The Star Domain was silent, with only ancient Star Light flowing.
A figure silently tore through space and time, arriving at the location of the Three Realms Passage. Starry Sky armor covered his entire body, flowing with cold, pure Law patterns, like a solidified Star River. His face was hidden behind Star Light, with only a pair of eyes, sharp as blades, devoid of any emotion.
His mere existence caused the Star Domain's Laws to solidify and the Star Light to dim. This was a Patrol Envoy, the God King's blade.
Pressure, as if substantial, crushed through the Void Realm. The Patrol Envoy's gaze swept across, piercing through the Star Domain's structure, searching for the remnants where the Strange Dao Will had been devoured and stripped away.
The Void Realm retained the pain of being forcibly torn apart, as well as a new, domineering, all-consuming Chaos aura—the source of that anomalous Dao.
A wisp of imperceptible Star Light, carrying the last decaying Qi of the Strange Dao, was precisely captured by him, its trajectory pointing towards the depths of the Star Domain.
Following the light, he traversed the endless Sea of Stars.
...
In a Star Domain filled with asteroid belts, a massive, star-sized turtle shell floated silently. Stars flickered on its surface, marking the ancestral land of the Star Turtle Clan. The Star Dome Old Ancestor was entrenched within its core, his aura vast, merging into the endless Star Light. His breathing rose and fell with the Star Light, seemingly pursuing the Dao marks beyond the ultimate Dao.
Suddenly, a cold, dead pressure, transcending the Star Domain, penetrated layers of asteroid barriers, reaching the core. The figure of the Star God Patrol Envoy abruptly materialized above the turtle shell's core, launching a punch towards the ‘Star Dome Old Ancestor’.
However, the ‘Star Dome Old Ancestor’s’ figure fluctuated violently under the power of the punch, revealing its illusory nature—it was clearly a false body condensed from Star Power!
The moment the Patrol Envoy saw through the Star Dome Old Ancestor's false body.
“Boom!!!”
The entire asteroid belt Star Domain suddenly boiled! Billions of asteroids transformed into a roaring Star River torrent! Endless Star Light surged into the sky, intertwining and condensing into a massive cage covering the Starry Sky—the Star Prison Great Array!
Billions of Star Light chains, accompanied by the shriek of tearing the Void Realm, converged from all directions, instantly engulfing the Star God Patrol Envoy! The Star Light chains coiled, and the Starry Sky cage closed, attempting to completely imprison him!
“Who exactly are you! Why did you ambush this Old Ancestor!” The Star Dome Old Ancestor’s furious roar echoed from all directions of the Star Light cage, attempting to intimidate the other party.
A terrifying calamity descended. The Star Dome Old Ancestor had immediately set up a trap, replacing himself with a false body.
The Patrol Envoy's figure suddenly solidified. Billions of Star Light chains were already coiling around him like living pythons, and the Starry Sky cage slammed shut.
The Star God Patrol Envoy's figure, entangled by countless Star Power chains and imprisoned by the cage, remained motionless. Behind his Star Light faceplate, only a pair of cold eyes pierced through layers of the Star Array, precisely locking onto a certain position deep within the turtle shell. She had already discovered the Star Dome Old Ancestor's location.
His right hand, bound by Star Power chains, slightly spread its five fingers.
A pure, cold power, capable of freezing Laws, silently erupted from his palm!
“Crack—snap snap snap!”
The billions of Star Power chains, condensed from Star Light, that coiled around him were instantly severed inch by inch, as if simultaneously cut by billions of invisible blades! The massive Starry Sky cage, covering the Starry Sky and condensing ancient Star Power, shattered with a roar at the moment this power erupted, like a fragile glass dome!
Billions of asteroid torrents rolled back and dispersed, and the boundless Star Light was annihilated.
The Star Prison Great Array instantly disintegrated!
The Star Dome Old Ancestor's Divine Soul shrieked, fully activating!
