Twelve points of light slowly rotated, forming an incomparably profound formation diagram. At its center, an even more ancient, purer chaotic light slowly lit up, as though it Contained the great power to create the world—that was the imprint of Pangu's essence blood! The source of the Witch Clan Bloodline!
[Bloodline resonance forcibly activated! Target: Witch Clan Remnant (Fire Witch Origin)... Associated Ancestor Witch: Zhurong (weak)... Deep bloodline contamination detected (External Demon Erosion)... Will of Pangu Hall scan initiated...]
A cold, vast, utterly emotionless will, like an invisible giant hand, instantly locked onto Yan Lingji! This will pierced through her flesh, bones, and directly acted upon her Bloodline Origin!
"Roar—!"
Within Yan Lingji, the chaotic, violent power originating from the Dark Gold giant claw in the stone grotto—the force that had contaminated her Zhurong Bloodline—erupted madly as though a ferocious beast awakened by its natural enemy! Dark Gold patterns spread and bulged wildly beneath her skin like burning magma! A scorching energy far more violent and chaotic than her own witchfire, filled with destruction and the scent of sulfur, burst uncontrollably through her body! Her eyes were instantly covered in manic golden-red flames, her reason swiftly fading and being replaced by the mad instinct to destroy everything!
"No...!" Yan Lingji's last remaining consciousness let out a pained cry. She felt her bloodline being torn apart by two Terrifying Wills! One was the majestic, ancient summoning and purification power originating from Pangu Hall, attempted to awaken the purest Fire Witch Origin within her; the other was the chaotic power of External Demon Erosion, like a bone-clinging maggot tightly wrapped around her bloodline, resisting purification and attempted to drag her completely into the abyss of destruction!
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
The Dark Gold chaotic flames and the purifying power of the Will of Pangu Hall clashed and annihilated each other fiercely across her body surface! Every collision brought heart-rending agony! She felt like a piece of iron cast into a furnace, struggling madly at the boundary between Destruction and Rebirth!
"Mixed Bloodline... impure fire origin... and desecrated by an external demon..." A vast, cold voice, like the resonance of billions of mountains, sounded directly within Yan Lingji's soul. It was the judgment of the Will of Pangu Hall! "Can you... bear the weight of Pangu Bloodline?"
With that judgment, the twelve points of Light of Ancestral Witch Origin suddenly blazed brilliantly! In particular, the crimson light representing Zhurong projected a phantom of Sky-Burning Fire pure to the extreme. Bearing the supreme will to purify all filth and burn away all evil demons, it descended over Yan Lingji's head! This was not an attack, but the most fundamental "purification" and "trial"! If her bloodline was pure, she could be reborn through fire and return to her origins; if she had been completely eroded by the external demon, she would turn to ash beneath the Ancestral Witch Origin Fire!
"Aah—!" Faced with this Ancestral Witch Origin Fire that could burn away everything, the chaotic Dark Gold power within Yan Lingji gave a soundless shriek. As if it had encountered its nemesis, it contracted and resisted frantically, while eroding her will even more fiercely, seeking to drag her into complete madness to resist the Purifying Fire!
Pain! Extreme pain! A double tearing of soul and bloodline!
Just as Yan Lingji's consciousness was about to be completely drowned by madness and pain—
Buzz!
The fragment of Qingping Sword Sheath clutched tightly in her arms suddenly gave off another faint yet distinct hum!
This time, the sword sheath did not invoke the Heaven-Connecting Sword Intent. Instead... the profound cloud patterns on its surface actively absorbed a thread of the purest Zhurong Origin fire qi leaking from Yan Lingji's body—the portion not yet fully contaminated! After being absorbed by the sheath, that thread of fire qi was not destroyed by sword intent. Instead, it circulated and harmonized within the cloud patterns, turning into an Extremely Anciently faint cyan-red light spot carrying a strange force of balance!
Immediately afterward, that cyan-red light spot was actively guided by the sword sheath, flowing upstream into the chaotic core within Yan Lingji that was madly resisting the Ancestral Witch purification!
A miracle happened!
