Chapter 115

The Imperial Lord has fallen, the dragon aura has collapsed, and the imperial capital's final resistance will is like a candle in the wind. The Ruins Abyss demonic awareness's black-hole-like eyes, with mockery and absolute malice, lock onto Lin Xuan, who is severely injured and coughing blood. The next strike will surely be earth-shattering and completely annihilate this chaotic aura it finds disgusting!

Lin Xuan kneels on one knee on the ground, the Chaos Immortal-Slaying Sword stuck beside him, supporting him so he does not fall. His face is as pale as paper, his chest heaving violently, and the aftermath of the demonic awareness's casual strike just now has already shifted his internal organs, damaged his meridians, and made his spiritual power operation sluggish. Facing this terrifying existence that far exceeds Spirit Transformation and is suspected to be at the Void Refinement level, even if he has exhausted all his foundations, the gap is still like a natural chasm.

Despair, like a cold tide, tries to drown his mind.

However, just as the demonic awareness condenses the next strike and the murderous intent is about to erupt completely—

A change occurs again!

The vast imperial dragon aura that lost its core due to the fall of Imperial Lord Huangfu Tianji and was crazily collapsing did not dissipate directly into heaven and earth like ordinary spiritual energy, but instead, as if drawn by some invisible force, let out a mournful and magnificent dragon roar, and actually surged crazily toward one direction like a hundred rivers returning to the sea—

The Third Prince, Huangfu Hao!

At this moment, Huangfu Hao is holding the Nine-Dragon Crown left behind where his father dissipated, tears streaming down his face, grief-stricken. He is not running any cultivation method, nor has he deliberately absorbed it, but that vast imperial dragon aura, representing the ten-thousand-year luck of the Tianyuan Imperial Dynasty, is spontaneously and scrambling to surge into his body!

The imperial python robe on his body moves without wind, hunting! At the center of his brow, a pale golden dragon-shaped mark suddenly lights up and quickly becomes clear and solid! A majesty of the imperial path, although appearing young, is incomparably pure and carries the hope of new life, rising from his body!

Dragon aura chooses its master!

At the critical moment when the imperial dynasty is overturning and the monarch has fallen, the remaining imperial luck of this heaven and earth autonomously chooses Huangfu Hao, who possesses the purest direct bloodline and a kind and firm character, as the new bearer!

"Hao'er!" Eunuch Wei's old tears stream down his face, trembling with excitement, "It's the Prince! The dragon aura has chosen the Third Prince!"

The remaining royal offerings and imperial guards, seeing this scene, see a glimmer of light reignite in their once-desperate eyes.

Even the Ruins Abyss demonic awareness pauses slightly, a flash of surprise and... deeper greed in its black-hole-like eyes.

"A new dragon aura carrier... better... swallow you, and the luck of this realm will completely collapse..." The demonic awareness's thought becomes even more excited.

And at this moment, Huangfu Hao, forcibly infused with the vast dragon aura, lets out a low roar of pain, golden light flashing all over his body, and his cultivation base, driven by this power, instantly breaks through the bottleneck, reaching the mid-stage Soul Formation! But more of it is a responsibility and grief forcibly bestowed upon him. He raises his head, his scarlet eyes staring fixedly at the demonic awareness, hissing: "Demon! I, Huangfu Hao, swear here that I will never rest until you are destroyed!"

However, although the dragon aura infusion bestows upon him power and status, facing the Void Refinement level demonic awareness, it is still far from enough. The demonic awareness's condensed destructive attack is about to be launched again, aiming directly at Huangfu Hao, who has just become the core of the dragon aura!

Just at this critical moment, when everyone thinks Huangfu Hao will follow in his father's footsteps—

"Cough, cough..."

Lin Xuan, who has been silent and kneeling on one knee, suddenly lets out a violent cough. He wipes the blood constantly overflowing from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, struggles, supports his body with the Chaos Immortal-Slaying Sword, and slowly, extremely difficultly, stands up.

His movements are very slow, as if he has to bear a thousand-jun weight with every move. But his spine is held straight.

He stands in front of Huangfu Hao, facing the terrifying demonic awareness directly.

"Your opponent... is me." Lin Xuan's voice is hoarse, but carries an unquestionable firmness. The chaotic Dao seed in his body is trembling crazily, seemingly resisting, yet also longing.

A trace of impatience comes from the demonic awareness's thought: "Dying struggle, meaningless. I will erase you, this chaotic bug, together with that newborn dragon aura."

The destructive attack has already taken shape, black demonic light condensing in the depths of its eyes, about to erupt!

Lin Xuan takes a deep breath. He knows that conventional means are useless. He glances at Huangfu Hao behind him, who is temporarily unable to move due to the dragon aura infusion, and then looks at this devastated imperial capital full of suffering, a flash of determination in his eyes.

He suddenly sticks the Chaos Immortal-Slaying Sword into the ground, his hands forming an ancient and complex seal at a speed invisible to the naked eye! This seal does not come from the Hunyuan Dao Ancestor's inheritance, but is a forbidden technique he has comprehended on a whim, combining his own Dao of chaos, star dharma image, and his current heart of certain death, which no one has ever performed!

"With my chaotic blood!"

