Chapter 1208 - 522: My Choice...

Chapter 552

"Cang Shi, maximum power, charge towards the rift!"

"Understood!"

The Pioneer roared, its engines running at overload, transforming into a streak of light, frantically heading towards the cosmic scar from which it had come!

Yet, it was already too late.

The enormous metallic claw named "Prison Suppression" seemed slow but was in fact faster than the concept of time and space. It just gently grasped!

Crack!

The entire spatial domain of the cage star transformed into fragile glass, shattered by its grip, then reshaped!

The gigantic rift leading outside was forcibly "repaired" under this grasp!

Not only that, all the metallic debris across the star domain began to move and assemble, forming a towering, layered, deathly silent, and despair-filled...metal maze!

Roads paved with the corpses of civilizations unfolded in front of them.

They were trapped!

"My lord...the escape route...has vanished!" Cang Shi’s voice carried despair for the first time.

"Daoist Monarch System, deduce a path of escape!" Xu Ran yelled into his sea of consciousness.

"Deducing..."

"Target ’Prison Suppression’ has fully awakened, constructing the ’Epoch Cage’..."

"Cage completion: 17%...34%...58%..."

"Deduction result: No escape route."

"...Re-deduct...discovering the only variable..."

"Variable source: Xuan Tian Tao Shell."

Xu Ran’s gaze focused, looking at the giant turtle shell in his hand.

"To resist the ’imprisonment’ with the ’divination’ approach?"

He had a sudden insight and wildly channeled his newly acquired Power of Destiny from the Reincarnation Daoist Monarch into the Xuan Tian Tao Shell!

Buzz——

The ancient turtle shell, dormant for three epochs, under the full activation of a Reincarnation Daoist Monarch, finally unleashed its true might!

The ancient patterns on the shell lit up once more!

This time, it was not predicting the future, but deducing the only path of escape within this deadly maze!

Countless forks, countless dead ends, flashed across the shell rapidly.

Finally, all patterns pointed to a seemingly insignificant direction within the maze’s depths.

"There!" Xu Ran pointed decisively, "Full speed ahead!"

The Pioneer instantly turned its bow, weaving furiously through the maze constructed by innumerable civilization remnants.

Behind them, the metallic giant claw named "Prison Suppression" had fully protruded from the black hole, bearing down with terrifying power that obliterated everything!

It was a race against death!

Just as the Pioneer was about to gallop into the path pointed out by the Xuan Tian Tao Shell.

The space ahead suddenly twisted without warning.

An ancient voice filled with sighs seemed to cross endless ages, directly resonating within Xu Ran and his team’s divine souls.

"Alas...Reincarnation has appeared, a variable has been born...the serenity of the ’Graveyard’ ends here."

"Yet, the ’key’ is still incomplete, thus...you cannot leave yet."

Along with the sigh, a tree, a tree composed entirely of light, with branches and leaves adorned with myriad star cosmos...an ancient tree, silently grew from the void, right in their path.

This tree exuded an entirely different aura from "Prison Suppression".

It was ancient, upright, peaceful, yet tinged with a hint of compassion and resignation.

But its appearance made Xu Ran’s pupils contract to the extreme!

Because he saw on this tree’s trunk, coiled thick chains constructed of "Heavenly Law" runes...silver chains!

And the roots of this tree dug deep into the void, seemingly connecting to...the terrifying "Prison Suppression" claw!

"Detected unknown lifeform: ???"

"Threat level: ??? (Far exceeds current analysis limits)"

"Warning! Warning! Detected ’Primordial’ level information reaction!"

Daoist Monarch System displayed unreadable gibberish for the first time!

Ahead stood the mysterious ancient tree blocking the way, behind was the death-god pursuit of Prison Suppression!

The newly ascended Daoist Monarch Xu Ran and his freshly established "Reincarnation Hall", were instantly plunged into a more desperate dead end than when facing the Holy Arbiter.

The newly ascended Daoist Monarch Xu Ran and his freshly established "Reincarnation Hall", were instantly plunged into a more desperate dead end than when facing the Holy Arbiter.

Deathly Silence.

A deathly silence more suffocating than the vacuum of the starry sky.

The crushing force of the Prison Suppression claw was a pure physical and law-level "termination", everything in its path turning to ash, the great way collapsing, all existence ground into the most primitive particles. Yet, the pressure of the spontaneously emerging light tree was completely different. It did not seek to destroy but to "negate".

As if in its presence, all of Xu Ran’s struggles, all his paths and methods became meaningless. Before making a move, defeat was already destined; before embarking, misdirection was fated.

These were two distinct types of despair, yet connected through the roots and chains that delved into the void, creating an ominous Heaven and Earth Net, an absolute domain where even a Daoist Monarch could not pass.

"My lord..." Zhen Shan’s voice was incredibly dry, his hands gripping the battle spear trembling slightly, not from fear but from his dao body’s instinctive shudder under extreme pressure. He wished to die for Xu Ran, but sorrowfully realized he lacked even the qualification to charge ahead.

"Shut up, focus, hold onto your heart!"

Xu Ran’s voice exploded like thunder through everyone’s sea of consciousness. His voice held no despair, only a cold battle intent ignited by being pushed to the extreme!