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177: Chapter 177: Sword Resentment Domain and Silent EscapeThe will awakening from the deepest part of the Foggy Forest was like a Vicious Beast that had slumbered for eons opening its cold eyes. It wasn’t a physical Divine Sense scan, but a more eerie, more omnipresent ’field’! A field condensed from infinite sword grudges, deathly Evil Qi, and the broken remnants of Sword Intent—a sword grudge domain!

The speed at which the Domain spread was beyond imagination; in almost an instant, it completely enveloped the area where Nangong Xuan and Su Muxue were.

Buzz—

The Sword Intent barrier naturally flowing around Nangong Xuan let out an overburdened groan, its dark gold luster flickering violently as if being frantically torn and subjected to Cutting by countless invisible, spiteful hands. That sensation wasn’t a pure collision of power, but more like an erosion and assimilation on the level of Law, seeking to stain his pure Sword Essence with the same despair and deathly stillness.

In his arms, Su Muxue let out a muffled groan, her face instantly turning pale again. Her injuries were unhealed and her Divine Soul was fragile; under the pressure of this Domain filled with negative will, it was like being exposed naked to ice and snow. Piercing cold and a sense of despair frantically battered her Sea of Consciousness, and the Divine Soul injuries that had just been stabilized by the Chaos energy showed signs of rupturing again!

Even that chaos star core was under intense suppression. The faint Chaos halo flowing autonomously on its surface was sharply compressed, its humming became intermittent, and the speed at which it absorbed and converted surrounding energy became extremely slow, as if it had fallen into a quagmire.

Nangong Xuan’s expression was grave to the extreme. The strength of this unknown existence far exceeded his estimates. The nature of its power was eerie and unpredictable, capable of forming such a terrifying Domain; it was definitely not something that could be defeated through brute force.

”Go!” He made a decisive choice, holding Su Muxue tightly in his arms as his Nirvana Sword Essence erupted without reservation, transforming into an incredibly solid dark gold Sword Gang that enveloped the two of them and the Core. Enduring the pervasive sword grudge erosion, he slammed out of the tree hollow!

Chiii chiii chiii chiii—!

Outside the Sword Gang, the grayish-white mist seemed to come alive, condensing into countless distorted, pained faces formed from sword scars. They emitted silent shrieks, throwing themselves one after another against the Sword Gang. Each impact caused the Sword Gang to tremble violently, its light dimming a fraction. Furthermore, a heavy, suffocating deathly will continued to stack up, attempting to drag Nangong Xuan completely into this eternal quagmire of resentment.

Nangong Xuan was extremely fast, turning into a dark gold meteor that tore through the thick fog, rushing toward the edge of the Domain. But he discovered to his horror that this sword grudge domain seemed to be its own space; no matter how he flew, the surrounding scenery remained endless gray mist and distorted sword grudges—he simply couldn’t escape!

”Brother Xuan, this won’t work!” Su Muxue endured the stinging pain in her Divine Soul, her voice urgent. ”The source of this Domain’s power lies in that endless resentment and deathly stillness. Brute force impacts will only continuously consume yourself, playing right into its hands! You must isolate it or... merge with it!”

She was a practitioner of Taiyin Star Power and was more sensitive to power on the level of mental will.

Nangong Xuan’s heart jolted as he instantly understood. Nirvana, though it was an end, was not despair or spite, but a kind of transcendent ’emptiness’. Although his Sword Intent could temporarily resist, because its nature was different, it instead became the most conspicuous ’foreign object’ in this Domain, suffering the most violent attacks.

He needed to use the intent of Nirvana to simulate its ’emptiness’, rather than head-on resisting its ’grudge’!

In the blink of an eye, the surging Sword Intent around him suddenly changed. It was no longer the sharpness and solidity used to clash with the Domain, but became ethereal, misty, and silent. The color of the dark gold Sword Gang grew dim, as if it had become part of the Domain’s gray mist, but the Nirvana True Intent at its Core was restrained to the extreme. Like a reef diving into the deep sea amidst stormy waves, although it bore the pressure, it no longer faced the crests of the waves head-on.

At the same time, he tried to apply that sliver of the newly comprehended Law of Cutting here. It wasn’t to cut physical objects, but to exquisitely ’cut’ the direct connection between himself and the will of the sword grudge domain, creating an extremely minute ’insulation layer’.

The effect was immediate!

