Turning His Body into a Blade to Break Yan Feng
The Gray Domain suddenly reversed.
After confirming that the "erroneous core" could not be directly erased, the Leading Edge Zone revealed its true ferocity for the first time. The gray-white lines that had originally surrounded Qin Yu and were used to lock the repair path suddenly broke and reassembled, no longer using him as the sole anchor point, but beginning to extend outward, as if searching for a new "feasible solution." A low and hollow echo came from the depths of space; it was not a sound, but the vibration generated when logic collided with each other—the alternative solution was activated.
Qin Yu instantly understood what this meant.
The repair no longer focuses on "eliminating him," but instead chooses to bypass him. The Leading Edge Zone begins to grasp those high-level possibilities that should have been sacrificed in the future outside the Gray Domain, dragging them into the repair framework ahead of time. Countless deaths that have not yet occurred and destinies that have not yet collapsed are brutally pulled into this moment, turning into blurry images that flash, shatter, and reassemble at the edge of the Gray Domain.
The backlash escalated as a result.
Qin Yu's existence was forcibly compressed into a narrower logical interlayer, like being stuffed between closing gears. Each reconstruction of the Leading Edge Zone stripped away a portion of his stability. He could clearly feel his "present" being cut into countless fragments, some thrown into the past, others flung into an undefined future. Blood silently spilled from the corner of his lips, only to turn to dust the instant it left his body, directly smoothed over by the storm of logic.
At this very moment--
Thought Severance Devouring Emperor changed his strategy.
It no longer simply applies "suppression without thought," but introduces an external variable. A fluctuation that does not belong to the Gray Domain is forcibly embedded into the repair sequence. It is a cold order from outside the repair system, like a fragment of a tamed will, used as a tool in the calculation.
The "stillness" of the Gray Domain has been torn open.
There was no light or shadow in the rift, only a suffocating emptiness surging in. That was a derivative form of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor's divine power—not descending upon its true form, but rather mapping a small segment of its own "Logic of Absolute Thoughtlessness" into the Leading Edge Zone, giving the repair process a temporary stable template. All the alternative solutions that were dragged in were forcibly unified at this moment, the order of sacrifice was rearranged, and the process accelerated.
Qin Yu's pupils contracted slightly.
He sensed that the external variable was trying to "cover up" the fault he had created, smoothing out his inconsistencies back into a plane that could be analyzed. If successful, he would no longer be an error, but would be directly incorporated into the repair process, becoming the most crucial and thorough sacrificial material.
No refunds.
Qin Yu's consciousness abruptly contracted amidst the excruciating pain. He ceased maintaining his broad self-denial and instead compressed all remaining stability into a point that was almost Does Not Exist. It wasn't power, but a resolve—as long as this point remained, he would still be an irreplaceable anomaly.
He began to perturb the Leading Edge Zone in the opposite direction.
It wasn't destruction, but misdirection. Qin Yu used himself as a reference to forcibly create several "seemingly reasonable but inevitably failed" repair branches, causing the Leading Edge Zone to constantly switch schemes during high-speed calculations. Each switch would create subtle conflicts with the external variables introduced by the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor, like two incompatible rules rubbing against each other repeatedly in the same container.
The Gray Domain trembled violently, and the logic storm emitted a piercing, silent shriek.
The intervention of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor intensified once more, with layers of blank fluctuations pressing down, attempting to directly erase these branches. However, Qin Yu's existence had become extremely unstable at this moment, neither a complete individual nor a pure variable. Every time the external variable was overridden, the errors he created were amplified, which instead slowed down the overall repair speed.
The price he paid was his Limit.
Qin Yu's vision began to collapse, his senses compressed to only one thought—hold on. He didn't know how much longer he could hold on, nor did he know if the secret agents of the Chaos First Palace had already noticed anything amiss, but he knew very well that as long as he fell, this Leading Edge Zone would be unobstructed.
So he stood there, letting the backlash tear him apart, becoming the only mistake that could not be erased in the eye of the storm where countless possibilities for repair intersected.
After being continuously misled, the alternative solution finally crossed the irreversible Threshold line.
Deep within the Gray Domain, the sacrificial images of the future, forcibly dragged in, began to clash with each other. The repair logic, which should have unfolded sequentially, suddenly became misaligned. The originally tightly closed Leading Edge Zone suddenly developed subtle yet fatal overlapping cracks. It was not destruction, but "self-negation"—the same repair path pointed to two incompatible results at different times. The logic, like a snapped string, emitted a silent, resounding collapse in the stillness.
The collapse started from a single point and spread.
