230: The Emperor's Fall, His Heart Ignites, A Mysterious Will

"Brother Chen!"

"Emperor Xiao!"

Flame Heart was the first to rush to Xiao Chen's side, her trembling hand gently reaching for his breath. When she felt that faint, almost imperceptible wisp of air, tears instantly streamed down her face! She could feel that Xiao Chen's body was utterly devoid of life; the chaotic Emperor Power, once as vast as a sea of stars, was now almost completely gone, leaving only a flicker of life, like a candle in the wind, stubbornly flickering!

"Quick! Pills! All healing sacred medicines!" Yan Huang's eyes were bloodshot, and he roared hoarsely! He pulled out several Emperor-grade pills he had treasured and, without a word, tried to force them into Xiao Chen's mouth!

"It's useless..." Dragon Emperor's massive dragon eyes were filled with grief and solemnity. "Emperor Xiao burned his Emperor Heart Origin... that is the foundation of an Emperor! Ordinary pills cannot possibly make up for it..."

"Then... are we just... going to watch Brother Chen... he..." Flame Heart's voice choked, unable to speak the rest of her words.

"No! There's still hope!" Xuan Kongzi suppressed his grief and said in a deep voice, "The star tower! The star tower is intrinsically linked to Chen'er's life! As long as the tower is here, he will be too! Quick! Send Emperor Xiao into the tower! With the star origin accumulated in the tower for ten thousand years, perhaps we can stabilize his last shred of life!"

"Right! The star tower!" Yan Huang suddenly looked up at the star tower, which was floating in the air, its light also significantly dimmed! At this moment, the tower's body was covered in fine cracks, clearly indicating that the previous attack had also caused it severe damage!

Flower Without Shadow and Wonderful Sound immediately joined forces, gently lifting the unconscious Xiao Chen with soft power, carefully sending him into the ninth floor of the star tower! The tower door slowly closed, and a faint starlight began to emanate from within the tower, gently enveloping Xiao Chen's damaged Emperor body like a mother's embrace. However—

Just as everyone breathed a slight sigh of relief and focused all their attention on Xiao Chen—

"Buzz..."

An extremely faint hum came from the top of the towering black ice tower not far away!

Everyone's heart tightened! They all turned their heads to look!

They saw that on the platform at the top of the ice tower, the lid of the ice coffin, which had been blown off, was long gone. And now, within the empty ice coffin, wisps of strange black smoke-like aura began to emanate!

This aura was completely different from the Ice Emperor's extreme coldness! It was colder, more defiled, filled with a sense of decadence and deathly stillness that made one's soul tremble! It was as if it were the embodiment of all negative energy in the world!

"What... is that thing?" Dragon Emperor's dragon whiskers trembled violently, and a deeper fear, more profound than when facing the Ice Emperor, uncontrollably rose from his heart!

"Be careful! Be on guard!" Yan Huang suppressed the unease in his heart and shouted sternly! The remaining Anti-Alliance forces immediately endured their injuries and fatigue, forming a battle formation once again! But despair was written all over everyone's faces! Even Emperor Xiao had paid such a heavy price just to barely defeat the Ice Emperor... now, something even more terrifying had appeared... how could they possibly resist?

Under everyone's terrified gaze, the black smoke grew thicker and thicker, gradually condensing into a blurry humanoid silhouette above the ice coffin!

The silhouette's face was indistinct; only a pair of hollow eye sockets could be vaguely seen! There were no eyeballs within the eye sockets, only two slowly rotating dark vortices! The depths of the vortices seemed to connect to endless void and destruction!

A will and pressure, even more ancient, more vast, and more despair-inducing than the Ice Emperor's, descended like an invisible mountain, crushing everyone, making them unable to breathe!

"Ants..."

A hoarse, dry voice, as if it hadn't spoken for billions of years, resounded directly in everyone's soul!

"Destroy my vessel... hinder my descent..."

"You... will... all... die..."

The blurry black figure slowly raised an arm, condensed from black smoke, and pointed it at the Anti-Alliance forces below, who were scarred and exhausted from the recent battle... The true apocalypse seemed to have just begun!