He bites his tongue, spraying a mouthful of essence blood containing the chaotic origin onto the seal!

"Burn my star soul!"

The nine-zhang dharma image behind him lets out a mournful cry, countless star light points stripping away and merging into the seal!

"Draw upon the power of the universe!"

In his dantian, the broken star core and the small star core erupt with unprecedented light simultaneously, communicating with the remaining power of the Starfall Mystical Realm in the dark, and even drawing upon the stars of the universe that have not been completely obscured by demonic energy outside!

"Respectfully invite... Dao Ancestor... to manifest the holy trace!"

The last sentence, he almost roars out!

The moment the seal is completed, the aura around Lin Xuan suddenly becomes void and ethereal, as if transcending this heaven and earth! He himself turns into a huge, rotating chaotic vortex, in the center of which extreme darkness and light intertwine, and an ancient, vast, and majestic will that transcends all things, as if from the beginning of heaven and earth, is forcibly awakened by a wisp!

This will is not Hunyuan Dao Ancestor, but a wisp of power belonging to the chaotic Great Dao of the origin of this universe that Lin Xuan has forcibly borrowed, using himself as an offering and the Dao of chaos as a guide!

Although it is only a wisp, its level far exceeds the Ruins Abyss demonic awareness!

"This is... what power?!" The Ruins Abyss demonic awareness lets out a hesitant thought for the first time, and the attack about to be launched stalls! It feels a threat originating from the essence of life from that chaotic vortex!

"Chaos... blood sacrifice... seal the demon!"

Blood begins to overflow from Lin Xuan's seven orifices, and countless fine cracks appear on the surface of his body, as if he might disintegrate at any time. But the light in his eyes is as bright as the stars, and his hands push forward suddenly!

The forbidden seal that condenses all his essence, energy, and spirit and draws upon a wisp of chaotic Great Dao power turns into a gray rune that looks ordinary but seems capable of fixing earth, water, fire, and wind and returning all things to chaos, slowly, yet unstoppably, imprinting toward the black-hole-like eyes of the Ruins Abyss demonic awareness!

"No!!!"

The Ruins Abyss demonic awareness lets out a sharp roar full of fear and anger! It crazily drives the demonic energy, condensing it into sturdy demonic shields, trying to block the gray rune.

However, it is useless!

Wherever the gray rune passes, the demonic energy melts like snow in the sun, and the demonic shields shatter like paper! It seems to ignore all defenses and obstacles, directly branding itself onto the demonic awareness's huge eyes!

"Ah—!!!"

An indescribably shrill scream, as if coming from the source of the soul! The demonic awareness's huge will twists and shakes violently, the soaring demonic energy light pillar instantly becomes extremely unstable, flickering! The black hole in its eyes seems to be forcibly "stitched" by the gray rune, becoming fragmented!

"Seal... it's a chaotic seal! You actually dare to... ah!!!" The demonic awareness's thought becomes intermittent, full of pain and venom.

Finally, under the power of the gray rune erupting completely, the demonic awareness's descended will lets out an unwilling roar, and together with the three Spirit Transformation Demon Venerables, is forcibly pulled and shrunk back into the bottomless pit! The soaring demonic energy light pillar also shrinks suddenly, and finally disappears completely, leaving only a fragile seal that constantly twists and flashes with gray runes above the pit!

The source of the demonic energy has been forcibly and temporarily sealed by Lin Xuan at the cost of himself!

However, the price is heavy.

The moment the rune branding is successful, the aura on Lin Xuan's body fades like a tide, the chaotic vortex dissipates, and the dharma image dims and returns to his body. He can no longer support himself, sprays a mouthful of blood mixed with internal organ fragments toward the sky, his eyes go black, and he falls straight backward.

"Brother Lin!"

"Little Friend Lin!"

Huangfu Hao and Huangfu Tianji are shocked.

Lin Xuan, flying backward, endures the severe injury and the palpitation of his soul, staring fixedly at the core of the demonic energy light pillar. There, he sees a pair of eyes that slowly open, like two huge black holes! In the eyes, there are no pupils, only endless chaos, destruction, and a coldness like looking down at ants!

The true body will of the Ruins Abyss demonic awareness has descended!

Although it is not a complete body, its level has already surpassed Spirit Transformation and reached an unimaginable realm—Void Refinement? Or even higher?

Just one glance makes Lin Xuan's Dao foundation shake and his soul crack!

"Ants... the aura of chaos... disgusting..." A will that seems to be woven from the roars of hundreds of millions of vengeful souls resonates directly in everyone's sea of consciousness, full of desire for blasphemy and destruction.

The three Spirit Transformation Demon Venerables, including the bone-armored Demon Venerable, stop attacking at this moment, kneeling on the ground with extreme respect and even fear, worshiping the eyes in the light pillar.

"Master!"

The demonic awareness's gaze sweeps across the battlefield and finally falls on Huangfu Tianji, who has the most powerful aura.

"Imperial Dynasty Dragon Aura... not a bad supplement..."

A flash of greed passes through its black-hole-like eyes. Immediately, a pitch-black ray, condensed to the extreme and seemingly capable of swallowing all light, shoots out silently, aiming directly at Huangfu Tianji!