The Chen Clan's Blood Night · The Life-Sealing Coffin's Beginning

Source of Epochless - Middle Level, Southern Boundary End.

A desolate, gray wasteland, floating amidst the remnants of a collapsed timeline.

That is -- the Tomb-Overlooking Ruins.

This place was once one of the most glorious clan domains in the ancient era.

Billions of soul lamps illuminate the heavens, and this sect is called "Heavenly Crown Sect".

Today, only the crumbling walls and ruined halls, along with the shattered remains of stars and the bleeding stone tablets, still whisper their lament.

A huge, blood-red full moon floated above the entire ruins.

The fog under the moon, like the ashes of a burned soul, floats, twists, and groans.

At that moment, four figures pierced through the void.

The Void Evolution String Extinguisher stood at the forefront, his black and gold armor riddled with cracks. His bow was made of cause and effect, and the bowstring was not a line, but the "definition of existence" itself.

The moment he drew back the bowstring, time in the entire ruins was stretched into a dead line.

Boom--!

An arrow was shot out.

The sounds of heaven and earth vanished instantly, and all things returned to silence.

The next moment, the main hall, tower, protective array, and all cultivators of the Heavenly Crown Sect —along with the very meaning of their existence—all vanished.

They vanished together. No smoke, no ash, only emptiness remained.

"Void Evolution · Fallen Soul Forger" followed closely behind, his entire body composed of dark silver spirit iron, with countless struggling soul shadows flickering on his chest.

With a wave of his hand, 100,000 soul chains fell to the ground, dragging the remaining disciples into the air.

The souls of those people twisted in mid-air, were extracted, and transformed into a metallic-looking soul liquid.

He then threw them into the black furnace and reforged them into weapons.

He whispered the curses of the dead:

"The wishes of the dead are the soldiers of the new life."

One after another, strange soul weapons flew out, severing the remaining resistance fighters.

The aura of thunder suddenly descended.

"The Void Evolution - Silent Lightning Walker" slowly stepped into the ruins.

He wielded a cracked hammer, and black lightning crackled around him.

That wasn't lightning, but rather "Cause Annihilation."

Every time lightning strikes, it doesn't destroy, it erases.

A mountain range collapsed, and a memory was erased from the laws of heaven and earth.

He recited softly:

"When thunder Annihilation to strike, cause and effect cease to exist."

With a final roar, a corner of the ruins completely collapsed.

Even the place names of the past have been forgotten by time.

In the final step, the world completely distorted.

"The Void Evolution · Dimension Severing Monarch" emerged from the colorless spatial rift.

His body is a dimensional entity that is constantly collapsing and reassembling.

Every inch of skin alternates between stretching and collapsing.

The space around him seemed to be crushed by a giant hand, like a torn scroll.

He reached out his hand and gently shook it—

The spatial structure of the entire Tomb-Overlooking Ruins was twisted into a vortex.

Along with the earth's veins and the world's coordinates, it collapsed into countless fragments.

The black, ethereal torrent roared and devoured everything.

Cries, explosions, incantations... all were dragged into the abyss of nothingness.

Under the blood-red full moon, Chen Xiang, the incarnation of the Aohuang Divine Beast, Chen Xiang in the center of the ruins.

His figure was half-human, half-beast, his eyes burning with blood-red cracked light.

A deep voice echoed between heaven and earth, shattering the last vestige of order:

"Annihilate, remnants of the old world. This is but the prologue to a new chaos."

After saying that, he raised his palm, his five fingers slightly spread.

Billions of blood-red rays rose from the ground.

The souls of all the dead transformed into a sea of blood that surged into his body.

It was completely devoured by the essence of the Aohuang Divine Beast.

The sky collapsed, and the blood moon shattered.

The entire "Tomb-Overlooking Ruins" vanished completely from the star map of the Source of Epochless.

All that remained was a spinning, blood-red black hole.

The Aohuang Divine Beast slowly raised its eyes and looked into the depths of the void.

In that instant, his aura surged to the mid-stage of the Chaos Realm.

He sneered and whispered, "The Chen Clan... is nothing but a vessel."

As night fell, the last rays of the blood moon still trembled in the sky above the middle level of the Source of Epochless.

