Staying in the sect, controlling beasts and cultivating immortals

On the isolated island, the eye of the storm

The situation at sea, after Yu Changsheng fell into the sea, Mo Yu was kidnapped, and Elder Qingyi intervened, not only did not calm down, but became like a boiling pot of oil due to the arrival of more forces!

Elder Qingyi stood at the bow of the emerald lotus leaf Dharma boat, her face solemn, with a pure aura of the Pure World Lotus spreading around her, trying her best to suppress the increasingly violent Devouring Mother Nest will due to the intensifying cracks in the core monument.

She had just forcibly used the Emerald Light Bridge to repair the crystal cracks protected by Chen Xueqing and intimidated Situ Xuan and Venerable Xuantian, which had greatly depleted her resources. At this moment, she had to stabilize her position and wait for reinforcements from the Pure Lotus Sect.

Situ Xuan stood on the bridge of the Xuntian ship with a livid face.

The main cannon's charging was interrupted, the mechanical colossus was damaged, and more importantly, the two key figures, Mo Yu and Yu Changsheng, were kidnapped and fell into the sea, respectively, causing his plan to seize the core inheritance of the forger to suffer a major setback.

His gloomy gaze swept across the point of impact on the sea, then fixed on Chen Xueqing, whose radiance flowed at the core of the isolated island, and the Xuan Tian Venerable who was confronting her. His killing intent surged, but he had to be mindful of the sudden appearance of Qing Yi and the other forces of the Heavenly Crafts Palace that were about to arrive.

The Venerable Xuantian stood in mid-air, the Xuantian Sword Sect's sword ship already arrived, hovering at the edge of the battlefield, its sword aura chilling. His expression was calm and composed, as if burying the starry river with his sword and severing the giant claw of the Mother Nest was merely a casual gesture.

The abduction of Mo Yu was clearly unexpected and interrupted his plan to use Mo Yu and Yu Changsheng to investigate the source of the anomalies in the Burial Star Sea.

His deep gaze swept over the direction where the blood-stained, unconscious Mo Yu had disappeared, then fell on the still churning dark green whirlpool where Yu Changsheng had fallen into the sea, and finally settled on the sealing monument on the isolated island, as if he were weighing some kind of gain or loss.

He scoffed at Situ Xuan and Medicine King Valley's greed, but the inheritance at the core of the isolated island and the out-of-control mother nest were still threats and opportunities that could not be ignored.

"Buzzing—"

A dull, oppressive roar of engines tore through the thick fog, and a massive shadow loomed over the sea. The true core power of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Palace—the "Heavenly Craftsmanship Fortress"-class airship "Genesis Ark"—had arrived!
Its scale far exceeds that of Situ Xuan's Sky Patrol, its hull is covered with complex runic pipes and ferocious cannons, and several mechanical giants, even larger than before, guard both sides like guardian beasts.

At the bow of the ship, an old man with a deep and profound aura, dressed in a purple and gold rune robe, stood with his hands behind his back. He was none other than the Grand Elder Fu Yan, one of the true decision-makers of the Heavenly Crafts Mansion on this trip!
His gaze swept across the battlefield, lingering for a moment on Situ Xuan's face with a hint of scrutiny, before finally settling on the core of the isolated island, his eyes gleaming with a burning desire for the ultimate secrets of the Starry Sky Forger.

Almost simultaneously, a burst of sword light erupted behind the Xuantian Sword Sect, and a massive warship shaped like a giant unsheathed sword, exuding an incomparably sharp sword intent, broke through the clouds.

At the bow of the ship, a middle-aged swordsman dressed in white, with a face as cold and stern as ice, stood tall. He did not have any earth-shattering aura, but everyone who saw him, whether friend or foe, felt as if an invisible sword was hanging over their head and soul. This person was none other than Jian Wuyai, the current sect master of the Xuantian Sword Sect!
His arrival instantly made Venerable Xuantian suppress all his thoughts and bow slightly in greeting.

