The Blue Lamp That Would Never Be Lit and the Bead So Transparent It Did Not Exist

The light on the 365th floor had not yet recovered from the afterglow torn apart by chaos. Jin Hanyan white robes drooping and barefoot, was about to turn and leave this floor.

But just as she took a tiny step—BOOM—!!!

It was as if all the foundations of the nine hundred and ninety-nine Deep Root foundations had broken at the same moment, the tremors were like the collapse of the entire world, and the heavens and earth roared as if they were being violently torn apart by an invisible giant hand.

The faint, colorless crack between Jin Hanyan's brows trembled slightly.

She stopped. "The Abyss of Fate Abyss is shaking... the second wave."

She spoke softly, her tone cold and flat, like the chill of an ancient glacier pressing down on half an era.

The next instant—the entire space of the 365th floor collapsed with a deafening roar!

The grayish-white "discontinuous lines" spread across the sky like a vast, cracked net, each line representing a "moment erased by time."

Jin Hanyan raised her eyes, and a cold light slowly shone deep within her icy blue pupils.

"Deep Root... are starting to backfire." Her figure flashed and disappeared into the broken light barrier between the layers.

Qin Yu sensed the aftershocks of the Stainless Realm near the 300th floor.

The three hundredth layer of Deep Root.

The tidal wave of spatial distortion pushed Qin Yu and Extinguished Light to the edge of the cliff, and the entire world was shaken by an invisible force.

Extinguished Light Guang's brow furrowed slightly as he opened a crack. "... That's the aftershock of the Stainless Realm."

Qin Yu's gaze was cold and deep. The Fate-Cause beneath his feet solidified on its own, forcibly stabilizing the three hundred-story collapsed foundation.

That moment.

He saw a purplish-blue streak piercing through the sky in the direction of the 365th floor, as if the Stainless Realm had once torn the heavens and earth apart in that instant.

"These are... people from the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall...?"

Qin Yu's eyes flickered, a faint sense of Fate Abyss's logic passing through them.

That wasn't an aftereffect that Chen Jieli could generate.

That was a shadowy mark left by a monster who truly stood at the "source of chaos".

Extinguished Light said softly, "... This place is no longer safe. The 'Hundred-Layer Sequence Disruption' is coming."

Just as Qin Yu was about to speak, the world suddenly changed.

The true "Hundred-Layer Sequence Disruption" anomaly at the Deep Root Lower Layers

There was no warning whatsoever, and no time to react.

The entire Deep Root Lower Layers —layers one through nine hundred and ninety-nine—is simultaneously broken down!

First, all the layers of "ground" lost their color, turning into a pure white blank sheet of paper.

Then the walls, the sky, the sea... all tore apart in all directions.

Then—space, like fragments thrown into a chaotic clock, began to churn wildly.

Billions of cultivators, all sects, all powerful individuals, all demonic beasts...

No matter which floor or corner you're on, you're all drawn into transparent yet irresistible "discontinuous fissures."

In the next instant, the Deep Root layers began to completely lose their order:

The person on the 760th floor was pulled down to the ninth floor.

The person on the 99th floor was swallowed up to the 380th floor.

The third level of the seventh floor – falling into the thousandth level of the unknown dark domain (a level that should not exist).

The 220th floor – after shattering, was pieced together to the edge of the 579th floor.

Fear, screams, and roars echoed simultaneously from all floors.

But the sound was instantly distorted into silence.

Because -- everyone is randomly teleported! Range: Floors 1 to 999!

Every three breaths! The space beneath Qin Yu's feet began to glow.

Extinguished Light immediately grabbed Qin Yu's shoulder. "Prepare—send the interrupted sequence to the Knowing Layer!"

The world before them burst open with an unfathomable black and white chasm.

Qin Yu's eyes darkened, and he raised his Fate-Cause dispel the chains. "Hold on!!!" The two figures were swallowed up.

Meanwhile—three hundred miles outside the sixty-third layer of Deep Root,

Inside the Fate Soul tablet hall of "Zhongli Jun", the Grand Elder of the Asura Immortal Hall.

Suddenly—"Snap!!!"— Chen Jieli's Fate Soul crystal tablet...

It shattered completely into dust. The entire palace remained silent for three breaths.

The next moment—"Jie Li!!!" In the deepest part of the Asura Immortal Hall,

More than a dozen Chaos Realm elders were simultaneously awakened from their seclusion, their anger soaring to the heavens.

