Staying in the sect, controlling beasts and cultivating immortals

Hearing Yu Changsheng's roar, Wang Cheng's Chaotic Bone Arm blazed with a crimson-gold light like a scorching sun. Ignoring the excruciating pain of its origin being burned, it cleaved fiercely at the connection between the Sky-Splitting Leader and the remains of the Burial God with the force of splitting mountains and shattering peaks, at the severed arm that was stuck into the earth!

The violent, chaotic power contained within the bone arm, mixed with Wang Chengba's domineering battle intent, formed a crimson-gold torrent that tore through space.

"Roar—!" The Sky-Splittering Chieftain let out a terrifying roar that was not human, and crimson light flashed wildly beneath his cloak.

He is struggling to suppress the double backlash caused by the destruction of the false compass and the destruction of the Bone Tower node, and is trying to regain control of the crumbling ritual core.

Wang Cheng's desperate strike was precise and ruthless, driven by a resolute will to avenge the countless fallen comrades, and it struck precisely at the point where the energy surged from the severed arm!

Click - boom!

A deafening roar, like the snapping of an ancient behemoth's spine, reverberated throughout the entire Burial God Bone Domain. The energy nexus connecting the Burial God's remains, the three bone towers, and countless skeletal golems was abruptly severed!

The leader of the Rift Heaven trembled violently, and the cloak that covered him instantly turned into ashes, revealing a purple-gold skeleton covered with strange black runes. That was the "mechanism" body that was transformed from the remains of the first emperor of the divine dynasty!
The purple-gold skeleton was covered with cracks, black energy was leaking out wildly, and its aura was weakening at a visible speed.

At the same time, the fragile balance that the Rift Lord had forcibly maintained was lost. The "Eye of Returning to the Ruins," formed by the intertwined energy of the remains of the Burial God, the Chaos Origin Core, and the Lord's skeleton above the altar, suddenly collapsed inward and then unleashed an even more terrifying suction force!

It is no longer a simple annihilation, but a profound, ancient, and seemingly all-consuming ultimate gravitational force.

Space itself groaned under the strain. Light, dust, dissipating death energy, and even the aftershocks of the distant battle were forcibly distorted and stretched, thrown into the deep darkness, into a vortex with a strange gray light at its center.

The Purple Mountain Barrier shook violently, Mo Heng's face turned ashen, and the soldiers of the Guixu Camp did their best to maintain the barrier's light membrane, the runes flashing wildly, as if it would collapse at any moment.

The jade lotus platform where Chen Xueqing sat shone brightly, and the illusory image of the Pure Lotus stretched out as much as possible. The power of purification formed a tough blue light screen, which firmly resisted the devouring power that came across space, protecting the core of the barrier and the fragile line of fate connecting Qingzhou.

"Your Majesty!" Wang Cheng was thrown back by the enormous force. The light of his Chaos Bone Arm dimmed and cracks spread, but he still stared intently at Yu Changsheng at the core.

Yu Changsheng is right in the eye of the storm!
The Sword of Annihilation hummed in his hand, and the gray dot at the core of the Returning Void Star Orbit Compass at the hilt pulsated at an unprecedented frequency, as if resonating with the gray light at the core of the Returning Void Eye.

He endured the excruciating pain of his Dao Foundation collapsing and his Emperor Blood boiling, pouring all his mental energy, his understanding of the spatial laws contained in the Purple-Gold Emperor Blood, and the true meaning of anchoring he had just comprehended when stabilizing the Chaos Source Core into the Annihilation Sword.

Instead of immediately attacking the weakened skeleton of the Sky-Splitting Leader, he pointed the tip of his sword at the raging Eye of the Ruins!
Just as the tip of the Annihilation Sword touched the distorted force field at the edge of the Eye of Return to Nothingness.

Not destruction, but insight!

An unimaginably vast torrent of information, mixed with fragments of laws beyond the comprehension of this world, violently surged into Yu Changsheng's sea of ​​consciousness along the connection between the Annihilation Sword and the core of the Star Orbit Compass!
"Ugh!" Yu Changsheng groaned, purple-gold imperial blood instantly seeping from his seven orifices, deepening the cracks on his imperial body once more. The excruciating pain nearly caused his soul to shatter.

But amidst that devastating information deluge, some fragmented images and perceptions, yet containing profound truths of the universe, cleaved through the chaos like a thunderclap!
He "saw":
The Boundless Passage: The Eye of the Ruins is not an end point, but rather a broken port of an unimaginably vast spatial passage!
This passage spans endless dimensions, and its essential structure is exquisitely ingenious, far surpassing the Guixu Formation controlled by Mo Heng.

But at this moment, the passage was filled with huge cracks and gaps that emanated terrifying, deathly energy, as if it had been forcibly pierced and torn apart by some unimaginable force.

Countless broken threads of law drifted and vanished at the crack.

The "light" at the other end of the passage: Through the smallest crack in the depths of that passage, which was not yet completely polluted by death, he sensed a vast, pure aura, full of vitality and fluctuations of higher-level laws!

