Staying in the sect, controlling beasts and cultivating immortals

"Screech!" The Golden Roc roared, transforming into a golden-gray lightning bolt that ignored distance, rushing straight towards the third Demon Face Rock Mountain.

Having learned from its first experience, its attacks became more cunning and deadly. Instead of directly confronting the enemy with its claws, it used them like the most exquisite scalpel to instantly tear open the relatively weak "corner of the eye" of the demon face's defenses, forcefully pouring the gray light of the void into its energy nodes!

"Roar!" The Flame Dragon followed closely behind, and the Chaos Dragon Flame Breaker condensed again. This time, it did not wait for the Golden Roc to succeed completely, but instead blasted the Dragon Flame Breaker directly at the foot of the Demon Face Rock Mountain, which was being torn apart by the Golden Roc—that was the part that the tentacles had "activated" and the key to the connection between the earth vein energy and the mountain!
The blazing fireball plunged into the foot of the mountain, instantly triggering an even more violent internal explosion! The entire rocky mountain began to collapse and melt from its base!
The battle descended into a brutal stalemate and attrition. Under the command of Yu Changsheng and the desperate fighting of the three beasts and one general, the Divine Dynasty army gradually destroyed the outer defenses of the ancient ruins, but the cost was also rapidly increasing.

The spread of withered thorns, the erosion of activated spores, the elusive tentacles, and the increasingly strong mental pollution caused soldiers of the Demon Slayer Army to be constantly swept away by tentacles and dragged into the depths of the fungal carpet, or to have their armor pierced by spore thorns and lose their lives. The Sky Patrol Army's airships were also frequently damaged and crashed in chaotic energy storms or sudden spatial rifts.

Chen Xueqing's face grew paler and paler. Maintaining such a large-scale, high-intensity cleansing domain and life channel, while also having to suppress the source of underground spores, was extremely taxing on her.

The light from the jade lotus platform flickered. Wang Cheng was like a tireless fighting machine, his chaotic bone arm swung like the wind, each strike causing the earth to tremble, but the light of his Overlord Blood Domain inevitably dimmed in the intense confrontation.

The ancient and terrifying will deep within the basin is awakening at an increasingly rapid pace.

The dark fog began to shrink and condense towards the center, vaguely forming a huge, blurry, and indescribable outline.

A fear of a higher existence, stemming from the instinct of life, began to grow in the hearts of all living beings.

Just as the third Demon Face Rock Mountain collapsed under the combined attack of the Flame Dragon and the Golden Roc, and the fourth Demon Face Rock Mountain was smashed open by Wang Cheng's ferocious fist energy, countless filthy blood clots fell like rain—

Mutations reborn!

Deep within the basin, at the core of the contracting, condensed, dark mist, a single eye suddenly opened!
It was not the eye of a living being, but rather a massive vortex forcibly fused together from countless shattered stars, solidified resentment, and the purest laws of death!
The vortex spun slowly, cold and empty, as if it could devour all light and hope.

"Om-!"

A beam of light, whose "color" was indescribable, shot out silently from the eye of the vortex! It did not attack anyone, nor did it produce any energy fluctuations; it was as if it were merely a "gaze".

But where this "gaze" swept, the space underwent a terrifying distortion!

The hundreds of elite Demon Slayers who were besieging the fourth Demon Face Rock Mountain, along with the fungal carpet beneath them and the nearby gray thorns, instantly froze!
It was as if time had stopped flowing over them, but what was even more terrifying was that their forms began to twist in an incomprehensible way—flesh and armor fused together like melting wax figures, limbs folded and stretched in a way that defied common sense, and their faces retained the last expression of astonishment, yet they were frozen into a kind of chilling, eternal sculpture.

Their very existence was forcibly "frozen" and "distorted" into a part of the chaotic laws of this ancient ruin!

The golden roc let out a sharp warning cry and evaded the attack at a speed exceeding its limits, but the tip of one of its wings was swept by the edge of that invisible "gaze".

Instantly, that part of the golden feathers, along with the flesh and bones beneath, lost all luster and vitality, like a fossil weathered over millions of years, before silently turning into ashes and scattering away! If the Golden Roc hadn't been fast enough and instinctively protected by the power of the Void Returning to Nothingness, its entire wing would probably have been lost!
The Fiery Dragon roared and spewed out chaotic true fire in an attempt to block it, but the invisible beam of light seemed to exist in another dimension, passing straight through the true fire to no avail! The beam of light swept towards the Fiery Dragon's massive body!
"Evil demon!" Yu Changsheng's icy voice finally carried obvious anger.

"Roar-!"

The evil beast unleashed an unprecedented roar!
Its enormous body expanded instantly, almost taking up half of the sky above the basin!

