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Chapter 469 Foolish Ants Who Don't Know Their Own Fate!
477. Those ignorant ants who don't know their own mortality!

It raised its giant hand, formed from the power of nothingness, and with a gentle squeeze, the entire ancient starry road suddenly contracted. Endless void energy transformed into tangible chains, wrapping around Xu Qinghan from all directions, intending to crush her completely.

Xu Qinghan felt the space around her completely solidify, and the terrifying pressure made the flame within her tremble. She suddenly unleashed the ancient god's flame, and the golden-black rune between her brows shone brightly. Blazing golden-black flames burst forth from her body, transforming into a towering phantom of a flame war god, firmly protecting her within.

"Lord of Nothingness, your attempt to devour all life is the true death throes!" Xu Qinghan roared, her voice echoing through the ancient starry road, carrying an indomitable will. "As long as the flame burns, hope endures! Your annihilation can never extinguish the life force of the universe!"

The phantom of the God of War suddenly swung his fist, and torrents of golden and black energy shot into the sky, colliding violently with the entangled chains of nothingness!
"Rumble--"

A deafening roar erupted along the ancient starry road, distorting the void and shattering the laws of nature. The golden-black flames and the pitch-black power of nothingness collided violently, eroding and annihilating each other. Xu Qinghan felt a terrifying backlash assail her; the phantom of the Flame God trembled violently, its light dimming. She coughed up a mouthful of blood, her body sent flying backward by the shockwave.

"You ignorant ants!" The voice of the Void Sovereign grew even colder. Its blurry figure suddenly expanded, transforming into an endless expanse of darkness, turning the entire ancient starry road into its domain.

"The Ancient Starry Road is an unparalleled killing formation laid down by my lord using the essence of billions of stars as a guide and the essence of nothingness as a foundation! It can devour all things and obliterate the soul; even the immortal kings of ancient eras have perished within it!" The voice of the Void Sovereign carried boundless majesty and pride. "How can you, a mere igniter of this realm, possibly withstand it?"

Its words, like law, unleashed the full power of the entire ancient starry road. Countless invisible, pitch-black hands reached out from the void, piercing through the phantom of the God of War and directly grabbing at Xu Qinghan's soul!

Xu Qinghan felt her soul tremble violently as a cold, decaying power attempted to erode her consciousness, dragging her into endless despair and illusion. She saw the vanishing figures of the Flame Guardians and the apocalyptic scene of the universe being completely swallowed by darkness.

"No!" Xu Qinghan let out a painful growl as she abruptly activated the golden-black rune between her brows.

At the critical moment, the rune burst forth with unprecedented light, and a blazing golden-black flame shot out from the depths of her soul, transforming into a small, chaotic, golden-black sun that instantly vaporized the ethereal hands that were trying to erode her soul!

This is the power of extinguishing the flame! In times of crisis, it demonstrates a powerful resistance and purification ability against the power of nothingness. It is not merely a simple resistance, but rather carries a trace of insight into the origin of nothingness, like a wisp of extinguishing light in the flame, capable of purifying nothingness in reverse.

Xu Qinghan's consciousness snapped back to reality, a flash of understanding crossing her eyes. The extinguishing of the flame not only strengthened her own flame power but also gave her a deeper understanding of the essence of nothingness. Nothingness is not simply "emptiness"; it also contains a certain origin of "extinction," while the flame is the origin of "life." Life and death, extinction and hope, are two sides of the same coin in the universe.

"The flame of knowledge is extinguished!" A thought suddenly flashed through Xu Qinghan's mind. This is not depravity, but transcendence!

She abruptly closed her eyes, immersing herself completely in the realization that came with the extinguishing of the flame. She no longer simply used the flame to fight against nothingness, but tried to "understand" nothingness and "master" it.

The ancient divine flame within her was no longer simply golden, but a tapestry of gold and black, like the deepest night blending into golden flames. This was not a result of being corrupted by nothingness, but rather the initial fusion of the flame with the essence of nothingness—an unprecedented transformation!
"Hmm?" The blurry figure of the Void Overlord trembled violently. It sensed that the aura emanating from Xu Qinghan had become even stronger in the Ancient Starry Road, and even showed a slight resonance with the Ancient Starry Road!
"Impossible! How can you control the power of nothingness?!" The Void Ruler exclaimed in a voice filled with astonishment and doubt, its voice carrying a hint of emotion for the first time.

Xu Qinghan suddenly opened her eyes. In her eyes, there was no longer a simple gold, but a chaotic light interwoven with gold and black, deep and mysterious.

