The void was forcibly torn apart, and Xuan Nü and Li Wuyang stepped out from within. The sight before them sent a chill racing from their hearts to the crowns of their heads, even though they had long grown accustomed to life and death and possessed wills as steadfast as stone!
This had once been a peaceful star belt at the edge of the Ancient Buddha Star Domain. Legend spoke of three ancient stars whose unique geological structures contained pure Vow Power within their cores. An ancient Buddha had once enlightened them, transforming them into "Sarira Stars." They nurtured countless Living Beings of the Buddhist Nation, where Buddhist chants never ceased and Buddha light shone everywhere—a rare pure land.
Yet now, this pure land had become a living hell... No, a wasteland even more deathly silent than hell!
The three Sarira Stars, which should have radiated gentle golden halos, now looked as though ink had been poured over them. They were dim, cold, and utterly lifeless. The once-lush forests of the Buddhist Nation had become withered gray statues; the ever-flowing golden springs of merit had frozen into black ice crystals. Majestic temples, devout worshippers, the soaring Eight Legions of Heavenly Dragons... everything remained in the posture of the previous instant, yet all color and vitality had been stripped away, as if they had been frozen within amber of time in a single moment! Even more terrifyingly, the gravitational and energy fluctuations emitted by the stars themselves were rapidly weakening, as though the "life" within their cores had been drained away as well!
An aura so dense it could not be dispersed, steeped in desecration and absolute deathly silence, spread through the entire star domain like a plague. It shared the same origin as the deathly silence of the Destroyer Fleet,