Chapter 152: Shocking Secrets, the Truth of Reincarnation (Part 1)
Deep in the dungeon, it was now a mess.
An uncontrollable, chaotic energy storm erupted from the prisoner known as the "vessel." Countless twisted, iridescent streaks of light danced like uncontrolled venomous snakes, impacting the cell's specially restricted light barrier with a teeth-grinding tearing sound. The barrier flickered violently, flickering, its surface riven by demonic patterns that appeared and shattered, revealing the immense pressure it was under. The prisoner's form loomed in the energy storm, its form further distorted, as if a body forcibly fused together from various materials was collapsing, emitting an inhuman howl filled with agony and despair. An aura, originating from the fragments of the Samsara Mirror, yet filled with pain, chaos, and violence, surged forth like a flood.
The Corrupted Claw Demon Lord was furious, brandishing his massive claws and continuously injecting vast demonic energy into the stabilizing formation surrounding the prison cell, attempting to suppress the uncontrolled energy. He roared angrily, "You useless piece of shit! You can't even withstand this little bit of power! You've wasted so many of my precious materials!"
Xuan Cong stood a little further away, his brow furrowed, his eyes eerily calm. He didn't rush to suppress the situation, but instead seemed to be carefully observing and recording every detail of the "container"'s loss of control, as if he were watching an interesting experiment. In his hand, a simple compass appeared, its needle spinning frantically, as if calculating some data.
The sudden intrusion of Ye Li and Qin Yixuan was like two stones thrown into a boiling oil pan, instantly breaking this dangerous and strange balance.
"It's you! You're still haunting us!" The Corrupted Claw Demon Lord whipped his head around, seeing the two returning. He was furious, especially seeing they had emerged from underground. He abandoned the stabilizing magic circle and, with the might of tearing space apart, his massive claws, dripping with green corrosive slime, swooped down on the two. "Death to me!"
Xuan Cong finally shifted his icy gaze from the "container" to Ye Li and Qin Yixuan. The surprise in his eyes was gone, replaced by pure, murderous intent, as if looking at an inanimate object. "You're courting death, so stay here forever."
He didn't even use the gray Supreme Finger Light. With a casual flick of his sleeve, a terrifying pressure, invisible and intangible, seemingly capable of freezing time and space and annihilating all things, crushed towards Qin Yixuan like the entire world collapsing! He had to deal with this troublesome Xuan Nu first, and then slowly deal with the seriously injured Ye Li.
However, Ye Li, reborn from the ashes and having initially grasped the true meaning of reincarnation, was no longer a mere idiot! Facing the Corrupted Claw Demon Lord's furious attack, she didn't even flinch. With a fierce glint in her eyes, she madly poured her recently recovered spiritual power into the Mystic Ice Sword. Chaotic light shone upon the blade, and the Dao patterns of life and death loomed!
"Six Paths of Reincarnation, Reverse Karma!"
She swung her sword, not directly at the massive claw. Instead, the sword light twisted strangely, as if following some invisible trajectory, slashing at the "thread of cause and effect" connecting the Corrupted Claw Demon Lord's claw with his own demonic essence, the surrounding demonic energy, and even the entire dungeon space! This sword strike was mysterious and unpredictable, aiming to dismantle the integrity and power of the attack at its root!
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It was as if an invisible thread had been severed. The Corrupted Claw Demon Lord felt his claw, which had been destined to strike, suddenly stagnate and dissipate by nearly 30%. His connection with the surrounding world became unclear, and his power was greatly reduced! He was shocked and angry, and he could hardly believe his own feelings.
Meanwhile, Qin Yixuan, facing Xuan Cong's seemingly casual flick, yet in reality imbued with the might of heaven and earth, dared not afford to be careless. With a clear shout, the image of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady instantly condensed behind her. Though somewhat illusory due to injuries and exhaustion, its sacred, majestic, all-purifying essence remained even purer! The image formed hand seals, and a supremely condensed "Mysterious Lady Guardian Wall," seemingly composed of countless tiny sacred runes, instantly unfolded, blocking the invisible and terrifying pressure!
