169: Heaven's secret harvest, ancestral land resonance

Above the Soul Burial Mountain Range, the deathly silent battlefield was shattered by a desperate cry!

Flame Heart watched helplessly as Xiao Chen, heavily injured and falling, was entangled and dragged by countless serpent-like chains of karma, flying towards the destiny chessboard, which glowed brightly and exuded a terrifying aura of controlling destiny!

The Pavilion Master Tianji's harvest was launched fiercely at the moment the Anti-Alliance was about to win!

"No! Let him go!" Flame Heart, like a madwoman, recklessly burned her essence blood, transforming into a phoenix of burning heaven, and charged towards the destiny chessboard!

Xuan Kongzi, the Dragon Emperor, and others also had bloodshot eyes, desperately shaking off their opponents, wanting to rescue him!

However, everything was too late!

The destiny chessboard seemed to exist in another dimension; the chains of karma ignored spatial distance, instantly dragging Xiao Chen to the center of the chessboard!

On the chessboard, the main thread representing Xiao Chen's destiny trajectory was being forcibly twisted and peeled away by an invisible force, as if to erase him from the very root of his existence!

"Xiao Chen... your value has been completely exploited. Your destiny, your Origin Qi, will all become the stepping stones for this Master... to transcend this realm!" The Pavilion Master Tianji's cold and emotionless voice resounded directly in the depths of Xiao Chen's soul.

Xiao Chen felt his consciousness rapidly blurring, his memories dissipating, and even his perception of his own existence began to peel away!

This was an annihilation more terrifying than death!

He struggled desperately, but his heavily injured body and over-expended soul were simply unable to break free from this terrifying restraint specifically targeting the Source Qi Origin!

"Is it... ending like this...?" In the endless darkness, Xiao Chen's consciousness was like a flickering candle in the wind, about to extinguish.

He was unwilling!

He still had too many unfinished matters!

The survival of the Anti-Alliance, the safety of the continent, the hatred of his ancestors... and... Flame Heart...

Just at the last moment before his consciousness completely sank!

"Buzz—!!!"

Deep within his glabella, that wisp of Source Qi Origin, which had been dormant for a long time, and within his bloodline, that dim xiao clan tribal mark, suddenly erupted with an indescribably brilliant light!

A supreme aura, originating from the dawn of chaos, transcending all laws and destiny, burst forth with a roar!

This aura was completely different from the power of the destiny chessboard!

It disregarded karma, transcended reincarnation, carrying an absolute will of 'I am the only one, I am eternal'!

"What?! This is... the aura of the Chaos Ancestral Land?! How is this possible?! You can actually trigger the Ancestral Land's resonance?!" For the first time, the Pavilion Master Tianji let out a cry of disbelieving horror!

He felt that his meticulously woven web of destiny, under the impact of this chaotic ancestral qi, actually began to violently shake and break apart!

"By my blood, I summon the spirit of the ancestor! Chaos Xiao Realm, heed my command! Ancestral Land... descend!" Xiao Chen's remaining will, supported by this ancestral qi, let out a final roar!

"Rumble—!!!"

The void above the Soul Burial Mountain Range suddenly tore open!

A vast, boundless, broken, and tragic ancient continent phantom, transcending endless time and space, projected itself!

It was precisely the Chaos Xiao Realm!

Although it was only a phantom, the ancient and desolate battle intent and the majesty that suppressed all heavens that it exuded instantly froze the entire battlefield!

Even the light of the destiny chessboard dimmed!

At the top of the pyramid, the dim phantom of the chaotic crystal stone trembled slightly, and a faint but incomparably firm light of chaos, ignoring all obstacles, accurately shone upon Xiao Chen!

"Crack! Crack!"

The chains of karma wrapped around Xiao Chen, under the illumination of the chaotic light, broke and melted like ice and snow meeting the sun!

That strange power that was stripping away his existence was also forcibly dispelled!

"No—!!!" The Pavilion Master Tianji let out an angry and unwilling roar!

