Swallowed Star: Lord of the Wolf

This was to cut off any possible escape route for Gu You, while ensuring that Xuanhu City would not suffer any accidents after he left.

Having done all this, the figure of the North Wind God King slowly merged into the cold throne made of ancient ice behind him, his aura completely disappearing, as if he had become one with this eternally silent ice plain.

Only the suspended chessboard and the Chaos Causality Disc, along with the cold, shimmering causal imprints on them, silently proclaimed that a long-woven net of death had already enveloped the sky above Xuanhu City, awaiting the moment to close it.

Xuanhu City, Chaotic Quiet Chamber.

A dark vortex of destruction slowly rotated, and at its center, Gu You's figure remained perfectly calm.

He was unaware of it.

At the very least, he should be completely unaware of all external perceptions and deductions.

His mind was completely absorbed in the gray jade slip given to him by Qing Teng Hou. The cold stream of information about the "Path of Shackles," carrying the cruel warnings of the pain of being stripped away, the silence of being sealed, the calamity of the membrane, evil like maggots, and primal rage, swept over him again and again.

"So that's how it is..." Gu You's will let out a silent sigh in the cold scene constructed by the jade slip, not out of fear, but out of understanding after seeing through the essence.

“Triple shackles: cultivation suppression, will isolation, karmic retribution… This is the insurmountable barrier and cage that the will of the Origin World has set up for those who go against the tide.”

However, this heaviness and cruelty failed to stir up waves of despair in the face of his extraordinary "reliance".

The cheat ability that accompanied him through his rebirths, like an eternal, inextinguishable spark, floats quietly in the center of his heart. Its very existence is a silent mockery and transcendence of the rules of the source world!
The panel appeared, flickering slightly, conveying an ancient, vast aura that transcended the rules of the source world. This aura, like the strongest dam, easily soothed the soul-stirring emotions and premonition of destruction brought about by the "Cause and Effect Evil Calamity Fire" in the jade slip's information.

"The so-called karmic tribulation fire, burning the soul and destroying the path, the death tribulation on the way back..." Gu You's thoughts were cold and resolute, "Under the protection of the golden finger, for me, it is nothing more than a magnificent but ineffective... illusionary pain!"

This absolute confidence, stemming from his golden touch, allowed him to examine this perilous path of life and death with the calmest and most ruthless perspective, and instantly make the most advantageous and boldest decision for himself.

“But this path should not be taken by ‘Gu You’!” A crystal-clear thought cleaved through the fog like lightning.

Beneath his long, dark robe, Gu You's lips curled into a barely perceptible, cold, and calculating smile.

Even though he didn't know that the North Wind God King was monitoring him, his long-standing caution still made him instinctively avoid using the Ancient Nether clone to go there.

“Then let ‘Gu You’ stay here.” Gu You’s will began to turn like the most precise gears, and a perfect plan of shedding its skin and secretly making its way was instantly formed. “The one who will truly embark on the path of shackles, delve into the cosmic sea, and search for the gate to the void world… is ‘Bai Yu’!”

……

Easternmost Region, White Jade City, Sea-Viewing Pavilion.

On the warm, sun-drenched jade cloud couch, Bai Yu, dressed in a moon-white robe, slowly opened his eyes. Deep within his eyes, reflected the cold decisiveness and exquisite calculations perfectly synchronized with the ancient, ethereal clone within the Xuanhu City's quiet chamber.

"The plan is set," Bai Yu whispered, her voice echoing in the spacious Guanhai Pavilion, carrying a sense of composure as if she were in complete control.

"Using the ancient ghost as bait, we will defend Xuanhu City and draw all open and covert attacks. Bai Yu... should be the one to wield the pieces and personally venture into the Cosmic Sea!"

When minds are in sync, no words are needed.

His face showed neither joy nor sorrow, but deep within his eyes, the flame called "Yuan" burned even more intensely.

“Let’s begin,” Bai Yu whispered, her voice resolute.

He had a thought in his mind.

hum!
Inside the Sea-Viewing Pavilion, layers of space rippled outwards, forming a miniature spacetime barrier independent of the outside world, isolating it from all prying eyes. At the same time, the protective array at the core of the City Lord's Mansion was quietly activated, its power contained within, enveloping the Sea-Viewing Pavilion in an even more solid, invisible barrier.

Bai Yu took a deep breath, and his moon-white robe fluttered without wind.

He slowly formed an extremely ancient and complex hand seal in front of his chest, as if it were woven from countless shackles and keys—this was the core hand seal for constructing the shackles of cultivation, as recorded in the jade slip.

"Condense!" came a soft shout, like a lawful maxim.

The ocean of chaotic divine power within Bai Yu's body instantly boiled. Under the absolute control of his powerful will, the vast and boundless chaotic divine power, containing the mysteries of destruction and life, began to undergo astonishing changes.

compression!

