The grand array with 365 layers completely collapsed, and the countless lotuses of light shattered into countless cold white fragments in the chaotic storm, as if chapters written to death were torn from the world. As soon as the dust settled, a beam of eerie white light suddenly shone in the sky, like the last breath of this layered realm before it was completely dead.
Something slowly fell from the crack in the light, landing on the scorched earth between the two halls—it was a frameless mirror. It was neither metal nor jade, but rather a smooth surface that seemed to "not belong to any definition of matter," silently suspended, weightless, without reflection, without an edge, only—blankness.
All the disciples of the Asura Immortal Hall and the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall held their breath at the same time, because even the wind blowing past its side would be gently replaced by blank fragments of "never happened". That thing was -- the Broken Mirror of Nothingness.
Seeing it means returning to zero; being reflected means losing one's standard.
There are no replacements, no steps, only the one outcome. "You don't deserve to leave a trace."
Elder Chen Hong of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall's eyelids twitched violently. He was about to lead his disciples in retreat when he heard Chen Jieli's chilling voice behind him. His tone was Ultimate calm, yet it was as if he had directly commanded the laws of heaven and earth to stop, "Elder Chen, are you in such a hurry to leave?"
Chen Hong sneered, "What, do I need to say goodbye before leaving?"
Chen Jieli slightly raised his eyes, his expression devoid of emotion. "No need, just spare your life."
In an instant, all the disciples of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall roared in unison, "Arrogant!!!"
A murderous intent surged, as if an entire realm was about to boil over.
Just as the two sides were about to clash again, the earth trembled slightly—not shattering, nor expanding, but a tremor as if some kind of "existence had been reset." The next moment, a clear, chilling female voice echoed from the depths of the heavens, a voice so cold it could freeze one's soul:
"Quite the boast. The mere Asura Immortal Hall dares to claim it Annihilation my Silent Nothingness Divine Hall?"
The world seemed to fall silent for a moment because of her voice. The wind stopped. The sand stopped. Even the falling light and dust stopped in mid-air.
Then—she appeared.
That is an existence that is almost impossible to appear in the mortal world.
Her extremely long, silvery-white hair cascaded down from the clouds, like a waterfall of mercury formed from the first ray of colorless light at the beginning of chaos. The strands of hair slid through the air, but did not flutter with the wind; they flowed according to their own rules. Her bare feet trod on the void, and a thin, almost weightless silver chain hung from her ankles, holding a small bronze box of unknown origin, material, and meaning, yet it seemed capable of sealing away an ancient history of a realm.
Her skin was translucent white, but not the white of a living person; it was a white of "nothingness," a pure white after all color had been erased. Her eyes were so pale they were almost transparent, yet deep within her pupils was a tiny, extremely dark dot, like the first ray of darkness before the Fate Abyss was torn open.
When she looked up at this realm, countless cultivators immediately knelt down, not out of fear, but instinctively because they were "suppressed by her level of existence." It wasn't that she was strong, but that they were too low and unworthy of her sight.
No one can describe her beauty, because her beauty has no warmth, no joy or anger, and not even the breath of life—as if a piece of the world had been carved out and then filled in with the shape of "nothingness".
The disciples of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall instantly had tears in their eyes, and cried out in trembling voices as if they had finally grasped a lifeline:
"It's... Senior Sister Jin!!!"
"Jin Hanyan is here!!!"
"It is our direct disciple of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall — Jin Hanyan!!!"
"Hmph, now their Asura Immortal Hall is doomed!"
Chen Jieli also looked up in her direction. He didn't look down on her, but he didn't back down either.
Because what he saw was not a woman, but an ancient, undifferentiated realm standing in human form.
Jin Hanyan slowly descended from the clouds, each step turning the space beneath her feet a pristine white, even the textures of the world regressing into an undefined chaos. She didn't look at anyone else, but simply stood still, speaking calmly, each word like a final draft for the heavens and earth. "Now that we've come this far, there's no need for further contention. Your paths... are all too noisy."
She slightly raised her index finger. The world suddenly turned cold.
Her finger strike was the ultimate technique of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall— [Return to Silence: Nameless Finger]
With a single finger pointing out, Silent Void, and all phenomena Nameless.
Chen Jieli's pupils contracted by half an inch—this was the first time he had felt a true "absolute threat" from Jin Hanyan. He wasn't afraid, but rather assessing the situation:
If she strikes with that finger, can he counterattack using "Speech as Construction"?