Jian Wuyai's gaze, like a tangible sword blade, instantly pierced through the chaotic energy field, locking onto Chen Xueqing, who was struggling against the Mother Nest's counterattack and protecting the core inheritance on the isolated island monument, as well as the unique Daoist charm emanating from her that combined the Pure World Lotus and the profound meaning of Returning to the Void.

From the direction of Medicine King Valley, accompanied by a nauseatingly strong medicinal fragrance mixed with poisonous miasma, a "Ten Thousand Poison Bone Ship" made from countless huge withered bones and wreathed in eerie green poisonous flames slowly approached.

Standing at the bow of the ship was an old woman with a hunched back, leaning on a cane with a dragon head. Her face was withered, and her wrinkles were as deep as ravines. Only her eyes gleamed with a murky and greedy light, staring intently at the direction where Yu Changsheng had fallen into the sea and at Chen Xueqing, who was merging and inheriting the source of life in the center of the isolated island and full of vitality.

She was none other than the true leader of this trip to Medicine King Valley—the Gu Po! Half a step behind her, Li Wujiu, who had just escaped and was exhausted but whose eyes were filled with even more resentment, whispered something.

The arrival of the three giants was like three heavy mountains pressing down on the sea.

The raging will of the Devouring Nest seemed to sense an even greater threat, emitting an even more piercing soul howl. Its eerie green tentacles frantically attacked the cracks in the monument, attempting to widen the fissures before the seal completely collapsed.

Chen Xueqing was at the eye of the storm, bearing the greatest pressure. She sat cross-legged beside the core crystal, her spiritual light flowing, fully guiding the power of "Guixu Yin·Yuanliu Hun" (Return to the Void: Source Pivot). On one hand, she suppressed the impact of the mother nest and repaired the seal; on the other hand, she frantically absorbed the pure origin of the Void from the core inheritance to repair the cracks in her lotus embryo and strengthen her spiritual consciousness.

She could vaguely sense the faint yet tenacious life force emanating from the spot where Yu Changsheng had fallen into the sea, which made her extremely anxious. Driven by her will to protect him, she recklessly merged with his power.

Yu Changsheng's body continued to sink in the cold, lifeless seawater filled with corrosive energy.

The seawater of the Burial Star Sea is no ordinary water; it contains the resentment and decaying energy of billions of dead stars, enough to easily dissolve the physical body and soul of ordinary cultivators.

If it weren't for the fact that the nascent Chaos Dao Embryo within him originated from Nirvana, and had not incorporated some characteristics of the Origin Monument, as well as the scorching vitality remaining from the Flame of the Abyss, it would probably have already vanished into nothingness.

In the deep darkness, fragments of consciousness floated like stars. The constant pain was the dominant theme, but the emerald-gold radiance deep within his consciousness, imprinted by Chen Xueqing, acted like a stabilizing force, preventing him from completely losing his way.

As it sank, the terrifying pressure from the massive forces on the sea surface and the ferocious roars of the Devouring Mother Nest were isolated by layers of seawater, creating an eerie "silence".

Just as his consciousness was about to completely dissipate, his sinking body touched the seabed. It wasn't soft silt, but a cold, hard, metallic surface covered in strange patterns! *Whoosh—!*
Like an ancient behemoth awakened, the entire seabed suddenly lit up!

Countless crisscrossing dark gold lines spread out beneath him, forming an incredibly huge and dazzlingly complex three-dimensional rune array! At the center of this array was a concave ring structure, its shape bearing a striking resemblance to the Returning Void Star Orbit Compass deep within his consciousness!
“Return to the Void… Compass… Silence… Guidance…” Amidst the chaotic fragments of consciousness, the scattered insights belonging to the true meaning of the Return to the Void Dao Embryo were strongly attracted and activated by this underwater array!
The next instant, the huge array beneath him burst forth with a soft yet incredibly profound light.

An irresistible, immense suction force came, no longer destructive, but gently encompassing and guiding!

Yu Changsheng's mangled body was sucked into the ring structure at the center of the array by this force.

Boom!

