Staying in the sect, controlling beasts and cultivating immortals

Outside the cave, the thick, leaden-gray fog was suddenly torn apart by an incomparably violent force! It was as if a huge gray curtain had been ripped open with brute force, leaving two terrifying gaps!

Suddenly, two huge, eerie green orbs of light shone from the gap!
Each one was as large as a cavern, burning with a thick, cold, and soul-freezing flame of resentment!

That wasn't light at all; it was an eye!

It is the wrathful eye of the owner of that rotten giant claw, forcibly pieced together from star debris, rotting sea beast bones, and twisted metal fragments, which was once lured away by Ling Wuying—a terrifying being slumbering deep within the Sea of ​​Buried Stars!
At this moment, those giant eyes were fixed on the sea cave! More precisely, they were fixed on the vitality emanating from the lotus seeds inside the cave, which had become slightly "richer" due to the repair, and the unique Daoist aura that was actively absorbing the power of star extinction!
As the giant eye locked on, a terrifying pressure, billions of times heavier and more desolate than the Burial Star Sea itself, a pure mixture of endless greed and violent rage, descended like an invisible, immensely heavy divine mountain!
Click! Click!

At the cave entrance, the thin spatial barrier, condensed with dark blue ice crystals, that Ling Wuying had set up by burning his last Shadow Escape essence couldn't even hold for a moment. It was like a fragile piece of glass, instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks, and then shattered completely with a desperate cry, turning into countless cold blue stardust fragments that were instantly swallowed by the thick fog!

"Roar--!!!"

A soul-shattering roar pierced through the thick fog and space, slamming into Wang Cheng's heart! The thoughts contained in that roar were crystal clear: the overwhelming anger of being toyed with by tiny insects, and the naked, impatient desire to devour the "delicious" food in the cave!

It's back! It's back with a raging fury that can destroy everything!

The ecstasy on Wang Cheng's face froze instantly, turning into a deathly solemn expression. His heart felt as if it were being gripped tightly by a rotting giant claw, almost stopping its beating.

An overwhelming sense of despair, like the icy waters of the Sea of ​​Buried Stars, instantly engulfed him.

There are no more barriers at the entrance!

The two burning, eerie green giant eyes rapidly enlarged in the churning fog. Accompanying the giant eyes as they approached was a suffocating, fishy wind, and the muffled, deathly roar of rotting giant claws stirring up tons of stagnant water and tearing through the void!
The final moment has arrived.

Wang Cheng suddenly turned his head, his bloodshot single eye taking one last deep, greedy look at the lotus seed on the ground inside the cave, its light steadily pulsating and its cracks struggling to heal.

It was as if they wanted to forever imprint that glimmer of light, and the two people it carried, in the deepest part of their souls.

There was no fear, no hesitation. Only an almost frantic calm.

He grinned, revealing blood-stained teeth, and roared at the approaching death, a deafening roar that seemed to unleash all the courage and resentment of his life:
"You damn monster—!"

"You want to mess with them?!"

"Run over the corpse of Laozi (Wang Cheng)!!!"

With a roar, his broken body blocking the cave entrance erupted with the last and most intense light! It was not qi, but the purest life radiance that burst forth from the very source of life under the extreme pressure of annihilation and despair, like the collapse of a star's core!
He wanted to use this crippled body, this last breath, to become the final bulwark!

Even if it can only stop that destructive giant claw for a moment!
The rotting giant claw, carrying with it a shower of bone fragments, ice shards, and thick black-green malevolent energy, tore through the thick fog with the force to crush stars, and slammed down fiercely and unstoppably toward the tiny glimmer of light blocking the cave entrance!
The shadow of death instantly swallowed all the light at the cave entrance.

The space at the cave entrance collapsed inward amidst Wang Cheng's resolute roar, and his mangled body, already riddled with holes by the annihilating energy, suddenly burst forth with the last flame of his life.

That wasn't the golden light of the Overlord Blood Qi, but rather the chaotic fire that burned through flesh, bones, and even the indomitable soul!

Flames, a blend of dark gold and gray-black, erupted from beneath his cracked skin like the final burst of a dying star.

He was like a meteorite rushing against the tide of destruction, his single arm plunging fiercely into the thick, malevolent energy that bound the giant claw.

"Open it for me!"

Rumble—!!!
An indescribable roar erupted, not a pure energy explosion, but a chaotic annihilation at the level of laws! Wang Cheng's burning flesh and blood, the detonated remnants of his domineering blood essence, the annihilating aura swirling around him... these originally conflicting and tearing forces were forcibly fused together by his will to live, transforming into a brief but terrifying chaotic storm!

