After a moment's thought Qin Yu said, "Azure Ring, how about we lure out those two female demon spirits hiding in the shadows first? Otherwise, it'll be difficult to deal with me when I'm in the open and the enemy is in the dark." Azure Ring nodded, "Alright, then let's set up a combined formation and only lure out the enemies hiding in the shadows."
Qin Yu created some distance, stopping with Azure Ring dozens of miles from the entrance in the void. His aura gradually sank into the underlying textures of the world. Azure Ring lightly leaped and landed on his shoulder, her small figure appearing and disappearing in the azure soul flame. She raised her hand and wiped, and several almost imperceptible dark azure arcs quietly spread out, like dust blown away by the wind, yet in the next instant, they embedded themselves into the gaps of cause and effect.
Qin Yu simultaneously raised his hand, his fingertips tracing lines through the void. Invisible logical lines were forcibly pressed into the depths of space. They were not visible, yet they interlocked, forming a layered, counter-strategic arrangement. The formation lacked any oppressive force or killing intent, retaining only one purpose—any lurking entity attempting to intervene would be instantly locked onto and dragged into a predetermined trajectory of judgment. The two moved with extreme lightness, yet with terrifying precision. When the formation was completed, the void around the entrance remained as if nothing had happened, without even a ripple.
They waited patiently.
Time blurred here, and the lingering aura of Annihilation slowly swirled before the entrance, like ashes that would never dissipate. Qin Yu's gaze remained fixed on that empty space, while Azure Ring narrowed her eyes, her perception extending deeper and deeper. Logically speaking, once those two female demon spirits of the Chaos Realm sensed the anomaly, they would surely choose the most opportune moment to strike, but the formation had been operating for several breaths, yet the void remained deathly silent.
"... Something's not right." Qin Yu said in a low voice, his brows furrowing slightly. "Logically speaking, they shouldn't have had no reaction at all."
Azure Ring shook the thin lock on her ankle, and the broken bell emitted a barely audible chime. Her tone unusually carried a hint of doubt. "Yes, no matter how deeply hidden this kind of logically structured array is, it should have been exposed long ago. How come it seems... like it Does Not Exist at all?"
As soon as those words were spoken, the space in the direction of the entrance suddenly sank.
Without warning, without any buildup, the being at the Stainless Realm · Middle Stage slowly raised the divine sword in its hand. Before the sword was fully drawn, the surrounding light and shadow began to collapse simultaneously, as if everything "defined as existing" had lost its reason to stand at this moment. The next instant, the sword's edge appeared in the void—not a slash, but a severing. There was no trajectory, no concept of speed; the space before the entrance was directly split in two, the cut so smooth it was chilling. No energy surged from the break, but instead revealed an absolute blankness, as if a page of the world had been brutally erased.
Boom--!
The belated tremor finally swept in, the collapsing space fell layer by layer, the causal lines around the entrance were severed and extinguished one by one, the entire area was quickly sealed off, and all possibilities of leading to the outside world were forcibly erased by this sword.
Qin Yu's pupils suddenly contracted. Almost at the same instant the sword intent was about to strike, he had already taken a step forward, Silent Origin Stainless Sword appeared in his palm. The sword's blade did not glow with light, but rather with a profound and Ultimate silence, as if all noise had been suppressed into the sword's spine. He blocked with a backhand, and before the swords had even truly made contact, the surrounding space began to distort wildly. The fractured void continuously reformed, shattered, and reformed under the confrontation of the two forces of judgment.
A deafening, silent explosion erupted before the entrance, scattering fragments of space like black crystals, each carrying a sharpness capable of obliterating existence. The void beneath Qin Yu's feet was shattered, yet he remained as steady as a rock. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword suppressed the force of severance, and the area where the swords clashed formed a rapidly collapsing vacuum zone, impenetrable even to light.