Like forcibly compressing, purifying, and condensing a roaring galaxy into a calm, flowing stream, this process was extremely painful. It felt as if billions of invisible needles were piercing every particle of his divine body, imprinting and suppressing the chaotic laws within that surpassed the limits of an eternal true god.

Fine beads of sweat appeared on Bai Yu's forehead, and his body trembled slightly, but his eyes were as cold as iron and his will as firm as a rock.

time flies.

The immense, overwhelming, and distorting Chaos Realm pressure emanating from Bai Yu rapidly diminished and subsided, like a receding tide.

Instead, there was a refined, condensed energy fluctuation that was clearly a level lower—the power of the Eternal True God, which was incomparably pure and no longer contained any characteristics of the Chaos Realm.

The shackles of cultivation have been formed.

Bai Yu's aura was forcibly suppressed from the peak of the Chaos Realm to the limit of the Eternal True God!

But this is just the beginning!
Without pausing, Bai Yu changed his hand seals again, making them even more mysterious and dangerous, as if he were weaving a giant net to seal away souls.

"seal up!"

This time, the pain directly affected the core of his soul, and his will, which was as vast as the sea of ​​stars, capable of creating and destroying stars with a single thought, and deducing the myriad ages, was sealed.

It is difficult to go from low to high, but it is even more difficult to fall from high to low.

Bai Yu's face instantly turned as pale as paper. The pain of having his will forcibly sealed far exceeded that of his physical body being torn apart. It felt like a soaring dragon being shoved into a narrow, cold iron coffin.

Vision becomes narrow and blurry, perception becomes dull and chaotic, and the perspective of the "god" who once controlled everything instantly falls into the limitations of the mortal "human".

The enormous disparity brought about a suffocating and terrifying experience on a spiritual level.

If it weren't for his unwavering resolve, Bai Yu had no doubt that his will would have cracked under such extreme confinement and disparity.

Deep within the sea of ​​consciousness, a “heart coffin” slowly took shape, woven from countless cold, gray-white chains of rules with shackle-like patterns.

Bai Yu's vast divine will was forcibly compressed and sealed within, leaving only a faint yet tenacious fragment of his eternal true god-level consciousness, flickering like a candle in the wind outside the "heart coffin," struggling to maintain control over this body. The will was severed; it was complete!
At this moment, Bai Yu's external cultivation level was Eternal True God, and his internal will and perception were also suppressed to the level of Eternal True God!

From the inside out, he was now a complete "ant" who was "allowed" to exist in the ocean of the universe by the rules of the source world!
"Huff...huff..." Bai Yu gasped for breath, each breath filled with the suffocating feeling of being suppressed. His moon-white robe was soaked with cold sweat and clung tightly to his body.

But his eyes were like tempered iron, cold, sharp, and burning with flames!

Wow~~~~
The great formation was activated, and Huang, who had been suppressed underground, was pulled out. He was still unconscious, lying on the ground like a corpse.

"Now it's up to you." Bai Yu looked coldly at Huang and muttered to herself.

There is only one Origin Continent, but the Cosmic Sea has three thousand dimensions. Passing through the Cosmic Sea through reincarnation, regardless of which Cosmic Sea one chooses, the final destination is always the one and only Origin Continent… However, traversing back through the Cosmic Sea from the Origin Continent is a one-to-many relationship. Without a beacon, the final destination in the Cosmic Sea is uncertain!
Therefore, a beacon is essential if you want to travel to a specific cosmic ocean.

Huang is Baiyu's beacon; his miniature universe and his aura are what Baiyu relied on to successfully descend into that cosmic sea!
hum~~~
Bai Yu slowly raised her hand, her movements incredibly resolute.

He began to sketch in the empty space before him. Wherever his fingertips traced, Dao patterns containing the power of tearing and destruction appeared out of thin air. These Dao patterns were not attacks, but simulations and rehearsals, preparing for the most dangerous step—tearing apart the dimensional membrane between the Origin Continent and the Cosmic Sea!

The void beyond the Origin Continent is virtually endless, lacking the specific boundary membranes of the primordial universe. Therefore, there is no such thing as flying to the edge of the Origin Continent, breaking through the tangible membranes, and descending into the cosmic sea.

The membrane between the primordial continent and the cosmic sea is invisible, established by the supreme rules!

Without the Dharma, even a lifetime of flying and exhausting one's life is in vain; but with the Dharma, even sitting idly in a quiet room, one can quietly depart.

Three months later, preparations were complete.

Bai Yu stood silently, his moon-white robe spotless. The painful traces of the previous stripping and sealing had been quietly smoothed over by the powerful life force. His aura was stable at the limit of an Eternal True God, his eyes calm and undisturbed, like a deep pool or ancient well, revealing no trace of the pressure of a Chaos Realm expert or the vastness of a God-King's will.

