“Buzz—!”
The space groaned under an unbearable burden, as the absolute pressure brought by the arrival of a certain “existence” descended!
The nine Great Sages of the Yao Race felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave; the circulation of their Yao Power abruptly slowed, as if even their thoughts were about to be frozen by the eerie white in the depths of the vortex.
Li Mu’s eyes narrowed slightly, and the Chaos Qi around his body flowed naturally, isolating the invisible pressure, yet his robes fluttered without wind.
At the center of the vortex, a point of pure “eerie white” slowly emerged.
It stripped away all color, temperature, and meaning; it was absolute nothingness, rapidly stretching out, like a claw yet not a claw, like a tentacle yet not a tentacle, its form shifting unpredictably between existence and non-existence.
Wherever it passed, starlight extinguished, and space itself lost its “thickness,” transforming into a thin sheet of paper crumpled by an unseen force.
Golden Peng Great Saint’s pupils constricted, and he roared, “Retreat!”
Nine Yao Race figures simultaneously retreated rapidly, their Yao Power surging wildly to protect themselves!
Nine Heavens Great Saint’s nine tails conjured layer upon layer of illusory realms, attempting to isolate the invisible erosion, but the illusory realms silently melted upon touching the edge of that “eerie white”!
Red Hou Great Sage’s body surface lava instantly cooled and solidified, emitting cracking sounds; Purple Dragon Great Sage’s jumping purple lightning, like sparks snuffed out, suddenly dimmed!
…
That “thing” seemed to pay no attention to the nine Great Sages of the Yao Race; its ever-shifting front end slowly, yet with an irresistible trajectory, locked onto Li Mu.
“Target locked, eliminate…”
A cold, hollow thought vibrated directly in the depths of all living beings’ Divine Souls, devoid of any emotion, only the purest “nothingness.”
At the front end of the eerie white, a more condensed “eerie white” began to gather.
There was no light, no fluctuation; it was simply that the “existence” of that area was being completely negated and extracted!
Li Mu raised his hand, and a silent Chaos Qi vortex appeared at his fingertip, spinning ceaselessly, seemingly containing the primordial power of creation, as he calmly watched that gathering “eerie white.”
“Stop it!”
Golden Peng Great Saint roared, his wings fiercely flapped, and thousands of sharp golden feathers, tearing through the Void Realm, converged into a torrent, carrying the Law of destruction, fiercely blasting towards the writhing eerie white entity!
The other Great Sages of the Yao Race also knew the danger and held nothing back!
Nine Heavens Great Saint’s nine tails swayed in unison, countless illusory blades slicing through space; Red Hou Great Sage’s lava giant fist incinerated the Void Realm; Black Tortoise Great Sage’s massive shield crashed down like a mountain; Purple Dragon Great Sage invoked the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder… eight terrifying attacks that shook the star river followed closely behind Golden Peng Great Saint, instantly engulfing the space between the writhing eerie white and Li Mu!
Violent energy turbulence tore at everything, Laws wailed and shattered; the combined attack of the nine Great Sages was enough to collapse stars!
However, that writhing eerie white merely paused slightly.
The destructive torrent assaulting it, at the moment it touched the edge of the eerie white, vanished silently, like a stream flowing into a bottomless abyss!
There was no collision, no explosion, as if it had never existed! Not even a ripple was stirred.
The nine Sages’ combined attack was like a mud ox entering the sea!
“What?!”
For the first time, an expression of unbelievable horror appeared in Golden Peng Great Saint’s sharp eyes.
Just as the nine Sages’ offensive was “swallowed,” the “point” condensed at the front end of the eerie white moved.
Silently, without light or shadow.
It disregarded the distance of space, appearing directly in front of Li Mu, gently “touching” the Chaos Qi vortex spinning at Li Mu’s fingertip.
Time seemed to solidify at that moment.
Space presented strange, distorted patterns, like shattered glass about to break after a heavy impact.
The Chaos Qi vortex at Li Mu’s fingertip suddenly accelerated to its extreme, gray Qi currents surging wildly, engaging in the most fundamental level of annihilation and confrontation with that point of absolute eerie white!