That aura was the complete opposite of the deathly stillness of the Ruins, carrying a purity and vastness that came from the sublimation of the very essence of life.

Although it was only a fleeting sensation, it caused Yu Changsheng's Purple Mansion to tremble, and the bottleneck in his cultivation that had been stagnant for a long time showed a slight, almost imperceptible loosening!

The dried-up "spring" and the broken "stairs": the foundation of this damaged passage seems to be connected to some kind of "source of ascension" at the very core of this world's origin.

But this source has long since dried up and become polluted.

Those broken threads of law were clearly the remnants of some kind of... ladder to heaven! Countless broken steps floated in the void rifts, entangled and corroded by deathly energy.

The name of the Spirit Realm, an ancient name, along with the fleeting aura it evoked, was imprinted deep within his true spirit: the Spirit Realm!
That is the world that cultivators in this realm dream of, the legendary higher-level world, the ultimate destination for ascension!
And Guixu, this terrifying abyss occupied by deathly silence, was once an ascension passage to the spirit world!

"That's it...that's it!"

A huge wave of emotions surged in Yu Changsheng's heart. In an instant, he understood the root cause of the leader of the Sky Rift's madness and also saw through the ultimate truth of the chaos of the Ruins of Return!

The leader of the Sky-Splittering Clan, or rather the will behind him, does not simply seek to destroy the world.

He intended to use the remains of the buried god as the "handle," the chaotic essence as the "source point," and his own bones as the "mechanism" to forcibly create a "key" that could open this damaged ascension passage and the Eye of the Ruins!
What he had to do was go against the current, use the power of the Void to annihilate all things, forcefully open a path in this broken, deathly silent ascension passage, and rush into that higher level of the spirit world!
For this, he was willing to sacrifice all living beings in the world as the energy to power the key!

But at this moment, this passage is a death trap!

A forced charge will surely result in death!

However, what Yu Changsheng saw was not only despair, but also an unprecedented opportunity!
An opportunity that belongs only to him, to those who possess the Sword of Annihilation, contain a portion of the True Key's anchoring and analytical power, whose Emperor's blood communicates with the laws of space, whose fragments of the Chaos Origin Core provide essential energy, and who are currently situated at the heart of the storm! "Though the passage is destroyed, the foundation remains! The Spirit Realm... is not a dead end!"

The thought flashed through his mind, and an unprecedented brilliance burst forth in Yu Changsheng's eyes, a brilliance that even temporarily overshadowed the pain brought on by the burning of the Emperor's Blood.

He must act! Act simultaneously on two levels!
First, slay the leader and seal the Eye of Return to the Ruins!

This is the most urgent matter, otherwise everyone will be wiped out immediately.

Second, plant the 'seeds'!
Taking advantage of the precious moment when the Eye of the Ruins was forcibly opened and the passage structure was temporarily "manifested," he used his understanding of the laws of space, the core of the Star Orbit Compass of the Sword of Annihilation, and the most core chaotic source energy in this place to set up an extremely secret "backdoor" on the "remains" of this passage, which belonged only to his future self, a stable teleportation coordinate pointing to the spirit world!
"Wang Cheng! Suppress!" Yu Changsheng stopped roaring and his voice carried a strange rhythm that penetrated the soul, resounding directly in Wang Cheng's soul.

At the same time, he pointed his left hand like a sword, using the emperor's blood as ink, and instantly drew hundreds of extremely complex purple-gold spatial runes in the void. These runes were not for attack, but rather carried a strong sense of "anchoring" and "concealment", silently merging into the surrounding violent spatial turbulence, and some even coiled around the body of the Annihilation Sword like serpents.

Although Wang Cheng didn't understand why, he had absolute trust in and was capable of carrying out Yu Changsheng's orders.

He forcefully suppressed his injuries, and the remaining power of the Chaos Bone Arm no longer sought destruction. Instead, it transformed into a huge crimson-gold shield shadow covered with chaotic patterns. Together with the Pure World Azure Lotus light screen that Chen Xueqing activated at the cost of her own source, it stood firmly in front of Yu Changsheng, buying him that fleeting precious time to block the final frenzied counterattack of the Rift Heaven Leader's skeleton and the energy impact emanating from the Eye of Return to Nothingness.

"Nirvana is not the end, there is a path to return to the void... The spirit realm is above, this is the bridge to my path!"

Yu Changsheng silently recited in his heart, dividing his entire mind in two.

A portion of the will, wielding the Annihilation Sword infused with imperial blood, spatial laws, and the newly comprehended structural information of the "Ascension Channel," resolutely pierced towards the true form of the purple-gold skeleton of the Sky-Splitting Leader, which represented the "key mechanism"!

"Long Live the Rest of My Life!" The skeletal remains of the Sky-Splitting Leader let out a final spiritual shriek, the black runes on its purple-gold bones burning as it attempted to detonate the remaining chaotic source core in a last-ditch effort.

But it was too late!

