Chapter 130: Star Vein Resonance, Annihilation True Body

The dark-purple stream of light conjured by the Doctor's projection, like a meteor slamming into a star, came howling with annihilation and once again crashed brutally into the tottering Star-Rune Barrier!

Boom— Crack-rrack!!!

This collision was even more terrifying than before! The tough energy shield, like shattering glazed crystal, instantly became covered in cobweb-like cracks! The outermost few Star-Rune ancient trees exploded outright under the horrific impact, turning into burning silver-white fragments! The entire forest space trembled violently, and the purifying halo dimmed by more than half in an instant!

"Puh—!" Xiang Lingna, Like Struck by Weight, suddenly spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood. Her body went limp and collapsed, her consciousness slipping into a semi-comatose state, and the power sustaining the forest plummeted! The Star-Rune Barrier was on the verge of collapse!

"Lingna!" Wrench tried in terror to rush over, but was sent tumbling by the dispersing shockwave.

The shadow of death descended once more! The Doctor's projection hovered outside the shattered shield, its abyss-like gaze locking coldly onto the fallen Lingna and the unconscious Lin Mo in her arms, and slowly raised its hand. This time, the annihilation beam condensing at its fingertip was even more condensed, radiating an absolute aura of destroying everything! Its target was aimed straight at Lingna's head!

At the very instant this final destruction was about to descend—

Wooooong—!!!

The stardust crystal on Lin Mo's chest, stimulated by the vast but chaotic life energy of the Star-Rune forest that had lost Lingna's will to sustain it, and locked under the deadly threat of the Doctor's projection, was like a thoroughly ignited powder keg, suddenly erupting with an unprecedented, chaotic and violent milky-white flame!

This flame was no longer the condensed light of protection from before, but was filled with struggle, agony, and a kind of primal instinct! Like a runaway wild horse, it instantly swept through Lin Mo's body, even spreading to the fallen Lingna beside him!

"Ugh-ah—!" The unconscious Lin Mo let out a pained roar, his body convulsing violently! Beneath his scorched-black skin, dark-purple vein patterns and milky-white stardust flames wove and clashed madly! The long-silent Corrupted Claw Mark on his right arm, under the assault of these energies attacking from within and without, pulsed violently once again, radiating an ominous dark-purple ghostly glow! Order and corruption—two diametrically opposed forces waged their most fierce slaughter within his body!

This storm of chaotic and powerful energy originating from within Lin Mo, like a boulder thrown into a calm lake, instantly triggered a chain reaction!

Wooooong! Wooooong! Wooooong!

The remaining ancient trees in the Star-Rune forest, as if resonating with something, had the patterns on their trunks—those fusing elven runes and earth-vein energy—light up madly! The remaining purifying power no longer guarded, but transformed into chaotic streams of energy, surging toward the storm's center—Lin Mo!

Even more shocking was that, above the cage, the emerald-gold light cluster imprisoned within the core crystal pillar of Wang Ting, as if also sensing this chaotic yet incomparably powerful resonance originating from stardust, let out an unprecedented, high-pitched and agonized shriek! The entire crystal pillar shook violently, the dark-purple energy fluid within boiling like scalding water! The annihilation chains wrapped around it emitted a piercing metallic twisting sound!

The Doctor's projection seemed to also sense the threat, its motion of condensing the annihilation beam suddenly stuttering! Its abyss-like gaze locked dead onto Lin Mo, filled with suspicion and... a barely perceptible greed?

Just at this moment—

Crack! Crack-crack-crack!

Above everyone's heads, the dome of Wang Ting's core cage, under the dual effects of the sustained annihilation bombardment and the energy storm triggered by Lin Mo, finally could bear no more, and split open with a massive fissure! Dark-red sky-light and an even thicker stench of decay poured down!

Through the fissure, one could see the dark-red sky outside and that enormous, almost fully opened annihilation rift! At the rift's center, that terrifying eyeball composed of pure decay energy, as if sensing the disturbance below, slowly rotated, its cold gaze piercing through the rift and casting itself upon this river-bend space!

And what froze everyone's souls even more—

At the edge of that enormous annihilation rift, a figure was slowly, stepping upon the void, taking a single stride forward!

No longer an energy projection!

But the true body!

It was an existence beyond words. Its form seemed to be composed of flowing, viscous dark-purple annihilation energy, its surface constantly surfacing and vanishing with countless faces of anguished wailing and broken world imagery. Its head had no features, only a constantly rotating vortex of darkness that devoured light. A dark-purple light-band like a spine, composed of pure decay energy, ran through its body, connecting to the annihilation rift. Its left arm was entirely composed of rotting roots flowing with annihilation runes, while its right arm was the outline of a greatsword condensed from pure annihilation energy, constantly dripping dark-purple magma.

The Doctor! The Hand of Annihilation! His true body, at the instant the rift had stabilized enough to bear his actual form, had descended!

The mere aura emanating from his true body instantly froze the entire river-bend space solid! The air became as heavy as mercury! The remaining Star-Rune ancient trees withered and crumbled at a speed visible to the naked eye! Lingna and Wrench felt their souls about to be frozen and torn apart!

The Doctor's true body ignored the ruined Star-Rune forest and the fallen Lingna and others; its vortex-like "face" slowly rotated, finally locking onto Lin Mo at the storm's center, where stardust and corruption clashed violently within him and he convulsed in agony.

A voice, cold, utterly flat, yet as if layered from the wails of billions of souls, rang out directly in the depths of everyone's consciousness:

【... Interesting specimen... chaotic stardust... brand of corruption... perfect... vessel...】

【... Take... away...】

The Doctor's true body slowly raised that left arm composed of rotting roots. Countless dark-purple energy tentacles flowing with annihilation runes shot out like venomous snakes, ignoring the distance of space, instantly coiling toward Lin Mo at the storm's center! He meant to capture alive this "perfect vessel" that contained the dual mysteries of stardust and corruption!

The chaotic energy storm within Lin Mo's body, under the terrifying pressure of the Doctor's true body, seemed to show signs of being forcibly suppressed! The Corrupted Claw Mark's pulsing grew even more violent! The light of stardust, meanwhile, was retreating step by step!

Lingna, under the extreme pressure, struggled to lift her head, watching those terrifying tentacles shooting toward Lin Mo, and despairingly reached out her hand: "No... don't..."

Wrench was also completely stupefied; facing the Doctor whose true body had descended, any resistance had lost all meaning.

At the very instant the Doctor's energy tentacles were about to coil around Lin Mo—

A sudden, unexpected change!

The chaotically clashing stardust and corruption energies within Lin Mo's body, under the absolute external pressure of the Doctor's true body, in a desperate situation on the verge of collapse, actually underwent some inconceivable... fusion?!