Staying in the sect, controlling beasts and cultivating immortals

Yu Changsheng's body trembled violently, and what he spat out was no longer blood, but a mass of energy containing starlight. His face became even colder, and the flames of annihilation burned eternally in his eyes.

He had no time or power to fight back. The nascent Dao embryo was like a hungry glutton, frantically absorbing the power of the Burial Star Sea, but it was also constantly dragging him into the abyss of complete loss of control, turning him into a new source of annihilation!

He could only transform all his will into the reins to control this out-of-control power, and lock onto that vague coordinate—the “Origin Monument” marked by the forger before his fall in the depths of the Burial Star Sea!
"Leave behind... the Dao embryo... leave behind... life force..." The thoughts of the rotting behemoth, like the murmurs of billions of dead souls, mixed with pollution capable of tearing apart divine consciousness, continuously assaulted Yu Changsheng's sea of ​​consciousness defenses. The "Silence" rune on the Returning Void Compass shone brightly, like a reef resisting the raging tide, protecting that core of clarity.

They had been on the run for an unknown period of time, their journey seemingly traversing several star systems in a deathly silence.

The surrounding fog took on an eerie dark purple hue, and the star debris floating in the sea became as large as mountains, exuding a chilling aura of ancient destruction.

The pursuing monsters seemed to instinctively feel fear, and their numbers dwindled sharply. Only the rotting behemoth continued its relentless pursuit, its eerie green eyes showing not only greed but also a hint of apprehension.

Just then, the emerald lotus embryo in Yu Changsheng's arms throbbed very faintly!
A pure, gentle wave, containing a faint sense of purification and the rhythm of life, like a quiet orchid blooming in the darkness, gently brushed across Yu Changsheng's sea of ​​consciousness, which was filled with desolation and pain.

"Xueqing..."

A vague thought instinctively swept through Yu Changsheng's almost frozen mind.

This wisp of fluctuation was extremely weak, yet it was like a stabilizing needle thrown into chaotic magma, causing the dark vortex in his dantian, which was spinning wildly and almost tearing him apart, to freeze for a moment, almost imperceptibly!
The violently devouring flow of annihilating energy also experienced a very brief respite!

Although it was only for a moment, it was like a breath of air for a drowning person!
"Purify the world... Azure Lotus... Stabilize!" Yu Changsheng's shattered consciousness suddenly seized this fleeting opportunity!

He forcibly diverted a sliver of his attention, no longer simply controlling the vehicle roughly, but attempting to guide it!

He guided the uncontrolled vortex of power, separated a strand, and carefully injected it into the emerald lotus embryo in his arms!

hum!
The surface of the lotus embryo shimmered with emerald light, as if it had been parched for a long time and then received a refreshing rain. The pale blue light shone slightly, and a weak but clearer purifying life force emanated from it, like a clear spring flowing over Yu Changsheng's cracked soul and Dao foundation, bringing a long-lost coolness and a faint but real sense of repair!

"Roar!" The giant beast behind them seemed to sense the growing vitality of this life force and became even more enraged!
It suddenly opened its gaping maw, which was made of countless pieces of rotten metal and bones, and a sticky, eerie green light condensed wildly deep in its throat!

A dangerous omen, more terrifying than all the previous attacks combined, instantly seized Yu Changsheng!
However, just as the emerald breath was about to erupt...

From the depths of the swirling, dark purple fog ahead, a muffled, utterly deep sound came from nowhere... a heartbeat!
Boom!
Like a giant hammer striking the eternally silent drumhead!
The entire space of the Burial Star Sea trembled violently!
The churning sea of ​​fog was pushed aside by an invisible force, revealing a strange and desolate body of water.

In the middle of the water, there is neither an island nor a stone tablet.

Instead, it was a... gigantic vortex shaped like a monument!

The vortex swirled slowly, its diameter unknown, spanning thousands of miles, displaying an indescribable dark hue, like a solidified cosmic scar.

The center of the vortex is unfathomably deep, constantly collapsing inward, emitting a terrifying gravitational force capable of devouring light, laws, and even time.

The edge of the vortex was not water, but countless broken, twisted, slowly flowing dark gold runes!
Those runes were ancient and desolate, carrying an indescribable Daoist charm that intertwined "origin" and "end," faintly echoing the aura that the Starry Sky Forger imprinted on Yu Changsheng's compass!
Even more bizarrely, above the vortex, floated a huge, semi-transparent, crystal-like fragment of spacetime.

Within the fragments, light and shadow intertwine, vaguely revealing an ancient and desolate star battlefield. Countless broken and enormous puppets float like stars. At the core of the battlefield, the phantom of a huge, incomplete stone tablet appears and disappears, exuding a tragic aura that suppresses eternity—the projection of the Origin Tablet!
"It's...right there!"

