After a brief moment of deathly silence, the battlefield fell into a state of utter exhaustion. The lines of the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall, the Fallen Dawn Divine Hall, and the Vast Sea Billow Sect had been almost completely drained of their last bit of strength. The disciples at the Void Emanation Realm · Supreme hovered in mid-air, their auras chaotic, their soul lights flickering erratically, and many of their Dharma bodies were already incomplete. The elders of the Silent Mystery Realm forcibly stabilized their existence, but the rule patterns on their bodies could still be seen slowly cracking, like glass being repeatedly struck, on the verge of shattering into nothingness at any moment. And just at this Threshold point of near collapse, the calamity core formed by the sacrifice of the snake demon suddenly contracted, and the next instant—expanded with a roar.
The second form of the Abyss Core Yama Suanni was completely completed amidst the distortion. The original structure of the Nine-Headed Calamity was forcibly compressed and reorganized, with all the serpent demon essence, soul, and Calamity Factor merging into one. Its body was no longer simply flesh and scales, but a "living Abyssal Core" forged from the rules of calamity. Every inch of its surface was slowly rotating, like countless logical faults undergoing self-reconstruction. The nine heads were no longer independent of each other, but slowly arranged along the same calamity axis. Deep within the pupils of each head was embedded a miniature Abyssal Cause Core, shimmering with a chilling interweaving of dark red and eerie blue light. The moment it completed its form, the gravity, the flow of time, and the causal density of the entire battlefield simultaneously became displaced. The allied forces' formation emitted an unbearable hum, as if it would completely disintegrate in the next instant.
Immediately following, the Abyss Core Yama Suanni unleashed its first truly significant "second-form divine power." Its nine heads simultaneously rose, but instead of roaring, a near-silent tremor emanated—the calamity did not spread outwards, but rather collapsed inwards. The next instant, a massive, slowly rotating dark core phantom appeared in the sky above the entire battlefield, like a nascent calamity star. Fine fragments of rules continuously peeled away from the phantom's edges, tearing space into jagged cracks as they fell. The center of the dark core suddenly lit up, and all the Abyssal Cause Core resonated synchronously. Waves of calamity, compressed to their Ultimate, erupted outwards, not as simple energy shocks, but as a direct rewriting of the "structure of existence."
The first wave of the allied forces' forward defensive line struck the array, but instead of destroying it, the array seemed to be forcibly rearranged. The previously solid defensive logic instantly became disorganized, and several disciples at the Void Emanation Realm · Supreme didn't even have time to utter a sound before their bodies were strangely folded in mid-air. Their soul power and physical bodies were compressed into a thin line simultaneously, then silently broke and dissipated. The second wave swept in, as if the sky had been pressed down by an invisible giant hand. The Realm Sea summoned by the Vast Sea Billow Sect reversed its flow, and the seawater surged upwards, only to be evaporated into a colorless mist the moment it touched the dark core projection. Even the concept of "water" was erased for a mere breath.
As the third ripple descended, the colors of the entire battlefield began to fade. The light of dawn and darkness within the Fallen Dawn Divine Hall was forcibly stretched and torn apart, transforming into countless fragments of light that drifted in the air. The elders of the Silent Mystery Realm simultaneously groaned, their internal rules fulcrums violently shaken. Some even spat out blood mist containing fragments of cause and effect, and the boundaries of existence began to collapse irreversibly. The Abyss Core Yama Suanni hovered beneath the projection of the Dark Core, its nine heads bowed simultaneously, as if overlooking a destruction whose ending had already been written. This time, its voice resounded directly in the souls of all living beings, cold, grand, and devoid of any emotion, as if proclaiming a calamity judgment that had already been established.
At this moment, they truly realized that they were no longer facing a "monster that could be surrounded and killed," but a calamity law itself that was operating on its own. The dead end had finally arrived.
The air on the battlefield seemed to be tightened by an invisible giant hand. The remaining high-ranking members of the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall, the Vast Sea Billow Sect Divine Fallen Dawn Divine Hall, and the Canghai Lan Sect made the same decision almost simultaneously—to retreat meant annihilation. The next moment, the forbidden-level combined array of the three great temples was forcibly activated. It was not a single array, but a linked sacrifice with tens of thousands of disciples and more than ten Silent Mystery Realm elders as the "array backbone," at the cost of the sect's foundation and lifespan. The sky was torn into dozens of overlapping array pattern domes. Each layer of array pattern was like a burning star ring. The runes were not static, but were frantically collapsing and reorganizing, emitting a piercing low hum, as if the entire world was being forcibly dragged into a temporary stitched-together order.
The cost became apparent the instant the formation took shape. The disciples at the outermost Void Emanation Realm were the first to suffer the backlash. Some had their Dharma bodies shatter into light fragments, absorbed by the formation patterns. Others maintained their flight postures, but their souls had already extinguished, becoming "empty nodes" supporting the formation. Blood and soul light mixed together as they fell, only to be evaporated into a crimson mist in mid-air. The entire scene resembled an apocalyptic sacrificial ground. The elders at the Silent Mystery Realm simultaneously formed hand seals, forcibly embedding their own existence weight into the core of the formation. The rule cracks on their bodies spread rapidly, yet no one retreated even a step.
