Swallowed Star: Wish Fulfillment System

After a hundred thousand eons, the dense prison had been mostly devoured by the Void Shadow. Even through the outer wall of the prison, Xiao Yu could feel the violent and frenzied aura.

"This can't be suppressed for long," Xiao Yu thought to himself. "We must start dealing with these illusory shadows."

The prison walls won't hold for much longer.

The Shadow of Nothingness, though not true nothingness, shares the same origin as nothingness. It has devoured a large amount of Xiao Yu's energy reserves, becoming even more terrifying and indistinguishable from nothingness.

Xiao Yu dared not allow these illusory shadows to break through the prison's restrictions within the Abyss of Destruction.

He dared not gamble on whether the Abyss of Destruction could restrain the Shadow of Nothingness.

"It's a pity that the time spent comprehending it was too short. Although there were gains, I didn't even understand a single mystery." Xiao Yu shook his head slightly. If he could comprehend a mystery of nothingness, perhaps he could control this shadow of nothingness.

Unfortunately, Xiao Yu ultimately failed to comprehend it and could only abandon the 'Shadow of Nothingness' that he had finally obtained.

"Pfft~"

Inside the Thumb Prison, nothingness grew increasingly violent.

"We can't wait any longer." With a wave of his hand, Xiao Yu put away the hundred thumb prisons. With a step, he transformed into a stream of light, passing through layers of time and space, and appeared outside the Abyss of Destruction.

“Exile these illusory shadows to the outside of the Eternal Origin Heaven Realm.” Xiao Yu gazed into the depths of endless space and time, his gaze piercing through layers of space and time, passing through the world membrane of the Eternal Origin Heaven Realm.

There was nothing outside the membrane wall.

The concept of 'existence' doesn't even exist.

That place is the abyss of all existence, the end of all time and space.

Only there can the Shadow of Nothingness find its best resting place!

"call!"

With a thought, Xiao Yu conjured a flash of sword light. The sword light was endlessly condensed, radiating a terrifying power that distorted the surrounding space and time.

This flash of light contained nearly one-tenth of Xiao Yu's energy reserves.

The blade flashed coldly, containing terrifying power. Layers of spacetime shattered like panes of glass, and the blade pierced through the shattered layers of spacetime, striking into the depths of spacetime.

At the same time, Xiao Yu transformed into a streak of light, closely following the blade's edge, and continued to penetrate deeper. Xiao Yu's speed was extremely fast, hundreds of times faster than the speed at which the starlight traversed within the Hengyuan Heavenly Realm.

The spacetime of Hengyuan Heaven is very stable, but some progenitors or lords who are skilled in spacetime power can also travel through layers of spacetime.

"The spacetime of Hengyuan Heaven is divided into the shallow layer, the turbulent layer, the void layer, and the membrane layer." Xiao Yu continued to travel deeper and deeper into the spacetime fragments, and also looked into the depths of spacetime.

He can clearly see the spatial and temporal layers.

The shallow spacetime has a structure resembling a multidimensional spider web. Most of the primordial beings and eternal ancestral gods of the Hengyuan Heavenly Realm are active in the shallow spacetime.

Even shallow spacetime has countless layers.

Only by traversing countless layers of spacetime can one enter the depths of spacetime, enter the turbulent layer, and then pass through the void layer where even spacetime is thin, before finally touching the membrane wall.

"Pfft~"

About fifteen minutes later, Xiao Yu followed the sword light as it pierced through layers of space and time, and suddenly entered a dark space-time. Here, space and time were no longer a multi-dimensional spider web-like structure.

Time and space are unpredictable here.

"Is this the turbulent layer?" Xiao Yu looked into the distance with curiosity.

In the distance, dark spatial turbulence was raging. These turbulent currents exuded terrifying power, and any one of them was enough to tear apart the main battle avatar of a third-step Eternal Ancestral God. Even Xiao Yu would have a hard time encountering them.

The spacetime turbulence here is countless times more terrifying than the spacetime turbulence in the source world; the two are simply incomparable.

Besides the spacetime turbulence, there are also some void fragments here.

These void fragments are all incredibly large. The smallest one is comparable to a hundred world clusters, while the larger ones are comparable to the current territory of cultivation camps, and there are even larger ones.

Some void fragments contain sparse energy, while others contain terrifying void particles, and some even contain worlds in the making.

“I didn’t realize how dangerous it was from a distance, but now that I’m here, I can see the danger.” Xiao Yu had previously spied on Hengyuan Heaven and seen the scene here.

Seeing it is one thing, but actually being there is a completely different feeling.

The turbulent layer is far more dangerous than some mysterious places, so Xiao Yu had to be cautious when escaping, and his speed decreased sharply in an instant.

