Staying in the sect, controlling beasts and cultivating immortals

The air in the core burial chamber was like solidified lead and mercury, so heavy it was suffocating.

The dark purple crystal, like a huge, scarred heart, pulsates slowly in the center of the platform, each flicker of light drawing in the energy tides of the entire space.

That unique rhythm resonated strangely with the Guixu Star Orbit Compass deep within Yu Changsheng's sea of ​​consciousness and the swirling dark gold nebula vortex in his dantian. A sense of desolation and loneliness originating from the ancient wilderness swept over them, making everyone's hearts tremble.

"The Eternal Silence Field... truly lives up to its name."

Mo Heng leaned on the Myriad Transformations Returning to Nothingness Furnace, which was covered with spiderweb-like cracks. His voice was hoarse and dry, and each breath was accompanied by a metallic grinding sound.

The blood clots remaining in his seven orifices were particularly glaring under the eerie light of the crystal. "His spiritual power was frozen, his spiritual senses were suppressed, and even his thoughts seemed to be sluggish."

This crystal... is the core of this graveyard, and also its greatest prison. If we cannot find a way out soon, we will all be assimilated into this desolate landscape, our flesh and blood turning to ice, our souls forever imprisoned!

As soon as he finished speaking, as if to confirm his warning, the darkness at the edge of the tomb suddenly began to writhe. It wasn't a physical creature, but space itself that twisted and folded, like paper crumpled by an invisible hand.

Immediately afterwards, several translucent "ripples" shimmering with a ghostly blue light peeled off from the twisted point and quickly coalesced into shape.

These newly appearing guards are quite different from the previous Fire Guards.

They have no fixed form, and are more like a combination of frozen space fragments and the pure concept of "annihilation". Their forms flicker between reality and illusion, sometimes like twisted crystal clusters, sometimes like flowing shadows, with a point of extremely cold, dark blue starlight at their core.

They move silently, and wherever they go, even the air stops flowing, leaving behind trails of frost—traces of space being briefly frozen.

"Dimensional Guardians!" Mo Heng's pupils contracted sharply, his voice filled with unprecedented solemnity. "Be careful! They can manipulate local spatial laws and perform dimensional cutting! Don't let them get close!"

Before he could finish speaking, the nearest ghost, Yinzi, became the target.

A ripple of deep blue light ignored physical distance and appeared instantly beside him, like an invisible blade, silently slicing towards his neck, which was weakened by severe injuries.

With its incredible speed and treacherous angle, and under the suppression of the Eternal Silence Force Field, Gui Yinzi had no time to make any effective reaction!
"Tsk-!"

At the critical moment, a condensed, silver-blue starlight pierced through the sky.

It's Ling Wuying!

The Lonely Star Cold Iron Shadow Dagger in his hand no longer pursued absolute concealment. Instead, it erupted with an unprecedented sharp starlight, and the space around the dagger was slightly distorted by this extreme power.

With an almost self-destructive attitude, he plunged the Shadow Dagger fiercely into the center of that dark blue ripple.

"clang!"

A sharp, metallic clang resounded in the deathly silent tomb, exceptionally jarring.

The deep blue ripples trembled violently, forcibly deflecting the cutting trajectory, narrowly grazing Gui Yinzi's neck, bringing with it a chilling frost that froze off a few strands of his hair.

Ling Wuying felt as if she had been struck by a heavy hammer. She let out a muffled groan, and her right arm, which was holding the dagger, was instantly covered with a thin layer of ice. She staggered back several steps before regaining her balance, and a trickle of blood mixed with ice shards spilled from the corner of her mouth.

The starlight flowing on the cold iron of the lonely star also dimmed a bit.

"Thank...thank you..." Gui Yinzi's face was pale and his voice was trembling. Just a moment ago, he had truly felt the cold touch of death.

"Stand together! Don't scatter!"

Yu Changsheng's voice boomed like thunder in the dead silence, carrying the unique Daoist aura of a Nascent Soul cultivator, forcefully lifting everyone's almost frozen minds.

He stepped forward, blocking the front of the group. His right arm—the "Starry Night Arm," which had fused the blood of the Chaos Emperor, the Dao of Star Annihilation, fragments of Star Origin Marrow, and the power of the newly formed nebula—was no longer flesh and blood, but an energy aggregate flowing with dark gold, silver-blue, and starlight halos.

A contradictory aura containing destruction and order emanated from his arm, subtly resisting some of the suppression of the Eternal Silence Force Field, creating a relatively "active" area around him.

His gaze was like lightning, fixed on the approaching dimensional guardians.

"Mo Heng! Deduce their core nodes and spatial jump patterns! Wang Cheng, protect Xue Qing and Gui Yinzi! Wu Ying, roam and provide support, focusing on the moment of their spatial interference! Gui Yinzi, use anything that can briefly disrupt spatial perception!"

The instructions were clear and decisive.

