Chapter 1131: Polluted Will

However, after Han Wuxian swung this sword, his figure swayed slightly and his face instantly paled a few degrees. The light of the nebula in his dantian noticeably dimmed! This sword contained the power of his newly born star-sword intent and the star chart fragments, its might was peerless, but the consumption was also enormous!

He did not dare to linger, taking advantage of the brief gap where the turbulence ahead had been cut open, he turned into a stream of light and passed through that energy vacuum channel at the fastest speed!

Just as he passed through the channel and landed on a new, relatively stable star-orbit platform

In the dark depths of the void ahead, the scene suddenly changed!

No longer were there endless broken star tracks and violent turbulence.

But rather a……dead silent void sea!

This void sea is boundless, with no starlight, only absolute, suffocating darkness. At the center of this darkness floats a……black obelisk so huge it is unimaginable!

The obelisk is pitch black all over, its material neither metal nor stone nor jade, as if condensed from pure 'void', swallowing all light. Its height cannot be estimated, its base is as wide as a star, tapering upward, piercing straight into the endless dark depths. The surface of the obelisk is extremely smooth, without any pattern, yet it exudes an ancient, heavy aura, as if bearing the terror of the myriad realms' reincarnation and the heavens' extinction.

Merely catching a distant glimpse of its outline made Han Wuxian feel his soul tremble! A sense of insignificance and awe born from life's instinct welled up within him! The star power naturally circulating in his star-sword body seemed to be suppressed, becoming sluggish!

"Return to the Ruins… Boundary Monument!" Han Wuxian's heart pounded wildly, almost leaping out of his chest! The coordinates imprinted deep in his soul resonated violently! It is it! The secret that the Star Torch Commander would give his life to protect, the key to opposing the Polluted Core!

But immediately after, an even colder, more desperate aura enveloped him.

This huge black obelisk is not intact!

On its pitch-black body that devours all light, countless thick, twisted, writhing polluted roots like living things were coiled! These roots displayed a dark purple deeper and more viscous than that of the star skeleton core, exuding a rich, nauseating Nine Nether deathly qi and……an even older, more evil will!

They were like bone-burrowing maggots, deeply embedded in the monument's 'body', greedily sucking up some ineffable power! The area of the monument entwined by the roots, its pure black seemed 'contaminated', showing a sickly, ominous dark purple hue!

What made Han Wuxian's scalp tingle even more was that, near the core area where those polluted roots clung at the base of the monument, there seemed to be……traces of battle?

Some huge metal fragments, flickering with dim starlight, were scattered in the void, the fragments retaining fierce sword marks, their aura……actually somewhat resembling his newly born star-sword intent! And beside the largest few fragments, faintly visible were several skeletons covered in dark purple crystals, their postures twisted! The shattered armor on the skeletons still bore faint traces of star patterns.

"Someone has been here! Not just one! They……failed?!" Han Wuxian's heart surged with tumultuous waves. The Star Torch Commander is not the only one who knows this place! But the pioneers, obviously all perished here, even……possibly corrupted into the monument's 'guards'?

Just as his mind and spirit were violently shaken

"Hum……roar……"

The huge black monument seemed to be startled by his arrival! The countless polluted roots coiled around it suddenly blazed with piercing dark purple light! An aura of pollution, a hundred times more terrifying than the star skeleton core, filled with endless madness, greed, and destructive will, like an awakened ancient ferocious demon, erupted violently from deep within the monument, instantly locking onto Han Wuxian on the distant star-orbit platform!

At the same time, at the base of the monument, those several skeletons covered in dark purple crystals, their hollow eye sockets suddenly ignited two points of the same dark purple flame, full of vengeful toxicity and slaughter! They stiffly, with a metallic screech, slowly……rose to their feet! In their hands, weapons of various forms condensed from polluted deathly qi, dark purple in color, pointed far away at Han Wuxian!

"Hum……roar……"

The polluted roar emanating from the depths of the huge black monument was not a sound wave, but a direct surge of mad will acting on the soul's origin, mixed with the despairing wails of countless beings! It was like a substantive, viscous, icy dark tide, instantly engulfing Han Wuxian's mind and spirit!

"Ugh!" Han Wuxian felt as if struck by a ten-thousand-jin hammer! From his seven orifices, pale gold blood mixed with faint starlight burst forth instantly! The star radiance shield naturally circulating in his star-sword body violently fluctuated, emitting a groan of being overburdened! He felt as if thrown into the lowest layer of the Nine Nether purgatory, countless resentful thoughts frenziedly tearing at his will, seeking to assimilate and devour him!

Merely the locking of that aura almost made him lose his mind! The polluted will deep within the monument is more terrifying than the star skeleton core by far more than a hundredfold! Its evil, antiquity, and madness completely exceed the limits of his cognition!

An even more deadly attack followed in quick succession!

At the base of the monument, those several skeletons covered in dark purple crystals, with eye sockets burning vengeful purple flames, moved!

Their stiff movements, driven by polluted power, burst forth with a terrifying speed far beyond imagination! No sound, only a faint sharp whine of space being torn! Several attacks of dark purple, condensed from pure polluted deathly qi,

either like twisted spears, or like rift-splitting giant blades, or like black-hole vortices that devour everything

Ignoring the distant void distance, like instantaneous teleportation, they descended in an instant onto the star-orbit platform where Han Wuxian stood!

Even before the attacks arrived, the terrifying aura of annihilating life and polluting all things already caused Han Wuxian's surrounding starlight to dim dramatically, his skin feeling the excruciating pain of being pierced by millions of poisonous needles!

"I can't block it!" A clear thought exploded in Han Wuxian's chaotic sea of consciousness, shaken by the mad will! These skeletons, in life, were absolutely not weaker than, and possibly even surpassed, the terror of the Star Torch Commander! Their power, retained after contamination, combined with the monument's polluted origin boost, is absolutely not something his newly born star-sword body can withstand head-on!

Flee! Must flee!

The instinct to survive overwhelmed the urge to clash head-on! Han Wuxian's eyes flashed with a fierce light, enduring the soul-rending pain, his internal nebula dantian reversed at an unprecedented speed in a frenzy! The star chart fragments on his back burst forth with blinding light, not an attack, but……a detonation of space!

He fiercely slammed both palms down onto the star-orbit platform beneath him! Gathering his entire body's star-sword intent and newly born spatial affinity, he transformed it into a violent, directional rending energy, which he violently injected!

Boom——!!

The already battered star-orbit platform, under the terrifying force of internal and external blows, like a ignited powder keg, instantly exploded from within! Countless huge metal fragments mixed with violent spatial energy shot out in all directions like a blooming death flower! The massive explosion shockwave and chaotic spatial turbulence instantly disturbed the field of that area, forming a brief but violent barrier of destruction!