Buzz——!
A silent collision resounded at the soul level! Qin Yixuan's delicate body trembled violently, her face instantly pale as snow, a trickle of golden blood oozing from the corner of her mouth, clearly under immense pressure. But the sacred barrier stubbornly refused to shatter, its light only dimming rapidly. She had successfully bought Ye Li precious time!
Ye Li seized this fleeting opportunity, her body swift as lightning. She ignored the chaotic Corrupted Claw Demon Lord and rushed directly towards the "vessel" whose energy was out of control! Her goal was clear: she had to seize this opportunity to either control it and obtain the information it might contain, or completely destroy it. She absolutely could not let Xuan Cong obtain or stabilize it!
However, just as her consciousness was about to touch the core of the chaotic energy—
Mutation regeneration!
The "container" seemed to sense the breath of the fragments of the Samsara Mirror on Ye Li's body, and the chaotic energy inside it suddenly stagnated. Then, as if it had found an outlet, a huge, chaotic torrent of thoughts filled with countless broken memory fragments, like a bursting dam of the universe and the galaxy, suddenly rushed towards Ye Li's sea of consciousness!
This time, it was no longer the processed, fragmented information fragments of Elder Shadow Thorn, but the almost original memory imprint belonging to this failed "container" itself, or in other words, the most original memory imprint left by the "materials" that constituted it!
Boom!!!
Ye Li felt as if her sea of consciousness was about to burst under this torrent! Countless bizarre, fragmented images, sounds, emotions, and thoughts poured in like a tsunami:
She saw... a vast, boundless world, ablaze with stars, and a spiritual energy so rich it seemed to have turned to liquid form. Its prosperity and power far surpassed the spiritual realm she knew of today by a thousand times! This world, in those fragments of memory, was called—the "Original Divine Realm"!
She saw the core of the original divine realm. It was not some holy place or fairy mountain, but an unparalleled divine tool shrouded in chaotic energy, as if it coexisted with the entire universe, controlling the cycle of life and death, and the flow of fate of all things - a complete Samsara Mirror that exuded indescribable majesty and mystery!
She saw the ruler of the original divine world, a supreme being known as the "Lord of Samsara", who controlled the Samsara Mirror with his supreme power, maintaining the balance of the divine world and peace for endless years.
However, everything that rises must fall. At some unknown time, a dark force, the "Void Devourer," originating from beyond this world, imbued with an endless desire for devouring and destruction, seemingly the embodiment of the concept of "end," began to erode the primordial divine realm. It was not a physical entity, but rather a dark manifestation of cosmic law, feeding on the origin of the world and the power of reincarnation.
In order to fight against the erosion of the "Void Devouring Beast", the Lord of Samsara had to activate the Samsara Mirror and launch the ultimate "Samsara Tribulation", trying to completely exile the consciousness of this world-destroying beast and decompose it in the endless reincarnation, even at the cost of shaking the foundation of the God Realm.
This unimaginable final battle resulted in mutual destruction. The primordial divine realm collapsed under the unbearable force, its vast majority annihilated and reduced to a lifeless "wasteland." The Samsara Mirror also shattered into seven pieces with a wail in that final collision, scattering across the heavens and realms. While the consciousness of the "Void Devouring Beast" was not completely annihilated, its primary component sealed deep within the wasteland, some fragments and its influence seeped out like a virus, continuing to search for new worlds to devour.
The Spirit Realm is a new world that evolved over the long years from a larger fragment and the scattered essence of the original divine realm after its collapse! The law of reincarnation in the Spirit Realm is actually a fragmented, incomplete cycle based on the re-evolution of fragments!
At this point in the torrent of memories, the picture suddenly changed, becoming clearer and more...closer to her.
