Chapter 145: Blood-Skeletal Star God, Chaos Returns to the Void

Above the Return-to-Void Sea Eye, the celestial phenomena have been completely overturned.

The seawater, usually ink-blue like an abyss, is now churning with viscous, dark red foam that seems to be a mixture of blood plasma and asphalt. The sky is covered by thick, constantly twisting and writhing foul blood clouds, and streaks of dark red lightning, like the claws and fangs of a giant beast, tear through the clouds, illuminating the sea surface in a hideous manner. The air is filled with a nauseating, filthy stench—a mixture of intense rust, sweet-sickening blood, and the rot of stars; every breath feels like swallowing venom, eroding the sanity and Dao foundation of all living things.

At the center of the Sea Eye, the area that was barely sealed by the "Nine Heavens Demon-Suppressing Array" has now turned into a terrifying, slowly rotating vortex with a diameter of over a hundred miles. Deep within the vortex, it is no longer a pure eruption of energy, but vaguely visible are countless enormous, dim blood-glowing star skeletons, floating, colliding, and adhering within the viscous, black-red liquid filled with demonic energy and resentment, forming a distorted outline so vast it is unimaginable, constantly writhing and changing—that is the very collection of remains and resentment of the ancient "Blood-Skeletal Star God" that sank here!

At this moment, this giant blood-skeletal object seems to have been completely awakened by the power of the "World-Erosion" and some kind of sacrifice; every slow "breath" (which is actually a pulse of energy) causes the entire eastern sea region of the Vast Sea to surge with ten-thousand-foot-high wild waves, spewing out more blood-evil resentment and decaying star-evil, polluting everything in the vicinity. The will it radiates is chaotic, insane, and filled with extreme greed for all star power and the essence of life.

Above the vortex, two demonic shadows radiating evil fluctuations at the Soul Transformation level—"Greedy Glutton" and "Foul Soul"—are like two busy poisonous bees, circling the "head" part of the Blood-Skeletal Star God (a pile of exceptionally large star skulls with countless hollow eye sockets), continuously injecting their own pure Abyss-Void demonic energy into an organ shaped like a dark-red "heart" that is pulsating and split open like a wound in the center of the skulls. With each injection, the writhing of the Blood-Skeletal Star God's remains becomes more powerful, and the pressure and chaotic will it radiates become one point stronger.

They are using the Abyss-Void demonic energy as "fuel" and a "catalyst" to forcibly activate and strengthen this ancient evil object that has been silent for endless years, attempting to establish a deeper connection with it and turn it into a terrifying vanguard for the "World-Erosion" plan to tear through the barriers of this realm and devour its origin!

Lin Xuan's figure appeared silently about ten miles from the edge of the vortex. His body was shrouded in a thin, grayish halo that almost blended into the filthy background; this was the "Chaos Tribulation Robe" naturally formed by the Chaos Tribulation power, isolating external erosion and concealing his own aura. Even so, the filthy pressure composed of the violent blood-evil, decaying star-evil, and high-level demonic thoughts rushing toward him still made him feel his breathing tighten, and the rotation of the Chaos Tribulation Crystal within his body accelerated by a few points.

"Good heavens... when this thing was alive, it could probably swallow half of the Tianyuan Continent in one gulp." Lin Xuan felt a chill in his heart. With his current realm of having just entered Soul Transformation and condensed the Chaos Tribulation Dao Dharma Body, facing the remains of an ancient evil object of this level still made him feel like an ant looking up at a mountain. If not for the fact that most of its power seems to still be restricted by some primitive restraint deep within the Return-to-Void Sea Eye (perhaps the remnants of the power that killed it back then, or the world's rules themselves), and its consciousness is chaotic, the mere dissipated pressure would likely be enough to shatter the soul of a Soul Transformation cultivator.

However, the Chaos Tribulation Dao is, by nature, the control over "anomalies" and "tribulations." The more chaotic, the more powerful, and the closer to the power of "ending" it is, the more it can stimulate the potential and fighting spirit of Lin Xuan's Tribulation Dao Dharma Body.

