bookrebus Chapter 784: Nirvana of the Twin Soul Fires
Chapter 784: Nirvana of the Twin Soul Fires
The dome of the Chaos Demon Sect's headquarters exploded with a bang, and inky demonic energy surged like a tide, dyeing the entire sky a thick black. Yun Yao's Heaven-Defying Fate Plate trembled violently, and cracks spread at a visible speed, devouring the golden patterns on the plate like a spider web. Chu Mochen's Candle Dragon bloodline nearly collapsed under the pressure of the Chaos World-Destroying Curse. The twelve pairs of battle wings burning behind him were now reduced to scattered flames, swaying in the wind.
"Yao'er, don't come over here!" Chu Mochen violently pushed Yun Yao away. A dark purple poisonous mist oozed from streaks of blood on his dragon-scaled arms. The Chaos Demon Sect's leader's laughter was like the hissing of a thousand venomous snakes. "Twin soul fires? Nothing more than a last-ditch effort! Yun Yao, hand over the Heaven-Defying Fate Disk, and I'll spare his body." Behind the leader, Liu Yan'er's demonic mist form twisted strangely, its twelve pairs of bony wings inlaid with causal fragments greedily absorbing Yun Yao's spiritual energy.
Yun Yao stumbled, clinging to the shattered stone pillar. As her fingertips touched the cracks in the Heaven-Defying Fate Disk, a blinding white light suddenly erupted from her sea of consciousness. The words from the Hongmeng Fragment emerged in the light: "Twin soul fires must be ignited by sincerity and fueled by obsession." Her thoughts were instantly drawn back to the long river of memories from seventeen reincarnations—the heartbeat of their first encounter in the mortal realm, the life-and-death bond they shared in battle in the realm of cultivation, the tearful farewell before their demise in the divine realm—all flooded back like a tide.
"So that's how it is..." A flash of understanding flashed in Yun Yao's eyes. She bit her tongue, and blood dripped onto the Heaven-Defying Fate Disk. The cracks on the disk unexpectedly began to heal in reverse. At the same time, Chu Mochen's pupils suddenly constricted—he could feel Yun Yao's soul burning furiously, every ounce of spiritual energy transforming into blazing flames, flowing into his sea of consciousness along the twin contract.
"Chu Mochen! Look at me!" Yun Yao's voice penetrated the chaos, her hair turned silver in the flames, and the golden seal of the Holy Maiden of Heaven between her eyebrows burst into colorful light. "Seventeen lives ago, it was me who pushed you into reincarnation; seventeen lives later, I will personally rescue you from the shackles of fate!" Before she finished speaking, her destiny disk suddenly broke away from her palm, suspended in the air and turned into a huge star map. Every star corresponded to the bond they left in the three thousand worlds.
A crack finally appeared on the face of the Chaos Demon Sect's leader. He was horrified to discover that his so-vaunted Chaos World-annihilating Curse was crumbling before the colorful soul fire. Liu Yan'er's bone wings cracked with a sharp sound, and the causal fragments she had embedded began to backfire, projecting her memories into the demonic energy. The very plots to harm Yun Yao, illuminated by the soul fire, transformed into scenes of Yun Yao repeatedly saving Chu Mochen.
"Impossible! You're clearly just a time traveler!" Liu Yan'er's body, shrouded in demonic mist, twisted frantically, trying to escape the burning soul fire. But Yun Yao raised her hand, and a flash of time-traveling light enveloped the entire scene, revealing Liu Yan'er's true identity—a mere causal puppet created by the Chaos Demon Sect using demonic mist, her true form a mere evil consciousness waiting to take over another body.
Just when everyone thought victory was assured, the Chaos Demon Sect's leader suddenly laughed heartily. His body began to swell, transforming into a vortex of chaos that obscured the heavens. "Yun Yao, you think you can win by purifying my magic? How naive!" Countless pitch-black tentacles extended from the vortex, each entwined with the law of destruction. "Look carefully! This is the true power of chaos!"
Chu Mochen's Candle Dragon bloodline nearly went berserk under the pressure of chaos. His pupils turned completely vertical, his mind gradually consumed by the obsession of the War Halberd Divine Lord. "Protect her..." His voice grew hoarse and cold. His twelve pairs of battle wings reignited their infernal flames, and he recklessly charged into the vortex of chaos. But this time, his attack was deflected by an invisible barrier, and he plummeted like a kite with a broken string.
Yun Yao's heart suddenly clenched as she saw Chu Mochen's soul being eroded by the power of chaos. His once luminous twin soul flames were now shrouded in a layer of gray. "No! I can't let him sacrifice himself for me again!" A resolute look flashed in her eyes. The Heaven-Defying Fate Disk suddenly erupted with an unprecedented light, enveloping her completely. When the light faded, Yun Yao's figure had vanished, replaced by the phantom of a Heavenly Dao Saint, clad in the robes of the Hongmeng Dao.
