Under One Person: I Opened the Age of Mythology

Chapter 569

The biting wind howled as it swept across the ice on the cliff face, emitting a mournful wail like that of a vengeful ghost.

Yang Jian stood atop a precipice, his vertical eye between his brows radiating a divine light that pierced the netherworld, gazing down at the abyss below, where thick, ominous purple energy churned—the Nine Nether Abyss.

The atmosphere here is far purer, more ancient, and more dangerous than that of the Black Mist Swamp.

It is no longer a simple poisonous miasma, but a scar on heaven and earth that has been deeply polluted and eroded by chaotic forces for tens of thousands of years, as if leading to the most primitive chaos and nothingness of the universe.

"As expected, it's here..."

Yang Jian murmured, his mind instantly flashing back to Sun Wukong's urgent orders in the Qitian Palace and the runes that Nezha had deduced on the sand table.

The enormous energy pulsations faintly emanating from the bottom of the abyss and the strange runes discovered on the Heavenly River Altar are surprisingly from the same source!

This is no coincidence; it is the ultimate trap that Dark Star has been planning for a thousand years, with each step intricately linked.

Without the slightest hesitation, Yang Jian leaped into the churning purple abyss.

He held the three-pointed, double-edged sword in his hand, its divine light swirling around him, cleaving away the filthy air.

The deeper he went, the greater the spatial pressure became. Countless vengeful entities, twisted by chaos and roaring menacingly, rushed forward, only to be shredded by the sharp blade energy he unleashed.

He was single-minded, with only one goal: to reach the end of the abyss.

Passing through a viscous, almost tangible, chaotic membrane, the scene before me suddenly opened up, yet it was all the more unsettling.

At the very bottom of the abyss lies an incredibly vast underground void.

At the center, a colossal furnace, as large as a mountain and constructed entirely of unknown dark gold and purplish-black crystals, stands majestically!
The surface of the giant furnace was covered with strange runes identical to those on the Heavenly River Altar. At this moment, it was greedily absorbing the violent chaotic energy that was seeping in from the depths of Kunlun Ruins and even through the void rifts, emitting a muffled roar like the beating of a giant beast's heart—this was the Chaos Furnace!
Countless fragments of Chaos Beads were absorbed onto key nodes on the outer wall of the furnace, like fuel thrown into the furnace, torn and melted by the violent energy flow in the furnace core.

With each fragment melted away, the dark purple flames at the heart of the furnace surged, and the surrounding void rippled violently like waves, as if a fragile eggshell was being squeezed by an invisible force, groaning under unbearable pressure.

This is the manifestation of Dark Star's ultimate plan: to gather all the fragments, tear apart the barrier between the three realms, and summon the legendary extraterrestrial chaotic entity to descend, completely assimilating the entire three realms into a chaotic domain!

Directly in front of the furnace, a gaunt figure draped in a tattered black robe with star patterns spread his arms, his body suspended in mid-air, connected to the raging energy pillar at the heart of the furnace.

His withered body was being eroded and burned at a visible rate, but his face showed an almost fanatical sense of relief and satisfaction.

"I am the 'guide'!"

The hoarse voice of the gaunt figure echoed through the hollow, carrying an eerie penetrating power that reached directly into Yang Jian's soul.

The fluctuations in his aura were strikingly similar to the earth-shattering energy that Nezha had captured on the sand table, which was triggered by the black-robed man from the Qinling Mountains!
It turns out that the failed sacrifice in the Qinling Mountains was just a small prelude to the final activation!

This man in black robes was actually the "Agent" of Dark Star, a figure of great renown. He had successfully escaped, and the key fragment he carried was now being integrated into the core of the furnace!

"I offer my body and soul as a sacrifice! I borrow the furnace of chaos to burn away the shackles of this world! The chaos beyond is eternal and immortal, and we... shall merge into it! Yang Jian? You have come at the perfect time, witness this moment of supreme glory!"

"frenzied!"

Yang Jian roared, and his three-pointed double-edged sword erupted with earth-shattering light, piercing straight into the core of the furnace.

However, the invisible force field barrier formed by the furnace itself was several times stronger than he had anticipated.

The blade struck the force field, exploding into dazzling sparks, causing only a slight tremor in the furnace body, and the runes flowed even faster.

The guide let out an even more maniacal laugh, and his body melted away at an accelerated rate, causing the furnace's energy output to suddenly reach a peak!
A thick, almost distorting dark purple energy column shot into the sky from the top of the furnace, crashing violently into the void above the dome!
"Buzz—Click!!"

It was as if the entire Kunlun Ruins trembled! A deep, massive spatial rift, covered with ominous black lines, was forcibly torn open in the void above the dome.

An unimaginable, ancient, and purely chaotic will is reaching out with its cold tentacles from the other side of the crack!

