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

55: Chapter 55: The Scheme to Break Boundaries and the Wrath of the Mother TreeThe ancient tree will’s retreat was like the removal of the final invisible barrier. The surrounding green, luminous humanoid figures became ’active’ once again, silently drifting forward, their converging consciousness growing clearer and more insistent:

”Stay...” ”Merge with the light...” ”Return to the Mother...”

Gentle life energy, like a warm tide, washed against the profound ice barrier Su Muxue had erected. The barrier’s surface sizzled, with ice shavings constantly being melted and flaked off, only to be continuously repaired by the cold Qi Su Muxue channeled. Her face grew increasingly pale; maintaining the barrier against the entire Secret Realm’s life force field consumed far more than imagined.

Nangong Xuan struggled to rise and wield his sword, but the terrifying wound on his back split open again. The stubborn, gray-black Death Qi eroded his vitality, leaving him almost without a shred of strength. He could only watch anxiously as the situation outside the barrier deteriorated.

”We can’t just wait to die!” Lin Mo’s consciousness flashed urgently. ”That ancient tree will fears the external deathly stillness and would never willingly open a passage. But it doesn’t perfectly control everything. Those luminous figures have simple minds; perhaps they can be used!”

His chaos dao seed frantically deduced, combining with the positional information provided by the ancient tree will. An extremely risky plan rapidly took shape.

”Mu Xue, Senior, listen!” Lin Mo instantly transmitted the plan. ”The passage is in the southeast corner, sealed by a life barrier. A direct assault is impossible. We must make the barrier ’open itself’ for an instant!”

”How?” Su Muxue responded urgently while maintaining the barrier.

”The life barrier repels deathly stillness, but it repels intense energy clashes from ’foreign’ sources even more! Especially power opposite to its own Origin!” Lin Mo’s consciousness carried a desperate, all-or-nothing resolve. ”Mu Xue, you need to channel your Profound Yin Power to its absolute limit—not to resist, but to simulate the illusion of an ’ultimate, foreign, icy deathly invasion,’ striking a single point on the barrier!”

”At the same time, Senior, you must condense all the recovered Vast Righteous Sword Intent into the purest point of golden light capable of destroying evil. At the moment I signal, slash the same point! The instant conflict and explosion of two utterly opposite, ultimate foreign forces will create an energy storm powerful enough to trigger the life barrier’s instinctive, violent repulsion and a momentary ’overload loss of control’!”

”And I will use Chaos Dao Qi to simulate a trace of the nirvana star core’s Dao resonance. At the moment of greatest Chaos, I’ll briefly ’deceive’ the barrier, opening a crack for us! But the opportunity will last only an instant! We must charge through in that moment!”

This plan was bold and insane! It demanded that the three of them control their power with absolute precision, with timing that couldn’t be off by a hair’s breadth! Moreover, it was extremely dangerous. If they failed, the energy backlash would instantly see them swallowed and assimilated by the riotous life energy!

A sharp glint flashed in Nangong Xuan’s eyes. Without any hesitation: ”Agreed!”

Only determination remained in Su Muxue’s ice-blue eyes: ”Alright!”

In this desperate situation, they had no choice but to gamble with their lives!

”Go!” Nangong Xuan roared. From somewhere, a surge of strength welled up. He stood up violently, ignoring the blood gushing from his back. His sword, ”unyielding,” hummed as he poured every last remnant of his Vast Righteous Sword Intent into the blade. A point of golden light gathered at the tip, brilliant as a star, radiating an awe-inspiring, righteous aura capable of vanquishing all evil!

Su Muxue simultaneously withdrew her profound ice barrier! The moment it vanished, her hands formed an incredibly complex ancient Seal. The ice moon imprint on her brow erupted with unprecedented radiance! A vast, icy, ultimate chill that seemed capable of freezing the very cycle of Reincarnation exploded forth!

But she did not disperse this power. Instead, with supreme control, she compressed it to an extreme, transforming it into a condensed, nearly pitch-black Lunar Extinction Divine Light. Like a spear cast by death itself, it shrieked through the air, shooting fiercely towards a seemingly ordinary patch of moss-covered rock wall in the southeast corner that Lin Mo had indicated!

*Hum—!*

The instant the Lunar Divine Light was about to strike the rock wall, countless complex, interwoven emerald-green runes blazed to life on its surface. A thick, resilient wall of light, radiating vast vitality, instantly materialized—the life barrier!