It felt like being plunged into a stellar core furnace!
An unimaginably vast and gentle energy—not vibrant, but more essential and ancient, the "foundation of annihilation" that carries the end and rebirth of all things—rushed into his broken body from all directions, frantically injecting into his nascent chaotic Dao embryo on the verge of collapse!

This is not a simple energy repair; it's more like a... "formatting" and "reshaping"!
That vast, gentle energy, yet containing the ultimate laws of the universe, was like the most exquisite carving knife, precisely piercing the most chaotic and conflicting node in the core of his Dao Embryo: the raging source of annihilation was enveloped and regulated by this energy, like a flood that had found its home, no longer raging wildly.

The residual venomous corrosive power of the Devouring Void Nest was forcibly stripped, decomposed, and purified by this energy, transforming into "nutrients" to nourish the Dao Embryo. The sealed land left by the Starry Sky Forger itself had a natural restraint on the Devouring Void Worms; the forcibly inhaled myriad poisonous energies were like encountering their nemesis, rapidly dissolving and disintegrating in the face of this pure foundation of annihilation.

The backlash and trauma caused by the burning of life by the Flame of the Abyss were gently soothed and repaired by this all-encompassing energy.

All of this happened extremely quickly, yet it felt as if it had gone through a long cycle from the birth of the universe to its extinction.

The "Jinyuan" core within Yu Changsheng's body, which was originally on the verge of destruction, began an unprecedented transformation under the protection and guidance of the emerald gold imprint and under the impact of this external, primordial energy!
The broken cracks are being repaired, but not simply restored. The old, mixed, and impure structures are being destroyed and stripped away; new, more refined, and more in line with the true meaning of "guidance" and "returning to the origin" are being reconstructed.

The form of the Dao embryo is changing. It is no longer a chaotic mass of energy, but is gradually evolving into a complex, precise, three-dimensional compass form containing infinite star trails and the vortex of the void!
At its core, the emerald-gold mark not only did not dim, but became even more dazzling, as if it had become the hub and core of the entire newborn Dao embryo!

"Guiding evil back to the void... not to suppress, but to guide... transforming all decaying streams into the foundation for new life..." Yu Changsheng's shattered consciousness, amidst the impact and reshaping of energy, made rapid progress in his understanding of the true meaning of returning to the void, reaching an unprecedented depth!
At the same time, through the massive underwater array beneath him, he formed a strange connection with the entire isolated island, and even the sealing monument at the core of the island!

He "saw" the true nature of the isolated island—it was not a natural island, but a super-sealed base forged by the Starry Sky Forger using supreme power to extract the core of the dead and silent stars of the Burial Star Sea and fuse special metal skeletons!
The array he was in was the "energy core" and "drainage valve" of this sealed base—the Ruins Furnace!
It is both one of the ultimate sources of power to suppress the Devouring Mother Nest and the last line of defense to guide and transform annihilation energy when the seal collapses! The Forger left it behind to deal with this situation today! What he is absorbing now is the "Annihilation Source Essence" that this furnace has accumulated for hundreds of millions of years!
The Dao Embryo is being reshaped, drawing upon its origin! Yu Changsheng's depleted life force is recovering and growing at an astonishing speed, even surpassing its previous levels! His cultivation barriers are silently loosening and breaking through!
Just as Yu Changsheng was undergoing a phoenix-like transformation at the bottom of the sea, the standoff on the surface of the sea was broken!
The Devouring Mother Nest sensed the activation of the underwater seal core and the massive extraction of energy, mistaking it for its last chance to escape, and let out a hysterical roar!
Three enormous, eerie green vertical pupils squeezed out of the crack in the monument once more, even more evil and insane than before!
Countless rotting giant claws, infused with the resentment of stars and metallic skeletons, tore through space, sweeping indiscriminately towards the Sky Patrol, the Creation Ark, the giant sword warship of the Xuan Tian Sword Sect, and the Myriad Poison Bone Ship of the Medicine King Valley, all hovering in the air!
It instinctively wanted to devour these "prey" containing powerful energy to replenish itself, and even more so to destroy anything that hindered its escape!
"You beast, how dare you!" Jian Wuyai's eyes turned cold, and before he could make a move, an invisible sword intent that seemed capable of cleaving the heavens and earth suddenly burst forth!
As the sword intent passed, several giant claws that were attacking the Xuan Tian Sword Boat silently broke and disintegrated into ashes! The way of the sword is divine!

