410: Starry Sky Ancient Road

At this critical juncture!

Buzz!

Deep within Di Xingyun's Dantian, upon the body of the starfall pagoda, an extremely ancient star pattern suddenly lit up! An indescribable aura violently erupted!

Roar—!

A deep, majestic Dragon roar exploded without warning deep within Di Xingyun's Sea of Consciousness!

Yue Shan, who was about to close his giant palm to seize Di Xingyun, felt as if his Sea of Consciousness had suffered a heavy blow!

The terrifying pressure contained within that Dragon roar caused even his Divine Soul, as a powerhouse of the Fifth Layer Heavenly Venerate Realm, to tremble violently. His vision instantly went blank, and the Law power he had condensed suffered a fatal delay!

That sky-covering giant palm actually froze in mid-air for one ten-thousandth of a second!

It was this one ten-thousandth of a second!

Di Xingyun felt divinely inspired. Ignoring everything, he burned his vital blood and Origin Star Power, activating the Remnant Star Attraction secret technique once more!

“Break for me!”

He roared, like the final burst of a trapped beast.

The stream of light that was his body surged, forcefully breaking free from the momentarily loosened spatial confinement. He narrowly, by a hair's breadth, squeezed through the gap between the fingers of the frozen giant palm, brushing past the residual wave of the destructive Star Splitting Saber Intent, and shot out!

Starlight splashed, and blood dyed his escape light red!

“What?!” Du Heng’s face changed drastically, disbelief etched on it.

Why did Yue Shan's attack suddenly stop?

That aura that erupted from the kid just now... Yue Shan’s face instantly paled as he recovered, his eyes filled with suspicion and lingering fear. That momentary mental impact made his very Soul tremble.

“Chase! He holds a great secret! We absolutely cannot let him go!” Du Heng suppressed his shock, his Killing Intent growing even stronger.

The two pursued madly again, but having gained that one ten-thousandth of a second respite and paying the price of severely injuring his Origin to use the secret technique, the distance between them instantly widened considerably.

After fleeing desperately for an unknown amount of time, Di Xingyun’s consciousness was starting to blur.

Continuously overdrawing his Origin to use the secret technique, combined with the injuries sustained from taking the attacks of two Heavenly Venerables head-on, left him utterly spent.

The terrifying aura behind him clung like maggots to the bone, drawing ever closer.

Ahead, a scene of dead silence and desolation entered his vision.

The ground was an eerie dark purple, covered in massive, bottomless chasms.

The sky was a distorted, shattered canopy, flowing with bizarre dark currents, like shattered colored glass.

A sense of repulsion and immense terror originating from the depths of his Soul enveloped the area.

“Ancient Starry Path...” Di Xingyun looked at a huge ancient stele standing at the edge of the chasm, covered in wind erosion marks. Four twisted, tadpole-like ancient characters on the stele emitted an aura of desolation and ill omen.

This was a Forbidden Ground that made even Starfall Prefecture, and indeed the entire Eastern Region, change color at the mere mention!

No one could enter, no one dared to enter, not even a Saint Realm expert!

Behind him, the figures of Yue Shan and Du Heng were already clearly visible, Du Heng carrying a cruel, cat-and-mouse Killing Intent.

While Yue Shan’s eyes held an indescribable expression.

“Di Xingyun! That is a dead end ahead! The Ancient Starry Path—entering means certain death! Hand over the Legacy, kneel and beg for mercy, and this Elder can grant you a quick end!”

Du Heng’s voice boomed like a death knell.

“Otherwise, I will make you taste the agony of Soul Refining, and grind your bones to dust!”

Du Heng’s Saber Intent sliced through the space, closing in step by step.

Di Xingyun stopped his escape light, stood beside the massive ancient stele, and slowly turned around.

He was covered in blood, his aura withered, but his eyes were like burning stars—bright, unyielding, carrying a resolution of burning one's bridges.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his gaze sweeping over the murderous Du Heng, the corner of his mouth curving into a tragic and mocking arc:

“Star Sacred Land? Xiao Chen? And you two old dogs? You want my Legacy? You want to kill me?”

“The humiliation of today, I will repay a hundredfold in the future...”

Di Xingyun’s gaze, like cold knives, harshly scraped across the faces of Yue Shan and Du Heng: “Wash your necks clean and wait! If I, Di Xingyun, do not die, I will flatten all of you!”

Before his words even faded, ignoring Du Heng’s face that instantly turned extremely ugly, and without the slightest hesitation, he violently turned around, using the last of his strength, and resolutely leaped toward that shattered, dark purple sky canopy flowing with the aura of death—the Ancient Starry Path!

His figure was instantly swallowed by the chaotic dark currents, vanishing without a trace, leaving behind only a resolute afterimage of starlight, slowly dissipating beside the ancient stele.

Du Heng’s face was ashen, and the hand holding the saber trembled slightly.

He stared intently at the shattered canopy that had consumed Di Xingyun, his eyes filled with apprehension and a trace of unbelievable frustration.

“Ancient Starry Path... He actually dared to jump in...” Even they, Heavenly Venerables, avoided that place! Entering it meant certain death!

The two stood above the chasm at the edge of the Ancient Path. The chaotic, violent aura of the Laws scraped against their Protective Auras like invisible blades, emitting a sizzling sound.

Looking at the bottomless, twisted, and broken darkness, even Heavenly Venerables felt a sense of dread.

“He is finished,” Yue Shan said grimly, his tone decisive, yet failing to hide a hint of regret.

“The Ancient Starry Path is chaotic and disordered, the Laws annihilate everything. Even a Saint Domain Realm expert would struggle to survive entering it, let alone him, a heavily injured Heaven-Reaching Realm cultivator! His Physical Body and Divine Soul would turn to dust in an instant!”

Du Heng was silent for a moment, then slowly sheathed his saber: “The Shattered Star Legacy... what a pity, but at least the command of Saint Lord Xiao Chen... has been fulfilled.”

He glanced around the desolate and dead environment, confirming there was no trace of Di Xingyun left. “Let’s return and report. Di Xingyun... has perished in the Forbidden Ground.”

“Kid, I hope you can crawl out alive,” Yue Shan murmured inwardly.

The two figures representing the highest martial power of the Star Sacred Land, carrying the frustration of a failed mission and a trace of lingering fear of the Forbidden Ground, finally turned into streams of light and vanished into the horizon.

Only the ancient stele remained, along with the eternally shattered Ancient Starry Path that devoured everything, silently recounting the desperate flight and the despairing leap that had just occurred.

Deep within the Ancient Path, chaotic dark currents sliced through everything like billions of invisible sharp blades.

The moment Di Xingyun fell, his consciousness was almost crushed by the extreme pain and the tearing of the Laws.

Just as his body was about to completely disintegrate, the dormant starfall pagoda within his Dantian suddenly erupted with unprecedented light!

On the pagoda body, countless profound star patterns lit up, forming a miniature, stable stellar barrier that struggled to resist the invasive, destructive, chaotic Law forces from the outside. It managed to barely protect Di Xingyun's broken body and his last faint trace of consciousness, as they rapidly plummeted... plummeted... into the unfathomable, unknown darkness below...