Staying in the sect, controlling beasts and cultivating immortals

Within the safe zone formed by the remains of the Black Tortoise, time seemed to stand still. A vast halo of light flowed across the giant tortoise shell, and primordial energy flowed like a clear spring, washing away every hidden injury of the three.

Yu Changsheng sat upright in the most concentrated pillar of primordial energy beneath the skeleton, the text of the "Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Scripture" resounding in his sea of ​​consciousness.

The dim chaotic mark on his back lit up again, and the fine cracks were slowly smoothed and healed by the gentle yet powerful erosion of the chaotic source energy, as if by an invisible hand.

The damaged meridians greedily absorbed the primordial essence, and the shattered internal organs, nourished by this pure and gentle power of creation, were remodeling and regenerating at an astonishing speed. The light of the Chaos Mark deepened once more, like a tiny spring leading to the boundless chaos.

The six pet beasts surrounding him breathed the same chaotic aura, their fur and scales shimmering with a bluish-green light. They resonated with each other, bursting with vitality, and their oppressive aura was several times heavier than when they were born.

Not far away, Chen Xueqing, bathed in the gentle halo of the newborn star deer, seemed to be immersed in a warm sea of ​​life.

The pure life energy derived from the emerald roots cut from the crevices of her bones had already completely merged with her damaged life core.

With the support of Xuanwu's power, this fusion has achieved a qualitative leap.

As she slept, her body spontaneously released vast energy, her pale complexion quickly fading and being replaced by a lustrous, jade-like glow. The aura of her former serenity surged and rose like a tide.

The colorful deer nestled affectionately against her, and on its tender antlers, a pure, vibrant green light quietly bloomed and solidified.

Beneath her tightly closed eyelids, her pupils moved slightly, as if undergoing a silent transformation.

Wang Cheng appeared even more "overbearing".

He did not sit in meditation, but instead lowered his waist and dismounted, stepping into a powerful beam of light that burst forth from the patterns on the tortoise shell.

His muscles bulged, and his blood and qi surged like a torrent within him. Each heartbeat felt like a war drum beating in his chest, echoing through the empty underground space.

His entire body was crimson, and the veins under his skin bulged like dragons as he continuously refined the incomplete primordial essence obtained from the giant snake's abdominal cavity into the depths of his domineering body's bone marrow.

Accompanied by the subtle crackling sounds of bones being tempered and the trembling of muscles stretching and tightening, Wang Cheng let out a deep roar. His entire body seemed to expand slightly, exuding a rock-like heaviness and volcanic-like violent energy—the threshold of the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm had been completely shattered by him, and his domineering physique was showing its wild rudimentary form.

Within this sanctuary, primordial energy surged and flowed, like a giant furnace of life, nurturing transformation.

An invisible energy vortex gradually formed around the three of them, with the ancient stone tablet at the center of the tortoise shell!
It had been dormant for countless millennia, but now, drawn by the auras of the three people and nourished by the chaotic source power, the ancient Xuanwu markings on its surface slowly began to glow.

Yu Changsheng sensed something, stopped circulating his internal energy, and took a step forward.

The moment his fingertips, imbued with a chaotic aura, cautiously touched the cold stone tablet—

"Buzz!"

A distant, ancient tremor, carrying the pulse of the earth, suddenly emanated from the depths of the stone tablet, instantly sweeping across the entire space!

The scene before him shattered with a deafening roar! It was as if he had fallen into an endless void, with countless stars flickering and disappearing around him. A colossal, immeasurably vast, ancient and ancient Xuanwu (a mythical tortoise-like creature) shadow floated and sank in the boundless sea of ​​stars!

Its tortoise shell is crisscrossed with grooves, patterns etched by the laws of nature, reflecting the cycle of birth and death in the universe. Yet now, this sacred form is riddled with cracks, and a crimson, filthy, deathly aura, like maggots clinging to bones, surges and erupts from the cracks in the shell, corroding the supreme divine body.

A series of shattered images forcefully crashed into the depths of Yu Changsheng's consciousness:
The shattered galaxy collapsed and vanished silently; a colossal beast-headed giant roared and unleashed its final blow, its divine blood transforming into a massive tortoise-shell barrier before them; countless fragments of gods and demons of various shapes transformed into blood-red meteors, trailing filthy tails of light, and crashed madly against the tortoise shell, exploding into turbid energy vortexes!
Each impact tore a deep, bloody gash across the massive tortoise shell, revealing the bone beneath!
Xuanwu let out a pained howl, the sound waves causing ripples in space and time. A complex barrier of runes, like stars, lit up around its body, struggling to resist the continued erosion of the bloodstains!

The scene shifts, and an extremely condensed core thought, tinged with despair, arrives: "...annihilation...taint...my crumbling body...seal..."

"...chaos...variable...the only variable...guard...escape..."

“…the chains…were loose…” His thoughts shattered and came to an abrupt halt.

"Pfft!" The enormous impact jolted Yu Changsheng out of the illusion. He staggered a few steps, felt a sweet taste in his throat, and forced down a mouthful of blood. His face was as pale as paper, but his eyes flashed with a terrifying light!

