Daqin Zhentiansi

The Crimson Sun Venerable keenly sensed the astonishing change in Zhang Yuan's aura.

The halo of chaos and stars, the rapidly rising and stabilizing of the powerful blood and qi, and the renewed luster on the Myriad Beasts Divine Armor all indicate that this kid not only did not die, but seized the opportunity in the desperate situation and completed an amazing transformation!

"This kid is a monster!"

The Crimson Sun Venerable was secretly alarmed, but his face remained stern.

"Hmph, you're lucky you survived! Now get out of here!"

Although his tone was harsh, his impatience had quietly disappeared.

Zhang Yuan opened his eyes. The chaotic starlight and the Xuanhuang Divine Fire in his eyes were still there, but they had gained a deeper, more profound brilliance, making him appear even more calm and vast.

He gripped the warm star core in his hand, feeling the new power surging within him, and solemnly clasped his hands in greeting to Venerable Crimson Sun.

"Yes! Thank you, Venerable Protector!"

Without further delay, the two transformed into two streaks of light and swiftly left the dilapidated altar-covered floating land, heading towards the Star Torch Tower.

When they returned to the platform at the top of the tower, Venerable Xingheng and Venerable Yunji had already returned, each holding a glittering silver component in their hands.

Star orbits and star base.

When the two saw Zhang Yuan, a hint of surprise flashed in their eyes at the same time.

Starry River swirled in Venerable Xingheng's eyes as he instantly discerned Zhang Yuan's change in state. He stroked his beard and praised, "Commander Zhang, congratulations! You have risen from the ashes in dire straits, and your path to enlightenment is now even stronger!"

"This Chaos Furnace is truly infinitely mysterious!"

Even the usually composed and unwavering Yunji Venerable showed a hint of emotion: "Your aura is stable, your divine radiance is abundant, and your injuries have already recovered by more than half? Good!"

The Crimson Sun Venerable snorted and tossed the Star Core to Xing Heng: "Enough with the nonsense, everything's ready, let's get started!"

Venerable Xingheng received the star core, carefully sensed it, and then examined the star orbit and star base. His brows furrowed slightly: "All three components have been recovered; the star core, star orbit, and star base are all complete. However..."

His gaze turned solemnly to the central part of the Star Torch Core, which was shrouded in demonic energy and riddled with cracks.

"The most crucial 'star hub,' the central hub that governs all forces and drives the entire star torch, is still missing!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yuan immediately closed his eyes and focused his mind, once again communicating with the Ao Gen Scroll deep within his sea of ​​consciousness.

The Dragon Soul Mark cried out, conveying its final message.

A moment later, he opened his eyes and pointed to a direction deep in the void, where the outline of an extremely large, broken continent, like the spine of a prehistoric beast, could be vaguely seen.

"Star Hub is on the largest fragment of Sky Patrol Continent."

"The ruins of the former main city of Xuntianzhou".

Zhang Yuan's voice was solemn.

"The scroll senses that it is surrounded by a powerful, almost eternal void storm."

"At the heart of the storm, there seems to be some extremely ancient and powerful being, emanating a chilling resentment and a protective will."

His words caused a slight tremor in the expressions of the three Venerable Ones.

Although they possess profound cultivation and formidable strength, both the primordial world and the myriad realms are filled with countless powerful beings.

Even though they are among the strongest in the Heavenly Palace, they wouldn't dare claim to be invincible.

Moreover, this place has long been lost and no longer belongs to the primordial wilderness.

Venerable Yunji said in a deep voice, "The void storm, the three of us working together, may be able to force open a passage. But that thing that is entrenched, which has even made Senior Aogen's scroll so warn, is definitely not someone to be trifled with."

Golden flames burned fiercely in Venerable Chiyang's eyes, his fighting spirit soaring: "Who cares if it's some ancient relic or a vengeful spirit!"

"Dare to block my way and hinder my repair of the Star Torch? I will burn it and the storm to ashes with my Blazing Sun Flame!"

