The faceless shadow of the "future" slowly raised its finger. There was no light at the fingertip, but it dragged out a black line that was enough to tear apart a billion years of cause and effect.
A chill ran down Liu Yuan Practitioners's spine. That wasn't an attack—
That's because the "outcome" was written in advance in the air.
He will only follow that path to the sole destination.
He gritted his teeth, blood gushing from his body, and the skin on his arms even cracked under the impact of the "cause and effect that had not yet occurred".
But he still roared, "I! Refuse! To! Be! Accept! This!!!"
He clasped his hands together abruptly, and the Dao Source within his body Void Emanation Realm · Supreme, instantly surged.
Boom------!!!
The Final Cause Rending Domain was torn apart by a beam of light that ripped through the sky.
Like a hundred million dark tsunamis sweeping across the four corners of the earth.
He burned his life to draw from the void—
It transformed into an incomparably sharp "Paradoxical Origin Long Blade".
That was his trump card: severing his own destiny and turning his life against his fate.
As the long blade appeared, the myriad chains above the Final Cause Rending Domain were forced to vibrate.
The distorted space was stretched and shattered like a piece of glass.
The Liu Yuan Practitioners Abyss, blade in hand, slashed down from the sky like a madman. "Open for me!!!"
A rift leading to freedom has been torn open in the world.
But the next instant—his pupils suddenly contracted.
What appeared behind the crack was not a path to survival, but rather—
A chain of fate wrapped around his neck.
The chain was already hanging there before he made his move.
He slowly raised his head. Faceless, eyeless, and emotionless.
He raised his finger,
It was as if the judgment had already been written, "You've already failed even to struggle."
The Liu Yuan Practitioners roared as he channeled all the power of the Paradoxical Origin Long Blade into the crack—
Boom!!!!!! The crack exploded, and countless rays of destiny surged forth.
Like a river flowing backwards, like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami crashing, like an invisible giant mouth about to devour him.
The River of Cause and Effect beneath the feet of the Liu Yuan Practitioners was beginning to shatter.
He was completely submerged up to his chest. But he still roared, "I will not die at the hands of the future!!!"
He evaporated all his flesh and blood, instantly elevating his aura to a level close to the Chaos Realm.
His voice roared, tearing the heavens apart. "This attack I'm about to unleash—the future simply cannot withstand it!!!"
He condensed his life, his future, his memories, and his existence into a single point.
That single point burned into a black-gold flame in the chaotic void.
He hurled that "last drop of existence" at the Shadow of the Future. BOOM!
Final Cause Rending Domain experienced a true upheaval.
The Annihilation River trembled violently, and the Shadow of the Future took half a step back.
The outline of "instability" was first revealed.
Liu Yuan Practitioners almost laughed out loud, "See! You can be driven back too!!!"
His entire chest cavity was annihilated, yet he still stood, his soul showing cracks.
Flesh and blood peeled away like ashes, yet it stubbornly refused to fall, relying solely on its willpower.
At that moment, he was like a madman torn to pieces.
Yet, they also resemble the most tenacious survivors in the world. "I will not die at the hands of my own future..."
He gasped for breath, his mouth bubbling with blood, "I... I haven't lived enough yet..."
The Shadow of the Future raised its head.
The faceless, black hole-like entity tilted slightly. "You've misunderstood," it said, raising its hand. "You didn't die in the future."
Countless causal threads wrapped around Liu Yuan Practitioners, completely locking him in place.
The Shadow of the Future whispered the judgment, "You died within the cause and effect of 'you are already dead'."
In the next instant, the Annihilation River boiled over. Blood, flesh, soul, future, past, names, and memories were all submerged.
However—just as the Liu Yuan Practitioners was about to completely collapse.
Deep within his chest cavity, a faint light...
Suddenly, a light flashed. That was his final, unwavering belief:
Unwilling. His lips twitched.
His eyes were filled with a desperate will to survive. "No... I haven't... lost yet!!!"
The Annihilation River surged, and cause and effect collapsed into countless broken fragments, the cracks in the world being torn open like by a red-hot blade.
