Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Layers of the Causeless Light Array

The Deep Root Lower Layers, the 365th layer.

The world was bathed in an eerie and tranquil blue glow, as if the entire world were forged from light. Boundless lotuses of light bloomed in the sea of sand—transparent, like glass sculptures, with stardust-like golden radiance flowing on each petal. Ten thousand lotuses of light formed a river, winding along the gently undulating sand dunes into the distance, like the Milky Way suspended upside down on earth.

The lotus trembled gently in the breeze, its heart shimmering with tiny specks of light that seemed to disturb even time itself. There were no sounds of battle in the air, but rather an eerie tranquility—a tranquility so Ultimate that it sent chills down the spine of anyone who stepped into this place.

In the center of this seemingly miraculous wasteland of light, two massive armies stood on opposite sides of the river.

On one side is the Asura Immortal Hall.

Their robes fluttered in the wind, all embroidered with Asura blood patterns, their killing intent surging like a tide. Leading them—the Third Elder of the Asura Ping Koucen Asura Immortal Hall, Ping Kouchen (Silent Mystery Realm, Supreme)—stood before the sea of radiant lotuses, his silver hair flying like blades, the Asura mark between his brows faintly glowing red. Behind him, twelve elders formed a crescent shape, their auras pressing down on the sand sea, causing it to ripple. Further away, tens of thousands of the Asura Immortal Hall disciples, their killing intent reaching the heavens.

On the other side was the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall.

Though few in number, they were as calm and awe-inspiring as ancient monuments. The black-robed elder at the forefront stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze cold and downcast, like a deathly silence piercing the heavens and earth. The lotus flowers beneath their feet withered and turned to ashes under the pressure of his aura.

The only thing separating the two sides was the shimmering Lotus River, which had now become an insurmountable chasm on the edge of a deadly confrontation.

Between light and silence, sparks collide...

Ping Koucen sneered, his voice exploding in the otherwise tranquil sea of light:

"Silent Nothingness Divine Hall, what are you doing here? Our Asura Immortal Hall arrived first on these 365 levels; how dare you step in?"

The elder from the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall opposite him raised his eyes unhurriedly, his tone as calm as if he were stating a pre-written ending:

"Opportunities Deep Root Lower Layers are inherently unclaimed. If your Asura Immortal Hall wants to monopolize them, you should consider whether you have the right to do so."

The disciples of the Asura Immortal Hall erupted in fury. "Insolence!" "You dare challenge us?" "Get out of the 365th floor!"

The lotus was shaken so violently that its light flickered, and the light from its core exploded into countless shimmering fragments of light.

The black-robed elder of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall raised a finger and simply pointed:

"The Asura Immortal Hall... has always been arrogant to the point of being annoying. If you're truly not convinced, then let your strength speak for itself."

In an instant, the auras of both sides surged violently.

Ping Koucen's eyes turned completely cold. "Very well... Since you wish to die, this elder will grant your wish!"

The person from the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall also stepped forward. "Then let's see—who is worthy to survive on these 365 floors."

The world on the Sea of Light Lotus, which was originally as tranquil as a miracle, suddenly trembled violently, and the heavens and earth seemed to be stained with the sharpness of killing intent.

The Sea of Light Lotus Sands exploded into a storm of light in the next instant.

The ten thousand lotus blossoms were torn apart by the killing intent, transforming into countless golden-blue light fragments that soared into the sky, illuminating the three hundred and sixty-five layers of the firmament. The heavens and earth roared, and the sea of light churned, resembling an apocalyptic tide triggered by the shattering of stars.

The Asura Immortal Hall vs. the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall – a war of ten thousand men erupts instantly.

The disciples of the Asura Immortal Hall trampled through the River of Light Lotus, their Asura Blood Patterns igniting into crimson flames. With a single palm strike, the entire sea of sand exploded, whipping up a thousand feet of dust. At the same time, the disciples of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall unleashed the Annihilation Technique, their dark purple death light sweeping across like a storm, instantly engulfing hundreds of miles of radiance.