He did not immediately attack "Greedy Glutton" and "Foul Soul," nor did he alert the slowly reviving Blood-Skeletal Star God. Instead, like a reef, he floated quietly in the violent energy turbulence, his eyes slightly closed, fully driving his Chaos Tribulation Dao Dharma Body, and in a profound way, began to "analyze" and "simulate" the surrounding "law environment" that had been completely polluted.

Chaos encompasses all things and can also evolve all things. Tribulation power discerns the beginning and the end, and can also control life and death.

In his perception, that blood-evil resentment is essentially the essence blood and residual souls of countless living beings (especially star creatures) that were cruelly devoured, resentful, and unwilling, transformed after undergoing distortion and pollution; its Dao rhyme leans toward "plunder," "filth," and "insanity."

That decaying star-evil is the embers of star power remaining after stars collapse and life is extinguished, filled with the aura of decay and ruin; its Dao rhyme leans toward "decay," "ending," and "stubbornness."

And the Abyss-Void demonic energy is the origin of the "World-Erosion" plan, containing the Dao rhymes of "devouring," "chaos," and "nothingness."

These three forces are currently being forcibly fused and agitated in an extremely crude and unstable way within the "container" and "amplifier" that is the Blood-Skeletal Star God's remains, releasing destructive energy, but because of this, its interior is full of contradictions, conflicts, and... "flaws" that can be exploited!

"Chaos returns to the void, all laws are permitted..." A realization gradually grew in Lin Xuan's heart. His previous Chaos Tribulation power was more focused on "returning to the void" and "ending," that is, accelerating all things toward their destined decay. But facing this mixed evil power that also represents "ending" and "chaos," simple "accelerated ending" might have limited effect, and he might even be backlashed by its massive volume.

Perhaps, he could try a different approach... use the Chaos Tribulation power as a "guide" to lead and amplify the conflicts and contradictions already existing within it, causing it to "self-destruct" from the inside? Or even... use it as "firewood" to ignite a more violent, yet controllable, "Chaos Tribulation"?

This thought was extremely bold and extremely dangerous. But Lin Xuan's Dao heart was faintly excited by it.

Just as he was immersed in perception and deduction.

"Hmm?"

Above the vortex, the "Foul Soul," whose smoky body was constantly changing while it focused on injecting demonic energy, suddenly paused slightly, transmitting a trace of confused intent. It seemed to have sensed that a "calm point," extremely tiny and completely out of place with the surrounding environment, had appeared in the filthy energy flow below.

"Greedy Glutton, below... it seems a little bug has slipped in." Foul Soul's cold intent was transmitted to its companion.

Greedy Glutton's tumor-covered body, filled with giant mouths, writhed, and several eyes turned toward Lin Xuan's direction simultaneously, immediately locking onto the grayish light spot that was almost imperceptible in the violent blood light.

"Hiss... a familiar taste... Chaos... Tribulation..." Greedy Glutton's intent was filled with greed and a trace of dread, "Is it that... variable that destroyed Shadow-Erosion and interfered with the Master's plan? He actually dares to... come here alone?"

"Arrogant ant, perfect! The revival of the Blood-Skeletal Star God needs high-quality 'sacrifices' and 'whetstones'! His Chaos power and Tribulation Dao might be a great tonic for the Star God's remains! Capture him and sacrifice him to the Star God's core; it will surely accelerate the revival process and allow us to claim credit before the Master!" Foul Soul sent out a shrill intent.

The two demonic shadows reached a consensus instantly and temporarily stopped the demonic energy infusion into the Blood-Skeletal Star God. Greedy Glutton let out a silent roar, its tumor-covered body suddenly expanded, and one of its largest mouths opened wide, spewing out a stream of pitch-black energy so condensed it seemed to swallow light and space, like a greedy giant python, rolling straight toward Lin Xuan!

