Chapter 1137: All Realms Passage

These passages are like forcibly torn wounds, extremely unstable; some lead to a fiery inferno, some to an ice‑sealed death realm of ten thousand years, some are suffused with unfamiliar starlight… They are precisely the All Realms Returning to Void nodes suppressed and organized by the boundary monument! At this moment, they have been exposed and gone out of control due to the monument's fracture!

"All Realms Passage… in chaos!" a terrifying thought surfaced. It means that the world wreckage and living souls that the monument had orderly guided into Silence Extinction will completely lose control, either being erased in disorderly turbulence or scattered into unknown corners of time and space! It also means that the power of the Corrupt Core will have a chance to pass through these uncontrolled passages, contaminating and eroding more worlds!

Roar!!!

The Corrupt Core let out a rapturous roar! Its massive dark‑purple shadow, wrapped with corrupt roots and a few skeletons, was trying to force its way into the huge fissure! If it were to fully enter the monument's interior and seize this Returning to Void core, the consequences would be unimaginable!

"Not a chance!" Han Wuxian's eyes erupted with a cold, Returning to Void‑like killing intent! The Returning to Void sword body had just formed, its power not yet stable, but he had no time!

He took a step! His figure vanished in an instant, and when he reappeared, he stood proudly before the massive monument fissure, blocking the Corrupt Core from the out‑of‑control All Realms Passage!

His chaos‑gray body stood unmoving amid the raging corrupt death‑qi and the chaotic Returning to Void turbulence! His robes had long been erased in the reshaping; now his naked form radiated Silence Extinction's sheen. His back was straight, like a sword drawn from its sheath, pointing at the corruption—the Sword of Returning to Void!

"Get lost!" a cold shout rang out, like the clash of Returning to Void ice, clear amid the chaotic energy tide.

The Corrupt Core's shadow paused briefly, then erupted with even crazier fury! It recognized that aura! It was the ant that ignited the starfire, triggered the mutation, and caused its own failure! It hadn't died? And had gained… a power that instinctively disgusted and threatened it!

"Die!" countless corrupt roots turned into tens of millions of dark‑purple poisonous dragons, interwoven with destructive beams formed by skeletal pursuers, like an apocalyptic torrent, pouring madly toward Han Wuxian at the fissure entrance! This strike contained the Corrupt Core's lethal will!

Facing this corrupt torrent capable of erasing stars, Han Wuxian's eyes showed no fear, only a Returning to Void‑like cold.

He slowly raised his right hand.

No finger‑seal, no incantation. The Returning to Void sword's power moved with his will.

Strands of ash‑white qi spiraled out from his chaos‑gray fingertips, rapidly coalescing! Not forming sword qi, but… coalescing into the nascent shape of a sword!

The blade was composed of pure Returning to Void origin, chaos‑gray, as if it could devour all light. The edge was not solid, but naturally formed from flowing, razor‑sharp Silence Extinction sword intent, emitting an aura that silently erases space. At the guard, a speck of cyan sword intent pulsed like a heart, supplying the core's will drive!

A Silence Extinction sword forged jointly from Returning to Void Power and stellar sword intent!

At the instant the corrupt torrent was about to completely devour him!

Han Wuxian seized the newly‑born Silence Extinction sword! He aimed it at the surging dark‑purple apocalyptic torrent ahead, at the massive shadow of the Corrupt Core, at those out‑of‑control All Realms Passages, wielding the full power of the newborn sword body, bearing the will of protection and termination, resolutely…

Slash!

Clang!!!!

The sword's tone was no longer clear and lofty, but carried a grand lament of All Realms Returning to Void, the termination of law!

A blade‑like spear, refined to the extreme, displaying interwoven chaos‑gray and cyan, burst from the edge of the Silence Extinction sword!

There was no earth‑shaking explosion, only a… silent erasure!