The gray-white storm of logic suddenly went out of balance, its rotational trajectory stretched and torn apart, turning into chaotic vortices, as if the entire space had been crammed into a runaway engine. Those higher possibilities that had not yet completed the definition of sacrifice began to annihilate themselves under the backlash of the out-of-control alternative solution. The images exploded one by one, turning into meaningless dust, which was frantically absorbed by the Leading Edge Zone, yet could not be digested, and finally accumulated inside into a pile of rotten logical dregs.
At this moment, the repair process revealed a true "collapse zone".
The fluctuations in the will of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor suddenly intensified.
That originally cold and distant oppressive Absolute Thoughtlessness now revealed a fleeting sense of urgency. More costs were being incurred in the repair system; external variables were no longer singular mappings, but were being torn apart, reassembled, and forcibly pushed into the Gray Domain. The boundaries of the void began to tremble, as if an unseen giant hand was twisting the rules outside the boundary, attempting to directly flatten this out-of-control area.
The price is exposure.
Qin Yu clearly sensed that the dark lines were being marked in reverse. Each injection of external variables would allow the Leading Edge Zone to more accurately lock onto the "source of the anomaly." The originally blurry anchor points in the Gray Domain were lighting up one by one, like dead stars being ignited in the night sky, slowly but irresistibly converging on him.
Time is running out.
Just as the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor was about to suppress the higher-level projection of Absolute Thoughtlessness, deep within Qin Yu's consciousness, a certain existence that he had deliberately suppressed was finally forced to Threshold point. It was not a new power, but a fundamental understanding that he had never truly used before—a reverse understanding of his own mode of existence.
He suddenly understood.
The Leading Edge Zone is not indestructible, but it cannot be "directly destroyed". It does not rely on a complete repair logic, but on a default premise - that existences below the Void Emanation Realm can necessarily be included in the repair path.
So, as long as this premise no longer holds true.
Qin Yu raised his head, his gaze becoming exceptionally clear amidst the storm in the Gray Domain. He ceased his attempts to mislead the repair process, instead focusing all his remaining stability on a single anchor point—the "lower-level leading edge node" that connected countless lower-level logic sources, providing the most fundamental support for the repair.
That's the most inconspicuous, yet most indispensable part of the repair system.
The next moment, he moved.
Qin Yu instantly realized that if he continued to passively endure it, the Leading Edge Zone would generate an "alternative solution," using himself to fill the logical gaps needed for repair.
At that moment, he no longer hesitated.
Qin Yu slowly raised his right hand, fingers spread, palm facing the core of the chaotic, surging causal storm, and whispered a phrase that seemed almost swallowed up by the world itself:
"Three Forms of Fate Construction - Cause and Effect Deconstruction."
There was no burst of light, no roar of energy.
The real change happens at a deeper level.
In that instant, Qin Yu's existence was forcibly pulled into Void Evolution of "neither existence nor non-existence," no longer anchored by the outcome, but transforming himself into an Ultimate sharp logical blade, directly slicing into the most fundamental structural element of the Leading Edge Zone. His target was neither the repair itself, nor the not-yet-fully-restored Annihilation Realm-Breaking Pearl—
Rather, it is "the rationale for existence below the Void Emanation Realm as a prerequisite for repair".
The moment the Cause and Effect Deconstruction is initiated, the Leading Edge Zone vibrates violently.
Those causal filaments that were originally stable and hovering began to disintegrate, not destroyed, but losing their eligibility to exist from the root. They were not broken, but "denied" by the world, like a draft that was never approved to be written, directly deleted at the level of rules.
The repair path was interrupted momentarily.
The alternative solution model ran wildly, only to find that no matter how it was reorganized, it could not bypass this fundamental premise that had been completely erased. The logical storm emitted a silent shriek, and the entire region began to collapse out of balance.
At that very moment, the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor realized that the repair process had encountered an irreversible break.
It showed no anger, no emotion, only a more precise remote intervention. The logical weights within the Leading Edge Zone were forcibly increased, attempting to completely lock, overwrite, and rewrite the "error core"—that is, Qin Yu.
Qin Yu felt his consciousness suddenly go blank.
His name, his experiences, his causal relationships—all were stripped away one by one by his Leading Edge Zone in that instant, as if he would be completely erased from the world in the next breath. The edges of his soul consciousness began to shatter, and his very existence was on the verge of annihilation.
But just at the Threshold point of collapse, the Cause and Effect Deconstruction completed its final step.
Qin Yu sacrificed himself to completely seal off the "repair path below the Void Emanation Realm". That original branch that ran through the entire repair system collapsed logically, rendering all the sacrificial preparations ineffective.
The storm suddenly stopped.
The entire core risk zone collapsed and went out rapidly, like a curtain that had been removed from its support.
