Chapter 1136

A whole piece of shattered chaotic gray stone tablet suddenly burst forth with heaven‑shaking, earth‑moving light! No longer azure, but a gray‑white light of primordial chaos that embraces the birth, death, and rebirth of all things!

This light is not blinding, yet it contains an indescribable ancient and majestic aura! It instantly filled this void space! Wherever the light reached, the suffocating dead silence of the void, like melting ice and snow, was replaced by a more vast, more inclusive aura of Returning to Void Power, as if able to bear all beginnings and ends!

At the same time, a vast, pure power containing the essence of Silence Extinction and new birth surged from the sword mark on the stone tablet, following the invisible bridge left by the star‑flame of the star‑chart fragments, and thunderously poured into Han Wuxian's body, on the verge of collapse!

Returning to Void Power!

A concept, like a heavenly Dao brand, was deeply etched into the deepest part of Han Wuxian's soul!

The instant this power surged in, Han Wuxian felt as if his flesh and soul were cast into the ultimate furnace of the cosmos! An unprecedented agony swept every corner of his existence! This power was not repair, but a fundamental annihilation and reconstruction!

His exhausted nebula dantian was instantly smoothed out and returned to nothing by this power!

His newly formed star‑forged sword body, the stellar lines flowing beneath his skin, shattered inch by inch and dissolved!

The remaining meridians, bones, and flesh… all disintegrated in the gray‑white light, turning into the most primal particles!

This is true Returning to Void! Complete annihilation!

However, in this utter "death" process, the azure sword mark on the shattered stone tablet remained steadfast as ever, like a divine needle anchoring the sea, firmly securing Han Wuxian's last indestructible true spirit! While the gray‑white Returning to Void Power was completely sending him to Returning to Void, it also used that azure sword mark as a core and his last true spirit as a guide, beginning an ultimate reshaping based on the Returning to Void source!

The old star‑forged Dao Foundation was completely shattered, falling into Silence Extinction.

The new Returning to Void Sword Body, forged together from Returning to Void source and star‑forged sword intent, was difficultly coalescing point by point from absolute nothingness within the ocean of gray‑white light!

This is a process more painful than death, more perilous than Silence Extinction! The true spirit is like a lone boat struggling in a raging sea, at any moment possibly being completely assimilated by Returning to Void Power, doomed forever!

Outside the monument, a furious surge suddenly arose!

At the moment Han Wuxian vanished from the monument's surface, those several dark‑purple skeletal pursuers emitted a more violent, mad soundless howl! They clearly sensed the wave coming from inside the monument that triggered their instinctual fear and hatred! That was the aura of Returning to Void source! It was the anomaly provoked by that point of azure star‑fire!

The violet flames in the skeletons' eye sockets flared wildly, lunging heedlessly at the icy black monument! Corrupt death‑qi gathered in their rotting bone palms, condensing into a dark‑purple energy torrent capable of rending stars, carrying the grudge to annihilate all, and fiercely bombarded the Returning to Void monument!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The tremendous roar of energy shook the dead‑silent void sea! Countless corrupt tendrils entwined on the monument's surface danced wildly, dark‑purple light blazing, instinctively resisting the internal anomaly and external violent impact! The entire huge black obelisk shuddered violently, as if a slumbering ancient beast had been forcibly disturbed!

Inside the monument, the void space where the gray‑white light surged.

Under the guardianship of the azure sword mark on the shattered stone tablet.

A vague humanoid outline formed purely from Returning to Void source was painfully and slowly coalescing and taking shape.

At the outline's heart, a point of azure sword intent, like an undying star‑fire, burned stubbornly in the gray‑white ocean, guiding the direction of the reshaping.

Han Wuxian's lingering consciousness drifted between the feeling of utter annihilation and the heart‑rending pain of rebirth, clinging only to an instinctual obsession, like a candle in the wind, yet never extinguished.

In the ocean of gray‑white light, that vague humanoid outline finally coalesced into form.

No longer a fleshly body, nor a pure star‑forged form. The new sheath was wholly a deep, introverted chaos gray, as if forged from the primal 'nothing' and 'silence'. Its skin was mirror‑smooth, yet subtly flowed with an ineffable Dao resonance that seemed able to devour light. Bones, meridians, and viscera had all become wondrous structures condensed from pure Returning to Void source, holding both the power of Silence Extinction and rebirth. At the heart's position, that point of azure sword intent still burned, but was no longer isolated; instead, like a hub, it perfectly merged Returning to Void Power and the new star‑forged sword intent, flowing throughout every corner of this body.

Returning to Void Sword Body!

Han Wuxian flung his eyes open.

In his pupils, no longer the brilliance of stars, but like two abysses of Returning to Void that have lain silent for myriad ages! Deep, icy, as if able to contain the end of all things! An invisible thread of sword intent, mingled with the aura of Silence Extinction, naturally flowed as he opened his eyes, causing the very space filled with Returning to Void source to tremble slightly!

Powerful! An unprecedented sense of power filled his chest! Yet this power was not a surge of strength, but an essential elevation, an initial mastery over the sources of 'ending' and 'rebirth'! He felt as if he had become part of this Silence Extinction space; a mere gesture could summon the might of Returning to Void!

He slowly lowered his gaze to his hands. Beneath the chaos‑gray skin, power lay like a dormant volcano. A slight thought sent a pure, gray‑white stream laced with Silence Extinction sword intent coiling from his fingertips, soundless and motionless, yet containing the terrifying might to twist and annihilate space!

However, just as he was immersed in this newfound power,

Rumble!

A roar a hundred times more terrifying than any before, accompanied by a grating, massive tearing sound, suddenly came from the outside! The interior space of the Returning to Void monument shook wildly! The shattered stone tablet guarding him shuddered violently, its azure sword mark flashing erratically!

Outside! Those several dark‑purple skeletons together with the corrupt core formed from the gathered corrupt tendrils, after their frenzied attacks proved futile, seemed to be utterly enraged by the anomaly inside the monument! A force far surpassing before, mixed with the monument's partially contaminated source, was forcibly drawn out and condensed! A mountain‑sized torrent of pure dark‑purple corrupt death‑qi, bearing the will to rend all realms with grudge, slammed fiercely into the monument's weak point!

This strike gathered the mad will of the corrupt core and the power of the monument's eroded part, its terror unmatched!

The huge black obelisk, the symbol bearing the Silence Extinction of all realms, its smooth icy surface, at the point struck by the world‑ending torrent, finally…… cracked!

A huge, hideous crack, like an ugly scar, spread upward from the monument's base! Viscous dark‑purplish corrupt death‑qi, as if finding an outlet, surged wildly from the crack, polluting the monument's own Returning to Void source! Meanwhile, inside the crack, the gray‑white Returning to Void source aura, like an uncontrolled flood, dragged countless shattered Law Fragments and violently poured outward!

The monument, the ultimate barrier guarding the reincarnation of all realms, began to disintegrate under the assault from within and without!

"No!" Han Wuxian's heart jolted! He could clearly hear the lament from the shattered stone tablet! The azure sword mark's light was being fiercely consumed, resisting the corrupt invasion and the backlash from the monument's collapse!

What made his eyes nearly burst was that, as the monument cracked, deep within that huge fissure, amidst the chaotic torrent where corrupt death‑qi and Returning to Void source intertwined, there appeared…… countless twisted strands, flashing with the light‑shadows of different worlds…… spatial passages!