Chapter 1191

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

The state of some of the fragments lies between the three.

Their cores have already cooled, but their surfaces are still undergoing faint law reconstruction.

The old structure is gradually disintegrating, while a new existence is in a barely perceptible state of sprouting.

This is not the life-and-death of reincarnation, but the most fundamental material cycle.

Xu Zhangqing crouched down, pressing his hand against a star core fragment half a person's height tall before him.

The touch was cold, carrying the unique rough texture of a star core after cooling.

This fragment belonged to the dark gray type; its surface crack patterns were embedded with tiny light spots, which appeared to be residual law embers.

He closed his eyes, his Yuan Dao Foundation circulated, and he sank his consciousness into the interior of the fragment's law structure.

A complete history.

From creation, to stable order, to collapse after burning out, and finally to the core cooling.

The entire process unfolded completely within the Yuan Dao's perception, like an open book, every page written densely and clearly.

And the Yuan Dao Foundation takes creation, order, and termination as a closed loop.

Now standing on this land piled up from hundreds of millions of star core fragments, every breath Xu Zhangqing took, every step he made, resonated with this closed loop.

The Yuan Fire beat silently in his Qi Sea, its rhythm a cut faster than usual.

It was excited.

Admittedly, if he went to the Qing Di Hou Hua Yuan, he could likewise obtain the support of the laws of life and death, and the Yuan Dao could also complete its self-tempering.

But the law structure of the Back Garden takes life as its main body — life extremely heavy, death extremely light.

Whereas here both life and termination appear together; where there is creation there is order, where there is order there is termination, the three forming a self-consistent complete closed loop.

Identical to the Yuan Dao structure.

Xu Zhangqing nodded in satisfaction: "This is the place."

He withdrew his palm, stood up, and cast his gaze toward the center of the land.

The closer to the central district, the larger the volume of the star core fragments, and the more complete their law structures.

Several fragments massive as mountains stood erect in the center, surrounding a natural depression, inside which the most core star core remains were piled.

The law concentration inside was so high that even the naked eye could see stellar radiance condensing into a pillar above, rotating as it rose into the depths of the void.

The best position to undergo the tribulation was right beneath that Star Radiance Pillar.

Xu Zhangqing took a deep breath and strode toward the center.

He walked about a hundred-odd steps, then suddenly halted again.

His Identifying Sea sensed an extremely minute fluctuation.

Unrelated to the Wai Jie, it came from the depths of the star core fragments underfoot.

At this, Xu Zhangqing lowered his head to glance at the land beneath his feet, and sent his Divine Sense vertically infiltrating downward.

A hundred zhang, a thousand zhang, three thousand zhang, five thousand zhang — the deeper his Divine Sense went, the more strenuous it became.

The law density of the star core fragments was extremely high; the resistance to Divine Sense was comparable to the Stellar Radiance Mist.

But he did not give up, continuing to explore deeper, probing all the way to the limit of his Divine Sense perception, nearly touching the bottommost layer.

There, there was a cluster of extremely faint fluctuation.

Like a special phenomenon produced by the law main body after a long period of self-evolution.

Hundreds of millions of star core fragments piled together; the laws from birth to termination interacted, collided, and fused continuously over the long years, and without any external interference, they actually self-evolved an extremely primitive law structure.

This structure is not yet complete, and has not yet produced consciousness.

But it possesses an extremely vague instinct to seek benefit and avoid harm.

When Xu Zhangqing's Divine Sense probed to that depth, it shifted a little to the side.

A very tiny shift, but in the Divine Sense's perception it was clear beyond any doubt.

"Interesting!"

"No wonder Eldest Senior Brother said this place has Uncertainty!"

"Looks like it's been a long time since anyone explored inside!"

Xu Zhangqing withdrew his Divine Sense, his expression becoming thoughtful.

The situation of the Starfall Secret Realm is even more extraordinary than what Eldest Senior Brother mentioned.