Sizzle—!
The enormous, decaying claw trembled violently, tearing open a massive rift in the thick, blackish-green aura covering it! Countless fragments of decaying star debris and twisted metal skeletons were pulverized in the storm, producing a sickening grinding sound of obliteration. At the core of the claw, the ghostly eye burning with venomous flames showed astonishment for the first time, then transformed into an even more ferocious rage.

"Roar--!!!"

The beast roared, its sound tearing through the thick fog and causing the crashing waves to surge backward.

It instinctively withdrew its claws, and the remaining chaotic fire and annihilation aura clung to the edges of the wound torn open by the chaotic storm, stubbornly eroding the rotting flesh and malevolent energy like maggots clinging to bones.

At the eye of the storm, Wang Cheng's imposing figure had vanished without a trace. Only a wisp of chaotic dust, carrying the aura of dark gold imperial blood and the black energy of annihilation, drifted away in the shadow of the giant claw, like the indomitable remnant soul of a warrior.

In that instant when the smoke and dust dissipated—

*Sizzle!* *Crack!*
Deep within the cave, the emerald lotus seed that Wang Cheng had protected with his life suddenly shattered under the weight of the pressure!
Inside the lotus seed, in that chaotic and shattered realm of consciousness.

Endless, cold darkness enveloped Yu Changsheng's collapsing consciousness.

Wang Cheng's final roar of "Crush it!" was like a final death knell, piercing through layers of darkness and pain, and crashing heavily onto the fragments of his soul!

The sound was no longer bold and heroic, but filled with the shattering sensation of flesh and blood disintegrating, the scorching smell of burning flames of annihilation, and the heavy weight of... farewell!

A soul-wrenching pain suddenly gripped Yu Changsheng!
It was even more devastating than the Annihilation Vision of the Patrol Envoy, and even more devastating than when the Dao Embryo was torn apart!

The pain did not affect the illusory spirit, but rather originated from the resonance between him and his bloodline—Wang Cheng's Chaotic Emperor Blood was completely burned and shattered in the final explosion!
"Wang Cheng—!!!"

A silent, mournful cry, originating from the deepest recesses of the soul, exploded within the shattered sea of ​​consciousness. Accompanying this cry, at the core of the lotus seed, the faintly pulsating embryonic form of the Returning Void Dao Embryo, which had been slowly absorbing the power of stardust, suddenly underwent a terrifying transformation!
It was like a dormant volcano being set on fire with a destructive fuse.

The profound light of the "Silence" rune erupted with unprecedented brightness, and the core platinum light point instantly collapsed inward into a singularity of absolute darkness that devoured everything!

Within the singularity lies all of Yu Changsheng's grief, despair, anger, and insane curses against this fate that annihilates everything!

"Run it over... run it over... run it over..."

Wang Cheng's roar echoed wildly inside the singularity, each tremor triggering an even more violent suction force!

Beyond the lotus seed, the entire Burial Star Sea seemed to sense this cold and violent will of annihilation originating from the embryonic form of the Dao!

Above the cave, the thick, leaden clouds were torn apart by an invisible force, creating a vortex.

Below, the dark green, lifeless seawater boiled violently, and countless remnants of stars that had been deposited on the seabed for hundreds of millions of years shook violently!

Boom! Boom! Boom!
The residual power of star destruction, ten or even a hundred times stronger than before, was like an awakened torrent of revenge, tearing through the sea and space, transforming into thick, ferocious gray-white and dark purple energy pythons, frantically pouring towards the lotus seed on the verge of shattering!

The cracks on the surface of the lotus seeds, which had just begun to heal, were instantly stretched open, torn apart, and spread under this violent infusion! The emerald-gold shell emitted a dazzling crackling light, like glass about to shatter!
"Ughhhhhh—!"

Excruciating pain! It came from my soul, from my foundation of Dao, and from every inch of the lotus seed shell that was being forcibly torn apart!
Yu Changsheng's consciousness was forcibly "nailed" back to reality amidst the extreme pain of being attacked from both inside and outside!
The shattered fragments of the divine soul were forcibly absorbed and melted by the collapsing dark singularity under the scouring force of the raging annihilation power!
The embryonic form of the Dao has gone out of control! It is devouring! Devouring the desolation of the Sea of ​​Burial Stars, devouring Yu Changsheng's pain and anger, devouring Wang Cheng's last burning remnant soul of imperial blood! It no longer follows the slow principle of "gestation," but instead moves towards pure, cold, and destructive plunder and growth!
puff!
The lotus seed shell could no longer withstand the pressure and completely shattered!
The raging storm of annihilating energy, like the River Styx bursting its banks, instantly filled the entire cave, crushing the remaining cold rocks into dust!

At the eye of the storm, a figure slowly floated up.

It is Yu Changsheng.

He was completely naked, his skin covered with mysterious Dao patterns interwoven with dark gold, dark purple and chaotic gray, like natural armor and talismans, yet everywhere there were newly broken, deep wounds that revealed the bone. What flowed from the wounds was not blood, but a viscous energy liquid containing the light of annihilating stars.

