Chapter 1105: Heart Demon Tribulation

Boom!

It was as if the big bang of the universe's initial opening had erupted inside his body! His star-core golden core shuddered violently, its surface instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks! An indescribable, excruciating pain, born from a leap in the essence of life, swept over his soul! This pain far surpassed the thousandfold, tenfold agony of reforging his stardust dao foundation! It felt as if his very existence would be blown apart, crushed, and reduced to nothing by this violent force!

"Ah!" Han Wuxian let out a muffled roar; from his seven orifices flowed not blood, but a jade-like luminous stream glittering with starlight! The light of his star-marrow battle armor flickered unstably, emitting a groan of being overburdened.

Just as his golden core was about to shatter completely, the dormant star-core fragment in his sea of consciousness suddenly burst forth with an unprecedented light!

"Fix!"

A thought, as if originating from the very source of the cosmos, exploded in Han Wuxian's mind and spirit! The power of the star-core fragment was no longer merely sustaining; it transformed into a vast, boundless, all-encompassing stabilizing force! Like an anchor of the universe, it instantly suppressed the violent energy surge within his body, forcibly stabilizing his imminent-to-collapse star-core golden core!

The shattered golden core did not vanish; instead, under the stabilizing power of the star-core, it began an incredibly profound reconstruction! The fractured core walls turned into countless stardust motes; at its heart, a blurry, cross-legged infantile phantom slowly coalesced! This phantom's features matched Han Wuxian's exactly, its entire body formed of the purest star true essence, skin like jade, eyes tightly shut, surrounded by seven cyan-gold star-key halos, exuding the majesty and vastness of a nascent deity!

Nascent Soul forming, Divine Spirit taking shape! The most crucial step, under the heaven-defying power of the star-core fragment, was forcibly stabilized and began to coalesce!

However, how could the heavenly tribulation be so easily overcome?

Hum!

A frigid, viscous will, brimming with endless malice, like something that had crossed the river of time and space, suddenly descended! Its strength far surpassed that wisp of divine sense in the depths of the Fallen Star Abyss, even causing the entire star gate passage to twist and dim! The chaotic spacetime currents seemed frozen, and a phantom of the Nine Abysses Eye, formed of pure corruption and resentment and covering the whole passage's view, slowly opened before Han Wuxian!

In his pupils were reflected his own image, and also the gruesome scene of thirty thousand years ago when the Star Evolution Sect's mountain gate shattered and countless cultivators cried out as they fell! Endless slaughter, betrayal, despair, and sinking thoughts, like billions of poisonous needles, viciously stabbed at the Divine Spirit prototype Han Wuxian was coalescing!

Heart Demon Tribulation! The will of the Lord of the Nine Abysses invades!

"Sink… join the eternal darkness…" a bewitching whisper echoed deep in his soul, carrying the power to obliterate all hope.

Han Wuxian's process of coalescing his Divine Spirit halted instantly! The fledgling Divine Spirit phantom's face showed anguish and struggle, its star-key halos violently fluctuating, its light quickly dimming! His own consciousness also felt like plunging into an abyssal ice cave; the scene of the sect's annihilation thirty thousand years ago reappeared before his eyes with terrifying vividness—his fellows' desperate gazes, his teachers' blood-soaked forms, the roar of the star gate's collapse… the boundless grief and helplessness nearly devoured him.

"Master!" Behind him, Lin Xiaoshi's terrified cry was like a stone tossed into dead water—weak yet clear.

That cry, like a faint starlight, pierced the endless darkness. Han Wuxian's consciousness, about to sink, jolted violently!

Star Evolution Sect… Xuan Xingzi… Tomb Guardian… and the disciple behind him who had just entered the sect, eyes burning with the spark of hope!

"Guard…" a vague yet utterly resolute thought ignited in Han Wuxian's fading will, "Not for revenge… but to guard!"

Guard this faint spark! Guard this world from being utterly devoured by the Nine Abysses! Guard the hope of the lost lineage that has not been extinguished!

"My Dao Heart endures like the stars! How can evil defile it!" Han Wuxian's tightly shut eyes snapped open; deep within, that point of guarding starlight instantly turned into a heaven‑blazing flame! The profundities of 'star‑fire spreading across the prairie' and 'mind reflecting the myriad heavens' from the True Explanation of the Myriad Heavenly Stars instantly became clear to him!

Boom!

In his sea of consciousness, the star-core fragment trembled again! This time, it was not stabilizing but exploding! A pure, scorching star‑heart fire, seeming able to burn away all corruption in the world, surged upward from the core of his Divine Spirit prototype!

Hiss—

The Nine Abysses Eye phantom enveloping his mind and spirit twisted violently, like encountering its nemesis, emitting a silent shriek! Corrupt resentment, bewitching whispers, and illusions of the sect's annihilation, before this star‑heart fire that burns away all evil, melted like snow in fire! Heart Demon Tribulation—broken!

The Divine Spirit prototype instantly solidified! A foot‑tall figure, its whole body flowing with warm starlight and its features identical to Han Wuxian's, fully formed, seated cross‑legged at the center of the dantian star‑field, taking the place of the former star‑core golden core! As the figure's eyes opened and closed, galaxies flowed within, as if containing a whole universe! Seven star‑key halos stably encircled it, like stars guarding an emperor.

Divine Spirit initial formation! The barrier of the Divine Spirit—broken!

However, the true heavenly punishment has only just begun!

Beyond the star gate passage, in the endless depths of void, as if enraged by Han Wuxian's heaven‑defying breakthrough, a terrifying thundercloud covering countless star fields silently gathered! This was no ordinary dark cloud, but a chaos star‑tribulation thundercloud formed of countless shattered stars, frozen space‑storms, and the most primal laws of destruction!

Boom—crack!

A thick bolt of lightning of indescribable color, ignoring spatial distance and bypassing the star gate passage's obstruction, like a spear of cosmic judgment, fiercely struck Han Wuxian within the passage! Where its light passed, spacetime currents were directly annihilated, the walls of the star gate passage groaned in agony, and spiderweb‑like cracks appeared!

This thunderbolt contained the pure, annihilating will of the cosmos! Its power far surpassed that of an ordinary Divine Spirit tribulation by a hundredfold!

"Bring it on!" Han Wuxian rose to his full height, his eyes devoid of fear, only boiling battle intent and icy starlight! His newly formed Divine Spirit needed this cosmic tribulation lightning to be tempered!

He spread his arms wide; the runes on his chest's star‑morrow battle armor blazed wildly, and behind him in the void, a colossal phantom of a star furnace forged from pure stellar power erupted into view! Upon the furnace, seven star‑key sigils like hubs spun frenziedly, drawing the power of the myriad heavens!

"Myriad heavenly stars' power, forge my indestructible body! Chaos tribulation lightning, refine my true spirit! Myriad Heavens Stars Great Array·Furnace Refining True Body!"

Han Wuxian did not dodge or evade; instead, he actively rushed toward that heaven‑shattering, earth‑destroying chaos lightning bolt! His whole being turned into a brilliant reverse‑flowing meteor, and he boldly plunged into the light!

Boom—rumble—!!!

An unimaginable explosion erupted within the star gate passage! Blinding light instantly devoured everything! Violent lightning serpents and destructive energy raged madly, tearing open even larger gaps in the passage walls already riddled with cracks! Lin Xiaoshi was pressed hard against the ground by his protective starlight, unable to lift his head, feeling only the apocalyptic terror.