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Deep within the unknown realm, chaotic mist surged like boiling water. Li Xuan traversed the cracks in the void, each step stirring up a storm of Dao principles. Only three of the nine crimson suns remained; the surviving guardians had finally shed their disguises.

"How dare you, mere ants from the lower realm, blaspheme against the divine land!" A piercing shriek echoed from the first great sun.

A massive rift opened in the void, and an old man draped in a robe of time emerged. He had three eyes on his forehead, each pupil reflecting a different flow of time—the eye of the past was yellowed like an ancient scroll, the eye of the present was clear as glass, and the eye of the future was chaotic as an abyss.

The old man flicked his finger, and millions of years of time condensed into chains that bound towards Li Xuan: "I am the Lord of the Time Ruins, wielding the power of time for ten thousand epochs!"

Dao patterns flowed across Li Xuan's left arm, and he actually grasped the Time Chain in his hand: "Even the river of time dares not touch the hem of my robe."

With a surge of power from his palm, a million years of time exploded! The Lord of Time Ruins opened all three eyes, and the Eye of the Future unleashed a world-destroying light.

But then the Eternal Rune between Li Xuan's brows suddenly lit up, and the light of tribulation reversed the moment it touched his body!

"Impossible! This is a time paradox!" Before the old man could finish speaking, Li Xuan had already formed a sword with his fingers and slashed across his neck. Blood lines appeared on the neck of the Lord of Time Ruins, and his body split infinitely in time and space—each clone on every timeline died simultaneously!

The second great sun exploded with a deafening roar, revealing a colossal figure entwined with star chains. He stood over ten thousand feet tall, carrying nine collapsed stars on his shoulders, his muscles bulging like undulating mountains: "I am the Star Skeleton Venerable, who once shattered three thousand great worlds in the primordial era!"

The giant swung his fist, the force of which carried the power to annihilate galaxies. Li Xuan neither dodged nor evaded, his left arm, imbued with the power of law, meeting the blow head-on. The instant their fists collided, Venerable Starbone realized with horror that his immortal divine body was crumbling—starting from his finger bones, every cell was undergoing reverse evolution, returning to the primordial chaos!
"You...you're reversing the very essence of my existence!" Venerable Star Extinction retreated in terror, nine stars exploding one after another. Li Xuan approached, stepping on the remnants of the starburst, his left arm transforming into a black hole that devoured everything: "You should return to the Star Graveyard." He pressed a palm against the giant's chest, and the ten-thousand-foot-tall body instantly collapsed into dust.

The third sun suddenly burst forth with seven-colored rays of light, and a woman emerged, barefoot and treading on lotus flowers. Her face was so perfect that she seemed otherworldly, and she was surrounded by an alluring Daoist charm that could captivate even the most powerful beings: "This humble servant is the Heavenly Consort of the Sea of ​​Desire, greetings to Fellow Daoist Tai Xuan~" Her voice carried a rhythm that bewitched heaven and earth, and her slender jade fingers lightly touched the void, instantly manifesting the deepest desires of all living beings in the myriad realms.

The image of his wife, Ye Qingcheng, flashed through Li Xuan's eyes, only to vanish in an instant. "The Path of Lust?" he scoffed, tearing apart the illusion. "My heart holds only the flame of humanity!" The Reincarnation Sword was unsheathed with a fierce roar, its light revealing the epic history of humanity's arduous journey. The Heavenly Consort of the Sea of ​​Desire screamed in agony, cracks appearing on her perfect face, her countless avatars turning to ashes in the flames of civilization.

"No! My eternal beauty!" The Heavenly Consort reached out to grasp at her shattered face, but her body had already begun to crumble. Li Xuan's sword trembled slightly, and the last wisp of alluring Dao principles vanished into thin air.

At this moment, the core area of ​​the Unknown Land finally revealed its true form—nine ancient bronze palaces floated in the void, each door inscribed with forbidden inscriptions such as "Burial of Heaven" and "Severance of the Path." The central main hall suddenly opened, and a scholar in a blue robe stepped out. He held a bamboo scroll in his hand, and although there was no fluctuation of his aura, Li Xuan was startled for the first time.