The Chaos Divided Beasts also let out a series of wary hisses.

"Chang Sheng! What's wrong?" Chen Xueqing's voice rang out. She had woken up at some point and was looking at him with concern. Her eyes were clearer and deeper than before, and her whole body exuded a surging life force. Her cultivation was completely stable at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, or even stronger. The colorful star deer circled around her, leaping lightly, and the tender green at the tip of its antlers had completely transformed into a crystal-clear life gem.

Wang Cheng also suddenly opened his eyes. The crimson aura around his body suddenly receded, revealing an even more robust and powerful physique. His calm and steady aura contained a storm-like power.

Clearly, the ancient tremor and Yu Changsheng's sudden change in expression had startled him from his deep tempering.

"The stone tablet... is the last remnant of the Xuanwu Ancestral God's will." Yu Changsheng's voice was slightly hoarse as he stared intently at the stone tablet, which had regained its calm and radiant glow. "It revealed to me some... truths about the Ancient Ruins of the Burial of Gods!"

He described the fragmented information he "saw" and perceived in an extremely concise manner.

"The Ancient Ruins of the Burial of Gods is one of the most crucial ancient battlefields in the ancient calamity! The last power of that Beast Ancestor before his fall transformed into this Xuanwu Ancestral God! The Ancestral God used his own immortal divine body as a barrier to sacrifice himself to seal the most deadly 'source of filth' at the center of the battlefield—that blood filth was a trace of power leaking from the source!"
The 'terrifying presence' we sensed earlier, which ultimately forced us to retreat underground, is very likely a remnant of a battlefield that was slowly eroded by this blood, eventually becoming completely corrupted and degraded, and ultimately breaking the seal of the ancestral god's remains... Now the seal is loosening, and the source of the blood may break through!

Chen Xueqing and Wang Cheng's expressions instantly became extremely solemn. The impact of that single thought from a distance almost caused them to perish in the sea of ​​bones. The terror of this blood-stained body was completely beyond their imagination!

The malevolent intent and deathly aura within the ancient ruins seemed to have a clear source, weighing heavily on my heart.

Wang Chenghu's eyes widened: "Then escape? The 'escape' it mentioned in its last thought... guarding... a variable?" He clenched his iron fist, his knuckles cracking.

"'Chaotic Variable' might refer to the Chaotic Origin Beast..."

Yu Changsheng looked at the six beasts surrounding him, whose auras were becoming increasingly harmonious and powerful under the nourishment of the primordial essence. "We possess the power of chaos, and may be seen as a glimmer of hope to fight against the source of pollution or delay the collapse of the seal! But this 'hope' is now... insignificant! The most urgent task is to leave the central area of ​​the Ancient Ruins of the Burial Gods immediately! Once that terrifying being completely locks onto us, in our current state, there is absolutely no chance of survival!"

Before he finished speaking, a sudden change occurred!
"Boom!"

A violent tremor suddenly came from the dome above!

It was as if a thousand troops were galloping above, or as if a giant hammer was slamming into the barrier!

Huge cracks suddenly spread across the once indestructible tortoise-shell rock layer overhead!
"Hiss—!" A greedy intent, sharp enough to tear apart the soul, was like a million cold poison needles, ignoring spatial distance, and fiercely pierced through the remaining Xuanwu divine thought protective barrier on the outer shell of the tortoise shell, instantly descending into this sacred underground space!

The primordial energy within the entire space instantly became violent and chaotic!

The air seemed to solidify into a viscous swamp! That intent locked onto only one target—Yu Changsheng, whose body was enveloped in a unique chaotic source of power!

The immense sense of oppression far surpassed any of the Cleaners I had ever faced before!
"Oh no! It... still caught up!" Chen Xueqing's expression changed drastically. Her cheeks, which had just regained their rosy hue, instantly lost blood. Her emerald life force instinctively surged out wildly, combining with the power of the Colorful Star Deer to form a flexible emerald light shield that barely supported the space above the three of them, resisting the erosion of that will.

"Damn it! Can't a person even catch their breath!"

Wang Cheng roared, and the sound waves spread out as visible ripples of blood energy, but they instantly dissipated upon impact with the invisible pressure of will. His newly forged domineering body felt as heavy as if it were carrying billions of mountains! Even lifting his feet became extremely difficult.

Yu Changsheng's soul was struck by that greedy, cold, and twisted intent, making him feel like a candle in the wind. His chaotic imprint, which had just recovered most of its strength, fluctuated violently, and his back throbbed with pain! His eyes flashed with ferocity, and his hands moved rapidly through the air like butterflies flitting among flowers, while he let out a deep roar like an ancient beast: "Return to One!"

In an instant, the six beasts—the Chaos Golden Roc, the Chaos Flame Dragon, the Chaos Black Tortoise, the Newborn Colorful Star Deer, the Eternal Night Evil Demon, and the Purple Spirit Emperor Sword—transformed into six pillars of chaotic light, each with a different color but sharing the same origin!
This pillar of light contained the boundless life force of the primordial origin of new life. Under the forceful guidance of Yu Changsheng's nearly exhausted divine will, it surged wildly into his body with its distinct characteristics!

