Swallowed Star: Lord of the Wolf

Under the system's cover, Xu Yang, like a ghost, silently crossed the gaps in the swarm of demonic mosquitoes and appeared directly beneath that enormous body—near the toes of the corpse of the Chaos Ruler, which stretched across the middle cliff of the Demon Abyss and exuded a vast and powerful aura.

The system's white light shone like jade, but it was invisible to both ordinary magical mosquitoes and the Life-Destroying Mosquito King.

With a 'plop', he clung to the petrified, dried skin of his massive, mountain-like toes like dust.

"Finally... I've touched it!" Xu Yang's mind was filled with excitement and tension. This was the first time he had come into contact with the Chaos Ruler, even though it had been dead for countless years.

Without further hesitation, he focused his mind on the system panel, locked onto the Time Rewind function under the [Chaos Abyss] option, and selected the target—"Radiant Golden Body".

hum...

The system panel instantly burst forth with an unprecedentedly dazzling light!
Unlike before, this time it was no longer a careful extraction, but a domineering torrent that seemed to tear through time and space and trace back to the origin.

At the very moment he chose the radiant golden body—

Boom, boom! ! !

An unimaginable tremor, originating from the deepest essence of life, suddenly erupted from the depths of the corpse of the Chaos Ruler, which had been dormant for countless billions of epochs.

The entire massive corpse, spanning billions of kilometers, trembled violently, as if a sleeping giant had been awakened.

The shaking was terrifying, as if the entire middle layer of the Chaotic Abyss was trembling. The huge, solidified folds on the surface of the corpses, the dried wounds, the nests built by the demonic mosquitoes... all trembled violently!

The enormous mosquito nest attached to it was as if it had been hit by an apocalyptic earthquake, with countless mosquitoes falling out of control amidst sharp hisses... Even the Life and Death Mosquito King, which was perched on top of the nest, fluttered its wings in panic, its huge compound eyes filled with unprecedented fear and bewilderment.

They have lived here for generations and have never seen this "sacred mountain" make any noise!
This sudden tremor was unprecedented in history.

At the same time, the four ancient characters 【Radiant Golden Body】 on the system panel in front of Xu Yang suddenly lit up, like a red-hot branding iron, with dazzling light.

Immediately afterwards, the light seemed to break free from the panel's constraints, transforming into a pure, dark golden torrent containing infinite energy, which poured into Xu Yang's divine body with terrifying power!

"Well--!"

Xu Yang let out a muffled groan. This infusion was completely different from before!
It is billions of times more violent than when consciousness travels through time, and it is no longer the transmission of knowledge, but a forced infusion and transformation of a primordial power.

It felt as if I no longer needed to cultivate slowly; I could directly plunder the power of the Chaos Ruler's remains from his lifetime.

This force is vast, ancient, resilient, and immortal...

It relentlessly washed over, tore apart, and reshaped every fundamental particle of this divine body! Countless mysteries about the structure of the divine body, the ultimate methods of tempering the divine body with chaotic energy, the secrets to perfect resonance between will and divine body... flooded into the core of his soul like a burst dam.

Extremely fast.

Moreover, this dark golden torrent did not only affect this clone in the Chaos Abyss.

At the same time, the divine body of the clone in the Chaos Meditation Chamber of the Burning Flame Tribe and another clone lurking in the Yongzan Tribe were also thrown into the core of the furnace.

boom!
boom!
boom!
Three divine bodies, traversing endless time and space, simultaneously and synchronously improved.

……

Inside the Chaos Meditation Chamber of the Burning Flame Tribe, the clone sitting cross-legged on the stone platform suddenly opened its eyes, a burst of dark golden light flashing deep within its pupils. It looked up at the sky, feeling the power that had appeared out of nowhere within its body.

The originally peaceful chaotic energy around him was instantly stirred into a violent vortex.

A vast, ancient, and terrifying divine pressure, seemingly originating from the beginning of chaos, spread out uncontrollably, slamming into the special wall of the meditation room that could absorb chaotic energy, producing a muffled, thunderous roar!

……

Inside the simple stone house of the Yongzan tribe, the clone was instantly enveloped in dark golden light, like a human-shaped dark golden sun!

Guji, who was standing to the side, was startled and looked at Xu Yang with a slightly flustered expression. At the same time, she waved her hand to set up a barrier to prevent her aura from leaking out.

……

"Oh no! The energy has surged!"

The alarm bells are ringing from the shared consciousness core of the three bodies.