The moment the forbidden combined formation descended, the second form of the Abyss Core Yama Suanni completed a new round of evolution. Its Calamity Dark Core became more solid, with layers of nested Abyssal Influence patterns emerging on its surface, like countless self-calculating formulas of destruction. The nine heads simultaneously emitted a low, distorted resonance, the sound no longer propagating through the air but directly pressing into the rules of the battlefield itself. The ups and downs of heaven and earth began to lose their meaning, the direction of gravity constantly reversed, and time was stretched into fragmented pieces. In some areas, a single breath felt like ten thousand years, while in others, it was compressed into emptiness in an instant.
The Forbidden Alliance and the Dark Core of Calamity clashed head-on. There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a chilling "mutual devouring." The array-patterned dome was worn down and peeled away layer by layer, only to be regenerated behind it at an even more tragic rate of sacrifice. The foundation of the three great temples was burning away at a visible speed. The Abyss Core Yama Suanni, however, appeared increasingly stable in this confrontation. Its nine heads began to slowly converge, and the calamity energy was continuously compressed, as if it were making a final preparation for an even more terrifying divine power.
Amidst this overwhelming pressure, the surviving elders of the Silent Mystery Realm roared in unison, their voices carrying the power of shattered rules that pierced the battlefield—"All disciples, hold on!" With these roars, some forcibly stabilized their disintegrating Dharma forms, while others dragged their half-collapsed bodies to continue channeling soul power into the array's core. Even if their very existence would be drained by the array in the next instant, no one retreated. The entire battlefield was transformed into an extremely cruel yet magnificent scene. The combined array barely managed to hold back the calamity, but it also clearly told everyone that this was only a delay, not a reversal.
Under the suppression of the formation, the Calamity Dark Core of the Abyss Core Yama Suanni slowly rotated, its light becoming increasingly restrained, like the final silence before a storm. The next release would no longer be a test, but a true annihilation-level divine power.
The Forbidden Alliance finally let out a dying cry. It wasn't a sound, but a tearing sensation overflowing from the depths of the rules, as if the entire formation itself was being forcibly "denied of existence." The outermost array patterns collapsed first, and the halo peeled off piece by piece like shattered star shells, falling into the void without echoing. Immediately afterwards, the second and third layers of the array foundations became unstable at the same time, and the torrent of soul power maintained by tens of thousands of disciples suddenly broke, with the backlash flowing back like a flood bursting its banks.
The tide of sacrifice erupted irreversibly at this moment. Disciples of the Void Emanation Realm fell in droves, some turning to ashes in mid-air, others still physically intact but drained of their "existence weight" by the formation, plummeting to the ground like walking corpses; several Annihilation Dawn Realm cultivators attempted to forcibly stabilize the formation's core, but were torn apart by the backlash of the rules, their Dharma forms and physical bodies collapsing simultaneously, leaving no time even for screams. Elders of the Fallen Dawn Divine Hall and the Vast Sea Billow Sect fell one after another, their Silent Profundity Forms shattering into countless dim geometric afterimages in mid-air, crushed into nothingness by the aftershocks of the calamity.
When the last forbidden array pattern extinguished, the battlefield suddenly became empty and deathly silent, with only a few people still standing under the shattered sky—several elders of the Silent Mystery Realm bodies were covered in cracks and whose auras were extremely weak, as well as the sect master of the Causeless Heavenly Sect. His robes had long since turned into tatters, and the sect's fortune behind him flickered like a candle in the wind.
The elder of the Silent Mystery Realm in the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall cursed in a low voice, his voice filled with bloodlust and rage. "Damn it..." He forcibly stabilized his almost collapsing World Enforcement, but his eyes were already filled with cracking light.
The sect leader of the Causeless Heavenly Sect spoke slowly, his voice hoarse yet exceptionally clear. "Elders, if things really come to a standstill... then we should retreat. I am already extremely grateful that you came to our aid; we cannot allow the main force of the temple to be lost here because of our sect."
The elder of the Silent Mystery Realm suddenly turned his head, his eyes blazing with the last vestiges of determination and fury. "We cannot retreat!" He took a step forward, forcibly reassembling the remaining fragments of the formation, even though every breath consumed his lifespan. "Hold on a little longer, the Vice Hall Master and the others will be here soon. As long as they arrive, this beast will be eliminated!"
As if in response to this stubborn resistance, the nine heads of the Abyss Core Yama Suanni simultaneously rose. The Calamity Dark Core was fully illuminated deep within its chest cavity. It was no longer an outward-emitting destructive light, but an absolute darkness that collapsed inward to the Ultimate. The surrounding space began to fold and fracture silently, time was compressed into layers of fragments, and the lines of cause and effect broke one by one like withered branches.
The Ultimate calamity spell began to gather momentum. Heaven and earth seemed to hold their breath at this moment, as the final stage truly arrived.
