I fabricated myths to guide the revival of spiritual energy.

"cut."

Han Zhao's cold command resounded through the air above the old sacrificial path.

Without the slightest hesitation, Xu Chenzhou raised the standard magic weapon disguised as an old iron sword, carrying a cold and sharp sword light that had been forcibly unsealed to its limit, and slashed down fiercely!

The sword struck precisely the rotting chain pieced together from countless fragmented names.

"Snap—!"

With a piercing cracking sound, a deep fissure instantly appeared on the surface of the Broken Name Chain. From beneath the dark red cloth deep within the Temple of Fertility, an extremely mournful scream erupted, as if a thousand grieving women and stillborn infants were overlapping each other, causing the entire shrine to tremble violently.

"Captain! We can't just kill one!"

Lu Yan pressed his hands firmly against the array plate, blood already seeping from his seven orifices. He roared, "Her rule structure is contracting! If we only cut this section, she will immediately cut off her tail to survive, completely retreating to the ends of the Fertility Temple and the Empty Office. Once we've alerted her, we won't be able to lure her out again!"

A murderous intent surged in Han Zhao's eyes, and the decisiveness of a frontline commander was fully displayed at this moment.

"No more waiting, cut off the core!" Han Zhao drew his longsword, pinning it firmly to one side of the formation's core, and shouted sharply, "The formation is complete, this is our only chance, all of you, charge!"

The team was like a precision machine that had been completely detonated, instantly unleashing its most extreme collaborative power.

"Rise!" Lu Yan bit his tongue and spat a mouthful of blood onto the array plate. Ignoring the damage to his meridians, he fully unfolded the incomplete diagram of the Sealing Name Array and forcibly connected the remaining array patterns of the Child-Giving Shrine and the West City Empty Office in the void, cutting off the retreat route of the Weeping Goddess.

"Lock!" Fang Bai formed a hand seal and burned all the fake name talismans buried around him in one go! The sky-piercing talisman ash turned into an invisible barrier, locking in the remaining energy of all the names around him, preventing her from escaping by using any name.

Xie Wujiu's tattered paper doll emitted a piercing tearing sound, with paper scraps flying everywhere. However, his only remaining left hand gripped the Yin Si Small Seal tightly, pressing down on Minghen like a mountain, forcefully choking off the backflow.

Lin Xiaolu slammed her palms heavily on the muddy ground, unleashing the full power of the Wood element within her body.

She wasn't attacking, but protecting the lives of those caught in the crossfire around the sacrificial path. The aura of the Wood element spread along the markings left by the Weeping Goddess, stabilizing the soul fires caught by the backlash of death, at least preventing them from being dragged into the black water at this moment.

Inside the Temple of the Child-Giving Goddess, feeling her escape route cut off, she went completely mad. The raging black water stirred up a chilling wind, attempting to tear apart the encirclement.

Just then, the "Lu Chen dummy" pieced together from the broken clues in the formation suddenly lit up.

As the eerie wind blew, the broken sword hanging at the waist of the fake body automatically drew half an inch from its sheath with a "clang".

For the Crying Goddess, even a sliver of cold light was like the most terrifying nightmare.

Upon witnessing this scene, the monster under the red cloth completely lost its mind and fell into an extremely frantic state of stress.

"The land sinks! The land sinks!"

She frantically called out the name, her voice filled with deep-seated resentment and hidden fear. However, under the reverse logic of the Name Sealing Array, every time she shouted "Lu Chen," the chains of the remnant array's rules tightened even more around her body.

"Sizzle—!"

Under the strangulation of the chain of rules, the dark red cloth on the shrine was completely torn apart.

The true face of the Weeping Goddess was finally fully revealed to the nine people.

It was a deformed and filthy statue. Countless nameless memorial tablets, rotten and blackened swaddling clothes, rusty hairpins, waterlogged longevity locks, and a large number of broken Demon Suppression Bureau waist tokens were stuck together by thick black water, barely piecing together a bizarre outline of a "mother holding an infant".

And on the chest of that distorted shape, a constantly shifting black core was throbbing violently.

That was not a heart, but a filthy "name core" formed by the forced kneading and squeezing of countless devoured, incomplete names.

This is the core of the Crying Goddess!

"Xu Chenzhou!" Han Zhao roared.

"die!"

Xu Chenzhou's eyes turned bloodshot as he forcibly used true essence beyond the current realm's limitations, causing a devastating backlash from the rules of the First Realm. The skin on his arms instantly cracked open, blood gushing out, and shocking bloodstains overflowed from his mouth and nose.

