One person: Starting with the Snow Drinking Blade

Sensing this sudden, terrifying power that seemed to threaten its very "birth," the monstrous nascent form within the egg let out an even sharper, more furious roar! It abruptly opened its black-hole-like eye sockets, within which countless dark red points of light swirled like wildly spinning vortexes, locking onto Nie Lingfeng! An even larger, more chaotic dark energy, filled with blasphemous and destructive desires, erupted from the egg, attempting to suppress and erode the sacred flames emanating from Nie Lingfeng!

At the same time, the thick pipes beneath the fleshy mass suddenly writhed, like the tentacles of a living creature, lashing out at Nie Lingfeng from several directions with shrill screams that tore through the air and a pungent stench! The surface of the pipes was covered with mucus and constantly opening and closing suckers; once someone got entangled in them, they would likely be corroded and devoured instantly!

"Phoenix True Fire - Blazing Sky Wings!"

With a sharp cry, Chen Duo unleashed the Phoenix Seal she had already prepared! Behind her, a massive phoenix phantom, entirely composed of pure golden flames, let out a clear, resounding cry that echoed through the space, and its wings suddenly spread wide! Countless golden feathers, condensed from Phoenix True Fire, shot out like a torrential rain, precisely striking the massive pipes that were being drawn in!

"Hiss hiss hiss—!!!"

Golden flame feathers, like red-hot steel needles, pierced deep into the tough outer skin of the pipes, then burned and purified fiercely! The pipes emitted painful hissing (as if they had independent consciousness), and the parts that were hit quickly charred, carbonized, and broke! Slime and foul-smelling liquids splattered everywhere, but before they could hit the ground, they were evaporated and purified by the residual heat of the Phoenix True Fire!

Chen Duo's face was tense as she focused all her energy on maintaining the phoenix phantom and true fire output. She knew Nie Lingfeng was preparing his ultimate move, and she couldn't let him be interrupted. (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Nie Lingfeng made his move.

He took a step forward, dark golden flames spreading beneath his feet, leaving a clear burning footprint on the metal floor. He crossed his arms in front of his chest, and an indescribable, terrifying suction force, seemingly capable of dragging the entire spherical space, along with the profane egg within, into a vortex of destruction, suddenly emanated from between his hands!

"The Threefold Return to Origin Qi—The Return of Chaos to its Origin!"

A hazy, primordial chaos, as if the world had never been created and the universe was still undifferentiated, spun, compressed, and condensed wildly in his palm! This was no longer the three-colored intertwined form he had seen before, but a true "chaos" that was closer to the critical point between "nothingness" and "existence," formed after he fully activated and fused the domineering power of the Qilin True Fire, the immortality of the Phoenix Blood, the creation of the Dragon Essence, and his deeper understanding of the true meaning of "Returning to Origin"!

The air vortex wasn't large, only about the size of a washbasin, but its center was as deep as a miniature black hole capable of swallowing all light and matter! The moment it appeared, the entire space of the "Sanctuary" began to violently distort and collapse, emitting a mournful cry of unbearable strain! The enormous fleshy egg seemed to sense a deadly threat as well, throbbing even more frantically. The dark red veins on its surface bulged out, and the monstrous nascent form inside emitted a deathly scream, straining with all its might to shoot two extremely condensed dark red energy beams, filled with chaotic and blasphemous will, from the black holes in its eye sockets, directly towards Nie Lingfeng!

at the same time--

"BOOM—!!!"

At the entrance to the "Sanctuary," the heavy metal gate, along with the surrounding large sections of alloy walls, was smashed open and torn apart as if made of paper by an unimaginable brute force! A massive, bloated, and indescribably indescribable shadow, seemingly forcibly fused together from the remains of countless creatures, rusted machinery, and boiling dark energy, standing seven or eight meters tall, burst through the entrance, carrying with it a blasphemous aura that froze the soul and a mad will to destroy everything, and crashed into the "Sanctuary"!

It's "Sample Zero"! It's finally caught up!

Its indistinguishable "head" split open with a massive fissure, flowing with dark green pus and black arcs of electricity, emitting a piercing scream that seemed to tear the soul apart, filled with endless pain and a destructive urge! This scream, along with the howls of the monstrous embryo within the fleshy egg, the alarm of the self-destruct countdown, the burning sound of Chen Duo's Phoenix True Fire, and the swirling sound of Nie Lingfeng's chaotic energy, intertwined to form a mad, chaotic, and ultimately apocalyptic symphony of death!

Faced with the blasphemous beam of light shot from the fleshy egg and the destructive impact of the "sample zero" behind him, Nie Lingfeng's eyes remained as calm as a frozen pool, without the slightest ripple.

"You've come at the perfect time."

The chaotic vortex of energy he was holding with both hands suddenly stopped spinning, and then he gently pushed the pulsating giant fleshy egg in the center, as well as the "sample zero" that had crashed into the egg from behind.

"go."

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no cataclysmic light or shadow. Only a vortex of chaotic, grayish air currents, the size of a washbasin, seemed to have broken free of its restraints, and floated lightly towards its target at a strange speed that appeared slow but actually instantly surpassed spatial distance.

The blasphemous beam of light emitted by the fleshy egg was swallowed, decomposed, and transformed into part of the chaos the moment it touched the edge of the chaotic air vortex, without even causing a ripple.

