Chapter 1107: with translation of chapter title

Han Wuxian's divine sense sharply detected that, embedded in the brow of the tomb guardian's remains, was an extremely tiny crystal chip that emitted a dark purple light sharing the same source as the Nine Nether power! It was this crystal chip, like an evil seed, that contaminated and reversed the tomb guardian's power essence!

At that very moment, an abrupt change occurred!

It seemed to sense the aura of the star key within Han Wuxian's body, and the writhing deathly mist stagnated abruptly! At the mist's center, deep in the hollow eye sockets of the tomb guardian's remains, two points of eerie dark purple flame suddenly flared!

"Roar!"

A sound neither human nor beast, filled with resentment and greed, like the friction of age-old ice, exploded directly in Han Wuxian and Lin Xiaoshi's souls! The deathly qi of the Meteorfall Valley instantly boiled!

The seated remains actually slowly and stiffly lifted its withered skull! The two purple flames locked firmly onto Han Wuxian on the cliff!

At the same time, countless dark green deathly qi tendrils, like enraged poisonous snakes, burst from the surrounding rock walls and ancient tree roots, sweeping across the sky to entwine and pierce Han Wuxian and Lin Xiaoshi! Wherever they passed, the air hissed with corrosion, even light was devoured!

The true tomb guardian had long since passed; what remained was merely a corpse demon contaminated by the Nine Nether, its life-death reversed, turned into the core of an evil formation! And the pure aura of the seven star keys within Han Wuxian's body was, to this instinct-driven corpse demon, nothing less than the most tempting blood food!

"Fall back!" Han Wuxian shouted low, shielding Lin Xiaoshi behind him. Faced with the sky-covering deathly qi tendrils, his eyes showed no fear, only a cold battle intent ignited.

Having attained Nascent Soul, he now needed to test his sword!

He stepped a single pace off the cliff, standing suspended in midair. His dark purple chaotic lightning-marked stellar armor instantly blazed, the flowing liquid stellar fire emitting a low thunder! Within his dantian's star domain, the star primordial spirit suddenly opened its eyes, the seven star key halos shining brilliantly!

"Spirits of the Star Expansion Sect's forefathers, hear me!" Han Wuxian's voice rang clear amid the deathly roar, carrying a solemn respect and resolve: "Junior Han Wuxian, today… I will send you to rest!"

Before his words faded, the Star-Shatter Blade was in his hand. The blade was no longer mere starlight, but entwined with leaping chaotic lightning markings and condensed to the extreme stellar true fire! A vast sword intent that could slash evil and cleanse the cosmos surged skyward!

Faced with the terrifying corpse demon formed from the tomb guardian's remains, a life-and-death battle concerning the Star Expansion Sect's inheritance and Nine Nether contamination erupted explosively in this distorted Meteorfall Valley!

"Roar!!!"

The corpse demon's roar was like an ancient icy prison flung open, the deathly qi of the Meteorfall Valley boiling completely! The seated remains sprang to its feet, movement stiff yet wielding spatial-rending force; its desiccated bone claws tore through the mist, carrying the deathly law that withers all beings, lunging straight at Han Wuxian! Before the claw wind arrived, the pure deathly erosion made Han Wuxian's protective stellar radiance emit a piercing hiss, even his chaotic lightning-marked stellar armor darkened with a ashen shadow!

Lin Xiaoshi stood at the cliff's edge, nearly suffocated by the deathly pressure.

Han Wuxian's eyes blazed with starlight; facing this heaven-earth-destroying claw, he did not retreat but advanced!

"Star Expansion Reverse Life-Death Wheel!"

Within his dantian's star domain, the star primordial spirit suddenly rose, the seven star key halos bursting with unprecedented light! Han Wuxian held his hands aloft before his chest, and a Reverse Life-Death Wheel disc forged from pure stellar true fire and chaotic tribulation lightning condensed in midair! The disc turned slowly, its center deep star core power, its edge leaping chaotic lightning markings, exuding the supreme dao rhyme that reverses yin and yang and redefines life and death!

Boom!

The desiccated bone claw slammed hard onto the Reverse Life-Death Wheel disc! No earth-shaking explosion, only the mad struggle between deathly annihilation and fervent rebirth! The deathly law clashed violently with stellar true fire and chaotic tribulation lightning, devouring and annihilating! The disc's edge lightning markings continually burst, the stellar fire dimmed, while the deathly qi on the claw rapidly melted!

Stalemate! A pure contest of law and power!

The dark purple flames in the corpse demon's hollow eye sockets flared wildly; it sensed the threat, the pure power from the star key attempting to unravel its contaminated foundation! It suddenly opened its jaws, emitting a silent shriek! The deathly qi of the Meteorfall Valley, as if summoned, frenziedly gathered, transforming into countless vicious dark green ghost jiao that surged from all directions toward Han Wuxian, seeking to devour him together with the Reverse Life-Death Wheel disc!

A faint yet extraordinarily tenacious pillar of stellar radiance, like a firefly in the night, suddenly shot toward the sky above the Meteorfall Valley shrouded in deathly qi!

At the very instant that pillar rose!

Within Han Wuxian's body, the star core fragments and the seven star key sigils resonated simultaneously! A vast thought pierced through the layers of deathly qi!

"Heavenly stars, hear my command!" Han Wuxian's voice, like an imperial decree, echoed through the void!

Rumble!

As if answering his summons, the heavy deathly clouds above the Meteorfall Valley were forcibly torn apart by an invisible great power! The night sky of the Eternal Evergreen Realm was revealed, the starlight shining brighter than ever! Countless tangible stellar light pillars, like subjects heeded a king's call, ignored spatial distance, pierced the deathly barrier, and poured down from the nine heavens!

The target was not the corpse demon, but the Reverse Life-Death Wheel disc before Han Wuxian that was locked in stalemate with the bone claw!

Hiss!

Like a red-hot branding iron plunged into icy water! Countless stellar light pillars precisely poured into the disc! The disc, on the verge of shattering, instantly blazed with ten-thousand-zhang light, its volume swelling a hundredfold! Its rotation speed surged to the extreme, the central star core power becoming a black hole that devours all, while the edge chaotic lightning fire roared like a thunder dragon!

Reverse power surged!

"Break!"

Han Wuxian thrust both arms forward! The terrifying disc, fused with vast heavenly star power, star core essence, chaotic tribulation lightning, and the reverse life-death dao rhyme, erupted with the might to shatter the heavens!

Crack crack crack!

The bone claw imbued with deathly law, like fragile glass, shattered inch by inch! Annihilated! Not a trace of residue remained!

"Ah!!!" The corpse demon emitted a mournful, despairing wail, its entire body enveloped by the disc's emanating reverse power! Its writhing deathly mist melted away like boiling water on snow, the dark green roots embedded in the void earth snapping and withering inch by inch! The dark purple crystal chip embedded in its brow trembled violently, emitting a dying wail on the verge of shattering!

The disc's residual force undiminished, it slammed hard into the corpse demon's chest!

Pfft!

No earth-shaking explosion. The corpse demon's withered, desiccated chest, as if cast into the river of reversed time, saw its rotting flesh turn to ash in the stellar true fire, then, under the reverse power's influence, strangely reveal faint yet pure traces of life! The lingering soul of the tomb guardian, lodged deep within the remains and contaminated by the Nine Nether crystal, under the dual purification of stellar fire and reverse power, sighed with relief, its final obsession utterly dissipated.