The Emperor of Thought Extinction Descends upon the Black Sea
Qin Yu didn't proceed immediately. Instead, he stopped in mid-air, slowly withdrawing his gaze from the direction of the Black Sea, and said in a low voice, "Yes, but we need to change our approach. We can't just rely on avoiding formations like this." His tone was extremely steady, yet it carried a certainty born from countless simulations. "The Divine Phoenix doesn't rely on perception, divine sense, or rule-based locking to capture targets. It examines whether an existence is worth preserving. Any individual that still retains a clear weight of existence will be automatically included in its judgment."
Without further hesitation, Qin Yu turned his head, his voice low yet carrying an undeniable certainty. "Wan He, enter my sea of consciousness first." In that instant, the girl formed from the Void Returning-to-Ruin Divine Sword did not hesitate at all, nor did she utter a single reply. Her figure swayed gently in the light and shadow, transforming into an extremely thin and dark beam of Return to the Ruins Nothingness light, disappearing into the depths of Qin Yu's sea of consciousness through his brow, as if she had never appeared in this world, leaving only an almost imperceptible silent weight around Qin Yu.
As he finished speaking, he raised his hand and gently touched his right shoulder. Azure Ring's small figure appeared in the light and shadow, but it did not fully descend into the mortal world. Instead, it adhered to the outline of his Fate Soul in an almost "unrecognized" state. The light blue ring pattern unfolded silently like a slowly rotating Boundless Realm marker. Azure Ring did not say much, but simply stretched out her slender fingers and gently pressed them in the void. Her [No Perception, Myriad Extinctions] did not release outward, but folded in reverse, peeling away Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan's "qualification to be observed" layer by layer. It was not about hiding their forms, but about letting the world logically acknowledge that there was nothing here to begin with. The two people's aura, destiny trajectory, causal projection, and narrative coordinates were simultaneously compressed into an extremely weak "conceptual cavity." They did not disappear, but were Realm Master. Even the act of "ignoring" itself no longer held true.
Jin Hanyan clearly sensed the difference in that instant. She looked down at her palm; her fingertips were still there, but they seemed to have lost the weight of being acknowledged by the world. It was a state that was extremely dangerous yet absolutely safe. She looked up at Qin Yu and whispered, "You put us in the 'unseen layer'." Qin Yu nodded. "Not invisible, but implicitly considered irrelevant." As his words fell, the two figures moved slowly through the void, without tearing through space or causing any ripples, as if only darkness itself was moving.
The Black Sea is gradually approaching.
They saw that scene from afar.
The sky seemed to be forcibly torn apart by some indescribable force, layers of clouds collapsing into ring-shaped faults. Black Sea sky above the Black Sea was no longer the sky, but a domain dome that had been repeatedly melted and reconstructed. The Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix hovered above it, its nine wings outstretched, each feather like a cleaving blade, its edges burning with unclassifiable Annihilation Starflame. The flames did not spread outward, but instead continuously devoured "the rules themselves." Wherever it went, color, direction, and causal order all became invalid. Its body was not huge, yet it occupied the entire field of vision, because everything around it was collapsing with it as a reference. The Black Sea surged, but there was no sound of waves. The surface of the sea was like a black mirror that had been repeatedly erased and rewritten. With each flip, a large area was directly wiped away.
The Divine Phoenix slowly flapped its wings, and the instant its nine wings unfolded simultaneously, the world seemed to be forcibly silenced. Then, a cry that did not belong to the realm of sound exploded from the depths of space. It was not an attack, but a command. At the same time as the cry rang out, unnamed dark array patterns emerged beneath the Black Sea. These patterns were not formations, but rather a kind of awakened response structure, as if something long dormant was being called upon one by one. Qin Yu's pupils suddenly contracted; he finally understood the missing link in all his previous deductions.
"It's not clearing the area," he said in a low voice, his tone unusually serious. "It's executing a summons."
Jin Hanyan's gaze also darkened. She sensed several extremely ancient and unstable entities being drawn into the depths of the Black Sea. Their origins were faintly connected to the aura of the Nine-Headed Calamity, yet they were even more primal and chaotic. "The calamity didn't appear by chance," she said slowly. "They are responding to the call of a mother form."
Above the Black Sea, the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix cried out once more. Beneath its nine wings, irregular bulges began to appear in the depths of the Black Sea, as if some sealed-away 'failed things' were struggling to return to the stage. Yet, the entire world maintained a strange, tacit silence in the face of this.