Azure Ring suddenly looked up from his shoulder, her azure soul flames surging violently. She stared at the Stainless Realm being, her tone finally sharpening. "Little Qinzi... something's not right."
Exports have been sealed, and the verdict has been handed down. But the hunter who should have appeared in the shadows has yet to show up.
The void before the exit seemed to be tightly squeezed by an invisible hand. Layers of space collapsed and were forcibly fixed at the same moment, cutting all possibilities of "leaving" into broken fragments that floated in the air like frozen ashes. The being at the Stainless Realm · Middle Stage stood at the core of the blockade, his figure still, but his aura was constantly expanding, as if he himself was a walking boundary.
The divine sword in his hand was not dazzling; it had no light or sound. The blade was a dark color that was almost a "concept." With each slight deflection, the surrounding rules would shift, as if forced to give way to its existence. Qin Yu took a step, and the void beneath his feet emitted a faint cracking sound. He could clearly feel that there was not a distance between him and the exit, but a causal line that had been "determined to be impassable."
Azure Ring hovered at his shoulder, its blue flames pressed low, as if listening intently to the very breath of this space. The being opposite slowly raised its sword, without any preparatory movement, yet the instant the blade was raised, all spatial layers in the exit area simultaneously closed, forming an absolutely sealed judgment domain. Qin Yu's gaze darkened slightly, the Silent Origin Stainless Sword appearing in his palm. Even before the sword was drawn, fine, crack-like white lines appeared around it, the leakage of the forcefully clashing tension of the rules. Before the two swords had even truly clashed, the battlefield had already crumbled.
When the first severance struck, there was no trajectory of the strike, no outpouring of power, only an Ultimate sense of "denial" pressing down from the front, as if declaring that Qin Yu's current stance was fundamentally flawed. Qin Yu forcibly stabilized his anchor point, the Silent Origin Stainless Sword held horizontally in front of him, its sword domain expanding, forcefully shattering the severance into countless tiny fragments of logic. The fragments grazed his side and silently vanished in the distant void. Almost simultaneously, Azure Ring acted, her azure soul patterns spreading out in a ring, re-locking onto Qin Yu's outline, preventing him from being "casually obliterated" by the divine sword.
"This sword isn't for killing," Qin Yu quickly concluded during the clash. "It's judging right of way, order of existence, and the right to leave."
Azure Ring's gaze swept over the lingering causal gray marks around the exit. The marks were messy and cruel, each representing a powerful individual who had attempted to leave this place and was directly erased from the logical realm. Her voice was low, but unusually firm. "It's not guarding the gate, it's clearing the area. All beings who arrive here and are not allowed to leave will be eliminated by it."
Qin Yu's gaze suddenly sharpened. He realized a previously overlooked detail—the two female demon spirits at the Chaos Realm · Supreme had never shown themselves. The formation had been set up, the trigger had been released; logically, they shouldn't have remained unresponsive. Azure Ring quickly deduced the remaining causal trajectory in reverse. Those trajectories suddenly broke at a certain point, with no trace of resistance at the break, only a "blank" directly covered by a higher level. She paused for a moment, then sneered, "It's not hiding, it's gone. Their causality ended here, and the way it ended... was very clean."
Qin Yu said in a low voice, "It's not that they hid; they were probably completely Annihilation in the battle against these powerful individuals who wanted to leave this place."
This judgment completely changed the nature of the battlefield. Standing before them was not a mere pursuer, but an entity executing a "cleanup order"—a clearer granted the authority to make judgments. The being of the Stainless Realm seemed to have heard their deduction; its sword tip slightly shifted, and the space around the exit tightened once more. All remaining traces of cause and effect were completely erased at this moment, as if even the fact that "someone had died here" was to be deleted.
He took a step forward, a slow movement that caused the entire space to recede, expanding the domain of judgment and instantly doubling the sense of oppression.