"Interesting." The scholar chuckled, flipping through the bamboo slips. "The Lord of the Ruins of Time fell in three breaths, the Venerable Star Skeleton in two breaths, and the Heavenly Consort of the Sea of ​​Desire in one and a half breaths?" He looked up, revealing heterochromatic eyes. "I am the Master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, in charge of the laws of cause and effect across all realms."

The bamboo slips moved without wind, displaying all of Li Xuan's battle records: "According to the calculations, the probability of you killing me is..." The words stopped abruptly, and the Lord of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion suddenly retreated ten thousand feet, the bamboo slips in his hand spontaneously combusting!

A drop of chaotic blood dripped from the tip of Li Xuan's sword: "Your karma doesn't qualify you as a transcendent being."

For the first time, the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion Master's heterochromatic eyes revealed shock. Blood-red characters emerged from the ashes of the bamboo slips: [Error! Error! The target has jumped out of the River of Fate!]

He was about to unleash his counterattack when he saw Li Xuan's left arm transform into a heaven-splitting axe shadow and cleave down.

The Tianji Tower Master, who claimed to be untouched by cause and effect, was cleaved in two along with nine ancient bronze palaces!
A strange tidal sound suddenly echoed from the depths of the unknown land, and the shattered chaotic mist began to flow backward.

Li Xuan's pupils contracted as he saw the dissipated remains of the guardians reassemble in the reversal of time—the three eyes of the Lord of Time Ruins rekindled the flames of time, the collapsed stars of the Star Corpse Venerable expanded again, and the shattered face of the Desire Sea Heavenly Consort was restored to perfection!

"Foolish beings of the lower realms." The figure of the Celestial Master rose from the ashes amidst the ruins of nine ancient bronze palaces. His heterochromatic eyes gleamed with mockery: "Why do you think we are called the Guardians of the Unknown Lands?"

From the depths of chaos emerged nine coffins, each extending countless crimson chains that bound the hearts of the guardians. Li Xuan's Eternal Runes suddenly trembled violently; he realized that those chains were forged from the very essence of the Three Thousand Great Realms!

"This is the Blood Chain of Return to the Void." The Lord of the Void gently stroked the chain on his chest, his Eye of the Past reflecting the scene of Li Xuan's first cultivation. "Our origins have long been integrated into all the heavens and myriad realms. Unless you can sever all causal threads simultaneously," the Eye of the Future suddenly burst forth with black light, "otherwise killing us a thousand times, ten thousand times will be in vain!"

The star on Venerable Starwreck's shoulder transformed into nine black holes: "That was just playing around with you. Now..." He pounded his chest, the chains roaring deafeningly, "I'll show you the true power of the stars!"

Suddenly, all the stars in the entire starry sky went out simultaneously, and all the light converged into a giant axe spanning 300,000 light-years. As this weapon, compressed from millions of galaxies, cleaved down, the chaotic energy surrounding Li Xuan began to evaporate!
"Heh," Li Xuan chuckled, his Dao patterns flowing backward on his left arm, transforming into a Heaven-Opening Axe shadow of equal size to meet the attack. The instant the two axes collided, all the cultivators on Xuanhuang Emperor Star simultaneously coughed up blood—the stellar Dao principles within their bodies were being forcibly extracted!
A trickle of chaotic blood spilled from the corner of Li Xuan's mouth, and his left arm suddenly exploded, transforming into billions of runes.

These runes actually outlined the totem of the ancient human race drilling wood to make fire in the void, with a faint but tenacious flame of civilization clinging to the axe blade.

"Crack!"

The Starbone Axe shattered with a deafening roar, and Li Xuan's axe shadow cleaved his ten-thousand-foot-tall body in two. But in an instant, the shattered stars reformed, and the Starbone Venerable stepped out of the chaos unscathed!

"It's useless." The Heavenly Consort of Desire chuckled, spreading her arms. Behind her appeared seventy-two puppets identical to Li Xuan. "Your seven emotions and six desires, your love, hate, anger, and infatuation," each puppet wielded a ferocious weapon stained with imperial blood, "are all my food!"