At their point of contact, light completely vanished, Laws were thoroughly shattered and reshaped, forming a miniature, all-consuming Chaos Origin Point!
Eerie white and Chaos gray fiercely intertwined and annihilated each other within that Origin Point!
The nine Great Sages of the Yao Race held their breath, staring intently at the silent clash at that point; they could feel that a terrifying collision, beyond their comprehension and touching the Origin of the world, was occurring there, and the spatial-temporal Foundation of that area was disintegrating.
The Laws of the entire world seemed to be stripped of their Foundation, space cracked like a mirror, crumbling inch by inch.
Time lost its meaning at that point; past, present, and future blurred and overlapped, turning into a muddy Chaos swamp.
The eerie white point and the Chaos Qi vortex tore at each other, devouring each other, and reshaping themselves.
Every imperceptible advance was a negation and redefinition of existence itself.
Li Mu stood at the center of the storm, his expression calm, his gaze as deep as an abyss, his Chaos Dao Body operating naturally, gray Qi currents surging from within his body, continuously flowing into the spinning vortex.
“Anomaly… primordial interference… clear.” The Guitribe Emissary’s “will” reappeared.
The eerie white point suddenly expanded, no longer a tiny speck, but an invisible “hole” opening above reality, intending to draw everything into it, returning all to nothingness.
Li Mu moved, taking a step, and his Chaotic Dao Domain suddenly expanded, transforming into a massive swirling wheel of myriad Law fragments, crashing towards the eerie white hole.
Within the vortex, mountains and rivers could vaguely be seen overturning, stars being born and dying, as if a Universe in the process of creation collided head-on with the “nothingness” intending to erase everything.
The nine Great Sages of the Yao Race felt a violent tremor in their Divine Souls, their consciousness almost forcibly peeled from their bodies.
They were horrified to discover that their sense of existence had wavered in that instant, as if they could be completely erased from this world at any moment.
However, Li Mu and that eerie white existence had completely departed from the conventional battlefield.
They engaged in a confrontation at the Law level, reshaping Karma outside of reality.
The eerie white constantly shifted its form, sometimes a blade, sometimes a net, sometimes a cocoon, attempting to envelop, strangle, and devour the Chaos Power.
Yet Chaos remained constant, flowing ceaselessly, encompassing all things, dissolving all attacks, and counterattacking at an unhurried pace.
Gradually, cracks began to appear in the eerie white.
Not damage, but an instability of “existence.”
It seemed to encounter a power it could not completely erase for the first time, instinctively emitting a sharp, piercing wave, seemingly notifying the supreme existence of the Deva Race.
Li Mu’s eyes turned cold, he lightly raised his left hand, and another ball of Chaos lightning condensed in his palm, primordial lightning nurtured deep within his Chaos Dao Body, containing a powerful Chaos will.
Li Mu’s five fingers slowly closed.
Boom!
The Chaos lightning exploded, transforming into a lightning spear that pierced the essence of Law, carrying an unprecedented immense pressure, stabbing directly into the core of the eerie white!
The eerie white twisted violently, as if trying to escape, but it was firmly locked by the Chaos Qi vortex.
As the Chaos lightning penetrated it, in an instant, a wail never before heard in the world echoed.
The eerie white shattered.
The Chaos lightning detonated an unspeakable rule deep within its core, causing it to transform from “existence” to “non-existence,” from “understandable” to “indescribable.”
“How is this possible?!”
The Guitribe Emissary’s will fluctuated for the first time, a hint of shock and fury added to its hollow voice.
Its writhing eerie white body trembled violently, countless claw-like tentacles frantically extended from the vortex, each carrying the terrifying power to erase existence, strangling towards Li Mu!
Li Mu snorted coldly, his right palm suddenly clenched, and the Chaos Long River instantly reversed, transforming into an ancient giant axe, its blade imbued with the primordial Dao charm of creation.
Li Mu took a step, the starry sky beneath his feet collapsed, and the giant axe swept across, its gray axe light tearing through eternity!
“Crack!”
