42: A chaotic halo! The Valley Master of Medicine King Valley... was stunned!

"Ding—!!!"

That sound, crisp to the extreme and resembling the light chime of a jade chime, exploded within the deathly silent and frozen Thatched Cottage! Like a stone cast into an icy lake, it instantly shattered the terrifying pressure that had frozen time and space!

Time... resumed its flow!

The wind... began to wail once more!

The stagnant air inside the Thatched Cottage... suddenly loosened!

Luo Yan and Su Ningxue were like drowning people pulled from the water; they took a sharp breath and began to cough violently! Their faces were pale as paper, their eyes filled with the lingering daze of surviving a disaster and extreme fear! In that moment just now... they felt as if they had already died!

Jiang Linfeng's entire body shook violently! His ready-to-fire Star Destruction Fist stopped abruptly in mid-air! His pupils constricted as he stared fixedly at the cradle!

In the cradle, the star mark on Jiang Xingyu's forehead shone brilliantly! An extremely faint yet incredibly pure Chaos Halo, seemingly condensed from the most primitive Chaos Life Origin, rippled out like water! The "Medicine King Life Pointing" beam, capable of bestowing or stripping the life of a Void Tribulation Realm expert, struck the halo... and actually... melted away like snow! It was silently... annihilated!

There was no world-shaking explosion!

No wailing of shattered Laws!

There was only... an absolute... inclusion and... dissolution originating from the very Origin of life!

It was as if... the "Medicine King Life Pointing," which could shake the Laws of heaven and earth... was merely... a trivial... bubble... before Jiang Xingyu's Chaos Life Origin, which felt like the dawn of creation?

"What?!" High in the Void Realm, the Valley Master of Medicine King Valley Jiang Baichuan's muddy eyes, usually as calm as an ancient well... for the first time... fluctuated violently! Like two stars that had been silent for ten thousand years suddenly erupting with blinding light! On his withered face, the wrinkles like dried tree bark instantly tightened! A very subtle, yet real... shock and... disbelief... crept onto his brow!

"Chaos... Life Origin?! So... pure?!" His dry, raspy voice carried a hint of... trembling... that even he hadn't noticed! This... how was this possible?! A Star Dao Body... drawing upon the Star Power of the celestial cycles... was already rare across the ages! But inside this infant's body... there was actually hidden such a pure, such a primitive Chaos Life Origin, as if it were the first wisp of life born when heaven and earth first opened?! This... this had already exceeded the scope of a Star Dao Body! This... this was... a Nascent Chaos Dao Body?!

He stared fixedly at the infant in the cradle, who was opening his large eyes, "looking" at him curiously, and even widening his toothless mouth into a smile! It was as if he were looking at a... divine object... that had overturned his lifelong understanding!

"This child... this child..." Jiang Baichuan's withered fingers curled unconsciously, and the ancient tortoise shell in his palm vibrated violently, its cracks flashing crazily as if it wanted to break free from his control! The desire pointing toward Jiang Xingyu... was stronger than ever before!

[Ding! Detected that the Chaos Life Origin within Jiang Xingyu's body has been passively activated!]

[Effect: Immune to all Law attacks below the Chaos level!]

[Notice: The Chaos Medicine Dao Law contained within the Medicine King Life Pointing has been assimilated and absorbed by the Chaos Life Origin!]

[Jiang Xingyu's Chaos Dao Body affinity +1%! Child of Nature talent activation +1%!]

Jiang Linfeng's mind shook wildly! Chaos Life Origin?! Immune to Law attacks?! Star Universe... his son... actually possessed such a Heaven-Defying Physique?! Joy, like lava, instantly overwhelmed his fear! But following that was an even more surging, heaven-toppling rage!

Medicine King Valley! How dare they use such a vicious hand against his son?!

"Old dog! You dare touch my son! Die—!!!" Killing intent exploded in Jiang Linfeng's eyes! He no longer hesitated! Seizing the moment Jiang Baichuan's mind was shaken! He slammed out his prepared Star Destruction Fist!

"Star Destruction! Ice Soul Star!"

RUMBLE—!!!

The fist light was no longer pure icy blue! Instead, it was entwined with bits of starlight! Ice Soul Star and stars merged perfectly! There was even the blessing of a supreme will originating from the Chaos Life Origin! Above the fist, the Star God Infant Projection, which trod upon the starry river and held Chaos in its hands, instantly solidified! It let out a silent roar! Carrying a terrifying will that could destroy the eternal and freeze time and space! It slammed fiercely toward Jiang Baichuan in the Void Realm!

This punch! It condensed all the power of Jiang Linfeng's seventh level of the Zhaoshen Realm! It condensed the power of the Nascent Star Domain! It condensed the might of the Star God Infant Projection! And... it condensed a father's heaven-toppling rage to protect his own flesh and blood, along with... a wisp of supreme will originating from Chaos!

Everywhere the fist light passed! Space froze inch by inch! Laws wailed and shattered! The solidified Void Realm was torn apart like fragile glass! Revealing the dark turbulence behind it!

"Hmph! An ant trying to shake the heavens!" Jiang Baichuan instantly snapped back to his senses! A flash of cold anger crossed his muddy eyes! Being ambushed by a junior in the Zhaoshen Realm was simply a ultimate humiliation! He flicked a withered finger!

Buzz!

