction.

"Look at the state you're in now, so disheveled and flustered. Do you have even a trace of the majesty of the First Death Demon?"

The black-robed figure on the throne slowly raised his head.

In the shadows beneath the wide cloak, two crimson, deep, abyss-like lights flickered and fell upon the skeleton.

In an instant, the temperature in the entire hall seemed to drop to absolute zero, and even the soul fire in the eye sockets of those skulls seemed to freeze.

"My...Lord, please...save me..."

The skeleton's voice was intermittent. The reason he was desperately trying to escape back to the Death Star Palace was because only the Lord of the Abyss could help him stabilize the source of destruction.

"Humph!"

Lord Mingyuan snorted coldly, staring expressionlessly at the remaining wisp of origin on the skeleton.

After a long while, he finally sighed softly, "Never mind!"

The next moment, the Lord of the Abyss slowly raised a hand shrouded in black mist and gently grasped the remaining primordial ghost mist from the skeleton.

hum!
A wisp of pure, condensed, dark purple annihilation essence flowed from his fingertips, like a living dark purple tentacle, gently wrapping around the skeletal mass of ghostly mist on the verge of collapse.

"Ugh..."

The skeleton let out a groan that was hard to tell whether it was from pain or pleasure, and the wisp of dark purple essence quickly seeped into its broken essence. Wherever it passed, the scattered sparks were gathered, the broken bone dust re-coalesced, and the dim ghost fire reignited.

In just a few breaths, the skeleton transformed from the fading ghostly mist back into its tattered half-skeletal form.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The skeleton knelt on the ground, its breath still extremely weak, but at least it had survived.

He dared not show the slightest joy; instead, he pounded his head on the ground with a series of loud thuds, pleading hoarsely, "Your subordinate is incompetent! I have failed in my duties! Please punish me, Your Majesty!"

The entire hall was filled only with the echoes of the skeletons kowtowing and pleading, making it all the more deathly silent.

On the throne, Lord Mingyuan withdrew his hand, his scarlet eyes calmly gazing at the trembling skeletons below.

There was no anger, no disappointment in that gaze, only a profound indifference that looked down upon the struggles of ants and understood everything.

"Punishment?"

After a long silence, the Lord of the Abyss finally gave a cold laugh: "Bones, you did very well. Didn't you personally witness that Star Hunter heading to the Spirit Abyss?"

"I……"

The skeleton's expression froze instantly. "My lord, I..."

He knew very well that his real mission, or rather, his ultimate mission, was to be sacrificed and have his own jade refined by Ling Feng.

But at the last moment, he was ultimately unwilling to face death easily.

He could only kowtow repeatedly, begging for mercy, "My lord, I... I deserve to die! Please punish me, my lord!"

"Skeleton".

With just two words, the skeleton's kowtow suddenly froze, and its entire skeletal body trembled like a leaf in the wind.

"I can overlook other matters. But do you really want to kill him?"

The voice of the Lord of the Abyss was devoid of emotion, but every word struck like a heavy hammer against the already crumbling mind of the skeleton.

The skeleton suddenly raised its head, the eerie green flame in its single eye flickering wildly, a mixture of fear and resentment.

He knew that in front of the Lord, any concealment or sophistry would be meaningless.

He hissed, “My Lord, please be wise! That Star Hunter… he is too defiant, too uncontrollable! I personally witnessed him forcibly condense the illusory image of his sixth meridian in the midst of battle, and with his five meridians, unleash a terrifying fusion power that could threaten my life! In the end, he even comprehended an astonishing sword technique, fighting my Bloodfire Demon God to the point of mutual destruction! This boy’s growth rate is terrifying, and his will is as firm as iron!”

He paused, his voice growing increasingly agitated, tinged with lingering fear and ruthlessness: "My lord! If he were to refine my Death Jade again, his strength would surely leap forward once more! At that time, I fear... I fear we've raised a tiger to cause future trouble!"

"Your subordinate... Your subordinate was also afraid that this child would escape control and turn against him, so... that's why I wanted to eliminate the threat before he became too powerful!"

After the skeleton finished speaking, it bowed its head deeply again, not daring to look at the throne any longer.