Just as his body was about to collapse, Lin Xiaolu flicked her finger, and a meridian-protecting pill accurately shot into Xu Chenzhou's mouth, forcibly suspending his dissipating true energy.

Lu Yan, Fang Bai, and Xie Wujiu let out an extremely suppressed roar at the same time, pushing the suppressive force of the entire Fengming Remnant Formation to its limit before collapse!

Amidst the billowing blood mist, Xu Chenzhou leaped high into the air like an arrow, gripping his sword with both hands, and unleashed his most powerful strike since entering this realm towards the pulsating black core!

"boom--!"

The sword light did not strike any physical flesh, but instead precisely cut into the black, rule-based lesion.

A crisp sound, like shattering glass, rang out above the sacrificial path.

The black core, composed of countless fragmented names, shattered with a deafening roar amidst the sword light! The mountains of broken names within scattered wildly in all directions, like ashes from a fire. And from within these ashes, some pure, transparent specks of light slowly rose—these were the innocent names that had been devoured for years, finally freed from this vile pollution.

……

As the core shattered, the backlash of death instantly swept across the entire Origin.

The Temple of Sending Children collapsed halfway amidst the violent tremors, and the longevity locks hanging on the trees shattered in large sections. The red cloth covering the statues turned into a cloud of black ash. On the wooden plaques nailed to the wall, where names had been scraped off, fragmented, childlike nicknames briefly appeared before vanishing completely in the wind.

At this moment, the entire Huai'an County underwent earth-shaking changes.

Inside the city, the nightly weeping that had lingered for half a year came to an abrupt end.

On the threshold of the dilapidated courtyard, the ever-damp handprint instantly dried, cracked, and fell off, turning into a handful of ashes.

On the earthen bed in the inner room, Zhou's mother suddenly coughed violently, spitting out a mouthful of foul-smelling black blood. The coldness that had been blocking her lungs dissipated most of its way, and her breathing finally became easier.

The footprints of several households in the city, marked by the rules and marked with wet footprints outside their doors, evaporated completely after a gust of cold wind.

Meanwhile, in the desolate Demon-Suppressing Office in the west of the city, the hundreds of blank memorial tablets hanging on the back wall all simultaneously cracked open in large sections.

……

On the old sacrificial path.

With the complete death of the Weeping Goddess, the nine-person team clearly felt the changes in the world.

This time, it wasn't just a slight loosening. The boundary repulsion force that had been pressing down on their souls and bones receded like a tide, solidly decreasing by an entire layer throughout Huai'an County and its surrounding areas!

Lu Yan looked down and saw that the second layer of array patterns on the array plate could now light up stably without needing to overdraw.

Lin Xiaolu felt that the Wood elemental energy within her body was no longer stagnant, and was full of vitality as it flowed.

Xu Chenzhou knelt on the ground, panting, leaning on his sword. But he could feel that if he wanted, the sword energy could travel three feet away from the sword without any hindrance.

Within Xie Wujiu's tattered paper doll body, the Yin Si seal emitted a cold, no longer lifeless, eerie light.

They could finally reliably utilize the full cultivation power of the "Qi Refining Stage" in Earth's cultivation world, and even unleash the combat power of the "Early Foundation Establishment Stage" in a very short time. Although power above the Golden Core stage was still strictly forbidden by this world, this was already an epic breakthrough!

"Report back to Earth." Han Zhao wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. Although his voice was weak, his eyes shone with an astonishing brightness.

Without a moment's delay, Lu Yan immediately activated the low-energy pressure band.

[The Weeping Goddess has been destroyed. The Night Weeping Rules in Huai'an County are collapsing. Boundary Suppression has decreased by one level. The channel's carrying capacity is expected to increase; it is recommended to dispatch a support team.]

……

As the team, supporting each other, retreated back to Huai'an County under the cover of night, the thick, oppressive feeling in the air had completely dissipated.

Zhou Aman stood at the entrance of the courtyard, looking around somewhat bewildered. He suddenly realized that, for the first time tonight, Huai'an County was as quiet as a normal night.

The people who had their doors and windows tightly shut were unaware of what had happened. They were only asleep when they felt the suffocating chill that had been hanging over them inexplicably dissipate.

Han Zhao leaned against the courtyard wall, watching the confirmation command flashing on Lu Yan's magical artifact, his chest heaving slightly. He knew that the true power of Earth was about to begin its journey into this decaying land.