"Fantastic! Absolutely fantastic!"

The gravedigger suddenly burst into wild laughter: "I never imagined you'd kept your apprentice hidden so well! But he was destined to die!"

"Shut up!"

Gu Xuan cleaved the black-blooded face in two with a single axe stroke. "If it weren't for the betrayal of you nine tomb guardians, how could my disciple's past life have perished like this?!"

The collapse of the Immortal Ancient Land back then.

The instigator of all these changes was the betrayal of these tomb keepers.

They were supposed to protect the ancient land of immortals!

As a result, each of them acted out of self-interest.

This led to the demise of Xu Xinnian's previous life, and his departure seemed to have taken away the soul of the Immortal Ancient Land.

With the disappearance of the [Aragami].

The Immortal Ancient Land collapsed with a roar, just like a building that had lost its support.

And it broke into countless fragments, scattering like meteors.

Ultimately, they scattered throughout the star fields, forming an independent universe, and the Xuanhuang Universe is the most important fragment among them.

It was like a seed, brimming with infinite possibilities, quietly born in this barren universe...

"betray?"

"Hahaha, what a joke!"

The black-robed man's shattered face reformed. "We simply chose immortality!"

This moment.

The bronze coffins suddenly opened, and nine skeletons shrouded in gray mist stepped out!

With each step they took, star fields crumbled into energy and were absorbed—the very energy of the nine supreme beings who betrayed the Desolate God back then!

"Now, it's time to end this farce."

The leading skeleton raised its hand and grabbed at Xu Xinnian, "True Spirit of the Wild God, return to your place."

However, at that moment...

Gu Xuan's figure suddenly appeared in front of Xu Xinnian.

The fragments of the Heaven-Opening Axe in his hand shattered inch by inch, transforming into nine beams of azure light that entered his disciple's body: "Remember, the true essence of chaos is..."

The attacks of the nine skeletons descended simultaneously!

Gu Xuan's white robes gradually dissipated amidst the destructive energy.

Xu Xinnian watched helplessly as his master turned into specks of light, the last thing he heard being a soft chuckle: "...The choice is yours."

Xu Xinnian's chaotic body suddenly collapsed to its limit, and then exploded with a roar!

The nine origins belonging to the Desolate God were forcibly expelled and condensed into a chaotic seed in the void.

"I see..."

Xu Xinnian grasped the seed, looking at the nine skeletons, "My master spent more than ten days proving only one thing—"

Suddenly, the seed of chaos bloomed, and Gu Xuan's figure stepped out from it.

But at this moment, his eyes were devoid of any chaotic energy, only the purest radiance of humanity remained: "That's right, the Wild God chose the wrong path back then."

The nine skeletons suddenly let out a shrill scream.

The gray mist within their bodies flowed uncontrollably toward the Chaos Seed, which was the ancient resentment that Gu Xuan had purified in three days!

"impossible!"

The tomb keeper screamed, "The ancient resentment is simply impossible to..."

"Because this is not purification."

Gu Xuan raised his hand and tapped lightly, and Xu Xinnian's chaotic body suddenly covered the entire star field. "It's a replacement."

The Xuanhuang Universe erupted with unprecedented light, and all the bronze coffins melted and reassembled, transforming into a complete axe that could cleave the heavens.

The axe blade reflected the figure of Xu Xinnian holding the imperial seal.

"My disciple!"

Gu Xuan solemnly handed the Heaven-Opening Axe to Xu Xinnian and instructed him, "Your path, starting today, is yours to rewrite a new legend..."

"Yes, Master."

Xu Xinnian nodded as he accepted the Heaven-Opening Axe.

The star marks on the black-robed man's jade bones crumbled inch by inch, revealing his true face—it was none other than the most valued disciple of the Desolate God, the Divine Lord Cangwu!

At this moment, Xu Xinnian is holding the Heaven-Opening Axe.

He had already completely merged his chaotic body with the phantom of the Desolate God.

He looked up at the man in black robes, "Why..."

"I treated you like my own son back then, why did you betray me?"

The God of Cangwu remained silent.

But his jade-like bones began to weather away, and images of memories surfaced in the void—

At the end of the Immortal Era, the Desolate God noticed something unusual about the bronze coffin.

Cangwu was ordered to investigate, but he was bewitched by the mysterious entity in the coffin.

That being promised power surpassing even the gods of the wilderness, and so the twilight of the immortal era descended, leading to a collective rebellion by the nine disciples.

"Master, you simply don't understand!"

The Divine Lord Cangwu roared madly, "Your so-called protection back then was nothing but shackles imprisoning all living beings!"

Gu Xuan suddenly thrust his fingers together into his brow, drawing out a chaotic sword aura: "Then do you know why the Desolate God set up these shackles back then?"

The sword's aura illuminated the scene behind the colossal bronze gate!

—Amidst countless cosmic illusions, billions of black-robed figures are repeating Cangwu's betrayal.

"This is......"

Xu Xinnian was struck dumb.

A similar story unfolds in every universe: the most powerful beings are seduced, civilizations are destroyed, and ultimately, they coalesce into a new bronze coffin.

"The Immortal Ancient Land is not the place of origin."

Gu Xuan's chaotic sword energy slashed towards the giant gate, "but rather a cage imprisoning 'He'!"

A non-human roar came from behind the door, and the nine bronze coffins exploded into dust.

The Cangwu God-King suddenly clutched his head: "No! You said 'He' is...!"

"It's the endless greed in your heart."

Gu Xuan looked at Xu Xinnian, who was holding the Heaven-Opening Axe, and said, "Slay him! This axe should have fallen thirty thousand years ago!"

"Yes, Master."

Xu Xinnian nodded.

Without further hesitation, he swung his axe directly at the insane Cangwu God!

In that very instant.

The chaotic power within Xu Xinnian's body surged to its peak.

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