Open up and break into another world

North of the Stone Statue Forest.

The Heavenly Fracture Cliff.

The cliff's precipice was taller than ten thousand realms, as smooth as a mirror.

The setting sun had already fallen below the cliff and was gradually being swallowed by the endless horizon.

At the edge of the cliff, two figures, a man and a woman, were sitting close together.

The female cultivator rested her head on the male cultivator's shoulder. The air was quiet, and the atmosphere was peaceful.

But if one looked closely, one could see that the female cultivator's divine body was somewhat stiff, as if it were freezing.

"The sunset in the Stone Statue Forest only appears a few times in an era!" the female cultivator's voice was weak. "Yan Heng, I can't hold on any longer! I may not even be able to last until the end of this sunset!"

"No..." Yan Heng, the Half-尊, the male cultivator, roared in a low voice, "No way!! Bei Xia, we will definitely find a way to break the cosmic chains, definitely!"

As he spoke, Yan Heng, the Half-尊, reached out to grab Bei Xia, the Half-尊's hand.

With this grab, Yan Heng, the Half-尊, was immediately stunned—he felt that Bei Xia, the Half-尊's palm was cold and hard, like a stone.

Yan Heng, the Half-尊, took another look, and his face changed drastically again—at this time, Bei Xia, the Half-尊's palm, had already completely petrified. Moreover, the petrification was spreading along her arm, towards her whole body.

"Petrification has begun?"

The beginning of petrification meant that Bei Xia, the Half-尊's life, had reached its final moments. When Bei Xia, the Half-尊, turned into a stone statue, it would be the end of her life.

"Yan Heng, don't even think about it. If there was a way to break the four-star cosmic chains, we would have found it long ago!" Bei Xia, the Half-尊, had long been desperate. "Yan Heng, I want you to promise me that after I die, you will live your remaining life well."

"Fool!" Yan Heng, the Half-尊, said emotionally, "If I don't have you, what's the point of living alone in this world? After you turn into a stone statue, I will give up resisting the cosmic chains and also turn into a stone statue; that way, we can be together forever!"

The petrification on Bei Xia, the Half-尊's body, was happening very quickly.

Before long, she had turned into a real stone statue, with no trace of life left on her body.

"It's over..." Yan Heng, the Half-尊, took a painful deep breath. However, although he was in pain, it was far from the point of wanting to die; obviously, what he said to Bei Xia, the Half-尊, before her death about "living and dying together" was just to coax her.

"Sooner or later, I will also become a stone statue!" Looking at the boundless Stone Statue Forest, Yan Heng, the Half-尊, felt despair—the great powers who came to the Stone Statue Forest were all here to break the cosmic chains on their bodies; but how many great powers were able to break the cosmic chains as they wished?

Suddenly—

Yan Heng, the Half-尊, received a message, and his face changed slightly: "Xu Ming? Nightmare-level cosmic chains? Cultivated the 'Nine Cosmos Devouring Forges'?"

When these messages were linked together, Yan Heng, the Half-尊, immediately saw hope—going to Nine Forges Mountain might be able to break the four-star cosmic chains on his body!

"Go!"

Regardless of whether this hope was real or false, Yan Heng, the Half-尊, was unwilling to miss the opportunity!

Whoosh—

Yan Heng, the Half-尊's figure flashed, and he instantly disappeared from the Heavenly Fracture Cliff.

As for Bei Xia, the Half-尊's stone statue, it sat alone on the edge of the cliff, ignored by anyone—the promised "being together forever" was abandoned just like that!

...

Inside the Stone Statue Forest.

The great powers of the entire Stone Statue Forest were flocking to Nine Forges Mountain in the Sunken Sea.

"Hmm? Half-尊 Jiu Shan?"

"It's Half-尊 Feng Lei! What a coincidence! Are you also heading to Nine Forges Mountain?"

"Eh—that's Half-尊 Yan Heng? Didn't they say that wherever Half-尊 Yan Heng is, Half-尊 Bei Xia is also there? Why is only Half-尊 Yan Heng here now?"

Yan Heng, the Half-尊, didn't say a word, and directly accelerated towards Nine Forges Mountain.

At this time, next to Nine Forges Mountain, Xu Ming was already "fully booked." Hundreds of millions of great powers gathered here, waiting for Xu Ming to "devour" their cosmic chains.

Xu Ming no longer needed to advertise at all, and there would be a steady stream of Half-尊 great powers coming.

And now, Xu Ming no longer helped people break one-star cosmic chains for free, but "charged" for breaking them.

Xu Ming's speed of breaking one-star cosmic chains was getting faster and faster!

Devouring one-star cosmic chains, next one, devouring one-star cosmic chains, next one... Continuously devouring and breaking!

"The first forging of the Nine Cosmos Devouring Forges is finally perfectly cultivated! Then, next is the second forging!"

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However, Xu Ming was not in a hurry to devour two-star cosmic chains, but continued to devour one-star cosmic chains.

Moreover... no longer devouring them one by one, but "group devouring!"

Boom!!!

With a whale-like gulp, Xu Ming directly devoured hundreds of one-star cosmic chains into his heart-world. And in the blink of an eye, they were all digested.

With another whale-like gulp, hundreds or thousands more one-star cosmic chains were devoured...

Xu Ming's "Nine Cosmos Devouring Forges" was becoming more and more profound, and devouring one-star cosmic chains was becoming easier and easier! Even, later on, with one whale-like gulp, Xu Ming could directly devour tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of one-star cosmic chains.

With one gulp, tens of thousands of Half-尊s broke free from the suppression of the cosmic chains!

What kind of heaven-defying strength was this!?

Boom!!!

Every time Xu Ming devoured, the space-time would tremble heavily, as if the will of the universe was roaring!

However, roaring was useless—the will of the universe could only use cosmic chains to deal with Xu Ming; but the cosmic chains on Xu Ming's body were already nightmare-level, so the will of the universe could not do anything to Xu Ming, and could only watch Xu Ming devour cosmic chains unscrupulously.

Boom!! Boom!! Boom!!...

Xu Ming kept devouring, and the will of the universe kept roaring.

Soon, the entire Stone Statue Forest could feel the anger of the universe's will; this also made more great powers rush to Nine Forges Mountain to find out what was going on.

And the Half-尊s who arrived at Nine Forges Mountain could no longer bear to leave! Everyone lined up and waited, waiting for Xu Ming to break the cosmic chains on their bodies.

And in this crazy devouring process, Xu Ming's heart-world was constantly growing. As for his strength, it was quietly soaring without other Half-尊s noticing!

Suddenly—

"Half-尊 Yan Heng!!!!"

An extremely crazy roar resounded throughout the Nine Forges Mountain.

Half-尊 Yan Heng in the crowd was slightly startled when he heard this voice, and then his face became a little ugly: "It's him..."

"Half-尊 Yan Heng!!" The roar continued, "Where is Half-尊 Bei Xia? I entrusted Bei Xia to you, but now, why are you the only one here; where is Half-尊 Bei Xia now?"