"Who is it...?"

"Who dares to annihilate the Deep Root Lower Layers of the Annihilation Realm?!"

"He is the future Palace Master appointed by the Immortal Lord!!!"

"Investigate! Investigate to the Deep Root Lower Layers! Who dares to touch anyone from my Asura Immortal Hall?!"

The entire Asura Immortal Hall was shaken by the furious chaotic aura, causing thunder and lightning to resound.

But they didn't know--

What truly Annihilation Chen Jieli was neither a demonic beast nor a creature from another world.

Instead, it was the pure white -Stainless woman from the Silent Nothingness Divine Hall — Jin Hanyan.

The only ones who knew about this were a few surviving elders of the Asura Immortal Hall Deep Root Lower Layers.

They are now burdened with immense fear—because they have witnessed it with their own eyes—

Chen Jieli was not killed, but rather "erased from existence".

Unable to be resurrected. Unable to be reborn. Unable to be deduced. Unable to be sacrificed. The true... never existed.

The Deep Root Lower Layers, Sequence Disruption turbulence was like a raging cosmic maw, devouring and tearing apart all layers, then arbitrarily throwing them into the unknown. Just as the 365th layer collapsed and fell silent, the space where Jin Hanyan and Qin Yu were located was simultaneously swallowed up by different disordered rifts.

Jin Hanyan was taken to the 23rd floor.

The sky above the twenty-third floor wasn't the sky at all, but rather a whole expanse of inverted "black meteor shower."

The black meteor shower fell silently, each one a fragment of existence with its name hollowed out, turning into white ash upon landing, annihilated to the point that even the meaning of ash Does Not Exist.

Jin Hanyan's white robes fell to the ground. She raised her eyes, her icy blue pupils reflecting the inverted meteor shower, her expression devoid of any emotion.

The ground of the twenty-third level is an entire "Reflective Sea of Fate Abyss".

The sea is like a mirror, yet it reflects not the shadow of those who tread upon it, but only—"the state in which you should not exist."

Jin Hanyan stepped lightly into the mirror-like sea, without stirring up a single ripple.

Just then, a "disordered dragon pattern light" suddenly shone from the depths of the Mirror Sea.

Immediately afterwards, a semi-transparent figure, like the remnant soul of an ancient god, slowly rose from the seabed.

Its entire body is composed of broken Fate Brush, tattered life bars, and torn chains of Fate Soul.

It is the ruler of this level— the Fate Abyss Origin Apex Examiner, the Recordless Judge.

It has no face. It is only a Fate Shadow that is constantly crumbling and reforming, resembling a human, a beast, and a dragon.

The moment it opened its mouth—the entire Mirror Sea on the twenty-third level simultaneously surged with calm, black waves.

"--The name of the visitor?"

Jin Hanyan didn't answer, but slightly raised her right index finger. "Nameless."

With that single finger strike, the entire Mirror Sea froze instantly, even the Fate Soul of the Recordless Judge was forced to pause for half a breath.

This half-breath is enough to kill the vast majority of cultivators.

The Fate Abyss Origin Apex Examiner does not exist in a physical body; its essence is "the Fate Abyss's first judgment on intruders."

The Mirror Sea then surged again, transforming into hundreds of life-evolving dragon shadows that lunged at Jin Hanyan.

Instead of retreating, she gently raised her hand, her white robes fluttering even without wind. " In the Chaos Undivided, Heaven and Earth Judged."

The twenty-third floor instantly reverted to its primordial state of chaos.

The dragon's shadow has lost its beginning and end, its cause and effect, and the meaning of its birth.

Everything dissipated into dust. The Judge let out a shattering roar, forced to reveal its "Source Extremity Form".

Jin Hanyan's eyes turned slightly cold. "You Unborn." She pointed a finger down.

The Fate Abyss Origin Apex Examiner shattered completely, and the Black Sea returned to its silence.

The twenty-third floor was suppressed by her Chaos Realm, and temporarily found peace.

Qin Yu and Extinguished Light were sent to the 489th floor.

Unlike Jin Hanyan, who was sent to the "Abyss of Fate Abyss Judgment Layer," Qin Yu and Extinguished Light fell into an abyss world filled with the corpses of ancient gods, where the world was completely covered by the will of death.

