The clash between the Reincarnation Seal and the Annihilation Great Hand did not erupt with world-destroying thunder. Instead, it sank into an even more terrifying silence. It was the cruelest annihilation and rebirth at the level of laws. Wherever the Annihilation Great Hand passed, the artistic conception of All Things Return to the Void congealed into substance, as though it intended to drag this starfield into eternal stillness. The Reincarnation Seal, meanwhile, was like a stubborn stone cast into stagnant water. Though soundless, it violently churned this mire of "predestination" with the true meaning of "change" contained within it.
Where seal and palm met, space no longer twisted—it became conceptual "chaos." There was no light, no darkness, no life, and no death. There was only the most primordial, undefined "existence" and "nonexistence" locked in a fierce struggle. The runes of birth and destruction on the Reincarnation Seal circulated at an unprecedented speed, collapsing and being reborn. With every cycle, they forcibly "stripped" a trace of the most fundamental dead silence Dao principles from the Annihilation Great Hand, incorporating it into the Seal's system of reincarnation for a brutal refinement of "annihilation—analysis—transformation."
To Li Wuyang, the process was like repeatedly roasting his soul between eternal unmelting Profound Ice and star-burning flames. Dao Blood no longer seeped from his seven orifices. Instead, pale golden fragments of soul light containing Great Dao origin welled forth. His body swayed, hazy and illusory, as if he might suffer Dao Dissolution and soul dissipation at any moment. The newly sprouted Reincarnation Dao Tree seedling trembled violently as well. The edges of its two cotyledons curled and yellowed, as though they could wither at any time. He was using the fragile Dao foundation of a newborn calf to forcibly contend against the incarnation of the universe's will