Chapter 147

"Heaven and Earth Return to Ruins Tribulation!"

Lin Xuan's voice seemed to cross the barrier of time and space, trembling directly at the level of heaven and earth laws.

It was not a request, nor a summoning, but a... declaration! With his Chaos Tribulation Dao Dharma Body as a pledge, with this "tribulation" environment twisted by extreme filth as a base, with the vast imperial dragon energy as a contract, he forcibly "defined" and "attracted" a—Heaven and Earth Great Tribulation—aimed at a specific target and area!

Above Broken Star Island, the blood cloud gap torn by the imperial dynasty fleet suddenly expanded, but it did not pour out more sunlight, but an endless stream of gray-misty airflow containing the dual Dao rhyme of the beginning of chaos and the ending of all methods gathered frantically from above the nine heavens and below the nine earths!

These chaotic airflows were invisible and intangible, but carried the absolute will of making all things "return to ruins." They ignored the pollution of blood light, penetrated the foul barrier, and quickly gathered and compressed above Lin Xuan's head, forming a "Chaos Return to Ruins Tribulation Eye" with a diameter of no more than a hundred feet, yet seeming to be able to suck the entire heaven and earth into it, rotating slowly!

In the Tribulation Eye, it was gray-misty, with only one point in the center, pitch-black as ink, as if connecting to the abyss of the end of all things. There was no thunder, no fire, no splendor of any sound, light, or color, only a pure—"ending" and "nothingness"—that froze the soul!

At this moment, whether it was Beichen, Lingshuang, Yangang, and others on Broken Star Island, or Eunuch Wei and Huangfu Hao (projection) on the imperial dynasty fleet, or even "Iron Body" and "Returning Soul" above the Sea Eye in the distance, and the huge and chaotic Blood Skeleton Star God remains, all produced the deepest palpitation and fear originating from the instinct of life and existence!

As if a pair of eyes that were cold to the extreme yet understood everything were overlooking this foul sea area through that "Tribulation Eye," about to drop the final judgment!

And Lin Xuan was the writer of this "judgment"!

His face instantly turned as pale as paper, and from his seven orifices, pale golden blood threads (mixed with essence blood and soul origin) seeped out at the same time, and his body was like porcelain about to shatter, covered with spider-web-like cracks, and gray-purple chaotic airflow was escaping frantically from the cracks. Forcibly attracting and driving this level of "Heaven and Earth Return to Ruins Tribulation" had already exceeded the current bearing limit of his Chaos Tribulation Dao Dharma Body! This was burning his Dao foundation, soul, and life origin!

But the light in his eyes was like two burning chaos fires, unwavering!

"Go!"

Lin Xuan joined his fingers like a sword, pointing fiercely toward the direction of the Return to Ruins Sea Eye, at the destructive dark red blood evil pillar that was slowly raised and sprayed by the Blood Skeleton Star God, and "Iron Body" and "Returning Soul" on both sides of the pillar of light!

The "Chaos Return to Ruins Tribulation Eye" trembled suddenly, and immediately, a gray-black beam of light that was only as thick as an arm, yet seemed to be composed of the purest "nothingness" and "ending," shot out from the center of the Tribulation Eye without a sound!

This "Return to Ruins Tribulation Light" had no earth-shattering momentum, no destructive energy fluctuation, and even its flight trajectory seemed plain. But wherever it passed, space seemed to be directly "erased," leaving an eternal "nothingness scar" that could not be healed! Even the Blood Evil Resentment, Decaying Star Evil, and Ruins Abyss demonic energy permeating the air "disappeared" silently the moment the beam passed, not purified, nor annihilated, but most thoroughly—ceased to exist!

"Not good!!"

Iron Body and Returning Soul let out sharp, terrified screeches at the same time! From that gray-black beam of light, they felt the "ending" and "nothingness" intent that was purer and more essential than the ancient demons sleeping in the deepest part of the Ruins Abyss Demon Sea! This was the nemesis of all their origins such as devouring, pollution, and chaos! It was the power that could truly make their very "existence" completely disappear!