The attacking eerie white tentacles simultaneously snapped, and Chaos Qi eroded the broken ends, preventing the eerie white from regenerating for a time.
The axe light, its momentum undiminished, fiercely struck the eerie white entity!
“Roar—!”
The Guitribe Emissary let out a shrill roar, the sound not like a living creature, but more like the wail of world Laws being torn apart.
The Guitribe Emissary’s body was split open by the axe light, revealing a massive crack from which sticky, white eerie liquid, seemingly capable of polluting everything, gushed out.
Wherever the liquid passed, even Chaos Qi sizzled as it was corroded.
“A mere ant from the Lower Realm dares to harm me!”
The Guitribe Emissary was completely enraged, its cracked eerie white body writhing madly, and it transformed into a gigantic mouth covering the sky, a mouth filled with endless nothingness and Chaos, devouring towards Li Mu!
Li Mu’s gaze was like lightning, the Chaos giant axe in his hand dissipated, replaced by a Chaos Treasure Mansion.
The Treasure Mansion was carved with mountains and rivers, sun, moon, and stars all over its body, and with a gentle tremor, space solidified, and Laws submitted.
The Treasure Mansion then opened, and the devouring giant mouth was immediately fixed in mid-air, the eerie white liquid boiling and evaporating violently as if it had encountered a natural enemy.
Li Mu held the Treasure Mansion with one hand and formed a hand seal with the other, the Treasure Mansion suddenly expanded, aimed at the giant mouth, and a terrifying suction force erupted, pulling it back.
“No—!”
The Guitribe Emissary roared in horror and anger, but could not resist the pull of the Chaos Treasure Mansion, its massive eerie white body being dragged into it little by little.
It struggled frantically, its tentacles slapping the starry sky, each blow annihilating large areas of stars, yet it could not break free.
The nine Great Sages of the Yao Race had long since retreated to an extreme distance, watching this scene in shock.
Golden Peng Great Saint’s wings trembled slightly, and he murmured, “Is this the power of the Chaotic Great Dao?!”
“Buzz—!”
The giant gates of the Chaos Treasure Mansion slammed shut, isolating inside and out.
The Emissary’s massive eerie white body was completely swallowed into the Chaos Sea within the Mansion.
Chaos Qi surged, with towering waves.
The Emissary struggled frantically in the viscous gray sea, eerie white liquid splashing, attempting to pollute this space.
The gray sea boiled, hissing as it was corroded.
“Suppress!”
Li Mu’s will moved, and from the depths of the Chaos Sea, a giant tree broke through the waves!
Its trunk was gnarled like an ancient Dragon, and as its branches and leaves swayed, three thousand Dao fruits circulated and floated, emitting the primordial Dao charm—the Chaos Dao Tree!
The Dao Tree’s roots, like living things, deeply embedded themselves in the Chaos Sea, its branches extended, instantly coiling around the Emissary’s body, and the Dao fruits vibrated in unison, Chaos divine light cascading down, like billions of shackles, layering upon layer.
“Roar!”
The Emissary let out an inhuman roar, its eerie white body sizzling as it was scorched by the divine light.
It twisted violently, attempting to break free from the Dao Tree’s restraint, and the eerie liquid gushing from its cracks became even thicker, corroding the coiling branches.
The Dao Tree’s branches and leaves trembled slightly, and the areas stained with eerie liquid dimmed.
Li Mu’s gaze was calm, and his thoughts shifted again.
The Chaos Sea churned with a raging tempest, endless Chaos Qi poured into the Dao Tree, and the dimmed areas on its branches and leaves rapidly recovered, the divine light greatly increasing!
The coiling tightened, and the light of the three thousand Dao fruits merged into one, forming a furnace.
The Emissary’s struggles gradually weakened, its massive body being refined and decomposed inch by inch by the divine light, transforming into wisps of pure yet chaotic white Origin, merging into the Chaos Sea, and being absorbed by the Dao Tree’s roots.
“No… my Lord…”
The Emissary’s last trace of will, carrying unwillingness and fear, completely dissipated.
