Chapter 1299: with translation of chapter title

"Ho... that's the feeling!" Yan Buji's lingering soul emitted a satisfied groan. He sensed the pure, untainted "Infinity" Dao resonance flowing into him, swiftly devoured and digested by his newly born Dao that fused the "Essence Method" with "I-attachment". His once-illusory lingering soul solidified at a visible speed, the dark‑red egg sac pulsed more powerfully, and its surface even began to display a faint, chaotic‑colored sheen resembling Han Wuxian's "Infinite Singularity".

He is stealing Han Wuxian's Dao practice! He uses the "Dao Initiation" network that Han Wuxian himself set up, and the cultivators who worship and pursue Han Wuxian as conduits!

One diminishes, the other grows!

Han Wuxian expends his heart‑and‑mind Dao Initiation on sentient beings, nourishing myriad spirits, and the essence of that nourishment is covertly stolen by Yan Buji, turned into his own fuel for regaining the summit!

"How ironic... you, Han Wuxian, cherish the world and spread Dao to all beings, yet you don't realize that each person you convert adds another wedding dress for me!" Yan Buji's will roared with wild laughter, brimming with the thrill of trampling all lofty and beautiful things, "When I have completely devoured enough of the 'Infinity' source, fully fused these strands of essence fragments, and reforged the demonic body... then I will be the new 'Infinity'! And you, Han Wuxian, will become a hollowed‑rooted... pitiful idol!"

He focused even more on manipulating those "Stealing Dao Anchors", carefully adjusting the intensity and concealment of the devouring, ensuring he would not alert Han Wuxian. He was like a parasite attached to a giant beast's blood vessel, reveling in this feast of stolen Dao offered by his opponent himself!

At the Wanji Mountain Peak, Han Wuxian slightly frowned in his meditation. He vaguely sensed that the process of the "Dao Initiation" affecting sentient beings seemed to consume more than expected, and the returning Dao resonance also carried an indescribable "void‑floating feeling". But he thought it was due to the varying foundations and levels of comprehension among the beings, and had not yet realized the hidden fangs among countless Dao Hearts that were frantically devouring his Dao Foundation's source.

The dark‑red egg sac has swollen to several times its original size; its surface is no longer simple patterns but has evolved into a blasphemous copy of the ever‑flowing, twisted "Wanji Landscape"! The star silence extinction is depicted as a painful wail, the power of stillness twisted into shackles of dead silence, and the "Infinity Embrace" essence from Han Wuxian is stained with a hue of greedy devouring.

Yan Buji's will core bathed in the continuously surging, pure "Infinity" Dao resonance, feeling his own power climb wildly at an unprecedented speed. This theft is more efficient and intoxicating than any arduous cultivation or any plunder!

"Not enough... still far from enough!" the lingering soul roared, greed endless, "The Dao resonance merely flowing through those 'anchor points' is just a trickle! I want more... a more essential connection!"

His scarlet gaze pierced layer upon layer of space‑time, fixed unflinchingly on the towering Wanji Mountain, fixed on the figure at the peak whose Dao was tightly linked to the very source of the world's silence extinction. A more insane, more daring plan took shape in his mind.

He intends to extend the stolen tendrils directly toward Han Wuxian, the Gu Jing of Wanji Mountain, and the core of this realm's silence extinction!

"Han Wuxian, you use this mountain as a base, this well as an eye, linking the world's silence extinction source, enacting 'Dao Initiation'... this is both your wellspring of power and will become your... life gate!"

He is no longer satisfied merely with extracting Dao resonance through the "Stealing Dao Anchors". He will use all "Stealing Dao Anchors" as nodes, with his own newly born Dao that fuses the "Infinity Essence" and the "Essence Method" as the hub, weaving an invisible, void‑spanning "Stealing Dao Web"!

The target of this web is not Han Wuxian himself, but the exquisitely subtle resonance channel that forms when he links heaven and earth and enacts "Dao Initiation", connecting with the Gu Jing of Wanji Mountain and the world's silence extinction source!

"Essence Method, weave the stealing Dao!"

The dark‑red egg sac throbbed violently, countless Dao law threads—extremely obscure, bearing the imprint of "I-attachment" and the traits of "Pseudo‑Infinity"—followed the connections of the "Stealing Dao Anchors", crossing endless voids, silently spreading toward Wanji Mountain. They are not attacks but, like the tiniest parasites, attempt to attach to the "Dao Resonance Torrent" that resonates between Han Wuxian and the cosmic source!

This is an extremely precise and dangerous maneuver. Once Han Wuxian detects it, the retaliation of the entire heaven‑earth silence extinction source will be triggered! Yet Yan Buji is already mad, his greed for power overwhelming any fear of risk.

Finally, the first law thread, like a leech, successfully touched and adhered to the invisible, massive Dao Resonance Torrent linking Han Wuxian and the Gu Jing of Wanji Mountain!

In an instant

"Boom!!!"

A surge of "Infinity" source power, ten to a hundred times purer and more vast than what was previously drawn through the "Stealing Dao Anchors", mixed with the world's oldest silence extinction essence, rushed like a breached dam, racing along that law thread and wildly flooding the dark‑red egg sac within the spacetime fissure!

"Ah!!!"

Yan Buji's lingering soul let out an unprecedented roar, a blend of extreme pain and extreme pleasure. The power was too massive, too pure! His newly born Dao ignited like dry wood tossed into raging flames, burning, metamorphosing, and expanding at an unprecedented speed! The dark‑red egg sac's light surged, and the blasphemous scene on its surface seemed to come alive, beginning to evolve on its own!

He felt his power tier breaking through wildly, his comprehension of "Infinity" deepening at a staggering speed, even beginning to faintly grasp the deeper mysteries of this realm's silence extinction source that Han Wuxian has not yet fully mastered!

"That's the feeling! This is the true 'Infinity'! This is... my power!" he greedily devoured, feeling the fusion between himself and the stolen "essence fragments" surge dramatically, accelerating the reforging of his demonic body.

He succeeded! He found the most crucial link in Han Wuxian's power system and, like a virus, embedded himself, directly stealing the most fundamental power from Han Wuxian's connection with the cosmic source!

At the Wanji Mountain Peak, Han Wuxian's body jolted violently! This time he clearly sensed an anomaly! Not the consumption of Dao Initiation, but the thread linking him with the Gu Jing and the cosmic source, which brought an extremely subtle yet undeniable "stagnation feeling" and "drain feeling"! It was as if something was perched on this life's umbilical cord, frantically sucking!

He snapped his eyes open, chaotic constellations in his pupils exploding with dazzling light, instantly sweeping toward the invisible network linking himself with heaven and earth.

"Found you... bug." The cold voice, tinged with a trace of blasphemous anger, cracked like thunder, reverberating on the level of law.

Within the spacetime fissure, Yan Buji's lingering soul, intoxicated by the surge of power, suddenly stiffened!