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Chapter 138 The Last Obsession

"Yunyi?!"

Lin Chen's pupils suddenly contracted.

The moment the light touched the star mark on Yao Guang's forehead, there was no explosion.

Instead... it was absorbed.

The pseudo-Heavenly Dao fragments operated wildly, forcibly "swallowing" the Chaos Origin Power that was capable of annihilating everything!

Yao Guang's body trembled violently.

An unprecedented light burst forth from her starry eyes.

Silver starlight intertwined with gray chaos, and the star mark on the forehead exploded, transforming into a rotating, gray-silver vortex.

"What...what did you do?!" Jiang Wuyai exclaimed in shock and anger.

Yao Guang slowly turned her head to look at him, her eyes as cold as ancient ice:

"Fragments of the pseudo-Heavenly Dao... inherently possess the authority to 'alter the rules'."

"I just... slightly modified the rules for 'detonation'."

She raised her hand, pointing to the dark red heart: "For example, to make the sacrificial energy... flow in reverse."

The words fell.

The twelve blood dragons suddenly froze.

Immediately afterwards, they began to draw energy from the body of the Thousand-Faced Swamp in reverse!

Not only that, even the life force generated by the beating of that dark red heart began to flow backward!

"No—!!!" Jiang Wuyai let out a desperate roar.

He tried to manipulate the Corpse King's Staff to sever the connection, but the rules of the reverse flow had been altered, and he lost control.

The Swamp of a Thousand Faces struggled frantically, but without energy, its body began to collapse and evaporate.

The enormous eyeball glared resentfully at Yao Guang before finally turning to ashes.

The dark red heart contracted violently, its surface cracked, and finally shattered completely with a "crack"!

A burst of dark red light exploded, but was then bound by the reverse rules, preventing it from spreading. Instead, it condensed into a fist-sized, pure red crystal, which fell to the ground.

The sacrifices have stopped.

Deep in the East China Sea, the invisible force that had been draining life force receded like the tide.

The seawater has regained its vitality.

After completing all of this, Yao Guang swayed and fell backward.

"Yao Guang!" Lin Chen caught her.

The gray-silver vortex on her forehead slowly subsided, transforming back into a star mark, but its light had dimmed considerably.

The indifference that belonged to the "Star Spirit" was fading in her starry eyes.

The gentleness that belongs to "Luo Yunyi" reappears.

"I...it seems...I've temporarily 'glued' the fragments and the power of chaos together..." She smiled weakly. "It's a bit...messy..."

"Don't speak." Lin Chen channeled the chaotic energy into her body, only to find it was like a bottomless pit, with any energy entering being absorbed by the chaotic gray-silver vortex.

Ji Yaoguang's soul floated over, her starry eyes filled with complex emotions:

"She forcibly altered the higher-level rules, and her soul and fragments are deeply entangled, now in a highly unstable 'fusion state'."

"What will happen?" Su Qingxue asked.

"Perhaps...they can never be separated." Ji Yaoguang said softly, "I don't know what kind of existence will be born if the pseudo-Heavenly Dao fragments, the origin of chaos, the Star Spirit body, and the human soul are forcibly combined."

Lin Chen held Yao Guang tightly. She could feel her body temperature draining away, her body sometimes appearing ethereal like starlight, and sometimes solid like flesh and blood.

Is there a way to stabilize it?

Ji Yaoguang remained silent for a long time: "Perhaps... there is only one place that can do it."

"where?"

"Deep in the starry sky." Ji Yaoguang looked out of the foam.

It's as if you can see through the deep sea and into the boundless universe, "that is the homeland of the Protoss, where the purest stellar essence resides."

"There, she might be able to sort out the chaos and find balance."

"But once I leave... I don't know when I'll be able to return."

The bubble space began to collapse.

Without the seed and the sacrificial core, this forcibly expanded space could not be sustained.

"It's time to go." Ji Yaoguang looked at Jiang Wuyai.

The withered figure slumped on the throne, the Corpse King's Staff shattered, the mad flames in his eyes extinguished, leaving only an empty, lifeless silence.

He failed.

Thoroughly.

Ji Yaoguang walked up to him, and the last ripple in her starry eyes returned to calm.

"Boundless, nine thousand seven hundred years have passed."

"It's time to end this."

She reached out her hand, her fingertips gently touching his brow with starlight.

There is no destruction, no pain.

Jiang Wuyai's body weathered away like a sand sculpture, eventually turning into a wisp of smoke and dissipating in the gradually collapsing space.

Not even a trace was left.

This madman, who plotted for eternity and stirred up countless bloody storms, ultimately died at the hands of the woman he loved most, returning to nothingness.

Perhaps, this is the best ending for him.

Ji Yaoguang's soul also began to become transparent.

"Senior!" Qin Yurou exclaimed.

"My mission... is complete." Ji Yaoguang smiled, a smile filled with relief. "Yaoguang, from now on... I'm entrusting it to you."

She looked at Lin Chen: "Take her to the starry sky. That... is where she belongs."

After she finished speaking, her soul completely dissipated, turning into specks of starlight that merged into Yao Guang's body.

With his last shred of obsession, he chose to protect.

The bubble space has completely collapsed.

The group was swept away by the violent spatial turbulence and returned to the outer edge of the Eye of the Ruins.

The terrifying vortex is slowly calming down; having lost its core, it will eventually return to being an ordinary deep-sea trench.

The Abyss Explorer was severely damaged, but it can still sail with difficulty.

In the cabin.

Yao Guang remained unconscious, with a faint star mark on his forehead shimmering.

Lin Chen stayed by her side, never leaving her for a moment.

Su Qingxue, Ye Qingcheng, and the others silently tended to their injuries, the atmosphere heavy.

"Are we really going to the starry sky?" Ye Qingcheng broke the silence. "That place... how do we get there?"

"Star Palace," Lin Chen said softly. "The Star Palace in Kunlun Starfall Valley has an array that connects to the starry sky. Senior Ji's memories contain the activation method."

"But that's the homeland of the Protoss. Can we humans go there?" Shen Qingqiu asked rationally.

"Yes." Lin Chen looked at Yao Guang. "In her current state, she is both a Star Spirit and a human. Her aura can open a passage for us."

Qin Yurou asked softly, "Then... are we coming back?"

No one answered.

Maybe I can come back, maybe I can't.

In the depths of the starry sky, the rules of time and space are different from those of the present world; perhaps one day there is a hundred years here.

"No matter what, I'll go with you." Su Qingxue's icy eyes were resolute.

"I'll go too!" Ye Qingcheng said without hesitation.

Shen Qingqiu adjusted his glasses: "I need to record data on this kind of interdimensional travel."

Qin Yurou, Chu Ling'er, and Mu Qingyao also nodded vigorously.

Looking at them, Lin Chen felt a warm current welling up in his heart.

"it is good."

"Let's do it together."

……

One month later, Kunlun Star Meteor Valley.

After repairs, the Star Palace has resumed operation.

Seven star pillars surround the main hall, and the starry sky dome on the top of the hall displays the trajectory of a real galaxy.

The star map formation in the center of the square has been activated.