Millions of magical lights erupted in the same space, starlight and deathly silence tearing each other apart.

The light of the lotus was stained a blood-red color.

Ping Koucen, wielding the Asura Blood Bone Spear, soared into the sky. With a flick of his spear, the sky was pierced, and a crimson Asura Annihilation Domain descended from the heavens, causing the entire battlefield to sink thirty feet in an instant.

The black-robed elder of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall coldly raised his palm, and a dark, abyss-like hole slowly rotated in his hand, devouring the light of heaven and earth. His voice, like a ghost, echoed between heaven and earth, "The Asura Immortal Hall is too weak."

Ping Koucen laughed angrily, his fighting spirit exploding like thunder. "Weak? You cowards dare to utter that word in front of this elder?"

Gunfire erupted, like the roar of a thousand Asura.

The black-robed elder responded coldly, mocking as he fought. "What else does your Asura Immortal Hall have besides arrogance? True strength isn't built on numbers."

"Then this elder will show you today—even a large number of people can crush you!" Before the two finished speaking, they had already been blasted into the sky.

The Asura Blood Bone Spear collided with the Annihilation Black Hole in the clouds, creating destructive ripples of gold and black. Each impact caused the entire 365th floor to sink, and the light lotus was evaporated into nothingness.

On the ground, the elders of the Asura Immortal Hall unleashed their Asura Domains. Crimson Asura phantoms, like the wailing of ten thousand ghosts, tore through the air and crushed towards the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall.

The elders of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall used the "Silent Space Realm-Splitting" to lift up a massive, lightless barrier. Countless patterns writhed within the black membrane, resembling a coffin that devoured heaven and earth.

"Asura Immortal Hall, are you all preparing to die together?" Elder Silent Void sneered.

"Death? You'd better be alive to say that!"

Elder Asura roared, shattering the sea of light lotus sand. He unleashed a vast and boundless Asura Refining Domain from his palm, with countless Asura figures rushing out like a tidal wave from hell.

Boom! The heavens and earth shattered once again.

The disciples of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall used a black coffin array to block the impact. The array raised hundreds and thousands of coffin walls, each of which absorbed the power of the Asura and then spat it back, forming a death shock.

A large number of disciples from the Asura Immortal Hall fell instantly. But they did not retreat.

The disciples of the Asura Immortal Hall fought with increasing ferocity, their Asura blood energy surging like a raging sea, their battle roars shaking the heavens and earth. "Kill!!!"

The Sea of Light Lotus was constantly stained with blood, its radiance dimmed, torn apart by killing intent, swallowed by desolate light, and lit up by the flames of Asura.

In the sky, Ping Koucen's spear pierced through the black hole, leaving a hole in Silent Void's chest. But in the next instant, he used the power of Annihilation to heal the wound.

Both men sneered simultaneously. "You're too old, Ping Koucen." "You should have died long ago."

The next blow sent the two plummeting from the sky to the ground, shattering the 100,000 lotus flowers of light and causing the ground to crater open like a sinkhole.

All the disciples of the Asura Immortal Hall and the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall were thrown back hundreds of meters by the impact, and some were even killed on the spot by the aftershocks.

Dust billowed, light shattered. Asura vs. Silent Void. From the start of the battle to this point, only a dozen breaths had passed, yet nearly three thousand had already perished.

This is not a fight, but a devastating battle between two temples—it's either live or die.

Heaven and earth roared in fury, and the earth cracked. At the height of their frenzied battle, the light of the Radiant Lotus Sand Sea suddenly began to dim rapidly, visible to the naked eye.

At the height of the fiercest battle, the Sea of Light Lotus suddenly fell silent—as if an invisible hand had pressed the button to silence it.

The light from all the lotuses dimmed simultaneously. It didn't go out.

Instead, it was taken away, swallowed up, and erased—as if it were crossed out of the "existence" column by some being.