Almost instinctively, the two great demonic commanders abandoned continuing to guide the Blood Skeleton Star God's attack, demonic energy erupted, and regardless of the loss of origin, they tried to tear space to escape!

However, it was too late.

The speed of the "Return to Ruins Tribulation Light," seemingly slow, actually exceeded their perception of time and space. The beam of light arrived later but reached first, precisely... "pointing" at the front end of the destructive dark red blood evil pillar that had just been sprayed and was not yet fully formed!

No collision, no explosion.

It was like a red-hot soldering iron gently pressing on a thin sheet of paper.

The terrifying dark red pillar of light that condensed the Blood Skeleton Star God remains, Blood Evil Resentment, Decaying Star Evil, and part of the Ruins Abyss demonic energy, the moment it was touched by the "Return to Ruins Tribulation Light," its front end was "erased" out of thin air as if by an eraser! And, this kind of "disappearance" was still spreading along the pillar of light at an astonishing speed, backward toward the center of the Sea Eye, toward the main body of the Blood Skeleton Star God!

As if that "Return to Ruins Tribulation Light" brought its own contagious "return to ruins" attribute, any "existence" touched by it would quickly step into the final "nothingness"!

"Roar—!!!"

The Blood Skeleton Star God remains let out an unprecedented roar mixed with extreme pain, anger, and a trace of... fear! It felt that its destructive attack, which had poured a lot of origin and was about to be released, was being "deleted" from the root by a power that could not be understood or resisted! What was even more terrifying was that the power of "deletion" was eroding toward its main body along the connection of energy!

In its huge and chaotic will, for the first time, the instinct of "retreat" and "self-preservation" appeared. It tried to forcibly cut off the energy connection with that pillar of light, and even did not hesitate to detonate part of the peripheral foul flesh and star remains, trying to block the spread of that gray-black beam of light.

But the characteristics of "Return to Ruins Tribulation Light" determined that once its erosion began, it was extremely difficult to interrupt. Unless there was a higher-level power of the same or surpassing its "ending" essence to forcibly intervene.

"Iron Body" and "Returning Soul" were even more scared out of their wits, they were closer to the "contagion path" of the beam of light! Seeing that the gray-black representing "return to ruins," like tarsal maggots, was spreading rapidly along the blood evil pillar of light, and was about to touch their position!

"Escape! Escape back to the Demon Sea quickly!" Iron Body roared frantically, its flesh tumor body suddenly exploded in half, turning into a stream of pure origin demonic energy wrapping itself, regardless of the cost to tear open a tiny space crack, and was about to drill into it.

Huihun also screamed, its smoke body instantly dispersed, turning into billions of tiny negative emotion threads, fleeing in all directions, trying to disperse the risk with quantity.

However, the moment they were about to escape.

Lin Xuan, who had been sitting at the core array eye of Broken Star Island and seemed to have run out of oil, suddenly raised his head, the chaos fire in his eyes burning to the extreme, and spat out a word toward the direction they were fleeing, using his last bit of strength:

"Suppress!"

Not aimed at their main body, but at... the space that had been temporarily covered by the laws of "Heaven and Earth Return to Ruins Tribulation" and had become incomparably heavy and "repulsive"!

"Click!"

The space crack that Tantie had just torn open, under the suppression of the "Return to Ruins Tribulation" law, shattered instantly like fragile glass! The violent spatial turbulence instead swallowed a lot of its exploded demonic energy!

The billions of emotion threads that Huihun dispersed and fled were like hitting an invisible, cold "Wall of Return to Ruins," the vast majority of which were directly erased and purified by the "ending" Dao rhyme that was everywhere, leaving only the most core wisp, carrying shrill screams, barely breaking free from the law suppression of this area, and fleeing into the deep sea, disappearing.

Tantie's situation was even worse. It was originally good at devouring and physical demonic bodies, and its reliance on space tearing was stronger. At this moment, space was suppressed, the demonic body was damaged, and it was on the edge of the center of the "Return to Ruins Tribulation" law, only feeling that its own existence began to become unstable, as if it would be "erased" by that gray-black "erasure" everywhere at any time!