At the same time, Foul Soul's smoky body rapidly expanded, turning into countless colorful smoke threads containing extreme negative emotions such as despair, fear, and madness, like an invisible net, covering Lin Xuan from all directions and attacking his soul directly!

The two great Soul Transformation Demon Marshals, the moment they struck, used a killing move!

Lin Xuan opened his eyes abruptly, and within his pupils, the light of chaos flourished!

Facing the pitch-black torrent that swallowed everything and the intangible soul attack, he did not dodge, nor did he make any obvious defensive posture. He simply formed an seal with his hands in front of his chest that looked simple but seemed to contain infinite Dao principles—his left hand held the void as if supporting chaos; his right index and middle fingers were pressed together, pointing downward, as if guiding the return to the void.

"Chaos Tribulation Domain—Ten Thousand Laws Return to the Void Guide!"

The low voice, like a decree of the Great Dao, rang out clearly amidst the roaring of violent energy.

Centered on Lin Xuan, the void within a thousand feet suddenly became incomparably "heavy" and "viscous"! It was not physical pressure, but as if the "existence" of this area itself had been forcibly endowed with the absolute law of "heading toward the end" and "returning to chaos"!

The pitch-black torrent that was devouring toward him, the moment it broke into this "Tribulation Domain," saw its speed drop sharply, and the devouring Dao rhyme flowing on its surface met its nemesis, beginning to disintegrate and collapse rapidly! Even more bizarrely, within the Tribulation Domain, countless tiny, grayish Chaos vortexes were born out of thin air, like a school of hungry fish, actively meeting the pitch-black torrent, crazily biting, devouring, and assimilating the demonic energy within it!

And the countless negative emotion smoke threads released by Foul Soul, the moment they touched the Tribulation Domain, hit an invisible, cold mirror; not only did they fail to invade Lin Xuan's soul, but they were instead impacted and offset by the even more vast and indifferent "End" and "Nothingness" Dao rhymes permeating the Tribulation Domain, and there was even a faint trend of being "purified" in reverse!

"What?!" Greedy Glutton and Foul Soul were shocked simultaneously. They could feel that Lin Xuan's bizarre domain had an extraordinary restraint on their power! It was not a simple attribute counter, but a higher-level, more fundamental "law suppression"!

"Tribulation power... it has actually reached the point of affecting local laws? This brat... must not be left alive!" Greedy Glutton was both shocked and angry; more giant mouths opened, spewing out even more violent demonic energy attacks containing different negative laws (corrosion, tearing, chaos), attempting to break the situation with quantity and forcibly shatter that bizarre Tribulation Domain.

Foul Soul also let out a shrill scream, its smoky body shrinking violently, condensing into a constantly rotating, bizarre phantom eyeball radiating seven-colored light—the "Eye of Foul Soul"! Within the pupil of the eyeball phantom, scenes of countless living beings struggling and twisting in extreme pain and despair were reflected, and a terrifying mental shock capable of causing a Soul Transformation cultivator's Dao heart to collapse and their soul to sink, like an invisible sharp awl, stabbed fiercely toward Lin Xuan's sea of consciousness!

Facing this even more powerful offensive, Lin Xuan's expression remained unchanged, and a cold arc even appeared at the corner of his mouth.

This was the moment he had been waiting for!

"Well come!"

His right fingers, pressed together, suddenly pointed into the air toward the direction of the incomparably vast, slowly writhing Blood-Skeletal Star God remains below!

"Tribulation power as the guide, all laws as firewood, return to the void... return to chaos!"

This point was not an attack, but... "grafting" and "guiding"!

A portion of the attack energy from Greedy Glutton and Foul Soul that had been weakened, devoured, and assimilated by his Chaos Tribulation Domain (especially the Abyss-Void demonic energy and negative law fragments contained within it), along with a portion of the filthy energy absorbed and converted by the Tribulation Domain itself, was forcibly "packaged" and "converted" by Lin Xuan using the Chaos Tribulation power, turning into a strange energy stream of grayish color mixed with strands of black-red and colorful light, and then... with control precision that was unbelievable, like firing an invisible "tractor beam," he shot it straight at the "head" part of the Blood-Skeletal Star God remains, at that dark-red pulsating "heart" that was being "catalyzed" by Greedy Glutton and Foul Soul!