The answer is -- not necessarily. Because she wasn't pointing to him, but to the world itself.
Deep Root Lower Layers, three hundred and sixty-five layers. Heaven and earth seem to have been folded anew, the air trembling ceaselessly amidst the cracked, shimmering light.
Jin Hanyan raised her finger, as lightly as if she were touching a speck of dust.
The instant that finger fell—the void suddenly vanished.
The light failed, the shadows were lost, and the earth seemed to have been erased by an eraser.
Everything fell into the chaotic draft of "before the Nameless".
[Return to Silence - Nameless Finger]. Just as that finger beam was about to touch Chen Jieli's brow,
Chen Jieli's eyes narrowed suddenly. He raised his hand and waved it, his voice like thunder that could cleave the Realm Splitting: "Chaotic Structure - Reversing Fate and Realm Splitting!" Boom!!!
Crimson chaotic cracks exploded from the edge of his palm, as if nine thousand heavens had collapsed simultaneously.
Before the world could react, they managed to hold up Jin Hanyan's "Nameless light".
The light collided with the Realm Splitting, and the air was compressed to a scream.
The shattered lotus platform and the wasteland all floated in mid-air, with wind, sand, broken rocks, and light all stretched into long lines.
It's like two forces that have never belonged to the world are brutally tearing at the fabric of reality.
The two were surprisingly evenly matched.
In the brief silence, only the thunderous roar of the heavens and earth could be heard.
Chen Jieli raised her eyes, a sharp smile curving her lips, "I thought it was someone else... turns out it's Jin Hanyan I haven't seen in a long time."
His voice, as if dragged from a chaotic blood hell, was sarcastic. "Not the legend—went to the upper levels? What, were you kicked down?"
Jin Hanyan lowered her eyes, her expression as calm as a blank sheet of paper. "A bunch of rabble dares to call themselves the 'Immortal Palace'."
She looked up, and the black dot in her pupil pierced the eternal night like a blade. "Utterly filthy."
As soon as he said that—
The disciples from the Asura Immortal Hall who hadn't yet retreated far were enraged, their blood boiling instantly:
"You—!" "Insolence!!" "Arrogance—!!"
Chen Jieli stretched out one hand, his five fingers slightly spread. The air suddenly froze.
All the Asura disciples seemed to be silenced by some chaotic authority, yet their anger remained burning.
Chen Jieli turned his back to them, his voice indifferent. "Elder Ping, take the other senior brothers and leave this place first. Leave the rest to me."
Ping Koucen immediately understood and said in a deep voice, "Jie Li, you need to be careful... that little brat is extremely cunning."
"Rest assured."
Chen Jieli did not turn around, but only raised his hand.
Ping Koucen his teeth. "Asura Immortal Hall, retreat completely!"
More than ten thousand disciples retreated like a receding tide. At the same time—
Jin Hanyan's gaze fell on her side. "Elder Liu, you should also withdraw."
Elder Liu cupped his hands in greeting, his voice steady yet worried. "Hanyan... please be careful."
The girl in white nodded gently, like snow falling in the wind, untouched by dust.
All the disciples of the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall withdrew, leaving her alone standing on the abyss of withered lotus.
In the blink of an eye, only Chen Jieli and Jin Hanyan remained in the world.
The world suddenly fell silent. Even the Deep Root Lower Layers heartbeats were stilled.
They stared at each other— Chaos Realm versus Chaos Realm. Two beings capable of destroying heaven World-Covering were about to enter a world-class clash that no one could withstand.
The ashes of the radiant lotus still swirled in the air, the air itself seemed to have been burned through with countless holes, and black and white trembled between the cracks.
Jin Hanyan and Chen Jieli were only a hundred feet apart, yet it felt like they were in two different worlds.
There are not many places in the Deep Root Lower Layers area that can withstand the gaze of the Chaos Realm expert. Now, this layer has begun to tremble slightly, as if it is foreseeing that it will be torn apart.
Their auras clashed, ripples filled the void, and even a single conversation could make the heavens and earth tremble.
Chaos's last words to Chaos
Chen Jieli licked the bloodstain from the corner of her lips, her tone both soft and sharp:
"Jin Hanyan, is your Silent Nothingness Divine Hall out of people? Even someone like you... an emotionless block of ice, has been sent to your death?"
