The despair vortex Cardinal spun frantically, attempting to use the Law of Despair to reverse-contaminate the chains.

"Resist with all your might! It's impossible for her realm to fully wield the Star Lord Authority; this must be borrowed power with a time limit!"

The Corrupt Root Cardinal made the most desperate move.

It voluntarily tore away a third of its own body, turning it into billions of Corrupt Spores to reverse-contaminate the Star-Corpse Reef itself:

"Since you want to suppress me, then let us decay together!"

Over at the Star Track Battle Group, the situation was equally dire.

Starlight exploded on the Lion Star Guard's spear, forcibly severing three of the entangling chains.

However, the Power of Gui Xu that erupted from the severed chains still left three incurable void scars on his armor.

"Twelve Star Guards, form the Starfall Battle Array!"

He roared, "Use the power of the battle array to forcibly ram the Star-Corpse Reef! Her power cannot cover the entire battlefield!"

The Twelve Star Guards erupted simultaneously, as the brilliant power of the star track resonated frantically between them, forming a giant spear of starlight that spanned the void, capable of piercing stars, and struck fiercely at the core of the Star-Corpse Reef!

However—

Bai Cheng stood in the void, the phantom of the gate of gui xu slowly rotating behind her.

She didn't look at the struggles of either side, but instead cast her gaze into the distance.

To the east and west of the Emerald Sea.

Deep in her soul, the resonance of the thirty-six Starfire Seeds was strengthening at an incredible speed.

The first to be lit was the seventh node on the west side, Panshi Island.

"Miss..."

Zi Yuan's voice came through the faith connection, carrying a weary yet incredibly excited tremor.

"The reverse-contamination vortex has been suppressed! The Starfire Seed... has sprouted!"

At the core of Panshi Island, the seed planted by Yu Nian, with the assistance of Zi Yuan and Blue Bird, forcibly purified the contamination vortex formed by the metamorphosis of a Lurking Demon General.

The seed split open, and a tender sprout broke through the shell. It wasn't a plant sprout, but a golden light sprout condensed from pure Starfire, resembling miniature star track.

The light sprout swayed gently, releasing warm ripples of faith.

The ripples swept across the entire island. Deep in the souls of the islanders who had been corroded for years, decades, or even longer, their long-numb self-awareness was like a hibernating seed meeting the first breeze of spring.

Starting to... awaken.

"Who... am I?"

"Is this... Panshi Island?"

"Father... Mother... I remember now..."

The second, the third, the fourth...

On the eighteen node islands of the west side, the Starfire Seeds sprouted one after another.

The same was true for the east side.

Lu Duo and Yu Nian had avoided the strange collection teams of the Star Track Battle Group and successfully planted all eighteen seeds.

Although monitoring runes placed by the Star Track Battle Group appeared around the seed at the third node, Firefly Bay, that seed still tenaciously broke through its shell.

The power of Starfire seemed to naturally counter the monitoring methods of the Star Track Battle Group.

"All seeds activated," Lu Duo's voice came through, carrying a hint of confusion.

"But the people from the Star Track Battle Group... seemed to retreat voluntarily after seeing the seeds sprout?

Before they left, they even left a... Starlight Mark at every sprouting point?"

Bai Cheng's silver eyes narrowed slightly.

Starlight Mark?

Not an attack, not interference, but... a marker?

She considered countless possibilities in a very short time, but the battlefield before her didn't allow her to be distracted for long.

Because at this moment, the suppression of the Star-Corpse Reef had reached its limit.

After all, it was only borrowed Star Lord Authority; after all, she had not yet truly stepped into the position of Emperor; after all, the Tianxuan Star Lord had already fallen ages ago.

The Gui Xu authority sealed within this Star-Corpse Reef was being consumed at an alarming rate.

The starlight chains began to grow dim.

The first to break free were the Twelve Star Guards of the Star Track Battle Group.

The giant starlight spear they formed finally pierced the surface defense of the Star-Corpse Reef, exploding a giant crater with a diameter of over a hundred zhang on the reef!

"She can't hold on anymore!" A fierce light flashed in the Lion Star Guard's eyes. "Attack her body with all your strength! Seize the emperors imprint!"

The Twelve Star Guards' giant starlight spear turned around, abandoning the further destruction of the Star-Corpse Reef, and instead transformed into twelve meteors that tore through the void, heading straight for Bai Cheng!

Almost simultaneously, the Three Cardinals of World Purification also found a weakness.

The body sacrificed by the Corrupt Root Cardinal contaminated part of the star-corpse, leading to a brief chaotic law in the starlight chains of that area.

The despair vortex and the Greedy Maw seized this one-thousandth of a second opportunity to forcibly break free from their restraints!

"It's over, Corrector." The despair vortex transformed into a dark red giant hand that blotted out the sky, reaching for Bai Cheng.

The Greedy Maw split into countless small maws, blocking all her possible evasion spaces.

And the twelve lights of the Star Track Battle Group had already reached her back!

A triple killing blow!

But at this moment, a cold curve curled at the corner of Bai Cheng's mouth.

She had been waiting for this exact moment.

"Ning Xue," she called softly in her heart, "activate it."

Deep within the Star-Corpse Reef, the silver seed implanted by Leng Ningxue—the final key to the Star Chart Island heritage—quietly shattered.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only an invisible ripple of information, like a water wave, that instantly spread across the entire Emerald Sea at speeds exceeding light!

In the east of the Emerald Sea, at Firefly Bay.

A member of the Star Track Battle Group who was observing the Starfire Seed sprout suddenly had a massive change in expression, as a monitoring device in his arms flashed frantically:

"Detecting a large-scale synchronization of law information... This is... the Celestial Cognition Database accumulated by Star Chart Island for three thousand years?! She is... publicly sharing the Star Track Blueprint?!"

In the west, at Panshi Island.

Zi Yuan and Blue Bird looked up at the same time, feeling a vast and orderly amount of knowledge pouring into the depths of their souls like an opened floodgate.

It was every detail of the Emerald Sea's star track structure, every law of the Faith Network's operation,

And about... how to use Starfire as a guide to recast the complete blueprint of the entire sea area!

On the Tianxuan Reef battlefield.

Bai Cheng spread her arms, the emperors imprint on her forehead burning to the extreme.

She was no longer borrowing the authority of the Tianxuan Star Lord, but was using herself as a hub to combine the celestial cognition accumulated by Star Chart Island for three thousand years,

The Starfire resonance just born from the thirty-six node islands, the faith carried by her own five clusters of Starfire, and the source power of the gate of gui xu—

All fused, all connected, all... sublimated!

"I indeed cannot wield the Star Lord Authority forever."

Her voice resounded through heaven and earth:

"But I don't need to wield it—"

"Because I am becoming the ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ new Star Lord!"

The phantom of the gate of gui xu swung wide open to its maximum!

But this time, what gushed out was not the source Power of Gui Xu, but... a river.

A river composed of pure laws, flowing with the light of Starfire and the aura of Gui Xu, spanning the past, present, and future—

A Torrent of Laws!"