The Shen Ji's seemingly casual palm strike had actually reached a state of perfection, concentrating destructive power into a small space, drawing it out without releasing it until it was about to strike the body.
This palm strike was no longer a simple energy impact; it also contained a Lesser Heaven Rank expert's understanding of the "Dao" and the "Dharma."
Its control carries an irresistible, icy will that obliterates everything.
Like a merciless blade of judgment descending from the Heavenly Dao, it slashed towards Li Qingshan!
Before the palm strike even truly touched the ground, the terrifying pressure that surpassed even the God Emperor's power crashed down like countless divine mountains!
The space around Li Qingshan, which had become extremely fragile due to his Nirvana, was the first to groan under the unbearable pressure, shattering inch by inch.
The massive, ruined rock where he sat silently turned to dust.
"Puff!!!"
Li Qingshan, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly shuddered and spat out a mouthful of blood.
The blood was a chaotic color, as if it contained all the colors of the world and devoured all light. It contained specks of newly formed, unstable divine golden light, as well as countless struggling and twisting fragments of demonic energy.
The aura surrounding him, which had been slowly flowing and trying to balance divinity and demonic nature, flickered violently like glass struck by a boulder, dimming to its lowest point in an instant, as if it would be completely extinguished at any moment.
Within the Sea of Bitterness Secret Realm inside the body, in that "ruins" formed from the Nirvana of Demonic Embryo, the changes are even more drastic!
The newly formed, slowly rotating, absorbing the pure essence of its surroundings Indestructible Divine Embryo, was subjected to the most direct and devastating interference!
Although the Shen Ji's palm strike did not directly hit the Divine Embryo, the "ending" and "annihilation" intent contained within it had already transformed into countless invisible blades of Dao principles, transcending the boundary between reality and illusion.
It slashed fiercely at the intricate and crucial connection between the Divine Embryo and the energy of the surrounding "ruins"!
"Crack!!!"
Buzzing!!!
A faint yet chilling cracking sound emanated from the depths of Li Qingshan's very being.
The tiny Divine Embryo emitted a silent lament, its surface instantly covered with fine, spiderweb-like cracks, and its once stable and vibrant rotation abruptly stopped, as if frozen in time and space.
The nascent process of divine condensation, transforming death into life, was abruptly interrupted and extinguished by this external, absolutely powerful force!
"No!!"
Li Qingshan's "true self" will, which was sinking into the deepest part of his sea of consciousness and was fully guiding his Nirvana, let out a silent roar filled with extreme anger, resentment, and despair!
He could clearly "see" that the divine fire that represented his transcendence of hope and the divine fire that he had ignited amidst the ashes of destruction after countless deaths was rapidly dimming and collapsing!
Just one last step, just one step!
He will be able to break free from the shackles, achieve a leap in his life level, and escape the bondage of the Demonic Embryo!
However, this external interference, far exceeding his current level of understanding, was like dropping a "singularity bomb" into a precisely functioning, delicately balanced cosmic singularity—a bomb powerful enough to cause dimensional collapse!
The core of the " Eight-Nine Profound Art," a supreme technique that blends the essence of both realms and defies the heavens, lies in "reversal" and "reincarnation."
The first Nirvana was a proactive and orderly process, carried out under the absolute control of one's own will, when the power of the Demonic Embryo reached its peak.
A controllable process of "destruction followed by creation" is a magnificent transformation that guides the power of destruction into the power of creation.
But at this moment, this exquisite process was forcibly interrupted by a tyrannical, powerful, and malicious external force!
This is not a natural reversal, but a violent, out-of-control, and completely distorted "rebellion"!
It's like a ship striving towards the bright Other Shore, only to be struck hard by a destructive undercurrent just as it's about to reach the shore, instead of being pushed back to its starting point.
Instead, it hurtled out of control at an even more frenzied speed, hurtling headlong into the opposite, deeper, darker, endless abyss!
"Boom!!!"
Within Li Qingshan's body, the residual energy of the Demonic Embryo, which had originally turned into docile "ashes" and "ruins" and was being slowly absorbed by the Divine Embryo, was still present.
At this moment, the combined stimulation of the destructive palm force from the outside and the loss of control over his own technique completely ignited his deepest berserk factor!
No longer content to be absorbed or transformed, they surged back with a speed even more frenzied, greedy, and reckless than when they first coalesced, frantically devouring everything around them!
The fragments of the damaged and nearly shattered Divine Embryo, the immense blood and qi that Li Qingshan unleashed due to the backlash from Nirvana, and even the law energy of the Shen Ji's palm strike, filled with the Daoist charm of destruction, all became the best food for this out-of-control energy!
A brand new, darker, more chaotic, and more enormous "origin," emanating an aura that could end all things, is frantically re-forming at an unprecedented speed in the center of that failed Nirvana ruin!
This newborn Demonic Embryo is completely different from the nascent form that required careful guidance during its first transformation, resembling a chaotic chicken egg.
The moment it appeared, it possessed an innate, absolute domineering and deathly stillness that devoured all things, reduced all laws to Return to the Ruins, and led all existence to ultimate annihilation!
Its color was no longer a chaotic, undifferentiated black, but rather an extreme color, seemingly capable of devouring all light.
