Chapter 1254

He skillfully mastered the Returning to Void Power, combined with the lingering Silence Extinction aura inside the cave dwelling, spent several days, and meticulously constructed a phantom body that possessed his faint aura and simulated the state of struggling against the Heavenly Dao Forbidden Seal's suppression, placing it deep within the cave dwelling. As long as it is not closely examined at close range, it can pass as genuine for a period of time.

At the same time, through a barely noticeable backdoor he had secretly left while helping the Heavenly Craft Sect repair their teleportation array, he quietly transmitted an extremely faint thought about his possible "Dao injury relapsing, falling into deep silence." He knew the Heavenly Craft Sect was not monolithic, and this news would soon spread through various channels.

After doing all this, Han Wuxian was mentally and physically exhausted; the Heavenly Dao Forbidden Seal on his brow even appeared somewhat dim due to the successive "small moves," a sign of excessive energy consumption. But he knew he could wait no longer.

That night, the moon was dark and the wind high.

Han Wuxian finally glanced at the cave dwelling that had imprisoned and sheltered him for ten years, his eyes calm and waveless. He put on the "Returning Silence Pendant," covered his face with the "Myriad Desires Mask" that flowed with phantom desires, and his aura instantly became faint, as if merging into the night, indistinguishable from the mountains, stones, plants, and trees.

He did not use any escape light, but like a ghost, relying on his perception of minute spatial fluctuations and ultimate control of his own power, he glided silently away from the Myriad Soul Mountain Range, heading toward the extreme west direction indicated by the Star Evolution Venerable, beginning a long and covert trek.

Shortly after his departure, several powerful divine senses swept over the Myriad Soul Mountain Range again, lingering briefly on the carefully arranged phantom body, finding nothing abnormal, then slowly receded. Only a handful of the utmost top existences, such as the Star Evolution Venerable, might possibly detect that almost imperceptible, receding "void" trajectory, but they merely observed it in silence and did not make a fuss.

The journey was far more arduous than imagined.

Unable to employ great magical power to hurry, Han Wuxian could only rely on his flesh and will, crossing vast mountains and rivers, deserts, and even some perilous dead lands. Although the "Returning Silence Pendant" and "Myriad Desires Mask" could conceal him, continuously activating them was a burden on his already scant origin. He had to act like the most cautious traveler, avoiding unnecessary trouble, relying on the "Heart Mirror" to foresee danger in advance, and relying on precise calculations of resources to maintain his condition.

He had seen villages utterly distorted by residual desire, transformed into monsters that devoured each other; he had passed through swamps filled with natural decay aura that could instantly turn a Nascent Soul Cultivator's hair white; he had also narrowly avoided detection by some keenly perceptive primeval strange beasts, escaping only by using the "Silence Void Talisman" to warp space.

Along the way, he continually verified and adjusted his cognitive model. He observed how "desire," "vitality," and "Return to Void" manifested and balanced in different environments, recording the strength variations of Heavenly Dao Order power across regions. He found that the closer he got to the extreme west, the vitality of heavenly and earthly spirit seemed to wane, but a deeper, icy "foundation" law became increasingly clear.

Time passed in the lonely and perilous journey. One year, two years...

When Han Wuxian, after enduring hardships, finally set foot on a desolate region seemingly isolated by an invisible barrier, where the sky perpetually hung with distorted starlight and light, and the earth was covered with strange crystal veins, he knew

Star Fall Valley, he had arrived.

Standing at the mouth of the canyon that seemed torn apart by immense force, permeated with chaotic and deathly stillness, Han Wuxian could clearly feel that the Heavenly Dao Forbidden Seal on his brow was markedly weakened here—as if this place's "abnormal order" interfered with its connection to the main heavenly dao rules.

Yet at the same time, a massive sense of crisis stemming from life's instinct flooded his whole body like icy water. What permeated here were the chaotic, violent law fragments left after the death of stars, the eternal battlefield where light and darkness intertwine and annihilate, a forbidden land even united dao cultivators dare not lightly tread.

Han Wuxian took a deep breath, suppressed his palpitations, adjusted the "Myriad Desires Mask" on his face so its emanations more closely matched the valley's chaotic desire remnants, then stepped into that bizarre, peril-ridden Star Fall Valley.