Wang Cheng roared, and the Chaos Bone Arm erupted with its last brilliance, like a thick, blood-red crystal wall, protecting the weakened Chen Xueqing and the still-shaken Gui Yinzi behind it.

Chen Xueqing's face was as pale as paper. She had not yet recovered from the exhaustion of forcibly purifying the Yin Sha of the Dark River. Now, under the Eternal Silence Force Field, she was finding it even more difficult to move. She could only do her best to maintain a faint light of the Purifying Lotus to add a wisp of purifying power to Wang Cheng's defense.

Gui Yinzi bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of his life essence blood, which contained the power of his soul, and sprinkled it on the few remaining wounded Yin Sha puppets.

"Yin Sha Blinds the Eyes, Chaos in the Sky!" he roared.

The puppets exploded instantly, turning into a large amount of viscous, filthy, and constantly writhing and changing Yin energy.

This mist was not a physical attack, but it contained strong interference with the soul and spatial distortion fluctuations, like throwing a boulder into a calm water surface, instantly disrupting the dimensional guardian's precise spatial perception and jump trajectory.

The several ripples of deep blue light that were rushing toward the crowd suddenly stopped, and their trajectories became chaotic and blurred.

"A good opportunity!" Ling Wuying's figure disappeared like a ghost, and when he reappeared, he was already behind a sluggish dimensional guard.

The Lonely Star Cold Iron Shadow Dagger thrust out again, this time not to meet head-on, but to precisely stab at a spatial fold at the edge of the core of the dark blue light point that was slightly unstable due to the interference of Yin Sha.

"puff!"

Like popping a bubble, the eerie blue starlight at the core of the dimensional guardian flickered violently, and then the entire phantom-like form shattered and dissipated like a mirror, leaving only a wisp of extremely cold spatial turbulence.

Ling Wuying retreated immediately after his attack, his figure disappearing back into the shadows as he searched for his next target. His movements were also severely restricted by the Eternal Silence Force Field, and each appearance and attack consumed a great deal of energy, causing his face to grow increasingly pale.

Mo Heng closed his eyes tightly, veins bulging on his forehead, ignoring the excruciating pain that tore his soul apart, and frantically poured his last divine thoughts into the Myriad Transformations Returning to the Void Furnace.

The cracks on the surface of the furnace seemed to be about to completely burst open under the pressure of divine thought, emitting a humming sound as if it could not bear the weight.

At the furnace opening, chaotic energy and the power of returning to nothingness barely intertwined, laboriously simulating and calculating the strange spatial fluctuation trajectory of the dimensional guardian.

"Three zhang to the left front, a spatial interlayer! The earthquake position has shifted! Senior Brother Yu, attack its 'illusory eye'!"

Mo Heng suddenly opened his eyes, which were bloodshot, and shouted hoarsely.

Yu Changsheng's mind raced, and he unleashed a fierce swing of his Starry Arm.

There were no fancy moves, only a single point of starlight condensed to its extreme, containing the true meaning of "Silence and Return to Nothingness". Following the mysterious trajectory guided by Mo Heng, it precisely pierced into that seemingly empty space interlayer.

"Om-!"

A muffled spatial tremor resounded.

The space rippled violently like water with a stone thrown in it. A dimensional guardian that was about to leap out was forcibly "squeezed" out from the spatial interlayer. Its core, a ghostly blue light, was directly facing the extinguished starlight at Yu Changsheng's fingertip!
"break!"

Yu Changsheng gave a low shout, and starlight suddenly erupted from his fingertips!

The pure and domineering power of stellar annihilation, carrying the nascent will of order, instantly invaded the core of the dimensional guardian. The pale blue light spot vanished and melted away silently, like an ice block thrown into lava.

The guardian phantom let out a silent wail before completely disintegrating.

However, eliminating the two guards came at a great cost.

Ling Wuying was panting heavily, his arm holding the dagger was trembling slightly, and frost had spread to his shoulder.

Mo Heng spat out a mouthful of blood, and the cracks on the furnace deepened, making it teeter on the verge of collapse.

Due to the depletion of his essence and blood, Gui Yinzi's aura was extremely weak, and he could barely stand.

Wang Cheng's Chaos Bone Arm also dimmed to its lowest point, and the protective circle was shrinking.

Chen Xueqing bit her lower lip tightly, blood spilling from the corner of her mouth, as she forcefully maintained the faint light of the Azure Lotus from being completely frozen by Eternal Silence.

The remaining five dimensional guardians seemed enraged by the annihilation of their companions; the eerie blue starlight at their core suddenly became blinding. They no longer attempted single-target attacks or spatial jumps, but instead abruptly converged together!
Om-!
The five dark blue light spots merged instantly, transforming into a fist-sized, deep, dark blue vortex, as dark as a black hole!

An aura of absolute zero, a hundred times more terrifying than the Eternal Silence Force Field, suddenly erupted!

