System Possession, One Sword Shocks the Gods

257: Life goes on, the demonic seal mutatesOn the edge of the Valley of Buried Soldiers, on a relatively intact open space, emerald green light surged like a tide.

Led by Elder Mu Huan, dozens of Wood Spirit Clan elite Green Vine Guards sat in a circle, forming an arcane Formation. They formed hand Seals, and vast life force surged from their bodies, converging into the eye of the Formation.

At the eye of the Formation, Qing Lin sat cross-legged, her expression solemn. She pressed her hands lightly onto the chest of the unconscious Ye Chen, with that constantly changing Chaos demon seal facing her palms. Pure and vast life energy, like gentle spring water, was continuously injected into Ye Chen’s body through her guidance.

This ”Endless Cycle Formation” was the highest-level healing Formation of the Wood Spirit Clan, capable of gathering everyone’s strength to transform Death Qi into vitality and nourish all things. However, when Qing Lin’s life force attempted to penetrate Ye Chen’s body to repair his damaged Meridians and internal organs, and suppress that strange demon seal, it encountered unprecedented resistance.

Inside Ye Chen’s body, it had already turned into a chaotic and dangerous battlefield.

That Erosion Origin demon seal, which had been forcibly implanted with the Chaos Origin by Ye Chen, was not easily dispersed or purified by the life force. It seemed to have become an independent entity with strange life; one end remained connected to the main body in the distant Abyss, greedily absorbing the faint Devilish Qi; the other end formed a fragile, conflict-ridden symbiotic relationship with Ye Chen’s own chaos minor world.

As soon as the life force entered, it was like cold water thrown into boiling oil, instantly intensifying the conflict between the Chaos and the Abyss powers!

”Boom!”

Ye Chen’s body shook violently. On the surface of his skin, gray Chaos Qi emerged on the left, while pitch-black Devilish Qi permeated the right. Separated by the demon seal on his chest, the two crazily eroded and countered each other! His complexion shifted between the gray-white of Chaos and the blue-black of the Abyss, and his aura swung violently between weak vitality and violent dead silence, as if it could completely collapse at any moment!

”High Priest! Inside his body... the two powers are clashing! The life force is instead exacerbating the conflict!” Elder Mu Huan shouted anxiously. He could feel that the life force output by the Formation was being rapidly consumed and annihilated by that chaotic battlefield.

Fine beads of sweat seeped from Qing Lin’s forehead. She also felt that terrifying repulsion and conflict. Ye Chen’s current state had already exceeded the scope of ordinary healing and detoxifying. Forcibly infusing life force was not only useless, but might even become the last straw that broke the camel’s back.

She made a decisive decision and immediately changed her strategy.

”Switch the Formation! Focus on ’stabilization’ and ’guidance’, stop forcibly infusing vitality!” Qing Lin shouted clearly. ”Everyone, convert your power into a protective barrier to guard his heart Meridians and Sea of Consciousness, and isolate the interference of external Devilish Qi! Guide the conflicting energy in his body to slow down the speed of the counter-clash!”

The command was issued, and the light of the Formation suddenly changed. The originally surging torrent of life became gentle and tough, turning into layers of emerald green light cocoons, wrapping and guarding Ye Chen’s core organs and Sea of Consciousness layer by layer. At the same time, strands of gentle guiding force, like nimble fingers, attempted to comb and smooth out the violently conflicting Chaos and Abyss Qi.

This method could not cure the demon seal, nor could it increase Ye Chen’s strength; its only purpose was to buy time! It was to create a relatively stable external environment for Ye Chen’s own tenacious will and the self-regulation of his chaos minor world.

Sure enough, after the external pressure decreased and the conflict was slightly guided, the balance on the verge of collapse in Ye Chen’s body gained a glimmer of breathing room.

The undying spark of spiritual light deep in his consciousness began to flicker again.

”Conflict... balance...”

”Chaos... tolerance... not repulsion...”