"No! Lord, save me!!" It let out a desperate roar, no longer caring about anything, frantically burning the remaining demonic body, turning into a stream of pure devouring black light, no longer trying to tear space, but fleeing toward the opposite direction of Huihun—the depths of the Endless Vast Sea, at the fastest speed, disappearing in the blood-colored sea and sky end in an instant.

As for that destructive dark red pillar of light, and the Blood Skeleton Star God remains behind it...

Under the erosion of "Return to Ruins Tribulation Light," the dark red pillar of light had already disappeared more than half, and the remaining part also had energy collapse, not forming a climate. And the "contagion" of the Tribulation Light had spread to the huge body of the Blood Skeleton Star God remains along the energy connection!

Gray-black "Return to Ruins" patterns, like the most fatal plague, started from its "head" and "heart" parts, and spread rapidly to the whole body. Wherever it passed, the foul flesh turned into nothingness, and the huge star remains lost all luster and characteristics, becoming more fragile than the sand and dust of the mortal world, and then disintegrated and dissipated without a sound.

The Blood Skeleton Star God remains struggled, twisted, and roared frantically, trying to resist and wash away the "Return to Ruins" patterns with its own vast Blood Evil Resentment and Decaying Star Evil. But all this was in vain. Its power level might have far exceeded this "Return to Ruins Tribulation Light" attracted by Lin Xuan in "quantity," but in "quality," its chaotic, foul, and decaying essence was exactly restrained and "defined" by the "ending" and "nothingness" that was pure to the extreme!

This was like no amount of sewage and mud could fill a hole leading to absolute nothingness, but instead would be ruthlessly swallowed by that hole and return to nothingness.

"Roar... no... unwilling... stars... return... to silence..." The last intent fluctuation full of endless resentment and sorrow came from the huge remains that were gradually covered by gray-black and disintegrating, and then, stopped abruptly.

The Blood Skeleton Star God, this terrifying evil thing remains that had once set off a bloody storm in ancient times and finally sank into the Return to Ruins Sea Eye for endless years, under the power of "Heaven and Earth Return to Ruins Tribulation," finally ushered in its true sense of existence's thorough "ending."

In the direction of the Return to Ruins Sea Eye, the terrifying vortex was still rotating slowly, spitting out foul energy, but having lost the core "amplifier" and "agitator" of the Blood Skeleton Star God, the intensity and chaos of its eruption clearly dropped by a level. Although the threat remained, it no longer had the world-destroying pressure before.

Above Broken Star Island, the "Chaos Return to Ruins Tribulation Eye" also began to dissipate slowly after completing this near "miracle" blow, returning to invisible chaotic airflow and returning to heaven and earth. The area that was temporarily "defined" by it also gradually returned to normal laws.

And Lin Xuan, after spitting out that "Suppress" word, the chaos fire in his eyes completely extinguished, his body softened, and he fell backward. His body was covered with cracks, his breath was weak to the extreme, the gray-purple chaotic airflow was almost scattered, only at the heart position, the Chaos Tribulation Crystal was still rotating at an extremely slow, near-stagnant speed, maintaining the last trace of vitality and Dao foundation from being extinguished.

"Brother Lin!"

"Fellow Daoist Lin!"

"Quick! Save him!"

Wei Gong, Elder Beichen, and others only then came back to their senses from the scene that shocked heaven and earth and reversed the universe, and in addition to horror, they were anxious, and several figures rushed to the core array eye regardless of everything.

Wei Gong arrived first, supported Lin Xuan's falling body, and the vast and gentle Soul Formation spiritual power immediately poured in, protecting his heart pulse and soul, and at the same time took out several secret medicines of the royal family emitting rich vitality and stuffed them into Lin Xuan's mouth.

"Quick! Send Consultant Lin to the quiet room! Activate the highest-level 'Nurturing Spirit and Cultivating Yuan Array'! Ask all alchemists and medical cultivators on the island who are good at healing to come immediately! At all costs, we must keep Consultant Lin's life and Dao foundation!" Wei Gong's voice carried unprecedented urgency and hoarseness.