The deep barrier of eternal night is no longer a thin layer, but has transformed into the "Sea of ​​Eternal Night," which is as thick as ink and churns with countless tiny vortexes of return to nothingness!
That terrifying "freezing and twisting" beam of light crashed into this "Sea of ​​Eternal Night"!
There was no explosion, no loud noise.

There is only one kind of intense collision and attrition at the level of laws that makes the entire ancient ruins basin tremble!

In the Eternal Night Sea, countless vortexes of returning to nothingness spun wildly, devouring and attempting to decompose and annihilate that "gaze" containing the supreme law of chaos.

That "gaze" was like the most stubborn rock, radiating a constant power of distortion and solidification, and slowly and laboriously advanced through the Eternal Night Sea. Wherever it passed, even the Void Whirlpool experienced a brief pause and distortion in its form!
The massive body of the Evil Beast trembled violently, its deep, eerie eyes flashing wildly, clearly enduring unimaginable pressure. The beam of light forcefully cleaved a path through the Eternal Night Sea, greatly slowing its advance, yet it still resolutely hurtled towards the Flame Dragon!

At this critical moment——

Yu Changsheng is alive.

He was no longer just looking down from above.

With a single step, he stood before the vast, eternal sea of ​​the evil beast, blocking the beam of light and the fiery dragon.

The Sword of Annihilation was already in his hand without him even realizing it.

On the sword's blade, the dark red divine rune burst forth with an eerie and excited blood-red light, pulsating violently, as if it had encountered its destined prey, its gaze filled with a greedy desire to devour the "gaze" that contained the deathly and chaotic laws of the ancient ruins' core.

Yu Changsheng remained expressionless, his eyes as deep as the ancient starry sky, reflecting the terrifying beam of light that was closing in step by step, capable of freezing and distorting everything.

He slowly raised the Sword of Annihilation, its tip pointing directly at the eye of the vortex.

There was no earth-shattering burst of power, only an absolute, transcendent will of return to nothingness, descending with a thunderous roar as he uttered two soft words:

"Return to the Void." At the tip of the sword, a pure, all-ending "nothingness" quietly blooms.

There was no dazzling brilliance, no violent outburst of energy; only a conceptual "end" was embodied.

That pure nothingness and the dark beam of light, imbued with the laws of solidification and distortion, shot from the will of the ancient ruins, collided silently in the sky above the sea of ​​eternal night.

Time seemed to stretch out to an entire era at this moment.

There was no deafening roar, only the soul-chilling groan of space itself, overwhelmed by its own weight. Two forces representing the extreme laws of the universe—one a chaotic, solidified, and distorted final manifestation, the other a pure, final, and void-returning supreme void—were like two giant pythons from an ancient galaxy, frantically tearing, devouring, and annihilating at the level of the laws!
Chi Chi Chi -!
The sound of annihilation, so subtle yet so clear, was like a million red-hot steel needles scraping against the depths of the primordial spirit. At the point of impact, space rippled like the surface of water tossed with a pebble, spreading out in eerie circles of visible gray and nothingness.

Wherever the ripples passed, the sluggish vortexes in the Eternal Night Sea, which had been affected by the "Frozen Beam," were injected with the most violent power. They instantly broke free from their restraints, their rotation speed soaring a hundredfold, frantically tearing and decomposing the chaotic laws contained in the beam!

The blade of the Sword of Annihilation trembled violently, and the dark red divine rune pulsed greedily like a living blood vessel.

A cold, desolate, yet vast and boundless chaotic energy was being forcibly stripped and extracted from the beam of light from the ancient ruins, and continuously injected into the divine runes along the point of nothingness at the tip of the sword!
The light of the divine runes deepened and became eerie at a speed visible to the naked eye. The dark gray color of the sword, like cosmic dust, seemed to come alive, emanating an ultimate Daoist charm that caused all things to wither as it flowed.

"Ow—!"

The pressure on the evil beast suddenly decreased, and it let out a roar that was a mixture of pain and rage.

The Eternal Night Sea suddenly churned, and countless deeper and more greedy vortexes of annihilation were formed, like a swarm of sharks smelling blood. Together with the devouring power of the Sword of Annihilation, they frantically tore at the beam of light that had been temporarily blocked! The passage forcibly plowed open by the "Frozen Beam" began to collapse and shrink at an alarming speed!
On the other side, the Golden Roc, whose wingtips had turned to ashes after being swept by the edge of the beam, let out a shrill and furious shriek.

The excruciating pain and the damage to its very essence ignited the most primal ferocity within its bloodline. Ignoring the agony of its severed wing, its remaining left wing flapped wildly, transforming into a resolute golden-gray afterimage, like a meteor drawn to a flame, crashing headlong into the side of the beam of light that was being devoured by the combined forces of the evil spirit and the sword of annihilation!

