Chapter 1352: The Way to Escape

Inside the black hall of the pyramid, absolute deathly silence was shattered by Yan Buji's pounding heartbeat. The fragments of images and information streaming from that white speck, like a cold torrent, completely overwhelmed the greed and frenzy that had just risen within him.

Child of the Era! A reincarnated being bearing the last qi of the vanished era and an unfinished mission! Its true nature is far beyond what the "pond" of the Five Domains and Nine Heavens can contain!

What froze Yan Buji's soul and sent a chill through his entire body was the even more terrifying conclusion he derived in an instant by combining all his prior observations.

Han Wuxian martyrdomed at the Wanjing Mountain Ruins, transforming into the "Source of Order". On the surface it appears as a sacrifice, but given his status as a "Child of the Era" and the nature of "Infinity Order", is it truly a simple self‑termination?

No!

It is more like a Nirvana! A completion!

Yan Buji recalled the sliver of "Infinity Essence" he had forcibly stripped and stolen from the "Source of Order". That essence was pure and full of potential, yet like a rootless tree, it carried a strange sense of incompleteness. At the time he thought his theft was incomplete; now, looking back… perhaps it was always part of Han Wuxian's plan? A deliberately left, specially marked "bait" or "signpost"?

And everything he later did—struggling in the Demon Abyss, devouring the Core of Chaos, venturing into the Nether, plundering the Ancient God's Remnant, attaining true return within Silence Extinction, and drifting along the edge of the Dao Realm… all these experiences, his ever‑devouring, evolving, increasingly complex and powerful "Path of Chaotic Desire"… might also have been recorded, analyzed, and even… "nurtured" by that "Infinity Essence" in the unseen depths?

A bone‑chilling thought, like a poisonous snake, bit at his mind:

"Han Wuxian's 'Infinity Order' requires opposition and reference, needs to be honed and completed within extreme 'Chaos' and 'Desire' to become truly whole and bear the heavy mission that spans eras! And I… I, a 'variable' born of the Demon Abyss, bearing chaos and full of predatory desire, could I be the one he chose… the finest 'whetstone'? Or perhaps… the final 'Great Medicine' needed for his Nirvana rebirth?!"

The thought sent a shiver down his spine! If this were true, Han Wuxian's current state is far from a simple fall or slumber! He is likely, in a way beyond comprehension, absorbing and merging the 'Chaotic counterpart' demonstrated and strengthened by Yan Buji's 'Path of Desire', thereby causing his 'Infinity Order' to undergo a fundamental transition!

A Han Wuxian who has merged the very source of 'Infinity Order' and devoured 'Infinity Chaotic Desire' as its opposing complement… how powerful could he become? He likely already surpasses ordinary deity concepts, reaching the level of era birth and extinction!

This is far beyond what he can imagine now, let alone confront!

Devouring this sealed fragment of Infinity Origin before him? It's a suicide mission! Not to mention whether the seal—clearly imbued with Era Power—can be broken; even if he were lucky enough to obtain it, Han Wuxian, having already completed some metamorphosis, would likely sense it instantly and erase him across endless spacetime! That white light might itself be a trap, a coordinate!

"Escape! Must flee immediately! Leave this world! The farther, the better!"

An unprecedented terror and will to survive instantly engulfed Yan Buji. All talk of the Chaotic Great Way, of Infinity Transcendence, vanished the moment he realized he might have been a piece on an unimaginable existence's chessboard from start to finish, perhaps already a 'catalyst' in the opponent's board; every ambition turned into the most primal urge to run.

He no longer cast even a glance at that white speck, as if it were the most terrifying poison in the world. His body moved like lightning, retreating without hesitation toward the entrance of the black hall!

He burst out of the black hall, returning to the dim yellow sky and endless ruins. Yet he felt no safety, as if an invisible, vast pair of eyes were watching him coldly from the upstream of the river of time, from the far end of the Era.

"We can't stay in this world! The Five Domains and Nine Heavens, the Nether Demon Abyss, even this Dao Realm, are likely within Han Wuxian's perception or sphere of influence! We must find a way to completely leave this world!"

He recalled the observations at the edge of the Dao Realm, the cultivators from All Realms, and the legends about the Dao Realm linking countless worlds, even serving as an entrance to higher‑level planes.

"Deep within the Dao Realm! There must be a path to other worlds, even to 'Transcendence'! This is my only lifeline!"

He no longer entertained any thoughts of exploring Order Ruins City or contemplating its laws. This place is too deeply linked to Han Wuxian; lingering even a moment adds danger. At his brow, the Amber Seal, a manifestation of the forest's will, warmed faintly, seemingly still able to offer vague guidance.

He immediately followed the information in the seal about leaving the Ruins City and heading toward the deeper reaches of the Dao Realm, pushing his speed to the limit, becoming a gray‑golden afterimage, racing heedlessly toward the edge of the ruins and deeper, more unknown and profound interior of the Dao Realm.

He must flee this chessboard, escape the opponent who may already have become a shadow of the Era. He must break into the true 'All Realms', a domain even a Child of the Era may not fully control, to seek that faint, completely transcendent path to survival!

The former plunderer, rogue, Chaotic Celestial Sovereign—now only one pure identity remains: the fugitive!

And his path of escape is destined to be more perilous and unpredictable than any prior adventure. Deep within the Dao Realm, what awaits him? Endless exile, a new cage, or… true freedom?