Baby with Daoist Monarch System

The dust settled.

Deep within the ancient forbidden zone, all that remained was the twisted, abstract silhouette of the ”vessel,” and before him, a golden light point, thoroughly shattered and turned into nothingness.

It was Yu Kong’s sword, as well as... part of his body?

The ”vessel” stood still, the runes on its surface flickering unstably, as if the backlash had not fully subsided.

He looked at the rapidly dissipating golden light, then at Xu Qinghan who lay collapsed in the distance, overwhelmed with sorrow, a cold calculation flashing in his hollow eye sockets.

The obstacle has been cleared.

But the anchor point passage has been severed, no longer complete.

The command cannot be fully executed.

He seemed to be recalculating, receiving new instructions from the Master of Nothingness in the depths of the cosmos.

Xu Qinghan struggled to crawl towards the place where the golden light was dissipating, tears streaming uncontrollably.

”Yu Kong... Yu Kong...” she whispered in grief.

She could feel that Yu Kong’s presence had completely disappeared in that last strike.

Had he died?

Was his existence completely erased by the power of the Master of Nothingness?

No!

A strong, undeniable belief suddenly surged in Xu Qinghan’s heart!

Yu Kong inherited the Guardian’s will! He possesses the Guardian’s Fire!

He wouldn’t be so easily obliterated!

He must still be here!

Most definitely!

She trembled as she reached out to collect the dissipating golden light.

However, at that moment, the ”vessel” suddenly moved!

He did not attack Xu Qinghan again but turned abruptly to look into the depths of the cosmos!

Though severed, the foundation of the gray light column remained in the ancient forbidden zone!

It continued to emit a weak breath of nothingness!

The ”vessel” seemed to have received new instructions!

He charged towards the severed light column and then... his body began to merge with the light column!

Twisted gray limbs, abstract rune armor, a pulsating gray core... everything began to merge with the severed light column!

His body grew larger and more twisted in the fusion, the aura emitted increasingly terrifying!

He was becoming the incomplete anchor point itself!

The Master of Nothingness could not fully descend through the incomplete passage, but it could turn the ”vessel” into part of the passage, making it the embodiment of its power in this cosmos!

Brother Xu Ran had completely become the ”door” for the Master of Nothingness to descend into this universe!

Xu Qinghan watched in horror at this scene.

She stopped the complete descent of the Master of Nothingness but turned Brother Xu Ran into this terrifying form!

He had completely lost his ”self,” transformed into the manifestation of nothingness in this universe!

The process of the ”vessel” merging with the light column was unusually slow, but the pressure emitted became increasingly intense!

The whole ancient forbidden zone trembled under this pressure!

Deep within the cosmos, the enormous gray shadow squirmed more violently.

It could sense its ”anchor point” being established in an incomplete manner and its power infiltrating the cosmos through the ”vessel”!

Although imperfect, it was better than complete failure!

It injected more of its power into the ”vessel,” accelerating the fusion process!

Xu Qinghan knew she must stop him!

Once the ”vessel” completely merged with the light column, forming an incomplete anchor point, a portion of the Master of Nothingness’s power could stably descend, making it harder to deal with!

She struggled to stand up, gripping the jade sword in her hand. Though her power was exhausted, the will to protect burned fiercely in her heart!

However, just as she prepared to charge forward, a faint voice suddenly sounded in her mind!

The voice, familiar, carried a hint of weariness and weakness, yet held a steadfast determination!

”Qinghan... don’t come over...”

It was Yu Kong!

Xu Qinghan looked sharply towards the place where the golden light dissipated!

There, a faint golden glow flickered arduously in the darkness!

That light, like a candle in the wind, was always on the verge of extinguishing, yet it stubbornly persisted!

Was that Yu Kong’s remaining... consciousness?

Soul?

Or... the spark of the Guardian’s Fire?!

In that fatal strike earlier, Yu Kong didn’t completely die!

His body was destroyed, but his ”self,” his will, his Guardian’s Fire, under the blessing of the Cosmic Origin Power, at the most critical moment, as documented in the Guardian’s Manual, burned his last strength, preserving a spark of ”existence”!

He had not been completely obliterated by nothingness!

”Yu Kong!” Xu Qinghan uttered in joyous surprise, tears streaming once more.

That faint light was the brightest hope in the darkness!

”I... Fire... burned out... body... cannot be reshaped...” Yu Kong’s faint voice transmitted intermittently.

His state was exceptionally dire, almost void of any power, barely able to maintain consciousness.

”Don’t worry about me... go... stop him...” Yu Kong’s voice pointed towards the merging ”vessel”.

”Unable to completely stop... anchor point formed... but... can... interfere...”

”Fire... can... interfere... with nothingness...”

Interfere?

Xu Qinghan was stunned.

She knew that Fire could purify darkness, but interfere with the anchor point?

The fusion of the ”vessel” and the light column continued, the emanating pressure growing stronger.

Yu Kong’s faint voice echoed again: ”I... will use... last... power... to condense Fire... into... a spark...”

”Qinghan... hold... it...”

The faint golden light slowly rose in the void, drifting toward Xu Qinghan.