I asked you to go down the mountain and get married, not to shock the world!

"Roar!"

The dark energy cluster seemed to sense the threat of the space stone, and suddenly twisted, transforming into a jet-black lightning bolt that hurtled straight at Mingchuan's face!

Wherever it passed, even nothingness was "gnawed" out with brief traces!

Mingchuan's pupils contracted sharply, and he retreated rapidly, simultaneously manipulating the power of the space stone to create layers of spatial folds in front of him.

"Puff puff--"

The pitch-black lightning moved with unstoppable force, tearing through several layers of spatial barriers in succession. Although its speed was slow, its momentum was undiminished!

"Fallen Dragon!" Mingchuan cried out in his heart.

"Here it comes!" The fallen dragon responded and moved, a dragon soul power containing chaos and inverted rules arrived first, accurately striking the dark lightning.

Without a deafening explosion, the dark lightning seemed to suddenly lose its way. Its originally straight trajectory became crooked and even occasionally reversed direction, greatly reducing the accuracy and power of its attack.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Mingchuan's eyes flashed with a sharp light. He pointed his fingers like a sword, and a golden light condensed from his own nascent soul essence and dragon energy shot out. It did not collide head-on, but rather coiled around the chaotic dark energy like a serpent, attempting to peel away and refine a trace of the most fundamental law from it!

"laugh--"

Like cold water dripping into boiling oil, the moment the golden light came into contact with the darkness, it emitted a violent energy surge!

Mingchuan felt a cold, violent, and destructive intent surge into his consciousness through that connection!

"Dragon!" Mingchuan gritted his teeth and roared.

The phantom of the demonic dragon, which had been observing the situation silently, suddenly opened its cold dragon eyes, and a purer and more ancient demonic aura emanated from it.

It was not a confrontation, but rather like a monarch examining his subjects, with absolute dominance, forcibly fixing and disintegrating the evil thoughts of the erosion abyss that rushed into Mingchuan's sea of ​​consciousness!

Mingchuan seized this fleeting opportunity and frantically circulated his cultivation technique.

Like the most skilled weapon refiner, he used himself as a furnace and dragon energy as fire to forcibly refine that wisp of dark origin that had been stripped away, as fine as a hair yet as heavy as a mountain!

Outside, at the barrier of the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts, people were filled with fear and unease.

"Something's wrong! There's something 12 out of 10 that's wrong!"

An elder from the Xuantian Sect, his face pale, pressed his hands against the barrier's light wall, feeling the increasingly intense and frenzied impacts emanating from within.

"This wretched creature is completely insane, as if its heart has been ripped out! If this continues, the barrier won't last even half an hour!"

"What exactly triggered it? Although it had been eroding the barrier before, it had never been this violent!" A disciple of the Heaven-Mending Holy Sect said in a trembling voice, looking at the fine cracks that were spreading across the light barrier like a spider web, his heart filled with fear.

Su Hongzhen sensed the commotion and immediately rushed over.

Seeing that the barrier had undergone such a drastic change, his face turned ashen, and his powerful divine sense carefully scanned the barrier.

Suddenly, his eyes narrowed, and he looked sharply in a certain direction—the approximate location where Mingchuan had opened the spatial rift earlier!

"Over there... there are extremely subtle but highly fundamental spatial residual fluctuations!"

Su Hongzhen said sternly, "Someone has tampered with the barrier from the outside! Send people over there to investigate immediately!"

"Yes!" An elder of the Qingcheng Yufa Sect accepted the order and immediately set off with his men.

Just then, Ye Chuhan's irritating voice suddenly rang out from afar.

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't rush, don't rush, Sect Leader Su!"

Ye Chuhan rushed up to Su Hongzhen's face, causing Su Hongzhen to frown and take two steps back.

"What are you doing? The situation is already so critical, and you still want to stop me? Are you out of your mind?"

What the hell!

This old bastard actually dared to insult me?!