Jin Hanyan's expression remained unchanged, her voice as cold and clear as the first frost of Unborn world:
"Chen Jieli, your very existence, and the entire Asura Immortal Hall, are the greatest disgrace to the Void Obliteration Domain."
Chen Jieli sneered:
"Ha, do you know what? Your Silent Nothingness Divine Hall's 'Silent Void Chaos' theory—in my opinion, is nothing more than a piece of garbage draft from before the world was erased."
Jin Hanyan raised her eyes, the dark center of her pupils like a needle piercing eternity:
"You're so noisy." "... You're also incredibly irritating."
Chen Jieli raised his hand, loosened his fingers, and the space began to tremble.
The moment their voices uttered the last word—
The 365th floor could not withstand it at all.
The next instant—it was as if the heavens and earth had been torn apart by bare hands.
Boom!!!!!!!!
Two pillars of chaos, one black and one white, exploded from beneath their feet.
The black ones are like an ancient, blood-soaked abyss tearing open the sky; the white ones are like Nameless, nascent light rewriting the world.
The two rifts between heaven and earth collided, the sound so loud that even the vibrations of time were shattered.
The entire earth's strata have sunk nearly ten thousand feet! Wind, light, causality, gravity, and sound waves have all become ineffective.
The heavens and earth seemed to explode into a million fragments that tumbled around the two of them.
The remains of the giant formation were turned into dust.
Chen Jieli suddenly raised his right hand. His fingers sliced through the air, and the air immediately split in two.
It wasn't "cracked," it was "he described it as cracked."
He uttered the word, "Shatter." And heaven and earth truly shattered.
The entire 365th floor instantly collapsed into shattered multidimensional crystalline dust.
All the areas targeted by his words were reduced to "reality behind language."
Immediately following, he uttered his second sentence. "Extinction."
The words were like blades; the shape of the void began to collapse, and distant mountains, rivers, and even the lines of space were all erased.
It's like the earth being repeatedly erased by an eraser.
All that remained was a dissipating, chaotic black mist.
Chen Jieli's eyes turned sinister. "Jin Hanyan, do you dare to confront my Chaos Speech Construction head-on?"
The air suddenly vanished—because language declared, "Air Does Not Exist."
Every word he utters is a rule in itself.
Jin Hanyan simply raised one hand and gently twirled it with her fingertips.
The 365th floor suddenly fell into dead silence.
Chen Jieli's words—stopped. The wind—stopped. The cracks—stopped. All things in heaven and earth—were instantly erased back to a state of "undefined".
The entire world turned into a gray, chaotic void. There was no up or down, no front or back.
There was no light, no sound, no language, no concept, no "words spoken by Chen Jieli".
Because in Jin Hanyan's domain, all acquired rules and narratives are not yet permitted to exist.
For the first time, a look of seriousness flashed in Chen Jieli's eyes. "Chaos... without distinction between heaven and earth..."
Jin Hanyan spoke, her voice icy cold. "Silence." The world seemed to freeze.
A bloody gash exploded in Chen Jieli's chest. It wasn't from an attack, but because—
The acquired concept of "his bleeding" was forcibly fixed into reality by Jin Hanyan.
He gritted his teeth and roared, "Jin Hanyan!!!"
The words had barely left her mouth Jin Hanyan coldly replied, "Not yet decided."
Chen Jieli's voice exploded into ashes; even the phrase "he said one sentence" was erased.
As if nothing had ever happened. Chen Jieli roared, his Chaos True Form fully unleashed. "Symbolism - A Rift in the Heavens!!"
With that one sentence, the sky seemed to be bitten open from its center by an invisible venomous snake.
The space spanning billions of miles collapsed in an instant, forming a chaotic vortex capable of devouring the Silent Mystery Realm.
Jin Hanyan lightly tapped her index finger. "Return to Silence." The vortex instantly withered and died.
It's like having all the proofs of existence removed, leaving only a colorless blank.
Chen Jieli: "Destroy the Realm--"
Jin Hanyan: "Unborn."
Chen Jieli roared, "Go to hell!!" Jin Hanyan said calmly, "You... are too noisy."
The next moment, the two soared into the sky. The black chaos and the white Silent Void intertwined in the air.
Like two divine chains attempting to tear the universe apart, they collided violently.
Boom------!!!!!!!!!!
The 365th floor completely exploded, creating a giant abyss.
The earth collapsed, the sky rolled up, as if a page had been turned over in the entire Deep Root Lower Layers.