"Now!" the Lord of Heavenly Mystery roared, the tattered bamboo slips transforming into a sky-covering array of runes. The Lord of Time Ruins' three eyes simultaneously unleashed spatial turbulence, the Venerable Star Skeleton compressed nine black holes into singularities, and the myriad avatars of the Heavenly Consort of Desire Sea formed a sword array—the ultimate killing moves of the four guardians descended simultaneously!
Li Xuan's imperial body began to disintegrate, but a cold smile curled at the corner of his mouth: "This is the moment I've been waiting for."

He allowed the deadly attack to pierce his body, then suddenly plunged his right hand into his own heart. Golden imperial blood gushed forth, writing the character "薪" (firewood) left by the ancient human emperor in the void. On the Xuanhuang Emperor Star, the Dao principles of all cultivators surged uncontrollably into the sky, transforming into eighty-four thousand flames of civilization!

"This is..." Ye Wuyai trembled violently as the ancient inscription on the Moon Goddess Temple automatically appeared: "The Ancestor's Secret Technique - Passing on the Flame!"

Li Xuan's shattered body was reassembled in the flames of civilization, and the totem of the ancient people's fire-making by drilling wood appeared on his left arm. He grasped the sword, a torch of civilizations from all realms, its light illuminating the past, present, and future!

"Impossible!" Black blood seeped from the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion Master's heterochromatic eyes. "How could you mobilize the power of civilizations from all the heavens and myriad realms?!"

His answer was a sword that severed time and space. This sword appeared simultaneously in the past, present, and future, causing the three eyes of the Lord of Time Ruins to explode at every point in the river of time; this sword carried the weight of millions of years of human civilization, causing the Star Debris Venerable's proud stellar power to collapse; this sword burned with the purest fire of faith, causing the Seven Emotions and Six Desires of the Desire Sea Heavenly Consort to vanish into thin air!
The nine bronze coffins exploded simultaneously, and the Lord of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion frantically tore at the Blood Chains of Return to Nothingness: "Quick! Quickly connect to the other guardians!" His voice stopped abruptly as he discovered that all the Blood Chains had begun to burn—Li Xuan's sword was tracing the origin along the causal lines!
“I’ve found you.” Li Xuan’s pupils reflected nine beating hearts deep in the void, each heart entwined with the origin of the Three Thousand Great Worlds. “Humanity’s flame, burn away all evil!” The sword of flame transformed into nine streams of light, piercing through the nine origin hearts simultaneously.

The chaotic mist in the unknown land suddenly solidified, and those guardians who claimed to be eternal and indestructible finally revealed expressions of terror.

"No! We are..." The scream of the Lord of Tianji Pavilion came to an abrupt halt as his body, along with the ancient bronze palace, began to crumble.

A crisp sound of shattering glass echoed from the depths of the void. The nine Primal Hearts exploded simultaneously, the Void Blood Chains binding them breaking inch by inch, transforming into the mournful cries of the Heavenly Dao of the Three Thousand Great Realms. The Heavenly Mystery Pavilion Master remained frozen in the posture of tearing at the chains, the brilliance in his heterochromatic eyes fading like the receding tide.

"So this is transcendence." Chaotic energy spilled from his shattered lips, and his body began to disintegrate into the most primordial Daoist runes. "Master, we miscalculated."

The final words vanished into the void, and the nine ancient bronze palaces collapsed with a deafening roar. The turbulent chaos and mist of the Unknown Land suddenly froze, then surged wildly towards the Flame Sword in Li Xuan's hand, as if swallowed by an invisible giant maw.

On the Xuanhuang Emperor Star, Ye Qingcheng suddenly clutched her chest and knelt down. The bloodline of the Moon Goddess surged within her, and a world-shaking scene appeared before her eyes—Li Xuan stood in the center of Guixu, sword in hand, with 84,000 burning phantoms of civilizations appearing behind him!

As if confirming her conjecture, the totem on Li Xuan's left arm radiated a light that illuminated eternity.