Where the spear passed, space was like a canvas erased by a rubber, silently returning to void! The raging corrupt death‑qi and destructive beams, upon touching the spear, were like ice thrown into flame—no time to struggle before being completely erased, turning into primordial void particles! The dark‑purple skeletons at the forefront crumbled and vanished like sandcastles!

The spear, still full of momentum, struck hard against the massive shadow of the Corrupt Core!

Roar!!!

The Corrupt Core let out an unprecedented wail, mixing excruciating pain and terror! Its shadow body, formed from corrupt death‑qi, melted like oil scorched by a red‑hot branding iron, vanishing a huge area instantly! Countless corrupt roots turned into ash within the ash‑white spear! The Silence Extinction sword intent and Returning to Void origin contained in the spear acted like the deadliest poison, frenziedly corroding its core will!

Its massive shadow retreated for the first time…! Overcome by uncontrollable fear, it surged backward! The entrance of the huge monument fissure was temporarily cleared!

The might of a single sword, terrifying as this!

However, after Han Wuxian slashed this sword, his form jolted violently! The newborn Returning to Void sword's light dimmed by more than half in an instant! The freshly formed Silence Extinction sword also shattered instantly, turning into strands of ash‑white qi that returned to his body. In his dantian, the "Sword Essence" condensed from the Returning to Void origin quivered violently, consuming massive energy! This slash almost drained most of the power of his nascent sword body! Forcibly driving origin power far beyond his control back‑fired with equal ferocity!

He gritted his teeth against the tearing sensation from the Sword Essence's vibration, bracing on his knee, breathing heavily. His gaze fixed on the Corrupt Core, temporarily forced back yet writhing wildly in the distance, gathering even stronger power.

Can't block! The next strike, he definitely can't block!

Must leave!

His eyes instantly swept over the deep fissure, at those out‑of‑control All Realms Passages flickering with lights from different worlds. Chaotic, dangerous, but also the only way to survive!

At that moment!

An extremely faint yet unmistakably familiar warm glow separated from the cyan sword scar on the broken guardian stone tablet, forming a speck of blue‑gray light that instantly merged into Han Wuxian's brow!

A stream of data surged into his sea of perception: a highly simplified map pointing to the coordinates of a passage suffused with dense starlight! Simultaneously, a thought laden with endless fatigue and final hope resonated:

"Lamp… lantern… retrieve… spark…"

"Live… keep going…"

It was the Star Torch Master's final lingering thought! It guided a relatively "stable" passage and entrusted the faint projection imprint of that bronze lantern to Han Wuxian!

Roar!!!

The Corrupt Core's roar drew near again! Even more ferocious corrupt death‑qi was coalescing! A new attack was imminent!

No time to hesitate!

Han Wuxian cast a final glance at the shattered stone tablet, its cyan sword‑scar light trembling violently and growing ever fainter, then glanced again at the Corrupt Core, his eyes cold as a abyss.

"This debt shall be repaid! This fire shall not extinguish!"

He no longer hesitated, mustering his final strength; the Returning to Void sword body turned into a dim gray beam, charging headlong toward the All Realms Passage suffused with starlight that the Star Torch Master had indicated, with unwavering resolve…!

The moment his figure vanished at the passage entrance

The Corrupt Core's gathered dark‑purple apocalyptic torrent, capable of destroying a star system, slammed hard at the spot where he disappeared! It turned that area completely into a violent energy dead zone!

Roar!!!

The Corrupt Core let out a roar of utmost unwillingness, wildly striking the passage entrance, trying to follow in! But the passage, extremely unstable amid the monument's collapsing energy turbulence, twisted and closed in an instant, leaving only the Corrupt Core's ferocious howl reverberating through the collapsing void.

The monument's massive fissure still remained, corrupt death‑qi continuously surged in, and the All Realms Passages flickered chaotically.

On the shattered stone tablet, the cyan sword‑scar light was as weak as a dying candle in the wind, yet still stubbornly resisted erosion.