Venerable Xingheng slowly shook his head, his eyes gazing at the starry river, his expression extremely solemn: "Senior Brother Chiyang, do not be careless. The main city of Xuntian Continent is the place where the ancient war finally collapsed, and also the place where countless heroic spirits fell."

"What dwells there is probably not just powerful void creatures, but more likely a kind of continental spirit born from the indomitable will and overwhelming resentment of countless fallen warriors, fused with the remaining essence of the continent over a long period of time."

"Or rather, it is an aggregate of resentment! Its power may have already reached the peak of the Venerable level! A direct attack is definitely not the best strategy."

Spirits of the continents!

A collection of resentment!
Reaching the pinnacle of the Venerable Realm!
These words instantly made Venerable Chiyang abandon his contempt and his expression become extremely solemn.

Even if one only touches upon the peak of the Venerable realm, it is by no means something that can be easily shaken.

As Zhang Yuan sensed the newly generated Chaotic Star Source Power within his body, his gaze swept over the three Venerables, finally settling on the enormous shadow shrouded in a terrifying storm, his eyes flashing with resolute light.

"Without the complete Star Torch, the Teleportation Array cannot be completed, and connecting the primordial world will remain just empty talk."

"No matter how dangerous the road ahead, we must go."

"Three Venerable Ones, please lend me a hand and help me break through this final, perilous place in Xuntian Continent!"

Xingheng, Yunji, and Chiyang exchanged glances, each seeing solemnity in the other's eyes, but even more so, a determination to break through the ancient mystery and retrieve the lost artifact.

"Very well!" Venerable Xingheng said in a deep voice, "Then let's go and meet the last guardian of this ancient battlefield!"

Four beams of light shot towards the colossal object shrouded in the raging void storm—the largest fragment of the main body of the Sky-Patrol Continent.

The void was deathly silent.

Only ahead, the storm stretching across the heavens and earth roars ceaselessly!

That's not the wind.

It is the venomous roar of resentment that arose when billions of lives perished!

It is the violent turbulence left behind after the laws of heaven and earth collapsed!

They intertwine and entangle, transforming into a chaotic abyss that devours light.

On the edge of the storm.

The gale-force winds, like billions of poisoned black blades, tore through space!
Space was cut into spiderweb-like black cracks that could not be healed for a long time, emitting a piercing shriek that seemed to pierce the soul.

Resentment was boiling over!

Solidify!

Countless distorted, translucent faces of vengeful spirits floated and wailed in the storm.

"The Great Dao has collapsed..."

Their empty eye sockets burned with eerie green flames.

Dry, sharp claws tore through the void.

As Zhang Yuan and his group burst in, all the resentment converged into a torrent of filthy black energy, rushing towards them with ferocity!

"Hold on!"

Venerable Yunji's voice boomed like a bell, and the magnetic power around his body suddenly erupted!

The immense power of the earth's veins transformed into an invisible giant anchor.

"boom!"

The giant anchor slammed into the raging void!

By forcibly stabilizing the violently oscillating space, a distorted but relatively safe path was created.

"A trivial skill!"

The Crimson Sun Venerable's eyes widened in fury, and the golden flames of his Burning Sun Armor surged forth!
He clenched his fists and unleashed a powerful punch!

"Burning Sun - Golden Crow Breaks!"

Phew——!
Two hundred-foot-tall golden crows, formed from pure burning yang golden flames, flapped their wings and cried out!
Carrying terrifyingly high temperatures that could burn the entire world, it crashed headlong into the torrent of vengeful spirits!

"Sizzle sizzle—!"

The filthy and vengeful spirits, like snow meeting the blazing sun, instantly vaporize!

A piercing scream echoed through the void!
"Beware of the turbulent flow of laws!"

Venerable Xingheng shouted, his eyes sparkling with starlight.

He pointed his fingers like a sword and pointed in mid-air!
"Star Guide, calm the storm!"

A silver ribbon, condensed from pure stellar power, descended like the Milky Way.

