Many children, many blessings: Stealing the offspring of powerful figures to cultivate immortality.

"Bang!"

Yu Luofeng stepped onto the hard black reef on the outer edge of the abandoned garden, and the terrifying power of the semi-saint level directly caused the ground within a radius of ten feet to collapse.

Two clueless debt collectors from the Coffin Society were lurking in the shadows, trying to approach the abandoned garden. They didn't even have a chance to draw their swords; Yu Luofeng snorted coldly and casually waved his hand.

A giant white bone hand, ten feet long, instantly materialized in mid-air and slammed down with a sonic boom that tore through the air!

"Pfft!"

The two assassins, both at the Bone-Piercing Realm, were like two pitiful mosquitoes, instantly swatted into two pools of rotten flesh, their blood mist mixed with fragments of internal organs splattering onto the surrounding ruins.

Yu Luofeng strode across the blood-stained ground, his gaze piercing through the remaining array barriers of the ruined garden like a sharp sword. He didn't even glance at Gu Qinghan beside him; his dark golden vertical pupils were fixed on Su Chenzhou, who stood very close to Jiang Yining.

"It's you, you shameful scum!" Yu Luofeng's ghostly aura surged wildly as he spoke, each word dripping with a violent rage that threatened to grind the other man to dust. "You dared to touch her while I was away?"

The air was instantly thick with the smell of gunpowder; it felt like a powder keg ready to explode at any moment.

Su Chenzhou's eyes were cold, and the black chain in his hand made a crisp clinking sound as he was about to speak.

"Yu Luofeng, who do you think you are?" Gu Qinghan sneered first. He held his Nine Nether Ice Flame sword horizontally in front of Jiang Yining, staring at the Ghost King with the same look he would give a dead man. "Since when did it become your place, a stray dog, to assert your dominance beside her?"

"You old dog Gu, you're asking for death!" Yu Luofeng was instantly enraged by the words "a stray dog." A giant white bone blade suddenly appeared in his hand, and the pressure of a half-saint crushed down on Gu Qinghan as if it were a tangible thing.

It seemed that these two powerful figures were about to unleash a devastating disaster in this cramped, abandoned garden.

But in the brief moments between their eye contact and their telepathic banter, their extremely keen combat instincts allowed them to quickly exchange deadly intelligence from the outside world.

Gu Qinghan's brow twitched suddenly, and Yu Luofeng's movements froze in mid-air.

The two of them simultaneously realized something extremely terrifying.

The Protoss High Priest, the terrifying being who wields absolute power of life and death in the Azure Realm, has issued the highest-level decree! The "Star-Picking Army," hailed as the Protoss's sharpest butcher's knife, has completely surrounded Abandoned Star Island and located the coordinates of Jiang Yining and her unborn child. This is no longer an ordinary pursuit, but a genocidal hunt; she and her child have been designated as top-priority prey!

If the three of them continue to fight amongst themselves here and destroy the defensive formation of the abandoned garden, it would be tantamount to stripping Jiang Yining naked and handing her over to the Star Spirit High Priest!

A moment of deathly silence fell over the room.

The situation allows no room for delay.

Jiang Yining keenly sensed the suffocating feeling of confinement in the air outside. Without a word, she strode directly to the core of the abandoned garden's formation.

Her amethyst-gold eyes coldly swept over the three unruly men before her, men who seemed ready to tear each other apart at any moment. Jiang Yining's voice carried an undeniable, absolute authority: "If you want to fight, wait until I give birth to this child, then you can have your fill! Now, if you want to live, you'll all have to do what I assign!"

She raised her slender, pale finger and decisively demarcated the battle zone: "Gu Qinghan, you go and guard the fire pit on the east side of the ruined garden! Keep the Protoss Silver Armor Guards, who are leading the vanguard, firmly outside the lines!"

"Yu Luofeng, you lead your ghost army to suppress the ghost tide on the west side! Those fearless scum from the Coffin-Sinking Society, don't let a single one in!"

"Su Chenzhou, you are an expert in underwater formations. Go and unlock the second lock of the old underwater warehouse immediately! I will stay here personally to oversee the Embryonic Breathing Blocking Formation!"

Jiang Yining's gaze was like lightning, and the oppressive aura of the Void Realm expert pressed down on the three of them without any politeness: "Anyone who dares to disobey orders and cause trouble at this time, get out of this abandoned garden right now and never show your face in front of me again!"

The three men standing atop the Canglan Realm exchanged glances. Gu Qinghan's eyes were filled with jealousy, Yu Luofeng gritted his teeth in anger, and Su Chenzhou remained expressionless. But faced with Jiang Yining's cold and resolute eyes, they could only grit their teeth and swallow their anger.

"Leave the east side to me." Gu Qinghan snorted and walked toward the fire pit with his sword.

"Anyone who dares to cross the line on the west side, I will exterminate their entire family." Yu Luofeng said with a dark face, turning to walk towards the ghost army.

Su Chenzhou remained silent and flew directly towards the array's eye near the coast.

Under Jiang Yining's control, the Fetal Breath Blocking Array operated rapidly, with mysterious and complex purple-gold runes weaving into a huge protective net in mid-air.

However, the moment the formation progressed to the seventh core array code, a sudden change occurred!

"Hmm!"

The spiritual embryo within Jiang Yining's dantian, which fused pure yang, extreme yin, and the origin of chaos, seemed to sense the primordial aura simultaneously emanating from the three top experts around her, and unexpectedly unleashed an unprecedentedly terrifying suction force!

