Chapter 184: The Saints Fight, the Universe Protects the People
Ye Li's rejection of "existence" that contained infinite affection and extreme contempt was like throwing a hot star core into the cosmic asphalt that was about to solidify, instantly detonating the "Lord of Annihilation"'s twisted anger that was already boiling due to being disturbed!
"Stubbornly... obsessed with... ants... of false light... then... along with this disgusting old world... shall... perish forever!"
From that massive body, a mad interweaving of light and darkness, its forms constantly defying common sense, emanated no longer seductive whispers, but a terrifying roar, like the final moments of billions of universes approaching heat death, a mixture of utter venom and icy madness! The sound waves were no longer mere sound, but tangible, ripples of the "Law of the End," as visibly visibly distorted space. With "Him" at its core, it surged forward like a destructive tsunami of darkness! At the same time, the void seemed to be torn apart. Countless void monsters, condensed from pure "nothingness" energy, in myriad forms, radiating hunger and a lust for destruction, swarmed out from the darkness on all sides like sharks scenting blood. Following the ripples of the law, they formed a tidal wave of death that annihilated everything and pounced upon the thin lines of the Alliance army!
"Form a formation! Hold on to the death! For the spirit world! For the meaning of our existence!" The ascetic Alvin's hair and beard stood on end, and his originally gentle face looked ferocious because of his determination. He held high the seemingly ordinary wooden staff, and the remaining elite temples burst out with the last light of faith. The holy runes lit up like burning stars, connecting with each other, and turning into a huge sacred cross light shield that reached the void above and suppressed the sea of stars below, with the fiery divine words of order flowing on the shield.
"Roar! You little devils, you want me to disappear completely? Not that easy! Hold on!" The assassin Mephisto let out a sharp hiss from his face hidden in the shadows. Although the army of the Demon Abyss was in chaos, under the pressure of life and death, it also burst out with amazing cohesion. The monstrous demonic energy mixed with all kinds of strange curses and defensive spells, building a dark barrier that kept wriggling and swallowing the approaching energy.
Lay Buddhist Muyun, Palace Master Yaoguang, Monkey Sun, and others led the core forces of the alliance headquarters, pouring their lifelong spiritual energy, divine consciousness, and even their deepest attachment to their homeland into the pre-arranged joint defense formation composed of countless array plates and talismans. The colorful yet solid energy shield, like a fragile eggshell pregnant with hope, struggled to hold on to the forefront of the destructive tide.
Yet, the mere ripples of power emanating from the "Lord of Annihilation" were already at a level beyond the comprehension of ordinary Sanctuaries! The viscous dark ripples seemed to possess life, corroding, penetrating, and disintegrating the very fabric of all existence. The moment the combined light shield came into contact with the ripples, a piercing sound, like glass about to shatter, erupted. Its surface shimmered wildly, flickering and fading, and the ripples trembled violently, as if on the verge of complete collapse in the next second! And the void monsters, like ghosts, were able to ignore the energy barriers to a certain extent, either penetrating directly or clinging to them and devouring them frantically. In an instant, like a flood bursting through a dam, they rushed into the tightly packed battle formation!
In an instant, a purgatory-like scene unfolded! A Templar Knight and his mount, like a piece of burning paper, were swiftly reduced to ash from the edge as their holy light was eroded by darkness, unable to even utter a scream. A Demon General of the Abyss attempted to devour the monster but was instead assimilated by it. His massive body expanded and twisted like an inflated balloon, finally exploding with a bang, emitting corrosive demonic blood and soul fragments. The sword formation formed by several Alliance monks instantly collapsed under the monster's onslaught, their sharp sword light swallowed by the darkness. The monks themselves, shattered by the monster's claws and bite, their bodies extinguished, their souls extinguished like candles in the wind, stripped of even the qualification to enter the cycle of reincarnation! Screams, desperate roars, the violent explosion of spells and magic energy, the wailing of space caused by the collision of laws... In an instant, the previous silence was replaced, transforming this star field into the most brutal, all-consuming flesh grinding wheel!
"Leave it to us! Hold the line and clear out the monsters!"