Floor 489 - Ancient God Corpse Battlefield: Profound Demise Abyss

The world was dark, not black, but "colorless after being forgotten by all the gods."

Countless shattered divine finger bones, broken wings, and fragmented stars hang from the black sky, blown about by the death storm for years.

The mountain range was formed from the spines of the Ancient God Clan, with an inextinguishable ember fire burning in every crevice of the bones.

The ground was littered with: -- collapsed temples-- shattered ancient celestial gates-- and the gigantic heads of divine corpses, gnawed away by time, leaving only half a face.

Even the concept of "breathing" is distorted by the weight of death in the air.

As Extinguished Light landed, her long, black hair swayed gently in the deadly wind. She raised her head:

"... This is the remnant of a battle at the Origin God level. Be extremely careful; the divine corpses here... are not completely dead."

The Fate Abyss Light beneath Qin Yu's feet spontaneously ignited, resisting the oppressive aura of death and destruction.

A sudden tremor came from afar, as if ten thousand mountains were moving simultaneously. The next moment—

The abyss of the 489th level split open, and a "giant hand of death" that was nine thousand miles tall burst forth from the ground.

That was not a living thing. It was the severed hand of an ancient god, which, even after decaying at the end of time, retained its "instinctive killing intent."

Runes flicker in the palm: Time-Extinguishing Seal - Reverse Severance of Nine Epochs

"It's not locking your physical body, it's locking away your 'existence time'." Extinguished Light warned in a low voice.

The giant hand closed its five fingers, as if grasping the entire layer.

Qin Yu raised his hand, and the Fate Abyss Dragon his brows trembled slightly. "Extinguished Light, take this attack—"

The Extinguished Light finally burst forth. "Okay."

Their souls were linked, their light and the flow of Fate Abyss intertwined, as they faced the giant hand of death.

The heavens and earth exploded in an instant. The ancient god's corpse on the 489th floor trembled all over the ground, as if awakened by the power.

The void of the 489th floor was like a giant bell that had been sleeping for countless ages. Just as Qin Yu and Extinguished Light landed, a deafening roar that shattered nine eras suddenly appeared in the sky, as if some ancient world that was dying was giving its last breath to the present world.

The void collapsed, not shattered, but the entire concept of "shattering" was twisted into a vortex, from which a gigantic hand, obscuring the sky and the sun, reached out from the deepest part of the vortex.

It has no skin, no flesh, and no bones.

It's like a "discontinuous chronology" pulled out from the deep sea of time, with each line representing a dead era, layer upon layer pressing down on the destructive annals of nine complete eras.

The ancient texts of the Void Obliteration Domain have a terrifying title for it--

"The Reverse Severance of Nine Epochs Giant Hand: It once reversed all the 'deaths' of an entire era, causing the entire world to die in an instant, just like everyone who was still alive."

The moment the giant hand fell, the ground beneath Qin Yu and Extinguished Light's feet sank into wisps of disintegrating light, and all the presence on the 489th floor was suppressed to the point that they dared not make a sound.

Her long, black hair moved without wind, and her eyes flashed with Extinguished Light. She instantly intercepted the time-manipulating power of the giant hand. The golden annihilation patterns on her shoulders cracked one by one, but she didn't make a sound. She simply said coldly, "It wants us to 'die prematurely and then reset to zero'."

Qin Yu's gaze remained calm, but in the instant the giant hand approached, he clearly saw something—

Deep within the palm of that giant hand, a... a blue lamp that shouldn't exist trembled slightly in the mist.

That lamp had no flame, yet it resembled fire more than fire itself. It had no brightness, yet it was more dazzling than any brightness.

It's as if some kind of "way to die" is densely engraved, layer upon layer, as if every possible way for a life to die has been written in advance, sealed in a lamp waiting to be lit.

Qin Yu's heart skipped a beat—the echoing Fate Soul of the Reverse River Lamp of Annihilation was calling to him.

The giant hand crashed down, carrying with it the deathly sound of nine cycles of reincarnation.

Extinguished Light erupted, and the third divine form of Annihilation Light Dimension Severance was instantly unleashed. With [Annihilation Light Judging Lord and Sever and Establish Realm Causes], she forcibly severed the narrative connection between the giant hand and time, causing its momentum to halt. However, the omen of death of the Nine Eras could not be bound by time; it pressed down on Qin Yu in a deeper, more intangible way.