"call!"

Enormous fragments of void roared past, and occasionally, due to their different speeds, they would collide with each other.

Each impact is a terrifying disaster for the Void Fragment and even for this place.

The black storm generated by the impact was like the end of the world.

Xiao Yu carefully avoided each fragment of void and dodged each raging spatial current. He traveled cautiously for nearly a hundred days before finally passing through this turbulent layer.

Entering a thin space-time.

Here, spacetime is incredibly thin, and even traveling great distances, it's difficult to encounter a single particle.

"Is this the void layer?" Xiao Yu thought to himself. "This is the real void, where even void particles are infinitely thin."

The energy fluctuations here remain at zero. There are no energy particles or void particles, so Xiao Yu cannot use void power to travel; he can only fly by consuming the energy within his body.

"Oh?"

Suddenly, Xiao Yu had a thought, and the prison that bound the Void Shadow appeared in front of him.

"Puff~"

A tremendous noise came from inside each of the prison cells.

The membrane of the Thumb Prison was twisting, and the void within, bound by the prison, was extremely violent, constantly writhing in an attempt to break free of its constraints.

The outer walls of the prison had become incredibly thin due to the long-term erosion by the Void Shadow, resembling a thin film. As the Void Shadow twisted and expanded within the prison, the walls twisted and expanded countless times.

The more a prison expands, the thinner its outer walls become.

Finally, with a muffled thud, a huge hole broke open in the outer wall of the Thumb Prison, and the Void Shadow escaped from inside.

"boom!"

The Void Shadow that escaped from the prison instantly increased in size countless times, its diameter increasing countless times, becoming several times larger than Xiao Yu.

Moreover, the Void Shadow was exceptionally violent, as if it had encountered delicious food, frantically devouring everything around it, turning the surrounding area into nothingness. The moment the prison broke, Xiao Yu quickly took a step back, a step that was equivalent to the distance of three or four world clusters.

“Compared to the prison, these voids, though empty, are more favored by the Shadow of Nothingness.” Xiao Yu understood that although the energy of the Thumb Prison was vast, it was ultimately too dense.

The Void Shadow's devouring process is much slower, while the Void is different; it can devour a large area instantly. Even a vast spacetime area, like the territory of a cultivation camp, wouldn't take the Void Shadow long to devour.

"The Void Shadow is growing too fast here, we can't let it go!" Xiao Yu quickly waved his hand, and a vast amount of energy gathered to form a dense membrane that enveloped the Void Shadow.

This dark membrane wall is like a world of billions of time and space, containing vast energy.

"This single membrane has used up about ten percent of my energy reserves," Xiao Yu thought to himself, realizing just how vast his current energy reserves were.

One-tenth of the energy reserves is equivalent to the total energy possessed by the entire original land.

Such immense energy merely formed a membrane to bind the Void Shadow. Furthermore, Xiao Yu made numerous optimizations to the membrane based on his understanding of the Void Shadow's many characteristics, making this dense membrane even more resilient.

A dark membrane enveloped the Void Shadow, forming a massive sphere. Within the membrane, countless layers of spacetime were faintly visible, isolating the Void Shadow within endless spacetime.

Moreover, within this endless space-time, the space is incredibly vast, yet the energy is extremely scarce.

Even if the Void Shadow can devour everything, it would still take a long time to completely erode this dark membrane.

"The effect is not bad." Xiao Yu cautiously observed the inside of the dark sphere. Billions of spacetimes were being swallowed up, while spacetimes were also being continuously generated within the membrane.

The Void Shadow was devouring spacetime, while the membrane wall was constantly generating spacetime, preventing the Void Shadow from touching the membrane wall in a short time.

Unless the energy inside the membrane is exhausted.

"Pfft!" "Pfft!" "Pfft!"

Just as Xiao Yu had re-bound the previous Void Shadows, suddenly the membrane walls of several thumbs broke open, and the Void Shadows inside left the prison, instantly growing countless times larger.

"Damn it." Xiao Yu looked around. Nearly half of the Thumb Prisons had been destroyed by the Void Shadow. The remaining Thumb Prisons wouldn't last much longer anyway, and now the Void Shadow was devouring them from the outside, making their lifespan even shorter.

In the blink of an eye, all the energy on the Thumb Prison was devoured, and the Void Shadow grew again. Even the surrounding Void Shadows merged together, transforming into an incomparably enormous Void Beast.

This ethereal behemoth is formless and colorless, devouring everything around it—spacetime, particles, all forces, energy, and everything that 'exists'—within its devouring range.

This kind of devouring is even more mysterious and profound than regular characteristics.

The colossal beast exuded an aura more terrifying and dreadful than the abyss itself.