This cyan-red light spot, which fused the harmonizing power of the Heaven-Severing Sword Sheath's cloud patterns with Zhurong Origin fire qi, was like a drop of cold water falling into boiling oil, instantly triggering a violent reaction! It did not forcibly suppress that chaotic Dark Gold power, nor did it help it resist the Ancestral Witch fire. Instead... it forcibly built an Extremely Anciently faint, fragile "bridge" between them!
Sizzle—!
The instant the cyan-red light spot touched the chaotic core, a Will of Chaos far more violent and even more ancient than before erupted fiercely from the depths of Yan Lingji's bloodline, like a Primordial Fierce Beast utterly enraged! This will was filled with brutality, destruction, and hatred for all order. It even faintly overwhelmed the majesty of Pangu Hall!
"Ant! How dare you desecrate my imprint!" A terrifying thought filled with sulfur and the scent of blood directly struck Yan Lingji's soul! This thought... was of the same origin as the Dark Gold giant claw that had torn through space in the stone grotto! It was even... stronger! Even more ancient!
Boom!
The Will of Pangu Hall seemed to have been enraged as well by this sudden, extremely ancient Will of Chaos filled with malice! The twelve points of Light of Ancestral Witch Origin instantly erupted with unprecedented radiance! The imprint of Pangu's essence blood at the center of the formation diagram shook violently! A grander, purer power of purification descended with a thunderous crash! Its target was no longer Yan Lingji, but the Will of Chaos erupting from within her!
Two equally ancient and vast, yet utterly opposing Terrifying Wills—one was the Source of Creation of the Primordial Era Heaven and Earth's world-creating (projection), while the other was the imprint of an unknown demon god's will filled with destruction and chaos—collided explosively within Yan Lingji's tiny body, upon the battlefield of her fragile bloodline!
Crack!
It was as though invisible shackles had broken!
Yan Lingji let out an unimaginably shrill scream! Her body was like shattered porcelain, instantly covered with fine cracks! Blood mixed with Dark Gold flames gushed from those cracks! Under the pincer attack of those two Supreme Wills, her consciousness, like a candle in the wind, was instantly cast into an endless abyss of darkness!
In the last moment before her consciousness completely sank, she seemed to hear a sigh originating from the depths of endless time and space, filled with desolation and exhaustion:
"Calamity... rises... not... by... my... will..."
This sigh seemed to have come from the imprint of Pangu's essence blood? It carried an indescribable... compassion and helplessness?
Then came the roaring of that Will of Chaos filled with the scent of sulfur and blood, tinged with surprise and greed:
"Pangu... Will?! It has not... completely perished?! This woman... is mine!"
Biyou Cave Heaven, beside the Green Lotus Pool.
The Chaos Torrent still surged onward, and the Great Dao's interrogation still pressed down like thunder.
Yet Cheng Xi's consciousness, protected by that speck of gray light from the Chaos Origin Point and System Logic Anchoring, forcibly held on at the edge of destruction! His soul was like a stubborn rock weathered by endless currents, floating and sinking in the torrent. Though covered in wounds and on the verge of collapse, the core representing "self" and "variable" became increasingly clear and resilient amid the pain! Carrying a trace of chaotic "disorder," the Break Delusion Rebellious Intent Sword Intent was like a tempered blade, painstakingly carving out a tiny domain of its own within the torrent.
Upon the Lotus Platform, Lord Tongtian's figure remained merged with the Dao. Yet within his tranquil, ancient eyes, amid the reflected scene of the Chaos Torrent, that misty gray "reef" belonging to Cheng Xi was extraordinarily conspicuous. An Extremely Anciently faint, almost imperceptible fluctuation rippled through his Dao Heart, which had been silent since time immemorial.
"It can... truly anchor itself?" Lord Tongtian's thoughts shifted slightly. "Chaos Origin Point... the essence of a variable... this child's Dao Heart is more resilient than expected. However..." His gaze seemed to pierce through space toward the Pangu Hall Projection where Yan Lingji Was not. Within those profound eyes, a trace of gravity quietly replaced his previous surprise.
