Breaking the Formation, Slaying the Light-Wielder, Suppressing the Void Abyss

At this moment, Soul-Sealing Abyss completely lost the concept of "stability".

It was neither a collapse nor an expansion, but rather as if some unseen hand was treating the entire space as an unformed clay embryo, repeatedly twisting, stretching, and pressing it. The dark rock layers that originally hung down from the abyss slowly shifted in the air, shadows and objects no longer overlapped, and what was underfoot one moment was suspended above head the next. Time was like crushed fragments, unable to form a continuity.

Qin Yu paused, the Silent Origin Stainless Sword humming in his palm. The sword was not drawn, yet it vibrated on its own, as if sensing some kind of "non-combat" threat—not killing intent, but a check before being erased.

In this Ultimate space, two figures appeared without warning.

It didn't emerge from the void, nor did Realm Breaking to descend, nor did it unfold in space—it was simply standing there all along, only now being allowed to be "seen."

The first person stood atop the misty waters of the abyss.

His deep blue battle robe surged like a night sea, its hem lifted by invisible tides, as if the entire abyss's water veins were slowly revolving around him. Behind him, the phantom of an immense, immeasurably large ancient abyss beast slowly emerged, its scales like starlight, its eyes a deep, cold blue, as if surveying its prey. The phantom was incomplete, yet so real that it made space itself shrink; moisture evaporated automatically at the edges of its outline, leaving a vacuum-like void.

His face was young, yet it possessed a calmness and sharpness completely incongruous with his age. When his gaze fell, there was no emotion, but one could instinctively realize that this look was not "looking at a person," but rather confirming whether the target was worthy of existence.

The second person stood in the void on the other side.

She seemed to be composed of clouds and stardust, her figure slender and graceful, her robes like solidified flowing light, weightless as they fell, casting no shadow. Her face was hazy, yet unreal in its beauty, as if not a specific "person," but rather an image formed from a forgotten fragment of a narrative. Behind her, the silhouette of a huge, indistinct face vaguely appeared, as if heaven and earth themselves were bowing down to watch this moment, starlight flowing, extinguishing, and regenerating within that silhouette.

She stood there quietly, and the space softened because of her presence, as if reality itself was trying to adapt to her silhouette.

Neither of them emitted any aura. There was no oppressive force, no killing intent, and no domain being deployed.

But the moment they appeared, the entire Soul-Sealing Abyss stopped its transformation.

It was as if this altered, trap-like space was waiting for their confirmation.

Jin Hanyan's heart tightened suddenly.

She didn't back down, but instinctively raised her hand, her fingertips already gathering Stainless light, her voice low and calm. "These two people... something's not right."

Qin Yu nodded slowly, his gaze shifting between the two, his expression more solemn than ever before. "This is not an ordinary Silent Mystery Realm · Supreme."

He could clearly sense that the existence of these two people was not part of the causal chain.

It is not in the sequence of events, nor does it even fully belong to "this moment".

They were like temporary verification nodes planted in this space, responsible for only one thing—

To determine whether Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan will be directly eliminated by this 'erasure container'.

Jin Hanyan and Qin Yu exchanged a glance almost simultaneously.

Needless to say, this is the first deadly trap in this scheme, and also the first true head-on confrontation.

Qin Yu took a deep breath, slowly raised his right hand, and the Silent Origin Stainless Sword appeared on its own. Though its light was not yet fully revealed, it had already formed a stable anchor point in his palm. His voice was low and restrained. "It seems we've reached a point where the Soul-Sealing Abyss doesn't want us to go any further."

Jin Hanyan nodded slightly, her body Light of Stainlessness slightly to the side. A thin layer of pure light formed around her, and her tone was calm yet unyielding. "No matter who they are, they are no longer just 'passing by'."

The space was silent. The two mysterious figures, both at the Silent Mystery Realm · Supreme, remained motionless.

But deep within the abyss, the "existential replacement impulse" that had been forcibly suppressed was beginning to accumulate again.

The Soul-Sealing Abyss revealed its true purpose for the first time the moment the two mysterious figures at the Silent Mystery Realm · Supreme simultaneously raised their hands.

It's not a battlefield. It's not a forbidden zone. It's a container that's in operation.

There were no array patterns manifested, no outline of the magic array, and not even any signs of being "activated." The entire abyss simply fell silent abruptly, as if all sound had been drawn away, and even the darkness itself had stopped flowing. Then, an almost imperceptible fluctuation spread backward from the deepest part of the space, sweeping across the rock walls, the misty sea of the abyss, and the remnants of the collapsed old era, finally landing on Qin Yu.

That wasn't an attack, nor was it a lock-on; it was an Ultimate callous "confirmation."

Qin Yu's pupils contracted slightly. He clearly felt his logical framework being covered by an invisible structure, as if he were being placed in a transparent yet absolutely precise grid. His existence was being broken down into countless layers: cause and effect, narrative, combat possibilities, future branches, probability of failure... Each item was being rapidly scanned, compared, and archived.

The next instant, a result so cold and devoid of any emotion directly assaulted his senses—

Erasure determination: Passed pre-verification. Erasure priority: Executable.

Qin Yu grunted, and the rock strata beneath his feet crumbled inch by inch. The Silent Origin Stainless Sword suddenly emitted a deep hum in his palm. The sword's light did not radiate outward, but it firmly stabilized his own "anchor point of existence," forcefully blocking the inward trend of erasure.

"As expected..." Qin Yu said in a low voice, his tone carrying an barely suppressed chill, "This place was never meant to trap anyone from the very beginning."

It was for clearing.

At the very moment the erasure judgment was confirmed, the mysterious blue-robed figure standing above the mist finally moved.