Her black hair flew wildly in disarray, each strand crackling with tiny, annihilating electric sparks.

His eyes opened.

Deep within the pupils, there was no longer the profound stillness of extinguished stars, but two clusters of cold, viscous, dark flames that seemed to freeze time and space burning silently—pure flames of annihilation!

He subconsciously looked down, his left arm tightly embracing something—a lotus embryo the size of a human head, composed of pure emerald-gold light.

The surface of the lotus embryo was covered with a soft, liquid-like halo, and inside, a graceful figure could be vaguely seen curled up and sleeping—it was Chen Xueqing.

Deep within the core of the lotus embryo, a faint yet pure bluish-white light, like the most resilient seed, pulsates tenaciously.

This lotus embryo is the ultimate protective barrier formed at the moment of final destruction by the original essence of the Pure World Green Lotus, the imprint of the Starry Sky Forger, the fusion of his Chaotic Emperor Blood vitality, and the nascent power of the Dao Embryo. It isolates the deathly stillness of the Burial Star Sea, and also isolates the uncontrolled annihilation storm surrounding Yu Changsheng at this moment.

"Roar--!!!"

Outside the cave, the rotting giant claw, which had been briefly blocked by Wang Cheng's chaotic storm, descended once more!
This time, he was filled with boundless rage, as if he had been hurt by ants!
The eerie green giant eye pierced through the broken cave ceiling, locking onto the figure in the eye of the storm who exuded the aroma of "food" yet possessed an extremely dangerous aura, and the pure life lotus embryo in his arms!
Greed and destructive thoughts crashed into Yu Changsheng's soul like a tangible tsunami!

hum!
In Yu Changsheng's sea of ​​consciousness, the Guixu Star Orbit Compass, which was suspended above the dark singularity, trembled violently!
The "Silence" rune shone brightly, domineeringly taking over the impact of the violent thoughts from the outside world, and the cold flames of annihilation burned even more violently in its eyes.

There were no words, no probing.

Yu Changsheng is alive.

He held the sleeping lotus embryo in his arms and took a step forward!
It wasn't teleportation; rather, the space beneath their feet suddenly collapsed and annihilated, like a fragile ice surface!
His body transformed into a dark stream of light entwined with a storm of annihilation, shooting towards the depths of the Star Burial Sea, where endless fog rolled, at an eerie speed beyond the reach of sight!

Behind them, the terrifying roar of rotting giant claws tearing through caves and shattering large sections of coastline echoed.

The beast's furious roar shattered the thick fog, startling countless distorted shadow monsters hidden in the fog and the Dead Sea. They emitted chilling screechs and merged into a destructive torrent, madly chasing after the fleeing dark stream of light!

The escape of Zang Xinghai has begun.

Yu Changsheng's consciousness was like thin ice floating on boiling magma, a mixture of coldness and burning pain. The out-of-control nascent chaotic Dao embryo formed a wildly spinning, dark vortex in his dantian, greedily devouring the omnipresent annihilation energy of the Burial Star Sea. Each devouring brought the excruciating pain of his Dao foundation being forcibly torn apart and then brutally stitched back together, as well as the illusory burning sensation of his power expanding uncontrollably.

His thoughts were almost frozen, leaving only the most primal instinct: escape! Protect the last light in his arms!
Countless gray and dark purple remnants of stardust, like a swarm of piranhas that have smelled blood, surged wildly from all directions into the Dao pattern wounds on his body, merging into that dark vortex.

His speed increased, and the trail of the annihilating storm he left behind grew larger and thicker. Wherever he passed, the dark green seawater of the burial star was instantly evaporated, frozen, and disintegrated, leaving behind a corridor of death vacuum!
Behind them, a swarm of hunters blotted out the sky.

The rotting behemoth stirred up the Dead Sea, each step triggering a small tsunami, and its speed was by no means slow! Countless distorted shadow monsters, like a leech, leaped and darted between the thick fog and the waves, emitting sharp, greedy hisses, and constantly spewing out rays containing vicious laws such as decay, petrification, and soul freezing, like a black downpour, splashing onto the fleeing stream of light.

Chi Chi Chi!
The rays struck the annihilation storm outside Yu Changsheng's body, and most of them were instantly annihilated and swallowed up, but a few still penetrated the outer edge and slammed hard into his back, which was covered with Dao patterns!
Bang! A piece of flesh instantly turned into grayish-white rock, which was then shattered and disintegrated by the violent annihilation energy.

*Swoosh!* A chilling current, capable of freezing the soul, invaded his body, almost freezing his thoughts. It was then forcibly crushed and absorbed by the dark vortex in his dantian, transforming into icy nourishment to strengthen the vortex. (End of Chapter)