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

78: Chapter 78: The Star Pool’s Crying Spirit and the Devouring of AnnihilationThe chill of death instantly seized Su Muxue’s heart!

Those tentacles, composed of filthy silt, moved with startling speed. Their surfaces were densely packed with dark purple eyes flickering with pure malice. Even before they reached her, the evil aura—capable of corroding spirituality and annihilating life—caused her Divine Soul to sting with pain. The Profound Yin Power and Lingxiao Sword Intent circulating within her body both ground to a halt!

There was no way to dodge! No way to block!

At this moment of extreme peril—

”Mu Xue, protect yourself with Sword Intent! Guide the power of the star Core for me!” Lin Mo’s thought streaked through Su Muxue’s Sea of Consciousness like cold lightning!

There was no time for hesitation. Absolute trust allowed Su Muxue to react instantly. With a clear cry, she poured all her remaining strength without reservation into the zhenyuan remnant sword. Her Lingxiao Sword Intent transformed into a solid, black-green light cocoon, firmly shielding her entire body. Though it wasn’t enough to completely withstand the attack, it bought a crucial moment!

Simultaneously, she released all barriers against Lin Mo’s light orb, actively using her Divine Thought to guide its power!

Lin Mo’s light orb suddenly erupted with an unprecedented gray-blue glow! The light wasn’t dazzling, yet it carried an absolute sense of nirvana that could devour and end everything!

The nirvana star core spun frantically at an unprecedented speed, and the dark patterns on its surface lit up suddenly like an awakening venomous snake! Instead of repelling the surging power of filth and decay, it generated an immensely powerful suction force!

It was as if a Vicious Beast, hungry for ten thousand years, had finally encountered ”food”!

Hum—!!!

An invisible force field centered on Lin Mo expanded violently!

As soon as those leading dark purple tentacles entered the range of this gray-blue field, the malicious eyes upon them instantly dimmed and solidified. The filthy silt forming the tentacles seemed to have all its vitality and spirituality drained away. It rapidly changed from a violent liquid state to a gray, withered, and cracked form, finally turning into primitive fly ash and rustling down!

This wasn’t just physical destruction; it was ”nirvana” on a conceptual level! It was ”resetting to zero” their very existence!

More tentacles surged forward one after another, only to be like moths to a flame, constantly annihilating and dissipating at the edge of the nirvana field! The decaying energy contained within the filthy silt was actually forcibly stripped and devoured by the nirvana star core, turning into streams of cold, deathly nourishment that merged into the star Core. This made the dark patterns on the star Core’s surface even clearer, and it even seemed to expand slightly!

This sudden turn of events also seemed to alarm the existence deep within the Light Pool. The churning silt suddenly froze, and all the malicious eyes turned together toward Lin Mo’s light orb, revealing an expression somewhere between confusion, anger, and... a hint of unbelievable fear?

”It... it’s working!” Su Muxue was both surprised and delighted, but she immediately noticed that Lin Mo’s light orb was vibrating violently, its light flickering unsteadily. Clearly, this level of devouring was a massive burden for him and was by no means a normal state.

”Hold on!” she shouted, seizing this precious opportunity. The blade of the zhenyuan remnant sword turned; no longer purely defensive, she channeled the surrounding nirvana field and struck out with a sword slash!

”Lingxiao—Nirvana Slash!”

Outside the black-green Vast Righteous Sword Intent, a layer of gray-blue nirvana edge was wrapped! Wherever the sword light passed, the filthy tentacles were no longer just annihilated but were directly severed and purified! Her efficiency spiked suddenly!

The two of them, one defending and one attacking, one using nirvana and one using purification, actually managed to stabilize their footing in this desperate situation. Step by step, they approached the area of Starlight in the center of the Light Pool that had not yet been contaminated.

The closer they got, the clearer that faint ripple of life became.

Finally, after shattering an unknown number of waves of tentacles, they saw the figure within the Starlight.

It wasn’t a living person, nor could it even fully be considered a ”creature.”

It was a nearly transparent silhouette of a human shape, barely maintained by pure stellar energy. One could tell it had once been a woman with a graceful figure, but now her ”body” was tattered and broken. Everything below her legs had completely dissipated, and points of Starlight constantly drifted away from her, only to be barely replenished by the remaining pure pool water below.

Her face was blurred, with only a pair of eyes being exceptionally clear. They were eyes composed of the purest Starlight, currently filled with endless sorrow and exhaustion, yet also carrying a flicker of excitement as if seeing a savior while looking at them.

Inside her transparent ”body,” at the position of the heart, several dark purple corrosive lines were actually coiled. They were tightly wound like venomous snakes, constantly eroding her final Origin, preventing her from leaving and from completely dissipating.

”Latecomer...” An extremely faint thought, as if it would dissipate at any moment, entered their minds directly. It carried ancient and weathered syllables, yet was naturally understood by Lin Mo’s star Core. ”Careful... the soul-eroding miasma... they... are everywhere...”

Her gaze fell more on Lin Mo’s light orb, filled with an indescribably complex emotion: ”Nirvana... it is actually nirvana... the end of the stars... is also... hope?”

”Who are you?” Su Muxue asked urgently while swinging her sword to fend off the surrounding tentacles that were still surging, though with slightly less momentum.

”I am... the last... star pivot... of this ’Heavenly Patrol Seventh Observation Station’...” The woman’s thoughts were intermittent and filled with pain. ”My duty... monitor the ancient path... warn... but they... came... polluted the star Core... assimilated everything...”

Her gaze turned toward the stone tablet by the pool, filled with urgency: ”Time... is short... I use the last Starlight... to record... the truth... on... the tablet...”

”Latecomer... if you wish to know... the secret of the heavenly patrol ancient path... the source of the Soul-Eroding Miasma... read it...”

”If possible... purify... or... completely nirvana... the Core... do not let... them... fully control... this station...”

Her will grew weaker and weaker, and her body became more transparent, while the corrosive lines at her heart became increasingly hideous.

”They... are...” She seemed to want to say the final name, but those few dark purple lines suddenly brightened!

”Ugh—!” A silent, shrill wail echoed in their Seas of Consciousness.

The woman’s Starlight eyes were instantly covered by a thick purple hue. Her expression became distorted and painful, and her transparent body struggled violently, showing a tendency to transform toward filth!

The silt of the entire Light Pool boiled again, and more tentacles surged out frantically, launching an even more violent attack!

”She can’t hold on much longer! Before the Core is completely controlled, we must read the information on the stone tablet!” Lin Mo’s thought came urgently. The nirvana field surged again, forcefully withstanding the pressure to open a brief path directly to the stone tablet for Su Muxue!

Su Muxue did not hesitate. Her figure flashed as she rushed toward that ancient stone tablet!

Her fingers were about to touch that cold tablet surface covered in ancient stellar script.