Devouring demons, I attain immortality.

The moment the azure dragon phantom shattered the chains, the devouring vortex had already entered the meridians of the saintess through the silver bell on her wrist.

A system notification exploded in my mind: [A Rebirth Gu parasite has been detected!]

Before the prompting ended, the entire Crystal Palace was suddenly enveloped in some kind of ancient chanting.

The sword marks on the surface of the Chaos Bell lit up one by one, and fine bubbles rose from the seawater.

Each bubble contained a remnant soul of a sword cultivator, with different types of sword spirits embedded in their shattered dantian.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the Lord of Nine Nether Island tore open his chest and abdomen, revealing the inner cavity where the Poisonous Puppet Mother Worm of the Medicine Garden was entrenched. As the worm's abdomen spit out and swallowed, it absorbed all the remnant souls.

"Why do you think the Star Palace has tolerated the Heavenly Sword Pavilion for three hundred years?"

The saintess suddenly opened her eyes, and her pupils transformed into the compound eyes of a Gu worm.

The golden silkworm gu that burst from her crown chakra, carrying half a sword spirit, crashed straight into the Xuan Tian Mirror.

The mirror reflected the ancestral altar of the Star Palace, where twenty-eight bronze coffins were trembling violently, and the demon-sealing seals on the coffin lids corresponded perfectly to the cracks in the bronze pillars at the bottom of the sea.

Lin An's blade grazed the saintess's neck and struck the palace pillar, revealing half a jade slip hidden among the flying coral fragments.

Elder Xie's remnant consciousness was awakened by the stimulation of the sword energy, and he hissed, "The Sword Soul Suppresses not the Ruins of Return... but the Ancestral Corpse of the Star Palace!"

Before he could finish speaking, the Lord of Nine Nether Island had already triggered the self-destruction of the Poison Puppet Mother Worm, and the purplish-black poisonous mist condensed into a giant hand that grabbed towards the Chaos Bell.

The Xuan Tian Mirror suddenly broke free of control, and its light teleported Lin An to the Star Palace Ancestral Land.

Black blood was seeping from the bronze coffin on the altar beneath his feet. Amidst the frantically flashing warnings from the Devouring System, the withered hand extending from the coffin resonated with the star map on his sword sheath. The shape of the missing finger bones of the corpse clearly matched the Horned Wood Dragon Sword Soul perfectly.

Lin An's blade scraped sparks against the bronze coffin, and the withered hand of the corpse suddenly flicked its fingers and tapped the coffin wall.

The shockwave swept across the altar, and all twenty-eight coffins exploded simultaneously. The black blood that burst out condensed into a star map in the air, and the missing location of the Horned Dragon coincided with the crack in the star map on his scabbard.

"Turns out I was the last piece of the puzzle!"

He sneered, letting the withered hand grasp his wrist.

The Devouring System suddenly became agitated and began to extract star power from the corpses in reverse.

A beast-like roar came from the coffin, and the ancestral corpses that sprang out from the other coffins rushed over, their rotting fingertips shining with the light of different sword souls.

The altar floor suddenly collapsed, revealing a boiling pool of blood beneath.

The saintess emerged from the blood-red waves; the Golden Silkworm Gu King had fused with her spine, its tailbone piercing her dress and transforming into a scorpion's tail: "The Star Palace has nurtured its sword spirit for three hundred years, waiting for someone like you..."

Before she could finish speaking, the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade pierced through her brow. When the blade's energy shattered her skull, it brought out not brain matter, but rather falling stardust.

Suddenly, the Xuan Tian Mirror rose from the blood pool, its surface reflecting the image of the Nine Nether Island Lord grinning maliciously in the Water Crystal Palace.

The Chaos Bell in his hand was mostly complete, and the hammer was actually forged from the saintess's scorpion tail.

Lin An crushed the ancestral corpse's head and used the momentum to leap up, draining the entire pool of blood from the vortex. The exposed bottom of the pool was clearly engraved with the Demon-Suppressing Stele of the first leader of the Heavenly Sword Pavilion.

"Old dog Xie has kept his true intentions well hidden."

He flicked his finger onto the character "镇" (zhen, meaning "suppress") on the inscription, and the moment the sword energy was unleashed, the entire ancestral land of the Star Palace began to collapse.

Twenty-eight ancestral corpses flew uncontrollably toward the inscription, piecing together in mid-air to form a complete celestial constellation.

The Lord of Nine Nether Island laughed wildly through the Xuan Tian Mirror, but the bell suddenly went out of tune. Lin An had already refined half of the scabbard into the Chaos Bell, and was now using the system to reverse the control of the bell.

The sound of chains breaking came from the bottom of the blood pool, and a giant claw covered with dragon scales emerged from the cracks in the inscription.

The true Horned Dragon Sword Soul broke free of its seal, but it was not a cold, metallic sword; instead, it was a living creature wreathed in scarlet blood.

Its vertical pupils reflected Lin An's figure, and it spoke in human language: "Boy, you have Xie Jinghong's scent on you."

Lin An gripped the dragon's horn with his five fingers, letting the scales cut his palm: "Coincidentally, I just killed his eighth-generation disciple."

The power of devouring flowed into the dragon's horn, and the sword soul let out a painful dragon roar. The blood and evil aura around the sword was actually analyzed by the system into fragments of memories from three hundred years ago. On the day that the Star Palace Ancestor slew the dragon and took its soul, the Xie family ancestor mixed a Gu egg into the dragon's blood.

The bell of the Lord of Nine Nether Island suddenly became mournful, and blood began to seep from the sword marks on the surface of the Chaos Bell.