Meanwhile, tens of millions of miles away from the "Tomb-Overlooking Ruins," deep within the Chen Clan Sacred Domain's Heavenly Concealment Hall, in a restricted secret chamber...

A wisp of cold fragrance intertwined with spiritual flames, and the shadow of a woman sat alone in that Annihilation light.

She is none other than Chen Clan. Chen Xintong.

At this moment, the alluring composure she once possessed was gone from her eyes.

His purple-gold silk robe was enveloped in bursts of spiritual light, and tens of thousands of sealing patterns appeared on his sleeves.

Each line of the pattern is imprinted with the Soul Seal of the Chen Clan's patriarchs throughout the ages.

Floating before her was a strange object, entirely grayish-white in color, resembling a coffin yet not quite a coffin—

Its surface is covered with ancient inscriptions, each rune seemingly breathing.

That was no ordinary object, but the Chen Clan family's most treasured artifact—the "Karmic Soul Life-Sealing Coffin."

Legend has it that this coffin was not made to bury people, but rather to "bury gods".

It can seal the soul and destiny of beings at the Annihilation Abyss level, freezing their causal chains in eternal Annihilation.

The Chen Clan has relied on this item since ancient times to maintain its lineage and survive.

But at the same time, they were also warned that this coffin must not be opened, used, or sealed to anyone else.

Tonight, however, Chen Xintong personally lit the coffin-sealing ceremony that had remained untouched for 30,000 years in the Chen Clan.

With a flick of her fingertip, blood flowed into a rune, and she softly chanted:

"With life as the seal, with soul as the ink, with cause and effect as the thread, I seal my Chen Clan's most precious treasure—returning to nothingness, burying life in silence."

Before he finished speaking, countless rings of light suddenly lit up the floor of the entire secret chamber.

The power of the earth's veins converged, transforming into countless golden chains that hung down from the void.

Strands of silk wrapped around the "Karmic Soul Life-Sealing Coffin" emitted a deep, mournful cry.

The coffin began to tremble, and wisps of gray light mist seeped out from the cracks.

Countless whispers emanated from within the luminous mist:

Some are crying, some are laughing, and some are speaking of the World Extinguisher in the voice of God.

Cold sweat beaded on Xintong's forehead, her voice low but firm:

"The three souls determine destiny, the nine spirits form the thread, the Chen Clan's lifeline is offered as a sacrifice, and my soul Xintong's, serves as the guide—Seal!"

Boom!

A burst of golden light erupted, and images of the Chen Clan throughout history simultaneously appeared on the walls of the secret chamber.

The remnant souls of those long-deceased patriarchs, protectors, and priests were summoned.

They all raised their hands, forming a "Soul Lock Seal Formation" to suppress the Life-Sealing Coffin.

A massive, phantom chain suddenly appeared in the sky above the entire Chen Clan Sacred Domain.

Extending from the earth to the starry sky, it locked onto the aura of the Chen Clan's main lineage.

Xintong looked up, her eyes revealing a resolute light.

"Aohuang... I don't know what kind of storm you intend to unleash."

But if you ever dare to set foot in the Chen Clan, I will have this coffin opened with my blood.

I will bury you and me together in the abyss of no cause!

She pressed down hard, her palm landing on the Life-Sealing Coffin.

The coffin lid closed completely, and the gray light dissipated.

The next moment, the sealed room fell into dead silence.

Only a trickle of blood flowed from her fingertips, which were being attacked by the backlash, but she did not stop.

The drop of blood fell into the sealing patterns and instantly merged into the core of the formation.

The runes trembled, and the entire secret chamber was completely sealed off.

Even the flow of time in the outside world seems to stand still at this moment.

The wind stopped.

Chen Xintong raised her eyes, looked at the silent Life-Sealing Coffin, and murmured:

"If one day... the Chen Clan is destroyed, then it should be I who bring about its end."

She gently closed her eyes, unaware of the last glimmer of gray light emanating from the coffin lid.

A nearly imperceptible crack is quietly spreading.

Within the crack, a blood-red mist writhed, like an "eye" awakening.

As night deepened, the Chen Clan Sacred Domain was shrouded in a layer of gray moonlight mist. The wind whispered, as if murmuring, or perhaps weeping.

