Primordial Salted Fish: Starting from Refusing to Join the Demon Clan

Chapter 97 The Essence of Return to the Void

Guixu, the end of the world, the tomb of heaven and earth.

When it falls silent, it is an eternal coldness and deathly stillness, devouring everything that falls into it, slowly but irreversibly eroding the edge of the primordial world.

However, when it erupts, it displays a pure "annihilation" power that is enough to make even the Heavenly Saints change color!

This is not a simple destruction, but an extreme "self-purification" mechanism of the primordial world.

The primordial world was vast and boundless, possessing an incredibly powerful self-healing ability.

However, the myriad beings in the primordial world fought endlessly, and the powerful beings would shatter mountains and rivers and tear apart the void when they clashed. Furthermore, there were the lingering wounds to heaven and earth left after the great calamity erupted.

Like the Styx River and the Sea of ​​Blood, these places are filthy lands that have accumulated for countless eons, and the demonic energy on the Western lands can never be eradicated—these places are like "poisonous sores" and "rotten flesh" attached to the surface of a primordial giant and penetrating to its marrow, exceeding the limits of its self-repair.

If these incurable "lesions" are forcibly left in the primordial body, they will only continue to worsen and eventually erode the foundation of the entire world.

Guixu is the only "excretion outlet" for this enormous being of the Primordial World!

When the accumulated "filth" and "lesions" reach a critical point, or are subjected to strong external stimuli (such as the disturbance caused by Hongjun's will of Heaven from afar), Guixu will violently erupt, taking away the irreparable "rotten flesh" and accumulated "toxins," along with the spacetime in which they reside.

Together they are "cut off" and "stripped away," absorbed into the eternal nothingness, and completely annihilated, in exchange for a healthier and longer-lasting existence for the primordial entity.

In Hongjun's view, Kunpeng was just a chess piece. However, this chess piece had its own ideas and was unwilling to play according to his plan, so there was no need for it to exist.

At this moment, Kunpeng found himself at the epicenter of this terrifying outbreak!

"Boom—!"

A silent roar reverberated at the level of the soul. The space before them was no longer shattered, but simply "vanished," as if erased by an invisible eraser, revealing a deeper, more despairing "nothingness" beneath.

Time is completely disordered and broken here; the concepts of past, present, and future are stirred into a chaotic mess.

Every primordial particle that constitutes the true form of Kunpeng emitted a mournful cry, as if it were about to disintegrate and dissipate at any moment, completely merging into this land of end.

The barrier he had painstakingly built with his own Great Dao? Faced with the eruption of the Void, it was as fragile as a bubble in the sunlight, unable to hold on for even a fraction of a second before silently turning into the most primordial stream of particles, vanishing without a trace.

"Ugh—!"

The extreme pain caused Kunpeng to let out a distorted roar.

His wings, powerful enough to tear apart the primordial void, had their edges vaporized the moment they came into contact with the spreading "Tide of Nothingness," as if they had been thrown into the hottest furnace of chaos!

An irresistible force of "annihilation" surged up the wings, causing spiderweb-like cracks to appear on the tough demon bones, which were comparable to innate spiritual treasures. They groaned under the unbearable burden, and their flesh and essence were forcibly extracted, decomposed, and returned to nothingness!

The chill of death was billions of times more piercing than the ancient ice deep within the Northern Sea, instantly seizing the core of his primordial spirit.

This is not a simple destruction of the physical body, but a complete and utter "return to zero" that shakes the very foundation of existence!

However, on the verge of certain death and impending doom, Kunpeng's Dao heart, which had become incredibly sharp due to his comprehension of the Great Dao of Returning to the Void, detected something unusual!

He "saw" it!

Under the pure, annihilating tide of "nothingness," fragments of "lesions" that were forcibly stripped and dragged from the "surface" of the primordial world are being frantically decomposed and assimilated by the power of the void!

He "saw" a crimson, filthy fragment of a sea of ​​blood, emanating endless wails of resentful souls—a corner of the Netherworld Blood Sea, one of the most filthy "poisonous sores" in the primordial world.

It was being torn apart and purified by the power of the void, the filthy blood evaporated, and the vengeful spirits howled as they turned into nothingness and dust.

He "saw" a fragment of time, a huge, broken remnant shimmering with dim starlight. It was a fragment of the Zhou Tian Star Array that had been shattered by Pangu's true form and flown into the depths of the void. It contained violent and chaotic stellar laws and destructive power, but now it was being forcibly straightened, smoothed out, and returned to oblivion by the power of the Return to Nothingness.

He even "saw" a tiny yet incredibly resilient spatial rift, radiating a terrifying aura.

That might be a hidden spatial wound left over from before Mount Buzhou collapsed, which the Primordial World itself could not heal. At this moment, it was precisely cut, absorbed, and completely erased by the Ruins of Guixu as "rotten flesh"!

Within destruction lies ultimate "purification" and "renewal"!

This is the deeper truth of the Great Dao of Returning to the Void!

It is not only the final burial, but also the necessary "cleaning" to make room for new life!

The primordial world, through the Return to the Void, cuts away its own irreparable "rotten flesh" and expels accumulated "toxins," thereby maintaining the vitality and balance of the whole!

"I see—I see!"

The shattered primordial spirit of the Kunpeng, on the verge of annihilation, let out a silent cry, filled with the ecstasy of surviving a catastrophe and the shock of sudden enlightenment!

The Great Dao of Returning to Nothingness, which he had been pursuing with great difficulty, was stuck at the bottleneck of the balance between "creation and end". Now he finally saw the missing key link - "purification" and "renewal"!

The Return to Nothingness is not simply destruction and annihilation; it is the "metabolism" mechanism necessary for the vast life form of the Primordial World to maintain its health!

Destruction is the means, purification is the process, and serving the "life" of the primordial world as a whole is the ultimate goal!

Between life and death lies both great terror and great opportunity!

This eruption of the Void, this terrifying scene showcasing the ultimate power of the world's "excretion" and "self-purification," is, for Kunpeng, a living, breathing, and ultimate interpretation of the "True Explanation of the Great Dao of the Void"!

He was no longer merely desperately resisting the force of obliteration.

He endured the excruciating pain of his primordial spirit being torn apart and his body being disintegrated, frantically urging the true meaning of the Great Dao of Returning to Nothingness that he had comprehended. He no longer tried to resist the erupting tide of annihilation, but instead tried to "understand" it and "analyze" it.

Even—carefully guiding a wisp of the outermost, relatively gentle power of the Void Return to merge into the nascent form of the Void Returning Great Dao that was on the verge of collapse!

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Just as he made this near-suicidal move, something unexpected happened!

The Primordial Purple Qi within his body, which was enveloped by numerous restrictions and isolated from the Dao of Heaven, seemed to be strongly stimulated by the ultimate power of the Void and the Dao of Kunpeng itself, and suddenly trembled violently!

A faint purple light, indescribable and carrying a trace of the rhythm of the Heavenly Dao yet distinct from Hongjun's will, suddenly emanated from his heart!

The purple light wasn't protecting him; rather, it seemed to mark an extremely tiny, fleeting "flaw" in this absolute annihilation.