Reborn with infinite panels

Chapter 304 Cultivation World 93
The excruciating pain felt like millions of poisoned ice needles piercing her soul, accompanied by a strange, tingling sensation as her limbs were rebuilt. Every nerve in Si Lingle's body, reborn from the dead, was screaming wildly.

The newly formed arm shimmered with a warm, jade-like luster, yet within it surged a vast stellar energy far exceeding that of her prime, along with an ancient, cold, and hard power as fundamental as the rules themselves.

It seemed not to be part of flesh and blood, but rather an extension of the will of this desolate ruin, a key temporarily consecrated by "Primordial Stardust," cold and heavy.

"Uh..." She tried to lift the unfamiliar arm, and a faint but clear sound, like glass rubbing together, came from the joints, followed by an even more intense tearing sensation.

But a deeper power was also flowing into her core at the same time—an "anchoring" force originating from that icy blue light ripple, which stubbornly resisted the omnipresent solidification law of the ruins, like struggling to carve out a tiny active path in frozen amber.

In the dark, secret chamber of the Heavenly Dao Council Hall, Elder Kunxu's withered figure had already stood up.

The two clusters of black flames in their eye sockets had now completely transformed into two wildly spinning miniature black holes, devouring all light.

An endless aura of decay, mixed with icy ecstasy and greed, almost burst through the shell that had been disguised for hundreds of years.

"The key! The key to return!" A hoarse whisper echoed in the secret chamber, carrying a strange resonance, as if countless voices were superimposed. Without needing to see with the naked eye, space and time began to violently distort and wrinkle wherever her will reached.

A bridge drawn purely by shadows—ignoring physical distance—is tearing through space and time at an incredible speed from the core of the array in the center of the secret chamber, precisely extending towards the battlefield of the broken chains of the ruins!
Along the way, the barriers of the three realms were silently torn open like thin paper, creating an absolutely dark rift.

Just as Si Lingle endured the excruciating pain, trying to comprehend the newborn arm and the surging icy blue power within her body, and sensing the terrifying shadow rapidly approaching from the distant core—

A sudden change occurred!

Inside the massive, deathly silent ruins, a deep, heavy hum, like the beating of an ancient heart, suddenly erupted from the deep, winding passageways leading to the core of the ruins!
The sound wasn't loud, but it carried a primal, untamed impact, instantly piercing through the solidified field of rules!
Om-!
With that buzzing sound, the absolute stillness law covering the entire ruins showed a momentary, extremely slight loosening! But for Si Lingle, who was at the critical point, this loosening was like a drowning person being suddenly pulled out of the water!

Even more terrifying, on the huge skeleton, two points of eerie blue light suddenly lit up from a huge, dark depression that was originally either an eye socket or a wound!
The light was cold, pure, and devoid of any emotion, like the cold nuclear fire left behind after an ancient star had been extinguished.

They "lit up" without warning, not "opened up," but rather it was more like some dormant mechanism was triggered by external stimuli (Kunxu's forced connection + Si Lingle's reshaping activation)!

That gaze pierced through space and instantly locked onto Si Lingle, who was suspended at the edge—especially the ever-flowing icy blue stardust on her newborn arm!

This fleeting eye contact was far more ancient and vast than Kunxu's malice.

A sharp pain shot through Si Lingle's head, and countless fragmented, incomprehensible images forced their way into her consciousness:

The birth and collapse of stars (grand and magnificent)
A torrent of cold metal tore through the void (ruthless and cruel).
An indescribable, enormous, distorted shadow (bringing pure despair).
A solitary blue light pierced through everything, finally embedding itself in the core of the skeleton (as if it were its destined fate).
These fragments, carrying the cold torrent of time, washed over her true spirit, allowing her to instantly understand the essence of this enormous skeleton—it was not the remains of a living being, but the ultimate war fortress used by an unimaginable prehistoric civilization to carry its consciousness and explore the path beyond the "End"!

It failed and died here, but sealed a mark of hope (that blue light, the same substance as the "Primordial Fragment") here.

The "key fragment" that Kunxu craved was a tiny projection of this mark!
Si Lingle's new arm was able to miraculously revert and rebuild itself under the laws of the ruins because it was integrated with this projection!

Just as the Eye of the Skeleton lit up, the space above the ruins suddenly twisted and shattered violently, like the surface of a mirror lake tossed with a giant rock!
A pure, pitch-black crack, seemingly capable of absorbing all light and energy, suddenly opened up!

A gigantic claw, formed from countless boiling, churning shadows, decaying ashes, and the pure aura of "Echoes of the End," burst forth from the crack!
The giant claw covered half of the ruins, its shadowy scales and claws clearly visible, exuding a destructive pressure, its target aimed directly at Si Lingle—no, at her newly grown arm!
This giant claw brought not just a simple physical impact, but also a pollution at the level of laws!

Wherever it passed, even the solidified, deathly space of the ruins groaned under its unbearable burden, and was stained with a filthy gray-black!

The flow of time strangely accelerated and slowed down in front of the claw, as if it wanted to forcibly drag Si Lingle and this space into the erosion domain of "Echoes of the End".

"Insects! Return the key! Return to utter silence!" Kunxu's twisted voice, like the grinding of countless withered bones, roared directly into the depths of Si Lingle's consciousness, attempting to crush the will she had just condensed.

There is no way to retreat! Life or death is a choice made in the next instant!
The excruciating pain and the threat of death were like ice water poured over her head, but instead ignited the confusion in Si Lingle's purple eyes into a raging inferno!

That wasn't reckless rage, but the fierce fangs bared by a lone wolf cornered against a cliff!

"Don't even think about it——!"