The power of the "True Key" carried by the Sword of Annihilation has a natural restraint on this "mechanism" skeleton. The moment the sword tip touches the skeleton, the black runes flowing on it melt and disintegrate instantly, like ice and snow encountering the blazing sun!
Snap, snap——!
Starting from the point where Wang Cheng severed the connection, the purple-gold skeleton shattered inch by inch! The twisted will that constituted its core driving force let out an unwilling roar, and finally dissipated completely under the light of the annihilating sword!
The mechanism is broken!

At the very moment the skeleton of the Sky-Splitting Chief completely shattered, without the support of its core mechanism, the raging Eye of Return to Nothingness, like a ferocious beast with its spine removed, suddenly halted its collapse of the dark vortex, and then began to expand violently and chaotically! The terrifying suction force instantly went out of control, as if it would suck the entire Burial God Bone Domain and even the Burial God Ridge into it!
"Now!" Yu Changsheng's mind raced.

Another part of his will was already prepared! In that one-in-a-billionth of a moment when the energy structure of the Eye of the Ruins shattered due to the mechanism's breakage, and the remnants of the internal passages were briefly "exposed"!

The sword of annihilation he gripped in his right hand suddenly trembled! The core gray dot of the Returning Void Star Orbit Compass at the hilt abruptly detached from the sword and transformed into a point of extremely refined, profound gray light that existed between reality and illusion!

This gray light carries the divine imprint of Yu Changsheng, which contains his understanding of spatial coordinates and the aura of the "spirit world," as well as the purest, attribute-free primordial energy that he forcibly extracted from the fragments of his own chaotic source core. This is the seed for locating and activating the future "backdoor"!

"go with!"

Using his own imperial blood as a guide and the hundreds of purple-gold space runes he had just inscribed as a track, Yu Changsheng drove that gray light, like the most precise flying needle, to shoot towards an extremely hidden and relatively "stable" law break in the violent energy vortex at the core of the Eye of Return to Nothingness!

That was precisely the tiny node where he had just discerned the connection between the ascension passage ruins and the depleted "source of ascension"!

The gray light silently disappeared into the raging energy turbulence, precisely imprinting itself on the broken edge of the law!

The moment it merged, the hundreds of purple-gold spatial runes that Yu Changsheng had inscribed seemed to receive a command, instantly traversing space and imprinting themselves layer upon layer around the gray light, forming an incredibly complex, tiny, dust-like, yet perfectly integrated miniature three-dimensional array with the aura of the entire passage's remains!
The core function of this array is not teleportation, but concealment, anchoring, and slumber! Like a deeply buried seed, it greedily absorbed a trace of the purest chaotic source energy in this place, from the annihilation Dao principles that dissipated when the stable core and a trace of the Eye of Return to Nothingness collapsed, using it as a disguise. Then it completely concealed all aura fluctuations, merging with the surrounding broken laws and chaotic energy, and fell into the deepest "slumber" state.

Only one power can awaken this deeply buried "beacon seed": Yu Changsheng's unique spatial law power, which contains the original aura of the Purple Gold Emperor's bloodline, combined with his cultivation level reaching a critical point sufficient to withstand the pressure of the passage!

This is a unique "backdoor" to ascension belonging solely to Yu Changsheng!
After doing all this, Yu Changsheng felt his soul was almost completely drained, his imperial blood was almost depleted, and the cracks in his Dao foundation spread to the edge of his Purple Mansion.

But his eyes burned with an indescribable light, a light that seemed to see the way forward.

With no more attachments, he unleashed his last strength and activated the Annihilation Sword!

"With my imperial blood, I will establish the capital and restore it to its former glory! Seal it!"

The Sword of Annihilation erupted with an unprecedentedly brilliant sword light, no longer the destructive gray-purple, but a dazzling radiance that combined the vitality of the Pure Lotus, the spatial laws of the Emperor's Blood, the anchoring power of the Void, and fragments of the Chaos Origin Core!
This sword light was no longer a thrust, but transformed into a net of laws that blotted out the sky, carrying the majesty of an emperor who suppressed the eight wastelands and six directions, fiercely enveloping the out-of-control expanding Eye of Return!
Boom——!
An indescribable roar.

The entire Burial God Ridge seemed to be sinking. The raging dark vortex was forcibly restrained and compressed by this net of laws!
Having lost its mechanism and core energy source, the Eye of Guixu finally stopped expanding under the full force of the Annihilation Sword, which contained part of the "True Key" and the Emperor's will. It was firmly imprisoned above the altar and transformed into a huge black sphere with a diameter of tens of feet, slowly rotating and with purple-gold sealing runes flowing on its surface.

Although it still exudes a chilling aura of desolation, the terrifying suction force that once devoured everything has vanished without a trace.

The raging energy turbulence within the Burial God Bone Domain gradually subsided, leaving only a scene of devastation: the shattered base of the withered bone tower, the skeletal golems lying paralyzed on the ground after losing their energy, and the remains of the Burial God and the dim chaotic source core sealed beneath the black sphere of purple-gold runes.

The leader of the Sky-Splitting Clan has been utterly defeated! The core of Burial God Ridge has been suppressed! (End of Chapter)