Transmigrating Into a Fantasy World: Signing in During Pregnancy, Reaching the Summit with My Childhood Sweetheart

45: Chapter 45: The Awakening of the Earth’s Vein Dragon and the Gift of the Star LakeSu Muxue’s icy blue eyes were clear and profound, like two ten-thousand-year-old cold ponds, reflecting Nangong Xuan’s slightly disheveled yet resolute figure, as well as the halo radiating the aura of Chaos beside him. She had just awakened, and her vast memories and brand-new power were rapidly integrating, while information from the outside world flooded into her Perception like a tide.

”It was you... who protected me?” Her voice was ethereal, carrying a hint of uncertainty and deep-seated gratitude. She could feel the earth-shattering changes in her body; the shackles of the Seal that had troubled her for years had vanished, replaced by an unprecedented strength and clarity. She also sensed the traces of the fierce battle remaining around them, as well as the yet-to-settle energy fluctuations and injuries on the two people before her.

No words were needed; the facts were already clear.

Nangong Xuan breathed a small sigh of relief and stood with his sword sheathed. Just as he was about to speak, his expression changed drastically!

Not just him, but Lin Mo’s chaos dao seed issued an unprecedentedly violent warning! Su Muxue’s just-relaxed brows also furrowed instantly; her newborn, incredibly sharp Profound Yin spiritual sense also captured that suffocating pressure!

It came from beneath their feet! From the deepest depths of the earth’s meridians!

Crack... Rumble... The entire Star Lake Mystic Realm began to vibrate violently and unprecedentedly! It was no longer a resonance on an energy level, but a real, world-shaking physical vibration!

Above the dome, patches of glowing crystals and moss peeled off and went out like falling stars. The silver sand ground beneath them churned frantically, revealing the pitch-black, violently writhing rock layers below! The calm lake surface exploded into huge waves as if boiling, and a bone-chilling sound, like billions of rocks being crushed, echoed from the bottom of the lake!

An indescribable, vast, ancient, and violent aura, filled with the heavy and destructive will of the earth, was awakening from the deepest part of the earth’s core like a slumbering ancient god! Its wrath pierced through the rock layers, permeating every inch of space!

”Is it... the Earth Vein Dragon Soul?! Or rather, the manifestation of this region’s will?!” Nangong Xuan turned pale with horror, his voice trembling under the omnipresent pressure. ”The commotion from Miss Mu Xue’s baptism earlier was too great; it completely disturbed it! It views us as parasites invading its Domain and wants to crush us completely!”

This was simply not power on the same level! Previously, the Lava Earth Ghouls and even that Golden Core Stage Lava Earth Ghoul were merely ’parasites’ living in these earth meridians, but what was awakening now was a portion of the will of the earth itself! Its power was likely far beyond the Nascent Soul stage, or even higher!

Escape? Before the fully awakened will of this ’landlord,’ they were like turtles in a jar; where could they run?

Despair, like a cold abyss, instantly swallowed the sliver of hope that had just risen.

Just then—

That long-silent, desolate female will once again struggled to transmit from deep within the boiling center of the lake, weaker than before, yet filled with extreme urgency and determination!

”...Go...!” ”...Through... the lake center... passage...” ”...I... will send you... out...!” ”...Quickly!!! It... is fully awake...!”

Following this thought, a soft yet incredibly firm blue-white halo suddenly lit up deep within the boiling lake center! The halo forcibly pushed aside the boiling lake water, opening a brief, stable, downward-spiraling vortex passage! The other end of the passage was no longer lake water, but an unknown place radiating chaotic spatial fluctuations!

This was the final power of the Star Lake Mystic Realm, and the only path to life that the ancient existence at the bottom of the lake had secured for them!

”Go!” Nangong Xuan did not hesitate. With a loud shout, he grabbed the wrist of Su Muxue, who was still somewhat dazed but instinctively sensed the fatal crisis, while his other hand reached for Lin Mo’s swaddle.

”Wait!” Su Muxue suddenly broke free from his hand.

