Chapter 1343: Dao Rhythm

Yan Buji's eyes were cold, about to give chase and completely eliminate the lingering threat. Suddenly

Boom—boom—boom!!!

A roar far more terrifying than any previous sound erupted from deep within the wasteland, blasting the central area where the three gray‑black tornadoes were located! Immediately after, an indescribable Silence Extinction storm, as if it would erase all things and end everything, rose like a primordial beast awakened from slumber, using that central point as its origin and raging outward in all directions!

Where the storm passed, space shattered like fragile glass, inch by inch, revealing black void fissures! The three tornadoes, which had been drifting slowly, were instantly devoured and enlarged by the storm, merging into a super Silence Extinction vortex that spanned heaven and earth, over a hundred li in diameter! Within the vortex, gray‑black currents spiraled wildly, and countless fine, destructive lightning bolts formed from pure Silence Extinction law crackled inside.

The entire Dead Silence Wasteland quaked violently, as if the end of the world had arrived!

The fleeing black‑robed leader and the scar‑faced one were hit first; the edge of the Silence Extinction storm swept them, they could not even scream, their protective aura shattered like foam, and their bodies and souls were instantly annihilated by that terrifying Silence Extinction power, turning into nothingness!

Even Yan Buji felt a suffocating wave of destructive pressure bearing down! His Silence Extinction Chaos Shield quivered violently, emitting a strained groan under the load! Had he not grasped the true meaning of Silence Extinction and thus gained some resistance, he would have fallen behind those two in an instant!

"Is this… the true eruption of the Silence Extinction Storm?!" Yan Buji's heart thumped wildly; he could not pursue the remaining foes, focusing all his effort on maintaining the shield, his form like a leaf in a gale, repeatedly pushed back by the expanding storm's edge.

He looked up toward the storm's core, driving the Mirror Heart power without regard for its cost, barely piercing the raging energy turbulence in an attempt to glimpse the source.

There, deep within the core of the super vortex, where the source of the earth‑vein Silence Extinction power should be, space was twisted to the extreme; faintly, a massive, ancient, broken doorway made of some unknown grayish material appeared as a shadow, slowly opening a fissure!

The boundless, ultra‑pure Silence Extinction power surged from that doorway's fissure, spawning this world‑shattering storm!

"What… is that?!" Yan Buji's mind roiled with a storm of shock. The "anomalous source" mentioned in the mission might not be a natural phenomenon, but… a forbidden portal that had been opened somewhere?!

The crisis far exceeds expectations!

Ahead, the world‑shattering Silence Extinction Storm erupted, its source seemingly linked to an unknown terrifying existence or space.

Behind, the after‑effects of the pursuers from Black Flame Peak still threaten.

He himself is being drawn into the storm's edge, in a precarious state!

Yan Buji is instantly faced with a dead end! Should he muster all his strength, press into the storm to investigate that mysterious doorway? Or withdraw immediately, fleeing this area that is about to become a dead zone?

And at the moment of his hesitation, within the shadow of the storm‑core doorway, there seemed to be a cold, indifferent gaze that had existed since antiquity, piercing the endless space and raging energy, faintly sweeping over his position!

Yan Buji's hair stood on end, an unprecedented sense of mortal danger seized his heart in an instant!

The gaze cast from the fissure of the storm‑core doorway was cold, indifferent, lofty, like a deity atop the clouds looking down on dust. It was not a physical attack, yet it carried a conceptual terror that pressed directly upon Yan Buji's soul essence and Dao foundation!

In an instant, Yan Buji felt his very "Existence" becoming vague. The Chaos core's operation nearly stalled, the Mirror Heart's reflected light flickered as if about to extinguish, and even the newly grasped "Silence Extinction Returning True Dao Rhythm" trembled, as if he had encountered the true master! It was an absolute crushing of his very being, far surpassing any foe he had faced before, even exceeding the will of the River of Darkness ruler he sensed in Youming Jie!

"Ugh!"

Yan Buji let out a muffled groan as dark‑golden blood seeped from his seven orifices, the light of his Silence Extinction Chaos Shield dimmed sharply and fissures spread! He was struck as if by an invisible warhammer, flung backward, rolling within the raging Silence Extinction storm, nearly being completely swept away and erased.

At the brink of life and death, the "Infinity Chaos Essence" crystal within him erupted with unprecedented brilliance! It seemed to sense the extreme external pressure and the higher‑order law hidden in that gaze, which transcended ordinary Silence Extinction, and instead of yielding, it sparked a defiant, all‑devouring will to resist!

"Infinity Chaos, encompassing all! What of Silence Extinction? What of higher realms? All become my Dao sustenance!"

Yan Buji's soul roared as the Chaos core forcibly reversed, treating that sliver of invading terror as the fiercest "fuel", throwing it into the furnace of Infinity Chaos Essence! Simultaneously, he wildly drove the Mirror Heart power, no longer trying to reflect the source of the gaze, but instead fully illuminating and stabilizing his own concept of existence, clinging to the core of "I"!

Pfft!

He spat out another massive mouthful of fresh blood, his injuries worsening, yet the madness and obsession in his eyes burned to the extreme. Using the momentum of his backward flight, he forced a change of direction, no longer trying to retreat from the storm, but channeling all remaining Chaos power into defense, like a stubborn stone thrown into a torrent, sliding along the storm's expanding edge toward the direction opposite the core doorway, desperately "gliding"!

He could not even conceive of probing that doorway. Whatever existed within was beyond his reach now! A single gaze cast across space almost shattered his Dao Foundation! At this moment, his sole goal is to flee! Escape this region that is about to become a Silence Extinction hell!

Boom—boom—boom—!

The super Silence Extinction vortex behind him grew ever more ferocious, and the doorway's shadow seemed to solidify slowly, spewing even more gray‑black destructive energy; the storm's scope continued to expand rapidly! Countless spatial fissures spread across the wasteland like black lightning, devouring everything.

Yan Buji pushed his speed to the limit, the Silence Extinction Chaos Shield shattered and reformed, his mana draining like a breached dam. He kept swallowing the pills he had bought earlier, even crushing a few high‑grade soul crystals obtained from Youming Jie to forcibly replenish his power.

The storm's expansion was too rapid! The destructive power at its edge clung to him like maggots on a heel, constantly trailing behind. Several times, gray‑black Silence Extinction lightning brushed past his body, stripping away large swaths of his protective aura and flesh.

Just as he felt his mana nearing exhaustion and his shield on the brink of total rupture, a subtle distortion suddenly appeared in the gray‑white wasteland ahead!

It was not a spatial fissure, but a law ripple resembling undulating water waves! At its center, a scene starkly different from the Dead Silence Wasteland faintly emerged, with faint green vegetation and a relatively calm gray sky!

"A spatial weak point? Or… a temporary passage to another relatively safe area?" Yan Buji had no time to ponder; this could be his last chance!

He bit his tongue, using his pure blood to drive his final strength; the shadow of the Chaos‑Crossing Void Boat flashed beneath him for an instant, granting a powerful thrust like a released arrow, hurtling straight into the center of the law ripple!