A long silence fell over the hall, with only an invisible pressure growing heavier and heavier, almost crushing the skeletal remains.

Finally, the deep voice of the Lord of the Abyss rang out again, carrying an elusive meaning: "Raising a tiger to cause trouble... Ha!"

He slowly rose from the throne, his tall figure shrouded in black robes seeming to instantly become the center of heaven and earth.

He walked down the steps of the throne and came to the skeleton.

A shadow instantly enveloped the skeleton.

He stared down at the skeleton, coldly questioning, "You believe that I am inferior to him?"

"No...no...no..."

The skeleton trembled violently; he dared not answer.

But in fact, he saw incredible potential in Ling Feng.

Perhaps Ling Feng is not yet a match for Lord Mingyuan, but if he continues to grow stronger...

Even a supreme ruler will eventually be trampled under Ling Feng's feet.

This is an intuition.

But he dared not say it outright, no matter what.

The Lord of the Abyss glared coldly at the skeleton. "You mean, it's better to..."

"No...no...no..."

The skeleton stammered for a long time, and seeing the Abyss Lord's killing intent growing stronger, he panicked even more.

Shut up, just say it!

Finally, the skeleton blurted out, "I dare not! This subordinate dares not!"

"Hahaha!"

Lord Mingyuan suddenly burst into laughter.

His cold, deep gaze shifted from the skeleton, seemingly looking towards the endless void in the distance.

After a long while, he turned around and said expressionlessly, "The chosen one who possesses the aura of the creator god, how could his talent be compared to mine?"

The skeleton kept its head down, not daring to breathe.

He dared not respond to that.

“If he were just an ordinary person, he wouldn’t have gained the approval of the Creator God, and he wouldn’t have been sent here by that guy from the Desolate Ancient Era.”

As the Lord of the Abyss spoke, a sharp light suddenly shone in his eyes, "And what I want is a fierce tiger that can devour gods."

The Lord of the Abyss lowered slightly, his crimson gaze piercing the depths of the skeleton's single eye, almost tangible. "You only need to obey my commands. Don't think about anything else, and don't do anything more!"

His voice was soft, yet it almost froze the bones and souls.

"Considering your loyalty, this matter will be dropped."

With a wave of his sleeve, Lord Mingyuan turned around and ascended the throne once more.

"Thank you, Your Excellency! Thank you, Your Excellency!"

The skeleton hurriedly kowtowed, expressing its deepest gratitude.

The Abyss Lord's cold and profound gaze fell back on the skeleton. "Now is the time to use people. Of the twelve Fiends, only you remain. If we don't use you, who else can we use? Go down and go to the 'Ten Thousand Bones Blood Pool' to absorb its essence and recover from your injuries. After that, select a group of the elite among the elite. I will promote them to the Fiend level."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The skeleton felt a chill run down its spine and quickly nodded, "Your subordinate will certainly do it well!"

"Go down!"

With a wave of his hand, the skeletal remains left the main hall.

After the skeletons had disappeared into the distance, Lord Mingyuan slowly straightened up, his gaze seemingly piercing through the layers of barriers of the Hongxing Palace, looking towards the direction of Lingyuan.

Those crimson eyes flickered with a faint light, and after a long while, he murmured, "To be able to fight the skeletons to such an extent so quickly, the Chosen One truly lives up to his name! But in the end, the winner will only be myself!"

"Huang Gu, although I don't know what you're up to, you'll eventually get burned by playing with fire!"

……

A secluded, damp forest.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Ling Feng spent two days recuperating in the cave opened up by the sword-wielding spirit guard. Although his condition stabilized, Ling Feng's brows remained furrowed.

Well, this Six Meridians Experience Card did give him the powerful strength to contend with the First Death Fiend Skeleton.

However, the cost of experiencing it is considerable.

The collapse of the initial six meridians resulted in the continuous "shrinkage" of his other five ancestral meridians.

It's like a seemingly magnificent, towering tree, but its roots have been destroyed.

As the roots buried deep in the ground rot away little by little, no matter how magnificent a tree may be, the final result is only decay and collapse.

This is Ling Feng's current situation.