The Liu Yuan Practitioners had half of its body swallowed by the "future yet to come," but suddenly it laughed.
It wasn't a laugh of despair. It was a laugh of utter madness. "Hahahaha... The future? You think I wasn't prepared?"
He raised a bloodied and mangled hand. Between his fingers were two forbidden treasures that would drive any temple to madness.
The first item— the Bone of Halted Reading —is an "invisible bone needle" that even light cannot penetrate.
It wasn't pitch black, but rather... it had absolutely no color.
Its appearance caused all the text, rules, and chains within the Final Cause Rending Domain to tremble slightly.
It's as if "thinking about it" itself is a sin.
The Liu Yuan Practitioners grinned maliciously; his face, torn and annihilated, appeared utterly terrifying.
"You are not the future? You are not a higher form of cause and effect? Ha... Then do you dare to read me?"
He will Bone of Halted Reading, pointing directly to the Shadow of the Future. Buzz
At this moment, the entire Final Cause Rending Domain seemed to be silenced.
All concepts, language, and memories were forcibly put on pause.
The moment the Bone of Halted Reading was activated was like a knife being slashed across reality:
The 100,000 causal lines surrounding the Shadow of the Future suddenly turned white and gray.
Countless prophecies, destinies, and narratives were uprooted at the same moment.
Even the name "Shadow of the Future" was momentarily removed.
The Annihilation River splashed, and the sparks were extinguished. The Shadow of the Future retreated slightly for the first time.
Liu Yuan Practitioners laughed until tears streamed down his face, "Hahaha... Read me? Think of me? Write about me? You don't even have the right to 'remember me'!!!"
The second item— the Lid of the Final Coffin, and the other torn hand of the Liu Yuan Practitioners —was raised.
In the palm of my hand is an ancient coffin lid that has lost its body.
It is covered with broken life lines, unfinished scriptures, and withered Soul Seal.
Its appearance caused an "echo of death" throughout the entire Final Cause Rending Domain.
That wasn't a cacophony of sounds, but rather a "silence born of the life force resisting."
The Liu Yuan Practitioners roared, "The final coffin falls—sever all your possible futures!!!"
The Lid of the Final Coffin fell, the world went dark.
Bang! The coffin lid slammed shut, as if sealing the future with a verdict. "You will not have another second."
All resurrection logic breaks down.
All future branches have shrunk to dust.
All high-latitude interventions were denied access.
All qualifications for existence as "the future" are temporarily denied.
A blurry crack appeared on the chest of the Shadow of the Future for the first time.
The Liu Yuan Practitioners Laughed maniacally, laughing until blood streamed from his eyes like tears. "Your future? Your destiny? You are destined to win?"
He looked up and roared, "Your 'future' is now shut down by me!!!" At that moment...
The "unreadable" law of the Bone of Halted Reading is devouring all thought-provoking, memorable, and observable paths of the Shadow of the Future;
The Lid of the Final Coffin, with its inscription "severing all future lifelines," is sealing off every possible avenue for its continuation.
With these two extraordinary treasures combined, any expert at the Void Emanation Realm, Chaos Realm, or even the Stainless Realm...
Their fates would be instantly sealed. But the Shadow of the Future did not retreat.
It didn't even move. It just--
A voice suddenly echoed from the sky, as if saying, "Fate will decide for itself." "The future... cannot be turned off."
This wasn't said by it, but rather—the world said it for it.
"The future doesn't need to be read; it's about to happen." An invisible ripple emanated from the bone needle of the Bone of Halted Reading.
The entire Rending Domain of thought, memory, and observation is frozen. This is necessary as long as anyone attempts to "understand the Shadow of the Future."
That existence disqualifies one. But the Shadow of the Future gave no one the chance to understand it.
It took a step forward. That step—
It directly bypassed the effective range of the Bone of Halted Reading.
Because the Bone of Halted Reading prevents "being read." And the future...
It never needs to be read. It happens directly.
The entire causal chain was forced to give way. The footsteps of the Shadow of the Future caused cracks to appear instantly in the Bone of Halted Reading.
The crack originates from the very tip of the bone spur and spreads backward towards the root as if time were flowing backward.