"Roar—!!!" An inhuman roar exploded from Yu Changsheng's chest!

His body swelled violently, his Taoist robe instantly ripped! His skin cracked from the surging power, and chaotic, dark energy mixed with wisps of azure essence gushed out! A terrifying aura, chaotic, primal, yet imbued with sacred majesty, erupted from his center!

The prototype of the Chaos Origin Beast has reappeared!

However, this forced fusion was far more painful and difficult than when he slew the giant skeletal serpent last time. This was because what he was fusing was not only the power origins of the six beasts, but also the incredibly pure and concentrated primordial essence within this space of the Xuanwu remains! Yu Changsheng felt as if he were standing at the center of a turbulent vortex of power, having to endure the overwhelming, tearing sensation of the beasts uniting into one, while simultaneously forcibly restraining the rampaging primordial essence within his body!

He felt that every inch of his body was repeatedly testing the edge of collapse, and his soul felt as if it were being pierced and crushed by countless red-hot irons at the same time!
The power of the Xuan Turtle attempted to stabilize its foundation, the power of the Flaming Dragon wreaked havoc, and the power of the Golden Roc sliced ​​and surged forward... The conflict was more intense than ever before!
The rock formations overhead shattered completely under the impact of greedy intent! Huge rocks exuding a primordial aura crashed down like a cataclysmic disaster! Terrifying intent surged into this enclosed space like a tidal wave!
At this critical moment, the stone tablet that had absorbed the auras of the three people and the chaotic source power and lit up again suddenly burst out with an extremely dazzling earthy yellow light!
Om-!
A beam of light shot into the sky! The ancient Xuanwu engraving in the center of the stone tablet seemed to come alive, projecting a clear, Daoist-inspired star map phantom!

"Passage!" Wang Cheng roared, his voice almost distorted by his frenzied will. Chen Xueqing understood, and the Life Gem of the Colorful Star Deer transformed into a resilient jade chain, tightly binding Wang Cheng to herself! The nascent Chaos Origin Beast that Yu Changsheng had transformed into let out a roar filled with pain and determination, its massive claws lashing out, forcefully tearing apart the surging, chaotic spatial energy before it!
A distorted, flickering vortex gate struggled to form within the pillar of light on the stone tablet! This was an unstable escape route forcibly created by the stone tablet, its accumulated power triggered and guided by the Xuanwu Star Chart!

Despite the excruciating pain that tore his body apart and his soul, Yu Changsheng extended his beast claws. A surge of chaotic power enveloped Chen Xueqing and Wang Cheng, and without hesitation, he crashed into the distorted gate of light!
"Want to leave? Leave behind the Seed of Chaos!"

A cold, eerie mental wave pierced everyone's minds. However, just as the three figures were about to disappear into the portal—

boom!
A crimson lightning bolt, tearing through space, struck down without warning in front of the portal!
As the blood-red light dispersed, a figure suddenly appeared, dressed in a heavy, eerie black robe, revealing only a pair of eyes burning with ghostly blue flames! His black robe was covered with dark red patterns, like flowing filthy blood, and his body exuded an extremely cold and rotten energy fluctuation.

A bizarre scythe, shaped like a crescent moon and flowing with dark red blood light, held by twisted bone claws, was raised high and brought down fiercely towards the closing gate of light, carrying the deathly aura of annihilating all life!
It was that powerful member of the Abyss Clan who had been secretly lurking and targeting them all along! "Abyss Hunter"!
Time seemed to freeze as the scythe swung. A chilling despair gripped Chen Xueqing's heart in an instant, and Wang Cheng's furious roar turned to silence.

Yu Changsheng, within the nascent form of the Chaos Origin Beast, narrowed his pupils to pinpoints. He gathered all the remaining power in his body, and the Chaos Origin Force flowed wildly through the giant beast claws. In the blink of an eye, he barely managed to parry the attack and slammed it into the Soul-Destroying Blood Scythe!
The resounding clang of metal echoed throughout the space!
A devastating burst of energy erupted at the entrance of the portal! The spatial passage twisted violently!

*Poof!* The chaotic source power on the giant claw was forcibly annihilated by the blood blade containing the ultimate death Dao mark! A huge, deep wound that revealed bone opened up gruesomely on the beast's claw! Even Yu Changsheng's main body let out a painful groan, and his figure staggered!
The residual terrifying impact, transmitted through the connecting force, struck heavily against the jade chains protecting Chen Xueqing and Wang Cheng!
"Ah—!" Chen Xueqing's protective green life light was torn apart like thin paper, and blood spurted from her throat. The luster of her jade-like life gem dimmed instantly!
"Ugh!" Wang Cheng's domineering blood energy was also almost completely destroyed by the impact. His body trembled violently, and blood-red cracks appeared faintly on his iron-like body!
"How dare ants steal the power of creation?" (End of Chapter)