On both sides of the opening, countless Star Power chains instantly regenerated. On the surface of the turtle shell, billions of Star patterns glowed to their extreme, and the massive turtle shell frantically contracted inwards! The entire Star Prison Great Array transformed into a Starry Sky grinding disc that crushed all things, intending to completely obliterate the Patrol Envoy!
At the same time, from the core of the turtle shell, a colossal Star Light fist, condensed to the extreme, broke through the Void Realm and struck directly at the Patrol Envoy's back! Attacking from both front and back!
The Patrol Envoy's gaze behind his faceplate grew colder.
He did not dodge or evade the colossal Star Light fist coming from behind, letting his back, covered in Starry Sky armor, take the blow head-on!
“Thud!”
A dull thud! The colossal Star Light fist exploded! The Patrol Envoy's body didn't even sway! Star patterns flowed on his armor, completely unharmed!
Facing the Starry Sky grinding disc pressing in from the front and the regenerating endless Star Power chains, he crossed his arms over his chest and then sharply pushed them outwards!
“Open!”
A cold voice vibrated through the Starry Sky!
A tearing force, mighty and irresistible, erupted from him as its center!
“Boom!”
The entire inward-pressing Starry Sky grinding disc, along with the regenerating, strangling billions of chains, was as if grabbed by two invisible giant hands, forcibly torn apart and exploded from within! The Starry Sky-covering array structure completely disintegrated! Billions of asteroids exploded into dust, and the Star Light was completely annihilated!
The massive Starry Sky turtle shell let out a piercing wail, its surface Star patterns large-scale shattering and extinguishing! The Star Dome Old Ancestor, hidden deep within the Starry Sky turtle shell, felt his Divine Soul tremble violently, fear pouring over him like ice water!
“No!”
The Star God Patrol Envoy's figure took a step, ignoring spatial barriers, and appeared directly inside the Starry Sky turtle shell where the Star Dome Old Ancestor's true body was hidden. His Starry Sky battle boot landed.
“Buzz—!”
The entire Starry Sky turtle shell vibrated violently, the Star Light flowing on its surface instantly solidified, dimmed, and cracked. A miserable howl from the Star Dome Old Ancestor came from deep within the turtle shell! He felt as if he were an insect in amber, and the supreme power contained within the descending battle boot, along with the entire turtle body, had firmly pinned him in the Void Realm!
A hand covered in a Starry Sky armguard, ignoring the physical obstruction of the Star Core, pierced through the turtle shell and Star Core, coldly reaching inside and precisely seizing the throat of the Star Dome Old Ancestor's massive Divine Soul!
Absolute confinement! Irresistible suppression!
Cold intent, like billions of steel needles, pierced into the Star Dome Old Ancestor's Sea of Consciousness: “Ant! Do you dare question a God?”
The Star Dome Old Ancestor's Divine Soul struggled violently in the Patrol Envoy's palm. The turtle shadow condensed from Star Light frantically crashed, but could not budge the cold five fingers in the slightest. The Star God Patrol Envoy's gaze was indifferent, and the hand gripping the throat suddenly tightened!
“Crack!”
A crisp, piercing sound! The head of the turtle shadow, formed by the Star Dome Old Ancestor's Divine Soul, shattered in response, cracks instantly spreading over its entire body!
Countless Star-dust-like Divine Soul fragments scattered, then were forcibly seized by a terrifying suction force, rolling back towards the Patrol Envoy's faceplate, covered in Starry Sky armor!
On the faceplate, the solidified Star River-like patterns suddenly lit up, like a vast abyss opening its mouth. The shattered Divine Soul fragments of the Star Dome Old Ancestor, along with his final fear and unwillingness, were all devoured and annihilated!
The Star Domain was dead silent.
The Star God Patrol Envoy stood suspended in the Void Realm, his eyes slightly closed. The devoured Divine Soul fragments were brutally torn apart and ground under his cold will. The miscellaneous memories, Cultivation insights, and Star Turtle secret arts belonging to the Star Dome Old Ancestor were ruthlessly stripped away and swept clean like dust. Only that new, domineering, all-consuming Chaos aura was his sole target.
“I found you! You sly fellow, can you escape?!”