Elder Fu Yan snorted coldly, and countless runes lit up on the surface of the Creation Ark. A thick diamond-shaped energy shield instantly unfolded, blocking all the biting attacks from the mother nest.

At the same time, the massive main cannon began to rotate, emitting a terrifying wave of destruction, its target aimed directly at Chen Xueqing, who was fusing her inheritance at the core of the isolated island! He didn't care about the mother nest at all; he only cared about the core inheritance of the forger!

"Hehehe... Such pure life essence! And that embryonic aura... They will all be excellent ingredients for my divine elixir!"

The witch let out a wicked laugh, and a sky-covering, multicolored poisonous miasma erupted from the Myriad Poison Bone Boat, transforming into countless ferocious, venomous claws. Half of them coiled towards the spot where Yu Changsheng had fallen into the sea, while the other half viciously entangled Elder Qingyi's lotus leaf magic boat and the location of Chen Xueqing! She actually wanted to seize both Yu Changsheng and Chen Xueqing at the same time!
Seeing this, Situ Xuan immediately ordered the Sky Patrol Ship to unleash its full firepower, unleashing attacks such as "Boundary-Breaking Divine Light" and "Annihilation Wave Cannon" in a frenzy. The target was also the core area of ​​the seal, with the aim of seizing the inheritance amidst the chaos. At the same time, they launched indiscriminate attacks on the poisonous miasma of Medicine King Valley to hinder the Gu Po's actions.

At Jian Wuyai's instruction, Venerable Xuantian commanded his disciples to form the "Xuantian Demon-Slaying Sword Formation." The sharp sword light transformed into a rain of light, slashing at the attacking tentacles of the mother nest. At the same time, the sword formation subtly surrounded the core area of ​​the isolated island, preventing anyone from getting close to Chen Xueqing.

Elder Qingyi's pressure increased sharply! She had to maintain the aura of the Pure Lotus to suppress the impact of the Mother Nest's will on Chen Xueqing, while also resisting the Gu Po's poisonous claws and Situ Xuan's stray bullet attacks.

The emerald green lotus leaf Dharma boat shimmered intensely, and blood was already seeping from the corner of her mouth.

Chen Xueqing is at the center of the vortex!
The core crystal vibrated violently. The violent impact of the Devouring Mother Nest, the lock-on of the Fu Yan Main Cannon, the invasion of the Gu Po Poisonous Mist, and the sealing fluctuations brought about by the extraction of energy from the Undersea Ruins Furnace, multiple pressures surged towards her like a landslide and a tsunami!
Her face was as pale as paper, and her spiritual body fluctuated violently, making the process of merging with the inheritance extremely difficult and dangerous.

However, in that life-or-death moment, through the strong connection between her body and Yu Changsheng's Dao Embryo Imprint, she clearly "perceived" the dramatic changes taking place at the bottom of the sea!

That boundless, gentle yet containing the aura of ultimate annihilation! That familiar aura that is undergoing rebirth and reshaping, its light growing ever brighter, and intimately connected to her imprint!

"Immortality...!" Chen Xueqing's heart trembled violently, followed by an indescribable joy and a sense of enlightenment!
Her will to protect surged to its peak! The originally difficult fusion process was accelerated by this resonance and hope!
The core crystal of "Guixu Yin·Yuanliu Shu" beneath her suddenly burst forth with unprecedented brilliance, and a source force that was equally vast and profound, but focused more on "guidance and transformation" surged out!

She no longer passively defended herself, but actively guided this force!

"The Return to the Ruins: All Streams Return to the Ruins!" (End of Chapter)