It was like a starving beast, frantically devouring the free-floating energy in the surrounding space!

"Ugh—"

Jiang Yining's face instantly turned deathly pale, and the excruciating pain of her meridians being forcibly torn apart swept through her entire body like a slow, agonizing death. She couldn't help but cry out in pain, her legs went weak, and she uncontrollably collapsed forward.

"Ning'er!"

"court death!"

Upon hearing this cry of pain, the men guarding the three directions lost all reason and rushed towards the center of the formation almost simultaneously like madmen!

"Don't come any closer!" Jiang Yining bit her lower lip hard, blood trickling out. Forcing herself to stay conscious, she shouted, "Su Chenzhou! Come here and hold me firmly from behind! This embryonic breathing requires water and earth elemental formations to neutralize its force!"

She turned and shouted sharply, "Gu Qinghan, Yu Luofeng! You two retreat to the core of the formation! Transfer your power through the formation, now!"

Upon hearing this order, Gu Qinghan and Yu Luofeng's eyes turned red. Why should that mysterious man in black robes be allowed to carry her?!

But seeing Jiang Yining's pained and contorted face, the two of them didn't dare to gamble with her life.

Without the slightest hesitation, Su Chenzhou strode forward and pulled Jiang Yining tightly into his arms from behind. His broad, hard chest pressed firmly against her soft back, his hands slipped under her armpits, holding her firmly in his embrace, while simultaneously channeling gentle array power into her body.

Gu Qinghan and Yu Luofeng watched with bloodshot eyes, their teeth practically grinding to powder. With red eyes, the two could only stand at the edge of the formation, frantically pouring their vast Haotian Pure Yang True Essence and Half-Saint Ghost Qi into the formation's patterns without reservation.

The power of the four people converged at the core of the formation.

Jiang Yining was held tightly in Su Chenzhou's arms, enduring the violent yet restrained infusion of spiritual energy from Gu Qinghan and Yu Luofeng. The position was extremely ambiguous and bizarre, but in this life-or-death moment, no one dared to utter a single word.

With the power of the three most powerful beings in the Canglan Realm, the spirit embryo's appetite was finally satisfied. Jiang Yining finally caught her breath, having withstood the spirit embryo's frenzied rampage.

Just as the spirit embryo calmed down after being satisfied,

Su Chenzhou keenly sensed that due to the impact of the three top-level forces, the formation of the old warehouse underwater had developed an extremely minor flaw.

"break!"

With a low roar, Su Chenzhou, taking advantage of the terrifying residual power from the convergence of the three forces, suddenly slammed his right arm, veins bulging, and smashed his palm into the ground! A jet-black beam of light, like a sharp sword, pierced straight into the seabed!

"Crack—Boom!"

A deafening roar echoed from beneath the sea. The second layer of protection for the old underwater warehouse had been completely breached!

The sea surrounding the abandoned garden churned violently as if it had been boiled. Then, the seawater receded wildly to both sides, and half of a massive, sunken hull covered with black seaweed and ancient vines, like a deep-sea behemoth that had slumbered for millennia, slowly rose from the seabed with a suffocating sense of oppression.

An ancient, desolate yet endlessly vibrant atmosphere swept over the entire Abandoned Star Island.

The true "Return to the Void Furnace" was revealed in its entirety for the first time to the public, revealing its stunning metallic outline.

Just as the Guixu Furnace broke through the water, the warehouse door emitted a teeth-grinding metallic scraping sound and slowly opened a crack.

"Whoosh!"

A silver streak shot out from inside the warehouse and landed squarely in Jiang Yining's hand.

That was a top-secret file engraved with starstone!

Jiang Yining flicked her finger, unfolding the secret file. As her gaze quickly swept over the star spirit runes on it, her pupils suddenly contracted, and her expression became extremely solemn.

It clearly states here: The Protoss High Priest has mobilized the legendary, undefeated "Star-Picking Army." This destructive legion, composed of countless high-ranking Protoss Guardians, will, within three months, spare no expense to sweep away all borders of Abandoned Star Isle and Ghost Realm, utterly annihilating all life in this region!

Jiang Yining gripped the confidential file tightly in her hand.

Three months.

This meant that before her due date, this land would not have a single day of peace. All the talk of slow planning and steady development had vanished. They had no way out; they could only make all the necessary preparations with the ruthlessest and fastest methods before the Star-Picking Army arrived.

She took a deep breath and stuffed the secret file into her storage ring. In her purplish-gold eyes, all weakness and panic were replaced by cold decisiveness.

She turned around, leaning against the enormous Ruins Furnace, her gaze sweeping over the three men: Gu Qinghan, Yu Luofeng, and Su Chenzhou.

"Listen carefully!" Jiang Yining's voice was like an icy blade in the dead of winter, immediately setting the absolute goal for the next stage: "First, seize this embryonic furnace for me! Second, at any cost, steal the Star Marrow Navel Stone! Finally, use these two items to build a hidden birthing chamber deep within the earth's veins of Abandoned Star Island, a chamber that even the Star Spirit Clan's high priest cannot breach!"

She had barely finished speaking.

"Ugh—!"

At the far horizon, the once pitch-black sky was suddenly torn apart by a brute force.

Nine blinding silver beams of light, like nine swords of death hanging over everyone's heads, shot into the sky and illuminated the entire Canglan Realm's sea area!