An even more condensed, even more ancient emerald finger beam, seemingly formed from the essence of billions of divine herbs and the Chaos Medicine Dao Law, pointed out once again! Within the finger beam, countless profound herb runes flickered into existence and vanished, emitting a terrifying aura that stripped away the vitality of all things! Medicine King Life Pointing! Second Finger!

BOOM—!!!

The emerald finger beam and the icy-blue starlight-entwined fist light collided violently!

There was no world-shaking explosion!

There was only... the frantic clash and annihilation between the ultimate Law of life and the will of destruction!

Sss—!!!

The icy-blue starlight burned crazily! Attempting to freeze and destroy that emerald finger beam!

The emerald finger beam, however, was like a maggot on a bone! It frantically eroded and stripped away the vitality and power within the fist light!

A stalemate! A terrifying stalemate! Space was torn into a massive black hole! Law fragments exploded like fireworks!

"Pfft!" Jiang Linfeng felt as if he had been struck by a heavy blow! His face instantly turned deathly pale! He coughed out a large mouthful of blood! He felt as if his fist light had struck an immovable divine mountain! The Chaos Medicine Dao Law contained within that emerald finger beam was overbearing and peerless! It was frantically stripping away his life force! The Star God Infant Projection fluctuated violently, nearly collapsing!

Void Tribulation Realm Great Perfection! And it was a Great Perfection that had touched upon the Chaos Medicine Dao Origin! The gap... was too large!

"Overestimating yourself!" A flash of disdain crossed Jiang Baichuan's eyes. His withered finger moved slightly, and the emerald finger beam's light intensified! It was about to completely crush that icy-blue fist light!

However!

Just at this critical moment!

Buzz—!!!

In the cradle, the star mark on Jiang Xingyu's forehead once again erupted with blinding light! An even purer, even more vast aura of Chaos Life Origin, like an awakening ancient Divine Beast, boomed out! This time, it was no longer defense! It was... a proactive strike!

Rumble—!!!

Outside the Thatched Cottage, the descending river of starlight seemed to be injected with infinite Divine Power! It instantly boiled! It became even more vast! An even more condensed pillar of starlight, like the Nine Heavens' Milky Way reversing its flow, accurately boomed into Jiang Linfeng's body! At the same time... a wisp of imperceptible yet incredibly pure Chaos Life Origin, following the Bloodline connection, quietly merged into the fist light Jiang Linfeng had thrown!

Buzz—!!!

The icy-blue starlight-entwined fist light suddenly erupted with unprecedented brilliance! That light... was no longer icy blue! It was... the color of Chaos! A supreme Chaos will, originating from the Origin of life, descended with a boom!

Crack!

The stalemate was instantly broken!

That overbearing and peerless emerald finger beam... under the wash of the Chaos light... was like snow meeting a blazing sun! It disintegrated and was annihilated inch by inch!

"What?!" Jiang Baichuan's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpricks! For the first time, true horror appeared on his withered face! He clearly felt... that within that fist light... there was actually contained a wisp of... pure Chaos Life Origin?! This... how was this possible?! That infant... could actually transfer his Origin power... to his father?!

BOOM—!!!

The Chaos-colored fist light did not lose its momentum! It tore through the Void Realm! Carrying a supreme will that crushed everything, it slammed fiercely toward Jiang Baichuan!

"Chaos?! Impossible!" Jiang Baichuan let out a low, lost roar! He could no longer maintain his composure! He made a sudden grabbing motion with his withered hand!

Buzz!

A phantom of a massive cauldron, emerald green throughout, with three legs and two ears, its surface covered in profound herb runes and emitting an endless ancient aura of Chaos, instantly condensed before him! The mouth of the cauldron spewed out vast chaos medicine qi, attempting to block that terrifying fist light!

medicine king cauldron phantom!

CLANG—!!!!

The Chaos fist light slammed heavily against the medicine king cauldron phantom!

A deafening roar, as if the world were being created, exploded!

The entire sky of the Northern Region seemed to be torn apart! Countless living beings felt their minds shake violently at this moment! They spat out blood!

Pfft—!!!

Jiang Baichuan As if struck hard! His withered body shook violently! A wisp of dark golden blood seeped from the corner of his mouth! The medicine king cauldron phantom before him vibrated intensely! Its light instantly dimmed! Faint cracks even appeared on its surface! His eyes were filled with unbelievable horror and... a hint of... fear that even he hadn't noticed?!

He... the Valley Master of Medicine King Valley! Void Tribulation Realm Great Perfection! Having controlled the medicine king cauldron for ten thousand years! He was... actually wounded... by a single punch... from a junior at the seventh level of the Zhaoshen Realm?!

"Waa—!!!" In the cradle, Star Universe seemed to have exhausted his strength. He let out a loud cry, his little face scrunched up in a piteous manner.

"Star Universe!" Jiang Linfeng forcibly suppressed his churning blood and stepped back to the side of the cradle, pulling his son tightly into his arms! Feeling that weak yet stubborn aura of life, his heart surged with boundless lingering fear and... heaven-toppling killing intent!

He suddenly raised his head! His blood-red eyes locked onto Jiang Baichuan in the Void Realm! His voice was like the cold wind of the Nine Nether, carrying bone-chilling killing intent:

"Old dog! How did that punch... taste?!"

"You want to use my son to sacrifice to your cauldron?!"

"My son... is the true... chaos medicine cauldron!"

"Get out!"