The Star God Patrol Envoy's cold intent locked onto the unique characteristics of the Chaos aura's source, with perfect clarity.
He suddenly opened his eyes! His sharp gaze pierced through the Void Realm, cast towards the direction where Li Mu's Star Boat had disappeared. The solidified Star River-like patterns on his armor flowed with cold light, and a pure, extreme killing intent permeated the air, freezing the surrounding scattered Star Light dust.
The Star God Patrol Envoy's figure took a step, and space silently tore. He stepped into it, following the faint trajectory of that new Great Dao, pursuing towards the Three Thousand Main Worlds with astonishing speed.
...
On the other end, Li Mu and his Star Boat sped through the dense Star River, their target locked onto a blue planet ahead.
Li Mu concealed his aura, and the Star Boat also hid its light, silently plummeting into the atmosphere like a meteor.
Passing through the clouds, the scene below became clear: continuous primeval forests covered the land, ancient trees towered, and vines coiled like Dragons. A wide, dark green river meandered, dividing the verdant landscape. In the distance, strangely shaped mountains stood tall, their waists wreathed in clouds and mist.
“We're here,” Li Mu's voice was low.
The Star Boat hovered over a forest clearing, its hatch sliding open silently. Li Mu was the first to leap down, his toes lightly touching the ground without disturbing a single speck of dust. His aura was completely internalized, as if he had merged with the surrounding vegetation.
Xue'er followed closely, her nine fluffy fox tails naturally spreading behind her. She landed lightly, also concealing all her demonic spiritual fluctuations. The scent of damp earth, the freshness of plants, and a peculiar floral fragrance wafted towards them.
Xue'er took a deep breath. The rich aroma of the forest invigorated her Mental Energy, and her nine fluffy fox tails unconsciously swayed gently. “This place… feels different.” She looked around, her eyes filled with surprise: “The Spiritual Qi is like a living thing, directly drilling into my Bloodline.”
“The Spirit Realm is naturally like this,” Li Mu's gaze sharply scanned the dense jungle, indicating: “The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in this realm is pure, and it is naturally close to the demonic affinity. All things have spirits, and all can become demons.”
Li Mu's fingertips moved slightly, and several invisible talismans silently submerged into the ground and tree trunks, setting up a hidden barrier.
“That floral fragrance…” Xue'er's nostrils twitched, her gaze falling on the cluster of vines with blue-purple bell-shaped flowers hanging down. The fragrance was rich, even carrying a faint spiritual fluctuation, as if the flowers themselves were breathing.
Not far away, on the vines coiling around ancient trees, blue-purple bell-shaped flowers hung down, emitting a rich, exotic fragrance. That scent seemed to possess spirit, subtly forming a faint Spiritual Qi vortex, breathing in and out on its own.
Li Mu's brows suddenly furrowed, and he abruptly looked up, his sharp gaze piercing through layers of trees.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three terrifying pressures, shaking heaven and earth, crashed in like invisible tsunamis from three completely different directions!
Deep in the eastern dense forest, a “giant tree” so massive it obscured half the sky slowly moved. Three scarlet vertical pupils cracked open on its trunk—that was not a tree, but a lurking colossal demon! The moss and vines covering it rustled off, revealing dark green, metal-like, gnarled scales.
The western earth trembled violently. The center of a dark green river suddenly arched up, turbid river water cascading down like a waterfall, revealing a back covered in thick, dark green carapace, like a moving hill. A pair of colossal pincers broke out of the water, stirring up wind and clouds.
In the southern sky, a “dark cloud” that blotted out the sun rapidly approached. A pungent, fishy wind assailed the nostrils. Upon closer inspection, it was a cloud of countless pitch-black demonic insects, fist-sized, with sharp proboscises!
At the core of the insect cloud, a purplish-black demonic shadow, shaped like a giant bee, was vaguely visible. Its compound eyes flickered with cold, greedy light, firmly locking onto the pure Nine-Tailed Snow Fox aura emanating from Xue'er's nine fluffy fox tails, an aura like a lighthouse to demonic creatures!