Qin Yu slowly exhaled, and the sword intent of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword began to completely merge with his own existence. He was very clear that this battle was not only about leaving the unknown world, but also about stopping this clearer from continuing to execute that Ultimate ruthless judgment route. And between him and Azure Ring, all possibilities of retreat, luck, and testing had already been negated in advance by that divine sword.
The void beyond the exit no longer resembled "space," but rather a tattered page repeatedly cut and covered. All sense of direction and hierarchy was flattened onto the same plane, leaving only the Stainless Realm · Middle Stage clearer and the Void Authority World-Annihilating Divine Sword in his hand as the only "existence" allowed to exist in this area. When he truly raised the sword, Qin Yu understood for the first time that it was not a "weapon," nor even a manifestation of "power," but an authorized Ultimate negation itself. Before the sword moved, everything around it began to give way, as if the entire world was clearing the stage in advance for the impending judgment.
The first round of sword domain clashes occurred almost without warning. The Void Authority World-Annihilating Divine Sword moved horizontally without even a flash of sword light, yet a "storyless rift" suddenly appeared at the exit area. Wherever the rift passed, the causal traces, death marks, and logic of the powerful that remained in the air were all wiped clean, even the feeling of "what happened here" was taken away. It was Narrative Severance; it did not sever the physical body or the soul, but the very qualification of an existence to be recognized by the world. Qin Yu's mind trembled, and the Silent Origin Stainless Sword was suddenly drawn. The sword domain expanded to its Limit, forcefully blocking the rift outside its own outline. However, at the moment of contact, a large blank space appeared at the edge of the sword domain, like a canvas erased by an eraser.
Immediately following, the second layer of judgment descended. The clearer stepped forward, and the sword intent of the Void Authority World-Annihilating Divine Sword no longer targeted a single objective, but directly invaded the very roots of reality. The Logic Collapse erupted in the exit area. Flames froze into ice crystals in mid-air, the flow of time became intermittent, and Qin Yu's single breath was stretched into dozens of fragmented moments. The connection between cause and effect was brutally severed, and even the act of "swinging the sword" itself almost lost its basis. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword emitted a deep resonance, and the Silent Origin patterns on its blade lit up wildly, forcibly stabilizing a small patch of logic around itself with "World Enforcement." However, that sense of stability was like an isolated island propped up in a raging tide, which could be swallowed up at any moment.
The third clash almost caused Qin Yu's consciousness to momentarily go blank. As the Absolute Glyph and Word Prohibition were unleashed, the Void Authority World-Annihilating Divine Sword trailed a jet-black and absolutely silent path, along which all symbols, array patterns, names, and even the conceptual structures within his mind began to fade. Qin Yu's throat tightened, and he found that he couldn't even fully "recite" the name of the Silent Origin Stainless Sword in his mind for a moment. The terrifying feeling of even his self-awareness being weakened caused his sword momentum to stagnate for a very short time. In that instant, the Sweeper's sword domain pressed down, and the harbinger of the Authority and History Annihilation began to emerge. A gray timeline phantom unfolded in the void, and the past and future were simultaneously flattened. Qin Yu felt an irresistible force trying to "smooth" him out of time.
The Silent Origin Stainless Sword finally succumbed to the continuous impact of this difference in rank. Its sword domain was forcibly torn apart, and Qin Yu was as if struck by an invisible force. His physical form collapsed on a large scale. Blood did not splatter, but a large area of "absence" was left behind him, as if a part of him had been erased from the world in that instant. Even a Void Emanation Realm · Supreme could not directly confront a Stainless Realm · Middle Stage cultivator, let alone one wielding a divine sword born specifically for "ending".
Azure Ring's voice suddenly became sharp and urgent, her azure flames surging, forcibly pulling Qin Yu back to his full state. "Little Qinzi, this won't do! That divine sword is too strange. Even if we join forces, we can only hold out a little longer. That demon spirit is at the Stainless Realm · Middle Stage. Quickly take out that treasure you just used— the Illusion Evolution Limitless Mirror!"