Just as Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan were watching the Divine Phoenix, a deep, almost silent tremor suddenly came from the depths of the Black Sea. It was neither a surge of waves nor a collapse of space, but rather as if something that had been suppressed for billions of years was finally allowed to "breathe." In an instant, the surface of the Black Sea completely lost its form. The water was no longer water, but a whole expanse of black medium that had been forcibly stretched, folded, and rewritten, with space shimmering in layers like a shattered mirror. The first thing to emerge was the Abyssal Wheel Beast Crown, which had been prostrate in the shadow of the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix. Its massive body slowly rose from the deep sea, its huge crown pressing down on the surface of the sea. The rings of its Fate Ring lit up and then went out, as if it were swearing allegiance to the Divine Phoenix, bowing down in an almost humble manner.
Immediately afterwards, the space around the Black Sea flickered irregularly, as if the world itself had been torn open with several unauthorized rifts. From the first rift, radiant light erupted like fragments of a star, and the Radiant Void Slashing Jing appeared, its body long and sharp, seemingly forged from pure radiant light and fractured vacuum. With each breath, the surrounding star souls were forcibly extracted and severed, and the faint yet piercing sound of soul cores breaking echoed continuously in the void. It raised its head, and the light of the Radiant Severance of Star Souls flashed in its pupils, even shattering the battle techniques it had not yet conceived.
The second rift was almost forcibly burned through by the flames, from which the Mirror-Breaking Flame Ferocious Spider crawled out. Its massive body was covered with layers of flame armor that reflected reality like a mirror. The moment its eight legs landed, flame threads wove into webs of shattered logic in the void. Logic was deflected, skills were reversed, and space itself was like a brittle mirror being repeatedly struck, constantly emitting echoes of impending collapse. Countless possibilities were reflected in its compound eyes, and those possibilities were being devoured and distorted by it one by one.
The third rift suddenly expanded, and shadows poured out like a flood. The Eternal Devouring War Crow spread its giant wings and swooped down from the rift. Its wings seemed to be pieced together from countless records of constant defeats. With each flap of its wings, the loopholes in the sea of consciousness were precisely torn open, and the low groans of the War Chant Rends Order echoed between heaven and earth. The nascent logic of group collaboration clashed and shattered on the spot.
Just as the shadow of the War Raven had not yet fully settled, space suddenly fell into a moment of "thoughtlessness." The Recognition Annihilation Nether Qilin Scale manifested from the void, its body slowly stepping out, its thousand eyes gazing into the abyss, each reflecting a thought forcibly aborted. Wherever it passed, there were no explosions, no tearing, only a chilling emptiness—thoughts could not arise, will could not be condensed, even the concept of "wanting to fight" itself was directly erased. The lingering effect of the Recognition Annihilation Severs the Cosmos Severing plunged the entire Black Sea region into a brief cognitive vacuum.
The sky darkened completely at this moment. The fifth rift did not appear in space, but seemed to be "written" directly on the rules of heaven and earth. The Still Cosmos Tribulation Dragon slowly spiraled down from the sky. When the Nine Luminaries Wings unfolded, it was as if nine laws of severing boundaries unfolded simultaneously. The mournful cry did not enter the ears, but echoed directly at the fulcrum of history and cause and effect. Before the Ji Lü Tribulation Cry had truly begun, the surrounding existence had already begun to lose its qualification to be "reasonably permitted". The historical traces in large areas faded and dissipated on their own.
The sixth rift followed closely behind, where time itself showed obvious signs of being reversed. Dawn Abyss Kṣaṇa Dragon appeared, stepping on the inverted torrent of time. Its dragon wings were like blades of light, and the reverse-locking inscriptions on its scales lit up one by one. The future had not yet happened, but it had already been judged as the end. The aura of Dawn-Extinguishing Chronicle was like an invisible hand, pressing on the throat of all possibilities, forcibly constricting them into the only path of defeat.
Finally, just when everyone thought there was no more room for new existence, heaven and earth suddenly "rejected" them. The Fate-Severing Divine Qilin stepped out of the sky, and the moment its four hooves landed, the chains of life were shattered, and layers of Void Consciousness Annihilation Lock unfolded behind it. It did not roar, nor did it intimidate; it simply stood there quietly, yet it caused everything around it to gradually lose its qualification to be recognized by the world. Skills could not be conceived, and existence could not be acknowledged, as if the meaning of "birth" was denied at its very root.
Seven calamities gathered in the Black Sea, and above them, the Nine Wings of the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix were slightly folded, starlight swirling around it, hovering silently. Without a command, not a single calamity dared to move. Qin Yu stood in the super-five-dimensional interlayer, his gaze fixed on that figure, finally confirming—this was not a chance gathering, nor a runaway rampage. This was a collective summoning.
