Chapter 1354: Welcoming Ancient Platform

"Where… is this?" Yan Buji's heart shuddered. The spiritual energy here was abundant, the landscapes marvelous, far surpassing any world he had experienced. Yet that unfamiliar, powerful heavenly-earth Dao rhythm also made him feel unprecedented isolation and fragility. In this environment, his heavily wounded body was like a drop of ink falling into a clear, vast ocean—out of place, and at any moment possibly "purified" away.

What made his heart pound even more was that he could feel the heavenly Dao laws of this world were extremely stable and complete, producing strong suppression and rejection of his Chaos Force, especially the essence derived from "Chaos" and "Plunder." Here, the speed at which he cultivated his Chaos technique to recover was actually slower and more difficult than when he was in the Order Ruins City!

"Just escaped danger, now into a dead end?" He felt bitter. Struggling to sit up and examine this solitary peak platform, even moving a single finger was extremely difficult.

At that moment, the jade stone platform beneath him, those cloud-pattern star diagrams suddenly glowed with a soft light!

Immediately after, at the platform's center, space faintly rippled, and a figure emerged from the virtual into substance, appearing silently.

She was a woman wearing a moon‑white wide‑sleeved flowing fairy robe. Her black hair fell like a waterfall, only partly bound by a simple wooden pin; her features were exquisitely beautiful, yet her brow bore a layer of indescribable coldness and weariness, as if she had endured endless ages. Though she released no mighty aura, she was utterly one with this heaven and earth, as if she were the mountain, the clouds, and this vast Dao rhythm itself.

Her clear yet unfathomable eyes calmly rested on Yan Buji, her gaze flat and waveless, like looking at a stubborn stone fallen into a clear pool.

"Visitor from another realm…" Her voice was ethereal and pleasing, yet carried an ancient detachment, "Bearing a damaged Chaos Dao, covered in wounds… you actually managed to pass through the 'Return to the Ruins Rift' and fall into my Jade Splendor Realm's 'Welcoming Ancient Platform'…"

She slowly raised a jade‑like hand, pure radiance flowing from her fingertips.

"Your Dao opposes this realm's heavenly Dao; it is turbid and restless."

"By realm law, you should be immediately purified and expelled…"

Her gaze seemed to pierce Yan Buji's flesh, seeing the infinity‑chaos‑essence crystal within him, riddled with cracks, and she paused slightly.

"But… your core contains a… strange 'variable'…"

"Enough, I'll let you stay a moment."

Before her words faded, her fingertip radiance scattered down, turning into specks of starlight that merged into Yan Buji's body.

Yan Buji felt a gentle yet immeasurably vast power surge in, quickly soothing his bodily wounds, moistening his dried meridians, and even beginning to repair the cracked chaos core and essence crystal! Yet the pure Dao rhythm within this power simultaneously scoured and cleansed the "Chaos" and "impurity" in his Chaos Force, as if forcibly "purifying" it.

This was not healing, but rather a kind of… transformation! Or rather, it was this world's heavenly Dao instinctively assimilating this "foreign object."

Yan Buji panicked inwardly, yet unable to resist, he could only watch helplessly as the nature of his power underwent subtle, uncontrollable changes under the stranger woman's method…

The end of his escape route turned out to be such a realm—its laws complete, exclusionary and mighty, seemingly ruled by an unknown great power, the Jade Splendor Realm? Gravely wounded and near death, he had fallen into the hands of that mysterious moon‑white‑clad woman—was it blessing or curse? What trials and metamorphoses await his Chaos Dao?

The radiance entered his body, flowing like moonlight. That power was gentle and vast, far surpassing any healing holy art Yan Buji had seen. Shattered meridians were swiftly reconnected, damaged organs nourished and repaired, even bone fissures sealing at a visible speed. Yet at the same time, the pure, clear, orderly quality within this power—originating from the same source as the Jade Splendor Realm's heavenly‑earth Dao rhythm—began to wash over every corner of his chaos core like an invisible tide.

Within his Chaos Force, the "Chaotic Violence" from the Demonic Abyss, the "Impure Greed" from Plunder, and even the "Annihilating Stillness" brought by the Silence Extinction Wasteland—under the scouring of this pure Dao rhythm, like filth exposed to blazing sun, began to become "unstable," be "diluted," and be forcibly "neutralized"!

Yan Buji could clearly feel those "impure" parts of his power being stripped away and purified. This seemed good—it would eliminate hidden dangers and make his power more refined. But the problem lay in the essence of the Chaos Dao, which precisely lies in "embracing all things, evolving all beings." If he lost the "Chaos," "Desire," and "Destruction" that seem negative, leaving only pure "Order" and "Vitality," would it still be Chaos? And what essential difference would there be from Han Wuxian's "Infinity Order"?

The Dao rhythm of the Jade Splendor Realm was, in an overbearing yet natural way, attempting to "remold" him into a "pure" cultivator conforming to this realm's laws!

What further shocked him was that the newly born "Infinity Chaos Essence" crystal, under this Dao rhythm's scouring, although its cracks were healing, the internal chaos scenery that originally pulsed endlessly and held infinite possibilities was slowing in its operation, its colors turning monotonous, as if it too were being "purified" into some single, stable form!

"No! Absolutely not!" he shouted inwardly. His Dao was plunder, devour, forging his own path amidst the clash of myriad Dao! If he were assimilated here, losing the fundamental traits of Chaos, would he still be Yan Buji? He'd likely become a blunt‑edged, fate‑fixed "Jade Splendor Realm cultivator," perhaps forever unable to leave this realm, let alone escape Han Wuxian's shadow!

He desperately exerted his remaining will, trying to control the chaos core to resist that purifying force and retain his own "impure" traits. But his injuries were too grave, the power disparity too great; his resistance was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot—feeble and pathetic.

The moon‑white‑clad woman—the Jade Splendor Realm Lord—seemed to sense his inner struggle and resistance. A flicker of faint surprise flashed in her cold eyes.

"Your Dao Foundation… actually so stubbornly resisting the cleansing of the 'Jade Splendor Pure Tone'?" Her voice remained ethereal, yet with a hint of inquiry, "Ordinary foreign cultivators who receive this cleansing consider it a supreme opportunity, able to shed impurity and draw near the heavenly Dao. You regard it as poison… interesting."

She did not stop pouring the radiance; instead, she focused her gaze more intently on observing Yan Buji's internal changes, especially that infinity‑chaos‑essence crystal which was being repaired while simultaneously being "purified."

"This core… Chaos on the outside, within lies a hint of a 'variable' possibility, not achievable by mere plunder… Your experiences seem extraordinary." She seemed able to see through the surface to part of Yan Buji's journey thus far, "Yet this 'variable' is also an 'anomaly' in the Jade Splendor Realm. The heavenly Dao is clear; it cannot tolerate too many uncontrollable 'changes.'"

Her words made Yan Buji's heart sink. It seemed this realm lord was not simply kindly saving him; rather, she was observing and studying this "anomaly" of his, and was wary of the "variable."