Staying in the sect, controlling beasts and cultivating immortals

The liquid sea of ​​light flowed silently, and the primordial breath, as warm as amniotic fluid, enveloped the wounded body.

The viscous yet weightless liquid of light flowed into every broken meridian, smoothing the charred wounds and dispelling the chilling curse.

It wasn't ordinary healing; it was more like time rewinding, gently pulling them back from the brink of death.

Chen Xueqing floated in the stream of light, the broken, illusory Pure Lotus in her heart greedily absorbing the light liquid. The petals unfolded and solidified again at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the dim blue color was dyed with a layer of flowing gold.

Her pale cheeks quickly regained their color, and her nearly depleted heart was refilled with the powerful source of life.

A long sigh escaped her lips, carrying the weariness of surviving a catastrophe and an incredible sense of comfort. It felt as if the vitality of the entire universe flowed solely for her.

Wang Cheng sank to a slightly deeper depth, the liquid light, like the most skillful craftsman, seeping inch by inch along his chaotic bone arm covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

The lingering, chilling aura of annihilation belonging to the Patrolman deep within the bone arm screamed as it was dissolved and purified by the liquid light, as if it had encountered its nemesis.

Beneath his bronze skin, his bulging muscles surged with power once more, and the flame of his domineering blood energy was ignited deep within his meridians, burning fiercely though faintly.

He suddenly opened his eyes, a sharp glint in them, and instinctively clenched his fists, his knuckles making a slight popping sound.

The ice on Ling Wuying's body was gently melted by the sea of ​​light, and the piercing cold poison was gradually drawn away. His stiff and cold half of his body once again felt the warmth and sting of flowing blood.

The fingers holding the Lonely Star Cold Iron Shadow Dagger twitched, and the dagger emitted a deep hum, seemingly echoing some profound spatial rhythm contained within this sea of ​​light.

His eyes, usually hidden in the shadows, now reflected a flowing light, sharp as ever.

Mo Heng lay on Yu Changsheng's back, and the Wanhua Guixu Furnace in his arms, which was covered with cracks and almost completely extinguished, made a very faint whimper, like the gasping breath of a dying person, when it came into contact with the sea of ​​light.

A tiny wisp of light seeped into the deepest cracks in the furnace body. Although the terrifying cracks that covered the furnace were far from healed, they stopped showing signs of further collapse. Mo Heng's tightly furrowed brows relaxed slightly, his breathing became long and deep, and his depleted and cracked sea of ​​consciousness was refreshed by a cool breeze.

Gui Yinzi floated beside Chen Xueqing, the dark Yin energy surrounding him churning and fading violently under the pure source of life, like snow being splashed with boiling water.

A faint trace of color began to appear on his ashen face, and although the rise and fall of his chest was still weak, it was no longer like a candle flickering in the wind, ready to be extinguished at any moment.

Yu Changsheng hovered in the center of the crowd, enduring the most surging stream of light.

The horrific wound on his back, torn apart by the annihilation gaze of the Abyss Envoy, was being fiercely tug-of-war between the annihilating black energy stubbornly gnawing at the origin of the Dao and the boundless vitality within the sea of ​​light.

Each counterattack of the dark energy brought excruciating pain, as if it were tearing his very soul apart.

His jaw clenched, veins bulged on his forehead, and beads of sweat were instantly absorbed by the liquid. However, his left palm was burning hot!
The dark purple, ethereal star core fragment embedded in flesh and blood was now pulsating wildly at an unprecedented frequency, emitting a deep and grand hum, as if it had formed a profound resonance with this vast and boundless sea of ​​liquid light!

Deep within the sea of ​​consciousness, the suspended Guixu Star Orbit Compass shone with dazzling light!
The character “寂” is dark and profound, spinning endlessly, devouring the ancient and eternal true meaning of returning to the void contained in the sea of ​​light; the character “生” is like a newly born star, dazzling and greedily absorbing a massive amount of the source of life.

The two runes are drawn together and intertwined, forming a mysterious and fragile balance.

Under this resonance and nourishment, Yu Changsheng's own aura was like a giant wave rising again after the tide receded. Although there was still intense pain churning inside, the external pressure had begun to rise steadily. The Daoist charm of the Integration Realm became more harmonious and profound, faintly touching a higher level.

"Uh……"

A faint groan broke the almost sacred silence.

Mo Heng struggled to lift his heavy eyelids, his cloudy gaze focusing in the flowing light.

He instinctively wanted to reach out and touch the furnace in his arms, but his fingertips only felt a numb, stinging pain.

His gaze swept greedily across the strange space flowing with liquid light, sensing the immense primordial vitality contained within, enough to drive any living being mad.

