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

"boom--!"

The three massive beams of the starship's main cannons, like divine judgment, crashed down, grazing the sky above them. The seawater surrounding Abandoned Star Island was instantly boiled, countless bubbles churning and bursting.

"Walk!"

With a sharp shout, Jiang Yining sent the four of them into four streaks of light as they plunged into the boiling seawater.

The terrifying heat, coupled with deep-sea currents powerful enough to crush steel, relentlessly tore at their protective auras. In this dark and perilous seabed, the Protoss fleet's net-like sonic probes moved like countless invisible poison needles, darting and traversing the underwater world.

Su Chenzhou was intimately familiar with the undercurrents of this sea area and the external structure of that old warehouse.

"Follow me!" He took the lead, his eyes like those of a wolf king hunting in the dark. With his incredibly sharp and wild intuition, he led the group like ghosts through the boiling, stagnant water, precisely avoiding wave after wave of sonic attacks.

His black robe fluttered underwater as he used his powerful physical strength to tear a crack leading to the bronze vault with his bare hands amidst the raging water pressure and undercurrents.

Suddenly, a suffocating, muffled roar came from above.

The terrifying aftershock of the main gun hitting the sea shattered a massive underwater rock formation above. A colossal, black underwater reef, weighing hundreds of tons, was swept up by the raging currents and, like an underwater meteorite, hurtled towards Jiang Yining's unsuspecting back!

"Ning'er!" Gu Qinghan and Yu Luofeng were being dragged along by the undercurrents on either side, their eyes wide with fury.

At this critical moment.

Su Chenzhou, swimming at the very front, didn't even turn his head, as if he had eyes in the back of his head. He pushed off the water with both legs and made a sudden, extreme turn, instantly appearing behind Jiang Yining.

He didn't use any magic weapons, but simply turned around and used his broad, hard back, as solid as black iron, to block the fatal blow for her!

"Bang!"

A deep, muffled explosion erupted underwater.

Even a powerful physical cultivator like Su Chenzhou couldn't help but let out a muffled groan when he was hit head-on by the hundreds-of-tons reef. A trickle of blood oozed from the corner of his mouth and quickly disappeared into the seawater.

But he didn't even flinch. Instead, taking advantage of the terrifying impact, he stretched out his long arm and, with remarkable ease and domineering force, wrapped his arms around Jiang Yining's slender waist, causing her to roll rapidly underwater and dissipate the remaining force.

The two players' tactical coordination reached its peak at that moment.

As the dive deepened to over several thousand feet, the terrifying water pressure of the deep sea felt like countless invisible hands squeezing in from all directions. Fine cracks began to appear on the purple-gold light shield surrounding Jiang Yining.

Su Chenzhou glanced at the deep warehouse gate that was so close at hand, then simply pulled his arms around Jiang Yining and held her tightly against his broad, sturdy chest.

"There's an ancient lock around the formation, give me your hand!" Su Chenzhou's voice, delivered through a sharp, resonant tone, rang directly in Jiang Yining's ears, carrying an undeniable depth.

In order to simultaneously decipher the extremely complex ancient formation surrounding Shencang, Su Chenzhou pressed his large, calloused hand tightly against Jiang Yining's soft palm. Their fingers intertwined underwater.

In an instant, the dark golden raging star flames and the purple-gold myriad spirit wood energy circulated wildly in the intertwined meridians of the two, as if they were water and milk blending together!

The silence of the deep sea amplifies all the senses.

The man's scent, a blend of blood and unique, alluring aroma, completely enveloped Jiang Yining. The frantic, drum-like pounding of Su Chenzhou's heart, "thump, thump, thump," was clearly audible to Jiang Yining even through her thin clothing underwater.

The sound of her heartbeat, carrying a savage vitality, miraculously soothed her nerves, which had been tense from the crashing reef.

"break!"

The two of them worked together to blast their intertwined true energy into the array's core.

"Boom!"

With the combined efforts of the two, the heavy bronze gate of the Guixu Furnace, which had been sealed for countless epochs, finally opened slowly amidst a deafening roar.

An extremely desolate, ancient, and mysterious aura that could instantly isolate one from the outside seawater rushed towards them.

Without any hesitation, the four of them rushed into the warehouse like four swimming fish.

"Bang!" The door slammed shut behind them, completely isolating them from the boiling water and the aftershocks of the main cannon.

When they saw the scene inside, even top-tier experts like Gu Qinghan and Yu Luofeng couldn't help but show expressions of extreme shock.

From the outside, this furnace appears to be no more than half the size of a mountain peak. But once you step inside, the interior completely surpasses any previous understanding!

This was a vast space that stretched as far as the eye could see. Intricate metallic star charts shimmered in the sky, while beneath one's feet lay a crisscrossing network of spiritual energy channels, resembling the belly of a colossal steel beast slumbering within a rift in time. This place employed incredibly advanced spatial folding technology!

Su Chenzhou released his grip on Jiang Yining's waist and casually wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

His sharp eyes swept over the extremely complex mechanical patterns around him, and his voice was deep and solemn as he revealed the secret to everyone: "No need to look anymore, this is the core of the ancient legacy that the Canglan Realm lost hundreds of thousands of years ago—the refuge of the Great Creation Era."

He pointed upwards to the bronze central hub, which was suspended in mid-air and shaped like a giant lotus throne.

"See that array eye? Once we activate the core array eye there, this furnace will enter a state of absolute folding. Even if the main cannons of that Star-Picking Army dry up this sea area, they will absolutely not be able to pinpoint our true coordinates!"

There was no time to marvel; the starship outside was undergoing its second recharge, and every second that passed meant certain death.

Jiang Yining dared not delay for even a moment. She flashed and appeared directly above the huge bronze array eye.

"All spirits, live!"

She frantically formed hand seals, directly mobilizing the thickest roots of the Myriad Spirits Divine Tree within her body. These roots spread out from her palms, like living tentacles, and precisely pierced into the bronze array eye in the center of the entire space!

"Buzz—!"

The purple-gold light instantly spread rapidly along the ancient array patterns, illuminating one rune after another.

The entire Guixu Furnace emitted a deep and joyful hum, as if a colossal beast that had slumbered for millennia had finally been awakened. The surrounding spatial barrier began to slowly close, completely isolating the outside world from the roaring of the raging sea and the persistent fluctuations of the Protoss's detection compass.

Just as the great formation was about to completely close, everyone's hearts were only half-closed.

However, at the very last moment when the formation was about to be completely locked!

"Click!"

A crisp clicking sound rang out, and the originally dazzling purple-gold light suddenly dimmed abruptly. The entire space seemed to have been abruptly choked, stuck at the very last step!

Jiang Yining's pupils contracted sharply, and a hidden clause from the book "Record of the Returning Ruins Pregnancy Array" that she had glimpsed in the dark compartment of the old warehouse flashed through her mind.

Her face instantly turned extremely pale, and even her lips lost all color.

She stared intently at the deep, empty gap at the very center of the array, her voice trembling slightly: "The prompt to activate the final step requires the extremely rare 'Star Marrow Navel Stone'."