The remains of the slain guardians turned into streams of light, which, along with the collapsed bronze palace, were forcibly compressed into nine blood-red lines on the sword's edge!
"With the heavens as our furnace and civilization as our fire," Li Xuan's voice resounded throughout all time and space. "Today, I forge this sword, and name it—The Burial of the Dao!"

The instant the sword was formed, all the supreme beings in the entire universe simultaneously vomited blood. They were horrified to discover that the Great Dao they cultivated was actually paying homage to that sword!

Suddenly, a pale hand emerged from the dissipating chaotic mist. This hand gently pressed against spacetime, and the rift in the Void, which was about to close, was torn open again!

"Well done." A gentle, refined male voice came from the crack. "As beings from the lower realm, you've forced us to use the 'Heavenly Burial'."

Li Xuan suddenly turned around, and the Sword of Fire swept out horizontally. But the sword light froze strangely when it touched the palm—like a flying insect frozen in amber.

A young man in a blue robe emerged from the crack. He casually crushed the stagnant sword light and looked Li Xuan up and down with interest: "Eternal runes, the flame of civilization, and..." He suddenly leaned closer and sniffed, "...a scent that I can't even see through. No wonder it could hurt the watchdogs."

Li Xuan looked at him, sword in hand.

"Don't be nervous." The boy smiled and opened his palm, revealing nine beating bronze hearts. "What you killed was just our sheepdog." He tapped one of the hearts, and it suddenly swelled up to resemble the Lord of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion!

The resurrected Lord of Tianji Tower knelt respectfully: "Greetings to the Seventh Burial Heaven Master."

"Look, they are nothing but expendable resources." The young man flicked his finger and crushed the heart, and the Lord of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion turned into green smoke again. "The true rulers of the Unknown Land are us nine Burial Sky Masters." He suddenly leaned close to Li Xuan's ear, "And you are qualified to become the tenth."

Li Xuan didn't say anything.

The young man flicked his finger and tossed out a bronze token with a smile: "I'll give you three days to consider. You should know..."

As he turned and stepped into the crevice, he revealed a tattoo of nine stars on the back of his neck. "We all originated from the human race."

Li Xuan finally shook his head. "No need, I refuse."

The boy was taken aback. He turned around, a smile spreading across his face. "You're asking for it."

The smile on the young man's face froze instantly, and the nine-star tattoo on the back of his neck erupted with a world-destroying crimson light. He slowly raised his right index finger, the tip entwined with patterns of the three thousand Great Dao's lamentations: "You think you can bark before a true god just because you've killed a few watchdogs?"

"Keep a close eye on these ants." The young man's fingertips reflected all the important people on Li Xuan's cultivation path. "With just a flick of my finger, I can erase every trace of your existence—the little beggar you saved, the disciple you taught, even..." His fingertips suddenly shone brightly, displaying the image of Ye Qingcheng in the Moon Goddess Temple, "This little moon that makes your Dao heart tremble."

"Scared?" the youth sneered as he approached. "Kneel down and beg for mercy now, and perhaps I might..."

The words stopped abruptly.

The Yuan Tu Sword had pierced the boy's brow without his noticing, its blade swirling with a gray mist that transcended cause and effect. Li Xuan lightly twisted his wrist, holding the sword: "Are you finished?"

The boy looked down in disbelief, only to find his immortal divine body turning to ashes. He frantically activated the Nine Star Tattoo, but was horrified to discover that all his supernatural powers were in vain—the sword was severing existence itself!
"No, this is impossible!" the boy roared, his voice breaking. "I am..."

"Shut up." Li Xuan drew his sword and shattered the last remnant soul. The Yuan Tu Sword emitted a pleasant, clear sound, and what dripped from its blade was not blood, but shattered star laws.

The void was deathly silent, except for nine bronze stardust floating at the sword mark—the primordial imprint of the Seventh Burial Sky.

Li Xuan looked into the unknown land, and he took a step without stopping.

He stepped into the truly unknowable land, and upon entering, Li Xuan immediately sensed its unknowable peculiarity.

(End of this chapter)