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

89: Chapter 89: Backlash of Origin Consciousness and the True Meaning of AnnihilationThe earthy yellow light of the earth traveling talisman streaked rapidly through the underground, but its speed was significantly slower than the tunnel Yan had previously opened. Moreover, it was extremely unstable, with a constant sense of pressure coming from the surrounding rock walls. Clearly, the strata of this Dead Silence Wasteland exerted strong rejection and interference against escape techniques.

Su Muxue endured the severe pain in her internal organs, desperately maintaining the operation of the earth traveling talisman while anxiously sensing Lin Mo’s state in her arms.

Lin Mo’s light orb was flashing wildly now, flickering between bright and dim. Internal energies were clashing violently, even emitting faint, heart-palpitating hisses. That wasn’t a physical sound, but a fierce confrontation at the level of consciousness!

The sliver of ”source consciousness” he had swallowed was far from comparable to the mindless miasma energy he had devoured before! It was the Core of the Dark Flame City Emissaries’ power, containing a portion of their will’s imprint and a profound understanding and control of the soul-eroding miasma! Its sinister, cunning, and devouring nature was now running amok inside Lin Mo’s nirvana star core!

”Jie jie jie... what a peculiar existence... neither living nor dead, actually feeding on Nirvana... but swallowing me is your greatest mistake!” A sharp and malicious thought rang directly in the Core of Lin Mo’s consciousness, attempting to pollute his mind. ”Submit to me, fuse with me, and you shall obtain true eternity! Otherwise, be assimilated by me in endless pain!”

That source consciousness transformed into countless tiny dark purple venomous snakes, crazily gnawing at the internal structure of the nirvana star core and releasing distorted illusions to try and break Lin Mo’s will. It even went so far as to simulate the voices of Liu Qingxuan, Su Muxue, and others to deceive him—utterly malicious!

Lin Mo endured immense pain; his consciousness felt as if it had been thrown into a meat grinder, being torn and eroded at every moment. The nirvana star core operated instinctively, constantly annihilating those venomous snakes, but the speed of their regeneration seemed even faster! That source consciousness was like a cancer on the bone, extremely difficult to completely eradicate.

”Shut up!” Lin Mo’s thought was cold as iron, forcibly holding onto the last bit of clarity in his mind. Having experienced the chaos dao seed’s Nirvana, witnessed his mother’s sacrifice, and struggled to survive all the way here, his will had long been tempered to be indestructible.

”Nirvana... is not merely destruction...” In the moment of crisis, a flash of insight struck him. He recalled his realizations when absorbing the Innate Earth Essence Qi and the scene of the earth mother spirit root bursting with life amidst Nirvana.

”Nirvana is the end, but also the return to the void; it is an inevitable part of the cycle of all things... it is the process of washing away the superficial and returning to the beginning!” His thoughts were like clearing a fog, and his understanding of the Dao of Nirvana suddenly ascended to a new level!

”You want to assimilate me? Little do you know, to me, you are merely Impurities waiting to ’return to the void’!”

With his thoughts clear, the nirvana star core suddenly underwent a completely different transformation!

The complex dark runes on the star Core’s surface suddenly lit up. They were no longer gray-blue, but presented a deeper, purer kind of ”nothingness”—a color of almost absolute ”void” and ”non-existence”!

The rotation speed of the star Core slowed down, yet it carried an indisputable, predestined, and majestic momentum!

Those crazily gnawing dark purple snakes, upon contact with this transformed Nirvana Power, were like snow meeting a scorching sun. They emitted shrill shrieks, instantly freezing and decomposing. They were no longer converted into energy to be absorbed, but were completely turned into the most primitive ”nothingness,” their very traces of existence erased!

The evil will within that source consciousness let out a scream of extreme terror: ”No! What power is this?! This isn’t simple devouring! This is... this is... true ’zeroing’?! How could you possibly touch such a level?! Ah—!”

Its resistance and deceptions became pale and powerless before this sublimated Nirvana True Intent, easily swept away and annihilated like dust.

The entire process seemed long, but it actually happened in the blink of an eye.

When the last trace of the source consciousness’s evil thoughts was completely returned to zero by Nirvana, Lin Mo’s light orb stabilized abruptly. Its volume seemed to have shrunk again, leaving it only the size of a baby’s fist, but its light was completely internalized. It presented an extreme darkness that seemed capable of absorbing all light, and the dark runes on its surface flowed slowly, radiating an awe-inspiring Dao charm that signified the end of all things.

He had successfully overcome the crisis and, through this blessing in disguise, his control and understanding of the nirvana star core had reached a whole new level! Now, he could not only devour energy but also directly annihilate existences at the ”conceptual” level, such as wills, curses, and even certain Law fragments!

”Lin Mo! How are you?” Su Muxue felt the light orb in her arms stabilize and hurriedly asked via Divine Thought, her tone full of worry.

”I’m fine, it was a blessing in disguise,” Lin Mo’s thought came back, steadier and deeper than before. ”Find a place to hide first. The earth traveling talisman is about to fail, and the pursuers outside must be searching for us frantically.”

Su Muxue felt slightly relieved upon hearing this and immediately concentrated. By now, the light of the earth traveling talisman was extremely dim and could dissipate at any moment. She forced her Divine Sense to penetrate the interfered-with strata to perceive the outside world.

”Three hundred feet to the upper right, there’s a huge underground cavity with excellent aura isolation!” Lin Mo’s Perception was like a fish in water here, and he quickly pointed out the direction.

Su Muxue immediately activated the last of the earth traveling talisman’s power and charged upward.

Puff!