Ye Li and Qin Yixuan's eyes met, instantly understanding each other's intentions. At this moment, any words were superfluous. They both simultaneously poured the vast, oceanic power of their mid-stage Saint Realm realms into the newly born "Samsara Universe" without reservation! Instantly, the chaotic starlight realm, which had previously been quietly suspended, emitting a faint glow, suddenly came to life, as if a prehistoric beast had been infused with a soul. It transformed into a long river of chaotic starlight that crisscrossed the starry sea, with the stars within it constantly circulating in the birth and death of stars. With unwavering determination, they proactively faced the source of all destruction—the "Lord of Nirvana"!
The head-on collision between the "Reincarnation Universe" and the "Lord of Nirvana" is no longer a simple energy bombardment, but an ultimate confrontation between two completely different and fundamentally opposing cosmic rules and concepts of existence!
Ye Li stood at the core of the "Sarmala Universe," the phantom of the Samsara Mirror between her brows resonating with the entire universe. With her hands, she drew, and from the deep, chaotic background of the universe, countless vortices of Samsara, large and small, emanating the power of attraction and disintegration, suddenly emerged! These vortices were not simply bodies of energy, but contained the profound principles of the cycle of life and death, the rise and fall of cause and effect. Like countless invisible nets, they layered over the ever-shifting, intertwined form of the "Lord of Nirvana," a vast, interwoven mass of light and darkness. The vortexes attempted to forcibly draw the Lord into the cycle of birth and death within the "Sarmala Universe," using the creative light of the stars' birth to sear their dark essence, and the power of the abyss at their annihilation to pull and disintegrate their distorted structures. Furthermore, they attempted to draw their vast and sinister primordial power into the universe's inner orbit of Samsara, subjecting it to a continuous, slow, yet steady process of dissipation and transformation!
Qin Yixuan, like the embodiment of celestial will, channeled the power of the countless miniature stars within the "Samsara Universe." The dazzling starlight was no longer merely radiance; it transformed into the purest, most fundamental purifying torrent, like the first rays of light at the dawn of the universe. Carrying with it the supreme will to celebrate life and safeguard order, it continuously washed over the "Lord of Annihilation," the thick, almost viscous "Law of the End" and the rich, corrosive energy of "Nothingness." Her power focused on protection and stability. In the intervals between fierce clashes, the curtain of starlight extended continuously, like the most agile weaver, repairing the fragile void easily torn apart by the aftermath of the battle. At the same time, with her own creative will, imbued with infinite vitality, she stubbornly resisted and neutralized the icy laws that sought to drag all matter, energy, laws, and even concepts into eternal death.
"Ants... how dare you... blaspheme... the End?!" The Lord of Annihilation roared with a mixture of rage and affront. From his vast torso, a woven fabric of light and darkness, countless twisting, writhing tentacles, forcibly fused from the shattered laws of order and chaos, instantly extended! These tentacles coalesced into giant dark spears, entwined with runes of demise, powerful enough to rip the galaxy apart, piercing the very core of the Samsara Universe. Or they slammed into the void, triggering a domino-like collapse of the vast fabric of spacetime, transforming into an all-consuming realm of absolute nothingness. From their shifting forms, they unleashed the formless and intangible Curse of the End, striking directly at the very foundations of living beings, driving them towards self-annihilation!
His power seemed boundless, each attack imbued with the terrifying might to instantly obliterate ordinary Saints! Under this torrential onslaught, the "Samsara Universe" shook and twisted violently like an island in a storm, its miniature stars within it experiencing a sudden surge in birth and death, a hundredfold, a thousandfold increase! Under the overloaded operation, numerous stars prematurely completed their life cycles, annihilated in dazzling explosions or silent collapses. Although new stars were soon born within the chaos, this process clearly placed a tremendous burden and drain on Ye Li and Qin Yixuan.
The aftermath of the battle, like an uncontrolled torrent of destruction, spread madly in all directions. In distant star regions, star systems that had operated peacefully for eons were swept by an invisible force, stars extinguished in an instant, planets reduced to dust, and even the space-time coordinates of their existence seemed to be wiped out from the universe. The vast void between the Alliance army and the "Lord of Annihilation" had long since transformed into a deadly zone, where the spatial structure was completely shattered and the laws of nature were in chaos. Countless tiny fragments of space, like razor-sharp blades, flew freely in the energy storm.