Upon entering Star Fall Valley, Han Wuxian felt as if he had pierced a viscous, icy, invisible membrane. The external wind sounds and faint noises of spirit energy flow vanished instantly, replaced by an absolute, heart-pounding silence. It was not that there was no sound, but that all sounds seemed to be absorbed by the space itself.

The sky was no longer its familiar color, but presented a twisted, slowly shifting vortex of dark purple and deep gray intertwined; the suspended "stars" did not emit light, but resembled scars in the space, continually oozing icy, deathly still alien energy. The ground had a dull metallic texture, covered with jagged, bone‑like strange crystals that, when stepped on, emitted a dull thud like striking rotting wood.

What most shocked Han Wuxian's mind and spirit was the chaos of the laws in this place.

In the outside world, heavenly and earthly laws, though vast and inscrutable, still have traces to follow, like a rushing river with a defined riverbed. Here, however, the laws are like a shattered mirror—countless fragments mixed together, conflicting, annihilating, and oddly fusing. Space is distorted: one step may feel normal gravity, the next may suddenly lose weight or bear several times the pressure; the flow of time also seems uneven, with some areas where light and shadow shift extremely fast, while others seem to have frozen.

The light of the Heavenly Dao Forbidden Seal on his brow had indeed dimmed considerably; the constant, soul‑deep suppressive feeling was reduced by more than half. But in its place came the pervasive erosion and threat emanating from this very environment of chaotic laws.

A seemingly tranquil dark shadow swept past; Han Wuxian, forewarned by the "Heart Mirror," shifted sideways in advance. The shadow struck a massive crystal beside him, which silently crumbled to powder—not annihilated, but as if its internal structure had undergone instantaneous weathering accelerated by eons of time.

A wisp of drifting mist that exuded a soft stellar glow approached; Han Wuxian felt a chill run down his spine and hastily dodged. Where the mist passed, space trembled slightly, leaving a sweet yet lethal sinking connotation that seemed capable of luring the soul to eternal slumber.

"The law fragments here actually contain such extreme 'termination' imagery... time acceleration, eternal slumber, structural collapse..." Han Wuxian felt a chill in his heart and became even more cautious. He pushed the "Returning Silence Pendant" to its utmost, making his whole body like a "ghost" that does not exist in this moment; at the same time, he slightly adjusted the "Myriad Desires Mask" to simulate vibrations close to the valley's pervasive "unwilling" and "icy" desires left after stellar silence extinction, to reduce the chance of being actively attacked by any possibly conscious law fragments present here.

He dared not go deep, merely moving slowly at the edge of the canyon, using the "Heart Mirror" to carefully observe and analyze everything around him.

The "Heart Mirror" played a crucial role here. It helped him discern from the seemingly lawless chaos the attributes, strength, and flowing "trend" of different law fragments. He found that these broken laws were not completely disordered; they seemed drawn to some core deep in the canyon, like iron filings to a magnet, though the process was filled with violence and uncertainty.

"Core... perhaps that is the source of the 'abnormal order' spoken of by the Star Evolution Venerable?" Han Wuxian gazed toward the canyon's depths, where heavier distorted halos and shattered spacetime fissures enveloped the area, emitting an aura that made the soul tremble.

He knew that, given his current state, rashly approaching the core would be tantamount to suicide. He needed to adapt first, and moreover... to draw in.

He conceived an extremely daring plan.

He found a relatively "stable" area—here the law conflicts were less intense, mainly permeated with two kinds of law fragments: "eternal ice" and "structural fragility." He sat cross‑legged, not cultivating, but carefully guiding his severely restricted Returning to Void Power so its frequency resonated extremely subtly with the "structural fragility" law fragments.

What he needs to do is not to absorb these chaotic Law Fragments—that would instantly burst him—and not to oppose them—that would invite a more violent backlash. What he needs to do is, like the most precise filter, using his own Return to the Void Dao as a basis, to analyze and simulate, within these Law Fragments, the relatively 'pure' aspects of meaning related to 'termination', and take them as a special kind of 'nutrient' to nourish and stimulate his own Great Dao foundation that has been sealed.

This is an unprecedented attempt! It is equivalent to using the external chaotic 'termination' power to strike at the internal blockade set up by the Heavenly Dao Forbidden Seal!