The moment the earthy yellow light completely dissipated, the two of them broke through the rock layer and fell into a dark, empty underground space, crashing heavily onto the cold, hard ground.

The earth traveling talisman had exhausted its power and drifted away as fine powder.

Su Muxue coughed up another mouthful of blood. Ignoring her own injuries, she immediately looked around warily and set up a few simple concealment Restrictions.

This place seemed to be a massive underground cavern. The air was chilly, carrying a heavy smell of dust and a certain... ancient, decaying aura. The cave ceiling was extremely high, its top invisible, and some massive outlines were faintly visible in the darkness, looking like fossilized skeletons of some giant creatures.

Lin Mo’s light orb floated up, emitting a faint dark light that barely illuminated a range of several yards. This light wasn’t dazzling, but it had a strange penetrative quality, as if it could see into the essence of things.

”This seems to be the ruins of an ancient battlefield, and... the Death Qi is particularly dense, which is perfect for masking our auras,” Lin Mo said after sensing the surroundings. ”We’re safe for now. Tend to your injuries first.”

Su Muxue nodded and immediately sat cross-legged, taking a Medicinal Pill and operating the Profound Yin Jade Soul Scripture to heal. Although the Spiritual Qi here was thin, she had consumed the earth mother spiritual saliva not long ago, and a large amount of medicinal power was settled in her body, which she could now absorb and refine.

Lin Mo took charge of sentry duty. His sublimated Nirvana Perception was like an invisible radar, carefully scanning this massive cavern.

The cavern was even larger than he had imagined, scattered everywhere with huge, bizarrely shaped bone fossils and broken weapons and armor. These skeletons, having endured countless ages, still radiated a heart-palpitating pressure, showing that their owners must have been extremely powerful in life. On some skeletons, terrible scars remained, looking as if they had been forcibly torn or gnawed by some immense force.

It was as if a great battle of gods and demons had taken place here, and in the end, everything was buried.

His Perception spread toward the deepest part of the cavern, where the most skeletons seemed to be piled and the Death Qi was densest.

Suddenly, his ”gaze” fixed upon a particularly massive pile of pale skeletons in the depths, shaped like a small mountain.

The shape of that skeleton was extremely strange—neither beast nor bird. The skull was massive with a twisted single horn. Even after being dead for eons, it still radiated a sense of frantic tyranny.

And inside the chest cavity of this giant skeleton, something seemed to be hidden... the aura of that thing was extremely faint, yet it was incompatible with the surrounding pure death and silence, carrying a trace of an extremely obscure... life fluctuation? And a kind of... familiarity that made his star Core throb slightly?

It wasn’t miasma, nor was it a living thing. It was more like... some kind of remnant preserved by a special power?

”Mu Xue,” Lin Mo’s thought entered the mind of the healing Su Muxue, ”I’ve found something in the depths; there seems to be an anomaly.”

Su Muxue immediately opened her eyes, her injuries temporarily stabilized. ”An anomaly?”

”Yes, a very faint life reaction hidden in a huge pile of skeletons. It feels... somewhat familiar.” Lin Mo couldn’t quite say what it was either.

The two looked at each other and decided to investigate. In this desperate situation, any anomaly could be a clue or a danger.

They moved cautiously toward the depths of the cavern, bypassing piles of giant fossils. The further they went, the denser that desolate and tragic aura of an ancient battlefield became, and they could even faintly hear the auditory hallucination of clashing weapons and horses in the wind.

Finally, they arrived before that most massive and strange skeleton. It was like a fallen king; even as white bones, it still ruled this kingdom of death.

With Lin Mo guiding the way, Su Muxue took a deep breath and used the zhenyuan sword to carefully pry open the gap between those giant ribs.

When they saw clearly what was hidden in the skeleton’s chest cavity, both of them froze, their pupils shrinking abruptly!

It wasn’t some Heaven And Earth Treasure, nor was it some monster’s remains.

It was, strikingly—

Half a broken identity jade token, stained with long-dried, blackened blood!

The material of the jade token was extraordinary; even after eons, it remained warm and smooth. On it, the character ”Chen” was carved in an ancient script, along with half a star pattern!

This pattern was from the same source as the emblem they had seen in the Star Palace ruins!

And the reason this half-token still held a trace of nearly dissipated life fluctuation was that it was enveloped by an extremely faint but incredibly persistent remnant soul will, filled with resentment and a sense of guardianship!

That remnant soul was so weak it could dissipate at any moment, leaving only the last bit of obsession to guard this half-token.

And when the light of Lin Mo’s nirvana star core shone over that remnant soul, an anomaly occurred!

The dark runes on the surface of the star Core suddenly lit up slightly of their own accord, creating a tiny resonance with that remnant soul!

Simultaneously, as if stimulated by the star Core’s aura, the remnant soul experienced a final flash of lucidity, projecting a fragmented, despairing, and warning thought that exploded directly in Su Muxue and Lin Mo’s minds:

”...Run... quickly run...” ”...They are coming... everywhere...” ”...Observation is pollution... cognition is a curse...” ”...The... The Emperor... has betrayed...” ”...Stars... eternally darkened...”

Intermittent fragments of information, yet they contained a terrifying truth enough to suffocate one!

The destruction of the Star Palace seemed far more complex than they had known! The Emperor had betrayed them? The stars were eternally darkened?

Just as the two were shaken to their Cores by this sudden ancient testament—

Boom!

The rock layer above their heads suddenly exploded!

An arrogant and murderous burst of wild laughter came through:

”Found you! Little rats! Let’s see where you can run this time!”

Several powerful miasma auras instantly locked onto the two! The hunters from Dark Flame City had actually found their hiding place so quickly!