Chapter 1108

When the roulette's light faded, only a kneeling, jade‑like crystal skeleton remained. At its brow, the dark‑purple Nine Abyss crystal chip had shattered into powder, drifting on the wind. Hovering above the skeleton's cupped hands was a pigeon‑egg‑sized crystal heart, its whole body suffused with warm starlight, its interior seeming to contain a nebula that slowly formed and vanished!

Star‑Heart fragment! After the tomb‑keeper's remains were purified, the Star‑Extending Sect's treasured heirloom, guarded for ten thousand years, finally manifested!

The dead air of the entire Star‑Fall Valley was swept away, and the plundered vitality began to flow back slowly. Withered ancient trees sprouted fresh buds, weathered rocks regained luster, and the murky stream cleared. A tranquility, delayed thirty‑thousand years and tinged with faint sorrow, enveloped the valley.

Han Wuxian fell before the skeleton, gazing at the hovering Star‑Heart fragment, his expression complex. He bowed deeply to the skeleton: "Rest in peace, senior; the Star‑Extending inheritance endures."

The moment he reached out to touch the Star‑Heart fragment

Buzz!

The fragment turned into a warm stellar flow, instantly entering his brow and plunging deep into his Sea of Cognition!

Boom!

Sea of Cognition violently trembled!

Star Core fragment, Star‑Heart fragment, and seven Star Key sigils—these three co‑originating Star‑Extending treasures converged for the first time within Han Wuxian's Sea of Cognition!

There was no repulsion, only a seamless mingling, as if billions of years of separation were finally reunited! The three circled the Star Core fragment slowly, their lights interweaving. A far purer, more vast primordial star power, seeming to contain the very birth of stars and the Silence Extinction cycle, flowed like warm spring water from his Sea of Cognition, instantly permeating Han Wuxian's entire body!

Crackle! Crackle!

The bottleneck of his early Divine Transformation shattered under the wash of this primordial star power, breaking like thin ice! His aura surged at a visible speed, instantly breaking the limits of the early Divine Transformation and steadily advancing toward its mid‑stage! On the dark‑purple star‑marrow battle armor, the chaotic thunder patterns deepened and became more restrained, faintly exuding the Dao rhythm of stellar birth and death.

More crucially, many obscure passages of the "True Explanation of the Celestial Stars" now became clear under the radiance of the three treasures' resonance! The ultimate secrets of star origins, celestial translocation, and star‑gate construction streamed into his Dao Heart like a gentle brook.

"So this is the complete Star‑Extending inheritance key…" Han Wuxian realized. The Star Key is the door, the Star Core the foundation, and the Heart of Stars the core hub that drives the star gate and summons celestial star power! Only when the three unite can one truly control the celestial star gates!

While he was immersed in this sudden surge of power and insight, an anomaly rebirthed!

Buzz!

The broken ancient star sword hovering above the skeleton suddenly emitted a clear, resonant sword tone! The blade quivered violently, its dim star markings lighting up one by one! A condensed beam of starlight shot from the tip, merging into the Star‑Heart fragment Han Wuxian had just obtained.

In an instant, a fragmented memory scene flooded Han Wuxian's mind:

A blood‑red sunset; the star vault shattered! Countless cultivators clad in star robes fought bloodily in a filthy black tide, retreating step by step. At the center, an elderly figure shrouded in a blood‑stained star robe, face blurred yet aura as deep as an abyss, wielded the intact ancient star sword, standing before a massive, unmatched bronze star gate. He turned, his gaze seeming to pierce time and space, landing on Han Wuxian, eyes filled with endless sorrow and resolve.

"Nine Abyss… is coming… star gate… coordinates…" the elder's lips moved, as if transmitting a final message.

Simultaneously, a crystal‑clear, space‑imprinted star‑map coordinate was etched into Han Wuxian's Sea of Cognition! The coordinate's destination was a perfectly intact celestial star gate hidden deep within the boundless void!

At the moment the elder transmitted the coordinate, behind the massive bronze star gate in the vision, a viscous, ink‑like Nine Abyss black tide, roiling with countless twisted mouths, had already broken through the last starlight barrier! A colossal Nine Abyss giant claw, shrouding the sky with pure filth and destruction, tore the space, bearing a terrifying pressure that could annihilate the heavens, and slammed down toward the elder and the gate!

The vision abruptly halted!

"Pfft!" Han Wuxian spat a mouthful of blood, his spirit violently shaken! The pressure of that Nine Abyss giant claw, transmitted across time and space, made the newly risen Divine Transformer feel a suffocating terror!

"A scene from thirty‑thousand years ago… the final moment of the Star‑Extending Sect's annihilation…" Han Wuxian's face grew exceedingly grim. The coordinate the elder transmitted—was it the last spark of the Star‑Extending Sect, or… a greater trap?

What chilled his heart further was that as he absorbed this memory imprint, a cold, sticky, serpentine evil sense seemed to trace the coordinate's imprint, subtly sweeping across the freshly restored tranquility of Star‑Fall Valley!

The Nine Abyss's minions… or rather a fragment of the Nine Abyss lord's will… had already sensed the coordinate's leakage!

Han Wuxian looked up and saw, on the azure firmament of the Eternal Evergreen Realm, an extremely tiny, needle‑eye‑sized dark‑purple speck that had appeared at an unknown time. A heart‑pounding, evil aura, sharing its origin with the Falling Star Abyss chip yet billions of times more vast, seeped extremely slowly from that speck!

Though exceedingly weak and slow, it was… eroding the world's barrier! The Nine Abyss's power was attempting to truly descend into this realm!

"It's too late…" a cold star‑like glint flashed in Han Wuxian's eyes. He seized the broken ancient star sword from the ground, the blade icy cold, bearing an unyielding lament. His other hand pressed to his chest, feeling the resonance of the three treasures within his Sea of Cognition.

Star‑gate coordinates secured, Nine Abyss approaching. Here, the Eternal Evergreen Realm is no longer a place to linger!

He no longer hesitated; his star‑spirit surged fully within his dantian's star field! The Star Core fragment, Star‑Heart fragment, and seven Star Key sigils erupted simultaneously, blasting dazzling light! The vast primordial star power, following the just‑learned star‑gate construction method, surged madly toward his hands!

"Celestial star power, hear my command! In my name, open the star gate!"

Han Wuxian raised both hands, gripping the broken sword, and slashed fiercely into the void before him, a powerful strike.

Sizzle!

An ultra‑refined star beam burst from the sword's tip! The space ahead tore as if ripped from cloth, forming a star‑light vortex about a zhang in diameter, slowly taking shape amid violent space tremors! At the vortex's center lay deep darkness, a passage to an unknown shore.

Yet, at the instant the star gate was about to stabilize…

Boom!

The entire Star‑Fall Valley quaked and roared! The newly opened star‑light vortex twisted violently, its edge star‑runes flickering erratically, as if about to collapse!

The star beam from the broken sword collided hard with the filthy giant claw's phantom, and Han Wuxian was struck as if by lightning, blood spurting wildly, his body rebounded by the massive force, flinging him into the violently twisted star‑light vortex!