However, as the most knowledgeable person in the team and the one with the deepest understanding of the laws of the universe, a chilling feeling suddenly rose from the depths of his overexploited and nearly broken spiritual senses!

"No...that's not right!" Mo Heng's voice was hoarse and dry, like sandpaper rubbing, yet it carried a heart-stopping urgency.

He struggled, trying to prop himself up, but only managed a violent cough, a thin strand of pale golden blood spilling from the corner of his mouth before instantly merging into the sea of ​​light.

“This Sea of ​​Light… is not simply a place of healing!” He gasped, each word uttered with extraordinary difficulty, his gaze fixed intently on Yu Changsheng, carrying an unprecedented warning.

"The Primordial Breath... the Ancestral Star Vein... is the root of the universe's origin, and also... the very will of returning to stillness! Excessive absorption... will inevitably lead to backlash! It is... alive!" The word "alive" pierced the slightly relaxed minds of the crowd like an ice pick. Chen Xueqing's blush faded instantly, Wang Cheng's clenched fist suddenly stopped, and Ling Wuying tightened his grip on the Shadow Dagger, warily scanning this seemingly gentle and harmless sea of ​​light.

In that moment of intense mental tremor!

Deep within the ocean of liquid light, in that immeasurable "below," two enormous, icy rifts suddenly appeared without warning!

That wasn't a spatial rift, but two gazes!

A gaze formed purely from the will to annihilate! Cold, deathly silent, and aloof, carrying the ultimate negation of all existence.

They pierced through the viscous, warm liquid light, ignoring the distance in space, like two spears of death tempered for billions of years, carrying a terrifying will to freeze the soul, instantly locking onto Yu Changsheng—locking onto the stellar core crystal fragment in his left palm that was pulsating wildly and resonating strongly with the entire sea of ​​light!

An indescribable, primal terror gripped everyone's hearts in an instant! It was billions of times more intense than when facing the Crystallized Guardian, the Void-Eating Worm, or the dimensional collapse!
That was the indifferent gaze of a predator at the top of the food chain upon an ant at the bottom!
The next moment, at the center of those two icy gazes, space shattered and vanished silently, like fragile glass!
A destructive torrent, condensed to its extreme and composed purely of "nothingness" and "end"—the Annihilation Gaze of the Patrol Abyss Envoy—ignored the obstruction of the Sea of ​​Light, ignored the laws of time and space, transcended conceptual distance, and pierced straight into Yu Changsheng's brow at a speed beyond thought!
Wherever it passes, the flowing liquid light is not evaporated, but completely erased from the level of existence, leaving behind an absolute and eternal trace of nothingness!

death!

For the first time, the true, all-consuming shadow of death descended so clearly and irresistibly!

Yu Changsheng's blood seemed to freeze and flow backward in that instant!

Chen Xueqing cried out in alarm, and the light of the Pure Lotus surged in response; Wang Cheng roared and tried to stand in front of Yu Changsheng, and the Chaos Bone Arm just lit up; Ling Wuying's figure was almost about to escape into the void under extreme terror, but he was still nailed to the spot by the will of death!

In that split second between life and death, all the power within Yu Changsheng's body that had been temporarily nourished and restored by the sea of ​​light was completely detonated by this pure threat of death! His instinct for survival, his indomitable will, his obsession with protecting his companions, and his Dao heart that had been tempered countless times in desperate situations, all burned to their extreme at this moment!
"Roar--!"

A roar originating from the depths of the soul did not come from the throat, but rather reverberated throughout the entire liquid sea of ​​light!
The dark purple star core crystal fragment in his left palm suddenly burst forth with light that pierced the universe! It was no longer merely a resonance, but transformed into a fuse, a key! It activated the vast, boundless, and eternally dormant source of power within the liquid light sea of ​​the entire Star Origin Ancestral Vein!

The Chaos Emperor's Blood boiled completely within his body, and ancient purple Emperor runes surged wildly beneath his skin, emanating an overbearing aura that suppressed all heavens. Within his dantian, the dark golden nebula vortex spun and expanded at an unprecedented speed, and the Dao of Star Annihilation surged forth like billions of roaring galaxies. However, this power of annihilation did not lead to pure destruction. Deep within his sea of ​​consciousness, the "Life" character on the Returning Void Star Orbit Compass erupted with unprecedented brilliance, guiding out the creative power of reversing annihilation contained within the star core fragments!
Annihilation and creation, these two opposing poles of the universe that should be mutually exclusive, collided and merged like never before under the rule of the mysterious core of the Returning Void Compass and under the forceful forging of Yu Changsheng with his own will as a furnace!

boom!
An indescribable pillar of chaotic light, with a dark golden hue of annihilation, flowing purple imperial might, and leaping pale purple starlight of creation, suddenly erupted in front of Yu Changsheng!