Qin Yu was violently thrown to the edge of the logical storm and fell heavily into the void. His aura plummeted instantly, his soul consciousness dimmed, and his figure became almost transparent, as if he would completely dissipate in the next moment.
He survived. But he was also almost erased from the world's memory.
The first core risk zone, the Leading Edge Zone repair channel (below the Void Emanation Realm), is now completely blocked.
The repair logic below the Void Emanation Realm was completely blocked, and the Leading Edge Zone lost its most basic support, no longer able to provide stable benefits to that fragmented bead. The Gray Domain began to slowly collapse, and the repair anomaly was forced to freeze.
Qin Yu lay there, his chest rising and falling weakly, the world before him flickering between light and darkness, as if he would sink completely into a void of thought at any moment. He knew that what he had won was only a temporary reversal, and the price was the near annihilation of his very existence.
When Qin Yu fell out of that chaotic storm of logic, he was almost no longer a "complete being". His figure flickered intermittently in the void, like a phantom that the world repeatedly judged but could never confirm. His soul and Fate-Cause layer, and even his breathing no longer followed the normal causal rhythm, as if he had to apply for permission from heaven and earth every time he absorbed something.
The mysterious inner palace of the Chaos First Palace opened Pre-Nonbeing him. It was an inner domain enveloped by multiple boundaries. The space itself presented a warm and ancient chaotic color, like a world draft that had not yet been written. Qin Yu was almost "accepted" into it. As soon as his figure landed in the palace, all the sealing array patterns lit up at the same time and then quickly disappeared, completely isolating him from all outside observation and deduction.
Qin Yu sat cross-legged in the center of the inner hall, his chest rising and falling extremely slowly. The logical structure within his body presented a dangerously hollow state. The causal nodes that were originally tightly interlocked were now largely disconnected. If he had been a moment later, he might have even slipped into an "undefinable" existence.
At that very moment, far above the Black Sea in the Domain of Severed Thought, the wrath of the Thought Severance Devouring Emperor manifested for the first time in its true form. It was not a roar, nor an explosion of aura, but a reaction of imbalance at a higher level. The space on which it stood collapsed silently, its colors being erased layer by layer. Heaven and earth seemed to be pulled into a bottomless abyss of annihilation. The three beings of the Stainless Realm beside him prostrated even lower, their very instinct to breathe forcibly frozen.
The Thought Severance Devouring Emperor slowly raised its head. Its already blurred face was now completely devoid of outline. The act of "understanding" itself was completely forbidden. A large number of unstable gray-white cracks appeared in the void, which were the aftershocks of the repair path being forcibly severed. Its outstretched hand did not point in any direction, but it caused the leading edge model above the entire Black Sea to rearrange simultaneously. The order of sacrifice was coldly rewritten, and the repair logic was forced to be elevated to a higher level. A determination to pay any price silently spread in the Domain of Severed Thought, as if the entire Void Obliteration Domain had been included in the list of "sacrificial variables".
Within the inner palace of the Chaos First Palace, time seemed to slow down deliberately. Qin Yu's consciousness floated between wakefulness and stillness. He clearly felt his own logical structure teetering on the brink of collapse. Just as it was about to Threshold completely, a familiar and gentle azure light quietly descended. Azure Ring appeared on his right shoulder. His figure remained slender and serene, and his long, dark azure hair floated slowly in the chaotic air currents of the inner palace. He didn't say much, but simply raised his hand, scattering layers of soft yet extremely precise Azure Ring light.
The light wasn't simply healing, but a recalibration of the "structure of existence." Each ray of azure light precisely embedded itself into Qin Yu's broken logical nodes, fixing the collapsing cause and effect back onto a bearable track. The ten layers of dark azure soul wheels, faintly visible beneath her skirt, slowly rotated, sharing the most dangerous logical backflow for Qin Yu. Qin Yu's breathing gradually regained its rhythm, the cracks in his soul consciousness were stitched up bit by bit, and his sense of existence became stable and solid again. His consciousness slowly sank into a state of repair within the azure light, as if the world had once again allowed him to continue writing.
While the Chaos First Palace enjoyed a temporary respite, another region of the Void Obliteration Domain was engulfed in war. This was a border region known as the "Shattered Luminary Wasteland Belt," where the sky was shattered like a mirror, countless fragments of broken stars swirling and falling through the air. The earth was repeatedly torn apart and forcibly healed, deafening roars mingled with the shrill screams of collapsing rules. Multiple powerful auras clashed wildly within, chaos and Annihilation intertwined, crimson and divine light coexisted—a great war capable of altering the course of this region was erupting there, seemingly responding to the dictates of a higher will, and also heralding the storm that would soon sweep across the entire Void Obliteration Domain.