Chapter 1143 - 519: Bones of Desolation (Part 2)

"Termination", "Gui Xu", "Deathly Silence", "Void"...

Countless Dao Principles representing the cosmic end transformed into the coldest torrent, crazily surging along Xu Ran’s bone hand into his Dao Origin phalanx, attempting to drag the "wasteland" seed, which had just sprouted a tender shoot of "New Life," into eternal slumber and burial!

In this moment, Xu Ran’s will seemed to perceive vast, magnificent yet desolately poignant scenes.

He saw dazzling stars extinguishing soundlessly, turning into cold dust. He saw prosperous civilizations, along with their deities and epics, wiped away without leaving the slightest trace. He saw endless creatures wailing in despair, ultimately crushed and compressed along with their worlds into a tiny speck of dust the size of a fingernail.

This is the Returning Ruins Burial Soil! What it buries is the true cosmos!

"Warning! Warning! Ultra-high-dimensional ’Doomsday’ Dao Principle invasion detected! The host’s ’Wasteland’ origin is being suppressed... under suppression..."

"Origin activity reduced by 99%! About to enter Nirvana state!"

"’Tai Chu Dao Bone Sutra’ operation stalled! Daoist Body facing collapse risk!"

The system’s alarms were unprecedentedly shrill and urgent, like the doomsday death knell, frantically echoing in Xu Ran’s will core.

His "Wasteland Arm," with its thirty-three newly forged bones, had the Dao runes on its surface rapidly dimming, even showing fine cracks as if they could turn back into a pile of bone dust anytime.

This Returning Ruins Burial Soil is a supreme Divine Object, but also the most terrifying poison! Its "Termination" rank is too high, far beyond what Xu Ran can currently endure!

"Bury me? I was born from wasteland, I return to Nirvana! You buried all realms, yet you cannot bury me!"

At the last moment when his will was about to be utterly frozen, an earth-shattering roar erupted in Xu Ran’s heart. He did not choose to resist, because he knew that with his current level, resisting such doomsday Dao Principles would be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

His choice was to yield, to guide, to... fuse!

"Wasteland is the end, and also the beginning! Only by devouring all things can new life be nurtured! You, this burial soil, buried the old cosmos, so let me become your new resting place!"

In that moment, Xu Ran’s will core, the eternal reef, no longer resisted but actively opened its embrace. He gave up protecting the "Wasteland" origin, letting the cold, deathly silent doomsday Dao Principles thoroughly engulf and envelop it.

Simultaneously, he operated the Technique from the "Tai Chu Dao Bone Sutra·Meditation Chapter," not for refining but for "carrying." He transformed his will and Divine Soul into a massive vortex, madly drawing in the vast "Power of Nirvana" from the Returning Ruins Burial Soil that could crush all heavens.

No destruction, no construction; break to stand again!

He was making a risky move, placing himself in a death trap to find life!

Buzz——

When Xu Ran completely gave up resistance and willingly embraced the doomsday Dao Principles, a sudden change occurred!

The originally overbearing, cold Gui Xu Power that sought to assimilate everything seemed to lose its target, momentarily pausing. Immediately, Xu Ran’s suppressed to the extreme, nearly extinguished "Wasteland" origin, as if sensing a familiar vibe in the dire straits, actively entwined with it.

If the "Returning Ruins Burial Soil" is the "corpse" post cosmic death, then the "Wasteland" Dao is the law that buries this corpse and extracts nutrients to carve out a new world!

The two, sharing the same source, yet representing the two stages of "termination" and "the new birth after termination."

In an instant, a mysterious balance and resonance were achieved between them.

The rampant Power of Annihilation in Returning Ruins Burial Soil started to become gentle, converging slowly, bit by bit, into Xu Ran’s Dao Origin phalanx and the newly formed "Wasteland Arm."

And Xu Ran’s "Wasteland" origin, nourished by the higher-ranking same-source power, began a wild transformation!

The origin, which was originally just at "seed" state, quickly took root and sprouted, its mysterious Dao runes becoming complex and profound at an observable speed, seeming to articulate some supreme principle from non-existence to existence, from death to life.

His Dao Origin phalanx grew darker in color, no longer the simple gray but a kind of chaos gray, seemingly containing the birth and death of infinite stars. Its solidity increased by more than tenfold!

As for the "Wasteland Arm," it underwent a groundbreaking transformation.

The cracks on the bone surface had vanished. In their place was a faint halo like stardust. Each bone seemed to have been reforged, its internal structure gaining an indescribable "Gui Xu" divine charm. This arm seemed no longer belonged to this space-time; it could easily break away from causality, hiding in the void.

"Fusion successful!"

"Host’s ’Wasteland’ origin successfully absorbed ’Returning Ruins Burial Soil,’ experiencing a fundamental transformation!"

"’Tai Chu Dao Bone Sutra’ foundation has been completed, stability greatly improved!"

"Dao Origin phalanx evolved into ’Gui Xu Dao Bone (Prototype)’!"

"’Wasteland Arm’ evolved into ’Returning Ruins Annihilation Arm’!"

"Congratulations to the host for comprehending innate Divine Techniques: Gui Xu Silence!"

Gui Xu Silence: Activate this Divine Technique to completely integrate one’s Daoist Body and aura into the environment’s "deathly silence" concept, isolating all Divine Thought, causality, and aura detection. In theory, it cannot be discovered by any means unless powers beyond the environment’s threshold are used.

Xu Ran’s will slowly "opened," feeling the bone-deep changes within himself, an endless tide surging in his heart.

Success!

He had gambled and won!

This "Gui Xu Silence" Divine Technique was simply a tailor-made survival skill for him in this perilous sea of bones! It’s more valuable than any offensive means!

He willed and activated the "Gui Xu Silence."

Buzz.

The "Returning Ruins Annihilation Arm," radiating a faint starlight, along with the Dao Origin phalanx at its core, instantly restrained its brilliance, and then, it "disappeared" out of thin air.

It wasn’t disappearing physically, nor a spatial relocation, but a conceptual "non-existence."

It clearly still lay quietly in the shadow of the dragon elephant’s leg bone, yet Xu Ran, exhausting his perception, could no longer "see" it at all. As if there, lay a pure void.

"Good! Good! Good!"

Xu Ran’s heart stirred; with such Divine Techniques, his survival ability in this abandoned ruins will increase geometrically!

However, just when he was steeped in great joy, an inexplicable foreboding arose without warning from the depths of his will core.

It felt as though he was being watched by something extremely terrifying, extremely cold!

This sensation was different from the greed of bone predators or the scrutiny of bone crows; it was a... pure, unemotional "lock" like the Heavenly Dao Laws!

Xu Ran’s heart tightened. He instantly pushed "Gui Xu Silence" to the extreme, minimizing his existence sense.

He "looked" toward the source of the lock.

In the gray-white bone field a kilometer away, the space rippled like water surfaces.

Subsequently, three silver metallic "chains" flourished, slowly "growing" from the center of the ripples.

The chains weren’t physical entities; they were comprised of countless rice grain-sized luminous points flashing enigmatic runes, forming an energy body. They were entirely cold, exuding an absolute will of "order," "rule," and "correction."

As they appeared, they formed a pin pattern, distantly encompassing the area where Xu Ran was located.

The front ends of the chains gradually condensed into smooth metal heads without features, in the center of each was embedded a continuously rotating compound eye seemingly composed of innumerable codes.