Qin Yu took a deep breath, and the power of Annihilation Dawn surged beneath his feet like a colorless storm. He finally reached out his hand.

It's neither a sword style nor a soul ring. It's the fourth sword of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword: the Soulless Annihilation Abyss Sword.

The sword light was unleashed silently, even the process of "slashing" was annihilated. The death energy that had been pushed up by the giant hand of the Nine Eras was forcibly swallowed into the "Annihilation Void" behind Qin Yu's sword light by this sword, as if death itself had been shattered into dust.

Time was suddenly shattered, Extinguished Light seized the opportunity to smash the first layer of death omen of the giant hand with the Annihilation Wheel.

But the next instant—an even more ancient breath awoke.

Beneath the pitch-black abyss, an ancient consciousness raised its head.

It has no physical form, only a reflection of an "era of obscurity".

Its voice wasn't words, but the instant that extinguished billions of civilizations. [Who has awakened the Lord of the Burial Realm, who has slumbered for nine eras...?]

As the voice faded, the void behind the giant hand seemed to be reversed, and the causes of death in the entire region were rearranged in an instant.

For the first time, Extinguished Light's expression changed slightly. She whispered, "This is bad. It wants us to fill all possibilities with 'deaths that haven't happened yet'."

Qin Yu's gaze sharpened, and for the first time, his instincts as a being of the Annihilation Dawn Realm were fully unleashed.

No movement. No breath. Only a single thought. -- "Jiwu's Single Silence."

The world instantly fell into a deathly white silence.

The first link in the chain of causes of death of the giant hand was instantly removed from the narrative, evaporating as if it had never been written.

The ancient god's consciousness trembled violently. "Annihilation Dawn... Annihilation Dawn has actually released her instincts? Boy, whose life are you fighting for your position with?"

But Qin Yu did not answer. He and Extinguished Light rushed towards the source of the giant hand at the same time. Annihilation Radiance and Silent Abyss Sword Breath exploded at the same time. The scene was like two long rivers of destruction of different colors, tearing out new tracks in the remnants of the nine slumbering eras.

This time, the lines of the giant hand began to be cut back. It began to regress to its "unborn" state.

Qin Yu's heart stirred—deep within, the pulse of a green lamp suddenly lit up again and again, like a heartbeat.

That wasn't hostility. It was a call. The Reverse River Lamp - Extinction... Finally, he started to notice him.

The giant hand roared, shattering the consciousness of the ancient god, and the Annihilation Light and the Silent Abyss completely tore apart the Nine Eras of Scars.

As the last ancient omen of death crumbled, Qin Yu and the Extinguished Light finally shattered the giant hand into nothingness.

In the instant of shattering, a wisp of cyan light silently fell into the depths of the void, remaining invisible yet beginning to follow Qin Yu's "future death trajectory."

This is the twenty-third floor.

In the center of the chaotic mirror sea where black and white overlap, Jin Hanyan stood barefoot on the surface of an unnamed river.

The second form of the Fate Abyss Examiner before her slowly unfolded its limbs. It was a non-human form composed of "fragments of oblivion," "deaths that did not happen," and "erased propositions." With each breath, it caused a fragmented blank space to appear in the entire layer.

Jin Hanyan raised her hand, a crack of light appearing in the small bronze box in her palm. Her expression was icy. "Envoy of Fate's Origin... I have already seen how you will perish."

The examiner emitted a buzzing sound, not a sound, but "the echo of someone being erased in an instant."

It raised its hand, and thousands of "stand-in narrative images" appeared in the space, each image representing a different way Jin Hanyan died.

She simply said, "Undetermined." -- All images instantly reverted to a state of Unborn chaos.

The layers trembled, and the Third Source Extremity emerged from the void, holding a bead so transparent it seemed Does Not Exist.

A crack is faintly visible in the center of the bead, as if even the very existence of memory is trembling within it.

That was Jin Hanyan's foreshadowing for this stage—the Forgotten Memory Pearl: Absolute.

The examiner slowly spoke, "Daughter of Chaos, if you can withstand my three trials of the heart... this pearl is yours; otherwise, you will not even have the right to be 'forgotten'."

Jin Hanyan smiled coldly, "Come on." A great battle that truly tore apart the underlying logic of the Fate Abyss suddenly unfolded.