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

200: Chapter 200: Devouring by Desperate Situation and the Tragic Song of the Star KeyUp, down, left, and right—from every direction.

Countless pairs of crimson eyes lit up in the dark green deep sea, like pupils opening in Hell, filled with the most primal hunger and desire for destruction. Those massive shadowy silhouettes writhed at the edge of the chaos star core’s glimmer. The pressure emitted by each one was suffocating; at the very least, they were at the Peak Golden Core Stage, and several among them had even reached the Nascent Soul level!

The Mid Nascent Soul Stage Giant-mouthed Sea Monster from before shook its massive head, recovering from the star core’s interference. It let out an even more furious hiss and opened its abyssal maw once again, slowly closing in along with the other surrounding sea monsters!

Under the squeeze of this manifold, terrifying pressure, the Chaos force field let out an overburdened groan. Its light flickered violently, and its range was compressed until it could barely wrap around the three of them! Su Muxue’s face was as pale as paper, dripping with cold sweat. The Taiyin Star Power within her body poured out like a floodgate had opened, injecting into the star core to maintain the force field, but the consumption rate was far faster than the recovery rate; she was already about to hit rock bottom!

“Brother Xuan!” Zi Linger’s voice trembled. The emerald light vines transformed from her Life Force tried to extend outward to soothe or interfere, but as soon as they touched the dense evil Qi outside the force field, they were quickly contaminated and began withering. The backlash caused her to let out a muffled groan, and blood seeped from the corner of her mouth.

A desperate situation! A true dead-end with no chance of survival!

Nangong Xuan’s eyes were bloodshot, and the veins on his temples bulged. He pushed his Nirvana Sword Intent to the limit, and his ancient sword buzzed, but he knew deep down that if he struck now, no matter where he aimed, it would only draw a more frenzied siege, and he would instantly fall in exhaustion!

What to do?!

His gaze suddenly locked onto the chaos star core in Su Muxue’s arms, which was flashing wildly and vibrating violently!

Take a gamble! Gamble on the limits of this mysterious star core!

“Mu Xue! Release the restrictions on the star core! Pour all our power, along with our Sword Intent and Life Force, entirely into it! It’s not for protection, it’s for... devouring! Let it swallow!” Nangong Xuan roared, almost screaming. This was a decision insane to the extreme! Letting the star core devour unchecked—heaven knew what would happen, but it was the only variable left on this path to ruin!

Hearing this, Su Muxue’s delicate body trembled, but seeing Nangong’s resolute and crazed gaze, she bit her silver teeth and no longer hesitated! She completely released control over her own power, even proactively pouring her remaining Taiyin Star Power, her own essence blood, and Divine Soul power into the star core without reservation!

“Linger!”

Zi Linger also understood Nangong Xuan’s intention. A look of determination flashed in her eyes as she pressed the key of living beings against her heart. Her emerald life Origin power surged toward the star core like a flame, also regardless of the cost!

Nangong Xuan did the same. His Nirvana Sword Essence, his recently recovered Divine Soul power, and even the resonance power of the three keys within his Dantian transformed into a vast torrent, all injected into the star core!

At this moment, all the power, will, and even portions of the Origins of the three people were poured into the chaos star core without reservation!

Buzz—!!!!!!!!!

Receiving this unprecedented, full-force infusion from three Cultivators at or above the Peak Golden Core Stage, the chaos star core seemed like an ignited supernova, suddenly erupting with a brilliant light that defied description!

The dark gold patterns on its surface instantly brightened to the extreme and began to spread, weave, and reorganize at an unprecedented speed, as if some deeper Seal had been undone in an instant!

A massive, distorted Chaos vortex that seemed capable of devouring light itself erupted violently with the star core as its center. It instantly pushed open the nearly shattered force field and instead began to expand frantically in all directions!

It was no longer a gentle protective force field, but... a terrifyingly violent Devouring Domain!

“Roar?!”