She raised her hand, and a flame of interwoven gold and black rose from her palm. The flame did not have a scorching temperature, but it carried a kind of annihilation and rebirth that could devour everything.

"The Lord of Nothingness laid down the Ancient Star Road, intending to extinguish all life, but little did he know that life and annihilation are inherently interdependent and mutually reinforcing!" Xu Qinghan's voice became ethereal and majestic, as if containing some kind of universal truth. "The Ancient Star Road, today I, the one who ignited the flame, will reverse the course of fate for you!"

She suddenly thrust out the golden-black flame from her palm, and the flame instantly expanded, transforming into a golden-black vortex that crashed towards the Void Ruler!

"Reversal? Wishful thinking!" The Void Overlord roared in anger. Its massive body suddenly solidified, transforming into a pitch-black demon god. Its towering body stood tall and upright, surrounded by countless void chains, each chain connecting to various nodes of the ancient starry road.

It swung its arms violently, mobilizing the power of the entire Starry Sky Ancient Road to its limit. Countless jet-black runes flew out from the formation, transforming into torrents of nothingness that crashed towards Xu Qinghan, intending to crush her along with the golden-black vortex!
"The flame of life dissipates into nothingness, and all laws return to one!" Xu Qinghan roared. Instead of retreating, she advanced, her body transforming into a golden-black stream of light, rushing straight into the void!
The golden-black vortex around her suddenly expanded, and began to actively devour the torrent of nothingness! The nothingness energy, which carried the power to corrode all things, was decomposed and purified in the golden-black vortex, and finally transformed into the purest energy, nourishing the flame within Xu Qinghan's body!

This is a miracle brought about by the extinguishing of the flame! It gave Xu Qinghan the ability to transform the power of nothingness into the energy of the flame. Although the conversion rate is extremely low, in this ancient starry road, it is like a fish entering the sea, giving her an inexhaustible source of power!
The Void Ruler was utterly shocked.

The Void Ruler was utterly shocked.

For the first time, its massive, ethereal body felt a tremor of its very essence as it was devoured by the golden-black vortex. For countless eons, as the representative of the Lord of Nothingness on the ancient starry road, no being had ever been able to so directly erode its power, let alone convert it for its own use! This was nothing short of a desecration of the laws of the void, a reversal of "nothingness"! "This is impossible! How can you, a kindler of the flame, transform the power of nothingness into nourishment for the flame?!" The Lord of Nothingness let out a piercing shriek, its voice filled with unbelievable anger and fear, echoing deep within the deathly silent ancient starry road.

Xu Qinghan did not respond. Her eyes swirled with a chaotic golden-black light, deep and mysterious. The golden-black vortex around her suddenly expanded, like a bottomless pit, frantically devouring the surrounding torrent of nothingness. The power of nothingness that was originally enough to obliterate everything was now like a tamed wild horse, being decomposed and purified in the golden-black vortex, ultimately transforming into the purest energy to nourish her flame.

Nourished by the power of nothingness, her body became both more solid and more ethereal. She seemed no longer to be made of flesh and blood, but a special existence existing between "being" and "non-being," a chaotic combination of primordial fire and nothingness. The ancient divine primordial fire rune between her brows shone even brighter, as if deciphering the deepest mysteries of the universe.

"The extinguishing of the flame is not simply destruction, but rather using annihilation as a catalyst to reshape new life!" Xu Qinghan's voice carried an inexplicable majesty. With each portion of the power of nothingness she absorbed, her understanding of the origin of nothingness deepened. She could sense that the Lord of Nothingness had laid down this ancient starry path, intending to obliterate all life, but it had overlooked the fact that nothingness itself was also part of the Great Dao of the Universe, another form of existence after life had reached its ultimate annihilation.

The Void Sovereign sensed an unprecedented threat. It suddenly unleashed all its power, and its enormous void body expanded once more, transforming into a boundless, pitch-black domain that extended its will over the entire ancient starry road.

"Nothingness vanishes, all things return to nothingness!"

It unleashed a deafening roar, and countless jet-black chains of nothingness stretched out from the void. These were no longer mere energy attacks, but rather contained the annihilating laws of nothingness itself; each chain was powerful enough to grind stars to dust and obliterate souls into nothingness. These chains writh like living creatures, coiling around Xu Qinghan from all directions, intent on completely imprisoning her and then disintegrating her!
A hint of seriousness flashed in Xu Qinghan's eyes. She knew that this was the Void Sovereign's ultimate move, mobilizing the power of the entire Starry Sky Ancient Road to leave her here permanently.

