The moon!
The moment Lu Ya saw those two words, even his soul trembled.
Taiyin Star!
Far across from the Solar Star, it formed the other pole of the Primordial World's yin-yang balance.
The key was actually there!
This truth was far too shocking.
Who could have imagined that the way to unlock the Solar Cage lay not in the sun itself, but in Taiyin?
What a world-shaking arrangement!
His father and uncle were not merely emperors of the demon race; they were also guardians of the Primordial World.
They had long ago left behind a path with only a sliver of survival for the Primordial World's future.
"So... that's how it is..."
Lu Ya murmured.
The confusion in his eyes was gone.
A heavy sense of duty called "inheritance" settled upon his shoulders.
Just then.
The golden space began to shake violently.
Outside, the Yaksa King had run out of patience.
He could not allow Lu Ya to take the information from here.
The twin sickles in his hands merged into one.
They became a bloody beam of light that pierced heaven and earth, blasting fiercely toward the palace ruins.
The golden domain formed by the ruins twisted and shattered violently before those pure Slaughter Laws.
Lu Ya abruptly woke from his daze.
He knew he had to leave at once.
He bowed deeply toward the space that was about to be destroyed.
"Father, Uncle, I will not fail your trust!"
With that, he transformed into a streak of golden light and charged out of the ruins' protective range.
The instant he left.
The palace ruins that bore the demon race's final glory were utterly reduced to cosmic dust beneath the Yaksa King's attack.
"Trying to run?"
The Yaksa King's icy voice rang within Lu Ya's soul.
He moved.
Like a phantom, he appeared behind Lu Ya in an instant.
The bloody sickle, carrying an aura that reaped all life, slashed toward Lu Ya's neck.
Lu Ya felt death descend upon him.
He closed his eyes.
But death did not come.
A strong, powerful arm grabbed him.
And hurled him viciously into the distance.
It was Xing!
He had somehow survived the energy storm.
His towering body was now badly mangled, with half of it scorched into charcoal.
Yet he still stood there like an insurmountable mountain, blocking the Yaksa King from Lu Ya.
"Your opponent is me."
Xing's voice was hoarse, yet brimming with Fighting Spirit.
He used neither magic treasure nor divine ability.
He simply swung his still mostly intact fist and smashed it viciously into the Yaksa King's sickle.
This was the most primitive and purest collision between flesh and laws.
Boom—!
An indescribable shockwave spread outward.
The surrounding chaotic currents were instantly swept clean.
Xing's fist was mangled and bloody.
A thin crack also appeared on the Yaksa King's sickle.
For the first time, surprise and uncertainty appeared in the Yaksa King's scarlet eye sockets.
This human's body could actually withstand his Natal Artifact head-on!
He did not know that Xing's body had been forged with the essence blood of countless Ancient Fierce Beasts that had long since gone extinct.
His very existence was a miracle that should never have existed in this world.
Xing gave him no chance to think.
He burned the last of his vitality and blood.
His entire body became a bloody meteor and crashed toward the Yaksa King.
He intended to use his life to create a chance for Lu Ya to escape.
"Go! Take the news back!"
Xing's roar was the last thing Lu Ya heard.
With tears in his eyes, Lu Ya fled madly toward the United Fleet without looking back.
The flagship, Zeroing Laboratory.
When Chen Ran saw the final line of data concerning the "Chaos Engine" being deduced on the Heavenly Derivation Matrix, his entire body finally relaxed.
Overwhelming exhaustion washed over him like a tide.
He nearly collapsed.
"Executor!"
Youchao Shi hurriedly caught him.
"I'm fine."
Chen Ran waved a hand, unable to suppress the excitement in his eyes.
"It worked."
"We've mastered the key to chaos!"
The news set the entire laboratory erupting in earthshaking cheers.
With the Chaos Engine, they would possess an inexhaustible supply of energy.
The Solar Furnace project would no longer be a castle in the air!
Yet that joy did not last long.
An urgent, blood-red alarm suddenly sounded throughout the fleet.
It did not come from the depths of chaos.
It came from the distant Primordial World continent!
"Executor! Urgent military report!"
A human Cultivator responsible for monitoring developments within the Primordial World stumbled and crawled into the room.
His face was filled with terror.
"The Bloody Wanted List... something happened!"
Chen Ran's heart sank.
"Speak!"
"The last person on the list, Old Ancestor Fuhai—we have never been able to find any trace of him."
"Just now, Mount Kunlun, the shores of the Eastern Sea, Mount Nanming, the Sea of Beiming... enormous Blood Sacrifice arrays appeared simultaneously across the four extremities of the Primordial World!"
"Old Ancestor Fuhai had actually split up his cultivation grounds and hidden them in those four locations!"
"He used the flesh, blood, and souls of every alliance Cultivator hunting him to unleash this Blood Sacrifice that affected the entire Primordial World!"
"He... he opened a door!"
The Cultivator's voice trembled.
On the light screen, a real-time image from the Primordial World was transmitted over.
High above the skies of the Primordial World.
An incomparably massive vortex formed from blood and resentment was slowly taking shape.
The other end of the vortex was neither chaos nor the void.
It was an ash-gray world filled with deathly stillness, bones, and endless departed souls.
A new law, belonging neither to immortals, demons, Buddha, nor demons of the beast race—a law saturated with death and decay—seeped through that door.
At the center of the vortex.
A skeletal figure wearing a tattered imperial robe, a flat-topped crown, and holding a scroll was slowly walking through from the other side of the door.
Behind him stood an army of billions of undead soldiers, wielding bone spears with soul-fire burning in their eyes!
When she saw that skeletal emperor.
For the first time, Nuwa's face showed an expression called fear.
She cried out, naming an ancient taboo that even Saints were unwilling to mention.
"The... Nether... Realm!"
"How could he have come out!"
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