Chapter 1337: Return to True Is the Beginning

They have no intention to communicate; when a strike misses, they immediately launch another attack. Their movements are stiff yet incredibly swift—fists, palms, claws, or stone spikes peeled from their bodies—all imbued with a dense aura of desolate deathly silence, enough to corrode vitality, freeze mana, and bearing a heavy petrification principle, as if to turn everything they touch into part of this stone forest.

"Hmph, even demons and specters dare to block my enlightenment!"

Yan Buji, though unshaken, had Chaos Light swirling in his eyes. The newly grasped "Silence Extinction Return to True" principle flowed in his mind, rapidly merging with his own Chaos Path. He did not immediately unleash a mighty divine technique, but gathered the chaotic death aura into his fists and proactively met the charging stone spirit.

Boom!

He punched a stone fist hurled by a stone spirit at the Formation Stage. The gray‑golden chaotic death aura collided with the pale deathly silence aura, producing a muffled thunderous sound. The petrification principle embedded in that stone spirit's fist tried to corrode, but was easily neutralized and Assimilated by the thread of newly born "Silence Extinction" true meaning within the chaotic death aura! Moreover, Yan Buji could feel that the "Silence Extinction" essence in his punch subtly activated the stone spirit's internal dormant deathly silence, causing its movements to exhibit a barely perceptible stagnation!

"Indeed effective!" Yan Buji thought, firmly resolved. The "Silence Extinction Return to True" principle is precisely the nemesis of such deathly silent beings! Or rather, it is a higher‑level power capable of mastering and guiding their strength!

His form moved like wind, weaving through the stone spirits' encirclement; gray‑golden currents surged between his swinging fists. He no longer relied solely on brute force over skill, but infused the "Silence Extinction" conception into every strike. Where his fists passed, the stone spirits' attacks were either deflected or their embedded deathly silence aura was inversely drawn and disrupted, causing their previously coordinated encirclement formation to sprout countless flaws.

Roar!

The leader stone spirit at the Fusion Stage let out a deep roar, clearly sensing something amiss. In its hollow eyes, a gray vortex spun faster, and its arms thrust violently into the ground!

Rumble!

The entire small stone forest seemed to come alive! Countless pale earth spikes burst forth like a forest, covering Yan Buji from all directions, and a massive gravity domain descended, attempting to lock him firmly to the ground!

Petty trick!

Yan Buji let out a long howl and finally employed his true technique. He held nothing back; the crystal of his Infinity Chaos Essence radiated brilliantly, Mirror Heart Force circulated, reflecting the subtle patterns of this stone forest's law!

Centered on him, a deeper, more terrifying gray‑dark domain suddenly expanded! Within this domain, it was no longer mere chaotic currents, but saturated with the rich "Silence Extinction" Dao resonance! Wherever the domain passed, the violently erupting earth spikes seemed to have weathered ten thousand years, quickly becoming brittle and crumbling; the heavy gravity domain was also neutralized and shattered by the "Silence Extinction" power!

The domain even directly enveloped those seven or eight stone spirits within!

Whine!

The stone spirits let out terrified shrieks. They felt their very deathly silence source, upon which their existence depended, being wildly extracted and Assimilated by this bizarre alien domain! They struggled, trying to mobilize the stone forest's power, but found their connection to the forest becoming obscure, as if blocked by an invisible "Silence Extinction" barrier!

The leader stone spirit roared wildly, its body erupting with dazzling pale light; the Fusion Stage power burst forth without restraint, attempting to break the domain's shackles. It hammered out a fist, and wherever its fist swept, the space rippled with pale waves, containing extreme petrification and "Silence Extinction" power.

"Well timed! Perfect to test you!"

A sharp glint flashed in Yan Buji's eyes, and his finger, sword‑like, gathered an extreme gray‑dark condensation at its tip—a highly concentrated blend of chaotic death aura and the true meaning of "Silence Extinction"!

He pointed with a single finger, silent and soundless. No earth‑shaking momentum, only a sense of all things ending, returning to eternity. The fingertip wind collided with the leader stone spirit's fist.

Time seemed to freeze for an instant.

In the next moment, the leader stone spirit's fist, harder than refined gold, even its entire arm, crumbled and vanished inch by inch from the collision point, silent as a wind‑dried sand sculpture, turning into the purest pale airflow, devoured by Yan Buji's chaotic domain! Moreover, this eroding trend rapidly spread over its whole body!

"No!" the leader stone spirit let out a desperate mental roar, trying to break free, but found that the "Return to Ruin" power had locked onto its core, making escape impossible!

In merely three breaths, that Fusion‑stage stone spirit leader, under Yan Buji's newly grasped "Silence Extinction Finger", completely vanished, leaving only a particularly pure core of deathly silence aura.

With the leader fallen, the remaining stone spirits lost all morale; under the suppression of the chaotic Silence Extinction domain, they were swiftly struck down and devoured one by one by Yan Buji.

The battle calmed, the domain receded. Yan Buji stood alone at the center of the clearing, feeling his internal Chaos Force grow a bit stronger, along with the partially refined, pure core of deathly silence aura, and a surge of heroic spirit rose in his heart.

This "Silence Extinction Return to True" principle is a perfect match with his Chaos Path! It not only makes his offensive methods more bizarre and powerful, but also seems to point him toward a unique path of survival and strengthening within this distorted Dao Realm.

His gaze returned to the dark‑azure stone tablet, eyes blazing. A single tablet yielding such gains—how many earth‑shattering wonders still lie hidden within this Dao Realm?

However, he also knew that the stone forest's danger extended far beyond this. These stone spirits seemed like guardians, but perhaps… they were merely lower‑tier beings.

He sat cross‑legged, consolidating his recent gains, fully refining the stone spirits' essence, while sinking his mind once more into the tablet; he intended to integrate this "Silence Extinction Return to True" principle deeper into his own Infinity Chaos Essence!

Yan Buji sat beneath the dark‑azure stone tablet, his mind fully immersed in the supreme "Silence Extinction Return to True" principle. This time, having experienced combat with stone spirits and the initial application of Silence Extinction power, his insight deepened further.

The tablet's conveyed thoughts were no longer merely abstract exposition, but transformed into countless concrete law runes, swirling, combining, and evolving in his sea of awareness like stars. He saw stars' Silence Extinction returning to dust, rivers surging into the sea then calming, civilizations reaching zenith then declining… The ultimate of all existence seemed to point toward an extreme "Silence" and "Nothing", yet within that "Nothing" seemed to harbor a faint spark of the next cycle's beginning.

"Silence Extinction is not the end; Return to True is the beginning… so that's it!" a bright insight flashed in Yan Buji's mind. The chaos he previously grasped leaned toward the evolution of "Movement" and "Life", brimming with Infinity possibilities; whereas this "Silence Extinction Return to True" completed the cycle of "Silence" and "Extinction", making his Chaos Path more harmonious and resilient.

The crystal of his Infinity Chaos Essence, nourished by the "Silence Extinction Return to True" principle, became more restrained and profound. Within the crystal's incessant chaotic scenes of birth and death, an eternal "Silence" backdrop emerged, like the universe's base color, rendering those evolutionary images more vivid and stable. The streak of azure radiance and the Mirror Heart Force also seemed to find their home, merging ever tighter with this Silence Extinction true meaning.