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

175: Chapter 175: Sword Echoes in the Mist and the Star Core AwakensDeep within the Bewitching Sword Fog Forest, the brief silence brought by the sudden impact of Chaos was violently shattered by a sharp, air-piercing shriek!

A streak of dark gold light, carrying a terrifying Sword Intent that could sever all things and return them to Nirvana and nothingness, crashed like a meteorite from the Nine Heavens in front of the ancient tree where Su Muxue was hiding!

BOOM—!!!

The earth shook violently, and a wild shockwave erupted in a ring, instantly clearing and tearing apart the dense mist for a hundred feet around! Countless twisted gray-white tentacles were annihilated before they could even let out a wail in the face of this absolute, sharp Sword Intent. A deep trench was plowed into the ground, and the residual Sword Qi hummed for a long time, making one’s scalp tingle.

As the dust and fragmented mist thinned slightly, a figure as tall and upright as a mountain was revealed.

Nangong Xuan’s Dark Gold Sword Robes fluttered loudly despite the lack of wind. Standing there, his naturally circulating Sword Intent barrier completely isolated and crushed the surrounding chaotic Evil Qi and residual thoughts. Silver light flowed within his deep eyes, immediately locking onto the curled-up, faint-breathed figure in the tree hollow that made his heart seize.

“Mu Xue!” Nangong Xuan’s voice carried an imperceptible tremble. With one step, he crossed dozens of feet and appeared at the entrance of the tree hollow.

Seeing his wife’s face, pale as paper and stained with blood, feeling her life Aura flickering like a candle in the wind, and seeing the dim chaos star core in her arms with almost no detectable fluctuations, a surge of towering killing intent mixed with lingering fear and heartache instantly flooded Nangong Xuan’s mind. The Sword Intent around him surged uncontrollably, Cutting countless fine sword marks into the ground.

“Xuan... ge?” Su Muxue struggled to open her eyes, her vision blurred as she looked at the familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar figure at the entrance. That Sword Intent, as vast as a mountain and sharp as the heavens, was so powerful, yet it possessed an essence that put her at ease. A massive wave of joy and relief hit her, causing her tightly strung nerves to snap instantly. Her vision went black, and she slumped forward.

Nangong Xuan rushed forward, carefully pulling her into his arms. Pure and gentle Nirvana Sword Essence, mixed with a trace of the Sword Nurturing Pool’s ancient vitality, flowed continuously into Su Muxue’s body like a trickling stream. It protected her heart pulse and Sea of Consciousness which were on the verge of collapse, temporarily stabilizing the severe Blood-burning Backlash and Divine Soul trauma.

“It’s okay, I’m here.” His voice was low, carrying a reassuring power. After carefully examining Su Muxue’s condition, his expression became incredibly icy. The injuries were far more severe than imagined, especially the splitting of the Divine Soul, which had nearly shaken her Foundation!

The moment his Sword Essence entered her, the dormant chaos star core in Su Muxue’s arms seemed to be stimulated by the kindred yet more powerful Nirvana Sword Intent and the vitality of the Sword Nurturing Pool. The speck of Chaos light at its Core flickered extremely faintly, like the murmur of a sleeper being disturbed, and it autonomously absorbed a trace of the power Nangong Xuan had sent... Meanwhile, the Hunting Squad, startled by the earth-shattering arrival, was looking in horror at the center of the cleared mist zone, at the figure that seemed like a sword god descending upon the world.

“Is... is it that man?! How could he...” A Middle Stage Golden Core knight’s voice trembled. The pressure Nangong Xuan was currently exuding made even his Golden Core shake.

“His cultivation... how could it improve so fast?!” another knight exclaimed, his face full of disbelief.

The Flag-Bearing Knight leading them had an extremely ashen face. Feeling Nangong Xuan’s undisguised, cold killing intent locking onto them, and his own cultivation having dropped to the peak of the Late Golden Core Stage, he felt a strong urge to retreat for the first time. However, he also knew that the punishment for failing the mission was even more terrifying than death!

“Form the array! He just achieved a Breakthrough, his Realm is unstable, and he’s worried about that woman. This is our only chance! Kill him and seize everything!” The Flag-Bearing Knight roared to suppress the fear in his heart. He slammed the damaged war flag into the ground, and residual Dark Gold Devil Flames rose up. Together with the other five knights, they instantly formed a fragmented Devilish Evil Battle Array. Towering Devilish Qi mixed with the forest’s Evil Qi, transforming into a hideous phantom of a Three-headed Devil Python that coiled in front of them, emitting a ferocious Aura that temporarily resisted the pressure of Nangong Xuan’s natural Sword Intent.

Nangong Xuan slowly and carefully placed the unconscious Su Muxue in the deepest part of the tree hollow and set up a protective barrier with his own Sword Intent. He turned around to face the arrayed pursuers, his eyes terrifyingly calm—a kind of extreme coldness reserved for looking at dead things.

“You all deserve to die.”

He did not use any Magic Treasure, but simply raised his right hand, pointing his fingers like a sword.