The " Darkness of Void "—sound, energy, and even concepts!
This darkness itself is a denial of "existence"!
As for Li Qingshan's Innate Spiritual Light, which represented his "true self" and was tempered through countless tribulations, he had no time to make any effective response in the face of this sudden and completely uncontrollable upheaval and the frenzy of his cultivation technique being completely reversed.
Like a tiny firefly in a storm, it was instantly dragged and submerged by the terrifying suction force generated by the newborn Demonic Embryo.
They sank completely into the unfathomable core of this Second Demonic Embryo!
Like the last star falling into the Eternal Return to the Ruins, it was swallowed and frozen by endless darkness without leaving even a glimmer of light.
Outside, the Shen Ji's fatal palm strike finally landed solidly.
"Boom!!!!"
This explosion was far more powerful than any before!
The highest ruins where Li Qingshan was located, along with the ground below, did not simply collapse under this palm strike; they simply "disappeared"!
A massive crater, over a million feet in diameter and seemingly bottomless, appeared on the spot, its edges as smooth as a mirror, as if it had been cut by an invisible blade.
The violent energy shockwave spread outwards in a spherical shape, affecting everything in its path, from the broken temple pillars to the hardened skeletons of demon gods, and even the distorted space itself.
Everything was transformed into the finest primordial energy, vanishing without a trace!
The entire Great Demon Mountain Range trembled and wailed violently under this earth-shattering attack!
The Shen Ji remained suspended in mid-air, her skirts fluttering, her exquisite face as cold as ice, as if she had only done something insignificant.
In her view, to withstand her full-force palm strike, which contained the Seven Absolutes Law and the will of chaotic battle, was no small feat, let alone a junior who was at a critical moment of Nirvana and completely unprepared.
Even ordinary God Emperor Realm would find it difficult to escape, inevitably suffering complete annihilation, their bodies and souls turning into dust in history.
However, even as the destructive energy had not completely subsided, and dust and spatial debris were still raging everywhere.
An indescribable, terrifying aura, filled with primal chaos and ultimate malice, suddenly rippled even in the Shen Ji's calm and composed mind.
Like a world-destroying beast that has been dormant for millennia suddenly awakening, it burst forth from the deepest part of that bottomless pit!
"Roar!!!!!"
A roar that shook the entire universe!
This sound was unlike anything any known living being could make; it was more like the simultaneous roar of billions of fallen demons, or the final lament of the multiverse as it approached heat death!
It contains pure chaos, endless violence, an extreme hunger for all existence, and a destructive desire to drag everything into Eternal death!
The roar even formed a tangible sonic wave, forcefully dispersing and annihilating the remaining law fluctuations of the Shen Ji's palm strike!
Immediately afterwards, endless " Darkness of Void," like the floodwaters of the Styx bursting its banks, surged out from the bottom of the pit and quickly spread outwards!
This darkness is not ordinary demonic energy or shadow; it is more like a living "phenomenon" with its own will!
Where darkness passes, space is no longer shattered, but rather "eroded" and "assimilated," softening and dissolving like rotten fruit.
The laws of heaven and earth were forcibly distorted and collapsed, emitting mournful cries of unbearable burden:
Even basic concepts like light and sound were completely swallowed and digested by this extreme darkness!
Centered on the giant crater, the area within a radius of hundreds of miles instantly fell into an absolute, soul-freezing silence and darkness, as if it had transformed into a "demon-freezing domain" independent of the rest of the world!
In the center of this dense, impenetrable " Darkness of Void," Dao Body slowly rose from the bottom of the pit.
He still retains the basic outline of Li Qingshan, but at this moment, he is completely different from the cultivator who pursued transcendence or the state of radiating divine light in Nirvana!
His eyes were no longer pure black, but had transformed into two slowly rotating, bottomless chaotic vortexes.
Gazing at this vortex, one seems to witness the birth and destruction of galaxies, the beginning and end of time, but more than anything, it is a pure nothingness that can absorb and crush all reason, emotion, and consciousness.
There is no trace of " Li Qingshan's" emotions, only the most primal and coldest instinct to devour and destroy.
His skin turned as pale as ancient ice, or like the ancient bones of countless gods and demons buried there, cold and lifeless.
Beneath the skin, there were even more complex and bizarre dark golden magic patterns, seemingly containing the ultimate truth of chaos.
These magical runes were not static, but slowly wriggling and changing, like living things, emanating an aura that drove people mad.
An eerie aura of rapidly dropping sanity.
His black hair grew wildly, transforming into countless pure black substances like tentacles, dancing silently behind him. Each strand seemed to connect to the endless dark Void, radiating a desire to devour everything.
What swirled around him was no longer the boiling demonic flames, but a " Darkness of Void " that seemed to possess a life of its own.
This darkness seemed to be an extension of his body, a manifestation of his will, making him appear as the embodiment of the concepts of "destruction" and "end"!
Under the extreme condition that Nirvana was forcibly interrupted, the Eight-Nine Profound Art went out of control and reversed. In the ruins of failure, instead of being extinguished, it gave birth to something even more terrifying, more thorough, and closer to the origin of chaos.