Chapter 1362: Return to Void

Yan Buji stands steadily within the Chaos Nebula, his complexion slightly pallid, his internal magical energy rapidly draining, yet his eyes grow ever brighter. He feels the essence of the Return to Void Envoy's power! It is not invincible; its "Termination" Dao resonance, though pure and mighty, seems to lack a certain "change" and "liveliness", more like a preset, mechanical rule‑execution tool. Yet his Chaos contains infinite possibilities and vitality!

The Envoy's black‑hole‑like eyes seem to shift, locking onto Yan Buji; its withered face still shows no expression, but the locked‑in deathly silence intensifies. It also appears to realize that the presence before it, exuding a "starting point" aura, is a greater threat.

It no longer raises a single hand but slowly lifts both, forming a void embrace before its chest. The runes on the three stone tablets flare suddenly, countless twisted gray lines shoot from the tablets, linking to it. The Return to Void Dao resonance of the entire Shattered Star Wasteland seems summoned, raging toward it! Its form does not swell, yet the "Termination" essence it emits abruptly rises several tiers, as if becoming the very "Termination" law of this place!

"Return to Void… its embrace…"

A more archaic, obscure voice sounds. The Envoy's arms in the void embrace slowly draw inward.

No ripples, no light. Yet Yan Buji and Yue Li Xianzi simultaneously feel that the space they occupy, together with their bodies, magical energy, divine souls, even the "concept" of their existence, begins to be squeezed and erased by an invisible, irresistible force from all directions! This is not an attack, but the "rule" of this realm repelling them, aiming to make them "return to void"!

Yue Li Xianzi's face turns ghastly; she feels her Yin‑Moon Dao crumbling under this absolute "Termination" rule, her consciousness blurring. The ancient mirror wails, the moonlight is about to be completely extinguished.

Yan Buji stands at the pressure's core, the Chaos Nebula being violently deformed as if about to collapse the next instant. Yet his eyes burst with unprecedented brilliance!

"Termination? Rule? My path is Chaos! No beginning, no end, encompassing all, yet also able to create all! You wish to return everything to void? Then I shall, with Chaos, re‑open the heavens and earth!"

He lets out a long howl, no longer resisting the ubiquitous erasing force, but instead pours all his mind, all his magical energy, unreservedly into the Chaos core! Simultaneously, he summons the most primordial "Opening" truth that has existed since his early cultivation!

"Chaos Opening Heaven Technique—Primordial Beginning!"

The Chaos Nebula, compressed to its limit, suddenly collapses inward, and in an instant seems to revert to the "singularity" before the universe's birth. Then—

"Boom!!!"

An indescribable light, an indescribable explosion, an indescribable breath of "life" bursts from that singularity!

It is not the light of destruction but of creation! Where the light passes, the space erased by the Return to Void Rule regrows, twisted and chaotic yet brimming with vigor and infinite possibility! The intangible erasing force, before this "Opening Heaven and Splitting Earth"‑like creative light, is forcibly restrained, pushed back, even partially reversed!

The Envoy's arms in the void embrace twitch violently, the closing motion stalls! For the first time, its black‑hole‑like eyes display fierce fluctuations, as if unable to comprehend this scene that defies the "Termination" law. The three stone tablets flash erratically, and the converging Return to Void Dao resonance becomes disordered.

"Now!" Yan Buji roars, his face as pale as paper, his breath plummeting, clearly this technique consumes massive energy and even wounds his core. Yet he darts forward like lightning, seizing the moment the Envoy's rule is disrupted, his fingertips condensing the last strand of pure Chaos, forming an ultra‑refined gray line that ignores distance, instantly piercing the Envoy's chest—the core where the three tablets' gray lines converge, the nexus of its power!

"Pop!"

The gray line sinks in. The Envoy's body convulses violently, its void‑embraced arms droop helplessly. The terrifying Return to Void Dao resonance surrounding it recedes like a tide, the three tablets dim. It lowers its head, glances at the barely perceptible gray dot on its chest; the fierce fluctuations in its black‑hole eyes gradually subside, returning to dead silence.

It makes no further move, merely standing still, as if once again becoming an eternal, unchanging statue. Yet the locked‑in murderous intent and erasing will toward the two have already dissipated.

Yan Buji falls back to the ground, staggering a step, and is supported by the swiftly‑approaching Yue Li Xianzi. Yue Li Xianzi looks at him, her gaze filled with shock and complexity. She did not expect Yan Buji could, in this way, directly shake and even briefly "defeat" a strike from the Return to Void Envoy! Though clever and heavily wounded, this level of power and understanding of the Great Dao's law already exceeds her comprehension.

"You…" Yue Li Xianzi begins, then stops, quickly drawing a crystal‑clear pill emitting a cool herbal scent, "This is the 'Ice Soul Restoring Pill', it can stabilize injuries and restore vitality."

Yan Buji accepts it without hesitation, swallowing; a refreshing, pure medicinal force swiftly spreads, soothing his nearly dried meridians and damaged divine soul. He steadies his breath, and a hint of color returns to his pallid face.

"Thank you." He looks ahead. The Return to Void Envoy remains motionless, the three tablet array calm, but the path ahead toward the Shattered Star Abyss seems to have opened a narrow fissure.

"Will it… still block us?" Yue Li Xianzi asks, lingering fear in her voice.

"The rule is disturbed; it shouldn't for a short while," Yan Buji says gravely, "but the ancient array's core must hold a more dreadful trial. This Return to Void Envoy may merely be one of the outer guards."

He gazes at the fragment of the "Stabilizing Void Pearl" in his hand, now faintly warm, pointing toward the Shattered Star Abyss.

"Let's go." The two no longer hesitate, gathering their breath, carefully bypassing the stationary Return to Void Envoy and the three tablets, sprinting toward the circular abyss.

The Boundary Void Ancient Array lies before them. The true adventure has only just begun. After this battle, Yan Buji's grasp of Chaos Force, especially the dialectic of "life" and "death", "beginning" and "end", seems to have stepped onto a brand‑new threshold. Though his internal Chaos core was heavily drained, it has become more condensed, subtly hinting at an indescribable metamorphosis taking shape.