With just this simple movement, his Aura suddenly shifted again! Endless sharpness and the intent of Nirvana gathered at his fingertips, and a point of extreme darkness was born, its edges entwined with silver light that cut through the Void Realm. The surrounding space began to warp and wail, as if it could not bear this unreleased strike.

“Nirvana Returning to Void.”

He softly uttered four words and made a casual swipe toward the six men in the array and the hideous devil python phantom.

There was no grand spectacle, no blinding brilliance.

Only a tiny black crack, with silver light flowing along its edges, silently extended forward.

The moment this crack appeared, the devil python phantom—formed by the six Golden Core Cultivators and their gathered devil flames and Evil Qi—seemed to meet its natural enemy. It let out a silent hiss of terror, its massive body twisting violently, but it could not stop the crack at all!

The black crack sliced through the devil python, through the battle array, and through the six horrified knights behind it.

Time seemed to stand still for a moment.

The next second.

The devil python phantom snapped in the middle, instantly collapsing and vanishing like a drawing wiped away by an eraser.

The war flag planted in the ground, the weapons in the six knights’ hands, the armor on their bodies, and even their physical forms—all of them, at the same time, quietly separated and displaced along a perfectly smooth, thin line.

There was no spray of blood, no explosion of energy.

Everything at the point of the break, whether matter or energy, was completely annihilated and returned to nothingness the moment it touched the residual Aura of that black crack.

The Flag-Bearing Knight’s face still held an expression of shock and disbelief, but his vision began to spin. The last thing he saw was his own headless body slowly falling, before it, along with his Golden Core and Divine Soul, turned into fly ash and dissipated into the mist.

With one sword strike, six Golden Core Cultivators and their battle array were completely returned to Nirvana!

The black crack did not stop, leaving a bottomless, mirror-smooth, slender trench on the ground that extended far into the depths of the mist.

Nangong Xuan slowly lowered his fingers, his expression indifferent, as if he had just done something trivial. After absorbing the Sword Nurturing Pool and Fusion with the Laws, the power of “Nirvana Returning to Void” far exceeded his previous imagination, and his control over power had become increasingly refined.

However, just as he had dealt with all the pursuers and his mind relaxed slightly—

“Buzz...”

In his arms, the chaos star core that had absorbed a trace of Nangong Xuan’s Sword Essence power acted up once again!

This time, it was no longer a flicker, but a continuous, slight humming! The Chaos light at the Core lit up steadily; though still faint, it no longer looked like it would go out at any moment.

Even more peculiar was that it began to autonomously and slowly absorb the Devilish Qi, Evil Qi, and residual Sword Intent thoughts in the surrounding fog forest that had been crushed by Nangong Xuan’s Sword Qi, even including the bit of Origin energy remaining after the six knights were annihilated!

After these chaotic, diverse, and differently attributed energies entered the star Core, they were transformed by that speck of Chaos light into an extremely strange Chaos energy—neither living nor dead, yet containing a sense of “beginning” and “inclusivity.” This energy slowly nurtured the star Core itself and, through the star Core, fed back bit by bit into the sleeping Lin Mo’s consciousness.

At the same time, deep within the Deep Abyss caverns, the floating fragment of the “dao cutting sword” seemed to be faintly touched once again by the vibrations of the chaos star core’s steady awakening. It emitted a slight sword chime that only Nangong Xuan could perceive across space, carrying a hint of scrutiny and curiosity.

Nangong Xuan suddenly lowered his head to look at the humming star Core in his arms, his eyes erupting with a light of joy.

“Moer?”

He could feel that inside the star Core, that faint but familiar consciousness seemed to have... solidified a bit? Although it was far from awakening, it was no longer like the nothingness that seemed ready to dissipate at any moment.

This chaos star core could actually devour and transform all things to nurture itself?

And just then, perhaps because it had absorbed too much chaotic energy, or perhaps because of the resonance from the dao cutting sword fragment across the void, the Chaos light on the star Core’s surface twisted slightly. Several extremely ancient, fragmented, pale gray runic phantoms vaguely emerged, vanishing in a flash!

Nangong Xuan’s pupils contracted sharply—he had never seen those runes before, yet they gave him a sense of antiquity and vastness that far exceeded the dao cutting sword fragment! It was as if they pointed directly to the secrets of the Universe Origin!

Before he could investigate further, the runes disappeared.

The star Core returned to its state of slow humming and autonomous absorption of surrounding energy, as if everything just now had been an illusion.

But Nangong Xuan was certain it was no illusion.

The Origin and potential of his son’s Natal Star Core were likely far more astonishing than he had imagined.

He took a deep breath, suppressed the shock in his heart, and carefully put the star Core away. Right now, the most important thing was to heal Mu Xue’s injuries and then leave this eerie fog forest as soon as possible.

He returned to the tree hollow and gently picked up Su Muxue. Feeling her still-weak Aura, his brow furrowed. Blood-burning Backlash and soul injuries were not things that ordinary Medicinal Pills and Cultivation Techniques could quickly heal.

His gaze couldn’t help but fall once again upon the autonomously absorbing, slowly humming chaos star core.

Perhaps...