The first few Golden Core sea monsters to collide with this Devouring Domain couldn’t even let out a scream before their massive bodies dissolved and decomposed like ice under a scorching sun, transforming into the purest torrents of energy to be greedily swallowed by the Chaos vortex!

Even the Mid Nascent Soul Stage Giant-mouthed Sea Monster, whose tentacles and part of its body were grazed by the edge of the vortex, instantly became transparent and illusory. Its massive evil energy and flesh essence were forcibly drained away uncontrollably, surging into the vortex! It let out a shriek of terror and pain, struggling frantically to retreat, its eyes filled with unbelievable fear!

Devouring! Indiscriminate, frenzied devouring!

The star core seemed to have become the abyss itself, greedily plundering all energy, matter, and even Divine Soul fragments within its range! Whether it was the evil power of the sea monsters, the evil Qi of the North Dark Foul Sea, or the power poured in by Nangong Xuan’s trio, it accepted everything without exception!

Its volume did not change, but the aura it emitted climbed and transformed at a terrifying speed! The Chaos within it seemed to be boiling, evolving!

Lin Mo’s long-dormant consciousness was finally stirred by this extremely violent energy impact! A faint but infinitely ancient and majestic cold snort seemed to travel through eternal time and space, emanating from the deepest part of the star core!

The moment the snort fell, the Devouring Domain suddenly changed. It was no longer an unordered expansion but became possessed of a terrifying focus! Its primary devouring target instantly locked onto those sea monsters and the dense surrounding evil Qi! The siphoning of power from Nangong Xuan’s trio suddenly weakened by more than half!

But even so, the three were already at the end of their ropes. They slumped in the center of the vortex, kept from falling only by a sliver of lifting force inherent to the Domain. They could only watch this scene that looked like the end of the world with hearts full of shock and lingering fear.

The Devouring Domain rolled over like a millstone. Wherever it passed, the sea monsters were reduced to ashes, and the dark green seawater was forcibly purified into a brief area of clarity. Although it was soon refilled by the surrounding filth, that moment of purity caused the phantom star key and sharp metal star key within the Dantian to emit an unprecedentedly bright light!

In particular, the azure light dot representing the water star key, though still entangled by filth, began to vibrate violently, transmitting an incredibly strong and clear sense of wailing and summoning!

The direction pointed straight down toward the deeper abyssal seabed!

The star core’s devouring eruption had, by a stroke of luck, greatly weakened the shielding, making the sensation of the water star key clearer than ever before!

However, this earth-shaking devouring also seemed to have disturbed an even deeper and more terrifying existence within this foul sea!

An indescribably massive, cold, and deathly still will, like a demon god that had slept for eternity, slowly awakened from the deepest, darkest depths of the seabed!

A pressure thousands of times more terrifying than all the previous sea monsters combined, like a tangible mountain of the sea, slowly pressed up from below!

Even the chaos star core’s Devouring Domain fluctuated violently in the face of this pressure, as if it had encountered a natural enemy or an existence of the same level!

The crisis that had just eased because the sea monsters were cleared away descended once again in an even more despairing fashion!

“What... what is that?” Zi Linger looked at the bottomless darkness below, her voice trembling with despair.

Nangong Xuan forcibly suppressed the horror in his heart and struggled to remain conscious. He glanced at the star core, whose light was still brilliant but whose devouring speed had noticeably slowed due to the pressure from below, and then felt the crystal-clear summons of the water key.

“There’s no time! Charge down!” he hissed, a crazed light flashing in his eyes. “While the star core is still erupting and before that thing fully awakens, charge down and find the water star key!”

This was the only way out, the only hope! They had to get the water star key before that terrifying existence below fully awakened; then, perhaps they could use the power of the star key to escape!

He squeezed out his last ounce of strength, controlling the chaos star core—which briefly obeyed a sliver of his command because it had absorbed a massive amount of energy—and maintained the Devouring Domain, which had shrunk by a circle but was still violent. Like a reverse falling star, he charged resolutely toward the dark abyss below where the water key’s summons and the terrifying pressure originated!