"Pangu Will manifesting... the external demon imprint reviving... the speed at which Calamity Qi surges far exceeds all deductions..." Thoughts flowed through Lord Tongtian's mind. "It seems the time left for This World... is not much."
Just then!
Boom!
An Extremely Anciently faint will fluctuation carrying supreme majesty and compassion, along with another Terrifying Will Impact full of destructive chaos, greedy malice, crashed through the barrier of space from the direction of the Pangu Hall Projection like boulders thrown into a still lake. They slammed violently into this blessed cave heaven governed by Lord Tongtian's Great Dao will!
This impact was so sudden and so intense, carrying two utterly opposing supreme law attributes! In particular, that destructive and chaotic will was filled with ultimate malice toward order, toward living beings, and toward the Primordial Era Heaven and Earth itself!
Buzz—!
The entire Biyou Cave Heaven shook violently! The glowing stalactites hanging from the cave ceiling flickered fiercely! Waves rose across the spirit pool! The phantom of the blooming World Purifying Green Lotus swayed slightly as well! The Great Dao torrent invoked by Lord Tongtian developed an Extremely Anciently minute... fluctuation due to this sudden Will Impact originating from Pangu Hall!
It was precisely this trace of fluctuation!
To Cheng Xi's consciousness, which was struggling within the Chaos Torrent like a bowstring stretched to its limit, it was no different from the collapse of heaven and earth!
Pfft!
The gray light of the Chaos Origin Point flickered violently like a candle in the wind! Cracks instantly appeared in his Dao Heart, which had only just gathered resilience! The Break Delusion Rebellious Intent Sword Intent let out a mournful cry! He felt that the "reef" he had anchored was about to collapse completely under attacks from within and without!
"Urgh—!" Cheng Xi's consciousness form staggered sharply within the torrent as tearing agony wracked his soul! The final line of defense protecting him was about to collapse!
Upon the Lotus Platform, Lord Tongtian's figure visibly trembled for the first time! A cold gleam flashed through the eyes that reflected eternity!
"Insolence!" A cold rebuke exploded within the cave heaven like thunder from the nine heavens! It was not targeting Cheng Xi, but directly pointing at the Will of Chaos that had pierced through space!
Lord Tongtian raised two fingers like a sword and pointed from afar toward the Pangu Hall Projection!
Sizzle!
A dazzling sword intent condensed to the extreme, as though capable of severing karma and annihilating time and space, instantly crossed an endless distance and Entered Void!
At the same time, he flicked a finger from his other hand toward Cheng Xi's consciousness below, which was about to collapse within the torrent!
A cyan light spot containing supreme Dao essence, gentle yet impossible to resist, shot through time and space like a meteor and instantly entered Cheng Xi's Consciousness Core, which was on the verge of dispersing!
"Gather your mind! Guard your heart! This is your opportunity, and also your tribulation! See clearly... beneath this game board of heaven and earth... the essence of the Dao struggle!"
Lord Tongtian's voice carried unprecedented gravity and a trace of... urgency. Like a Resounding Bell, it slammed fiercely into Cheng Xi's consciousness, which was on the verge of collapse! The instant that cyan light spot fused with him, a cool and vast power directly pointing at the Great Dao Origin surged in. It not only instantly stabilized his Dao Heart and Chaos Origin Point, which were about to Shatter, but forcibly elevated his perception, allowing him to "see" with incomparable clarity—
The collision between the two Terrifying Wills that had pierced through space!
The compassionate sigh belonging to Pangu!
The greedy roar belonging to the unknown demon god!
And... beneath the collision of these two wills, throughout the entire Primordial Era Heaven and Earth, those invisible yet omnipresent Heavenly Dao Shackles, slowly operating like a vast net—seemed to have... ever so slightly... loosened?
A Dao struggle? The Heavenly Dao Shackles had loosened?
Cheng Xi's mind shook violently! A terrifying thought flashed across his heightened consciousness like lightning:
Could it be that this external demon... and the Heavenly Dao that imprisoned the Primordial Era Heaven and Earth... were not on the same side?!
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