"Screech—Return to Nothingness, Sky Rift!"

Instead of attacking the beam itself, it concentrated all the remaining power of its primordial energy, along with its desperate will to fight with burning blood essence, into the tip of its incomparably sharp beak!
A tiny speck of gray light, even smaller than the tip of the Sword of Annihilation, yet containing the same power to cut through space and the very essence of laws, fiercely pecked at the edge of the intense collision between the beam of light and the Sea of ​​Eternal Night!

Click!

A faint yet soul-shattering sound rang out!

Like the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Jinpeng's desperate strike, imbued with life and the Dao, precisely struck the most intense and vulnerable "node" of the collision between the two supreme laws!

On that seemingly flawless "solidified beam of light," a tiny yet deadly crack, shimmering with the gray light of the void, instantly spread out!
The moment the crack appeared, the devouring power of the Sword of Annihilation and the Eternal Night Sea of ​​the Evil Beast found an outlet, and their power surged several times over in an instant!
Rumble——!
This time, it's a true burst of energy!

It wasn't the energy of the beam itself, but rather the law-based explosion triggered when its structure collapsed and was forcibly torn apart and devoured!

A destructive torrent, interwoven with gray and nothingness, surged forth like a raging dragon breaking free of its cage, sweeping wildly in all directions from the point of impact! The Eternal Night Sea churned violently, blasting open a massive crater! The raging energy turbulence instantly engulfed the tiny figure of the Golden Roc!

"Jin Peng!" Wang Cheng roared, his eyes wide with rage.

He watched helplessly as that proud figure who had accompanied the Emperor in his battles was engulfed by the explosion of the laws he had created!

"Hold on!" Yu Changsheng's voice, like a stabilizing force, coldly penetrated Wang Cheng and Chen Xueqing's minds. His gaze remained unwavering; the devouring power of the Sword of Annihilation not only did not cease, but reached a terrifying peak the instant the beam structure shattered and the energy spiraled out of control!
The dark red divine runes erupted with a blood-red light that devoured the sun and moon, like a bottomless black hole, greedily sucking up the purest ancient ruins origin that was escaping from the disintegrating beam of light!

The vortex seemed to let out a silent, furious roar! The massive vortex spun wildly, attempting to sever the beam and retract its power. But it was too late! The Sword of Annihilation, like a venomous fang embedded in its prey, locked onto the connection with the laws of the Void, forcibly extracting it!
The beam of light dimmed and thinned at a speed visible to the naked eye! Meanwhile, the aura of the Sword of Annihilation, like a ferocious beast that had absorbed endless nourishment, rose steadily!
On the sword, besides the eerie dark red divine pattern, countless smaller and more complex ancient gray runes, seemingly originating from the beginning of the universe's destruction, began to emerge and flow from the sword's spine, emanating an ultimate sense of annihilation that made the entire ancient ruins basin tremble!

"A good opportunity! Flame Dragon, burn away the filth! Wang Cheng, pierce through it!" Yu Changsheng coldly commanded.

"hold head high--!"

The Fiery Dragon, which had been suppressed by the terrifying beam of light, had long been accumulating boundless rage. Now that the restraints were suddenly released, its massive body rose upright, its dragon head held high, and the primordial Chaos True Fire within its body poured out without reservation!

It was no longer the compressed dragon flame burst, but—the rain that incinerated the world!
Countless chaotic fireballs, each the size of a human head and blindingly white, poured down like the Milky Way from the heavens, carrying the majestic power to purify everything. They indiscriminately covered the writhing, viscous fungal carpet deep within the basin, the wildly spreading gray thorny jungle, and the enormous tentacles that were still emerging from the ground, attempting to "activate" the remaining rocky mountains!

Hiss! Rumble!
Flames engulfed the sky! The filthy fungal carpet turned into charcoal amidst wailing cries, and the stench filled the air; the hideous gray thorns twisted and carbonized in the firelight, crackling and popping.

The massive tentacles were struck directly by the fireball, instantly snapping off, burning, and spurting out a foul-smelling, purplish-black pus! The entire basin seemed to have been plunged into a lava hell, where the heat and purifying power temporarily suppressed the filth and deathly stillness!
"Demon Slayers! Charge with me! Target—that damn eye!"

Wang Cheng roared like thunder, the dark golden-gray light on his Chaos Bone Arm burning brighter than ever before, even faintly revealing a trace of the same decaying aura as the Sword of Annihilation. The Overlord Blood Burning Heaven Domain shrank to its limit, forming a burning crimson-gold armor on his body.

Ignoring the remaining threats from the rocky mountains and the ground, he transformed into a crimson-gold meteorite tearing through the turbulent energy currents, his target the enormous eyeball deep within the basin, its energy violently drained and its vortexes swirling erratically! (End of Chapter)