Perfection: The Eastern Emperor Bell manifests, I am the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor

Chapter 109 The Chaos Bell Rises
There was no vast torrent of energy, no dazzling phenomena of laws.

Only a pure, extremely concentrated dark ripple spread from his palm, silently imprinting itself onto Lu Xuan's Chaotic Battle Domain and onto Lu Xuan's physical body.

Wherever this dark ripple passes, the very concept of existence is forcibly erased!
Space did not shatter, but simply vanished, leaving behind trails of absolute nothingness.

Time is not disordered, but completely ended; the area covered by the ripples seems to have been carved out from the river of time.

Even the most basic matter and energy particles are silently annihilated under these ripples, returning to the most primordial nothingness.

This is the annihilation of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, a true killing by the Great Dao!
It targets not only the physical body and soul, but also all the causes, traces, and even the Dao fruit itself of Lu Xuan's existence in this world!
Lu Xuan exerted all his strength, pushing the dual Dao Fruits to their limits, the chaotic true color light burning wildly in an attempt to resist.

However, all of this seemed so futile in the face of an absolute difference in power levels.

"Boo--!"

Like the soft sound of a bubble bursting.

The tiny chaotic battle domain that had been struggling to hold on couldn't even last a moment, and melted away like ice and snow under the sunlight the instant the dark ripples touched it.

The dark ripples imprinted themselves onto Lu Xuan's chest without any hindrance.

Time seemed to stretch out infinitely at this moment.

Lu Xuan could clearly "see" the disintegration of his imperial body—not shattering, but starting from the most basic particle level, being ruthlessly decomposed and annihilated by the ultimate Dao contained in the dark ripples.

His flesh, bones, meridians, internal organs... all tangible matter collapsed like a sandcastle.

His soul seemed to have been plunged into an abyss, subjected to the scouring and tearing of countless negative concepts, and his consciousness rapidly blurred and dimmed.

The twin fruits trembled violently, emitting mournful cries, and countless cracks appeared on their surface, on the verge of shattering.

Death, true death, the complete annihilation of body and soul, is just around the corner!
In Lu Xuan's last fading consciousness, only boundless coldness and... remained.

A sense of inexplicable absurdity and resentment lingered. Was it really over? To die as a supplement to the resurrection of a Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperor?
Just as his last vestige of life force and the light of his consciousness were about to be completely swallowed by darkness—

"when--------!!!"

A bell tolling that seemed to have existed since the beginning of time, spanning countless ages and containing supreme majesty and the might of the great sun, suddenly erupted from the deepest part of Lu Xuan's soul, from the origin of the Chaos Bell that was intertwined with his life!
The bell tolled not by Lu Xuan's own initiative.

The Chaos Bell had exhausted its power in the previous battle against the phantom of the Imperial Crown and had fallen into silence.

The ringing at this moment is entirely due to this primordial treasure sensing that its host is about to perish completely. The undying true spirit imprint of Donghuang Taiyi contained within it is stimulated by this extreme crisis of death and the laws of the Dark Emperor, and awakens on its own to protect its master!
As the bell rang, a faint, yet immeasurably bright, chaotic light containing the supreme laws of the primordial world suddenly shone from the core of Lu Xuan's nearly annihilated remains and his shattered Dao Fruit!
This glimmer of light, as faint as a candle flickering in the wind, carries an ancient and boundless supreme aura that transcends the laws of this world!

It seems to be an absolute concept—suppression, protection, immortality!
The dark ripple, powerful enough to obliterate even a Celestial King, seemed to have struck an invisible, intangible, and absolutely insurmountable ancient barrier when it touched this tiny radiance of chaos, causing it to pause slightly!
Although it was only a brief pause, less than a fraction of a second, the devastating annihilation process was forcibly interrupted for an extremely short moment!
It's this very moment!
"Om-!"

The chaotic light suddenly spread out, transforming into an extremely small yet incredibly stable chaotic light cocoon, firmly enveloping Lu Xuan's last remaining life essence, shattered Dao Fruit core, and faint divine soul imprint within!

As the cocoon of light formed, a force of repulsion and attraction, originating from the primordial world and vastly different from the spacetime laws of this perfect world, suddenly erupted! This was not the feeling of being repelled by spacetime that Lu Xuan had experienced before, but rather the Chaos Bell's origin, driven by its instinct to protect its master, was willing to burn its last bit of spirituality to forcibly activate its fundamental source as a primordial treasure, in order to carry the host's true spirit and break through the barriers of this world, or rather... randomly escape into some unknown safe spacetime rift!

"Um?!"

For the first time, the Azure Emperor's usually calm and unwavering will showed a noticeable fluctuation, tinged with a hint of surprise and astonishment.

"What...is this?!"

He could sense that the light cocoon that suddenly appeared and protected Lu Xuan's last true spirit contained a law aura that was slightly beyond his comprehension. It carried a completely different, ancient and noble "Dao" charm, and was able to temporarily resist his annihilation power.

However, before he could investigate further or make any further reaction—

"call out!"

The chaotic cocoon of light flashed suddenly, as if it had exhausted its last bit of power, and transformed into a stream of chaotic light so subtle that it was almost imperceptible. In a way that transcended the understanding of the laws of space and time in this world, it vanished from its original spot!
It's not about breaking through space, nor about traveling through time; it's more like... being temporarily erased from the concept of this world and escaping into an unknown dimension that even a quasi-immortal emperor like the Azure Emperor would find difficult to accurately grasp and track in a short time!
The dark ripples lost their target and slowly dissipated.

The Azure Emperor stood still, his blurred figure surrounded by churning dark matter, revealing the turmoil within him.

He stretched out his dark palm, carefully sensing the faint, elusive Daoist aura remaining in that area, as well as the almost impossible-to-catch trace left behind by Lu Xuan's true spirit when he fled.

"They... escaped?"

The Azure Emperor's voice was devoid of emotion, yet the surrounding sea of ​​boundaries began to freeze and crack due to the fluctuations in his emotions.

"That bell...and that aura..."

He remained silent for a moment, as if calculating something, before finally casting his cold gaze toward the Immortal Realm and then sweeping over the depths of the Boundary Sea.

"So be it. Ants are ants after all. Even if there is a slight strangeness, it cannot change the overall situation."

He withdrew his hand, and the surging darkness around him slowly subsided.

"The grand ceremony is about to begin, and the heavens will eventually fall into darkness. Your fragments of Dao Fruit and that strange bell... will reappear sooner or later. When that time comes, we will collect them all."

As the words fell, the Azure Emperor's figure slowly faded, eventually disappearing as if merging into the darkness itself.

Only this completely silent boundary sea area, as if even a part of its existence had been stripped away, remained, silently telling the story of what had just happened.

In that unknown dimensional crevice, which even the Azure Emperor could not track, a faint cocoon of chaotic light, enveloping Lu Xuan's last vestiges of origin and consciousness, was drifting towards the unknown distance amidst the chaotic currents of spacetime...

On the brink of life and death, the most precious treasure protected its master, disappearing into the unknown.

(End of this chapter)