Staying in the sect, controlling beasts and cultivating immortals

"Give up... Struggling is pointless... Merge into eternal silence..."

"Are you in pain? Resent it! Resent that hypocritical protection! Resent that heartless world! Release your hatred and assimilate with us!"

“Power…there is boundless power here…just open your heart…and embrace this essence…”

These sounds directly affect the very source of his soul, attempting to erode his last vestiges of sanity.

A feeling of despair, like cold vines, coiled around him, pulling his consciousness downwards.

If it weren't for the dim, cracked chaotic mark on his back that still instinctively emitted a faint halo of chaotic original color, stubbornly guarding the last bit of clarity in the core of his consciousness, he would have already completely collapsed and become part of this filthy abyss.

Yu Changsheng's consciousness floated in the boundless darkness, like a lone boat about to be swallowed by a giant wave. The whispers grew louder and louder, transforming into countless distorted, tormented, and alluring faces, playing out in turn in his sea of ​​consciousness.

He saw Chen Xueqing's desperate eyes as she sank into the River Styx, corrupted by the amethyst; he saw Wang Cheng's horror as he was sucked into the fanged maw of the giant skeletal serpent; he saw the mournful cries of the six beasts as they merged and disintegrated; he saw the destructive scene of Yuan Shou's cold, blood-red scythe tearing through space and slashing at the escape portal... These fears, helplessness, and regrets buried deep in his heart were now amplified and distorted infinitely by the corrupted energy, becoming the sharpest weapons to attack his will.

"Ugh—!"

A silent roar erupted from the depths of his consciousness.

We can't give up! Xue Qing has just woken up, Wang Cheng is still on the run, the six beasts need him, the Chaos Origin Beast cub is still asleep... and that damned Abyss Hunter!
The thought touched Yuan Shou, and a boundless hatred erupted like a volcano, temporarily dispelling some of the despairing whispers.

It was this hatred, this anger towards the enemy and towards this desperate situation, that acted like a strong rope, tightly pulling his consciousness back from the abyss.

"The Scripture of Ten Thousand Beasts...The Chaos Guide..."

The remaining will struggled to guide the last vestiges of divine thought, attempting again and again to circulate the general principles of the cultivation technique imprinted deep within the soul.

Every attempt is like swinging a heavy hammer in a swamp; every moment of focused intention is interrupted and distorted by the filth.

The faint chaotic primordial energy remaining in the meridians, driven by the cultivation technique, attempted to form a vortex to resist the erosion of the filth.

But each newly formed vortex was easily crushed, polluted, and assimilated by an even greater force of filth. The backlash caused his consciousness to tremble violently, almost making him faint.

He felt like a broken sieve, desperately trying to plug the leaks while being swept away by an increasingly fierce and filthy torrent.

The cracks in the Chaos Mark even began to expand slightly under the continuous impact of the filth.

Just as Yu Changsheng's will was on the verge of complete collapse, just as he felt himself about to be assimilated by boundless filth and transformed into one of its venomous whispers—

hum!
A faint yet exceptionally clear buzzing sound pierced through layers of foul whispers and resounded directly in the core of his consciousness.

The buzzing came from the deepest part of the chaotic mark on his back, from the chaotic source beast cub that slept there, whose origin was exhausted!

The cub's slumber was not death, but a self-protective mechanism born of extreme weakness. At this moment, its pure and powerful primordial core instinctively sensed the mournful cry of its host's soul, and the foul source of energy that was frantically eroding and attempting to pollute its birthplace. This energy, to it, was both deadly poison and... some indescribable "food."

Stimulated by Yu Changsheng's collapsing will and forced by the immense pressure from the source of filth, the dormant essence of the Chaos Source Beast cub suddenly erupted like dry tinder ignited by a spark, unleashing a powerful survival instinct and a devouring desire!
boom!
No longer a faint hum, but a silent thunderclap exploded within Yu Changsheng's body!

The sleeping cubs have awakened! In an extremely domineering and reckless manner!

Its tiny body (ideology) suddenly inhaled sharply within the core of the chaotic imprint! Its target was not the outside world, but the filthy energy raging within Yu Changsheng's body!
"puff--!"

Yu Changsheng was struck as if by a heavy blow, violently spitting out a mouthful of thick, foul-smelling, dark purple blood. With this spit-out blood, the raging, corrupt energy within his body seemed to find an outlet, surging wildly towards the Chaos Mark! This was the cub forcibly extracting it!

Excruciating pain! Unimaginable pain! It felt as if the soul was being torn apart! The filthy energy forcibly extracted from the cubs, carrying intense corrosiveness and spiritual pollution, frantically assaulted the cubs' fragile, still-recovering essence.