The world suddenly darkened. The light faded faster than the sunset, and more ruthlessly than a knife's cut.

The next instant, all the cultivators who were still unaware of the danger heard a "hum" coming from the depths of the lotus of light.

That wasn't a sound, but rather—the echo of rules being awakened.

The entire 365-story heaven and earth seemed to be illuminated anew.

Suddenly, each lotus flower in the Sea of Light rose up, like millions of stars rising from the ground.

They opened simultaneously—not as petals, but as array patterns.

Countless streaks of light surged forth from the heart of the lotus flower like a flood bursting its banks.

Automatically connects, spreads, outlines, and rotates in the air.

To form a colossal array that transcends the comprehension of all cultivators.

The giant array slowly rose into the air, expanding to the 365th level where heaven and earth meet.

It covers every inch of the desert, every lotus of light, and every breath of existence.

The Light Lotus Great Array - Revival. This is a mechanism Deep Root Lower Layers.

It had never been opened to any cultivator before. Today, amidst the carnage of ten thousand people and the soaring resentment, it was finally forced to awaken.

The moment the array patterns lit up, the entire desert erupted with a white light brighter than the sun.

"Retreat--!!!" Ping Koucen roared, but his voice was swallowed up by the roar of light.

The black-robed elder of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall also paled. "Not good! This is the Spirit-Devouring Annihilation Array! Everyone retreat--!!!"

But it was too late. The first strike of the Light Lotus Formation wasn't light.

Rather— Annihilation. They bloom, like millions of flowers of Annihilation.

The flower's center sprays outwards in patches of white light.

Those luminous feathers fell silently, as gentle as the wind, yet—they killed the moment they touched them.

A disciple of the Asura Immortal Hall had just raised his head to look at the dazzling light when

The next instant, his body was like a painting that had been erased.

Starting from his feet, he turned into light dust and gradually dissipated. "Ah--!?"

All the cultivators finally realized with horror—

The revival of the Light Lotus Great Array is not aimed at any one party, but at all living things.

The sea of sand exploded as if boiling, and countless lotuses of light rose into the sky, reformed, fell, and bloomed.

Forming one after another spirit-devouring white flower. Vast swathes of the Asura Immortal Hall disciples were wiped out.

They didn't even have time to scream. The disciples of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall were the same.

Rows and rows of them transformed into scattered white light. It was everywhere in the world.

Human figures vanished, feathers of light fell, battle formations shattered, cultivators fled, and elders roared in fury.

Ping Koucen escorted hundreds of his disciples from high above into the Asura Blood Curtain.

However, the blood barrier lasted for less than three breaths before being burned through by the Light Lotus Array patterns.

The black-robed elder of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall released the Silent Space Realm-Splitting in an attempt to create a path to survival, but the Realm Splitting had barely unfolded when...

It was torn open with countless gashes by the Light Lotus Array patterns, as if it were being cut by ten thousand blades at once.

Fear quickly replaced the killing intent. The light feathers of the great formation grew denser and denser.

It was as if they wanted to clear out the 365 floors, turning them into a desolate wasteland of white bones.

The screams, roars, howls, and cries for help from all the cultivators blended into a chaotic cacophony.

"Everyone, respawn immediately!!!"

This time, the Asura Immortal Hall and the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall will no longer kill each other.

Instead, they frantically fled towards the outside of the formation.

However, the range of the Light Lotus Great Array was too large—a full three hundred and sixty-five layers.

There was nowhere to escape. The world was reduced to chaos: the lotus of light exploded, and the cultivators vanished.

The array patterns tore the earth apart. The sky was crushed into shattered light. Blood evaporated in the intense, Annihilation light.

Like a judgment personally handed down by God. And this judgment is impartial, unreasonable, and offers no way out. -- The 365th floor is completely out of control.

The 365-layered Light Lotus Great Array continues to devour all life.

Vast swathes of white light swept across the sand sea like waves, constantly turning the disciples of the Asura Immortal Hall and the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall into dust, leaving countless deep black cracks torn open by Annihilation on the earth.