He had calculated everything, but he hadn't anticipated that Xiao Chen could, at the last moment, trigger the long-dormant power of the Ancestral Land!

This completely exceeded his destiny predictions!

The chaotic light enveloped Xiao Chen's heavily injured body, slowly merging into the Ancestral Land phantom above.

The phantom began to slowly dissipate.

"Stop him! Don't let him return to the Ancestral Land!" The Pavilion Master Tianji roared, and the destiny chessboard erupted with its final light, countless blades of destiny slashing towards the Ancestral Land phantom!

The remaining powerhouses of the Soul Hall also attacked frantically!

"Protect Xiao Chen!" Xuan Kongzi, the Flame Emperor, the Dragon Emperor, and others were greatly invigorated, disregarding their injuries, they fully erupted, desperately blocking all attacks!

"Brother Chen!" Flame Heart was in tears, wanting to rush into the phantom, but she was pushed away by a gentle force.

Xiao Chen's figure grew fainter and fainter in the chaotic light.

He took one last look at his comrades fighting in a bloody battle below and the weeping Flame Heart, his eyes filled with reluctance, determination, and... hope.

"Wait for me... to return..."

Before his words finished, the Ancestral Land phantom completely dissipated.

Xiao Chen's aura also completely vanished between heaven and earth.

The battlefield fell into an eerie silence.

The Anti-Alliance... won?

Soul Heaven Emperor's clone was destroyed, and the Soul Hall army was routed.

But... their leader, Xiao Chen, was taken away by the Ancestral Land, his fate unknown.

The Pavilion Master Tianji's chessboard phantom also slowly receded, leaving only a cold snort full of calculation and coldness: "Chaos Ancestral Land... Hmph, you can hide for a while, but not forever!

When this Master completely controls the destiny of this realm, that will be the time for you all... to turn to ashes!"

The setting sun, like blood, reflected on the scarred Soul Burial Mountain Range.

The price of victory was too heavy.

Xuan Kongzi and others gathered together, looking in the direction where Xiao Chen disappeared, their faces heavy.

"Chen'er, he..." Xuan Kongzi's voice was hoarse.

"He must still be alive!" Flame Heart wiped away her tears, her eyes incomparably firm, "The Ancestral Land saved him!

He will definitely return!

Before he returns, we must... guard this world for him!"

"That's right!" The Dragon Emperor Projection said in a deep voice, "Soul Heaven Emperor's main body has not appeared, and the Pavilion Master Tianji's conspiracy is not over!

The Anti-Alliance cannot fall!

We must quickly consolidate our strength to deal with the upcoming storm!"

"Return to the Pill Tower! We'll make a long-term plan!" Xuan Kongzi suppressed his grief and ordered a retreat.

The Anti-Alliance army, with the exhaustion of a bitter victory and the sorrow of losing their leader, began to withdraw from this blood-stained mountain range.

Meanwhile, deep within the Chaos Sea, on that broken Ancestral Land continent.

Above the altar at the base of the pyramid, the chaotic light slowly converged, and Xiao Chen's heavily injured and unconscious figure appeared.

His aura was weak, but the clan mark on his glabella and that wisp of Source Qi Origin emitted an unprecedentedly soft and tenacious light, subtly resonating with the entire Ancestral Land.

At the top of the pyramid, the originally dim chaotic crystal stone also lit up slightly at this moment, as if guarding its last bloodline.

A long slumber concerning inheritance and revival was about to begin.

The overt war on the continent temporarily came to an end, but the hidden struggle, due to Xiao Chen's "disappearance" and the emergence of the Ancestral Land, entered a more perplexing new stage!

The Pavilion Master Tianji's true goal, the awakening of Soul Heaven Emperor's main body, and the extraterrestrial dark hand hidden behind destiny... the true ultimate secret will, step by step, be unveiled with Xiao Chen's encounters in the Ancestral Land!

(End of Volume Two)