Precisely strike the most chaotic point of the storm!
Wherever the bolt of lightning passed, the raging torrents of laws were forcibly tamed and calmed!
It points out a fleeting gap for everyone.

Zhang Yuan followed closely behind.

The chaotic star energy flowed across his body, transforming into a protective halo that swirled with gray light and starlight. The minute cracks on the Myriad Beasts Divine Armor had long since healed, and now it faintly revealed the phantom roars of primordial beasts, their ferocity subtly concealed.

His left eye was filled with the swirling chaos of stars, while his right eye was a still, serene display of divine fire.

Calmly observing every movement of the storm.

The eye of the storm is getting closer!
The pressure has increased dramatically!

"BOOM—!!!"

A deafening roar that shattered the Milky Way!

Deep within the storm, the power of laws is raging!
Countless shattered fragments of the Thunder Law were forcibly kneaded together!
It transformed into a ten-thousand-foot-long purple-black lightning dragon!
The dragon scales are made of leaping, destructive arcs of electricity, and the dragon's eyes are two raging balls of lightning!
It bared its fangs and claws, carrying the power to destroy the world, tearing through the storm, and lunged at the four of them!

Wherever the lightning struck, space was annihilated!

"Good timing!"

The Crimson Sun Venerable's hair and beard bristled, his fighting spirit boiling!

He took a step forward, and all the runes on his Burning Sun Armor lit up!

"Burning Sun, Unyielding Wall!"

boom!
A massive golden wall, as thick as a mountain, formed from pure Burning Sun Essence, instantly appeared before the Thunder Dragon!

Thunder and fire collide!

"boom--!!!"

A blinding light and destructive energy exploded instantly!

The golden wall trembled violently, and cracks spread!
The Crimson Sun Venerable let out a muffled groan, and the void beneath his feet collapsed!
The Thunder Dragon was blocked, and its roar grew even stronger!
The dragon opened its mouth wide, and a thick, extremely condensed, purplish-black lightning bolt roared out!

Directly attack the core of the giant wall!

"Humph!"

Venerable Cloud Trace let out a cold snort, and his mountain-like body suddenly expanded!

"Earth Veins, Mountain Suppressing Hand!"

A colossal hand, formed from pure, earth-yellow magnetic energy, appeared out of thin air!
The giant hand, with its five fingers spread wide, carrying the immense power to suppress all ages, fiercely grabbed at the world-destroying lightning pillar!

puff!
The lightning pillar was actually gripped tightly by the giant hand!
The raging lightning struggled and exploded wildly within the giant hand!
Yet they could not break free from that unparalleled suppressive power!
"break!"

Venerable Xingheng's eyes narrowed, and a star-studded whisk appeared in his hand without him even noticing.

With a light flick of the whisk!

"Starfall, shattered light!"

A single, perfectly condensed starlight, seemingly capable of piercing through the heavens, shot forth from the tip of the whisk!

Speed ​​transcends time and space!
It pierced through the Thunder Dragon's brow, which was composed of destructive lightning, in an instant!

"Pfft—!"

The ten-thousand-foot-long thunder dragon let out a mournful cry of unwillingness, and its massive body suddenly stiffened!
Then, it collapsed with a roar!
Transformed into countless leaping purple arcs of electricity, they were swallowed up by the raging storm!

However, at the moment the thunder dragon collapsed.

At the heart of the storm, the ancient resentment that had been lingering there seemed to have been completely enraged!

"Waaah—"

A deep, desolate sigh, filled with endless sorrow and anger, seemed to come from the deepest abyss, resounding deep within everyone's soul!

The entire void storm suddenly stopped!
Time seemed to stand still!

Resentment is gathering wildly!

The fragments of the law wailed and submitted to it!

At the eye of the storm, an indescribably majestic figure slowly coalesced and took shape!

It is not a physical entity.

Instead, it was a gigantic, semi-transparent soul shadow.

His figure was as majestic as a mountain, and he was clad in tattered but still exuding ancient majesty in his star armor.