The beam of light was not a straight line, but spread, rotated and collapsed in an instant, forming a huge vortex that stretched across the liquid sea of ​​light, a dark gold nebula vortex constructed by the blood of the Chaos Emperor, the laws of stellar extinction and the creative power of the void star core!

This vortex is deep and violent, its rotating edges cutting through the sea of ​​light. Inside, it seems as if galaxies are born and then die, rising and falling in chaos, containing a terrifying power as if the world were created!
It is not defense, but devouring! It is annihilation! It is the ultimate barrier that Yu Changsheng can mobilize at this moment, which integrates all of his own power with a portion of the ancestral vein's original power!
Time seemed to be stretched into a painful moment, or compressed into an insignificant instant.

Xunyuan's gaze, pure and annihilating, carrying the will to erase all existence, pierced fiercely into the swirling dark gold nebula vortex!
laugh--!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a terrifying, sharp sound that sent shivers down one's spine, as if the very foundation of the universe had been forcibly torn apart!
At the point of contact between the Dark Gold Nebula Vortex and the Annihilation Gaze, space completely vanished, leaving only an absolute black dot that was wildly twisting and devouring light!

The pure "nothingness" and the chaotic "being" are engaged in the most fundamental struggle since the birth of the universe!
The sea of ​​light boiled! Centered on the point of collision, the viscous liquid light churned violently, evaporated, and annihilated, as if it had been thrown into grease on a red-hot iron!
The golden liquid light was violently impacted by the energy, creating towering waves that formed countless giant tornadoes of light connecting the "surface" and the "seabed"!

The primordial breath, brimming with life, clashed violently with the annihilating power, representing ultimate destruction, unleashing a destructive storm powerful enough to tear apart stars!

The stable space constructed by the liquid light sea began to vibrate violently, and huge, dark, and ever-spreading spatial cracks spread out like spider webs across the light curtain dome and the surrounding "seabed"!
Yu Changsheng was the first to be hit!
His whole body trembled violently, as if he had been struck by millions of invisible giant hammers at the same time!

The back wound that had just begun to heal instantly burst open, and the annihilating black energy, like a shark smelling blood, launched a frenzied backlash!
Blood mixed with pale gold gushed out from his seven orifices at the same time; it was his Chaos Emperor Blood and life essence!
Within his sea of ​​consciousness, the Guixu Star Orbit Compass emitted a mournful cry of unbearable strain, its light flickering rapidly as if it were about to collapse at any moment! Maintaining that dark golden nebula vortex, it was frantically drawing everything from him every instant: Dao principles, essence blood, divine soul, and even life force!

He felt his body being torn apart from the inside, ignited, and annihilated into the most primitive particles of the universe!
His vision began to blur, and excruciating pain overwhelmed his consciousness like a tidal wave. Only the heat and resonance emanating from the star core crystal in his left palm acted as a beacon in the midst of a raging storm, anchoring his crumbling will.

"Immortality!" Chen Xueqing screamed hoarsely, desperately urging the Purifying Lotus to activate its power.

The illusory image of the Azure Lotus surged, and countless azure light threads containing healing and purification power, like tenacious vines, pierced through the raging energy turbulence and wrapped around Yu Changsheng's body, attempting to plug his cracked wounds, stabilize his turbulent soul, and share the terrifying annihilation backlash.

But the light of the Azure Lotus swayed violently under the impact, and blood gushed from the corner of her mouth again, pushing her newly restored essence to the brink of depletion once more.

"Hold on for me!" Wang Cheng roared like thunder. His burly body blocked Yu Changsheng's side, protecting the unconscious Gui Yinzi behind him.

The cracks on the Chaos Bone Arm deepened instantly, but he ignored them and unleashed the last bit of his Tyrant Blood Qi without reservation, transforming it into a thick, ancient shield burning with blood-red flames, attempting to block the escaping, space-tearing energy turbulence and the flying annihilation light fragments.

Each impact caused his bones to crack and blood to spill from his mouth and nose. The giant shield was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks, as if it would shatter completely at any moment.

Ling Wuying's figure became extremely blurry amidst the boiling sea of ​​light and the raging energy storm.

Spacetime became incredibly viscous and chaotic at this moment, and his Shadow Escape technique was suppressed like never before.

But he kept moving! Each flash was accompanied by a faint, piercing shriek as space was forcibly torn apart. (End of Chapter)