She saw her past life, Li Zun, who, while exploring a forbidden ancient site, stumbled upon a fragment of the Samsara Mirror. From it, she learned the shocking secrets of the primordial divine realm's collapse and the shattering of the Samsara Mirror. She realized the terrifying power a complete Samsara Mirror held, enough to reshape the cycle of reincarnation and even defeat the "Void Devouring Beast." She also realized the incompleteness of the spiritual world's reincarnation cycle and its potential dangers.
She also saw Ling Hao, Xuan Cong, and Mo Shang! They weren't traitors from the start. They were equally brilliant, supreme beings at the pinnacle of the spiritual realm, and through their own chance encounters, they had learned some of the truth about the Primordial Divine Realm and the Samsara Mirror. However, faced with the pervasive whispers of the "Void Devouring Beast," and driven by their mad ambition to control the entire cycle of reincarnation, surpass the Supreme Beings, and even replace the Primordial Master of Samsara and become the ruler of a new world, they ultimately fell!
The "Void Devouring Beast" promised them that if they helped it break the seal and devour the origin of the spiritual world, it would grant them the authority to control the new reincarnation and make them the supreme gods of the new world!
Thus, a meticulously planned and long-forged betrayal unfolded. Besieged by her most trusted junior disciples and fellow Daoists, Li Zun ultimately perished in despair. The fragment of the Samsara Mirror she had discovered was also stolen. Meanwhile, Ling Hao and the others embarked on a path of no return, carrying out the "Erosion Plan" (providing energy and coordinates for the "Void Devouring Beast") and the "Heaven Stealing Plan" (attempting to steal the authority of Samsara).
The last fragment of her memory clearly pointed to her parents - Ye Feng and Su Wan!
They were, surprisingly, descendants of an ancient clan of gods from the Primordial God Realm, who had guarded the Samsara Mirror for generations! Their bloodline contained a unique "Mark of Samsara." This mark was more than just a "key," but rather one of the necessary "certificates" for unlocking and truly controlling the complete Samsara Mirror and communicating with the "Original Power of Samsara"!
The true, deepest purpose behind Ling Hao and Xuan Cong's "Heaven Stealing Plan" was to gather all the fragments of the Samsara Mirror, using the "Samsara Seals" within Ye Feng and Su Wan as proof and guidance to forcibly activate the "Original Samsara Power" remaining deep within the Waste Realm. This wasn't intended to reshape the cycle of reincarnation in the spirit realm, but rather to... combine this power with the destructive energy provided by the "Erosion Realm" to forcibly break free from the Void Devourer's consciousness, sealed deep within the Waste Realm! Finally, at the critical moment when the Void Devourer devoured the spirit realm, they would use the gathered fragments and "seals" to attempt to steal the Void Devourer's power and the authority to "end the universe," thus realizing their insane, unimaginable ambition to "steal the heavens"!
Her parents were killed because they accidentally discovered the shocking secret hidden in their blood and the world-destroying conspiracy of Ling Hao and others. They were designed to be imprisoned in the Abyss of Soul Annihilation, waiting for the arrival of the final ceremony and becoming the "sacrifice" to open the gates of hell!
All the clues, all the mysteries, at this moment, were as if completely split by a bolt of lightning, becoming extremely clear!
The betrayal of a past life, the disappearance of his parents, the shattering of the Samsara Mirror, the Erosion Plan, the Heaven-stealing Plan... their deepest roots all point back to the ancient war that destroyed the primordial divine realm, and to the conceptual, world-destroying existence whose never-ending devouring desires are the "Void Devouring Beast." Ling Hao, Xuan Cong, and the others are nothing more than pitiful pawns, consumed by its ambitions for power and exploited by its pawns!
Ye Li suddenly broke free from this huge and shocking torrent of memories. Her face was as pale as paper, and her soul felt a tearing pain due to the excessive load, but her eyes became unprecedentedly clear, cold, and... filled with destructive murderous intent!
She finally understood.
Understand everything.
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