Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 734: The Boundless Gaze

Chapter 734: The Boundless Gaze

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The spiritual energy surrounding his body surged like a tidal wave, rampaging wildly along the circulation pathways of the Oceanborn Art.

While expanding Chen Huaian's meridians throughout his body, it also fiercely assaulted the bottleneck between the Nascent Soul and Unity Realms.

Within his dantian's energy sea, the Nascent Soul that looked exactly like him and radiated brilliant divine light slowly opened its eyes.

A fierce sword intent erupted, filled with the desire to break through constraints and stir heaven and earth.

Boom——!

Chen Huaian's aura climbed steadily around him.

Invisible energy waves spread outward from him as the center, sweeping up gravel and dust from the ground.

Above his head in the void, faint sounds of wind and thunder gathered—a sign that the realm barrier was being shaken.

"Break!"

Chen Huaian focused his will.

Guiding the vast spiritual power accumulated to its peak within his body.

Like an angry river bursting through floodgates, it fiercely charged toward that invisible barrier lying between Nascent Soul and Unity Realms.

However, just as that violent spiritual energy was about to crash into the barrier—

Hum!!!

A nauseating, suffocating stagnation assaulted him from all directions.

Chen Huaian frowned, his divine sense covering the surroundings, only to see thick gray gas surging through heaven and earth, completely surrounding his body.

His spiritual platform darkened, his energy sea churned violently.

As the gray gas condensed, an icy coldness spread up his spine toward the crown of his head.

That chill didn't come from some mysterious will in the deep void, but from the might of heaven and earth itself.

It was as if his current actions had violated some taboo, to the extent that even heaven and earth could not tolerate him.

This heaven-and-earth-rejecting pressure felt like countless invisible, indescribable chains wrapping around his soul, preventing him from mobilizing any more spiritual energy.

Pfft—!

Chen Huaian felt as if struck by a heavy blow, his face suddenly turning pale as he nearly spat out a mouthful of reversed blood.

The spiritual energy torrent he had just mobilized with unstoppable momentum, as if crashing into an invisible wall, was forcefully blocked and thrown back.

The violent power backlashed and collided within his body, his meridians transmitting waves of tearing agony.

"What's happening?!" Chen Huaian's eyes snapped open, filled with shock and disbelief.

As he emerged from his meditative state, his senses became increasingly clear.

He clearly felt that the power restraining him wasn't some ambush by a powerful enemy, but rather... the rule power of this very heaven and earth—that powerful blockade rooted deep in this world's origin, specifically targeting the act of "breakthrough."

Those invisible rule chains were cold and unyielding, tightly binding his Nascent Soul.

Suppressing the spiritual energy with which he was breaking through his realm, firmly nailing him before the threshold of peak Nascent Soul realm.

No matter how he drove his spiritual energy, how he concentrated his will, those chains remained completely motionless, as if mocking his overestimation of his capabilities.

"Heaven and earth rules... are preventing This Venerable One from breaking through?!" This realization sent chills throughout Chen Huaian's body.

By now, gray gas had already spread around him, making him feel as if he were in thick fog.

Chen Huaian's first reaction was—he had been discovered by the Celestial God Clan.

The Celestial God Clan was using Earth Star's heaven and earth rules to blockade him, preventing his breakthrough.

But very quickly, this thought was overturned.

If the Celestial God Clan had discovered him, why wouldn't they simply capture him directly?

For those Celestial God Clan members, killing him in his current state probably wasn't much different from crushing an ant, right?

Furthermore, he had been able to break through normally on Earth Star before, so why was he specifically blocked by heaven and earth rules when trying to advance from Nascent Soul to Unity Realm?

Chen Huaian forced himself to calm down, attempting to once again gather the surrounding spiritual energy to break through the bottleneck.

The result was entirely expected.

That invisible rule barrier remained indestructible, the backlash force causing his internal organs to tremble and his qi and blood to churn violently.

Every attempt felt like an ant trying to shake a tree—utterly futile, only deepening his own injuries instead.

"Damn it!" Chen Huaian's face turned as dark as stormy waters.

He had calculated everything, but never expected the greatest obstacle to be this very heaven and earth itself.