Evidently, Eldest Senior Brother's intelligence was accurate, but also outdated.

The Stellar Core Abyss is indeed a no-man's-land tribulation secret realm.

But Eldest Senior Brother's intelligence did not cover all the details.

I'm afraid even he didn't know that a Law Aggregate is self-evolving in the depths of this bottom layer.

The Law of Time can see everything from the Timeline, but if this thing itself naturally evolved from a law structure, its Timeline has not yet formed.

Then it cannot be seen on the Timeline.

Just a small surprise.

Xu Zhangqing set off again, walking toward the Star Radiance Pillar.

This thing does not constitute a threat for the time being, nor does it give off the slightest malice.

But the closer he got to the Star Radiance Pillar, the more he could perceive the law fluctuations underfoot.

Not only was there a complete cycle from demise to rebirth, but there was also a trace of an indescribable rhythm.

It seemed as if the Star Core Fragments were in dialogue.

This dialogue required no language, no consciousness — only the resonance born of laws with laws in the depths of time.

Stars die, but starlight is immortal.

The dead Star Cores still entangled, collided, and fused with one another, evolving a new Law Structure.

This Secret Realm was never dead; it continued to live in a way the Wai Jie cannot understand!

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Xu Zhangqing sat cross-legged directly beneath the Star Radiance Pillar.

The surrounding Star Core Fragments sensed his Qi flow, and the Law Concentration actually climbed another notch; the Star Radiance Pillar's rotation speed increased, as if the entire Secret Realm were making final preparations for the coming Heavenly Tribulation.

However, he did not rush to trigger the Heavenly Tribulation, but first adjusted his own state to its peak.

Return to Origin circulated.

Five-colored Yuan light circulated back and forth within his body; Yuan Fire burned quietly in the depths of his Qi Sea, the Creation Return to Ruins Seal and the Ancient Dragon Dragon Pearl stationed on left and right, ready to be called upon at any moment.

With a deep breath, he sank his Divine Sense into his Qi Sea, and once again saw the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

Ever since merging the Heaven and Earth Furnace with his Qi Sea in the Time Interstice, this natal Magic Treasure had thoroughly changed its form.

It was no longer a standalone furnace, but had transformed into the Yuan Fire itself.

Yet with a single thought, the Heaven and Earth Furnace would emerge from the Qi Sea.

Xu Zhangqing gave a slight smile: "This time crossing the tribulation, I'm counting on you!"

The Heaven and Earth Furnace trembled once in the Qi Sea, as if responding.

Seeing that it was about time, he opened his eyes and looked up at the rotating Star Radiance Pillar above his head.

The method to trigger the Refining Void Tribulation was very simple: release one's own Qi flow without the slightest reservation, letting Heaven and Earth perceive it was enough.

Therefore, the instant Xu Zhangqing completely let go of the cultivation he had long suppressed, the entire Starfall Secret Realm violently trembled.

This was not an earthquake, but a Law Tremor.

Hundreds of millions of Star Core Fragments simultaneously emitted a low hum; the Star Radiance Pillar's rotation abruptly accelerated, quickly turning into a frenzied Vortex.

Boom—

Thunder rumbled; Time, Space, and Void all shook together.

Soon, the Heavenly Tribulation arrived, but what came was no ordinary Thunder Tribulation.

Xu Zhangqing's pupils contracted slightly; it was a calamity he had never seen before.

An ordinary Refining Void Tribulation evolves a Thunder Tribulation from the laws of Heaven and Earth, using the power of lightning to temper a cultivator's inner Dao foundation.

But at this moment, what gathered in the sky was not Lightning Clouds.

Instead, it was a Void Rift slowly opening.

The rift's shape was extremely irregular, as if something had torn open the world's Barrier from the other side and forcibly squeezed its way out.

Pure Void Energy surged at the rift's edges — energy completely different from what Xu Zhangqing had seen in Space Rifts.

It both gave birth to laws and stood on the opposite side of laws!