Struggling on the edge of life and death, under the protection of Qing Lin and the Wood Spirit Clan at all costs, Ye Chen’s realization derived from ”Chaos Limitlessness” surfaced again.

He no longer tried to ”eliminate” the power of the Abyssal demon seal in his body, nor did he merely ”resist” its erosion. He began to try to ”understand” and ”guide” this foreign, destructive power from a more inclusive and grander perspective.

Chaos, what is Chaos? It can give birth to all things, and it can also contain all things.

This Erosion Origin demon seal was, in essence, a manifestation of an extreme ”Law” that led to destruction. It was not absolutely opposed to Chaos, but rather an extremely extreme ”facet” that Chaos could accommodate.

”Since it cannot be expelled... then... accommodate it!”

A bolder, perhaps even unorthodox thought took shape in Ye Chen’s nearly chaotic consciousness.

He no longer urged his chaos minor world to grind away those invading demon seal cobwebs. Instead, he actively released a trace of control over the Chaos Origin, guiding the pure Chaos Qi. It was no longer clashing with the power of the demon seal, but rather, like weaving, carefully winding and wrapping strands of the demon seal’s power!

This process was more dangerous than integrating into the demon seal nodes before! It was like raising a poisonous snake in his body; the slightest carelessness would lead to a backlash.

But relying on his deeper understanding of the Chaos Law and his precise control over his own strength, Ye Chen began this shocking attempt.

A wisp of the demon seal’s power was successfully wrapped by the Chaos Qi. It did not immediately annihilate; instead, under the isolation and assimilation of the Chaos Qi, its violent erosive nature was temporarily suppressed, turning into a tiny energy knot with darkness and gray intertwined inside.

Immediately after, it was the second wisp, the third wisp...

Like the most brilliant craftsman, using his own Chaos as a furnace and his will as a carving knife, he stripped away, wrapped, and temporarily ”sealed” the ”toxins” invading his body bit by bit.

As more and more of the demon seal’s power was wrapped and isolated by the Chaos Qi, the intense conflict in Ye Chen’s body significantly weakened. Although that Chaos demon seal still existed on his chest and was still constantly absorbing the faint Devilish Qi, its direct erosion rate on Ye Chen’s Origin was greatly reduced!

And even more surprisingly, those tiny energy knots formed by being wrapped in Chaos Qi did not fall silent. Under the nourishment and isolation of the Chaos Origin, they actually began to undergo a slow, unpredictable mutation! Darkness and Chaos intertwined, destruction and tolerance coexisted, as if gestating something brand new and unknown.

The strange pattern constantly changing on Ye Chen’s chest also gradually stabilized, turning into a deep, dark gray color that resembled a cosmic nebula. It no longer fluctuated violently, but instead exuded a strange sense of balance.

Outside, Qing Lin, Elder Mu Huan, and others clearly felt the change in Ye Chen’s aura. The violent conflict fluctuations subsided. Although his aura was still weak and his internal condition was still complex and difficult to understand, at least it was no longer in a state that could collapse at any moment.

”He... he seems to have stabilized the conflict in his body?” Elder Mu Huan whispered in disbelief.

Qing Lin withdrew her palms and let out a long sigh of relief, her beautiful eyes filled with shock and complexity. She looked at the stabilized dark gray mark on Ye Chen’s chest, feeling the strange balanced aura within it that was neither pure Chaos nor pure Abyss, and murmured:

”He has taken a... path never seen before. Using his body as a furnace to accommodate the Abyss into Chaos... it is hard to say whether it is a blessing or a curse.”

She knew that Ye Chen had temporarily passed the most dangerous moment. But where this mutated demon seal would lead him, no one could know.

Just then, Ye Chen’s tightly closed eyelashes trembled slightly, as if there were signs of waking up. And at the center of the dark gray mark on his chest, a tiny point of starlight, like a vortex, quietly lit up and slowly rotated.

From within that vortex, a sense of hunger faintly emanated... not directed at life, but at... energy, whether it was Chaos, or the Abyss!