Cultivation of immortality begins with an eighty-year-old eunuch.

The golden bowl seemed to have completely escaped his control, and even generated a weak but irresistible pulling force, pulling Chen Fan's body forward instead of retreating!

"tread!"

With each step, the crisp sound of footsteps echoed particularly loudly in the underground palace.

It was this step that seemed to have touched some ancient taboo!

The humanoid creature, suspended in mid-air by nine chains, suddenly twitched its head, which had been hanging low.

"Click...click..."

With a sickening grinding sound, the creature slowly, little by little, raised its head!

Her long, ink-black hair parted to the sides, revealing a strange face that was completely devoid of features and as smooth as a mirror!

No eyes, no nose, no mouth!

However, a purplish-black light suddenly appeared in the very center of that smooth, mirror-like brow!

Then came the second point, the third point...

Under Chen Fan's horrified gaze, nine purplish-black star-like spots lit up one after another between the creature's eyebrows!

These nine stars are arranged in an ancient and mysterious ring, each seemingly containing a miniature starry sky on the verge of destruction. The moment these nine stars illuminate simultaneously, a terrifying aura, ancient beyond description and bearing witness to billions of years of history, descends with a deafening roar!

"Nine stars... What kind of symbol is this? There's never been any record of this in the cultivation world!"

Chen Fan's brain was working frantically, but even after searching through all his memories, he couldn't find any information about the nine star points.

Before he could figure it out, the nine stars between his eyebrows burst forth with dazzling light, then suddenly dimmed again.

It was as if that fleeting moment of brilliance had exhausted all the remaining power of this body.

However, the crisis was not over.

On the contrary, the real despair has only just begun!

The instant the nine stars dimmed, the temperature in the entire underground palace plummeted to absolute freezing. Space ceased to flow, and time seemed to be frozen completely.

Chen Fan was horrified to discover that his proud understanding of the three realms of cause and effect, life and death, and stillness was like a mouse seeing a cat, forced back into his body and unable to operate even a fraction of the time!

"boom!!!"

An indescribable, terrifying pressure appeared out of nowhere in this space.

Immediately afterward, above the humanoid being bound by chains, the void began to violently twist and collapse. In the endless darkness and nothingness, a colossal, towering phantom slowly emerged!

That ghostly figure is huge!

It was so enormous that even when Chen Fan looked up, he couldn't see its end. Those nine hundred-foot-tall bronze pillars looked like nine insignificant toothpicks in front of this phantom!

The phantom was a deep purplish-black color, with an indistinct face, but it simply stood there quietly, causing the laws of the entire underground palace to collapse completely.

Chen Fan looked up at the illusory figure, his knees trembling violently.

Humble!

This is an absolute humility that originates from the depths of the soul and from the very bottom of the level of life!

He felt he was no longer a top-tier cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage, no longer the ruthless man who dared to scheme against the Void Refinement elder; he even felt he was less than an ant. Before this illusory figure, he was merely the smallest speck of dust in the universe.

"More terrifying than immortals... What on earth is this thing?!"

Chen Fan clenched his teeth so hard that his lips bled, trying to use the pain to regain a sliver of clarity.

He had witnessed the oppressive aura of the Fire Source True Body unleashing the Void Refinement Law, and he had also felt the terrifying aura of those four half-step Void Refinement old monsters when they fought desperately.

But those powers, in front of this phantom, are like fireflies vying for the moon's brilliance, utterly laughable!

Even legendary Mahayana stage patriarchs and Tribulation Transcending stage experts are probably no match for even a fraction of the power of this phantom!

The phantom appeared not long after.

It seems to have merely traversed the endless river of time and space, casting a fleeting glance here.

Then, this towering phantom, like the nine stars, began to dim.

Its purplish-black body gradually became transparent, transforming into countless specks of light.

"Is it going to disappear?" A fleeting glimmer of elation rose in Chen Fan's heart.

But the next second, reality slapped him hard in the face!

The dimming points of light did not dissipate; instead, they collapsed towards the center in an extremely bizarre manner. In a mere half-breathe, the enormous phantom transformed into a massive black vortex tens of meters in diameter!

The vortex was as deep as a black hole, from which came chilling wails and howls, as if connected to the eighteenth level of hell!

"Boom!"

An incredibly powerful suction force erupted from the vortex!

"not good!"

Chen Fan's face turned pale; he instantly understood the purpose of the vortex.

Although the ancient demon suppressed here has his true form sealed by nine bronze pillars and chains, he is still using some kind of heaven-defying secret technique to forcibly devour external energy to maintain his life!

The Fire Source True Body was trapped above for three thousand years, and the reason why seventy percent of its cultivation was drained was definitely related to the vortex underground!

And now, this vortex has locked onto Chen Fan!

"Damn it! He's planning to use our house as nourishment, like fuel for a raging fire!"

Chen Fan's heart sank to the bottom. The terrifying suction force acted directly on his physical body and soul. His feet left the ground uncontrollably, and he was pulled towards the huge black vortex like a leaf in a storm.

"Eleven! Draw your swords!"

Chen Fan let out a desperate roar, and with his left hand, he suddenly drew out the eleventh sword, trying to pin himself to the ground with the sword energy.

But it didn't work!

Faced with this suction force, the sword energy of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator was so fragile that it was less than a piece of paper, and was instantly shredded into nothingness by the vortex as soon as it left the body.

His bones creaked under the immense pulling force, and the fusion of immortal and demonic power within him flowed out of his pores like a burst dam, rushing towards the vortex.

Ten zhang... five zhang... three zhang...

As Chen Fan drew closer to the vortex, he could even smell the decay and death emanating from it.

"It's over... I'm really done for this time..."

Faced with such overwhelming power, all scheming, calculation, and caution became pale and powerless jokes. A trace of despair flashed in Chen Fan's eyes. He closed his eyes, preparing to face the fate of being completely drained and annihilated, body and soul.

however!

In the last second before his body was completely swallowed by the vortex!

"Buzz!!!"

The golden bowl in his arms, which had been trembling violently, suddenly burst out with a dazzling golden light that was a million times brighter than the sun!

The golden light, gentle yet carrying an inviolable and supreme majesty, instantly spread out from Chen Fan's arms, transforming into a golden light shield that completely enveloped his body!