He still appears to have five ancestral veins, but the power of collapse has already damaged the foundation of those veins.

This means that not only will he be unable to break through to the sixth ancestral vein, but as time goes by, the ancestral veins in his body will also collapse one by one, eventually degenerating back into ordinary star veins.

They have completely fallen from the level of the Ancestor Hunter.

Although it may not have a significant impact in the short term, his potential may be capped at the moment.

At present, it seems that the only one who can help him is Xi Huang.

His first ancestral vein was successfully established only by the forceful connection of the Xi Emperor to his veins.

Now, his ancestral foundation is like a dried-up spring, and only the power of the ancestral lineage of Emperor Xi, which shares the same origin as him, can revive his foundation.

Of course, there may be other ways, but this is the only one Ling Feng can think of at the moment.

However, he is currently trapped in the Creation Realm, while Xi Huang is still in the Eternal Ruins Realm.

To find Xi Huang, one must traverse the Eternally Fallen Ruins once more...

Just thinking about it gives me a headache!

Ling Feng shook his head and sighed helplessly.

It seems that I can only rely on these five remaining ancestral veins to go to the Spirit Abyss and see if I can use the Creation God's Breath beneath the Spirit Abyss to repair the foundation of the ancestral veins.

"Owner……"

Seeing Ling Feng's furrowed brows and sighing, Hun Qi quickly stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong? Is it still difficult to recover?"

Ling Feng shook his head and smiled, "The situation has stabilized. As for you, Hunqi, is there anything else that's bothering you?"

Soul Cry quickly shook his head and said, "Don't worry, Master, I'm fine now. It's just that while you were in seclusion, that sword-wielding spirit guard commander circled around outside again, and they..."

Soul Cry gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, "They seem to be getting more and more impatient."

"impatient?"

Ling Feng's eyelids twitched slightly; these spirit guards were the embodiment of Ling Yuan's will.

Their mission is to purify the annihilating power within the Creation Realm.

But now, apart from Lingyuan, the rest of the Creation Realm has become the lair of the Darkborn of the Death Star.

It seems that some major event must have occurred within this Spirit Abyss, which has led to the increasing depletion of the Creator God's energy.

This resulted in the activity range of those spirit guards being restricted to the area near the Spirit Abyss, and they couldn't even leave the Nether Bone Wet Forest.

According to the intelligence he had previously gathered, the reason why the divine energy of creation in the Spirit Abyss was depleted was most likely related to the loosening of the seal on the Pillar of Creation.

All of this is interconnected; a single move can have far-reaching consequences.

I had absolutely no idea what to do.

He didn't know what the right thing to do was.

In the ancient times, amidst the power struggles between powerful figures like the Lord of the Abyss, all one could do was become stronger.

"Yes."

Soul Cry nodded, "However, I dare not leave this cave, so..."

She lowered her head, like a quail, not daring to look Ling Feng in the eye.

Ling Feng shook his head and smiled, then gently patted her shoulder. "Alright, I understand. Given my current condition, there's no need to waste any more time adjusting my breathing."

He pondered for a moment, then said calmly, "I should head to the Spirit Abyss next, so I'll have to trouble you to temporarily take refuge within my Annihilation Creation Realm. Once I leave the Creation Realm, I will keep my promise and set you free."

"Actually, even if I stayed here..."

Hun Qi gritted his teeth, but before he could speak, Ling Feng interrupted him, "Cough cough!"

Ling Feng now sensed that the woman's gaze was becoming increasingly strange. He was no longer the naive young man he used to be; he understood Hun Qi's thoughts perfectly well.

However, he dared not continue to attract women.

"Promises must, of course, be kept."

Ling Feng tightened his expression, and then directly activated the Annihilation Origin, opening the Annihilation Creation Realm.

Before Hunqi could speak again, Hunqi was directly taken into the Creation Realm.

As soon as he activated his annihilation power, the spirit guards outside sensed this power that they found utterly "despairing" and immediately surrounded him.

Ling Feng shrugged and simply strode out of the cave.

Seeing that the area outside was already surrounded by spirit guards, he remained calm and said, "Please invite that senior from before. Now, I may enter the Spirit Abyss with you." (End of Chapter)