The massive, destructive impact of "Sample Zero," upon entering the vortex of chaotic energy, was as if it had struck an invisible wall capable of dissolving everything; its forward momentum abruptly halted! The boiling dark energy, writhing biological tissue, and rusted metal parts on its surface, as if encountering the ultimate "eraser," rapidly lost their color, form, and even the concept of "existence" from the point of contact, transforming into the most primordial, chaotic, and indefinable "nothingness"!

The core of the chaotic vortex, that deep black dot, was precisely imprinted in the very center of the giant fleshy egg, in the location of the monster's nascent heart inside.

Time seemed to have been permanently paused at that moment.

The frantic throbbing of the fleshy egg abruptly ceased. The surging dark red veins instantly froze. The blasphemous and mad howls of the monstrous nascent within abruptly stopped. The wildly spinning dark red lights in its black hole-like eye sockets dimmed and went out rapidly, like light bulbs that had been switched off.

The enormous, distorted shadow of "Sample Zero" was frozen in its collision posture. The boiling darkness and writhing tissue on its surface, like a frozen oil painting, quickly lost all vitality, leaving only coldness, deathly silence, and... rapidly spreading, utter "nothingness".

Then, centered on the point where the chaotic vortex of air fell, an indescribable phenomenon, one that transcended the concepts of "destruction" and "purification," and was more fundamental, occurred.

The fleshy ball, along with the monstrous embryo within it, vanished silently from its center, like a stain erased from a drawing, leaving no trace, no energy, as if it had never existed.

The enormous body of "Sample Zero" melted and evaporated rapidly from the point of contact, just like the remaining snow under the scorching sun, turning into nothingness.

The chaotic vortex of air slowly rotated, and wherever it passed, whether it was the residual energy, pipes, and mucus of the fleshy egg, or the fragments of the disintegrated "Sample Zero," dark energy, or even the surrounding air, light, and space itself... everything was swallowed, decomposed, and assimilated by it, becoming part of that hazy, all-encompassing yet all-dissolving chaotic air. Then, this air slowly contracted, and finally, it completely dissipated into the air, as if it had never existed.

The entire process was eerily quiet, yet it carried a chilling, ultimate terror that seemed to negate even the very existence of itself.

Just a few seconds.

In the center of the "Sanctuary," the enormous, pulsating, and blasphemous egg-shaped object that occupied a third of the space had vanished.

At the entrance, the "Sample Zero," which had crashed through the wall and exuded an aura of despair, had also disappeared.

All that remained was an empty, exceptionally clean spherical space, as if it had been "cleaned" by some invisible force, and on the ground and walls, smooth-edged marks left by the impact and destruction of the flesh-egg tubes and "sample zero," as if they had been "cut" by an invisible force.

On the control panel, the bright red countdown numbers were still ticking:

12...11...10...

The self-destruct sequence is in its final ten seconds!

The soaring dark golden flames and terrifying pressure emanating from Nie Lingfeng receded rapidly like a tide. His face was slightly pale, fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and his breathing was slightly disordered. That attack, "Return to Chaos," had almost drained most of the power from his body, and had also placed a considerable burden on his newly formed and not yet fully stable realm. But the effect far exceeded expectations.

"Chen Duo, let's go!" Without hesitation, he turned around, grabbed Chen Duo who was still in a state of shock (her small mouth was slightly open, her emerald green eyes were wide open, and she seemed not to understand how those two "stinky things" disappeared in a flash), and rushed towards the small door marked "Emergency Escape Passage" on the side and back of the "Sanctuary" where Qu Tong had left!

"Huh? Wait... that giant egg and that ugly monster..." Chen Duo, being pulled along, kept looking back at the empty spherical space, completely bewildered. (｡•ˇ‸ˇ•｡)

"It's burned out! Run! It's going to explode!" Nie Lingfeng didn't have time to explain. He grabbed her and slammed open the unlocked emergency escape door.

Behind the door was a narrow but clean, sloping metal passageway with eerie green emergency indicator lights embedded in the walls. The passageway was long and seemed to lead directly to the outside of the mountain.

As soon as the two rushed into the passage, a muffled, terrifying roar, like the earth's core, echoed from the "Sanctuary" behind them and from the depths of the entire base! Immediately following was a series of increasingly violent explosions! Scorching air currents, blinding flashes of light, and deafening crashes swept in from behind the passage like a tsunami!

The self-destruct program has been activated! Moreover, its power far exceeds that of ordinary bombs, clearly intended to completely erase all traces and bury the entire mountain base!

"run!"

With a low roar, Nie Lingfeng channeled his last strength into his legs, grabbed Chen Duo, and sprinted upwards at top speed through the violently shaking and collapsing passage! The emergency lights above their heads flashed wildly, and behind them came the ever-approaching roar of explosions and the dust and debris from the collapsing buildings!

The passage seemed endless. The shockwaves and intense heat of the explosion clung to him like leeches. Debris and broken metal components rained down from above, either casually brushed aside by the remaining dark golden flames on Nie Lingfeng's body or deflected by the barrier formed by Chen Duo's Phoenix True Fire.

Just as the shaking of the passage reached its peak, and the flames and explosions behind them were about to engulf them—

Ahead, a light appeared! It wasn't the eerie green of an emergency light, but... natural daylight!

exit!

Nie Lingfeng's spirits lifted, and he grabbed Chen Duo, using the last of his strength to rush out of the passage!

Suddenly, the view opened up before them! They were standing at the exit of a mountain crevice on the southern slope of Moon Mountain, extremely secluded and partially obscured by vines and shrubs. Outside, the afternoon sun shone brightly, the forest was lush and green, and... the air was fresh and fragrant with the scent of grass and trees.