Elder Beichen and Elder Lingshuang also ordered immediately, and the entire Broken Star Island, including the imperial dynasty fleet that had just arrived, all medical resources were mobilized quickly.

Elder Yangang directed the Giant Spirit Sect cultivators and the Demon-Slaying Army to quickly take over the defense of the island's periphery, clear the remaining demonized sea beasts, and consolidate the defense line. Although the Blood Skeleton Star God was killed and the Sea Eye threat was slightly reduced, "Tantie" fled with serious injuries, "Huihun" fled with a remnant soul, and the Return to Ruins Sea Eye itself was still a huge hidden danger, and no one dared to relax at all.

A desperate counterattack that exhausted the alliance's top power and gambled on the future luck of this realm finally came to a temporary end with the Blood Skeleton Star God being killed, two great demonic commanders one fled and one injured, and Lin Xuan exhausted and dying.

However, the aftermath and influence of this great battle had just begun.

A few days later, Broken Star Island core quiet room.

Lin Xuan was still unconscious, lying in a spiritual liquid jade pool constructed by countless nourishing arrays and heaven and earth treasures. The cracks on his body were healing slowly, but the speed was extremely slow, and his breath was still weak. Wei Gong, Elder Beichen, Elder Lingshuang, and others took turns guarding, their brows locked.

"Fellow Daoist Lin's Dao foundation injury is unprecedented." An old alchemist with white hair and beard who came with the imperial dynasty fleet shook his head and sighed, "It cannot be reached by medicine. The chaos power in his body... seems to have fallen into the deepest level of 'silence' and 'disintegration' edge because of excessive overdraft and attracting Heavenly Tribulation. Now we can only nourish his flesh and soul in the gentlest way to prevent thorough collapse, whether he can wake up and when he can wake up depends on his own good fortune and... heaven's will."

Hearing this, everyone felt heavy. Lin Xuan was already an irreplaceable pillar of the alliance, and his safety was directly related to the success or failure of the future confrontation with the "Erosion Realm" plan.

And just when everyone was worried.

Deep in the distant Endless Hanhai, one of the marked abnormal areas similar to the Return to Ruins Sea Eye energy fluctuation—that ancient altar half-buried under seabed sediments and covered in copper rust and strange reliefs, the dark red stains in its central groove, the moment the Blood Skeleton Star God thoroughly "returned to ruins," as if losing the last "supply" and "resonance," stopped pulsating suddenly, thoroughly dried up, cracked, and turned into dust without any spirituality.

But at the same time, deep below the altar, covered by thick sediments, a huge stone tablet engraved with runes of the same origin as the "Starfall Plains stone slab" and "Black Water City altar" parts, yet more complete and ancient, seemed to be touched by some grand fluctuation intertwined with "ending" and "rebirth," the dust and rust covering its surface fell off one after another, revealing the complete "contract" inscription cast with some kind of strange metal, flashing with dim starlight, depicting three stars and an Ouroboros totem, and countless kneeling living beings reliefs below!

The last line of small characters engraved in ancient Hanhai common language (lost) at the bottom of the inscription, flickering in the starlight, as if crossing endless years, telling the latecomers silently:

"With stars as proof, with blood as contract. Worship my god, enjoy eternity. Those who betray... stars fall and blood dries, forever fall into the return to ruins."

And directly above this ancient contract stone tablet, deep in the dark seawater, a huge shadow composed of countless architectural remains and twisted metal slowly revealed a hideous outline from the ten-thousand-year accumulation. That seemed to be... a sunken ancient city, or, the remains of a... star giant ship?

In the quiet room of Broken Star Island, Lin Xuan, who was unconscious, twitched his eyebrows extremely weakly, as if in the depths of his dream, he sensed the "calling" and "tribulation" that was more ancient and heavier from the abyss of the Hanhai.

(Volume 5 【Beginning of Erosion Realm】 End)