Fang Chen immediately felt his connection to the Sword Domain weakening. His sense of his own existence blurred, and he even had the illusion that he was about to be erased from this spacetime.
"Hmph. Strip me of my existence? My existence was forged by my own will!"
Fang Chen snorted. In his Sea of Consciousness, the light of his soul resonated fiercely with the Floating Immortal Sword. He poured his understanding of existence and his unyielding will to command his own fate, rather than leave it to heaven, into the Sword Domain.
"Even in the Return to the Ruins, my true self remains. I am eternal!"
Hum!
Deep within the Vortex at the heart of the Sword Domain, an undying spark representing Fang Chen's true self and True Spirit suddenly flared. Like a pillar pinning the sea in place, it anchored his existence fast.
No matter how the power of deprivation battered it, that spark refused to go out. Instead, the struggle tempered it until it shone brighter and burned more intensely.
The Judgment Ancient Emperor grunted, his face turning pale.
His power to strip away existence had been withstood by this brute-force anchoring of will. There were even signs of a backlash.
The sinister trace of Yellow Springs Taint Origin sent by the Yellow Springs Patriarch fared even worse. The moment it entered the wildly revolving Sword Domain, it was as though it had sunk into a Mud Pit.
It tried to corrupt Fang Chen's Dao Foundation, only to find that his Dao Foundation was like a bottomless furnace that could contain all things. It was already ceaselessly devouring and refining all manner of mixed energies.
The instant the taint's corrupting power invaded, the violent Chaos Currents scattered it. The Floating Immortal Sword absorbed most of it as