Without hesitation, Qin Yu summoned the Illusion Evolution Limitless Mirror in his palm. The moment the silvery mirror appeared, the light in the entire exit area distorted, and countless overlapping images of Qin Yu flashed through the void. The afterglow of his first brief Illusory Abyss Evolution Breath's Breath hadn't yet dissipated when the mirror was awakened once more. Layers of the Membrane of Void Evolution deep within the mirror unfolded, as if endless possibilities were being simultaneously unlocked. For the first time, the mysterious being showed a very subtle pause—not fear, but an unusual reaction that the "object of judgment was no longer singular."
Qin Yu activated Mirror-Image Bewitching Shadows first. With a flash of the mirror, thousands of "Qin Yu's Perception Mirror Images" instantly appeared around the mysterious creature. These images were not simple illusions, but false selves carrying the weight of real existence. Each one actively attracted the judgment of the Void Authority World-Annihilating Divine Sword. The Narrative Severance fell again, but only cut into the layers of infinitely replicated empty shadows. The power of the judgment was forced to disperse, and the presence of the clearer began to be slightly diminished.
Taking advantage of this momentary misalignment, Qin Yu reversed the Emanation Flow Reversal, causing the mirror to ripple like water, re-evolving the area that had just been Logic Collapse into a cyclical structure. The Sweeper attempted to crush Qin Yu with Law of Absurdity, only to find that the erased logic was being reconstructed in the mirror in an "infinite loop," dragging a portion of his own sword domain into a self-imposed logical trap. At this moment, Azure Ring intervened fully, its azure soul patterns overlapping with the mirror domain, forcibly amplifying the mirror's evolutionary speed, causing judgment and reconstruction to clash head-on in the same space.
The Limitless Illusion Prohibition Restriction unfolded, the Mirror Domain expanded completely, and symbols and names were no longer erased but infinitely multiplied. The mysterious being attempted to activate the Absolute Glyph and Word Prohibition, only to find that its target was expanding exponentially. Its true name had just been erased when thousands of variations were generated in the mirror in the next instant. For the first time, the efficiency of the Void Authority World-Annihilating Divine Sword's judgment experienced a substantial decline. Qin Yu borrowed a name from the mirror, briefly leveraging a trace of the Stainless level power, transforming it into a counterforce, and forcefully withstood the pressure of the Authority and History Annihilation.
Ultimately, the World Emanation Authority Annihilation was forcibly ignited. The mirror of the Illusion Evolution Limitless Mirror projected countless intersecting timeline phantoms, and parallel histories unfolded like a torrent, re-evolving the "power" and "history" that the mysterious being attempted to erase into infinite branches. The gray timeline of the Void Authority World-Annihilating Divine Sword was torn apart, copied, and torn apart again in the mirror domain, its legitimacy completely collapsing. For the first time, the mysterious being truly took a step back, and the outline of its existence began to flicker unstablely.
Qin Yu gave the opponent no chance to reorganize. With Azure Ring's full assistance, Zero Realm Illusory Return was touched to the edge. Within the mirror domain, the boundary between the subject and space was infinitely evolved. The Ultimate judgment that originally pointed to "returning to zero" was detonated in reverse, turning into an infinite torrent that devoured itself. The figures of mysterious beings were constantly copied, overlapped, and stretched in the mirror. The "Line of Does Not Exist" of the Void Authority World-Annihilating Divine Sword was forcibly reflected into an observable form, and then shattered in infinite possibilities.
As the last wisp of silver mist dissipated, the void before the exit regained its layers and direction. The existence of that Stainless Realm · Middle Stage being had been completely annihilated, leaving not even a complete trace of the concept of "erasure," as if he had been nothing more than a failed attempt at judgment from the very beginning. Qin Yu stood in the afterglow of the shattered mirror light, his aura fluctuating violently.