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

79: Chapter 79: The Ancient Stele’s True Words and the Star Pivot’s Last SongSu Muxue’s fingertips finally touched the cold, rough surface of the stone stele.

At the moment of contact—

Buzz!

As if a switch dormant for eons had been flipped, the entire stele shook violently. The ancient star script on its surface suddenly lit up, radiating a pure and desolate Starlight!

A massive flood of information, containing countless images, sounds, and thoughts, surged like a breached river of stars along Su Muxue’s fingertips, crashing headlong into her Sea of Consciousness!

”Ugh!” Su Muxue groaned, feeling as if her head was about to explode, her body swaying. The information was too vast and too ancient, far exceeding the limits of what her Divine Soul could endure!

”Hold onto your mind! I’ll help you!” Lin Mo’s thought arrived just in time.

The power of the nirvana star core quickly split off a portion—not to devour, but to transform into a grey-blue barrier. It shielded Su Muxue’s Core Sea of Consciousness, filtering and buffering that violent torrent of information, making it acceptable.

At the same time, through Su Muxue’s connection to the stele and the resonance of the star Core, Lin Mo himself ”saw” the scenes within that flood of information!

They were no longer fragmented thoughts, but a relatively coherent record from that star pivot woman—or rather, from the last remaining memories of this observation station—

[Star Calendar, Dharma-Ending Era, Seventh Heavenly Patrol Cycle]

Image: The boundless starry sky was deep and brilliant. A hazy and colossal ”path” formed by the convergence of countless Starlights spanned the Universe, magnificent and grand. Many figures wearing star robes (Star Palace Cultivators) were busy among massive Star Instruments, recording and deducing, their faces solemn and filled with hope.

[Ancient Path Abnormality, Void Bleeding]

Image: Deep within that magnificent ”heavenly patrol ancient path,” a dark purple ”mist” (soul-eroding miasma) spread without warning. Wherever it passed, stars dimmed and Laws twisted. Indescribable, writhing shadows began to appear within the ancient path.

[The Observers are also the Observed]

Image: When the Star Palace Cultivators were monitoring the ancient path’s changes with all their might, they discovered in horror that within those dark purple mists and twisted shadows, cold, emotionless eyes seemed to open, ”gazing” back at them! All their observation methods and protective Formations were useless before the opponent! An invisible pollution based on the act of ”observation” itself quietly eroded back along their Spells and Divine Sense!

[A Trap! The Ancient Path is a Trap!]

Image: A high-ranking Star Palace Elder (whose face bore some resemblance to the star pivot woman in the light pool) spat blood and roared before the Star Instrument, half his body already eroded by dark purple patterns: ”Wrong! We were all wrong! The ancient path is not a shortcut to a higher dimension, but... but the ’bait’ of some terrifying existence! It is the ’tentacles’ He has extended! By proactively observing Him, we have actually delivered ourselves to His ’mouth’!”

[Evacuate! Seal! Warn All Realms!]

Image: Intense arguments, desperate choices. Most of the Star Palace high-level members decided to activate the highest emergency plan: abandon all peripheral observation stations, concentrate power to seal the Core palace, and send the highest warning to the myriad realms.

[Seventh Observation Station, The Final Mantra]

Image: Other observation stations lost contact one after another, their signals jammed or polluted. Only this Seventh Observation Station, being relatively furthest from the ancient path, could barely hold on. The star pivot woman (who was still whole at the time) stayed at her post, frantically carving the final observations regarding the characteristics of the ”soul-eroding miasma” and the potential ”weakness” of that terrifying existence (powers based on the characteristics of Nirvana and Return to the Void might counter Him) into the stele. She injected the station’s Core Star Power into it, hoping to preserve it for those who followed.

[They... are coming...]

Image: The final scene: The dark purple wave of filth finally breached the observation station’s last defenses, pouring into this hall like a tide. The remaining Star Palace Cultivators resisted with all their might, but their Star Power Spells were quickly polluted and assimilated, their bodies undergoing terrible mutations. In her final moment, the star pivot woman merged her spiritual body with the Core Star Pool that had not yet been fully polluted, attempting a final stand. However, she was invaded by the source of the miasma and locked within the pool, suffering eons of erosion just to guard this stele... Boom!

The stream of information came to an abrupt halt.

Su Muxue and Lin Mo’s minds were shaken to the Core, speechless from the impact of this truth spanning across eons.

The heavenly patrol ancient path was a trap! The Star Palace was counter-polluted because of their observation! Those so-called ”them” were not a specific race, but an erosive power based on ”observation” and ”cognition” originating from that terrifying existence deep within the ancient path—the soul-eroding miasma!

The source of everything pointed to the unknown horror deep within that ancient path!

”So... that’s how it is...” Su Muxue murmured, her ice-blue eyes filled with shock and sorrow.

”Nirvana and Return to the Void... are the keys to countering Him?” Lin Mo captured the most important piece of information. This perhaps explained why his nirvana star core could devour that filthy power.

”Roar—!”

Right then, the eroded star pivot woman let out a roar that sounded completely inhuman. Her last bit of clarity was entirely swallowed by the dark purple. Her entire body suddenly exploded, turning into the purest source of filth and merging into the light pool!

Gurgle gurgle—!

The entire Star Power light pool boiled and turned black! All the sludge instantly connected into one, transforming into a colossal dark entity covered in tens of millions of evil eyes!

A terrifying pressure, far exceeding anything before, descended!

The light of the stele dimmed instantly, as if it had exhausted its final strength.

”Not good! He has fully awakened! Go!” Lin Mo shouted urgently.

In the center of that dark entity, a massive rift opened like a mouth. A dark purple pillar of destructive light, concentrating the entire polluted Core’s power, began to brew, aimed directly at the two of them!

There was no way to dodge! This strike was enough to annihilate everything!

At this moment of despair—

Crack... Rumble!

From the dome high above their heads, a violent roar and the sound of cracking rock suddenly erupted!

A thick, combined blast of magic, carrying a heavy scent of earth and Starlight like a spear of heavenly punishment, crashed through the dome of the Star Palace! Its target wasn’t Su Muxue and Lin Mo, but the dark entity that was brewing its attack!

It was City Lord Bai He! He had actually found a way and forcibly breached the top of the hall! And seemingly sensing the threat of the dark entity, he chose to strike first!

Boom!!!

Two terrifying forces collided violently!

The entire hall shook violently, and giant rocks fell like rain!

The shockwave from the explosion sent Su Muxue and Lin Mo flying backward!

In the chaos, Lin Mo’s nirvana star core suddenly pointed toward a narrow passage at the side-rear of the hall, revealed by the explosion and half-covered by rubble! That passage wasn’t man-made; it looked more like the trail left by some giant creature’s drilling. A faint airflow emanated from it, seemingly leading to the outside!

”Over there!” Lin Mo’s thought shouted.

Enduring the impact, Su Muxue grabbed Lin Mo’s light orb and, under the cover of the explosion and falling rocks, turned into a streak of light, rushing recklessly toward that unknown passage!

Behind them came City Lord Bai He’s startled and furious roar, as well as the even more violent and terrifying howl of the dark entity after being attacked!

A new round of terrifying collisions erupted in that sacred yet sinister hall.

Meanwhile, Su Muxue and Lin Mo fled for their lives along that dark, narrow passage into the unknown depths.