Free Web NovelChapter 1141: Chapter 612: End of the Ancient Path! The War Alliance Acts!
Jiang Shu slightly closed his eyes, only feeling that his Divine Soul touched the core of the world source behind the rift, gently yet resolutely, like a drop of water into the ocean.
Compared to the world source, the power of his Divine Soul was like an ant trying to shake a tree.
But in any world, the greater the risk, the greater the reward!
If he succeeded this time, he would not only gain a foothold in the Inner Circle of the Star Ruins Realm.
He could also explore some secrets of the Great Dao’s birth from this world source, laying the most solid Dao Foundation for future cultivation.
This drop, containing Jiang Shu’s will and Divine Soul, appeared even smaller than dust in front of the boundless and vast source, akin to a colossal beast in deep space.
It didn’t stir any energy-layer ripples, but merely, like a newborn chick, gently tapped with faint tremors on the silent, cold, malevolently filled depth of the source.
Like a still water barely rippling.
"Do I really have to return to the Demon Domain?"
Jiang Shu could clearly feel his consciousness almost plunging into endless darkness.
The panel repeatedly emerged in his mind.
He was gambling on the final change.
If, before his consciousness completely sank, he couldn’t shake the altar.
Then he would be forced to leave and return to the Demon Domain.
Yet, in doing so, it might take a long time before he could return to the Star Ruins Realm again.
Perhaps, to the people in the Star Ruins Realm, Jiang Shu would already be considered dead.
After all, this was a true mortal tribulation.
"Sigh..."
As his consciousness was about to sink into endless darkness, Jiang Shu sighed deeply in his heart, just as he decided to use the Two Realms Shuttle.
Buzz!
A completely different aura from this realm’s cold, dead, and malevolent atmosphere emerged.
It was vast and contained a terrifying fluctuation of unmatched battle intent and violent power, suddenly arriving!
This aura didn’t originate from inside the Little World, but from a very distant external space, rudely crashing into the barrier of this nascent world.
The entire world embryo shook violently, far more chaotic by tens of thousands compared to the spatial turmoil Jiang Shu caused earlier.
Even the space barrier on the verge of solidification let out a groan of unsustainable, about to shatter.
Zhan Jiuxiao!
The aura was exceedingly familiar to Jiang Shu, unrivaled in power, it was the aura of Zhan Jiuxiao, the War Alliance Vice Leader!
Meanwhile, outside, at the entrance of the Ancient Battle Soul Path.
The massive Ancient Road Gate, constructed from Divine Weapon Remains and Armor Fragments, trembled violently, with ancient runes on the door flickering crazily.
In the starry space before the gate, Zhan Jiuxiao’s hair fluttered angrily, eyes like burning Fixed Stars, surrounded by nine crimson star phantoms spinning wildly, emanating a terrifying pressure crushing the star river.
Beside him, five other equally vast presences flickered in and out of being, the Supreme Elders of the War Alliance.
Evidently, each of them possessed the power to shake the Secret Realm.
Zhan Jiuxiao’s face was calm as still water, but deep in his gaze was the thunderous rage and a hint of unnoticeable apprehension.
He originally thought he had cleaned up some of the anomalies within the War Alliance, and his absence in the recent days was due to secretly investigating the source of these anomalies, only to realize even the Ancient Battle Soul Path, which carried the will of the Human Clan ancestors, was disturbed.
As soon as the anomaly began, Zhan Jiuxiao wanted to intervene, but the anomaly of the Ancient Road exceeded their prior assessment, with spatial coordinates disrupted, enforced intervention would only expedite its collapse.
All those inside would then perish.
But just now, a faint, soul-marked fluctuation of Jiang Shu, like lightning in the dark, was detected by him.
That fluctuation carried the desperate resolve of certain death and an unwilling roar.
It was from his son Zhan Feng’s comrade-in-arms, also the unprecedented, monstrously talented genius the War Alliance had lured in at the cost of countless Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
And his current location was at the chaos center of the sinister core!
With a thunderous humming and explosion, that ancient gate made from countless Divine Weapon Remains and Armor Fragments wailed on the brink of disintegration, its flickering runes like a candle in the wind!
In the star space before the gate, Zhan Jiuxiao’s figure stood colossal.
Nine crimson stars, burning with golden flames of war, roared and spun around him, sending ripples that crushed the Void with every rotation.
Beside him stood five elders, hair and beard white, aura deep as the ocean, forceful as five raging dragons, converging at Zhan Jiuxiao’s fist peak.
This was the combined power of the six Supreme Elders of the War Alliance, a match even for a Saint!
These figures were all avatars of the Supreme Elders, though not at the Saint’s level in Realm, they were far from simple Venerable Peak.
"Locked on!"
Zhan Jiuxiao’s voice was like the collapse of the heavens, devoid of any composure, burning with a rage to incinerate star rivers and rare astonishment.
In that moment, through the debris of the collapsing Secret Realm’s barrier, he distinctly sensed that aura.
The familiar yet exhausted soul fluctuation of Jiang Shu, fraught with inevitable death and the last outburst of attacking intent.
The location was precisely within this space, at the abyssal core of the malevolent vortex.
"Open!"
Zhan Jiuxiao roared to the heavens, hurling a golden giant fist, embodying the full power of six Venerable Peaks, fiercely towards the distorted center of that giant gate.
Boom!
Like tearing apart a tattered old painting.
The gate’s center, together with its space barrier, was smashed open into a huge irregular cavity, ten yards in diameter, by this unrivaled giant fist.
An endless flood of nascent world anger, cold decay, and malevolent stream gushed out like a floodgate opened.
Zhan Jiuxiao’s gaze was like a torch, piercing through the chaotic energy flood instantly locked onto the skeletal vestige nearly merged into the mire at the ink-black core region of the cavity.
"Come out!"
The golden fist light did not retract but suddenly extended forward.
The vast and gentle Space Power precisely enveloped Jiang Shu’s ruined body, like a fallen leaf rescued from a filthy swamp, pulling him out in an instant.
Simultaneously, as Jiang Shu’s body was drawn out of the space cavity, from the crumbling ink-black core, the throbbing dark core emitted a silent, malicious shriek.
A chill curse torrent, form unseen, source malevolent beyond scrutiny, mixed with the immeasurable resentments and war fragments accumulated over eons in this Ancient Battlefield, ignored spatial distance and the world’s barrier remnants, transformed into a bone-rust-colored invisible mark, brutally crashing into Jiang Shu’s freshly drawn-out body.
The excruciating pain made Jiang Shu’s body convulsively curl even in his fainted state.
Across his body surface, countless bone-rust-colored lines like writhing life forms, with hatred and destruction, burrowed madly into his skin, eroding his meridians, branding his Dao Foundation, and even tainting his fractured, barely intact Space Heart Fragment with a shadow.
"Zhan Feng... they are still inside."
In the final moment before his consciousness dissipated completely, securely shielded by Zhan Jiuxiao’s power, Jiang Shu’s lips moved slightly, solemnly uttering a few indistinct, dreamlike syllables.
Before the words faded, the bone-rust-colored lines over his body suddenly erupted with a faint light, entirely sealing off his last point of vitality.
Ensured of no danger, enclosed in that golden gentle force, Jiang Shu gradually closed his eyes, regaining his state.
The bone-rust-colored lines filled with malice and curse, flowing like live entities, started to dissipate as he left the Ancient Road.
The Venerables of the War Alliance had intervened, leaving no need for him to worry about the dangers within the Ancient Road.
The massive space cavity behind swiftly sealed up, re-closing the world embryo filled with endless resentment and malevolence.
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