The remaining elders and disciples of the Asura Immortal Hall have been forced into a corner of the Light Lotus Sand Sea. All the light feathers are surging towards them, and if they hold on for another breath, they will be completely wiped out.

Right now--

From the depths of heaven and earth, a resounding boom, extremely steady yet capable of shaking the very bones of the realm, suddenly echoed.

It was as if a sovereign, sealed away for eternity, had broken through the Deep Root Lower Layers restrictions with a single step.

The next instant, all the light on the 365th floor dimmed for a moment.

It was as if heaven and earth were fearing something... yielding to something...

What was he waiting for? -- Then, he appeared.

That was Chen Jieli's Supreme pressure, like the Realm Breaking countless realms, at the Chaos Realm's pinnacle.

He stepped into the 365th floor, and the entire sea of sand trembled violently.

The remaining disciples of the Asura Immortal Hall immediately cried out in alarm:

"Senior Brother Chen!!! Senior Brother Chen is here!!!"

"We... we're saved!!!"

"Senior brother!!!"

Elder Ping Koucen's pupils contracted. "... Jie Li!!!"

Chen Jieli remained silent.

He raised his hand, took a step forward, and the true form of the Chaos Realm slowly unfolded behind him.

That was not a phantom, but a chaotic throne that even the world could hardly contain.

Above the divine throne, the myriad Star Abyss flowed backward, and shattered dimensions, broken cause and effect, and fragments of broken time swirled around him like chains of annihilation.

He raised his hand with just a light wave—

But the world seemed like a piece of cloth that he could manipulate at will.

The moment these four words fell. "Chaos Abyss - World-Covering the Realm and Disordering Order - Break."

A deep, unfathomable crack of chaos appeared in his palm.

An unnamed power churned within the cracks, as if devouring the entire 365-layered Light Lotus Array.

The myriad white rays of light that descended from the Light Lotus Array instantly—

Torn to shreds! The light feathers before the chaotic rift were like snowflakes touching fire.

One by one, they extinguished, crumbled, and vanished.

Upon witnessing this scene, a black-robed elder from the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall turned deathly pale.

His throat trembled, as if gripped by an invisible hand.

After a long pause, he finally managed to squeeze out, "Chen Jieli... the direct disciple of the Asura Immortal Hall..."

"The sole controller of language in the Ancient Source Realm Speech-as-Construct Logic..." "... whose words can create or destroy dimensions..."

He retreated frantically. "He only needs to say one word... to make an entire realm cease to exist!!!"

The disciples of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall behind him knelt on one knee in fright. "Elder... what... what should we do...?"

The elder gritted his teeth, his voice trembling. "All disciples... retreat!! Retreat!!!!!"

Anyone who directly clashes with this person will surely die!!! But the Light Lotus Great Array has already recovered its second wave of Annihilation.

A feather of light swept down from the sky.

This time, however, there is only one target: Chen Jieli.

It was as if the great formation had also sensed the threat and was preparing to engulf him.

Chen Jieli slowly raised his head, his gaze so cold it seemed to freeze the entire 365 layers of sand.

He opened his mouth and uttered only six words: "Light Lotus Great Array —Stop."

In an instant, all the patterns in the Light Lotus Great Array stopped flowing.

All the light froze in mid-air. All the Annihilation feathers solidified in mid-air, like a silent rain of crystals.

It was as if a new rule had been rewritten for the world: the great formation must obey Chen Jieli's voice.

The thousands of disciples of the Asura Immortal Hall were dumbfounded.

The elder of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall was completely dumbfounded. "He... he said one sentence... and stopped the great formation...?"

Chen Jieli stepped forward, his gaze sweeping across the core of the formation, and spoke calmly:

"Break." The Annihilation sea of light lotuses, from the root to the tip of the array—

Everything shattered, collapsed, turned to dust, and vanished. The 365th floor finally returned to silence.