The Immortal Seeker: Legend of Bronze Mirror-Chapter 873 - 405: Xu Qing Proves His Immortality Here

"Break!"

A voice like a thought from before the start of the cosmos echoed from within the profound darkness Xu Qing had transformed into!

A single thought, embodying all of Xu Qing's will, residual strength, and the ultimate understanding of the shared essence of Silent Extinction and Taiyi, pierced out like the first axe light of Heaven and Earth Opening, silently and without a sound!

This was neither an energy attack nor a material assault, but rather a direct impact on the source of the Great Dao Law...a Dao Thought impact!

This single thought, containing the supreme truth that "Taiyi is the source of extinction and can also embrace extinction," precisely struck the core node of the Silent Extinction Laws within the projection of the Black Bodhi Tree!

Hiss...

Like a hot knife slicing through solidified oil.

That Black Bodhi Tree, eternal and unchanging, unyielding to myriad tribulations, began to silently dissipate and dissolve from the core node where the thought struck, its dark form fading like ink dropped in clear water!

There was no earth-shattering explosion or torrent of energy dispersing.

The Silent Extinction Dao Laws forming its projection seemed to encounter a higher-level "command" and began to disintegrate, breaking down into the most primal, attribute-less Silent Extinction Dao Rhyme, eventually returning to the profound Taiyi darkness Xu Qing had transformed into, becoming part of its nourishment!

The absolute silence enveloping heaven and earth receded like a tide. That void of darkness slowly contracted, reforming Xu Qing's figure.

He still stood there, his face as pale as paper, his aura weak to the extreme, his body appearing somewhat illusory and transparent, as if a mere breeze could disperse him.

His hair was entirely gray, and his skin was covered in fine cracks, like porcelain about to shatter.

The Five-Colored Flying Sword fell to the ground, its spirit light vanished, covered in cracks, almost rendered a mere piece of iron.

Yet, his gaze was brighter and deeper than ever before!

In the depths of his pupils, it seemed to contain the darkness and silence before the cosmos' formation, as if the cycles of all things' birth and extinction flowed within.

An indescribable aura, seemingly originating from "void," hovered around him, weak yet inherently profound and unsettling.

He slowly raised his hand, gazing at his cracked, nearly transparent palm, feeling within it an emptiness where almost no Five Elements Yin Yang Magical Power remained, yet embracing a touch of ineffable "void" origin that seemed to contain and extinguish all things.

"Silent Extinction... Taiyi... so this is it..."

He murmured, his voice hoarse but carrying a calmness that understood great secrets.

He bent down with difficulty to pick up the cracked Five-Colored Flying Sword. The sword felt cold, its spirit dormant.

He absorbed it into his body, nurturing it with the faint origin reborn from Taiyi's embrace of extinction.

He took one last glance at the spot where the Black Bodhi Tree had disappeared, where only the purest void remained.

Xu Qing took a deep breath, dragging his nearly extinguished but seemingly reborn body, taking a step into the Fengdu Emperor Palace's foremost light gate, which exuded endless allure and was within reach.

Behind him was a silence that seemed to belong to eternity.

Ahead lay the perilous unknown of creation.

Passing through the light gate.

Everything opened up before Xu Qing's eyes.

There was no imagined splendor of gold and jade, no stern guards, nor mountains of amassed treasures.

The core of the Emperor Palace was an indescribable silent void.

The void was not pure black but flowed with a deep "lightless darkness" that seemed to embrace all colors of the world. In the center of this void, something floated.

An Emperor's Robe.

It was not a Dragon Robe of a human emperor but woven from a strange "Tao Principle" that was neither silk nor brocade, neither gold nor jade. The robe appeared in a profound black, yet it was adorned with countless points of starlight, as if the reflection of the whole universe was embroidered on it.

The robe moved autonomously, gently rising and falling, with each motion seemingly affecting the breaths and heartbeats of countless beings in some unseen realm.

An indescribable supreme authority, mastering the rise and fall of all things, controlling the cycle of life and death, diffused from it, not domineering but deep as an abyss, heavy as the earth, invoking a natural sense of reverence.

"The Book of Life and Death... the Daoist Embryo of the Innate Life and Death Dao..." An unprecedented spark ignited in Xu Qing's weak and weary eyes.

He instantly understood that this was the crucial element he felt, so vitally linked to him!

It wasn't a book recording life and death but the supreme Daoist Embryo birthed from the Innate Life and Death Dao, embodying the authority over the Three Realms and Six Paths, the birth and death cycles of all beings!

What the Fengdu Emperor left behind was indeed the core of this Dao!

Dragging his nearly broken body, he staggered but relentlessly approached the floating Emperor's Robe. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

With each step, the void under his feet seemed to ripple imperceptibly, and the Life and Death Dao Rhyme emanating from the robe attracted the new trace of Taiyi Power fused with the extinction origin within him like the most compatible magnet.

When he finally stood before the Emperor's Robe, reaching out his cracked, nearly transparent palm to touch it.

Buzz!

The entire silent void trembled violently as if a stone had been dropped into a lake!

The myriad starlight points suddenly radiated a brilliant light, completely enveloping Xu Qing!

An immense torrent of information, intermingled with endless images of life and death cycles, reincarnation, and spiritual rebirth, surged fiercely into Xu Qing's Sea of Consciousness like the long river of the universe breaching its dam!

This was the ancient accumulation and authority of the Innate Life and Death Dao!

He felt as if he had become the universe itself, capable of birthing galaxies and life with a thought; or, with another thought, causing worlds to fade, returning all beings to silence!