The barrier between the three realms is beginning to crumble!
Almost at the same moment that the Chaos Furnace's energy impacted the barrier, within the Tushita Palace, which was already overwhelmed by the high-energy reactions that erupted simultaneously in the three regions of Beiju Luzhou, Qinling, and Dongsheng Shenzhou, the giant sand table that had incorporated the "Three Realms Spirit Map" let out a mournful cry of unbearable strain.

The point of light representing the location of the refugee camp in Beiju Luzhou instantly exploded and spread into a turbulent cloud of filthy blood.

Battlefield of Beiju Luzhou.

"Roar!!!"

Amidst a deafening roar, the Chaos Stitched Beast, forcibly stitched together by countless twisted mutants from the refugee camp, doubled in size once more!
The crescent-shaped core of the chaotic fragment in the chest cavity emitted an unprecedentedly dazzling light.

The giant spirit's golden hammer, as large as a small mountain, slammed down with all its might, but was bounced back by a distorted force field. Its tiger's mouth split open, and its massive body staggered backward, crashing into half of the mountain wall.

Even more deadly, the light, like the most precise predatory tentacles, instantly pierced through the void and stabbed into the body of a boy curled up in a corner nearby, trembling with fear—the very boy whom Sun Wukong had personally comforted and sent away the fragment in his hand!
"Ahhhh——!"

The boy let out a non-human scream, his body twisted and swelled violently, thick bluish-purple veins bulged under his skin, and his eyes were completely swallowed by the chaotic purple light. A violent energy of the same origin as the stitched beast surged and resonated within his body.

He is about to become the new energy source for the Stitches, and even a key node in their evolution!

Just when the boy was about to completely lose his humanity and his skin began to tear apart!
"Evil beast! Looking for death!"

A thunderous roar tore through the sky!
With a flash of golden light, Sun Wukong appeared at a speed that surpassed all limits. His eyes were as cold as ancient ice. Without the slightest hesitation, his Ruyi Jingu Bang transformed into a golden thread that split the heavens and the earth. With unparalleled precision and decisiveness, he slashed fiercely at the invisible energy link between the core fragment of the stitched beast's chest cavity and the boy's body!

"Clang—Sizzle!"

Like a hot knife slicing through solidified grease!

The link has been cut!
The surging chaotic energy instantly lost its target and rebounded violently!
The boy was flung away like a kite with a broken string, the mutation process temporarily halted, but the terrifying energy didn't dissipate; instead, it clung to the ground beneath him like a leech! "Rumble!!!"

The earth trembled violently like a drumhead! A bottomless, massive rift valley, churning with murky purple energy, instantly spread out from the boy!
The stitched beast roared as it crashed into the rift, the fissure opening like a greedy maw, frantically devouring the earth's ley line essence and transforming it into an even denser surge of chaotic power.

The entire Beiju Luzhou plate groaned in anguish. The core pollution of the Chaos Fragment, though not fully evolved thanks to Sun Wukong's timely intervention, successfully invaded the source of the earth's veins.

at the same time.

Nezha endured the stinging pain in his soul caused by the intense energy conflicts in various places, his fingertips moving as fast as phantoms on the fused sand table.

The terrifying energy eruption point of the Nine Nether Abyss in Kunlun Ruins and the polluted core of Beiju Luzhou simultaneously lit up and flickered wildly. At the same time, in one corner of the sand table, the module representing the Qinling region suddenly emitted a rapid red alarm light, indicating that the pure primordial energy had been polluted!

"The purple chip that the Earth God intercepted... has been cracked!"

A celestial official from the Pill Refining Bureau exclaimed in disbelief. The jade tablet in his hand was displaying the analysis results—the crystal chip was engraved with extremely complex and ever-changing purplish-black runes, and its energy composition... was completely in sync with the core energy waveband of the Kunlun Ruins Furnace displayed on the sand table!
This is a remnant of the main fragment that the proxy was carrying, intending to sacrifice to the furnace. The Earth God risked his life to intercept it, unintentionally preserving crucial evidence pointing to the core of the Nine Nether Abyss.

"A furnace! They're starting a furnace! They're tearing the barriers apart!"

Nezha suddenly looked up, his face ashen, not from his injuries, but from the immense terror of seeing the truth.

On the sand table, the shimmering node of Kunlun Ruins is greedily absorbing the terrifying chaotic energy flow from the eruption of the Northern Continent's ley lines, the disorder of the Qinling Mountains, and the aggregation of Kunlun Ruins itself, all through the Three Realms Spirit Map connected to the sand table, like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea!
Meanwhile, the void rift at the core point is expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Yang Jian!

Yang Jian is still trapped there, facing the world-destroying furnace!
“He needs an opportunity… a crucial moment to interrupt the furnace’s operation…” Nezha looked at the raging energy lines on the sand table, which were entangled and constantly bombarding the Kunlun Ruins node. A crazy idea instantly took over his mind—a plan that echoed his previous use of divine consciousness to protect the Golden Cudgel and the Heavenly Pillar in the face of the chaotic torrent, and was even more extreme and thorough.

