Chapter 1311: Cycle of Life and Death

Before High Priest Chang Wu's words even finished, the dark‑red gem atop his bone staff erupted with a darkness that Devours all light. No longer a dazzling blood light, but a depth so extreme it seemed to connect to the Nine Abyss Origin's Silence. The power of the entire "Shura Blood Prison" domain was wildly drawn out and compressed, merging into the darkness at the staff's tip. The domain itself began to turn illusory, as if all colors and energy were being sucked away by that point of darkness.

Moreover, Yan Buji clearly felt that deep within the Nether earth beneath his feet, the deathly silence that had lain dormant for ten thousand ages—a force belonging to the source of the Cycle—was being driven by Chang Wu's authority, turning into an invisible torrent that poured into the impending destructive strike.

"Nine Abyss Death Judgment, the Nether River… appears!"

High Priest Chang Wu's voice seemed to carry the resonance of the Nether Law as his staff pointed a distant finger toward Yan Buji!

"Wham"

It sounded like an illusion from deep within a soul: a murky, foul Nether River illusion, flowing with countless struggling, wailing shadows, surged out from the darkness at the staff's tip! This Nether River illusion was not real water, but a condensation of the purest Nine Abyss death aura, fragments of the Cycle Law, and the terror of countless beings toward death! Where the river passed, space did not shatter but instantly "died", turning into absolute void, even the Chaos currents were eroded and Assimilated, returning to Silence!

The Nether River illusion moved silently, yet faster than thought, instantly flooding the area where Yan Buji stood!

"Ugh—ah!"

Yan Buji's anguished roar did not arise from his flesh but directly from his Will core! This Nether River water seemed able to ignore all defenses, washing straight over his Chaos Soul! His vibrant, constantly Evolution-ing Chaos Will, before this ultimate destination of the Nether River, melted and crumbled like ice exposed to scorching sun!

More terrifying, he felt his connection to the Chaos Core and that thread of Infinity Essence growing vague! This Nether River power sought to, from the root, judge his Existence as "nothing", erasing him completely from the Cycle's scope!

The Chaos domain, under the Nether River's scourge, rapidly contracted and dimmed, emitting a strained wail. The chaotic energies he had Devoured—whether the source of the Demon Abyss or the prior Blood Curse Battle Soul power—lost all vitality before this pure Nine Abyss Death Judgment force, instead becoming catalysts that accelerated his collapse.

"No! My path is Chaos! It embraces all things, Evolution of all beings; how could it be ended by mere death!"

Yan Buji's Will, at the edge of extreme pain and collapse, let out an unyielding roar. He abruptly abandoned all external defenses, gathering the remaining Chaos Force, together with that thread of simulated Nether characteristics, back into the core's depths!

He dares a reckless gamble!

"Chaos… Return to Ruin!"

He used his own Will as a guide, the Chaos Core as a base, and that thread of Infinity Essence as a spark, forcibly merging the invading Nether River death aura with his remaining Chaos Force in the most dangerous, uncontrollable forced fusion!

This is not Evolution, but a near self‑destructive collision! He intends, within the extreme opposition of life and death, within his own "Ruin" state, to forcibly carve a new path!

"Boom!!"

Inside his Chaos Core, it seemed a primordial cataclysmic explosion occurred! The Nether River's death force and the Chaos's life force clashed like two ancient ferocious dragons, tearing and annihilating within him. Cracks riddled his body's surface, spewing chaotic light‑dark currents; his breath instantly plummeted into a abyss, as if he would disintegrate in the next moment.

High Priest Chang Wu hovered in the air, coldly watching the scene. In his view, no one could survive the Nine Abyss Origin's Death Judgment force; even this bizarre Chaos would ultimately be Assimilated into a part of the Nether River.

However, at the instant Yan Buji's breath was about to be completely extinguished

a point of ultimate, beyond light and dark "nothingness" was born from his shattered core.

Immediately, that "nothingness" expanded rapidly, becoming a brand‑new, indescribable force. It was neither pure life nor absolute Silence; rather, it seemed a blend of both, reverting to a primordial void that existed before the universe's birth, yet containing the potential to spawn everything.

The force gently rippled, and the all‑devouring Nether River illusion, upon contacting it, seemed to meet its nemesis; no longer eroding, it was instead "embraced" and "soothed", then slowly… disintegrated and was absorbed!

No longer resistance, but a higher‑level of inclusion and transmutation!

Yan Buji's shattered body, under this newborn force, began to reshape; cracks mended, his breath still weak, yet now bearing a profound, almost resonant tone with the underlying laws of the entire Youming Jie.

He slowly lifted his head; in his eyes, the left swirled like boiling Chaos, the right turned into a dead Silence abyss. He looked at the High Priest Chang Wu in the sky, whose face showed disbelief for the first time, his voice hoarse yet carrying a heart‑stirring calm:

"Chang Wu… thank you for your Nine Abyss Origin."

"Aid me… Chaos newly formed, life and death… cycle!"

He raised his hand; in his palm, a faint, grayish current slowly spiraled, seemingly containing the ultimate principle of both creation and termination.

He successfully forced a strand of the Nine Abyss death‑Silence origin into his own Chaos, taking a crucial step! Though far from his peak now, the essence of his Chaos Path had already been elevated!

High Priest Chang Wu's soul‑fire beneath his hood flared violently, the gem on his bone staff dimming slightly. The Nine Abyss power he boasted, capable of supreme death judgment, had become the opponent's breakthrough fuel?!

"Stealing the Nether authority… an unforgivable sin!"

For the first time, Chang Wu's voice carried rage and a barely perceptible dread. He realized the enemy before him posed a threat far beyond his estimate, and he must, at any cost, eradicate him before he fully matures!

Before the words finished, Yan Buji's form lunged backward with a sudden thrust, the strand of newborn Chaos current, imbued with the meaning of life‑death cycle, tearing a fine spatial rift behind him. He did not hesitate, threw himself into it, and vanished in an instant.

High Priest Chang Wu's attack missed, turning that area once more into a void of Silence. He hovered in place, his soul‑fire fixed on Yan Buji's vanished direction, staff clenched, the surrounding Nether death aura roiling violently from his fury.