At this moment, a sudden change occurred!

The Blood-Skeletal Star God remains were already in an extremely unstable state of being forcibly catalyzed, and the balance of the three forces within it (blood-evil resentment, decaying star-evil, Abyss-Void demonic energy) was already fragile. At this moment, Lin Xuan "injected" a "heterogeneous energy" containing pure Chaos Tribulation power (leaning toward returning to the void, ending, and assimilation) and a portion of Abyss-Void demonic energy and negative law fragments into its catalytic core, which was no different from throwing a catalyst of unknown but equally violent nature into a pot of boiling, complex-composition venom!

"ROAR——!!!"

A roar of pain and fury, impossible to describe in words, as if issued by billions of wronged souls and stars simultaneously, exploded from deep within the Blood-Skeletal Star God remains! Its entire massive body convulsed and twitched violently! The pulsation of that dark-red "heart" suddenly became disordered, grayish bizarre patterns appeared on its surface, and the energy conflict within it instantly intensified by more than ten times!

What shocked Greedy Glutton and Foul Soul even more was that the demonic energy connection they had established with that "heart" for catalysis and control, because of Lin Xuan's "meddling," actually suffered a violent backlash and disorder! A portion of the demonic energy flowed backward uncontrollably, impacting their demonic souls!

"Damn brat! What have you done?!" Greedy Glutton was shocked and angry; it felt that the revival process of the Blood-Skeletal Star God had been disrupted, and there were even faint signs of it going out of control and running wild!

Foul Soul's "Eye of Foul Soul" phantom also shook, its mental shock interrupted, and it screamed: "He used our power! He is guiding the energy conflict within the Star God's remains! Quick, cut the connection, kill this brat first!"

However, it was already too late.

"Stimulated" by Lin Xuan in this way, the chaotic and insane will of the Blood-Skeletal Star God's remains seemed to "focus" briefly. Its countless hollow eye sockets "looked" in unison at the two tiny existences above that were constantly injecting "foreign objects" (demonic energy) into its body and causing it "pain" (energy conflict)—Greedy Glutton and Foul Soul!

A surge of massive blood-evil resentment, far more violent and chaotic than before, filled with the anger of being disturbed and betrayed, mixed with decaying star-evil, erupted from multiple parts of the remains like a burst dam, sweeping toward the surroundings indiscriminately! The first to bear the brunt were Greedy Glutton and Foul Soul, who were closest!

"Not good!" The two great Demon Marshals' expressions changed drastically; they could no longer care about Lin Xuan and hurriedly withdrew their power, defending with all their might against this sudden backlash from their "ally"!

Lin Xuan took this opportunity to retreat rapidly, while simultaneously shrinking the Chaos Tribulation Domain in front of him to resist the sweeping energy aftermath. His face turned slightly pale; that "grafting and guiding" just now, while seemingly clever, was actually extremely exhausting to his mind and Tribulation power, and extremely dangerous; a slight carelessness could have led to self-immolation.

But the effect was also significant. Not only did it temporarily force back Greedy Glutton and Foul Soul, but it also successfully disrupted the revival rhythm of the Blood-Skeletal Star God, causing its internal contradictions to intensify; it would likely be difficult to stabilize in the short term, let alone break free completely.

He looked from afar at the giant blood-skeletal object struggling and roaring in the blood light and chaos, as well as the two Demon Marshals who were in a sorry state defending against the backlash, a trace of sternness flashing in his eyes.

This was just the beginning.

Next, it would be the turn of the Imperial Dynasty's reinforcements, and... the time to completely resolve this disaster.

He turned, transformed into a stream of light, and sped toward the direction of Star-Fragment Isle. Behind him were the unwilling roars of the Blood-Skeletal Star God, the even more violent energy turbulence, and the exasperated shrieks of Greedy Glutton and Foul Soul.