The Chaos Sea returned to its turbulent state, and the Dao Tree stood silently, its branches and leaves glowing faintly, absorbing what it had refined, its aura becoming even more ancient and vast.
Outside the Mansion.
The nine Great Sages hovered in the starry sky, silent.
The terrifying aura that isolated everything and the Emissary’s final wail at the moment the Treasure Mansion closed had deeply shaken their minds.
Golden Peng Great Saint’s sharp eyes stared intently at the ancient mansion, the golden light at the edge of his wings slightly bursting, Nine Heavens Great Saint’s nine tails hung low, and the illusory light converged.
The solidified cracks on Red Hou Great Sage’s body surface silently healed, and the purple lightning flickering in Purple Dragon Great Sage’s eyes subsided.
The space retained crumpled traces, and starlight hesitated to approach that area.
Absolute silence enveloped the Sages.
They knew that a refinement far beyond their imagination was taking place inside.
Li Mu’s figure did not appear.
The Chaos Treasure Mansion floated quietly, as if it had existed there since ancient times, the carvings of mountains and rivers, sun, moon, and stars on its surface glowing faintly, isolating all prying eyes.
The nine Sages looked at each other, all seeing the solemnity and a hint of unspeakable reverence in each other’s eyes.
Golden Peng Great Saint took a deep breath, suppressed the surging Qi and blood, and slowly folded his wings.
Five years passed in a flash.
The Chaos Treasure Mansion hung in the Void Realm, as silent as a rock, the carvings of mountains and rivers, sun, moon, and stars on its surface glowing faintly, isolating everything.
The nine Great Sages of the Yao Race were arrayed in all directions, their Yao Power restrained but ready, their gazes fixed intently on the Treasure Mansion.
Five years of waiting, heavy as a mountain.
The Emissary’s final wail and the terrifying aura isolated by the Treasure Mansion were deeply etched into their Divine Souls.
“Buzz…”
With a soft hum, the faint light flowing on the Treasure Mansion’s surface suddenly solidified, then retracted inward, revealing an ancient door.
The door opened silently, and only one figure slowly stepped out—it was Li Mu.
His clothes were the same, but his aura was completely different.
After five years of refinement, his Chaos Dao Body appeared even more profound, and the Chaos Qi around him flowed naturally, as if he had merged with that part of the Void Realm.
Golden Peng Great Saint’s golden eyes were as sharp as knives, and he was the first to break the silence, his voice cold and hard: “You finally came out.”
Li Mu did not answer, standing silently in the Void Realm.
Nine Heavens Great Saint’s nine-tailed illusion swayed behind him, illusory light flickering: “The Guitribe Emissary, destroyed?”
“Refined,” Li Mu said, his voice calm, yet carrying a profound composure born from the tempering of Chaos.
The hearts of the nine Sages all trembled.
Although they had long anticipated it, hearing it firsthand still shocked them.
Such an existence was truly refined by him!
A brief silence.
Golden Peng Great Saint’s wings vibrated slightly, and his sharp golden Qi tore through space, carrying an undeniable decisiveness: “Since your task is complete, please leave this realm.”
Li Mu’s eyes moved slightly, looking at Golden Peng.
Black Tortoise Great Sage’s giant shield illusion appeared beside him, his deep voice like grinding mountains: “The Deva Race came because of you.
The living beings of this realm cannot endure another such incident.”
Red Hou Great Sage’s body surface had lava currents surging beneath it, and he said in a muffled voice: “As long as you are here, you are a source of disaster.”
Purple Dragon Great Sage’s purple lightning flickered uncertainly around him, and though he did not speak, the intent to expel was equally clear in his eyes.
Nine powerful Yao Race thoughts intertwined, an invisible pressure enveloped the Void Realm, and the intention to drive him away was obvious.
They had witnessed Li Mu’s power firsthand and had a deeper appreciation for the terror of the Deva Race.
They absolutely did not want to provoke the latter again.
Li Mu’s gaze swept over the faces of the nine Great Sages one by one, taking in their apprehension, aloofness, and even a hint of barely perceptible fear.
The corner of his mouth seemed to twitch, or perhaps it did not.
(End of Chapter)