Instead of backing down, she proactively faced the ethereal chains. The golden-black vortex around her suddenly contracted, then erupted again, transforming into a golden-black pillar of light that shot into the sky, directly colliding with the overwhelming ethereal chains!
"Rumble--"

A deafening roar erupted along the ancient starry road, distorting the void and shattering its laws. The golden-black pillar of light clashed violently with the pitch-black chains of nothingness, eroding and annihilating each other. However, this time, the golden-black pillar of light was no longer passively resisting; instead, it actively devoured the chains of nothingness, decomposing and purifying them, transforming them into the purest energy to nourish Xu Qinghan's flame.

Her "Transforming the Flame into Emptiness" ability was displayed to its fullest extent at this moment. She could simulate a portion of the Flame's power into a form of nothingness, thereby better merging into the void, avoiding the perception of the Void Chains, and even, at certain moments, briefly wielding the Void Chains to launch a counterattack against the Void Ruler!
"You...you can actually wield the power of my Lord?!" The voice of the Void Sovereign was filled with disbelief, anger, and terror. It had never seen such a bizarre Flame Ignitioner; she could not only transform the Void, but even control it! This was beyond its comprehension.

Xu Qinghan's body flickered in and out of existence within the golden-black pillar of light, her aura growing increasingly powerful and profound. She could sense that the devoured chains of nothingness contained the deepest layers of the laws governing the ancient starry road, as well as the secrets of the array laid down by the Lord of Nothingness. Her abilities of "analysis" and "reconstruction" were pushed to their limits at this moment; she seemed to see the trajectory of the ancient starry road and the intentions hidden within it by the Lord of Nothingness.

“The Ancient Starry Sky Road is not simply a killing formation; it is more like a giant furnace, an altar…” Xu Qinghan’s heart trembled. From the disintegrated chains of nothingness, she deciphered a faint connection that pointed to the core of the Ancient Starry Sky Road, to the legendary “Chaos Fire.”

She suddenly looked up, her gaze piercing through the endless darkness to the pitch-black altar where the Void Sovereign sat cross-legged. She could sense a faint yet incredibly ancient aura pulsating beneath the altar, an aura carrying a primordial chaos, a stillness before the creation of the world, yet containing boundless vitality.

"The Chaos Flame... it's suppressed beneath the altar!" Xu Qinghan's heart jolted. She understood the true purpose of the Lord of Nothingness. It didn't intend to completely annihilate the Chaos Flame, but rather to use the ancient starry road as a furnace, and the power of endless nothingness as fuel, to thoroughly "void" the Chaos Flame, transforming it into the Lord of Nothingness's power, or to completely control it, making it a tool for its eternal annihilation!

"What have you discovered?!" The Void Overlord roared suddenly, its voice tinged with panic. It hadn't expected that Xu Qinghan could deduce such a profound secret from its attack.

"You think that by suppressing the Chaos Flame, you can completely control it? You think that by returning the universe to nothingness, you can achieve true eternity?!" Xu Qinghan's voice carried a hint of sarcasm. The golden-black pillar of light around her suddenly expanded, devouring all the incoming chains of nothingness.

"Chaos is the source of birth and death; nothingness and vitality both originate from it! You attempt to generalize from a single instance, to extinguish existence with nothingness, and you will ultimately suffer the consequences!"

She suddenly unleashed all her power, and the golden-black rune between her brows shone brightly. Streams of golden-black light burst forth from her body, transforming into a sea of ​​golden-black fire that instantly engulfed the entire domain of the Void Ruler!

"The flames are extinguished, the void is burned to ashes!" Xu Qinghan roared, her golden-black fire blade slashing out fiercely. Streaks of golden-black light tore through the void, directly striking the body of the Void Ruler!

The Void Sovereign let out a desperate roar, its massive body trembling violently within the sea of ​​golden and black flames. Dark void energy surged forth from its body like a tidal wave, attempting to withstand the attack of the golden and black fire blades. However, the golden and black fire blades, imbued with the primal power of annihilation, sliced ​​through its defenses as easily as cutting tofu, striking its chest with deadly force!

"laugh--"

A piercing tearing sound rang out, and the chest of the Void Sovereign was cleaved open by the golden-black fire blade, creating a huge gash. Dark void energy surged out of the gash like a tide, and its body trembled violently as its light rapidly dimmed.

(End of this chapter)