System Possession, One Sword Shocks the Gods

204: Star Abyss Rift, Flood of Evil SpiritsThe ”star chaser” flying boat traversed the increasingly desolate and deathly silent starry sky. The surrounding star fragments grew fewer, and the light grew dimmer, as if sailing toward a corner forgotten by the Universe. According to the more detailed star map seized from the raider warship, and Ye Chen’s own vague sensing of the ancestral rune fragment, they were continuously approaching the outer region of the ”Star Abyss of Fallen Gods”.

Inside the flying boat’s main control room, Iron Battle and the others wore solemn expressions, not daring to be the least bit careless while maneuvering the flying boat. On the star map, the area representing their route had already been marked in deep red, meaning ”highly dangerous”. The spatial structure here was extremely unstable, with space rifts often appearing without warning, and even small-scale spatial collapses. The flying boat’s shields were maintained at maximum intensity, consuming massive amounts of energy.

Ye Chen stood quietly by the porthole, eyes slightly closed, not resting, but constantly comprehending and consolidating his own strength. His cultivation at the Late Stage of the 6th layer of the Tiangang Realm, his Major Achievement Nirvana Sword Intent, as well as his deeper connection with the chaos ancestral talisman and the Origin fetus, all needed time to settle and digest. At the same time, he was also constantly attempting to communicate with the chaos ancestral talisman, hoping to obtain more clues about the location of the fragment or that great battle from the ancient information he had glimpsed that day, but the harvest was minimal. Those pieces of information seemed to be sealed layer by layer, or were incomplete in themselves, only appearing when approaching a specific target or triggering specific conditions.

Time passed during the tense voyage. Several months later, the scene in front of the flying boat began to change noticeably.

The originally scattered star fragments had completely disappeared, replaced by a boundless, dark void covered in fine cracks like shattered glass. Those space rifts varied in size; some were as thin as a hair, occasionally flashing with a dangerous ghostly light; others were as wide as a hundred miles, like scars in the starry sky, with terrifying chaotic turbulence inside. Further away, a huge shadow that seemed to swallow all light was vaguely visible—that was the main body of the Star Abyss of Fallen Gods!

And at this moment, between the flying boat and that huge shadow, lay a chaotic zone composed of countless space fragments, twisted Law lines, and grey-black Evil Qi so thick it could not be dissolved!

”Senior, ahead is the ’Star Abyss Rift’ zone. It is the final, and one of the most dangerous, barriers to entering the Star Abyss of Fallen Gods.” Iron Battle pointed to the area with extremely chaotic energy reactions on the navigation crystal screen, his voice dry. ”The space fragments here are like blades, and the Evil Qi can erode the Divine Soul. What’s more troublesome is that we might encounter a ’Bane Spirit Tide’...”

As if to verify his words.

”Woooo—aooo—!”

A low, chaotic roar filled with endless resentment and the desire to kill surged from the rift zone ahead like a tsunami! Immediately afterward, everyone saw the thick grey-black Evil Qi begin to churn as if boiling, and countless blurry, twisted black shadows, formed from pure Evil Qi and broken Soul thoughts, swarmed out!

These black shadows varied in form; some resembled humans, some resembled Yao Beasts, and others were completely indescribable, twisted masses. They had no intelligence, only the instinct to devour the Souls of all living beings. Their blood-red eyes were like dots of ghost fire in the Evil Qi, dense and numerous—there were more than thousands of them!

A Bane Spirit Tide! And judging by this scale, it was definitely not a small tide!

”Activate all attack Formations! Maximize shield energy!” Iron Battle roared hoarsely, his forehead instantly covered in cold sweat. A Bane Spirit Tide of this scale was enough to submerge and tear apart a flying boat like the ”star chaser” in a short time!

”Hum! Hum! Hum!”

The rune turrets on both sides of the flying boat lit up, and streams of scorching energy beams shot into the mass of Fiend Souls, evaporating and scattering the Fiend Souls charging at the very front. However, the number of Fiend Souls was truly too great, coming one after another like an endless black tide; the gaps caused by the energy beams were instantly filled by the subsequent Fiend Souls. They crashed into the flying boat’s shields, making teeth-grinding corrosive and impact sounds, and the shields fluctuated violently and dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye!

”Hold on! Quickly hold on!” The crew members frantically injected their own Protective Aura into the Formation core, but facing this continuous impact of Fiend Souls, the fall of the flying boat seemed to be only a matter of time.

Ye Chen opened his eyes and looked at the boundless Bane Spirit Tide outside the porthole, his brows slightly furrowed. The individual strength of these Fiend Souls was not too strong, mostly equivalent to the Earth Fiend Realm to the Early Stage of the Tiangang Realm, but their numbers were truly terrifying, and the resentment and Evil Qi they contained were highly polluting to the Divine Soul, which was indeed troublesome.

He took a step, and his figure already appeared in the void outside the flying boat.

”Senior, be careful! These Fiend Souls...” Iron Battle hurriedly shouted upon seeing this.

Ye Chen did not look back, just calmly raised his right hand. The guixu sword was not unsheathed; he simply pressed his fingers together and made a virtual press toward the surging Bane Spirit Tide.

”Nirvana.”

It was still those two plain words. But this time, as his fingertips pressed down, an invisible yet vast and boundless Nirvana Sword Intent, like ripples caused by a giant stone thrown into a calm lake, spread out from him toward the Bane Spirit Tide ahead!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no dazzling light.

But wherever the Nirvana ripples passed, the scene was bizarre to the extreme!

