118: The viscera, extinguished by disaster, revealed the faint light of the star.
Luo Jiuxuan's Breakthrough continued, operating like a precise and ruthless machine, efficient and merciless.
Under the dual effect of the vast Origin and the Nirvana Dao Force, the Stomach Viscera rapidly approached its end. The organ, once responsible for receiving and ripening Water and Grain, was now like something thrown into the fires of purgatory; its structure disintegrated and its vitality was extinguished. Finally, accompanied by another faint sound, as if some connection had snapped, the Stomach Viscera completely turned into nothingness, leaving behind the second dark Seed of Nirvana—the Nirvana Stomach Seed.
The two Seeds of Nirvana resonated within his body, stabilizing the cycle formed by the Five Viscera Nirvana Core. Luo Jiuxuan's aura climbed once more. Although he had not yet formally stepped into the Middle Stage of the Fourth Realm, his Foundation had become much more robust. The speed at which he devoured the Primordial Realm's Origin also increased slightly because of this.
Without any pause, he immediately guided the energy torrent toward the third of the Six Fu Organs—the Small Intestine!
The Small Intestine is primarily responsible for receiving and transforming substances and separating the Pure and the Turbid; it is crucial for absorbing Essence Substances. Nirvana Small Intestine means further severing the reliance on Acquired refined Qi, allowing the Dao Body to tend toward directly absorbing the Origin of the Heavenly Laws.
While Luo Jiuxuan was focused on the Nirvana process within his body, the entire Primordial Realm (Water Blue Star) was undergoing an unprecedented catastrophe.
The Kunlun Mountain Range, as the Ancestral Court of Dragon Veins, experienced a rapid loss of its Origin, triggering a chain reaction. The Earth Vein Qi across the globe became chaotic, and the previously stable geological structure began to collapse.
Within the Dragon Country, the earth trembled violently. Countless city skyscrapers swayed, cracking open with hideous fissures. Along coastal regions, the sea level surged abnormally, and monstrous waves carrying the aura of destruction rushed toward the land. Volcanoes erupted after millennia of dormancy, smoke and magma consuming everything.
This was not limited to the Dragon Country; it was happening globally. Ancient castles in Europa crumbled in earthquakes, the Nihon Island Nation sank amid roaring tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, the vast plains of the American Continent were torn open by bottomless ravines, and the polar ice caps collapsed at an unprecedented speed, with rising sea levels submerging coastal cities... The sky was no longer its familiar color. Although the dark purple Energy Vortex primarily shrouded Kunlun, its influence covered the entire globe. Sunlight dimmed, the climate System spiraled completely out of control, and torrential rain, hurricanes, blizzards, extreme cold, and scorching heat alternated across regions, as if the end of the world had arrived.
Life was plunged into misery. Human civilization appeared so fragile before the Mighty Power of Heaven and Earth. Cries, prayers, and desperate screams echoed above the ruins of their homes.
Whether it was the secret bases of the "Shield" organization or the hiding places of Zhang Che, Lin Wei, and others, they all tottered amidst the natural disaster.
On Lin Feng's Heavenly Knowledge System screen, the curve representing the World Life Index plummeted like a cliff, eventually turning blood red, and after emitting a piercing alarm, the screen went completely black.
Lin Wei's Infinite Rewind ability seemed meaningless in the face of this world-spanning destruction. No matter what point in time she rewound to, the final outcome seemed predetermined. Zhang Che collapsed onto the ground, his eyes vacant, muttering, "It's over... everything is over..."
Xu Tianyuan stood on the rooftop of his crumbling Youth Hostel, gazing at the doomsday scene. The special Compass in his hand spun madly before its needle shattered. He gave a bitter smile, the usual sunshine gone from his face: "So... I don't even qualify as a bystander?"
The entire Primordial Realm was filled with wails of distress, like a dying giant issuing its final spasms and groans. The Seal that protected and constrained it was also becoming unstable due to the frenzied extraction of the world's Origin, and countless cracks began to appear on its surface.
At this moment, at the bottom of the Deep Pit.
Liu Qingtian's consciousness, stimulated by the death and despair Qi that permeated the heavens and earth to the extreme, and the Nirvana Dao Rhyme that constantly surged during Luo Jiuxuan's Breakthrough, did not allow that faint Light of Obsession to extinguish. Instead, like a beast driven into a corner, it burst forth with its final strength.
Reflected in his scattered pupils were the dark purple, shattered sky, the sight of his Homeland Mountains and Rivers collapsing, and the fear and unwillingness of countless beings dying. These images formed a cruel contrast with the memories of the land that birthed and raised him, and the mundane scenes filled with the Aura of Life.
"No... this... cannot... happen..."
A fragmented, almost non-existent Intent struggled to condense within his nearly annihilated Sea of Consciousness.
He was not angry about his manipulated fate, nor was he unwilling about his stripped dao foundation. It was a more primal, purer emotion—the love for and desire to protect the land beneath his feet, and the countless ordinary lives upon it!
This emotion stemmed from the depths of his Soul, born from his attachment to "home" as Liu Qingtian (both before and after his Transmigration). This feeling even surpassed the identity of "Dao Seed" that Luo Jiuxuan had set for him; it was his most fundamental core as an independent individual!
This single, genuine Obsession of Life, unwilling to perish together, shone stubbornly in this world shrouded by Nirvana, like the only star in the dark night, however faint.
It seemed to have touched something.
The Heavenly Dao Will of the Primordial Realm, which had been silent for countless years and had fallen into a near-death state due to a failed Advancement, was seemingly provoked into a final, instinctive reaction. This occurred when the world was on the brink of utter destruction, and the final despair and prayers of All Living Beings converged into a faint but pure Power Of Will, alongside Liu Qingtian's untimely Obsession of Life.
Buzz... An extremely faint wail, as if originating from the deepest part of the earth, from the core of the planet, quietly sounded. This lament was not an attack, but sorrow, unwillingness, and... an instinct, like a mother protecting her child.
Immediately afterward, the earth beneath Liu Qingtian, stained by his blood and Golden Body Fragments, suddenly emitted an extremely faint, almost imperceptible, warm glow. This light contained a trace of the purest, yet weakest, Mother Qi of the Earth—or rather, the final trace of Origin Vitality from the Primordial Realm's Heavenly Dao!
This trace of Vitality, as if finding an outlet, slowly and gently infiltrated Liu Qingtian's nearly withered Body.
Luo Jiuxuan snapped his eyes open! His cold gaze instantly penetrated the layers of obstruction, landing on the bottom of the Deep Pit!
He sensed it! Not the obsession of the ant Liu Qingtian, but... the final Anomaly of the dying Heavenly Dao Will of the Primordial Realm! And a faint but essentially high-level Vitality was being injected into that waste's body!
"Death throes?" A flicker of surprise crossed Luo Jiuxuan's eyes, but it immediately turned into deeper indifference and a trace of annoyed offense. He hadn't expected this failed Middle Thousand Worlds would, at the very last moment, entrust a sliver of remaining hope to a chess piece he had personally discarded?
To him, this was not only futile, but also... sacrilege.
His speed in devouring the Origin did not decrease at all, and the Nirvana Small Intestine process was nearing completion. But he split off a thread of Intent, like an invisible sharp sword carrying cold Killing Intent, and struck Liu Qingtian in the Deep Pit from afar!
Since this waste and this dying Heavenly Dao still want to play, then let them... be completely annihilated!