Chapter 633: Eternal Radiance of Sacred Light, Refining the World (II)

With his breakthrough complete, Chen Chu stood up decisively.

Considering the substantial gains he had already made in the ruin, he was confident that by destroying more ancient statues, he could soon enhance the Taixu Nether Light Scripture to the sixth stage.

Boom!

The ground within several hundred meters shattered as Chen Chu shot into the sky like a ray of light. He crashed through dozens of meteors, each ranging from dozens to hundreds of meters in diameter, before coming to an abrupt halt.

Floating in the void ahead was a colossal, broken stone statue, still towering over four hundred meters despite missing its lower half.

Boom!

A purple-red halberd light, spanning three hundred meters, slashed across the void like a massive missile, pulverizing space and striking the statue's head.

Boom!

With a dazzling explosion of purple-red light, an energy shockwave spread for kilometers, leaving only fragments tumbling through the void.

Chen Chu scanned the countless debris scattered over several kilometers and mused to himself. "These broken statues without energy fluctuations seem to lack Soul Crystals. Could it be that all their energy has dissipated?"

He then turned his gaze to the surrounding dark void, which was filled with countless meteor fragments in every direction. Apart from the floating debris, there were also lakes formed by water accumulation and fiery regions created by subterranean magma.

The vast expanses of burning magma, spanning dozens of kilometers, provided a faint source of light and heat, offering a glimmer of illumination in the darkness.

Given the shattered state of this world, Chen Chu couldn't determine whether it had once been a flat continent or a massive planet before its destruction.

Since the overly damaged statues contained no Soul Crystals, Chen Chu shifted his focus to the more intact ones. After flying several hundred kilometers through the void, he soon found another target.

A floating landmass spanning over a hundred kilometers drifted in the void, with a massive crater in the center left by an impact. Inside the crater lay a colossal, two-thousand-meter-tall stone statue with three eyes and a severed arm.

In the distance stood a towering structure, thousands of meters high. Though it was mostly collapsed, a faint energy fluctuation lingered within it.

Boom!

A beam of blue-black lightning streaked across the void like a world-ending asteroid, shattering countless meteors in its path.

Hum!

The eyes of the severed stone statue suddenly lit up, and a power beyond the transcendent realm erupted, reaching the beginning stage of the mythical level.

Boom!

The statue trembled, unleashing shockwaves akin to tidal waves as it stood up. It roared in fury at the distant streak of light crossing the void.

Black shockwaves coiled around the statue's enormous arm, resembling a mountain ridge, as it struck toward Chen Chu with overwhelming force, shattering the surrounding space with sheer dominance.

Compared to the earlier statues, the power of this three-eyed statue was monstrous.

However, despite its immense strength, Chen Chu's power was even more formidable. His halberd, infused with high-level laws—the Divine Thousand-Tribulations Lightning and the Heavenly Great Sun Flame—was a force of utter destruction.

The moment his halberd, compressed with terrifying power, collided with the colossal hand of the statue, an explosion of dazzling light and destruction erupted.

Boom!

Lightning and flames burst forth in a devastating explosion. The giant stone hand, over a hundred meters in size, shattered into pieces, followed closely by the thick arm, which continued to explode under the force of the advancing halberd.

Though the runes on the stone giant's surface provided strong immunity to energy attacks, once the power level reached the realm of laws, that immunity sharply declined.

This was only natural. If a statue of such strength, at the beginning stage of the mythical level, could fully resist all attacks at the mythical level, then this long-vanished civilization would have been invincible.

At the very least, they would have dominated an area spanning millions of kilometers. After all, with just a few thousand of these statues, this ancient civilization could have conquered everything in their vicinity, surpassing even the terrifying Purgatory Clan.

However, just as Chen Chu was about to completely destroy the massive statue after crushing its only remaining arm, the eye at the center of the statue's forehead suddenly lit up.

Boom!

A thick black beam, tens of meters wide, shot out from the statue's forehead, obliterating everything in its path, both matter and energy, leaving nothing but destruction.

Boom!

Chen Chu's figure flickered as he dodged in an instant, and the black beam struck the ground below. The entire world trembled slightly as the earth shattered.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Half of the island crumbled under the statue's beam, with countless massive rocks and debris scattering into the surrounding void and disintegrating into dust in an earth-shattering spectacle.

Even Chen Chu was taken aback by such power. If that attack had struck him directly, his four-layer barrier would have lasted only a few breaths before collapsing.

Swoosh!

Activating his Heaven-Stepping Divine Movement, Chen Chu instantly appeared above the statue's head. The terrifying weight of his halberd spread a crushing force, distorting the surrounding space.

The infinitely increasing weight of the halberd turned it almost pitch black. With Chen Chu's full power, it descended like a black flash at nearly twenty times the speed of sound, striking the statue's head.

Boom!

The statue's body trembled as all of the ancient runes on its surface flickered, dispersing the force of the strike throughout its form. The ground beneath it, spanning over ten kilometers, exploded, sending countless rocks and debris skyward.

Amid the rising dust and debris, a massive rift appeared on the statue’s head. Originating from the forehead, half of the head slowly split apart, crashing onto the ground like a falling mountain.

The runes across the statue's body dimmed and gradually lost their luster. Eventually, it turned into a colossal, broken relic standing still on the earth.

Embedded within the core of the statue’s fractured head was a black, transparent crystal the size of a washbasin. Around it, black patterns spread like blood vessels.

Chen Chu narrowed his eyes at the circuit-like black patterns. These statues seemed somewhat similar to the design principles of mechs and robots.

In essence, whether it was cultivators, mechs, or these ancient golems and statues, as well as the mechanical devices from Blue Planet society, they all adhered to the foundational laws of the world. The only difference was that one was powered by electrical energy, the other by transcendent energy—different means to the same end.

After a brief moment of contemplation, Chen Chu extracted the massive Soul Crystal from the statue. A thought echoed in his mind. C

onvert the Soul Crystal’s energy.

Whoosh!

Instantly, a surge of pure, majestic soul energy erupted from the crystal, flooding into Chen Chu's body and vanishing under a special force.

[You have converted one high-purity Soul Crystal, gaining 2,928 soul points.]

"Nearly 3,000 points..." Chen Chu was slightly surprised at the amount of soul points he had obtained from this conversion.

The more soul points, the better. If he could destroy two more statues over two thousand meters in height, he would have enough soul points to enhance the Taixu Nether Light Scripture to the fifth stage.

The enhancement of the scripture's fifth stage required 10,000 soul points, while the sixth stage would likely need at least 50,000—similar to the requirements for enhancing his abilities.

With the guardian statue destroyed, Chen Chu turned his gaze toward the towering structure in the distance. This ruin held not only Soul Crystals, but also valuable resources and the legacy of an ancient civilization.

His figure flashed, appearing at the entrance of the structure.

Meanwhile, deep within the ruin, Zuo Jing, clad in white robes, revealed a hint of surprise in his eyes. After a moment of contemplation, he slowly stood up.

Initially, he had paid little attention to the intruders in the ruins. To him, they were merely a group of transcendent cultivators who could easily be manipulated with a few simple tricks.

However, the scene he had just witnessed told him otherwise—this young man from the Human Federation possessed strength that exceeded his expectations. Despite only being at the late stage of the Ninth Heavenly Realm, Chen Chu had managed to destroy an ancient mythical-level war golem in just two moves.

Although the golem had been damaged and operating at less than half of its full strength, it still wasn’t something an ordinary king-level cultivator could destroy in such a short time.

Under these circumstances, Zuo Jing could no longer allow this human genius to continue exploring the ruin. Otherwise, he might interfere with his plans.