As if wiped by an invisible eraser, the roaring, clawing Fiend Souls, whether Earth Fiend Realm or Tiangang Realm, suddenly stiffened the moment they touched the Nirvana ripples. The blood-red ghost fire in their eyes instantly extinguished, and the Evil Qi and Soul thoughts that made up their bodies seemed to lose all ”activity” and ”existence” support, silently disintegrating, dissipating, and returning to the most original nothingness!

The ripples spread not fast, but carried a kind of irresistible power of rules. Thousands of Fiend Souls, like harvested wheat waves, fell and were annihilated in large swaths, without leaving even a trace.

At the edge of the rift zone, which was originally noisy and filled with soaring Evil Qi, a brief, bizarre ”vacuum” zone actually appeared! The subsequent Fiend Souls seemed to instinctively feel that breath of ending that terrified them, and their momentum of impact even stalled for a moment!

On the flying boat, all attacks ceased. Iron Battle and the crew members opened their mouths wide, staring dumbfounded at the cyan-robed figure in the void, and the area of Fiend Souls that had been forcibly ”erased” in front of him, their minds blank.

This... what kind of power is this?! Law following speech? Rule erasure?

Ye Chen frowned slightly, feeling the consumption of his Divine Soul power. Such a large-scale application of the Major Achievement Nirvana Sword Intent also placed a significant burden on his mind. His gaze swept toward the depths of the churning Evil Qi rift zone, and he could feel that there were stronger Fiend Soul auras lurking there, and even... a hidden will, carrying greed and tyranny, seemed to be spying on this side.

”To capture the bandits, first capture the king.”

He no longer stayed in place to defend, his figure moved, turning into a stream of light, and he actively rushed into the boundless Bane Spirit Tide!

”Senior!” Iron Battle exclaimed.

Only to see the stream of light Ye Chen had turned into, like a red-hot blade cutting into solidified butter. Wherever he passed, the Nirvana Sword Intent naturally radiated, and the surrounding Fiend Souls melted like snow, unable to get within ten zhang of him at all! His speed was extremely fast, his goal clear, pointing directly at the powerful aura hidden in the depths of the Bane Spirit Tide!

”Roar—!”

Seeming to have sensed Ye Chen’s intention, a roar full of fury and majesty sounded from deep within the Bane Spirit Tide! The surrounding Fiend Souls, as if receiving an order, became even crazier, desperately rushing toward Ye Chen, trying to block his path. At the same time, several powerful Fiend Souls, condensed as if substantial, dark in color, and emitting the fluctuations of the Middle Stage of the Tiangang Realm, like ghost generals, pounced on Ye Chen from different directions! Their claws tore, spitting out filthy Evil light, with astonishing power!

Ye Chen’s expression did not change, and the guixu sword was finally unsheathed.

”Clang!”

The sword sound was clear and resonant, carrying the deathly silence of Nirvana.

He did not use complicated sword moves, just simple swings, stabs, and slashes. Every time the sword swept by, it brought up a fine grey line. Those powerful Fiend Souls that pounced over, whether it was their claws or Evil light, or even their condensed bodies, the moment they touched the grey line, were silently ”cut off” and ”annihilated”, following in the footsteps of those ordinary Fiend Souls before.

His figure shuttled through the endless Bane Spirit Tide, as if entering an unpopulated land, his speed not decreasing in the slightest, heading straight for the core area where the roar came from!

Finally, he penetrated the layers of Fiend Soul obstructions and arrived at the core of the Bane Spirit Tide.

Before his eyes was a huge mass of Evil Qi, like a mountain. In the center of the Evil Qi mass, a giant Fiend Soul clad in broken armor, holding a giant axe, with eyes like two blood-colored vortexes, was vaguely visible! The aura it emitted had actually reached the Peak of the 7th layer of the Tiangang Realm! It was the source of this Bane Spirit Tide, the Bane Spirit King!

Sensing the Nirvana aura on Ye Chen that made it instinctively fearful, the Bane Spirit King let out a deafening roar, and the giant axe in its hand, carrying the power to split stars, stirred up boundless Evil Qi and struck down at Ye Chen fiercely!

Ye Chen looked up at the falling giant axe, the Nirvana intent in his eyes flourishing.

”It’s over.”

The guixu sword was raised, and on the tip of the sword, that trace of ”severing” black light was unprecedentedly solid.

”Nirvana—Soul Slash!”

A grey sword light, more condensed and deeper than any time before, seemed to have traveled through nothingness, ignoring the obstruction of space and Evil Qi, arriving first despite being launched later, and instantly plunged into the Bane Spirit King’s brow—the core of those two blood-colored vortexes!

The Bane Spirit King’s huge body stiffened suddenly, and the falling giant axe paused in mid-air. The blood-colored vortexes in its eyes cracked inch by inch like shattered glass, and finally completely dimmed and extinguished. That huge body, which had condensed unknown tens of thousands of years of resentment and Evil Qi, began to disintegrate from the inside, turning into the purest Evil Qi energy, which was then annihilated by the surrounding Nirvana Sword Intent.

With the demise of the Bane Spirit King, the entire surging Bane Spirit Tide seemed to have lost its backbone, instantly becoming chaotic, its impact momentum greatly reduced, and many Fiend Souls even began to instinctively disperse and flee, hiding back into the depths of that chaotic rift zone.

Ye Chen stood with his sword, the Nirvana Sword Intent around him slowly converging. He looked at the Star Abyss Rift that was still full of dangers, his gaze deep.

This was just the first barrier to entering the Star Abyss of Fallen Gods.