Space seemed to solidify, the air thick as glue. Ninth-rank colossal demons! And there were three of them! They had arrived, drawn by the scent!
“Let's go!”
Li Mu grabbed Xue'er's wrist. The moment his words fell, both their figures vanished.
The Chaos Treasure Mansion's light instantly flared, like a gluttonous beast opening its enormous mouth, swallowing Xue'er, the Star Boat, and Li Mu all at once.
The next moment, the Chaos Treasure Mansion transformed into an imperceptible speck of dust, merging into the pervasive, rich demonic aura of the Spirit Realm, completely disappearing without a trace.
“Roar!”
The colossal demon disguised as an ancient tree let out a deafening roar. The three scarlet vertical pupils on its trunk rapidly contracted in shock and fury. The moss and vines covering its entire body were completely shaken off by the violent aura, revealing the hideous scales beneath, dark green like profound iron and covered in sharp bone spurs.
It frantically swept the area for hundreds of miles. The pure Nine-Tailed Snow Fox aura, like a supreme delicacy, had vanished into thin air right under its nose! Not even a ripple in space was left behind!
“Ang—!!!”
The gigantic creature, covered in a thick, dark green carapace, suddenly arched its massive body completely out of the water. Turbid river water cascaded down its hill-like back like a waterfall, stirring up monstrous waves.
A pair of colossal pincers, capable of severing mountains, wildly thrashed, causing the wind and clouds to change color. The dark green river water was stained a strange, eerie black by demonic power. It let out a dull, furious roar, its compound eyes filled with disbelief.
The cooked duck had flown away! It clearly felt the Nine-tailed aura close at hand, a peerless treasure worthy of being presented to the Demon Saint for a heavy reward, yet it had escaped at the last moment!
“Hiss hiss hiss—!!!”
The vast insect cloud, composed of countless pitch-black demonic insects, suddenly froze, emitting a dense, scalp-crawling hiss. At its core, the purplish-black, giant-bee-shaped Demon Emperor's compound eyes instantly replaced their cold, greedy light with violent ferocity. Its sharp proboscis opened and closed, emitting a high-pitched shriek that pierced the eardrums.
The insect cloud churned violently. Countless demonic insects, agitated by the loss of their target, collided and bit each other. It had locked onto the Nine-Tailed Snow Fox's aura most precisely, and coveted it the most. It was on the verge of devouring or capturing it to offer to the Demon Saint for a chance at promotion, yet it watched helplessly as the prey turned into nothingness before its sharpest claws could reach it!
“What's going on?!” The tree demon's mental fluctuations boomed like muffled thunder, filled with shock, doubt, and fury. “That Nine-Tailed Snow Fox's aura… it's gone! Completely gone! Not even a spatial trace!”
“Useless! It must be you, old tree, who startled them!” The colossal demon in the river's mental fluctuations were violent and chaotic. Its colossal pincers slammed fiercely onto the river surface, raising a hundred-zhang wall of water, venting its unventable rage: “The blood food that was at my mouth is gone! How do I explain this to the Demon Saint?!”
“Shut up, stupid crab!” The insect cloud Demon Emperor's mental fluctuations were sharp and sinister. Its countless compound eyes frantically scanned every inch of the ground below. “Something's wrong! That human Cultivator… and that Star Boat! They must have used some Heaven-Defying treasure! Able to instantly take away living beings without leaving a trace…”
“It's a spatial secret treasure! Of extremely high rank! Search! Dig three thousand feet deep if you have to, but find them! The Nine-Tailed Snow Fox must be offered to the Demon Saint!”
Three powerful Mental Energy forces, like an invisible storm, repeatedly plowed through this area. Ancient trees toppled, the earth cracked, and rivers changed course.
However, the dust formed by the Chaos Treasure Mansion had long since merged into the pervasive, rich demonic spiritual aura of the Spirit Realm, like a drop of water entering the ocean, leaving no trace. Only three furious, mutually accusing Ninth-rank colossal demons remained in place, raging in impotence. (End of Chapter)