*Sss—!!!*

The ultimate Lunar Extinction power clashed head-on with the mighty life barrier! There was no explosion, but an ear-grating screech of intense energy erosion! The pitch-black Lunar Divine Light bored into the emerald light wall like a drill. The wall fluctuated violently, rapidly dimming and denting at the point of impact!

Now!

”Slash!” Nangong Xuan’s hair and beard seemed to bristle. Pouring out everything, he brought the Vast Righteous Sword Radiance—a point condensed from all his power and conviction—down with perfect precision on the exact same point struck by the Lunar Divine Light!

*BOOM!!!!*

The supremely Yang, supremely rigid evil-destroying sword radiance and the supremely Yin, supremely cold Lunar Extinction Divine Light—two foreign powers of utterly opposite attributes yet equally extreme potency—violently clashed and exploded at the same point on the life barrier!

It was like cold water dripping into boiling oil, or positive and negative poles colliding instantaneously!

An indescribable energy storm erupted violently! The emerald-green life barrier, like shattered glass, instantly overloaded. Its light flickered wildly, its structure collapsed, emitting a groan of unbearable strain, revealing a distorted, unstable crack just wide enough for one person to pass through! Beyond the crack was chaotic spatial turbulence and a palpitation-inducing, familiar deathly stillness—the aura of the Burial Ancient Abyss!

”Now!” Lin Mo’s chaos light cluster erupted with its final strength. A wisp of aura containing the resonance of Nirvana and stars enveloped the three, giving the collapsing barrier’s consciousness a false signal of ’one of our own,’ prolonging the crack’s stability for one more fleeting moment!

”Go!”

Nangong Xuan grabbed the exhausted Su Muxue with one hand and swept up Lin Mo with the other. The three transformed into three streams of light, charging desperately towards the rapidly closing crack!

However, just as they were about to vanish into the crack—

*HUM!!!*

The entire cavern shook violently! The jadeite ancient tree seemed utterly enraged. All its branches and leaves swayed madly, emitting a roar like a tsunami! A vast, furious, terrifying Will akin to the wrath of heaven and earth instantly descended, locking firmly onto the three!

”Desecrators! Stay!”

Accompanying this wrathful Will, countless thick, luminous vines shot through the air like furious giant pythons from all directions, moving with unimaginable speed! Even more terrifying, the entire Secret Realm’s life energy instantly turned frenzied, clinging to the three like quicksand, drastically slowing their speed!

The first few vines to arrive lashed savagely at Nangong Xuan, who was bringing up the rear!

Nangong Xuan’s pupils contracted. If he dodged or blocked now, he would certainly miss the final moment before the crack closed!

He didn’t hesitate in the slightest!

With all his might, he shoved Su Muxue and Lin Mo beside him forward into the crack!

Then, he resolutely turned around, pouring the last remnants of his power into the ”unyielding” sword, holding it horizontally before his chest!

”GO!!!”

He let out his final, resolute roar!

*Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!*

The thick vines, like divine whips, struck savagely against the ”unyielding” sword and Nangong Xuan’s body!

*Crack!*

The already battered ”unyielding” sword emitted a mournful cry, instantly covered in cracks! Nangong Xuan was struck as if by a heavy blow, vomiting blood wildly, his chest caving in. Like a kite with its string cut, he was sent flying backward. Before he even hit the ground, he was completely entangled and enveloped by a swarm of rushing vines, his figure instantly swallowed.

”NO—!” Su Muxue’s cry of alarm and Lin Mo’s consciousness were utterly swallowed by the spatial turbulence within the crack!

Under the ancient tree will’s fury, the crack violently snapped shut and vanished!

Within the cavern, only the frenzied life energy boiled. Countless vines tightened like a cage, dragging Nangong Xuan towards the enraged jadeite ancient tree.

The ancient Will slowly calmed, its residual anger subsiding, transmitting a final thought:

”Desecrator... shall become... nourishment... atone...”

Warm green light once again bathed the cavern. The luminous humanoid figures reappeared, standing silently as if nothing had ever happened.

Only on one branch of the jadeite ancient tree, a new, exceptionally large flower bud slowly condensed. The bud trembled slightly, vaguely containing a blurred humanoid outline within...