The coordinates of the Star Forger's mark jumped wildly in the compass, pointing towards the center of the vortex!

Behind them, the eerie green breath from the mouth of the rotting behemoth had already taken shape, carrying the destructive power to annihilate a star field, and was about to burst forth!

A matter of life and death!
The flames of annihilation surged in Yu Changsheng's eyes, and he did not hesitate at all!

He suddenly hugged the lotus embryo in his arms even tighter, pouring the last bit of power that he had barely managed to gather due to the feedback from the lotus embryo, along with the still violent power of the chaotic Dao embryo vortex, into his feet without reservation!
"Jinyuan—Stepping into the Void!"

The space beneath their feet collapsed and vanished violently as if boiling!
He transformed into a resolute, ghostly light trailing a long, desolate storm. No longer dodging the trajectory, he aimed directly at the center of the dark gold rune vortex that emitted terrifying gravity. With an indomitable will, even at the cost of mutual destruction, he plunged headlong into it like a shooting star drawn to a flame!
Just as his figure disappeared into the vortex.

boom--!!!
The giant beast's eerie green breath tore through space and slammed into the edge of the vortex!

The terrifying energy, enough to destroy a star field, collided with the slowly flowing dark gold runes, only stirring up violent energy ripples and producing a muffled, abyssal roar before being silently swallowed and dissolved by the profound vortex power!
"Roar--!!!"

The rotting behemoth let out a furious roar that shook the heavens and the earth, shattering the thick fog that stretched for miles. Its massive body paced and rammed restlessly at the edge of the vortex, stirring up towering waves of the Dead Sea. Yet, it dared not truly touch the flowing dark gold runes, and could only watch helplessly as the ghostly light carrying the Dao embryo and life force disappeared into the heart of the vortex leading to the unknown abyss.

Holding the lotus embryo that Chen Xueqing had transformed into, Yu Changsheng, like a shooting star drawn to a flame, resolutely crashed into the core of the dark gold rune vortex.

The destructive breath of the Starburst Sea Beast erupted behind him, only to be mercilessly swallowed up by the ancient runes flowing around the edge of the vortex.

In an instant, it felt as if I had fallen into solidified amber.

The raging storm of annihilation vanished, the howling of the pursuers was completely silenced, and even time lost its measure.

An absolute, viscous silence enveloped Yu Changsheng.

He was suspended in a strange space.

Beneath their feet was not solid ground, but an endless expanse of slowly creeping, dark "silt".

This silt is not a physical entity, but rather a stream of matter entangled together, having lost its color and form, exuding a profound and suffocating aura of desolation and aging. It is the filth of the chaotic remnants from the beginning of the universe, which has been precipitated by the power of the void for hundreds of millions of years.

An even more chilling sight stands on this polluted "land".

A forest of enormous, distorted steles!

They are not carved from rock, but are composed of pure law energy, exhibiting a dull dark gold color.

The surface of the monuments was covered with incomprehensible ancient runes, pulsating slightly like the veins of a living being, each pulsation drawing upon the energy tides of the entire space. And at the base of these massive monuments, countless twisted and struggling limbs were clearly connected—human arms, beastly claws, and even some indescribable arthropods and tentacles!
These limbs are deeply embedded in the writhing, filthy earth, like roots drawing nourishment, or like offerings swallowed by the earth.

They have long since lost their flesh and blood, leaving only stark white bones or cold metal skeletons, writhing under the heavy pressure of the monument's laws, silently telling of eternal imprisonment and suffering!

The entire space was filled with an atmosphere that blended sacred sorrow and utter despair.

This is the interior of the "Origin Monument," the final seal of the Starry Sky Forger, an eternal prison constructed from the remains and wills of countless sacrifices! Together they suppress the restless, desolate source of annihilation at its core.

"Waaah..."

The raging nascent chaotic Dao embryo in Yu Changsheng's dantian suddenly emitted a muffled hum.

It seemed to be drawn to the extremely dense source of annihilation in this space, and the dark vortex's rotation speed soared once again!

Countless grayish-white streams of air rose from the writhing, filthy earth below, like leeches drawn by the scent of blood, rushing madly toward the wounds on his body and drilling into the core of the vortex.

The pain was excruciating! Even worse than when we were fleeing from Zang Xinghai!
This time, the energy of annihilation was no longer merely cold and violent; it also carried a heavy pollution, as if countless resentments had coalesced! It not only eroded his foundation but also attempted to corrupt his soul!

"Ugh—" Yu Changsheng groaned, his body swaying violently in the air, barely able to hold the lotus embryo in his arms. The mysterious dark gold, dark purple, and chaotic gray Dao patterns on his body flashed wildly, like an overloaded circuit, trying to resist the erosion of this power that came from the same source but was even more polluted and massive.

His consciousness was once again pulled toward the abyss of chaos, and the cold, extinguishing fire danced wildly in his eyes.