His eyes became incredibly resolute.

"Nezha! What do you want to do?"

Laozi's heart pounded wildly, sensing an ominous premonition.

"It's too late! This is the only way! There's too much energy! Like a flood! We must... create a breach! A temporary... floodgate!"

After Nezha finished speaking, he stopped looking at Laozi's terrified eyes. He suddenly closed his eyes, sat cross-legged on the core array of the huge sand table, and a mysterious and obscure aura, carrying the will to destroy everything, suddenly erupted from his body!
"absorb!"

The sand table trembled violently, and Nezha's body instantly became the eye of the storm. The violent chaotic shockwaves spewed from the madly polluted ley lines of the Northern Continent, the energy turbulence caused by the backlash from the disordered Qinling node, and even some of the oppressive power leaking from the Kunlun Ruins furnace...

These terrifying energy torrents, powerful enough to instantly tear apart Golden Immortals and pollute the earth's veins, were forcibly guided by Nezha using his supreme will and immortal body as a medium, and absorbed into his own body all at once.

"puff--!"

Nezha spat out a mouthful of scorching, golden-sparkling primordial blood, and his body surface was instantly covered with spiderweb-like purplish-black cracks, as if it were porcelain that was about to shatter at any moment. His soul felt as if it were being repeatedly pierced by millions of red-hot steel needles.

His handsome face was contorted with unimaginable pain, but his eyes burned with an unprecedented determination and clarity.

In just three breaths!

It was as long as three eras!
This forced "flood discharge" that accommodated the shock waves from the three locations, as observed on the sand table, created an extremely brief but incredibly clear "fluctuation void" at the core energy node of the Kunlun Ruins furnace.

Like a vacuum appearing for a fleeting moment at the center of a rapidly spinning vortex!
The furnace trembled, the cracks widened, the guide's body almost completely dissipated, the core energy of the furnace surged wildly, and the purple-black pillar of light that tore through the sky connected with an increasingly clear and terrifying extraterrestrial aura!
At this moment of utter despair!

"It's now!"

Yang Jian captured the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of a brief instability in the furnace node caused by an electromagnetic storm triggered by the forced removal of chaotic external energy. This opportunity was fleeting!
With a deafening roar, Yang Jian poured all his divine power, along with his boiling, indomitable fighting spirit, into the three-pointed double-edged sword in his hand. The divine weapon transformed into a dazzling silver dragon piercing through the void, burning with his life essence, and with speed beyond the limits of perception, it stabbed with unparalleled precision at the "hollow" node that Nezha's sand table had carved out for him—the very core of the furnace, the root point of the energy pillar that maintained the tearing barrier!
“Boom-ka-!!!”

An indescribably terrifying explosion shook the entire Nine Nether Abyss violently, causing countless boulders to collapse. The Chaos Furnace emitted a mournful cry like a dying beast, and a huge gap burst open at its core. The deadly pillar of light connecting to the outer realm instantly dimmed, twisted, and then... shattered inch by inch!
The expansion of the void rifts came to an abrupt halt! There were even signs of unstable collapse!
"It's done... Nezha!"

Yang Jian was violently thrown back by the shockwave and crashed into the rock wall, his armor stained with blood, but a victorious smile appeared on his face.

However, the cost was enormous. Although the Chaos Furnace structure was severely damaged, temporarily halting its efforts to tear apart the barrier, the terrifying energy it had accumulated did not dissipate; instead, it clashed and raged even more violently within the furnace.

The entire geological structure of Kunlun Ruins groaned as if it were about to collapse completely, and the collapse of the Nine Nether Abyss seemed inevitable.

……

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the other side.

Great Sage! The geological structure of Kunlun Ruins is about to collapse! The Nine Netherworlds will crumble in an instant! If it collapses, the poison from the earth's core will surge to the heavens, the Milky Way will pour into the mortal realm, and the foundation of the Three Realms will be severed!

The terrified report from the Heavenly Official echoed through the Qitian Palace.

Simultaneously, the scene in front of the sand table came through: the Kunlun Ruins were torn apart, and the terrifying chaotic energy turbulence at the bottom of the Nine Nether Abyss was surging like a flood about to burst its banks, while further away, Yang Jian's figure was faintly visible in a cloud of collapsing dust.

Sun Wukong stood in the hall, his gaze sweeping over the messy sand table, over the image of Nezha pale and coughing up blood, barely breathing, and finally landing on the light and shadow of Kunlun Ruins that was about to sink.

The golden cudgel hummed and trembled in his hands, and a resolute will that transcended time and space awakened deep within the cudgel.

At this moment, the images overlap.

This is no longer about guarding the passage between the human world and the earth, but about suppressing and blocking a nascent tumor in the earth's core that is about to erupt and could destroy the very foundation of the three realms!

A choice!
(End of this chapter)