Even with the "Samsara Universe" absorbing the lion's share of the frontal pressure, the area where the alliance army stood remained like a small boat on a raging sea, vulnerable to capsizing at any moment. As they struggled to withstand the permeating aftershocks of destruction, formidable figures, along with their magical weapons, were silently disintegrated into their most fundamental particles. Others were overwhelmed by the relentless, fearless swarms of void monsters, utterly annihilated in the icy sea of stars amidst brutal explosions and clashes, their unwillingness and determination etched in them. Blood, shattered armor, broken divine weapons, shattered fragments of magical weapons, and the remains of demons... all mixed together, drifting and colliding in the void, forming a star-level floating world painting of immense tragedy and utter brutality, enough to shatter the very heart of any witness.
"For the homeland behind us! For the traces of our existence! Fight to the death... and never retreat!!" A senior temple elder, after burning out the last bit of his divine essence and transforming into a dazzling meteor of holy light, let out a final cry that resounded throughout the battlefield before perishing together with the leader of a void monster that was as big as a small star. His voice was tragic and his ambition shook the heavens!
The war has entered its most cruel and bloody stage. With every breath, once powerful warriors fall like meteors, and the last glory of their lives blooms on this final battlefield to protect "existence".
Just as the battle descended into a desperate stalemate of exhaustion, the Lord of Annihilation seemed to have completely lost his patience, or perhaps he sensed the tenacious, vibrant resistance of the Samsara Universe posed a true threat to his ultimate goal. At the center of his ever-shifting, vast body, the two extreme energies of light and darkness converged and compressed toward a singularity at an unprecedentedly frantic rate! The surrounding void, unable to withstand this force, collapsed inward. A profoundly unstable dark singularity, emitting an aura that made the laws of the entire galaxy tremble and wail, seemingly connected to the ultimate nothingness of the universe, suddenly formed!
"The end... is... the destination... the return... the arrival..."
Accompanied by an icy declaration that seemed to emanate from the cosmic graveyard itself, the dark singularity, condensed with terrifying power, suddenly and silently... exploded! A destructive shockwave, indescribable in any color, as if it were the very opposite of "color" and "existence," embodying the ultimate meaning of the universe's emptiness, fanned out indiscriminately and absolutely... forward! Its reach encompassed not only the remnants of the Alliance fighting bloody battles, but also, with precise and vicious force... the world further behind, as tiny as dust in the boundless sea of stars, yet carrying the final hope of billions of souls in the spiritual realm... also encompassed it!
"No! His target... is the Spirit Realm!" The color drained from Qin Yixuan's beautiful face, and her pupils suddenly constricted. Her sacred perception, resonating with the stars, clearly told her that the power of the Law of the End contained in this shockwave was purer and more powerful than any previous attack! The remaining Alliance forces had no chance of withstanding it. Even if the "Samsara Universe" was fully operational, it could only deflect a portion of the force. The Spirit Realm's relatively fragile barriers would crumble like bubbles in the sun before an attack of this magnitude! At that moment, the boundary wall would crumble, and the living beings within would be instantly assimilated into the "nothingness," and all would return to silence!
In a split second, the choice between life and death lay before them. After a split second of struggle, Qin Yixuan's eyes transformed into a look as clear as autumn water, yet as firm as the eternal stars!
"In the name of the heir of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady, I draw upon the power of the cosmic stars to gather the unyielding wishes of all beings in this world—protection by the stars, invulnerable to all attacks, the barrier... forever!"
With a clear shout, her voice shook the starry sea! She had proactively severed the perfectly intertwined power cycle with Ye Li, unreservedly mobilizing the essence of her own Xuannv Sanctuary and the stellar portion of the newly born "Samsara Universe" that represented order and creation. She frantically mobilized it, even at the cost of burning the very foundations of her sanctuary! The vast and majestic stellar divine power was no longer used for attack or purification, but instead transformed into an unprecedented, condensed, multicolored barrier, so solid it seemed as if inlaid with countless star diamonds, flowing with billions of profound star runes and the radiance of life's praise! This barrier was boundless and expanded instantly, like an eternal wall of the stellar sky, abruptly and relentlessly... stretching between the all-destructive shockwave and the tiny yet precious spiritual world behind!
At the same time, her voice, trembling slightly from exhaustion, became the final rallying cry that echoed throughout the entire brutal battlefield:
"All my compatriots who can still muster a shred of strength... please lend me your strength! For... the world... that remains behind us!"