The obsession to protect Chen Xueqing and the instinct to greedily devour the nascent Dao embryo clashed fiercely in his sea of ​​consciousness, and the Guixu Compass let out a mournful cry of unbearable strain as the two runes spun wildly.

Om-!
Just as Yu Changsheng's will was on the verge of collapse, the Emerald Lotus Embryo he was tightly guarding suddenly burst forth with an unprecedented clear light!
It was no longer a faint throbbing, but like the slumbering moon suddenly rising!
The soft yet resilient emerald-gold light instantly spread out, forming a pure light field about ten feet in diameter, enveloping him and the lotus embryo in his arms.

Hiss--

The turbid, annihilating energy flow that surged into Yu Changsheng's body, upon contact with this emerald-golden light domain, was like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun, emitting a slight melting sound! It wasn't annihilation, but rather being forcibly purified and stripped away!
The pollutants and impurities entangled in the source of annihilation, formed by the painful resentment and spiritual imprints of countless victims, were filtered out by the Emerald Gold Light Domain like the most precise sieve, turning into wisps of twisted and hideous blackish-gray smoke that screamed and dissipated in the heavy space.

The relatively "pure" primordial particles of annihilation, stripped of impurities, were devoured and absorbed without hindrance by the nascent chaotic Dao embryo in Yu Changsheng's dantian!

The excruciating pain suddenly subsided!

As the raging vortex was replenished with "pure" energy, a strange, faint sense of stability appeared?

“Xue Qing…” Yu Changsheng’s shattered consciousness caught this subtle change, as if he had grabbed a sturdy vine in a drowning abyss.

He looked down and saw the lotus embryo in his arms shimmering with light. The bluish-white light at its core became clearer, and the vitality it emitted became stronger.

The figure curled up inside the lotus embryo seemed to stretch out slightly, almost imperceptibly, in the radiance.

The Pure Lotus! It is evolving!

By actively utilizing the vast source of annihilation energy within the Origin Monument space, combined with the lotus embryo's own purification properties, a unique symbiotic purification furnace is formed!
It filters "fuel" for Yu Changsheng, and it also draws strength from the tempering process itself!
However, this fragile balance is like walking on a tightrope over a sheer cliff.

Boom! ...
The entire space around the Origin Monument suddenly trembled!
It felt as if I had been struck hard by an invisible giant hammer!

The thick silence was shattered completely.

The stable, dark gold rune vortex barrier at the entrance was now violently twisted and trembled, like a body of water tossed with a boulder!
Countless fine cracks spread across the barrier, emitting a teeth-grinding cracking sound!

A familiar yet nauseating stench of decay and greed, mixed with the deathly stillness unique to the Burial Star Sea, forcefully seeped in through the cracks like a raging flood of filth!

That colossal beast that buries stars in the sea!
It actually used its incredibly violent power to forcefully break through the sealing barrier left by the Starry Sky Forger!

It's trying to force its way in!

"Roar--!!!"

A terrifying claw, made of rotten star metal and massive bones, forcibly tore open a large spatial rift, and with a rage that wanted to destroy everything and a more greedy hunger to lock onto the lotus embryo, it ruthlessly probed in!

The tremors in space triggered a terrifying chain reaction!

Below, countless struggling limbs in the writhing, filthy earth seemed to have been fatally stimulated, suddenly erupting with an unprecedented, silent scream! It was not a sound, but a tidal wave of pure spiritual will! The pain, resentment, and bitterness that had been suppressed, bound, and assimilated for billions of years erupted like a volcano suppressed to its limit!

This massive and chaotic mental shock, like millions of red-hot steel needles, pierced fiercely at the only "foreign object" in the space—Yu Changsheng!

It ignores physical defenses and acts directly on the deepest part of the soul!

"Ugh—!"

Yu Changsheng let out a bloodcurdling scream!
The defenses of the protective consciousness nearly collapsed!
The Guixu Compass trembled violently, and the light of the "Silence" rune flickered wildly as it struggled to resist the impact of the resentment mixed with the remnants of the entire Starry Sky Legion's souls.

His vision was instantly overwhelmed by countless shattered images: the flames of a starship exploding in the void, the limbs of warriors torn apart by an invisible force, desperate screams, and icy silence... These images, carrying intense negative emotions, threatened to drag his consciousness into an eternal abyss of madness!
A colossal beast tears through the seal and forces its way in from the outside, while the resentment of countless remnant souls assaults from within!

Under the double attack, the fragile balance that had just been established through the purification of the lotus embryo was instantly shattered!
Stimulated by internal and external difficulties, the nascent chaotic Dao embryo in the dantian went completely berserk! The dark vortex spun wildly at an unprecedented speed, unleashing a terrifying suction force!

This time, it was no longer content with passively absorbing the foul energy surging in from below!
It took the initiative! (End of Chapter)