Snap! The bone needle snapped in two before the Shadow of the Future.
It's not that it's being countered, but rather that it's becoming ineffective—because the future doesn't offer the possibility of "becoming an object."
"Bone of Halted Reading' has lost its definition of a goal." "Have you severed your future?"
... But I am an existence that only appeared after the severance of all ties.
The moment the Lid of the Final Coffin fell, all future storylines, possibilities of rebirth, and avenues for redemption were sealed off.
This is a treasure that "severs the future." Absolutely terrifying. However--
The Shadow of the Future raised its head. The Shadow of the Future had no breath, no heartbeat.
But at this moment, it seemed to come alive. It softly uttered, "After you severed the future..."
The first future that remains is me. Boom!
The Lid of the Final Coffin trembled. Because it could only seal off "the written future".
But it cannot seal off the future that will emerge after it has been sealed off. And the Shadow of the Future...
It is precisely that kind of "future after severance".
The Lid of the Final Coffin attempted to determine its future path, but discovered:
It lacks a premise of causality;
No trajectory of fate;
No side stories were written down;
There are no conditions for extending life that can be blocked.
The cover shattered with a loud crash, creating a large crack. What was swallowed was not the Shadow of the Future.
Instead, it's the very definition of the Lid of the Final Coffin itself. It's as if the world is telling it, "You can't even cover the words 'Shadow of the Future'."
Upon witnessing this scene, Liu Yuan Practitioners's eyes revealed genuine fear.
The Liu Yuan Practitioners roared, "How is this possible?! You!!!"
The Shadow of the Future finally responded. It showed neither anger nor sarcasm.
It simply states a cold, undeniable reality. "The future... is not something you can control."
Silence. The world, cause and effect, fate, and narrative all come to a standstill.
The Shadow of the Future added, "The future is me."
The instant those words fell— the Bone of Halted Reading stopped utterly shattered into undefined dust;
The Lid of the Final Coffin turned into a silent black mist; the logic of the Liu Yuan Practitioners's counterattack completely collapsed.
His newly established "opportunity" has become a Does Not Exist illusion. The future doesn't need a counterattack; it only needs to appear.
The body of the Liu Yuan Practitioners One finally gave way, and the Blood of the Deviant Source transformed into countless strange runes in the air.
He compressed his last vestige of existence into a single point—a "heart beating in reverse."
With each beat, the world reverses for a moment. Thud!!!
The Paradoxical Origin Echo erupted, like countless versions of oneself dying simultaneously—
They all threw punches at the Shadow of the Future. Final Cause Rending Domain was shattered.
An unprecedented cavity has appeared in the Annihilation River.
The outline of the Shadow of the Future was shattered into countless "undefined fragments".
Liu Yuan Practitioners laughed so hard he fell to his knees, "Hahaha... hahahaha... in the end, it was all for naught!!!"
But his laughter lasted only a moment. The next moment—
Finally, a beam of Ultimate cold light suddenly lit up the sky Final Cause Rending Domain.
It's not light. It's "Fate Deletion". The Shadow of the Future - Final Cause Deletion Formula.
The Shadow of the Future reformed, its cracked outline appearing as if stitched back together by an unseen hand.
It raised its hand. The movement was silent, without will, without emotion.
It's as if the universe is carrying out an order that cannot be refused.
It softly uttered its only question, "Is the counterattack over?"
The sky shattered completely. Countless chains of cause and effect fell from the heavens.
Like a rain of broken metal, it pelted the Liu Yuan Practitioners.
The Shadow of the Future tapped his finger lightly. "Delete."
In that instant— the Paradoxical Origin Echo on the Liu Yuan Practitioners was erased;
The meaning of the Bone of Halted Reading has been deleted.
-The cause of death on the Lid of the Final Coffin has been removed;
His resistance, struggle, despair, anger... all were deleted.
His body is becoming transparent, as if he had never been born.
As if never having considered living, the Shadow of the Future takes a step forward.
Its shadow fell upon the Liu Yuan Practitioners. And that shadow...
It has no direction. Because it comes from the future in all directions.