A roar filled with pain, yet brimming with an indomitable will, exploded from her throat! She did not dodge; instead, she fiercely raised her rebuilt arm towards the colossal, shadowy claw that blotted out the sky!
It's not defense, it's offense!

The icy blue "anchoring" power within his body resonated with his newly grown arm in an unprecedented way!
The jade on his arm instantly became dazzlingly bright, and the icy blue halo was no longer a protective ripple, but transformed into countless extremely thin yet sharp blue lines that could cut through the rules themselves!
Ignoring the distortion and suppression of space and time, like billions of invisible needles, they fiercely and resolutely pierced its core—the churning and boiling decaying origin—against the erosive power of the laws contained in the giant claw of the Kunxu shadow!
laugh--!
It wasn't a deafening explosion, but rather the sound of a red-hot iron being pressed into ice, melting away!
The giant claw that was reaching down suddenly stopped!
The shadows and filth covering it dissolved and dissipated rapidly! It wasn't a clash of forces, but rather the erosion of a lower law by a higher-order law!

Kunxu's will, transmitted across space, let out a muffled groan that was hard to discern as either anger or pain! The primordial projection fused in Si Lingle's arm was essentially the key to this relic fortress's resistance against the "End"!

It couldn't tear the giant claw apart instantly, but it caused a real stinging pain to the decaying body that had fused with some of the "End" power, and forcibly interfered with the transmission of its power at the point of contact!
The cost was extremely high!

"Pfft!" Si Lingle suddenly spat out a mouthful of pale purple blood mixed with stardust fragments (more like energy-state blood clots). Her newly reconstructed body was once again covered with fine cracks, as if it was about to explode completely at any moment!

But she stood firm, her purple eyes like the core of a burnt-out star, locked tightly on the giant claw that was beginning to become illusory and distorted.

A brief stalemate! A fatal flaw!
Deep within the ruins, the skeletal eye coldly observed everything. Within its enormous eye socket, a faint, eerie blue light flickered.

Boom!
The entire skeletal remains are like a giant dragon that has been sleeping for ten thousand years turning over in a dream!
A repulsive force far more primal and immense than Kunxu's pursuit—the pure self-purification law of relics—suddenly erupted!
It wasn't directed at Kunxu, but rather it indiscriminately swept across the entire interior and surrounding unstable spatial nodes of the ruins!

The giant shadowy claw, which had been momentarily blocked by Si Lingle and had not yet fully retreated into the crack, crashed into the red-hot iron wall like a bubble!
Bang—crack!
With a sickeningly sharp crack, the shadow and decaying energy that formed the core of the giant claw were instantly crushed by this ancient and powerful force, shattering a section of finger bone!
The surging shadow energy erupted like a burst dam, only to be swiftly purified and erased by the laws of the ruins!
In a secret chamber deep within the Three Realms, Kunxu's true form let out a sharp whistle that pierced the void!
The backlash from the forced tearing apart of the projection caused the black flame at his core to shake violently, and his aura instantly weakened!
The repulsive force of the ruins, like an invisible tsunami, also struck Si Lingle hard.

Like a leaf caught in a hurricane, she was suddenly flung away, leaving the edge of the core area of ​​the ruins, and crashing hard into a relatively broken fragment of the ruins in the distance.

Just as Si Lingle's consciousness was fading again, she bumped into the fragment, and the dim patterns on the fragment's surface were activated by the point of contact with her newborn arm!
hum...

A dim blue portal, barely wide enough for one person to pass through, silently opened on the surface of the fragment.

A faint but steady spatial pulling force emanated from it, full of the meaning of "detachment".

Is this the site's self-protection mechanism?
Or is it an activated "Starry Sky Ark" emergency escape route leading to an unknown land?

Si Lingle had no choice.

With the last vestige of her conscious will, she felt the cold "gaze" of the skeletal eye deep within the ruins (it was not benevolent, but simply a cleansing), and sensed the terrifying aura of Kunxu in the distant land, filled with greed and rage, which was bound to return.

She did not look back at the magnificent tomb; her purple eyes ultimately reflected only the empty, deep void.

Driven by the instinct for survival, her body transformed into a nearly burnt-out starlight, and she resolutely plunged into the dim blue light gate.

The portal closed instantly after she entered, and the fragments fell silent again, as if nothing had happened.

The eerie blue eyes of the remains slowly "extinguished".

In the distant core chamber, the aura of Kunxu, after its violent outburst, fell into a terrifying, deathly silence.

The shadows churned violently around him, like a wounded beast licking its wounds and plotting an even more fatal blow. He "saw" the direction Si Lingle was fleeing in.

"Escape...where can you escape to? The light of the key...will ultimately guide 'the end' back to its nest..."

This unexpected first battle ended in a near-loss-lose situation.

Si Lingle was covered in wounds, not only suffering extreme pain and near collapse in her body, but also having her soul pierced by the cruel truth and the despairing fragments carried by the ancient skeleton.

She was given a new lease on life, but was thrust into the center of a much larger and darker vortex of chess.

She obtained the power and knowledge fragments of the "Key Fragment," which gave her a sliver of hope in fighting against the "Echo of the End," but also made her the prey of two supreme beings—one being Kunxu, the End Fuder who wanted to devour her and evolve himself.
On the other side, the indifferent will of the ruins (or the remaining fortress consciousness within it) views Si Lingle as a container or tool carrying a key, its purpose unclear. Is this escape door leading to the unknown a refuge or a cage leading to another dead end?

What secrets and costs are hidden behind the new arm and the power of the Primal Stardust?

She will embark on an unknown journey of wandering and seeking the truth, carrying her scarred body and soul.

The real war has only just begun, and the enormous skeletons left behind by the Starfall Era are merely the entrance to a vast abyss.

Her return was like the first faint spark ignited on a dark sea; whether it could spread like wildfire remained to be seen.