The Chaos Mark emitted a blinding, extremely unstable light, sometimes appearing as the original chaotic color, and sometimes tinged with a deep, eerie dark purple. The cub let out a silent, painful scream, and the originally pure primordial light cluster trembled violently, its edges beginning to blur and become stained with filthy colors, as if it would be completely corrupted and disintegrated in the next second.

"No...hold on...!" Yu Changsheng's consciousness became even more focused amidst the excruciating pain. He sensed the cub's determination and struggle! He couldn't let it bear the burden alone!

The remaining will, like a burning flame, relentlessly urged the "Scripture of Ten Thousand Beasts" to power! This time, it was no longer a futile struggle against filth, but rather... guidance!
"All Beasts Return to One - Chaos Guidance - Share this!"

Using his own shattered will as the core and the Chaos Mark as the bridge, he forcefully guided the torrent of filth surging into his body, no longer resisting, but actively leading it towards the core vortex where the cub was! At the same time, he mobilized the last trace of chaotic source power that remained in his meridians, squeezed into a corner by the filth, and injected it into the vortex, attempting to neutralize the most deadly pollution!
This is an extremely dangerous operation. If not handled carefully, not only will the cub be immediately contaminated and collapse, but the operator himself will also be completely assimilated in an instant.

Miracles are born from desperation. The moment the pure, corrupted energy was drawn into the core vortex and came into contact with the devouring power of the cub's origin, and when Yu Changsheng's faint trace of chaotic source energy was also injected into it—

Chi Chi Chi!
The core of the Chaos Mark emitted a tooth-grinding sound, like ice water being poured into boiling oil! When that domineering and foul energy came into contact with a certain innate purifying instinct deep within the cub's origin, targeting "chaos and disorder," its outermost evil will and mental pollution were forcibly stripped away, disintegrated, and incinerated!
Stripped of its spiritual pollution, the filthy energy, though still violent, dark, and full of decaying characteristics, reveals its "essence"—an extremely primitive, extremely chaotic, and terrifyingly destructive and regenerative potential... a chaotic alien energy!
This is exactly the "food" that the Chaos Origin Beast cubs instinctively crave! Although it is extremely "difficult to digest"!
The cub emitted a hiss mixed with pain and extreme excitement. Its primordial light suddenly opened an invisible mouth, greedily devouring the impure energy that had been initially purified (stripped of mental pollution)!
The process of absorption was equally agonizing. The alien chaotic energy was incredibly violent, frantically assaulting the cub's fragile fundamental structure, attempting to burst it and re-contaminate it. However, the chaotic laws within the cub's body were also rapidly operating, adapting, and analyzing. Its pure origin was like a giant furnace, painstakingly refining this unprecedented "fuel." With each bit refined, the cub's aura grew stronger. Its primordial light cluster, though still tinged with a faint dark purple, was no longer weak and contaminated, but had become… deeper, more profound, and possessed a primal aura that encompassed and devoured all things!

At the same time, a faint but incredibly pure power, carrying a hint of ancient primordial energy, began to emerge from the struggling furnace of the cub, flowing along the veins of the Chaos Mark into Yu Changsheng's riddled meridians and internal organs.

This power is no longer the pure chaotic source power of before, but... a kind of "Chaotic Primordial Qi 2.0" that has been fused with the purified and impure energy! It contains a trace of domineering destructive power from the source of impurity, belonging to the "dark side of chaos", but it has been harmonized by the cub and the chaotic laws of the "Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Scripture", and is stained with a touch of primordial desolation!

Wherever this fused power passed, the raging, foul energy met its nemesis, being forcibly suppressed, devoured, and assimilated! Yu Changsheng's shattered meridians, under the scouring of this power, began to repair and reshape at a visible speed! The newly formed meridians were no longer the pure, chaotic original color, but possessed a resilient dark golden hue, as if tempered by primordial divine fire; the dark purple rotten spots on his internal organs were forcibly peeled off, purified, and transformed into nourishment, the cracks slowly healing under the nourishment of primordial energy, and the strength of his organs slowly increasing amidst destruction!

Yu Changsheng's pain suddenly lessened by more than half! Although the erosion of the filthy abyss was still fierce, and the process of the cub devouring and transforming was still extremely dangerous, he had torn a bloody path out of a deadly situation!
His tightly closed eyes suddenly snapped open, and deep within his pupils, the chaotic original color and a trace of deep dark gold flickered alternately, filled with the coldness of surviving a catastrophe and the decisiveness of killing!
“Abyss Hunt… Ancient Ruins of the Burial Gods… Source of Corruption…” A hoarse voice whispered in the abyss, filled with unprecedented hatred and a sense of newfound power, “This debt… you will pay a hundredfold!”