Almost instinctively, Xu Yang simultaneously activated his formless and shapeless abilities!

hum!
Inside the meditation room of the Burning Flame Division, the terrifying pressure of the divine body was as if forcibly erased by an invisible hand. The dark golden light flowing across its surface instantly subsided, becoming plain and unadorned.

Inside the stone house of the Yongzan tribe, the blinding golden light suddenly went out, and the violent aura vanished without a trace, as if the previous anomaly was just an illusion.

……

In the Chaotic Abyss, the clone attached to the giant toe also had fleeting dark gold runes on its body, but these were perfectly concealed by the system's power.

External appearances can conceal the true nature of things, but the transformation within the divine body proceeds irresistibly, like the Big Bang.

Every cell was greedily absorbing the dark golden torrent, its structure was being optimized and strengthened! The density, strength, resilience, and affinity with chaotic energy of the divine body were all soaring at an alarming rate!

The feeling was like throwing an ordinary piece of iron into the ultimate furnace for forging divine weapons, where it was being forcibly hammered, tempered, and imbued with divinity!
……

Over the sky.

The enormous compound eyes of the Mosquito King, resembling a lava lake, gleamed with a cold and bewildered light.

Its enormous body flew up and down continuously. On its dark golden carapace, black and white patterns of destruction and life flowed with uneasy light. It was followed by a large group of demonic mosquitoes that were only slightly smaller than it. These were also alien insects of the level of eternal true gods.

Just now, it clearly felt a tremor originating from the core of the "sacred mountain" that made its soul tremble.

These are ancient, lifeless corpses, which it watched fall with its own eyes!
They're long dead!
Otherwise, even if you gave it a hundred times the courage, it wouldn't dare to build a nest on the Chaos Ruler.

Its incomparably powerful will, honed over countless years and comparable to that of a primordial ruler, swept across every inch of the corpse like a chaotic storm, attempting to find the source of the tremors.

However, in its consciousness, apart from the aura of its own offspring, there was nothing but emptiness and deathly stillness.

There was no sign of any foreign life, nor any trace of any abnormal energy burst.

It was as if the shaking of the corpse was just an illusion, yet the tremors seen by the compound eyes were so real.

The conflict and contradiction between the thought and what the eyes saw confused its brain, which was no less wise than any eternal true god.

It also plunged its countless offspring, who were waiting for its commands, into a state of blindness, only knowing how to fly around in circles, watching their nests fall one after another.

Rumbling sounds filled Xu Yang's body, as if the heavens and earth were being created.

Every basic particle that constitutes the divine body is trembling and reconstructing wildly! The vast and boundless dark golden energy is violently washing over the body, yet it is also like billions of the most precise carving knives, following the most fundamental laws and principles of the supreme rules, carrying out a deep transformation and tempering of his divine body.

Finely crafted.

Countless mysterious and complex runes naturally generate and circulate deep within every particle of the divine body.

Once these secret patterns are applied, they immediately change from static to dynamic, expanding and contracting like breathing, creating a strange resonance with the omnipresent chaotic energy.

Each resonance is like an invisible forging, stripping away the purest and most "golden and immortal" primordial particles of chaotic energy and fusing them into the divine body.

painful.

This is pain powerful enough to shatter the will of an eternal true god; the pain of reconstructing the divine body transcends the limits of the physical body, reaching the deepest recesses of the soul. Each fragmentation and reassembly of particles is like tearing the soul apart and then stitching it back together.

Fortunately, Xu Yang's greatest strength is his ability to endure pain.

Watching firsthand, the divine body seemed to transform into a giant, active chaotic furnace, with violent chaotic energy surging into its body. No longer requiring tedious refining, it was instantly decomposed, absorbed, and transformed into pure divine body primordial energy by those dark gold runes, nourishing and further strengthening the divine body itself.

This conversion efficiency is many times greater than before.

The idea that breathing can make you stronger is not just a saying.

The will at the level of a Chaos Overlord seemed to have found its most solid anchor. The connection between the will and the divine body was closer than ever before; wherever the will went, the power of the divine body could erupt perfectly without the slightest delay.

A feeling of "body is mind, mind is body" filled my mind.

This is far more than just an improvement in handling.

This is a transformation and sublimation of the level of life, a process of deeply engraving the true meaning of "radiance" and "golden body" into the essence of the divine body.

"It's done! The Radiant Golden Body... After arriving on the Origin Continent, the extraction didn't even require me to cultivate; it directly transferred the body refinement realm of the Chaos Ruler's corpse to me!"

