Chapter 1181

Heavenly Pivot Child shouted loudly, the Star Seal reappeared, drawing boundless starlight from the Star Marrow Sea, transforming into a giant hand that grabbed at those black crystals, attempting to destroy and uproot them!

However, just as the starlight giant hand was about to touch the crystal,

Hum!!

The entire star gate platform shuddered violently! The light of the central chaotic aperture blazed brightly!

An indescribably, overwhelmingly domineering repelling force field erupted suddenly, slamming hard into Heavenly Pivot Child's starlight giant hand!

Boom!

Heavenly Pivot Child's whole body shuddered violently, he grunted, and was actually flung back several steps by the recoil of that force, the starlight giant hand instantly dissipating! His face showed an incredulous expression: 'What tremendous power! Is this star gate... protecting itself?'

'Not self-protection.' Han Wuxian stared fixedly at the patterns eroded by the Eternal Darkness power, his voice icy, 'The Eternal Darkness power has already preliminarily seized part of the star gate's authorization, forming a defense mechanism! Forcibly destroying it could provoke a fiercer backlash or even an explosion!'

He stepped forward a pace, the light of the Source Star Core at his brow flowing, sensing carefully: 'They are using these crystals to forcibly twist the star gate's energy nature toward the Silence Extinction side, attempting to bypass the normal activation rules and force open a temporary passage! Though it cannot last long, it is enough for them to transmit something over, or… to lure something over!'

As if to confirm his words, the chaotic light at the center of the star gate suddenly spun violently, forming a vortex! From deep within the vortex came a grating sound of space being torn, and faintly, one could see a gray, dead, shattered starry scene—certainly nowhere in the Heavenly Yuan Realm!

At the same time, a cold, mechanical, emotionless voice intermittently transmitted from the vortex, speaking in some extremely ancient language, yet both present could understand its meaning through divine sense.

'They're going to drop something over!' Heavenly Pivot Child exclaimed in shock.

Han Wuxian's eyes flashed with cold light, without hesitation!

'We cannot let it come over! Nor can we let it fully open!'

He suddenly pressed his hands toward the star gate platform, the Source Star Core in his dantian operating at an unprecedented power! He no longer tried to destroy those black crystals, but sought to forcibly intrude into the star gate's control system with the primordial stellar power of the Source Star Core, contending with the Eternal Darkness power for control of this area!

'Source Star Core! Reverse Assimilation!'

Chaotic-colored radiance surged forth from Han Wuxian's body like a tide, pouring into the ancient patterns of the star gate platform!

Zizzle!

Two forces, vastly different in nature yet both originating from stellar power, engaged in fierce contention upon the ancient star gate patterns! One side was the dead, barren Eternal Darkness Silence Extinction essence; the other was the all-encompassing, evolving stellar primordial source that breeds and extinguishes myriad things.

The star gate platform trembled violently, its light flickering unpredictably—sometimes gray and dead, sometimes chaotic brilliance. The central vortex became extremely unstable, the process of opening the passage being forcibly interfered with and delayed!

At the other end of the vortex, that Eternal Darkness power seemed to have gone all out, a greater surge of Silence Extinction essence pouring through the black crystals, fiercely resisting the intrusion of the Source Star Core!

Han Wuxian's forehead veins bulged, his body slightly trembling, bearing immense pressure. This level of contest pits the depth of one's understanding of stellar law and the essential tier of power against each other, extremely perilous; a slight misstep could invite a terrifying backlash from the star gate's power!

Heavenly Pivot Child watched anxiously from the side, yet dared not intervene rashly, fearing his own stellar attribute might differ and only add chaos. He could only fully mobilize the power of the Star Marrow Sea, continuously infusing it into Han Wuxian to aid his support.

Stalemate! A dangerous stalemate!

Han Wuxian, relying on the stature of the Source Star Core, barely managed to hold back the opponent's surging Silence Extinction essence, even gradually reversing and purifying the contaminated patterns bit by bit. But the opposing force seemed endless and extraordinarily stubborn!

At this tense moment

Han Wuxian's Source Star Core within his dantian suddenly gave a slight tremor, transmitting a faint yet intensely intimate and yearning thought, pointing toward one direction of the star gate platform where among the twelve broken stone pillars, the shortest and most inconspicuous one!

At the same time, the Star Patrol Torch in Han Wuxian's bosom spontaneously emitted a faint hum!

'That is…' Han Wuxian, struck by inspiration, extended a thread of divine sense to scan that stone pillar.

Only see that near the base of the stone pillar, a thick layer of star dust and traces of time covered it, but under the resonance of the Source Star Core and the Star Patrol Torch, that grime quietly fell away, revealing a shallow, almost polished groove on the pillar's surface.

The shape of that groove… actually perfectly matched Han Wuxian's Star Patrol Torch in his hand, as well as the Source Star Core within his dantian!

A crazy thought instantly flashed through Han Wuxian's mind!

Could it be… that this ancient star gate is not damaged, but… missing its most core activation component?

And the Star Patrol Torch and the Source Star Core… are precisely that missing component?!

Exactly! The Star Patrol Torch can sense the wound in the world barrier, the Source Star Core commands the stellar primordial source! They are fundamentally the key to activating this star gate…

The ancient Star Palace obtained them, yet possibly never fully understood their true purpose, merely regarding them as treasured heirlooms! And Eternal Darkness, obviously knows this secret! They have spared no effort to acquire these two items, not merely to destroy, but to… completely dominate this star gate!

In a flash of lightning and stone, Han Wuxian made his decision!

Let's gamble!

He suddenly shouted at Heavenly Pivot Child: 'True Person! Lend me your strength, hold for three breaths!'

Without waiting for Heavenly Pivot Child's reply, Han Wuxian's figure flickered, directly breaking free from the contest with the Eternal Darkness power, instantly appearing before that short stone pillar!

This move was undoubtedly extremely risky; losing his resistance, the Eternal Darkness Silence Extinction essence instantly swept across a large area of patterns, the vortex at the star gate's center suddenly steadied considerably, and the passage's stability began to rapidly recover!

Within the vortex, a gray tendril composed purely of Silence Extinction energy, covered in evil eyes, was struggling to thrust out!

Heavenly Pivot Child's eyes nearly burst, he roared, driving the Star Seal and his own stellar power to the extreme, transforming into layers of light curtains placed before the vortex, attempting to block the tendril's protrusion, buying time for Han Wuxian!

And Han Wuxian, under the gaze of countless onlookers, performed an act that left everyone who saw it bewildered.

He first waved his hand, precisely embedding the Star Patrol Torch into that groove!

Hum! The Star Patrol Torch's azure light surged, creating a strong resonance with the stone pillar!

Immediately thereafter, he pressed his fingers together like a sword and directly pointed at his own dantian!

'Source Star Core… emerge!'

His face turned pale, a thread of primordial essence blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, yet a chaotic-colored pearl phantom, containing the endless mysteries of stellar birth and death, was forcibly drawn from his dantian's qi sea and slowly fell onto the Star Patrol Torch above the groove!