Yun Che plummeted through the chaos. The Nine Nether Demonic Qi coiled around him like a malignant curse, while the Heavenly Gang Star Pattern flickered ominously, each pulse tearing through the blood mist. He struggled to open his eyes, his vision filled with twisted dark purple fissures, where countless demonic shadows shrieked and gnawed at his soul.
"Xiao Qingli..." He clenched his fist, feeling the lingering chill of the Eternal Ice Coffin. The last image of her before she fell flashed in his mind. Suddenly, Xing Wen erupted within him, forcibly refining a strand of demonic energy into spiritual power. Using this surge, he flipped over, his toes pressing against a floating Skeleton.
The Skeleton exploded with a thunderous roar, revealing the Azure Bronze Stele buried beneath it. The Stele Inscription was mottled but still somewhat legible: "Starfall Forbidden Land, those who trespass shall fall into Reincarnation forever."
A blood shadow emerged from behind the stele, its face covered by a Demon Mark and wielding a bone scythe. "A living person? Just in time to offer as a sacrifice for my Soul Devouring Formation!"
As the scythe came crashing down, Yun Che and Xing Wen twisted away, unexpectedly swallowing the demonic energy into their bodies. The blood shadow recoiled three paces. "Heavenly Gang Star Pattern?! You are from the Starfall Clan... Yu Nie!"
Yun Che coughed up Black Blood, feeling Xing Wen writhing beneath his skin like a living creature. The blood shadow suddenly knelt, its Demon Mark 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, Master, take me out!"
She tore open her garment 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 this crystal to help you restore your spiritual power!"
As Yun Che's fingertips brushed against the crystal, Xing Wen 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 body refinement at the seventh level shattered explosively; the spiritual power nourished by demonic energy was purer than anything from the outside world!
Chi Yuan prostrated 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 like mountains along their path. Suddenly, Yun Che's Xing Wen pierced with pain as they approached a broken stone bridge suspended over an abyss filled with countless Bronze Coffins. 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 coffin exploded open! A corpse with blood-red eyes emerged, its bone sword thrusting directly at Yun Che. "Traitor... die!"
Yun Che met it with a punch; however, Nine Thunderclaps only produced three thunderous sounds—this place's laws suppressed spiritual power! The bone sword pierced his shoulder blade as Xing Wen frantically devoured the demonic energy from it, 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, an illusion surfaced in his mind—Three Hundred Years Ago in the Starfall Forbidden Land.
A young man resembling him knelt before an altar, carving Xing Wen into a tribesman's forehead: "With blood as a contract, forever seal Moyuan!"
The young man in the illusion 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 as Chi Yuan used 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 sacrificial offering."
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