After countless rehearsals, he had thoroughly digested and absorbed the experience in the jade slip about tearing the dimensional membrane and avoiding the first wave of backlash, integrating it into his instincts.

“The time has come,” Bai Yu whispered, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

His hands formed a mudra again, and this time, the mudra activated all the energy in the meditation room!
Like a boiling cauldron!

"open--!"

A clear shout, followed by a deafening roar!
An unprecedented and terrifying energy surge suddenly erupted in the indoor space, like billions of stars exploding simultaneously!
The smoothed spacetime transformed into spatial turbulence, which was guided and converged, transforming into an invisible and intangible giant axe capable of tearing apart the membrane of the source world. It then fiercely and decisively cleaved down at a certain node in the void.

Snap—crack—!
A deafening, soul-shattering roar, seemingly originating from the very foundations of the world, resounded throughout our ears.

A massive, dark, twisted rift, radiating an aura of endless destruction and repulsion, suddenly appeared in the void, like a wound forcibly torn open.

The dimensional membrane... was forcibly torn apart by the Dharma.

The passage to the cosmic sea... opened its first rift, almost the instant the crack appeared.

Om-!
A vast, cold, and terrifying pressure originating from the supreme will surged forth from the crack like a world-destroying flood.

This oppressive force ignores defenses and acts directly on the very essence of the soul, carrying the will to punish all those who go against the tide.

This is the first and most violent backlash from the rules!

Bai Yu was prepared!

His body trembled violently like a leaf in a storm, and countless fine cracks instantly appeared on his skin, with golden divine blood seeping from his seven orifices.

The highest rules are emotionless; they are simply business as they are.

If the God-King oversteps his bounds, he will be punished as the God-King would.

If a Chaos transgresses its boundaries, it will be punished by Chaos.

However, the person who wrote the jade slip was a powerful being of the origin, who had already seen through the 'loophole' in the rules, causing Bai Yu to suppress his strength and will to the Eternal True God... Logically speaking, it was absolutely impossible for the Eternal True God to open the reverse passage, but by using the formation and the jade slip's method, he forcibly obtained that sliver of hope... Therefore, the supreme rules had no choice but to impose punishments corresponding to the level of the Eternal True God.

This punishment, though not light, was enough for Bai Yu to bear, and he wouldn't suffer serious injuries like those in the Chaos Realm.

puff!
He spat out another mouthful of divine blood, and Bai Yu's aura weakened considerably, but the light in his eyes grew even sharper. He had successfully... survived the first wave of annihilating fury from the Source World's will... in relatively good condition!

No hesitation!

Bai Yu lifted Huang from beside her feet, and with a flash, like a moth drawn to a flame, she instantly plunged into that dark, twisted dimensional rift that exuded endless repulsion and destructive aura.

The instant his figure disappeared into the crack, the pitch-black wound that had been forcibly torn open and was flowing with the wrath of the rules seemed to lose its supporting force, and under the powerful self-healing ability of the source world's rules, it began to contract and heal violently.

hum!
Finally, with a muffled spatial explosion, the rift leading to the cosmic sea completely disappeared.

Only the lingering spatial fluctuations and faint smell of blood tell the story of that thrilling scene that had just unfolded.

The cause and effect of Bai Yu completely disappeared from the Eastern Extreme Region and the Origin Continent!

……

Unknown cosmic sea layers, dimensional gaps.

Space twisted violently, and the raging turbulence was like a billion steel knives scraping bone. A rather dim streak of light, like a sampan thrown by a giant wave, stumbled and fell awkwardly out of a rapidly narrowing, dark crack.

Whoosh!
The boat barely managed to stabilize itself. The white jade robe standing at the bow was extremely disheveled. He looked back and saw that the rift leading to the Origin Continent had disappeared, leaving only endless chaotic dimensional storms behind him.

"The Reincarnation Passage from the Cosmic Sea to the Origin Continent is as easy as walking on flat ground for anyone at the Void True God realm. But the reverse passage is more than a hundred thousand times more violent. Even I, a realm comparable to a God King, was in such a sorry state." Bai Yu was still shaken. In the 'reverse passage,' he truly felt the power of the Origin World!

The power wasn't specifically targeted at him, but it was just a natural outpouring of power, as if an endless army was attacking his magic weapon.

The cycle of reincarnation from the Cosmic Sea to the Origin Continent is bound by the Supreme Will, and the trials are like a gentle breeze and drizzle.

Conversely, it is unleashed with abandon, as violent as the storms and tempests of the ocean.

No wonder the spaceship, once listed as one of the three most dangerous places in the cosmic sea, was in such a dilapidated state. Aside from attacks from enemies, simply traversing this reverse passage was enough to cause it continuous damage until it crashed. (End of Chapter)