Chapter 1134: Sword Sound

The Star Map Fragment on his back erupted at this moment with unprecedented, supernova‑like blazing light! It was no longer mere starlight, but a destructive radiance burning with cyan‑blue flames! The blood‑red cracks on the fragment's surface were instantly engulfed and concealed by this light! The entire fragment seemed to become a blazing cyan sun!

The price was horrific! The very essence of the fragment's existence burned and vaporized at a terrifying speed! Han Wuxian's body surface also sprouted countless fine cracks, blood mingling with the burning stellar flame oozing out! His hair turned gray‑white at a visible rate! The breath of life rushed away madly!

But in return came an unimaginable force, bearing a resolute will to annihilate, which erupted with a thunderous blast!

"Anyone who blocks me dies!!!"

The figure blazing with cyan flames no longer dodged or hesitated! He became a destructive meteor that pierced the void, trailing a long cyan flame tail, ignoring the terrifying attacks of several dark‑purple skeletal formations ahead, and, at a speed beyond limits, barreled head‑first toward the massive, filth‑entwined black Return‑to‑Void Boundary Monument, resolutely... crashing into it!

At the base of the monument, the core region where filthy roots coil! It is also the spot where the untainted "Heart of Return‑to‑Void"—the possible location of the unpolluted core within the Star Torch's main seal—may reside!

The dark‑purple attacks of those skeletal pursuers had already been unleashed! Several streams of destructive energy instantly intertwined, forming a death net intended to crush the burning meteor completely!

The burning cyan meteor collided with the filth‑woven death net in the dead silence of the void, with a thunderous impact!

The meteor blazing with cyan flames, dragging its long self‑consuming tail, with a resolve beyond life and death, brazenly slammed into that death net interlaced with putrid death energy!

Time seemed stretched and frozen at this moment.

In Han Wuxian's eyes, the world reduced to the massive net of dark‑purple destructive energy ahead and, beyond that net, the huge, cold Return‑to‑Void Boundary Monument entwined with countless filthy roots! His senses, sharpened by the blaze, could "hear" the core of the Star Map Fragment humming heroically and loudly within the cyan flames, could "see" the fragment's essence streaming away like melting stars, and could "feel" his life, soul, and Dao Foundation burning fiercely in this relentless charge!

No fear, only the resolve to incinerate everything!

"Starfire never extinguishes!!!" he let out his final roar from deep within his soul!

Boom!!!!!!!

The destructive collision erupted at the heart of the dead‑silent void sea!

There was no earth‑shaking blast, only a silent roar of space being annihilated by extreme energy, the laws forcibly twisted! The raging energy shockwave surged like a massive solid ring wave, sweeping outward instantly! Wherever it passed, nearby drifting star‑skeleton fragments were silently reduced to dust, and the violent spatial turbulence was forcibly smoothed out, erased!

The filthy giant net formed by those dark‑purple skeletons erupted with a dazzling dark‑purple glare the instant it touched the cyan meteor! The putrid death energy frantically corroded and erased the cyan star flame! The cyan star flame, like the purest purifying fire, stubbornly burned and dispelled the filth!

Heh heh heh!

The violent sound of energy being erased rang like the hissing of countless poisonous snakes! Cyan and dark‑purple crazily intertwined, cancelled, and devoured each other! The cyan meteor's speed sharply dropped at a visible rate, its surface light dimming rapidly! The Star Map Fragment's burning lament reached its peak, the previously concealed blood‑red crack on its surface reappeared, spreading across the fragment like a spiderweb in an instant!

"Crack!" a faint yet clear shattering sound rang deep within Han Wuxian's soul! It was a portent that the Star Map Fragment was about to disintegrate completely!

However, at the instant when the cyan meteor's light was about to be wholly devoured by the dark‑purple giant net, and the Star Map Fragment was about to turn into one ten‑thousandth of stardust,

Hum...

A low, distant tremor, as if coming from the end of eternity, rose without warning from the deepest part of that massive black Return‑to‑Void Boundary Monument!

That tremor was not a sound, but a pulse of space itself!

With that pulse, the space ahead of Han Wuxian, whose body burned with cyan star flame and was about to strike the dark‑purple giant net, warped and folded strangely!

It was not teleportation; rather, space itself, as if alive, actively "cleared" a path for him! That path did not go around the net but directly... pierced the spatial layer covered by the net, as if the two existed in different dimensions!

The burning cyan meteor, at the moment the dark‑purple giant net was about to close and devour, passed through like an illusion, unimpeded...!

The violet flames in the eye sockets of several dark‑purple skeletons flickered violently, full of shock and disbelief! Their gathered destructive attack seemed to strike nothing!

And Han Wuxian only felt the scene before his eyes suddenly warp and shift!

He did not collide with the surface of the boundary monument tangled with filthy roots, but... entered the interior of that massive black obelisk!

Cold! Dead silence! Absolute darkness!

It was Han Wuxian's first sensation. As if he had instantly fallen into the deepest ice cavern of the cosmos, all perception stripped away, even his own burning cyan star flame seemed devoured and frozen by this pure darkness!

No sound, no light, no sense of time passing, even no feeling of his own existence! Only a suffocating heaviness, as if bearing the Silence Extinction of all heavens and realms—a void breath!

"Return‑to‑Void... interior?" a thought flashed through Han Wuxian's fading consciousness. Is this the monument's core? The "Heart of Return‑to‑Void" that the Star Torch's main seal points to?

Just as his awareness was about to be utterly frozen and Assimilation by this absolute dead silence and void,

Clang!!!

A clear, lofty, supreme sword sound that cleaves eternal solitude suddenly rang out in this absolute dark void!

Han Wuxian recognized this sword sound! It was the supreme stellar sword intent that steadied the star power in the stone chamber and guided his rebirth. Yet now, the sword sound was purer, more fundamental, bearing a… sorrowful longing for home and a resolute guardianship!

With the sword sound, the absolute darkness was torn apart!

A speck of light lit up in the "front" of Han Wuxian's sinking consciousness

It was not starlight nor fire, but a... broken stone tablet!

The stone tablet was wholly a warm, chaotic gray that seemed to absorb all light, its material similar to the monument's outer shell yet more restrained and profound. It stood just over a person tall, its edges riddled with uneven breaks, as if torn from a larger being. On its surface there were no characters or patterns, only a... deep, straight sword scar!

That sword scar ran through the entire stone tablet! Its shape matched exactly the supreme sword intent phantom imprinted on the stone chamber's dome!

At this moment, the sword scar that had lain dormant for countless ages emitted a gentle yet resilient... cyan glow! Its hue matched the cyan star flame of the core of Han Wuxian's burning Star Map Fragment, of the same origin and nature!