"Hongmeng Heavenly Dao Token, appear!" The Saint Maiden's phantom raised her hand, and a golden token emerged from the void. It was the treasure Yun Yao had obtained in the Hongmeng Secret Realm. The patterns on the token perfectly matched those on the Heaven-Defying Fate Plate. In an instant, the entire Chaos Demon Sect headquarters was enveloped in a dazzling light. The Chaos Vortex roared in pain in the light, and its dark tentacles began to peel off, revealing the secrets hidden within.
At the core of the chaotic vortex, countless shattered soul fragments floated, each one engraved with the image of Chu Mochen's seventeen reincarnations. Yun Yao's breathing suddenly stopped. She finally understood that the Chaos Demon Sect's true target had never been the Heaven-Defying Fate Disk, but the War Halberd Godhead contained within Chu Mochen!
"I see..." The Saint's shadowy voice was filled with endless sadness. "You want to devour his soul fragments, reshape the godhead of the War Halberd Divine Lord, and then transform it into the power of chaos, so as to subvert the way of heaven." Her eyes swept over the shattered souls, and each piece made her heart ache. "But you forgot, he is not only the War Halberd Divine Lord, but also Chu Mochen, who has walked side by side with me for seventeen lifetimes!"
The Saint's shadowy figure suddenly inserted the Hongmeng Heavenly Dao Order into the Heaven-Defying Fate Disk. The cracks on the disk completely disappeared, and instead, a new pattern emerged—a chain of cause and effect woven from the memories of seventeen reincarnations. The chain shot out like a living thing, enveloping the soul fragments in the chaotic vortex one by one, and then slowly pulled them towards Chu Mochen.
"Come back!" Yun Yao's real body separated from the saint's shadow. She forcibly broke through the shackles of the chaotic power and grabbed Chu Mochen's gradually transparent hand. "Seventeen lives ago, you sealed the divine nature for me; in this life, it is my turn to protect every ray of your soul!" Her time-reversing eyes suddenly burst into colorful light, going back to the moment before Chu Mochen was eroded by chaos.
In the three breaths of time that flashed back, Yun Yao poured all of her emotions—fear, love, unwillingness, and the causal power accumulated over seventeen lifetimes—into her twin soul flames. The soul flames transformed from gold to a rainbow of colors. It was the origin fire that only a Rule Realm expert could control! Wherever the origin fire passed, the chaotic vortex began to disintegrate, Liu Yan'er's demonic mist form completely dissipated, and the true identity of the Chaos Demon Sect's leader was revealed in the flames.
It turned out to be the reincarnation of a mortal general who died protecting Yun Yao in the seventeenth reincarnation of the War Spear God!
"Why...why do you do this to me..." The clan leader's voice was filled with pain and confusion. His chaotic demonic body began to disintegrate, revealing a scene deep in his memory - that rainy night, the young general used his body to block a fatal blow to protect Yun Yao, and before he died, he stuffed the jade pendant into her hand.
Yun Yao's tears burst out: "I'm sorry, I didn't protect you in every reincarnation. But this time, everything will end!" She raised her hand and offered the Pure World Lotus. The lotus heart reflected the past and present lives of the sect master. Those memories that were tampered with by the Chaos Demon Sect gradually became clear in the lotus light.
When the last trace of chaotic energy was purified, the entire Chaos Demon Sect headquarters collapsed. Yun Yao successfully broke through to the late Void Realm. On her Heaven-Defying Fate Plate, the causal chains of seventeen reincarnations intertwined with her twin soul flames, forming an unprecedented "Eternal Causal Mark." Meanwhile, Chu Mochen's soul, tempered by the Origin Fire, not only fully merged with the War Halberd Divine Lord's divine nature, but also retained the gentleness and perseverance of a mortal.
"Yao'er..." Chu Mochen opened his eyes, and the golden vertical pupils in his eyes faded, replaced by a familiar gentle smile, "This time it's my turn, I will never let go of your hand again." He raised his hand and gently stroked Yun Yao's pale cheek. The twin soul fires of the two burned fiercely in the depths of their sea of consciousness, illuminating the bond of seventeen lifetimes between them.
The system's prompt sounded at the right time: "The host has completed the 'initial control of the law of cause and effect', and is only 'three thousand origin resonances' away from the rule realm." But at this moment, Yun Yao cast her gaze towards the distant starry sky - there, the new story belonging to her and Chu Mochen has just begun.