The nine heads of the Abyss Core Yama Suanni opened simultaneously, and the calamity core, interwoven with dark red and annihilation black, completely collapsed. In the next instant—the entire sky above the Causeless Heavenly Sect seemed to be shattered by an invisible hand. Heaven and earth fell silent, light was stripped away, and space shattered like fragile glass. An indescribable annihilation wave spread out from the Abyss Core Yama Suanni with a roar; it was not an impact, but "deletion."
The sect leader of the Causeless Heavenly Sect did not retreat.
In that instant, he saw everything clearly: he saw the depleted World Enforcement within the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall elder, he saw the fate of his own sect, and he saw the true target of this attack—a fatal judgment aimed at the last remaining Silent Mystery Realm elder of the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall.
He took a step forward.
Without roaring or declaring, he calmly opened his arms, and the sect's fortune burned completely behind him. At this moment, he forcibly detonated, gathered, and compressed the array remnants, spiritual vein glow, and inheritance marks of the entire Causeless Heavenly Sect, transforming them into a brief but brilliant defensive line.
The moment the calamity ripples struck, his figure, along with his identity as the "Causeless Heavenly Sect," was directly erased from the rule level. There were no corpses, no remnants of his soul, and not even the echo of "he once existed." Only an empty logical gap remained in the world, as if someone had dug out a piece of memory from the world.
Immediately afterwards, the two elders of the Fallen Dawn Divine Hall and the Vast Sea Billow Sect Silent Mystery Realm Sect, both at the Silent Profound Realm, let out a muffled groan.
Before they could fully reclaim their Silent Profundity forms, they were directly engulfed by the aftershocks of the calamity. Their true forms disintegrated before their physical bodies, their souls were instantly annihilated, their authority over existence was severed with a single stroke, and their entire bodies turned to ashes in mid-air. Before the ashes could even dissipate, they were completely erased.
Those surviving Void Emanation Realm disciples didn't even have time to scream before their figures vanished along the path of the calamity, as if they had never been there in the first place.
The battlefield suddenly emptied, the entire Causeless Heavenly Sect vanished as if it had never existed. Only the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall elder of the Silent Mystery Realm Limitless Hall remained.
He knelt on one knee above the shattered void, his robes torn to shreds by annihilation, his chest caved in, and his World Enforcement collapsing wildly within him like a broken crystal. He raised his head, his eyes bloodshot, staring intently at the calamity-ridden shadow that blotted out the sky before him, his eyes filled not with fear, but with a deep-seated resentment.
The nine heads of the Abyss Core Yama Suanni slowly lowered, one of its heads opening a gaping maw, its sound like a deep rumble from the friction of rules, echoing between heaven and earth.
"Submit to me."
"Your level of understanding still has value."
"I can refine you into a Yin puppet, allowing you to forever enjoy the power of calamity."
The elder of the Silent Mystery Realm coughed up a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of rules, forced himself to lift his head, and forced a nearly ferocious smile onto his lips.
"Hmph." A demon beast will always be a demon beast.
The moment the words left his lips, the heavens suddenly shattered. It wasn't a calamity, but a response.
A chaotic lightning bolt that traversed the sky cleaved down from the heavens, tearing apart the still-unhealed spatial rift. Immediately afterward, a second and a third chaotic shock descended simultaneously, forcibly suppressing the rules of heaven and earth, and the sovereignty of the battlefield was shaken at this moment.
Three figures arrived, stepping through the air.
Zhang Lin, Deputy Hall Master of the Heavenly Emanation Limitless Hall, Chaos Realm.
Fallen Dawn Divine Hall Master of the Xi Huanluo Temple, Chaos Realm · Extremity.
Lin Long, the deputy hall master of the Vast Sea Billow Sect, Chaos Realm · Middle Stage.
The moment the three appeared, the chaotic energy unfolded simultaneously like three world cores of different frequencies, compressing the void into layers of ripples, and for the first time, the calamity was forcibly repelled.
The elder of the Silent Mystery Realm was stunned.
When he recognized the three familiar figures, his chest jolted, and pent-up anger and resentment surged to his throat, instantly turning his eyes red.
"You..." "You've finally arrived..."
His voice was low and hoarse, almost broken.
Zhang Lin didn't say much, but took a step forward, and the power of chaos exploded under his feet, firmly blocking him; Xi Huanluo his hand, and the divine radiance of the Fallen Dawn spread out like falling stars at dusk, completely isolating the aftershocks of the calamity; Lin Long let out a low shout, and the power of the world, as vast as the ocean, surged up, forcibly locking onto the core structure of the Abyss Core Yama Suanni.
The next instant, all three attacked simultaneously.
Chaotic-level divine powers and spells were unleashed simultaneously, as if the heavens and earth were torn apart by three different primordial wills— Fallen Dawn roared, the sun fell and annihilated, and the ocean overturned. Light and darkness were annihilated in a violent collision at the Limit. The Ultimate calamity divine power was directly defeated and collapsed into countless broken calamity fragments.
The Abyss Core Yama Suanni let out a roar that shattered the void, its nine heads tilting back simultaneously. For the first time, a noticeable crack appeared in the core of the calamity. Its massive body was violently blasted back by the power of chaos, and at the same time, tens of thousands of cracks appeared on its enormous body.