"This is terrifying! After 100,000 epochs, the Void Shadow has grown a billion times." Xiao Yu was shocked. Previously, the Void Shadow that Hei Yanwu had used was terrifying, yet it was like an infant.

After growing for 100,000 epochs, this infant became a giant with the starry sky above his head.

"The void is so terrifying, how can the Hengyuan Heavenly Realm prevent it from devouring it?" Xiao Yu gazed into the depths of space and time, where the purple-gold membrane wall did indeed block the invasion of the vast void.

"Boom~"

The vast, ethereal behemoth rolled onward, locking onto the dark sphere. That dark sphere, possessing immense energy, seemed like the most delicious food, attracting the ethereal behemoth to devour it.

At the same time, Xiao Yu could also feel that he had become the target of the void's devouring. The void in front of him was rapidly disappearing, and the void was getting closer and closer to him.

Xiao Yu quickly took another step back, retreating to a distance of about three or four world clusters.

At the same time, the Void Beast also completed its hunt. The dark membrane that had previously bound a Void Shadow was quickly disintegrated under the attack from both inside and outside. The dark membrane that had consumed about 10% of Xiao Yu's energy reserves was devoured in less than a quarter of an hour.

All the illusory shadows converged together.

This can no longer be called the Shadow of Nothingness; after consuming about two-tenths of Xiao Yu's energy reserves, its power has transformed into true nothingness.

"The Shadow of Nothingness has become true nothingness; its power is terrifying!" Xiao Yu quickly retreated again, now he had to temporarily avoid its wrath.

However, Xiao Yu did not rush to escape. Instead, he observed from a distance, carefully examining all traces of the void.

Xiao Yu had already gained a lot from comprehending the Shadow of Nothingness before, and now he was able to comprehend the true nothingness, which was even more rare.

Moreover, this is being practiced within the Hengyuan Heavenly Realm.

Everything around you is 'present', so it's relatively safe.

The 'Void' devoured the void very quickly; in less than a quarter of an hour, it had already devoured a void area equivalent to the size of thousands of world clusters.

Moreover, this nothingness will continue to devour deeper and shallower parts of spacetime.

Xiao Yu's soul had reached its limit in its speed of operation, leaving no trace unchecked. He diligently studied and comprehended every trace left by the void as it devoured all 'existence'.

"So this is the true nothingness." Xiao Yu couldn't help but sigh. What he had gained from comprehending the 'Shadow of Nothingness' was just the tip of the iceberg compared to the true nothingness.

Now that I have grasped the true meaning of 'nothingness,' many of my previous doubts have been answered, and problems that had been solved before have also found new answers.

Many of my original doubts were resolved, but at the same time, even more doubts and questions arose. The more I pondered, the more doubts I had.

About an hour later, the tentacles of 'Nothingness' had already reached the turbulent layer. The turbulent layer contains vast energy and countless enormous fragments of void. As soon as Nothingness entered the turbulent layer, it was like a fish in water, or a mouse in a rice jar, beginning to devour and expand wildly.

"call!"

Suddenly—one after another, purple-gold chains descended from the sky, each chain displaying countless purple-gold runes, the runes being incredibly profound, as if containing supreme mysteries.

Mysterious patterns flowed, exuding a terrifying aura.

"Is this the original power of Hengyuan Heavenly Realm?" Xiao Yu could sense that the aura emanating from these purple-gold chains was very complex, yet perfectly compatible.

This complex aura emanates from numerous mysterious lands within the Hengyuan Heavenly Realm, countless Origin Worlds, and the vast Hunyuan Spacetime, among other things.

These diverse auras together form a complete Hengyuan Celestial Realm.

These purple-gold chains are the rule chains of the Hengyuan Heavenly Realm, containing the primordial power of the Hengyuan Heavenly Realm. Any one of these rule chains would be enough to crush Xiao Yu in his current state.

Countless purple-gold chains of rules blotted out the sky, and these chains intertwined, strangled, and penetrated into the void of the turbulent layer.

The monstrous void struggled with all its might, resisting the crushing force from 'existence,' but it was all in vain.

In an instant, all the nothingness in the turbulent layer and the void layer was suppressed by the chains of rules, and all 'nothingness' was crushed in an instant.

Nothingness vanished!
The surrounding void is rapidly recovering.

"Is this the struggle between 'existence' and 'non-existence'?" Xiao Yu gazed into the distance, still stunned by the battle that had just taken him by surprise.

He remembered how he had painstakingly restrained the 'Shadow of Nothingness' before, expending a large amount of energy reserves, yet the Shadow of Nothingness still managed to break free of the restraints.

Even a Void Shadow that has grown billions of times stronger can be instantly annihilated by the very essence of the Hengyuan Heavenly Realm! (End of Chapter)