Chen Xiang, the incarnation of the Aohuang Divine Beast, quietly stepped into the main hall. His footsteps were silent, his shadow moved like a snake, and a faint trail of blood-red mist followed behind him.

At this moment, his eyes gleamed with a deep and eerie light; those were not human pupils, but the "Chaotic Eye Core" of the Aohuang Divine Beast.

It swirled with endless shades of dark red and black gold, like two universes devouring each other.

The main hall was empty and silent; the once bustling guards were now nowhere to be seen.

Chen Xiang frowned slightly and murmured, "Where did that woman go? She's never left this palace."

But he's nowhere to be seen today... Hmph, interesting." He waved his hand lightly, and the void was torn apart.

An "eye" woven from crimson causal threads emerged and hovered in the palm of the hand.

Chen Xiang snorted coldly, "Search for Chen Xintong's soul."

The blood-red eye suddenly opened, and a red light spread throughout the Chen Clan Sacred Domain like a spider web.

In an instant, the fluctuations of spiritual veins and the flow of energy within a radius of ten thousand miles were all reflected in his eyes.

However—that familiar aura vanished completely.

Faint traces of the seal lingered in the air.

Chen Xiang chuckled, a slow smile creeping onto his lips. "So that's how it is... She actually dared to touch the Chen Clan's hidden strength?" "Hahahaha... What a foolish woman!"

"Does she think that dilapidated Life-Sealing Coffin can hold me captive?" The laughter was thunderous, yet it suppressed a boundless killing intent.

He raised his hand and pointed, revealing chaotic cracks in his palm—the chaotic energy he now controlled after merging with his original body.

It is a primordial energy that can devour Spiritual Qi, erase destiny, and erode the structure of the world.

Behind Chen Xiang, the phantom of the Aohuang Divine Beast, slowly emerged—its body as large as a mountain, with three heads and six eyes, rolling black flames, and claws like falling stars.

That was the oppressive aura of someone at the Chaos Realm · Initial Stage.

This caused subtle cracks to appear silently within the barrier of the entire Chen Clan Sacred Domain.

"Xintong, oh Xintong, what you think you can seal away is a priceless treasure—"

Little did you know, what you sealed was the very source of my life seal, the very essence of the Aohuang.

He stretched out his right hand, and a black chain appeared in the air.

That was the aura leading to the "Life-Sealing Coffin".

With a flick of Chen Xiang's fingertip, black flames surged along the chains like venomous snakes.

"Boom--!"

A tremor suddenly resounded from the depths of the entire Chen Clan Sacred Domain, layers of restrictions flickered, and the space itself shook.

The shockwave shot from the ground to the dome, even shattering the celestial phenomena in the outside world.

Chen Xiang's gaze turned cold, and a bloodthirsty smile appeared on his face. "As expected... she's in the secret room."

"Hehe... It seems this mortal lady has some courage."

"But courage—can never save lives." He took a step forward, his figure transforming into a wisp of dark current.

It instantly disappeared beneath the underground seal.

In the void, only his deep, cold laughter remained:

"Since you dare to tamper with the Chen Clan's seal... then I will make the entire Chen Clan a sacrifice for my return to the Aohuang."

The night was terrifyingly deep.

The sky was as if stained with blood ink, and the clouds swirled with an eerie crimson light. The Chen Clan Sacred Domain was deathly silent.

Suddenly--

A cold laugh echoed from the end of the night. "Go."

The Aohuang Divine Beast, transformed into Chen Xiang, stood beneath the blood moon, his long hair flying wildly, his eyes like two cold, burning flames of chaos. He raised his right hand, and a drop of black-gold blood slowly dripped from his palm, falling to the earth.

The moment the drop of blood touched the ground, heaven and earth seemed to freeze for a split second.

The next instant, the sky collapsed.

From the shadow of the blood moon, four ethereal black figures slowly emerged.

Each one carried an aura of power that even heaven and earth dared not bear.

The first dark figure approached, holding an invisible bow.

He silently drew the strings.

"Buzz--"

The colors of heaven and earth faded away in that instant.

The dome of the Chen Clan's main hall was "erased" by light.

A silent arrow pierces through space, through cause and effect, through the meaning of existence.