"True Chaos Overlord-level Body Refinement!"

Xu Yang's thoughts surged amidst extreme pain and sublimation, becoming uncontrollable.

The divine body has transformed from being as fragile as ordinary rocks to being as resilient as a "chaos overlord-level weapon".

Moreover, when the Chaos Ruler inscribed the secret runes, he focused on cultivation, allowing the runes to absorb chaotic energy at any time and place, tempering his physical body and enabling it to evolve... This was most suitable for the "Radiant Golden Body" secret technique, which required a lot of time and effort. The effects might not be visible in a short time, but over endless years, it would eventually lead to a higher realm.

time flies.

After the storm of transformation within the divine body reached its peak, it receded rapidly like a tide.

At the very moment his divine body completed its final transformation and his power became completely stable—

Inside the corpse of the Chaos Overlord that provided him with power, it seemed that the last thread of his vital energy had been completely drained away...

Om-!
A deep, piercing hum, like a cosmic lament, resounded from the deepest part of the corpse.

It was like the last mournful cry of this chaotic ruler in the world.

Immediately afterwards, the colossal corpse, spanning billions of kilometers and resembling an ancient divine mountain, sat cross-legged at the core of the Chaotic Abyss, and its tremors reached an unprecedented peak.

It is... a precursor to a total collapse.

Starting from the toes that Xu Yang was clinging to, it was like dominoes falling, or like a sand sculpture eroded by millions of years welcoming the last breath of a breeze—

Click!

Click!

Snap, snap——!
The subtle yet dense cracking sounds instantly merged into a grand death knell that engulfed everything!

The "skin" covering the corpse, which had long been petrified and dried, and whose hardness had dropped to the level of an eternal true god, was instantly covered with billions of spiderweb-like cracks, as if it had lost the support of its internal skeleton.

Within the crack, there was no more flesh and blood, no more divine light, only a deathly silence and desolation.

Then, under the terrified gaze of billions of demonic mosquitoes' compound eyes, and reflected in the solidified, molten lava-like pupils of the Mosquito King of Life and Death…

The unimaginably massive corpse of the Chaos Overlord collapsed!

As if ground into the finest dust in an instant by an invisible millstone, the grayish-white dust surged out like a sandstorm from every corner and every crack of the corpse.

First the toes, then the ankles, then the knees, then the thighs... the collapse happened faster than anyone could have imagined.

The majestic divine body, spanning billions of kilometers, vanished in the blink of an eye, like a giant peak made of fine sand encountering a cataclysmic storm, silently yet irresistibly reduced to ashes from the bottom up.

A massive, gray-white cloud of dust, like a veil of death, instantly spread out and even penetrated into the upper space!
Those enormous mosquito nests built on the backs and joints of the corpses lost their foundations and, along with some of the mosquitoes that had not escaped, were crushed and swallowed by the collapsing sandstorm.

"Buzzing—!!!!!!!!!"

The Mosquito King, which dwells in the void, let out an unprecedented, mournful, and desperate cry!
The sound pierced through the chaotic miasma and resounded throughout the entire Demon Abyss!

In its compound eyes, the rapidly dissipating "sacred mountain" is reflected, as is the homeland where its people have thrived for countless ages, collapsing into nothingness before its eyes.

And the instigator of all this—Xu Yang—is quietly suspended at the starting point of the initial collapse.

The system's white light remained as bright as jade, perfectly isolating him from this apocalyptic scene.

He looked down at his clenched fist.

Beneath his fair skin lay a terrifying resilience and power comparable to a primordial treasure. He looked up again, a complex light flashing in his eyes through the swirling dust.

He hadn't expected the harvest to be so great... far greater than he could have imagined beforehand.

Rumble, rumble—! ! !
Suddenly, a tremor tens of thousands of times more terrifying than the collapse of corpses erupted from beneath the unfathomable lower levels of the Chaos Abyss, amidst the chaotic miasma.

This tremor did not originate from any specific point, but rather seemed to be trembling, twisting, and... arching upwards from the very bottom structure of the Chaos Abyss!
The gray-white dust cloud that spread out, engulfing the middle layer and even affecting the upper layer, was instantly torn apart and dispersed by a violent force, as if it had been slammed down by an invisible giant hand.

An indescribable, terrifying aura, seemingly originating from the deepest, most malevolent abyss of the universe, swept upwards like a cataclysmic tsunami...

The sheer vastness, antiquity, malevolence, and purity of this aura far surpassed the collapsed remains of the Chaos Sovereign! (End of Chapter)