He was no longer a passive recipient of the filth, but with the help of the Chaos Source Beast cub, he began to actively utilize the "resources" of this abyss to carry out a more dangerous, yet infinitely potential, Chaos Nirvana!
Meanwhile, in another, even more desolate wasteland of the Ancient Ruins of the Burial Gods, littered with huge, unknown metal debris.

Pfft!Pfft!
Two disheveled figures were violently thrown out from a distorted spatial ripple, crashing heavily to the ground and kicking up large amounts of ash and dust.

It was thanks to Yu Changsheng's use of "primordial chaos energy" to stabilize the escape route that Chen Xueqing and Wang Cheng were able to escape first!
"Cough cough cough..." Wang Cheng struggled to sit up, coughing up black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. Although the cracks on his Overlord Body had stopped widening, they were deep enough to expose bone. His newly broken-through mid-stage Nascent Soul realm was extremely unstable, and his aura was chaotic. He clutched his chest tightly, where the curse power of the Soul-Destroying Blood Scythe lingered, like a maggot clinging to his bone, constantly eroding the essence of his Overlord Body and his soul.

"Sister Xueqing! How are you?" Wang Cheng, enduring the excruciating pain, anxiously looked to the side.

Chen Xueqing was in even worse condition than him. Her face was as pale as paper, the light of the Life Gem was dimmed to the point of almost going out, and her life force was as weak as a candle flickering in the wind.

The colorful star deer anxiously bleated beside her, constantly sprinkling soft emerald green light spots in an attempt to nourish her. However, as soon as the light spots touched Chen Xueqing's body, most of them were forcibly annihilated by the residual Soul-Destroying Blood Scythe curse power within her, with negligible effect.

The pure life force that Yu Changsheng injected into her body was almost completely exhausted under the dual impact of the abyss and the curse.

"Long...long life..." Chen Xueqing's lips moved slightly, uttering a weak sound. Her gaze was fixed on the direction they had fled, her eyes filled with deep worry and pain.

She could vaguely sense that the faint soul connection between her and Yu Changsheng had become extremely distant and unstable, as if it might break at any moment, and was enveloped by an indescribable filth and coldness.

"He...he shielded us from...he..." Tears silently streamed down Chen Xueqing's face, mingling with the ashes and leaving clear marks.

"Damn it! That bastard Yuan Shou! And this godforsaken place!" Wang Cheng slammed his fist into the ground, sending up pebbles, his eyes bloodshot. Anger, resentment, and a deep sense of powerlessness gnawed at his heart.

He was pulled back from the brink of death time and time again by Yu Changsheng, but now he can only watch as his brother falls into that terrifying abyss in order to save them!

“Crying is useless! Hating is useless!” Wang Cheng suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with a fierce light.

"Brother Changsheng isn't that easy to kill! He's created so many miracles! This Chaos Origin Beast, this Ancient Ruins of the Burial Gods, couldn't kill him! That damned Abyss couldn't do anything about it either! What we need to do now is survive! Recover as quickly as possible! Find a way back! Or... find a way to help him!"

His words were like a thunderclap, shattering the despair in Chen Xueqing's heart.

Yes, Changsheng has created too many impossibilities! She can't give up! She must pull herself together!
Chen Xueqing took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the surging blood and the stinging pain in her soul, and a determined light rekindled in her eyes.

Seeing this, Wang Cheng also mustered his spirits.

He sat cross-legged, ignoring the excruciating pain in his body, and focused all his energy on circulating his body-refining technique. He tightly grasped the "Heart of the Ghost Vine" given to him by Yu Changsheng, which was taken from the Ghost Vine, and guided the rich life essence and earth yin energy contained within it.

Although the Yin energy slightly clashes with the Overlord Body, the pure life force within it can nourish his internal organs and temporarily stabilize the backlash.

The two began their arduous recovery in this unknown metal wasteland. All around was deathly silent, save for the howling wind whistling through the metal debris, their heavy breathing, and suppressed groans of pain.

However, this deathly silence and temporary safety did not last long.

Just as Wang Cheng was fully focused on breaking through the curse, the metal-type spiritual power originating from the Netherworld Crystal Core within his body seemed to trigger something.

hum...

In the distance, a massive metal wreck, half-buried in ashes and shaped like the hilt of a giant sword, suddenly emitted an extremely faint yet unusually sharp resonance!
This resonance was not a sound, but a tremor of energy fluctuation that pierced through space and instantly locked onto Wang Cheng!
Wang Cheng shuddered violently and suddenly opened his eyes. A surge of emotion, a mixture of greed and destruction, welled up from the depths of his bloodline without warning!

The Netherworld Crystal Core he was holding suddenly became scalding hot and throbbed violently, as if it wanted to break free from his control!
"Not good!" Wang Cheng's expression changed drastically. (End of Chapter)