The Divine Phoenix's body suddenly tensed above the Black Sea. In that instant, its nine wings ceased to spread, as if forcibly suppressed by some invisible will. The next moment, a phoenix cry, sharp enough to tear apart the boundaries of cognition, suddenly erupted. Before the first cry had dissipated, the second had already superimposed, the third seemed to pierce through from behind time, the fourth directly shattered the spatial layers, and the moment the fifth cry fell, the entire Black Sea seemed to be pressed into absolute silence by an invisible hand. After the phoenix cry, the Logic-Extinguishing Divine Phoenix slowly retracted its nine wings under the gaze of all the calamity-causing demonic beasts. Its massive divine body bowed down, its starlight extinguished, its posture almost submissive, as if waiting for the arrival of a being that even "Annihilation" had to bow to.
Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan, standing some distance away, froze in place. It wasn't the pressure of power, but a blankness that forcibly stripped away even the concept of "how fear arises." Qin Yu's throat tightened, and he spoke in a low voice, only to find that his voice was being swallowed halfway by something. "Could it be... there are even more terrifying monsters... this..." Before he could finish speaking, he realized that this was beyond the scope of the word "monster."
The instant before his thoughts had fully settled, a strange phenomenon began to occur in the sky above the Black Sea, one that could not be described as "change." The sky did not collapse or crack, but rather seemed to have its "meaning" forcibly ripped away. Colors vanished first; azure, pitch black, starlight, and radiance—all hues were smoothed out into a monotonous gray-white in the same instant, and then even the gray-white itself began to fade. Sound followed closely behind; the waves ceased to surge, and the humming of space tearing apart abruptly stopped, as if the world had been silenced. Then came time—not stopped, but it lost its "flow"; before and after, fast and slow, cause and effect—all became blurred and indistinct, like an infinitely stretched but unplayable image.
An atmosphere belonging to the Severed Thought Realm silently descended. Thoughts ceased, intentions vanished, and Thought Has No Root. Consciousness ceased to be consciousness, and thoughts were no longer allowed to arise. Heaven and earth were not destroyed, but forcibly dragged into a "blank space where thought was impossible," where even the concept of "silence" seemed superfluous.
In this deathly silence, a figure slowly emerged from the "gap" in the sky. It did not walk out, nor did it descend, but rather seemed to have always existed there, only now being allowed to be "seen". When its outline was fully formed, everything around it simultaneously lost its sound, color, and sense of the flow of time, as if the world was being dragged into a deathly abyss of "absolute silence".
--Absolute Thought Severance Devouring Emperor, the Severed Thought Realm · Pinnacle.
Its form is not fixed; it's more like a forcibly drawn "shadow of nothingness," its edges constantly collapsing and reforming. Any thought that attempts to gaze upon its details will extinguish itself the moment it arises. It exists, yet it doesn't belong to any "realm of conceivable thought." As its Severed Thought Domain silently unfolds, Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan simultaneously feel as if a cold hand has gently swept across the depths of their consciousness. The edges of their memories begin to blur, and even the thought, "I must remain conscious," is almost erased. It's a prelude to the direct denial of their thoughts.
The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor remained silent, yet a declaration bypassed hearing, becoming etched into its very existence. "I am the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor, born from the Abyss of Thought Extinction, wielding boundless Annihilation. All that has thought is my food; all that has a mind returns to Space Silence." This was not a threat, but a statement. Its very existence was the conclusion. Any analysis attempting to understand it crumbled before it could even take shape; the Thought-Devouring Annihilation of Thoughts was like an invisible vortex, swallowing all observations, prophecies, and deductions.
Beside it, three shadows silently appeared. The Three Nether Yin Puppets, at the Stainless Realm · Middle Stage, were like afterimages peeled away from death itself, their forms hollow, their eye sockets burning with a dark, ghostly light. They did not release any aura, yet they caused space to instinctively retreat, as if even the rules of nature were unwilling to come into contact with them.
The next instant, the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor raised something that could hardly be called a "finger" and gently drew a line across the void. There was no light, no tremor, yet the void seemed to have been forcibly "remembered" a sealed record. A rift unfolded in a Does Not Exist level, and then, eight familiar yet chilling auras emerged simultaneously. Eight Chaos Realm demonic beasts, directly "taken" from outside the Realm-Avoidance Rule, were the very eight that Qin Yu had personally witnessed in the unknown world.
The moment they fully manifested, Qin Yu's mind jolted violently, even his instinct for cause and effect momentarily went awry. He finally understood what this scene meant—this was not a summoning, not an invasion, but a disregard and trampling of the rules.
He muttered to himself, his tone losing its absolute composure for the first time. "I never expected... that it could actually cause eight super monsters from an unknown world to break through the Realm-Avoidance Rule."
Above the Black Sea, the Divine Phoenix prostrates itself, calamities array themselves, and Absolute Thoughtlessness descends upon the world. The world has not yet collapsed, but it has already lost its reason to continue existing.