Darkness, endless darkness, within this endless darkness, the overwhelming hatred could not be quelled.
In the past, Long Chen would feel peaceful, peaceful, and comfortable in the dark, as if he had returned to his own home.
But endless darkness could not wash away the hatred in Long Chen's heart, nor could it soothe his murderous intent. In his heart, there was only hatred—endless hatred.
"Great Nine Star successor, I feel your murderous intent. Are you angry? It's time to put an end to the hatred of the Nine Star lineage.
Let go of your hesitation, stain your hands red with blood, and go ahead to kill. This world needs a great hand to set things right, and also a slaughtering knife that can overturn the heavens."
In the endless darkness, Long Chen once again heard that familiar and aged voice, but he said nothing, just listened quietly.
"The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths are about to enter the Restoration Period. This is the last chance for the human race, and also the moment when the Nine Star lineage shoulders a heavy responsibility.
Make the most of your time to grow, great successor of the Nine Stars. Our time is really running out." The voice continued.
Long Chen still didn't reply. Instead, he hid himself in the darkness, with only a pair of chilling eyes watching everything before him.
Although it was endless darkness, within that endless darkness, it seemed to hide something.
Long Chen fell silent, and that voice did not appear again. Long Chen quietly merged into the darkness.
He didn't know how much time had passed before the darkness slowly receded, and light gradually appeared before his eyes. Long Chen slowly opened his eyes.
The moment Long Chen opened his eyes, he found himself surrounded by endless mountains of corpses and seas of blood. The aura of Huo Ling'er and Lei Ling'er's bodies had become extremely weak. The two were exhausted, guarding Long Chen.
"Brother Long Chen..."
When they saw Long Chen open his eyes, Lei Ling'er and Huo Ling'er shouted excitedly, both choking up as they cried out.
"What happened?" Long Chen asked.
He reached out his hand and was horrified to find his palm a mangled mess, with many wounds still bleeding outward, and he was completely drained.
"Brother Long Chen, you're charging madly, but I don't know why. Suddenly, you stopped moving, and all your life energy and soul fluctuations disappeared.
Before we could figure out what was happening, we were suddenly ejected from the chaotic space. After that, we discovered that your body kept getting injured, and no matter what we did, we couldn't wake you up.
Grandpa Qiankun Cauldron and Brother Xie Yue are both missing. We're so scared... "Sob sob!" As they spoke, Huo Ling'er and Lei Ling'er both started crying.
They were completely terrified. Long Chen's life force was gone, as if he were dead. At the same time, his body was continuously injured, blood flowing out. No matter what they did, they could not wake him.
At this moment, endless Silver-winged Heavenly Demons struck out. The Nine Veins Emperor-level Silver-Winged Demons were endless, even some half-step Demon Emperor-level beings.
The two of them protected Long Chen while desperately killing the Silver-Winged Demons, vowing to guard him to the death. After several hours of fierce battle, the demon's corpse had piled up like a mountain, and the demonic blood had turned into a lake.
Now, seeing Long Chen awake, they were both excited and afraid. Since gaining their intelligence, they had never been so terrified as they were today, and it was the first time they had witnessed such a terrifying sight.
When Long Chen heard that both the Qiankun Cauldron and the Dragon Bone Evil Moon were missing, he was startled and hurried into the chaotic space. He found that both the Qiankun Cauldron and the Dragon Bone Evil Moon were present, but all around them were endless symbols swirling, forming a huge cocoon that wrapped them tightly.
Not only them, but even the Heavenly Dao Tree, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tree, the sapling of the mysterious ancient vine, and the golden lotus seed in the sky were the same.
On the Taiyin Tree and the Fusang Ancient Tree, strange divine radiance also descended. Amidst the endless flow of runes, the atmosphere appeared extraordinarily mystical. Long Chen noticed that the aura of the entire chaotic space was different from before.
"This symbol, this aura..."
Long Chen saw the endless runes entwined around the Qiankun Cauldron and the familiar aura, his heart pounding wildly.
Isn't that the Heavenly Dao rune from the Chaos Era? Isn't that aura unique to the Chaos Era?
The laws within the chaotic space now carry a hint of the chaotic era's flavor, and the entire chaotic space is undergoing earth-shaking changes.
"My Starsea ..."
Long Chen opened his inner vision and noticed that the star sea within his dantian had also changed. The purple energy within the star sea had thickened like water, forming a true ocean, with endless stars above it.
Stars illuminated the sea, and the ocean reflected the starry sky like a mirror. For a moment, it was hard to tell where the real starry sky was, where it was a reflection, or if the two were truly one.
Long Chen looked at the Eight Stars again and was delighted to find countless dim runes above them.
Although the runes were faint and almost invisible, Long Chen could instantly recognize them as the state he was in when he formed his Eight-Star Battle Body on the chaotic battlefield.
"What exactly happened?"
Long Chen was filled with shock. Everything felt like a dream, but how could a dream ever feel this real?
If this was a dream, then where did the wounds on his body come from? Where did everything in the chaotic space come from? Where did the runes on the stars come from?
All of this was beyond Long Chen's understanding; with his knowledge, he simply couldn't explain this phenomenon.
Unfortunately, the Qiankun Cauldron and the Dragonbone Evil Moon were in a strange state and temporarily unable to communicate with them; otherwise, perhaps they could have learned some clues from the cauldron.
However, judging from everything happening in the Qiankun Cauldron, the Dragonbone Evil Moon, and the chaotic space, they were all beneficiaries.
"Could it be that I really entered the legendary space-time tunnel?"
Long Chen withdrew his divine sense from the chaotic space and looked into the void. But the originally dark void had now cleared, completely different from when he first entered.
"Brother Long Chen, this place is too dangerous. We should get out of here quickly!" Huo Ling'er said.
"What's wrong?"
Long Chen couldn't help but ask.
"Deep within the blood sea, there's a terrifying guy—that very guy, commanding these Silver-winged Demons to kill us.
For some unknown reason, it didn't come out, but its terrifying soul fluctuations nearly crushed the primordial spirits of both Lei Ling'er and me.
It's precisely because of its single blow that we struggled so hard to kill these monsters." When Huo Ling'er mentioned that terrifying guy, their eyes were filled with fear.
"Scary guy?" Long Chen was startled.
Just a single soul fluctuation nearly caused Huo Ling'er to be killedLei Ling'er's primordial spirit was crushed—just how powerful must she be to do that?
"Let's go."
Long Chen left with Huo Ling'er and Lei Ling'er, but before leaving, he stored all the corpses on the ground into the chaotic space.
Long Chen looked deep into the battlefield and took a deep breath:
"Once I recover, I'll figure out what happened this time."