Yun Che plummeted through the chaos. The Nine Nether Demonic Qi coiled around him like a malignant parasite, while the Heavenly Gang Star Pattern flickered erratically, each flash tearing through the blood mist. He struggled to open his eyes, his vision filled with distorted dark purple fissures, as countless demonic shadows shrieked in the void, gnawing at his soul.
"Xiao Qingli..." He clenched his fist, feeling the lingering chill of the Eternal Ice Coffin. The last image of her before her fall surfaced in his mind. Suddenly, Xing Wen erupted with power, forcibly refining a wisp of demonic energy into spiritual power. Using this strength, he flipped himself over, his toes touching a floating Skeleton.
The Skeleton exploded with a thunderous roar, revealing an Azure Bronze Stele buried beneath it. The Stele's inscription was mottled but still discernible: "Starfall Forbidden Land, those who trespass shall forever fall into Reincarnation."
A blood shadow emerged from behind the stele, its face covered in demonic patterns and wielding a bone sickle. "A living person? Just right for my Soul Devouring Formation!"
In that instant when the sickle descended, Yun Che and Xing Wen rolled back, unexpectedly swallowing the demonic energy into their bodies. The blood shadow retreated three paces. "Heavenly Gang Star Pattern?! You are from the Starfall Clan... Yu Nie!"
Yun Che coughed up Black Blood as Xing Wen writhed beneath his skin like a living creature. The blood shadow suddenly knelt, its demonic patterns fading to reveal a pale and delicate face. "My name is Chi Yuan. Three Hundred Years Ago, I was imprisoned here by the Demon Lord... Please take me out, Master!"
She tore open her clothing to reveal a fragment of Starfall Crystal embedded in her chest. "This item can sense the Starfall Bloodline. If you save me, Master, I will offer you this crystal to help restore your spiritual power!"
As Yun Che's fingertips brushed against the crystal, Xing Wen suddenly surged with energy. Chi Yuan let out a muffled groan as the crystal was forcefully extracted and transformed into Liu Guang that entered his brow. The bottleneck of his seventh level of body refinement shattered with a resounding crash; the spiritual power nourished by demonic energy was purer than anything from the outside world!
Chi Yuan crawled on the ground, her voice trembling. "The Infinite Rift is divided into nine layers; this place is merely the first layer of the Soul Devouring Prison... If you wish to survive, you must find the Starfall Ancient Path!"
Chi Yuan led him through the blood mist, where Skeletons piled up like mountains along the way. Suddenly, Yun Che's Xing Wen pierced with pain as a broken stone bridge appeared ahead, beneath which countless Bronze Coffins floated in an abyss. Chi Yuan's complexion turned pale. "This is Zang Xing Yuan; within those coffins lie the bodies of traitors from the Starfall Clan..."
Before she could finish her sentence, one of the coffins exploded! A corpse with blood-red eyes and a bone sword lunged at Yun Che. "Traitor... die!"
Yun Che met it with a punch; however, Nine Thunderclaps only produced three echoes—this place's laws suppressed spiritual power! The corpse's bone sword pierced his shoulder blade as Xing Wen frantically devoured the demonic energy from the sword, turning the corpse into a desiccated husk.
Chi Yuan suddenly screamed, "Master, look!"
A Star Fragment floated above the desiccated corpse's heart, resonating with Yun Che's mark. As the fragment merged with Xing Wen, visions flooded his mind—Three Hundred Years Ago, in the Starfall Forbidden Land.
A youth resembling him knelt before an altar and carved Xing Wen into a clansman's brow: "With blood as contract, forever seal Moyuan!"
The youth in the vision turned around; Xing Wen was identical to Yun Che. "Future Clan Members... if you see this scene, it means the seal has been broken."
He pointed towards the abyss: "The heart of the Nine Nether Demon Lord is hidden in the ninth layer of Eternal Night Palace, and the key to suppress it... lies deep within your soul!"
Yun Che jolted awake to find Chi Yuan using demonic blood to heal his wounds. She whispered softly, "Master's Xing Wen... looks exactly like the Starfall Saint depicted on the forbidden land murals."
"Holy Son?" he scoffed coldly. "Just a sacrifice."
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