Lin An dragged the Horned Dragon into the Mysterious Heaven Mirror. The moment the mirror shattered, he fell into the Water Crystal Palace, accompanied by a shower of stardust.

Where the dragon's tail swept, the sap from the bursting venomous puppet mother insect poured onto the Chaos Bell, actually mending the last crack.

"It's time to close the net!"

Lin An stepped onto the bell and rose up, the star map on the scabbard perfectly fitting the sword marks on the bell.

The tentacles beneath the Nine Nether Island Lord's black robe danced wildly, but they couldn't withstand the stardust surging in from all directions. The remains of the Star Palace Ancestral Corpse, which had been modified by the Devouring System, were now turning into chains that bound his limbs.

Suddenly, the Horned Dragon broke free of its restraints and bit the island lord's crown.

Lin An then inserted the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade into the top of the bell, and the system notification sounded simultaneously with the bell's chime: [The fusion of the Twenty-Eight Constellations Sword Souls is complete].

The entire East China Sea trembled, and in the ruins of the Heavenly Sword Pavilion that rose from the seabed, the inscription of the first sect leader collapsed, revealing the bottomless abyss below.

As the black tide surging from the Demon Abyss engulfed the underwater ruins, Lin An was plunging down on the Chaos Bell.

The sword marks of the Twenty-Eight Mansions on the surface of the bell lit up one by one, reflecting the mountain of cultivator skeletons piled up at the bottom of the abyss. The star patterns floating on the surface of those bones were exactly the same as the curse marks on the ancestral corpse of the Star Palace.

The Nine Nether Island Master's broken body suddenly swelled up, and hundreds of poisonous vines from the medicinal garden emerged from the fragments of his black robe.

The man-eating flower blooming at the tip of the vine bit into the Horned Wood Dragon Sword Soul, but the venom dripping from between its teeth vaporized into starlight when it touched the dragon scales.

Lin An gripped the bell with his other hand, and the sound waves from the bell shattered the poisonous vine into dust, revealing the Star Palace artifact wrapped in the vine's core—the very silver bell that the Holy Maiden had worn earlier.

"bite,"

The crisp sound of the bell striking the bell wall caused an eerie resonance, and the rubble that had crumbled from the Demon Abyss rock wall solidified in the air to form Elder Xie's face.

The mouth opened and closed, spewing out murky demonic energy: "Why do you think you were chosen?"

As they spoke, the pile of bones at the bottom of the abyss exploded with a roar, and the corpse demons that crawled out all had star-patterned swords stuck in their dantian, with the treasures of each sect that had been lost for many years embedded in the hilts.

Lin An deflected the lunging corpse demons with the tip of his blade, discovering that their evasive trajectories mirrored the celestial constellations.

The vortex of devouring energy was contaminated by demonic energy as soon as it opened, and a hoarse laugh mingled with the system warning: "The demonic seed planted by Xie Jinghong three hundred years ago has come to bear fruit today."

The Horned Dragon Sword Soul suddenly let out a mournful cry, and after its dragon tail swept away more than ten corpse demons, it turned around and bit the Chaos Bell.

As Lin An dodged, he caught a glimpse of the blood-red array pattern appearing on the inner wall of the bell. It was not some kind of Heaven-Mending Secret Array at all, but rather the array pattern of the "Demon Seed Technique" created by the first Heavenly Sword Pavilion Master.

"What a brilliant three-birds-with-one-stone strategy!"

He sneered and shattered the silver bell, but what fell out of the bell was not an ordinary mechanism, but half of the Star Palace Ancestor's life tablet.

A giant bronze cauldron rose from the depths of the Demon Abyss, its body bound by chains that strung together the remains of the founding masters of various sects, each with the sect's inherited spiritual sword piercing its heart.

The remaining head of the Nine Nether Island Master suddenly spoke: "What did you think I was feeding the poison puppets in the medicine garden?"

As he spoke, a purplish-black mist spewed out from the cauldron. The mist condensed into a Star Palace Sword Robe on the body of the Corpse Demon upon contact with it.

Lin An's pupils contracted slightly. These demons were actually imitating the moves of the direct disciples of various sects, and even the fluctuations of their sword intent were flawless.

Suddenly, the Chaos Bell crashed uncontrollably into the giant cauldron. Amidst the deafening roar of the bell colliding with the cauldron, the Devouring System within Lin An's sea of ​​consciousness began to experience data malfunction.

Countless fragments of memories forcibly flooded in: Xie Jinghong poisoning the Star Palace Ancestor's tea, the secret conversation between the Lord of Nine Nether Island and the Holy Maiden beneath the Blood Pool, the first Lord of the Heavenly Sword Pavilion pouring his life's power into the Demon Abyss...

"Is Sword Break the seventh array eye?"

Lin An suddenly leaped down into the demonic flames at the mouth of the cauldron, his Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade piercing through the star pattern on the cauldron's handle.

As demonic energy surged wildly into the blade, he deliberately severed his connection with Jianpo.

Unrestrained, the devouring vortex went completely berserk, twisting the entire giant cauldron along with the ancestral master's remains into a vortex.

Taking advantage of the moment, the Horned Dragon Sword Soul entangled the Chaos Bell. The instant the dragon horn pierced the top of the bell, the light emanating from the Twenty-Eight Constellation Sword Marks illuminated the truth at the bottom of the abyss.

Deep within the Demon Abyss lies the glazed golden body of the Star Palace Ancestor, with the Demon-Planting Nail, a ancestral artifact of the Xie family, inserted into its crown.

The scroll tightly held in the golden statue's hand was clearly inscribed with the three blood-red characters "The Record of Feeding Demons".

"The Star Demon is one body!"