This call, like a final spark, ignited the will of the survivors, nearly frozen by despair! Ascetic Alvin coughed up blood, casting the remaining holy light like a trickle towards the barrier; the plotter Mephisto roared, squeezing out the last trace of pure demonic energy, even though this power was incompatible with the power of the stars; Mr. Muyun, the Master of Yaoguang Palace, Sun Xiaohou... All the powerful alliance members who could still move, regardless of their background or injuries, at this moment, abandoned all barriers and calculations, and transformed the remaining power in their bodies, whether hot, cold, or neutral, into thousands of energy torrents of different colors, but all containing an unyielding will. Reckless, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, they threw them into the colorful barrier that stretched before destruction!
The star barrier, blessed by the power of all living beings, suddenly became extremely bright and extremely tragic, as if it condensed the last hope and cry of the remaining creatures in the entire spiritual world!
The next moment, the destructive shock wave containing the ultimate meaning of nothingness, like the giant wheel at the end of the universe, slammed heavily and solidly... into the final barrier with Qin Yixuan as the core and the will of all living beings as its foundation!
"boom--!!!!!!!!----------"
A final, indescribable roar, as if the universe were born and ended simultaneously, erupted with a ferocious roar! The moment the colorful star barrier came into contact with the shockwave, a terrifying, intensive shattering sound erupted! The entire barrier, like a lake upon which a stone had been dropped, violently twisted, vibrated, and dented! Qin Yixuan, standing at the forefront, the core and pillar, bore the brunt of the impact! Her slender yet resilient body felt as if struck by an invisible hammer, violently trembling. A mouthful of holy blood, imbued with pale golden starlight, gushed out uncontrollably, transforming into poignant golden sparks in the void! Her beautiful face instantly lost all color, becoming as transparent as crystal, as if it could shatter at any moment! The once dazzling starlight surrounding her dimmed and dissipated at a visible speed. The newly born mid-stage of the Holy Domain, representing infinite possibilities, became like a candle in the wind, shaky and precarious, even showing the terrifying signs of a cracked foundation! She sacrificed her own sanctuary, nearly perished, and united the strength of all remaining living beings to forcefully...block the fatal blow, buying the spirit world behind her and the shattered coalition a...perhaps just a moment...of respite!
"Yixuan!!!!!!"
Witnessing Qin Yixuan suffer such a devastating blow while protecting all living beings, her aura instantly weakened to near-annihilation. Ye Li felt an unprecedented, soul-tearing, burning pain and raging rage. Like a volcano suppressed for eternity, it burst through all the barriers of reason and pierced the starry sky! Intense rage, mixed with an overwhelming desire to protect the most important person, to protect the countless trusting eyes behind her, surged and roared wildly within her!
At this moment, with her beloved on the verge of death, the coalition about to collapse, and the spiritual world in dire straits, she suddenly broke through the ultimate shackles that had always existed but were invisible and intangible on the path of "reincarnation" that she controlled!
In her eyes, reincarnation is no longer simply a cold cycle of life and death, no longer an abstract dynamic equilibrium. It's a kind of... a greater, deeper, more ardent protection and continuation of civilization that transcends the survival of individual lives! It's the eternal flame of life passed down from generation to generation, the light of civilization rebuilt and sublimated upon the ruins, the spark of hope repeatedly rekindled in the abyss of despair, the unfulfilled will and dreams of the deceased, carried on and passed on by the living... an eternal relay!
"Reincarnation... its essence... is not just about extinction and rebirth... but rather... the protection and inheritance... of eternity! It is an immortal hymn that allows the meaning of 'existence'... to transcend time and extinction!"
Accompanied by this new, more complete realization, emanating from the deepest depths of her soul, the Samsara Mirror between her brows, as if sensing its owner's nirvana-like transformation, suddenly erupted with an unprecedented, chaotic light that seemed to illuminate the eternal cycle of reincarnation! The entire "Samsara Universe" resonated and trembled, as if infused with a new soul... one more resilient and filled with an unyielding will to protect...! The birth and death of the stars within was no longer simply a natural cycle, but took on a tragic and resolute rhythm, as if each star's annihilation accumulated strength for the next, more brilliant rebirth, to protect the spark of life... that perhaps existed within the universe!
In this desperate situation, with her beloved deeply wounded and the coalition on the verge of collapse, Ye Li's aura, far from falling, instead, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, amidst extreme sorrow and anger, began to rise again in a more stable, deeper, and more fundamental way! She took an incomparably firm, yet incredibly heavy... step towards the unfathomable sanctuary realm that even she herself had never clearly glimpsed!
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