Chapter 1130: The Gloomy Long Corridor

The gale, cold and dead‑silent, scented with dense spatial dust, swept over Han Wuxian's body the instant he rushed into the passage, like billions of invisible bone‑scraping steel blades! This is no ordinary wind, but the "spatial turbulence" unique to an area where the spatial structure is extremely unstable! The wind carries fine, faintly glowing spatial fragments and stellar dust, enough to easily tear through a cultivator's protective aura.

Yet Han Wuxian's body merely flickered! The Stellar Sword Body began to circulate on its own, the star patterns beneath his skin surfacing, forming an exceptionally tough Stellar Force Field! The lethal tiny fragments struck the field, emitting a rain‑like clatter of "ding‑dang" sounds, each rebounded or vanished, leaving only faint white streaks. Only the larger, irregular Star Husk Fragments, bearing heavy impact, caused him to feel a genuine tremor, his qi and blood rippling slightly.

"What a powerful sword body!" Han Wuxian thought admiringly, while a warning bell rang in his mind. This is merely the aftershock at the entrance!

He steadied himself, hovering within this bizarre spatial passage. Before him was not a straight tunnel, but a dark corridor stretching endlessly, formed from countless broken massive Stellar Tracks! These tracks resembled the twisted, ripped backbone of a star river, exuding a cold metallic or jade‑like texture, their surfaces covered with ancient, shattered runes.

They floated in absolute darkness, not fully connected but separated by massive, bottomless fracture zones! Within the fractures, violent spatial turbulence surged and collided like colorful poisonous snakes, emitting a thunderous, low rumble that exuded an aura of total annihilation! Farther away, some huge, twisted fragments resembling stellar wreckage drifted and rotated slowly in the void, radiating a wave of dead silence.

The gravity field inside the passage was equally chaotic! At times it felt like a thousand‑ton boulder crushing down, at others like falling into a bottomless abyss with weightlessness, and sometimes a bizarre lateral pull tried to drag him into the adjacent spatial turbulence! The air was thick with metallic rust and the lingering radiation of extinguished stars, and… a faint yet stubborn trace of Nine Nether Death Qi! Clearly, this fractured Star Path could not entirely escape the corrupt erosion.

"Is this the Star Path to the Return Ruins? No, this is clearly a wreckage road to Hell!" Han Wuxian's gaze grew heavy. The power of his Stellar Sword Body gave him the means to survive here, but the dangers ahead far exceeded his imagination.

He hesitated not a moment, his form turning into a pale silver streak, skimming carefully along the relatively "intact" Stellar Track debris toward the depths. He dared not rush, his perception heightened to the limit, the Stellar Sword Intent acting like invisible feelers, keenly detecting the tiniest ripples in the surrounding spatial force fields.

"Left‑front, the spatial folds are abnormal, there's an invisible spatial fissure!" As soon as the thought formed, a thin yet razor‑sharp spatial crack, like black lightning, silently flashed a few yards ahead! Without prior detection, his previous speed would have slammed him into it, with unthinkable consequences!

He halted and side‑slid like a wraith, narrowly evading. The spatial fissure brushed his Stellar Force Field, emitting a harsh "shh‑shh" sound and leaving a shallow energy ripple.

"Upper‑right, the gravity field is about to flip violently!" The Stellar Sword Body instinctively warned of the gravitational shift. He thrust upward sharply, and almost simultaneously the previously stable gravity over the lower Stellar Track vanished, a massive lateral suction erupting from the left‑side fracture zone's turbulence! A moment's delay would have seen him swept into the maelstrom and shattered!

He moved as if dancing on a blade's edge, trudging the trap‑laden death road. Every dodge, every change of direction drained the power in his Stellar Cloud Dantian. Though the Stellar Sword Body is strong, keeping it operating and sensing the environment also demands massive energy.

He could not tell how long had passed—perhaps several hours, perhaps longer. Han Wuxian felt the rotation of his Stellar Cloud Dantian slow slightly, the energy consumption enormous. He skimmed over a relatively flat, floating massive Star Husk Fragment at the edge of the fracture zone, intending to catch his breath.

The moment his foot touched down

"Bzz…Wuh…"

A low, painful howl brimming with endless venom and madness rang out—not from outside, but directly from the Star Map Fragment embedded in his back!

It was the Corrupt Will of the Star Husk Core! It could, across distant space and even through the barrier of this fractured Star Path, follow the faint link between the Star Map Fragment and its source, projecting its malevolent intent!

The roar carried a fierce mental shock, like an invisible hammer pounding Han Wuxian's Sea of Consciousness! The Stellar Sword Body automatically shielded its master, its surface star patterns flaring brightly, bearing most of the impact, yet it still rattled his mind, golden sparks flashing before his eyes!

Worse, with that howl, the massive Star Husk Fragment beneath his feet seemed to awaken its lingering, extremely thin Nine Nether Death Qi! The dim runes on its surface twisted and writhed, turning into several black, root‑like tendrils of corrupt death qi, bearing an aura of annihilating life, lashing toward his legs like lightning!

At the same time, the previously calm fracture zone ahead erupted into violent spatial turbulence! Several thick, multicolored streams of turbulence, as if guided by an invisible hand, surged with destructive force, encircling him to strangle! It seemed the Corrupt Will's howl had activated the lingering traps here.

Pinned from inside and out! A kill‑or‑die situation!

"The lingering spirits won't disperse!" Han Wuxian's eyes blazed with astonishing sharpness! Killing intent boiled! The humiliation and rage of being hunted, corrupted, and surviving by a hair's breadth exploded at this moment!

"Break it for me!!!"

He ceased evading! His internal Stellar Cloud Dantian spun wildly at an unprecedented speed! The Star Map Fragment on his back erupted in blazing light! The vast Stellar Power, mingling with newly born, unparalleled sharp Stellar Sword Intent, instantly coalesced onto his right arm!

He pointed his fingers like a sword, without flamboyant technique, only the purest outpouring of power and will! He slashed hard at the corrupt roots thrusting upward and the spatial turbulence strangling ahead!

Clang!!!!

An ultra‑refined, blazing white Sword Gale, as if compressed from billions of stars, bearing the supreme will to cleave the Star River and cleanse the universe, erupted suddenly!

Where the Sword Gale passed, space emitted a strained moan under the burden!

The corrupt roots thrusting from below vanished silently like ice snow meeting scorching sun!

The raging spatial turbulence strangling from ahead split as if cleaved by an invisible giant blade! The multicolored torrent was brutally severed and torn! The violent energy burst outward to both sides, forming a brief energy vacuum channel!

The polluted Star Husk Fragment beneath his feet also quaked violently under the Sword Gale's aftershock, its surface cracking open huge fissures!

The might of a single sword, terrifying as this!