This feeling was like being targeted by the entire world.

His proud supreme physique, his pure and profound spiritual energy—all seemed so insignificant and powerless before these heaven and earth rules.

Just as Chen Huaian was pondering what countermeasures he could take...

The gray mist before him churned violently, followed by a pitch-black pillar breaking through the earth and standing erect before him.

Chen Huaian's pupils contracted sharply: "This is... the Ascension Pillar?!"

His divine sense fell upon the Ascension Pillar, and he almost instantly received feedback from it.

The information fed back was quite clear—if you want to break through, use the Ascension Pillar, otherwise you cannot break through.

And besides breaking through, the Ascension Pillar also faintly fed back some rather tempting information.

For example, after breaking through, one could obtain Unity Realm cultivation techniques, pills, magical instruments, and other cultivation resources from the Ascension Pillar.

Also, for example, one could receive an invitation to the Kunlun Immortal Palace, becoming a high-ranking elder within the palace.

There were even beautiful Dao Companions offered.

Just by focusing attention on this pitch-black pillar, so much information with obvious seductive undertones could be transmitted.

Any other cultivator would inevitably be unable to refuse.

But he remembered that Ascension Pillars were treasures given as rewards by various Ascender sects.

How could one just suddenly appear before him like this?

Chen Huaian pondered internally, always feeling that this Ascension Pillar had a somewhat "recruiting him" vibe to it.

Was this some new tactic the Celestial God Clan had devised to target 'variables' like them?

As long as one tried to break through on Earth Star, anyone whose power system didn't belong to the Ascender system would be screened out, suppressed, and issued an Ascension Pillar?

And once one used the Ascension Pillar, they would naturally be completely ruined.

"Ridiculous." Chen Huaian's eyes turned cold as he casually swung his sword and sliced the Ascension Pillar into fragments, "If you won't let This Venerable One break through on Earth Star, can't This Venerable One break through in the Cangyun Realm instead?"

He took out his VR headset, put it on, and entered the Cangyun Realm.

His physical body vanished from the spot, leaving only a wisp of remnant soul behind, its presence reduced to the absolute minimum at this moment.

And that heaven and earth rule power that had been locked onto this place seemed to suddenly lose its target, gradually dispersing.

The gray mist that had gathered here, making the surrounding demon beasts tremble in fear, also dissipated along with it.

Only a small portion remained attached to Chen Huaian's barely remaining remnant soul.

The Ascension Pillar that had been chopped into fragments also merged into the ground, completely disappearing.

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And at the very moment Chen Huaian destroyed the Ascension Pillar and entered the Cangyun Realm...

Deep within Earth Star's vast, boundless cosmos, in the cold, dead void, countless celestial bodies contracted and expanded like breathing.

At the center of the nebula-like entity, the void suddenly twisted, and a pair of eyes, deep as black holes, slowly opened without any warning.

These weren't biological eyes, but two vortices composed of pure, viscous, absolute darkness that constantly devoured all surrounding light.

At the edges of the vortices flowed incomprehensible, ever-changing geometric lines, resembling solidified madness or disintegrating stars.

The direction these "eyes" gazed toward was precisely the tiny star sector where Earth Star was located.

More accurately, they locked onto the space where Chen Huaian's physical body had last existed before disappearing, and... that almost imperceptible wisp of remnant soul.

As this gaze descended, the small patch of space where Chen Huaian's remnant soul resided underwent bizarre distortion.

Space itself seemed to become a living entity.

Like a translucent film being kneaded by an invisible giant hand, it displayed unnatural folds and ripples.

The sparse gray mist clinging to the remnant soul, as if summoned by a supreme existence, instantly became active and viscous.

They wildly surged and multiplied, attempting to completely envelop and mark that wisp of remnant soul.

However, this marking ultimately failed.

The multiplication of the gray mist was severed by some inexplicable force.

Like lacking sufficient nutrients, the gray mist's multiplication halted halfway, forced to fall dormant once again.

"Strange..."

A trace of puzzled emotion transmitted from those eyes in the cosmos, but then they fell silent again.

The entire nebula-like entity expanded and contracted rhythmically like breathing, transitioning from rapid to gradually slowing, as if sinking back into slumber.

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