In the brief moment she awakened, besides integrating herself, her highly sensitive newborn spiritual sense also captured the desolate emotions of reluctance, attachment, and resolute sorrow coming from this Secret Realm and the ancient existence at the bottom of the lake! It was the tragic grandeur of something that had protected for ten thousand years, finally choosing to perish along with its invaded home!

A complex light flashed in her icy blue eyes. She suddenly raised her hands, and the ice moon imprint on her forehead erupted with brilliant light!

”Profound Yin Secret Script: Ten Thousand Years Freeze!”

She gave a clear cry, and the extreme cold was not an attack, but transformed into countless ancient runes shimmering with Starlight, pouring into the boiling lake water and the violently vibrating walls of the Secret Realm like a waterfall!

Crack, crack!

The boiling lake water was instantly forced to freeze! The violently vibrating rock walls were also covered with a thick layer of ice shimmering with Starlight, and the magnitude of the vibration was actually forced to slow down for a fleeting moment!

She was using her newborn, vast power to try and buy a little more time for this Secret Realm and the existence at the bottom of the lake, to reduce the destruction even by a little! This was the only repayment she could offer!

”Mu Xue!” Nangong Xuan said urgently. The will of the Earth Vein Dragon Soul was becoming clearer and clearer, and the terrifying pressure was nearly solidifying the space!

”Go!” Su Muxue gritted her teeth and persisted, her face instantly turning pale; clearly, doing this was a great burden for her.

Lin Mo’s chaos dao seed was also operating frantically. He wasn’t attacking or defending, but was doing his best to analyze, simulate, and even try to ”appease” the chaotic fluctuations emitted by the awakening earth’s will, like throwing a tiny pebble into a towering wave, hoping to cause even a ripple of interference.

It was infinitesimal, but it did exist! That destructive will seemed to experience an extremely subtle moment of ”confusion.”

It was in this very moment!

”Go!” Nangong Xuan no longer hesitated. He grabbed Su Muxue with one hand and scooped up Lin Mo with the other. The three of them turned into a streak of light and plunged into the nearly collapsing vortex passage at the center of the lake!

In the final instant they entered the passage—

The three of them seemed to hear a sigh of relief filled with attachment from deep within the lake.

Immediately after!

BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The entire Star Lake Mystic Realm, along with the earth meridian rock layers of unknown depth beneath it, let out a final, earth-shattering wail under the crushing force of that fully awakened, furious earth’s will, and then completely fell into endless darkness and silence... The world spun, and space distorted.

It felt like a long time had passed, yet it also felt like only an instant.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The three of them fell heavily onto the hard, cold ground. Around them was the familiar, damp, moldy-smelling air.

There was no Starlight, no lake, only endless darkness and the faint sound of underground water flowing in the distance.

They had been forcibly thrown out of that destroyed Secret Realm and returned to an underground labyrinth located who-knows-where.

The three survivors collapsed on the ground, panting heavily, their faces pale with lingering fear.

After a long while, Nangong Xuan struggled to sit up and took out a Moonstone.

The soft light illuminated the surroundings; it was a rough rock passage, seemingly a long-abandoned underground corridor.

He looked at the nearby Su Muxue, whose aura was unstable but whose eyes were clear, then at Lin Mo, whose light had stabilized, and let out a long, long sigh of relief.

A narrow escape from death.

However, before they could completely relax—

Tap... tap... tap... Clear, unhurried footsteps echoed from the dark corridor ahead, approaching from afar.

A slightly playful and cold young male voice followed, sounding particularly piercing in this dead silence:

”You certainly made me wait...” ”I didn’t expect you to actually escape from the ’Earth’s Wrath’... and even make off with the Profound Yin Immortal Body we are determined to get?”

The faint light of the Moonstone barely illuminated the newcomer’s silhouette.

A spotless white robe, and on his face... a pure White Mask without any patterns.

It wasn’t the previous White Mask, but another one! However, the same source of deeper, colder evil aura radiating from him, along with the unshielded pressure of the Golden Core Stage, made Nangong Xuan’s heart sink to the bottom instantly.

Out of the dragon’s den, and into the tiger’s lair!