Chapter 238: Extinction Core

Li Qingxuan merged man and spear into one, turning into a gray radiance that tore the Void, and fiercely slammed into the shadow coffin vessel charging at the forefront!

The gray murky light condensed on his spear tip was neither pure life nor pure extinction, but a unique power he grasped in desperation, containing the artistic conception of life and death. This power seemed to touch the root of some law, having an innate restraint against extinction energy while surpassing the realm of pure life energy.

Hiss—!

There was no deafening explosion, only a sharp, piercing sound like a red-hot branding iron plunged into cold water!

The gray-murky spear tip and the dark red energy patterns flowing on the coffin vessel's surface collided violently! The defensive layer that could previously easily absorb and nullify regular energy attacks now, as if encountering its nemesis, boiled and twisted violently! The dark red and gray-murky energies madly corroded and annihilated each other, emitting a grating sizzling sound.

The coffin vessel's forward momentum was forcibly halted! Its smooth surface, centered on the spear tip's point of contact, began to show fine cracks like a spiderweb!

Effective!

Li Qingxuan's spirit lifted, and the power within his body erupted without reservation, his spear thrusting forward with all its might!

Crack!

A clear cracking sound rang out! The cracks on the coffin vessel's surface rapidly expanded and spread, finally bursting open at the front with a groan unable to bear the load, revealing that its interior was not a mechanical structure but a deep space seemingly composed of pure extinction energy!

At the moment the coffin vessel shattered, a black shadow shot out like a ghost from the ruptured gap, lunging straight at Li Qingxuan's face!

It was a monster roughly human-sized, its entire body composed of shadow energy with no fixed form! It wielded claws condensed from extinction energy, moving so fast only an afterimage remained, its aura icy and pure, existing solely for destruction!

Is this the true form of the "Scavenger"? An energy-based hunter?

Li Qingxuan had been prepared; he swung his spear, the shaft like an iron chain barring a river, precisely blocking the shadow claw's attack!

Clang!

The sound of metal clashing rang out; the solidity of the shadow claw exceeded imagination! A chilling, bone-piercing extinction energy traveled along the shaft, attempting to erode Li Qingxuan's arm.

But Li Qingxuan's constitution and mastery of life energy were now far beyond before; the "Life Imprint" within him flickered slightly, dispelling the invading extinction energy. He shook his wrist, the spear like a poisonous dragon coiling, the tip tracing a strange arc, once again pointing at the shadow monster's core!

The shadow monster seemed incorporeal, its form twisting like flowing water to evade this spear. However, the gray-murky energy attached to Li Qingxuan's spear tip seemed to have a locking effect; no matter how it changed, the tip never left its core region!

Pfft!

The gray-murky spear radiance finally pierced into the shadow monster's body!

The shadow monster emitted a silent shriek (Spiritual Shock); its entire body, like ice thrown into fierce fire, twisted and vaporized violently, finally dissipating completely, leaving only a small cluster of pure yet deathly still extinction energy core, floating in the Void.

Successfully eliminated one!

However, the other two coffin vessels seized this gap and slammed hard into the Oasis's energy barrier again!

Boom! Boom!

The barrier flickered violently, its light dimming further, even emitting a faint sound like glass about to shatter, a "crack"! Those maintaining the barrier, Yan Xin and others, turned pale, obviously bearing immense pressure.

"Can't let it hit again!" Li Qingxuan hesitated not, flickered his form, and rushed toward the nearest coffin vessel.

At the same time, the Oasis's internal defenses opened fire fully. This time they no longer used conventional energy attacks, but concentrated all means imbued with life energy—the Crystal Stone Battery's emerald beams, the Elf Druid's summoned natural spears, and even the team members' arrows and javelins bearing their faint life energy, falling like rain upon the two coffin vessels.

Although each attack's effect was limited, their great numbers and property restraint made up for it. The dark red patterns on the two coffin vessels' surfaces surged violently, their forward speed noticeably slowed, and their surface luster dimmed considerably.

Li Qingxuan seized the opportunity, unleashing 【Life Praise·Scythe of Extinction】 once more; the gray-murky spear radiance, like a death god's invitation, fiercely stabbed toward the second coffin vessel!

With the experience from the first time, he was now more proficient. The spear radiance precisely found a weak point in the coffin vessel's energy flow and pierced through with irresistible force!

Bang!

The second coffin vessel burst open in response, another shadow monster shrieking as it lunged out, but under Li Qingxuan's prepared spear it raised no ripple and was completely purified and dissipated.

Only one remained!

This coffin vessel seemed to sense its companions' demise and the formidable enemy before it; it no longer performed a suicidal ram, but abruptly halted outside the barrier, its dark red patterns flowing and brightening at an unprecedented speed! An extremely dangerous energy fluctuation gathered within it.

"It's charging up! It will launch a long-range attack! Stop it!" Yan Xin shouted anxiously.

Li Qingxuan's pupils contracted; he could feel that the energy condensed inside the coffin vessel far surpassed before, and if it erupted, it would likely pierce straight through the already tottering energy barrier!

We must not let it succeed!

He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the fatigue from the recent continuous battle, the power of the 【Weird Divine Realm】 spreading out to interfere with its energy condensation, while his form turned into a flowing light, charging straight ahead!

We must destroy it before it finishes charging!

Just as his spear was about to touch the last coffin vessel—

Hum—!

The coffin vessel finished charging! A beam of dark red energy, condensed to the extreme—only as thick as an arm yet exuding an aura that annihilates all—shot out like a death ray from the front of the coffin vessel! Its target was not Li Qingxuan, but……the core of the Oasis behind him—that Life Ancient Tree!

It actually knew to strike the vital point!

Li Qingxuan's eyes nearly burst; he wanted to turn and block, but it was already too late!

At this critical moment!

A brilliant column of light, as clear and cold as moonlight, shot from the distant depths of the Void without warning, arriving ahead of schedule, precisely intercepting in front of that dark red destructive beam!

Sii—!

The moon-white light column collided with the dark red beam, without explosion, only a deeper, law-level mutual annihilation! The moon-white column seemed to contain a supreme law of purification and protection; that destructive beam capable of piercing stars, before it, was like snow under sunlight, rapidly melting and dissolving, finally completely annihilated!

Everyone was stunned by this sudden turn of events!

Li Qingxuan abruptly turned his head, gazing toward the direction from which the moon-white light column came.

Only see, in that eternal dark Void, a point of soft yet steadfast pure white light, gradually approaching from afar.

The core of that light was a pure-white, elegantly streamlined shuttle-shaped starcraft, as if carved from moonlight and crystal. Its surface bore ancient runes sharing origin with the Ancestral Observation Station and the Life Ancient Tree, exuding a tranquil, harmonious yet immensely powerful aura.

Behind the starcraft's porthole, there appeared a clear, noble figure, silently gazing upon this Oasis, and upon the final shadow coffin vessel stalled before it.

Reinforcements? Primordial Light?

This thought flashed through Li Qingxuan's mind.

And that moon-white starcraft, after dispelling the destructive beam, did not halt; it slightly adjusted its prow, aiming at that last shadow coffin vessel.

A more condensed, purer moon-white radiance, like a judgment sword, gradually condensed at the prow.

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