The armor was covered with terrifying marks from being cleaved by swords and axes, as well as large patches of dried, dark gold stains.

In its hand rests a massive, broken halberd, its shaft dull and its tip nowhere to be found, yet it still radiates a sharp, lingering power capable of tearing the heavens and earth apart.

What is most shocking is its head!
That was not the head of a human or a celestial being, but rather it took the form of a majestic dragon's head!
One of the dragon's horns was broken off, and its eyes were tightly closed, as if it had fallen into an eternal slumber.

However, a vast, desolate, and seemingly boundless will, breathing and sharing the fate of this shattered continent beneath its feet, was emanating from its broken soul and permeating the entire core of the storm!

It is the storm itself!

When they could clearly see the enormous soul shadow with a dragon's head and a human body.

The three Venerables, Xingheng, Yunji, and Chiyang, cried out in shock almost simultaneously, their voices filled with disbelief, horror, and profound grief:

"Senior Brother Xuancang?!"

"Is it Senior Brother Xuancang's remnant soul?!"

"How is this possible... Senior Brother Xuancang... Didn't he disappear along with the Xun Tianzhou back then?!"

The Crimson Sun Venerable was the most excited; golden flames flickered violently in his furnace-like eyes, even trembling slightly.
"Senior Brother Xuancang! The Heavenly Venerable's first disciple! He has held the power to guard the Heavenly Continent for millions of years! He is... he is the senior brother we respected most back then!"

The starry river in Venerable Xingheng's eyes instantly became chaotic, and his deductive power surged wildly:

"That's right...this aura..."

"That silhouette clad in the 'Sky-Piercing Meteor Armor'... and that broken halberd 'Cracking the Universe'... it's Senior Brother Xuancang!"

"But... why is Senior Brother's soul so closely integrated with the origin of this continent? Why has it transformed into such a... protective state?"

Even Venerable Yunji's mountain-like body trembled slightly as he said in a deep voice:
"When Xuntian Continent collapsed, the Heavenly Palace claimed that Senior Brother Xuancang fought bravely against the Demon Lord and perished along with the continent, leaving no trace of his body..."

"Now it seems that my senior brother did not perish, but rather... at the last moment, he merged with the Dao, integrating his remnant soul and will into the last fragment of the continent's origin!"

"I offer myself as a sacrifice, to become this eternal guardian!"

The three were shaken to their core, and their bodies were surrounded by shimmering light.

They never expected that their long-lost fellow disciples would appear here.

Zhang Yuan looked up, his face showing surprise.

He also did not expect that this powerful remnant soul that blocked the way was actually a great cultivator from the Heavenly Palace.

Right now!

The dragon's tightly closed eyes slowly opened!

There is no distinction between the whites of the eyes and the pupils!
There were only two sources of light, burning with azure soul flames!

That soul fire was cold and ancient, as if it had seen through the rise and fall of countless ages, containing endless weariness and... an unquestionable sense of resolute judgment!

"Om-!"

An invisible wave of will swept in like a tangible tsunami!

It wasn't an attack, but it carried an indescribable, heavy pressure!

It was as if the cries and questions of billions of living beings across the shattered continent weighed heavily on the hearts of the four!

A grand, cold sound, like ancient rocks grinding together, resounded directly deep within the souls of the four:

"The Celestial Pivot is gone, its remains gone. Those who covet the Star Pivot, retreat or... uphold my principles... and prove your... qualifications!"

The moment the words fell!
The enormous dragon-headed soul shadow, formerly the Venerable Xuancang, now the remnant soul of the guardian of Xuntian Continent, "Cangwu," raised its illusory giant hand that was not holding a halberd.

He gently flicked his wrist towards the void where the four people were.

There was no earth-shattering energy burst.

Only a vast and mighty force of heaven and earth, originating from the entire shattered continent beneath their feet, was drawn upon by it!

In an instant!
The world is upside down!

Spacetime distortion! (End of Chapter)