bookrebus Chapter 1915 The Nothingness of Living
Chapter 1915 The Nothingness of Living
Here, the brilliant moment of a star's birth; the apocalyptic wails of a collapsing world; countless beings struggling, sinking, and turning to ashes in the void.
and also……
A face.
Mingchuan's pupils suddenly contracted.
That's his own face, but it's not him!
The face was expressionless, the eyes were as empty as two dry wells, the skin was an eerie grayish-white, and the lips were slightly parted, as if saying something.
Mingchuan couldn't hear the sound, but strangely, he understood the sentence:
"You'll come too."
"I've been waiting for a long time."
The next instant, the face exploded along with countless fragments, turning into a blinding white light.
Mingchuan groaned, his soul trembling violently, and he instinctively gripped the Order Token tightly.
A gentle yet cool silver light surged from the token, instantly enveloping his sea of consciousness and isolating him from the eerie sense of invasion.
"Steady your mind!"
Chu Huai's voice came from beside him, filled with suppressed pain and anxiety.
Mingchuan turned his head and saw that Chu Huai's face was deathly pale, the blue light of the Cangming mark between his eyebrows was flickering, and the water-like spiritual energy around him was fluctuating violently, obviously he had also been impacted.
But he's carrying it.
He gritted his teeth, formed hand seals, and a ball of azure light barely rose up, protecting the two of them inside.
“That’s the whisper of the Ruins,” Chu Huai said with difficulty. “It…it’s testing you with what you fear most.”
Mingchuan took a deep breath, suppressing the piercing pain in his soul and the momentary palpitation, and said in a deep voice:
What did you just see?
Chu Huai remained silent for a moment.
"...Xuantianmen".
"The entire family is submerged at the bottom of the sea, staring at me with their eyes open."
Mingchuan didn't ask any more questions.
He simply raised his hand and merged the silver radiance of the Order Token with Chu Huai's Azure Ocean Shield.
The moment the two gatekeeper laws, which shared the same origin but possessed different attributes, merged, the eerie sense of erosion was forced back considerably, and the surrounding fragments of the scene began to flow more rapidly, no longer remaining still and peering in.
"Let's go!" Mingchuan shouted in a low voice.
Ignoring the sounds and images trying to penetrate their minds, the two focused all their spiritual power on rushing towards the end of the teleportation channel.
After an unknown amount of time, the surrounding fragments of images suddenly disappeared, replaced by a... color.
It is not darkness.
It is a color that cannot be described.
It's like the end of all colors, and also like the beginning of all colors.
You can't tell if it's gray or black, blue or purple; it's there, filling your entire field of vision, yet it's as if nothing exists.
"arrive."
Chu Huai's voice trembled slightly, a tremor he himself was unaware of.
Ahead, at the end of the teleportation tunnel, lay a desolate, gray space.
The moment Mingchuan and Chu Huai stepped out of the passage, the portal behind them vanished silently.
There's no turning back.
The two floated in this strange space, speechless for a moment.
There is no up or down, no left or right, no direction.
In the distance, some huge, broken outlines could be vaguely seen.
Like the skeleton of some giant beast, or like fragments of a torn landmass, it floats silently in the hazy void.
Further away, something was slowly wriggling and churning.
That was neither cloud nor fog.
It was a kind of...living nothingness.
It expands and contracts slowly, as if it were breathing.
With each contraction, countless tiny, dust-like specks of light are ejected from its edges. As soon as those specks appear, they quickly dim, vanish, and return to nothingness.
Further out from its edge is an extremely thin, yet stubbornly persistent, sea-blue halo.
The halo was like the last line of defense, constantly fighting, consuming, and tug-of-war with the writhing nothingness.
"Return to the Void," Mingchuan said softly, his voice unusually clear in the deathly silence.
It's not a question.
He knew that was the Ruins of Return.
Chu Huai stared at the sea-blue halo, and the Cangming mark between his brows suddenly shone with an unprecedented light.
"That is... the power of the Mystic Water..."
His voice trembled, not with fear, but with excitement.
“Mingchuan, look!” He pointed to the halo, “That’s not just simple defense! That’s…that’s eternity!”
Mingchuan stared intently into the distance.
The azure halo was not still; rather, it was flowing at an extremely slow, almost imperceptible pace.
With each cycle, an extremely faint new blue light emerges from the void and merges into the halo.
"That's the Xuan Shui power scattered after those three giant beasts died." Chu Huai's eyes gleamed.
"They died, but the power of the Xuan Shui was not annihilated. It was eroded and assimilated by the Gui Xu, but in the process of erosion, it forged a certain resistance."
"Now, it is right at the edge of Guixu, coexisting, fighting, and existing alongside Guixu."
"This is what Senior Cangming meant when he said that the Dao of Xuan Shui does not coexist with Gui Xu, but can exist forever on the shores of Gui Xu!"
He turned sharply to Mingchuan, his eyes burning with an unprecedented fervor:
"If I could get in and reclaim that power of the mysterious water..."
Mingchuan interrupted him: "Do you know what going in means?"
Chu Huai paused.
"That's the tongue of the Void!" Mingchuan pointed to the writhing nothingness in the distance. "The Xuan Shui power you mentioned is right next to its mouth. If you go in to collect it, it's like snatching meat from a hungry wolf's mouth!"
"That halo appears stable, but with each shift, a portion of it is swallowed by the void. It's just that the rate at which it generates new light is faster than the rate at which it devours it, which is why it can maintain balance."
“The moment you enter, the balance will be broken. Guixu will immediately notice you, notice the Cangming mark between your brows, and notice the trace of Xuanshui origin within your body.”
"At that time, you will not be facing the remaining power of the Xuan Shui, but the Ruins of Return itself."
Chu Huai fell silent.
He knew Mingchuan was right.
But as he stared at the azure halo, the flame in his eyes did not go out.
“I know. But Mingchuan, look…”
He raised his hand and pointed to the deepest part of the halo, where the outlines of three larger, darker shadows could be vaguely seen.
"Those are the remains of those three giant beasts. They died 70,000 years ago, and their remains are still there. The Ruins of Guixu have not completely digested them."
He looked at Mingchuan, his eyes as clear as the purest water:
What does this mean?
"This shows that as long as there is a strong enough Dao to support it, even the Void Realm is not invincible."
Mingchuan stared at him for a long time.
After a long while, he suddenly smiled.
"alright."
"Since you want to snatch meat from the wolf's mouth, I'll go with you."
He gripped the Order Token tightly, its silvery light swirling and intertwining once more with Chu Huai's azure blue light.
"But there's one condition: once you're inside, you must follow my instructions."
“I will use the laws of space to clear a path for you through the erosion of the Ruins. You just need to focus on your Xuan Shui power.”
"Time, at most thirty breaths."
"Once thirty breaths have elapsed, regardless of how much you've collected, retreat immediately!"
"Okay!" Chu Huai nodded emphatically.
The two exchanged a glance, and then there was no more hesitation.
In the next instant, the two figures transformed into two streams of light, one silver and one blue, and rushed straight toward the edge of the Ruins where the sea-blue halo was located!