Ye Chuhan was instantly filled with anger, so angry that she wanted to jump up and down.

But considering the current crisis, he couldn't let his temper flare up and had to forcefully suppress it, saying with a smile, "Sect Leader Su, don't be in such a hurry."

The elder who had been instructed by Su Hongzhen could no longer contain himself and frowned as he questioned Ye Chuhan, "Nephew Ye, what do you mean by this?"

Ye Chuhan grinned and pointed to the violently shaking barrier: "Look, this thing is about to explode, that's exactly when we need manpower!"

"You've suddenly transferred away a team of elite troops. What if this place can't hold out? Wouldn't that be a case of penny-wise and pound-foolish? Besides, that spatial fluctuation might just be something that monster created in a fit of rage. Doesn't it have some spatial abilities to begin with?"

As he spoke, he secretly gave Jizhou a wink.

Ji Zhou understood and immediately stepped forward, saying sincerely to Su Hongzhen, "Sect Master Su, what Chu Han said makes sense. The most urgent task is to stabilize the barrier. As for the investigation, it would be better to wait until the barrier is more stable, and then have a few clever disciples go with me, so as not to fall into a trap."

Su Hongzhen's sharp gaze swept across Ye Chuhan and Ji Zhou's faces, his mind filled with doubts. However, looking at the precarious barrier in front of him and the approving glances from the other sect elders around him, he could only suppress his doubts for the time being and let out a cold snort.

"Enough! First, focus on stabilizing the barrier! If I find out who's behind this..."

The chill in his unfinished words made the surrounding air feel colder.

Ye Chuhan secretly breathed a sigh of relief and winked at Ji Zhou, meaning: See, am I reliable?

Jizhou shook his head helplessly, but his gaze once again turned worriedly to the depths of the barrier.

Ming, what's going on inside? You... you have to hold on!

Mu Yaoyao, however, noticed the commotion and looked over in that direction, immediately sensing that something was amiss.

Although they already knew that Jizhou had been taken to the cultivation world by Mingchuan, this was their first meeting.

If Jizhou is all here, then what about Mingchuan?

Also, doesn't the Qingcheng Imperial Law Sect have a powerful figure like Cang Zi'ang?

Why haven't I seen it?

For a moment, Mu Yaoyao's heart skipped a beat.

She knew Mingchuan's despicable nature all too well. Could it be that the monster's tremors were caused by him?

A flash of doubt suddenly appeared in Mu Yaoyao's eyes, but she couldn't leave at the moment and could only continue to output what was in front of her.

I plan to find a suitable opportunity later to bring Ye Chuhan over for questioning.

Within the temporary space, a tug-of-war and torment ensued.

Mingchuan's face was as pale as paper, his body trembled slightly, and fine blood vessels were constantly seeping from his seven orifices.

Refining the source of the Eclipse Abyss was a thousand times more difficult than he had imagined!

That is not just the absorption of power, but also the forced understanding and acceptance of a completely opposite "rule" full of destructive will!

His meridians felt as if they were being cut by countless tiny fragments of space, and his sea of ​​consciousness felt as if it were being frozen by a cold, devouring desire.

Each time he refined that wisp of origin, it felt like he had walked through a mountain of knives and a sea of ​​fire.

Although the dark energy was continuously stripped away and refined, shrinking in size, its core devouring instinct became even more concentrated, and its resistance became increasingly fierce.

It constantly changes its form, probing to launch attacks on Mingchuan from all directions.

Mingchuan relied entirely on the help of the three dragon souls and the spatial stability barely maintained by the space stone to narrowly avoid fatal attacks time and time again, and to painstakingly advance the refining process.

This is the ultimate test of willpower and endurance.

Either he successfully devours the laws of space and undergoes a complete transformation.

Either he is completely assimilated by this darkness, his soul and spirit are destroyed, and he becomes nourishment for the growth of the Abyss!