The vortex slowly rotated, and the surrounding air, light, and even space itself began to be swallowed, frozen, and shattered! The floor and walls of the tomb were quickly covered with a thick layer of dark blue ice that shimmered with starlight, and it spread wildly towards everyone!

"Dimensional collapse! They're going to perish together, freezing and annihilating this space completely!"

Mo Heng turned pale with horror, his voice filled with despair.

An attack of this level would be difficult to withstand even when everyone is at their peak, let alone now when they are exhausted!
An absolute shadow of death loomed over us, as if even our thoughts were about to be frozen.

In that moment of utter silence and extinguished life, the resonance between the Guixu Star Orbit Compass deep within Yu Changsheng's sea of ​​consciousness, the dark golden nebula vortex in his dantian, and the pulsating dark purple crystal in the center of the platform reached an unprecedented peak!
Om-!
An irresistible torrent of thoughts, not sound, but a vast and boundless information and emotion transcending language, surged into Yu Changsheng's consciousness like a bursting dam! His vision went black, and he was pulled into a bizarre and surreal illusion, a world of distorted time and space:

Stars fell, colossal ships disintegrated: He saw in the endless starry sky, an unimaginably vast fleet of starships, struck by some incomprehensible and terrifying force, shatter, burn, and disintegrate like fragile glass. Strange runes were imprinted on the surface of the starships, shimmering with a light identical to that of dark purple crystals.

Countless tiny escape pods scattered like fireflies, but the vast majority were reduced to dust in the aftershocks of the destruction.

Core self-locked, eternally sealed: He saw that the core power core of one of the most magnificent starships before its complete destruction was that dark purple crystal!

—Under the tragic sacrifice of countless rune masters, the final energy erupted. Not destruction, but the ultimate "annihilation".

This force instantly froze and collapsed the space of the starship's core area, forming an "Eternal Graveyard" independent of the outside world, sealing the crystals and the starship's most important "legacy" within it in order to escape the annihilation.

Those dimensional guardians are the embodiment of the crystal's final defense mechanism, the "Eternal Silent Barrier"!
A primordial star source, the spark of civilization: the core information of the illusion flooded into my mind: a dark purple crystal called the "Void Star Core"!
It is the core power source of this "Starry Sky Ark" and also the carrier that connects to a fragment of a certain cosmic "Star Source Ancestral Vein"!

The glory of the Starship civilization was built on the exploration and utilization of the ancestral star source veins.

The power of stellar destruction and rebirth that they possess originates from their analysis and mastery of the ancestral energy of the Star Source! The "Starry Sky Hundred Refinement Secrets" is merely the tip of the iceberg of their weapon-refining knowledge!
Inside the Void Star Core, not only are there vast fragments of ancestral star vein energy sealed, but also core data from the Star Dome Forger regarding star source technology, spatial leaps, dimensional manipulation, and most importantly—the ultimate mystery of "annihilation and rebirth"!

This is the last spark of their civilization!

The Hole of Return to Nothingness, the Abyss of Silent Extinction: The final stage of the illusion is the source of destruction—a colossal dark hole that stretches across the sea of ​​stars and devours everything! At the edge of the hole, countless icy wills, similar to the "Abyss Patrol Envoys" who had previously hunted them, roam. Like cleaners, they obliterate anything that attempts to touch or reveal the secrets of the Star Origin Ancestral Vein.

The destruction of the Star Forger civilization was due to touching upon the core secret of the Star Origin Ancestral Vein guarded by the Hole of Return to Silence!
A massive torrent of information surged through Yu Changsheng's consciousness, while the outside world was but a fleeting moment.

Just as the dark blue collapsing vortex was about to touch everyone, Wang Cheng's domineering blood energy emitted a cracking sound under the strain, and Chen Xueqing's faint light of the Azure Lotus was about to go out—

Yu Changsheng's "Starry Night Arm" moved!
It wasn't an attack, but rather, with his five fingers spread out, his palm aimed at the pulsating "Void Star Core"!
He no longer tried to fight against the dimensional collapse vortex. Instead, he poured all of his Chaos Emperor Blood, which had just broken through to the Integration Realm and was not yet fully stabilized, along with the power of the Star Annihilation Dao Law, the entire resonance of the Sea of ​​Consciousness Compass and the Dantian Nebula, into the Star Core in a profound and almost instinctive way inspired by the illusion!

"I am not a plunderer, but I inherit your torch and continue your path! Annihilation is not the end, new life is to be expected! Open!"

Accompanied by his deep shout containing Daoist rhyme, a beam of light, interwoven with dark gold, silver blue, and starlight, and full of the will of new life, shot out from his palm and accurately entered a deep crack in the core of the Void Star Core!
Om-! ! !
The entire Star Graveyard trembled violently!
The pulsating dark purple light suddenly intensified a million times, like a star that had been dormant for billions of years suddenly awakening!

A pale purple halo, visible to the naked eye and brimming with the vitality of endless stars, spread outwards from the desolate star core like a shockwave! (End of Chapter)