The resentful faces frantically pouncing from the surroundings suddenly lost their clear target, becoming somewhat dazed and disorderly. The frequency and intensity of the impacts greatly decreased. Although that heavy, deathly will still existed, it seemed to pass through a void, and the pressure on Nangong Xuan plummeted.

Although he couldn’t completely break free from the Domain, his own consumption had decreased by more than tenfold!

”It’s working!” Su Muxue’s beautiful eyes lit up.

However, their actions seemed to have completely infuriated the existence deep within the Domain.

”Woo—!”

A low whimper, containing endless sorrow and anger, seemed to travel through eons of time and space, rumbling from the very Core of the Foggy Forest.

The entire sword grudge domain boiled! The gray mist surged violently, condensing into massive, broken sword shadows that spanned heaven and earth! These sword shadows were no longer unconscious aggregations of resentment, but carried a clear, cold locking will. Like swords of judgment, they slowly turned, their tips all pointing toward the two people in the Domain who were trying to ’disappear’!

The aura of destruction suddenly rose to its peak!

Nangong Xuan’s scalp tingled; the moment he was locked onto by the countless massive sword shadows, he felt a fatal threat! If any single sword shadow fell, it would be enough to heavily injure him!

Just at this critical moment—

The chaos star core, which had been protected in Nangong Xuan’s arms and held close to Su Muxue, seemed to feel this extreme external pressure and threat. The speck of Chaos light at its Core stubbornly lit up once more!

But this time, it didn’t erupt with energy. Instead, it began to vibrate at a high frequency in an extremely peculiar way!

An invisible, intangible, yet faint ripple containing the true intent of ’disorder’, ’Chaos’, and ’disintegration’ quietly spread out with the star Core as the center.

This ripple was so minute that even the existence deep within the Domain failed to notice it immediately.

But its effect was nothing short of eerie!

Under the interference of this Chaos ripple, the massive resentful sword shadows that had been firmly locked onto Nangong Xuan and Su Muxue actually experienced a minute, structural ’Chaos’ and ’deviation’ in their internal pure resentment and deathly power!

It was like a grain of dust being blown into the interior of the most precise instrument.

It was this tiny deviation that caused the locking of those countless destructive sword shadows to suffer a momentary... failure!

They lost their target!

Rumble rumble rumble!

Countless massive grayish-white sword shadows blindly struck the area where Nangong Xuan had just been, tearing the earth into crisscrossing abysses. Resentful energy overflowed wildly, but they hit nothing but empty air!

And in the instant before the lock failed and the sword shadows fell, Nangong Xuan had a flash of inspiration. He pushed his movement technique to the limit and simultaneously applied that sliver of the Law of Cutting to its extreme—not for attacking, but for ’Cutting’ all Karma links between his existence and this space!

Holding Su Muxue, he was like a true ’Shadow of Nirvana Void’ untainted by Karma. Following that fleeting gap, he silently escaped the Core area covered by the sword shadows and charged frantically toward the edge of the Domain!

The existence deep within the Domain seemed to let out an uncertain, angry snort as its vast will swept out again, trying to re-establish the lock.

But how could Nangong Xuan give it another chance?

”Go!”

He didn’t hesitate to burn his Life-source Sword Essence, his speed soaring again. Taking advantage of the brief disorder in the Domain from the previous attack and the fact that the interference from the Chaos ripples hadn’t fully vanished, finally—

Swoosh!

It was as if he had pierced through an invisible film of water.

The omnipresent heavy pressure and resentful erosion around him suddenly lightened!

He had successfully broken out of the sword grudge domain’s range!

Looking back, the gray mist in that area was boiling violently like a pot of porridge. Countless sword shadows shuttled and roared within it, yet they seemed blocked by some invisible boundary, unable to cross even a step. The terrifying will deep within the Domain was filled with unwillingness and anger, staring fixedly at the two escapees, but it ultimately failed to extend out again.

Nangong Xuan didn’t stop. Holding Su Muxue, he boosted his speed to the limit and fled toward the outside of the Foggy Forest without looking back. Only when they were completely away from that heart-palpitating area and could no longer feel the slightest ripple of that ancient will did he slightly slow down, finding a relatively peaceful and hidden valley to land.

”We’re safe for now.” Nangong Xuan let out a long breath, his face somewhat pale. The consumption from that brief escape was even more intense than a major battle.

Su Muxue also had lingering fears. She nodded gently and looked at the star Core in her arms, which had fallen silent again, her gaze incredibly complex.

This time, it was this child again who, at the most critical moment, had saved them in an unexpected way.

The secrets of this chaos star core seemed to be far more than they had imagined.