All the Chen Clan disciples touched by that stringed sound turned into dust in the blink of an eye.

They didn't even fall—

It was simply "turned off," like light.

The String Extinguisher chuckled coldly in a low voice, "What I shot never existed."

The second dark figure stepped out amidst a blood mist, clad in iron chains, with eyes like the flames of an alchemical furnace.

With each step he took, the earth turned to scorched earth.

He raised the giant hammer and brought it down hard. Boom!

The entire Chen Clan's soul domain collapsed, the floating mountain instantly toppled, and the palace crumbled like paper.

He stretched out his palm, and countless souls were forcibly extracted from the corpses.

It turned into metal and flowed into the furnace in his palm.

The furnace roared, and the souls of the dead wailed.

The Fallen Soul Forger laughed, his voice hoarse and manic:

"The Chen Clan —your souls are my perfect metal."

The third figure appeared like thunder.

He fell from the sky, hammer in his hand.

Countless bolts of lightning coalesced behind him, forming chains of annihilation.

Each strike shattered a space spanning a hundred miles.

The Silent Lightning Walker treads on the void, thunderous sounds booming.

That thunder was not the thunder of divine punishment, but rather "thunder of the soul."

The Chen Clan disciple who was struck by the lightning bolt had his sea of consciousness shattered and his soul scattered into dust.

A familiar scent filled the air.

That's the smell of a extinguished destiny burning.

The Silent Lightning Walker's voice was as cold as iron:

"Your soul is unworthy to be written down in this world."

The last shadowy figure descended. He was invisible, only his aura remained. Wherever he went, space was "torn apart."

Even the laws of heaven and earth give way to it.

The Dimension Severing Monarch extended his finger and made a light stroke.

Boom--

The entire Chen Clan Sacred Domain shattered like a mirror.

Mountains and rivers collapsed, palaces folded, and spiritual veins were severed.

The Chen Clan family members were cut into pieces by space.

Their bodies and souls were locked into the rift, never to be seen again.

"The clan's foundation is severed, its roots are destroyed."

His voice was like a condemning incantation, cold and devoid of any warmth.

Blood rained down from heaven and earth, Chen Clan wailed in despair. All light was swallowed by blood, and all hope was extinguished in the darkness.

The Aohuang Divine Beast stood atop the heavens, its chaotic aura surging around it.

He laughed wildly, his voice shattering the entire starry sky:

"Hahahaha-- Chen Clan, you've been arrogant for millennia, but now you're nothing more than firewood for my Aohuang!"

He opened his arms, and the river of blood gathered into a sea at his feet.

Millions of souls turned to ashes and flew into his body.

At that moment, the heavens and earth changed color, and blood gushed forth.

At that moment, the sea of blood suddenly stopped.

A cold, desolate, and sacred aura rose from the ground.

The aura carried sorrow, yet also boundless majesty.

The blood-red light was dispersed, and a beam of golden-purple light pierced the dome from the Chen Clan's forbidden domain.

The laughter of the Aohuang Divine Beast abruptly stopped, and its gaze suddenly sharpened.

"This aura...?"

Amidst the light, a graceful figure slowly emerged.

A platinum robe, a shawl of spiritual flames draped over his shoulders, and sealed runes swirling around his fingers.

Her eyes were like cold stars falling in the night, and a blood-red line flickered between her brows.

In his hand, he held the Karmic Soul Life-Sealing Coffin.

Her steps were light and slow; with each step, the sea of blood receded an inch.

The cries of heaven and earth fell silent.

The Aohuang Divine Beast's gaze was gloomy, and its voice was hoarse as thunder:

"Chen Xintong —how dare you show your face!"

Xintong raised her eyes, her expression calm, but a cold glint appeared on her lips.

"Aohuang, you devoured my clan's bloodline and destroyed my foundation!"

"Today, I will use this Karmic Soul Life-Sealing Coffin to send you back to the hell you deserve."

The light of heaven and earth suddenly dimmed, and all the runes on the Life-Sealing Coffin lit up.

The cries of millions of souls sang simultaneously, and the wails of the Chen Clan's deceased spirits transformed into a mournful song.

As the wind rose, the blood breath surged, and the six eyes of the Aohuang Divine Beast opened wide, causing a surge of chaotic light.