He simply took a step forward.

There was no change in distance, no folding of space, yet as Qin Yu took that step, the level of reality around him suddenly sank, as if he were being dragged into a lower, more fragile layer of existence. The air turned into a viscous deep sea, gravity lost its direction, and the causal lines were forcibly compressed into short segments that could not be unfolded.

At the same time, the woman on the other side slowly raised her eyes.

Her movements were extremely light, yet they caused the entire background of the Soul-Sealing Abyss to shift. Stardust-like specks of light emerged from behind her; they were not energy, but fragments of extracted "possibility remnants," which spun and overlapped at her fingertips, eventually transforming into a nearly transparent talisman, which she gently pressed into the void.

At that moment, Qin Yu realized for the first time that this wasn't just two people working together, but a coordinated erasure process.

"Qin Yu!" Jin Hanyan called out in a low voice.

She took a step forward, Light of Stainlessness instantly unfolded in full. It was not a blazing explosion, but a diffusion of Ultimate purity. The pale silver radiance, like countless nested mirrors, unfolded, swirled, and overlapped around her. Wherever the light passed, broken logic was forcibly straightened, misplaced cause and effect were recorrected, and even the cracks in space were gently and absolutely smoothed out.

This is a primordial-level purification manifestation that can only be performed by those at the Stainless Realm · Supreme.

Her gaze locked onto the mysterious man in blue robes. With a flick of her finger, the Light of Stainlessness suddenly condensed into a slender yet Ultimate sharp beam of light, piercing straight to the core of his being—a decryption method to see whether he was a "real individual".

However, just as the beam touched the other side—

Something incredible happened.

The Light of Stainlessness could not penetrate it.

The beam of light, powerful enough to purify the illusions of the Great Dao and dispel all attachments and falsehoods, seemed to collide with a Does Not Exist boundary just inches away from the target's body. The light did not bounce back, nor was it extinguished; instead, it was forcibly and "smoothly" guided to both sides, like water flowing around a reef, leaving not even a ripple.

Jin Hanyan's pupils suddenly contracted.

She clearly sensed it—

His supernatural powers were fully received, analyzed, and determined to be invalid.

It's not about resisting. It's not about defending.

Instead, it is treated as a known, negligible variable.

"How could this be..." Jin Hanyan's voice lost its composure for the first time.

Her supreme abilities at the Stainless Realm · Supreme were so powerful that even those of the same Stainless Realm level dared not directly confront them, yet this being at the Silent Mystery Realm · Supreme before her did not even flinch in his aura.

In that instant, she forcibly reversed the way the Light of Stainlessness operated—no longer "purifying," but reflecting.

The light suddenly receded, transforming into an almost invisible "Stainless mirror image," directly illuminating the projection of the other's existence.

The next instant, Jin Hanyan's breathing completely stopped.

She "saw" it.

The figure of the mysterious man in blue robes appeared as a double image in the Stainless Mirror.

It's not a clone, not a substitute, but rather a node overlap.

It was a state of being that could not be called an "individual." His form was not independent, but rather temporarily placed here as part of a higher structure. She even saw a second person, a third person, and even more similar yet different outlines in the depths of the mirror image, overlapping, sharing, and switching with each other in an incomprehensible way.

"They are not independent entities..." Jin Hanyan's voice was low and hoarse, yet unusually firm, "They are... the execution end of the container."

Qin Yu's heart sank upon hearing this.

He knew all too well what this meant.

This means --

Defeating any one of them would be pointless.

As long as the container mechanism is still running, they will be replaced and invoked indefinitely.

Just as the two realized this, a very soft yet extremely cold echo came from the depths of the Soul-Sealing Abyss.

That wasn't a sound. It was a new rule, officially written into the code.

Erasure process: Entering the execution phase. The darkness of the Abyss begins to collapse inward. And Qin Yu is standing right in the center.

At that moment, the Soul-Sealing Abyss completely "closed up".

It wasn't the roar of an array activating, nor the shock of a power eruption, but a far more terrifying change—as if the entire Abyss had suddenly "remembered" its true purpose. The surrounding layers of unfathomable darkness no longer extended outwards, but began to collapse inwards. The rock walls, the void, and the remnants of echoes from the old era simultaneously lost their meaning, being folded and compacted by an invisible Annihilation-Construct Logic, ultimately transforming into a massive and indifferent closed structure that firmly enveloped Qin Yu and Jin Hanyan within.

The two mysterious figures, both at the Silent Mystery Realm · Supreme, made no further moves. They simply stood there, like two "nodes" already embedded deep within the structure. As the Abyss closed, their presence began to blur, as if they were gradually retreating back into the array, leaving only the suffocating pressure that persisted.

In that instant, existence was stripped away for the first time, descending silently.

Qin Yu's vision suddenly shifted for a very brief moment. He clearly "felt" that he was still standing in the same place, but the ground beneath his feet seemed to be receding backward. His breathing continued, but the concept of air seemed to have been halved. Most terrifyingly, he clearly perceived that his "name" was being stripped away.

It's not memory. It's not cognition.

Rather, at the level of existence, the outer edges of the markers for the existence of "Qin Yu" are being forcibly removed.

The Silent Origin Stainless Sword suddenly resonated in his hand, the Stainless patterns on its blade lighting up wildly. The sword intent didn't emanate outwards, but instead firmly locked onto the logical framework within his body, preventing its complete collapse at this moment. Even so, Qin Yu couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.

It was as if an invisible force had torn open his chest cavity, forcibly pulling away a part of his presence, turning him into invisible ashes that merged into the surrounding abyss.

That wasn't the pain of an injury.

It's a deeper fear—you are diminishing.

"Wan He..." Qin Yu called out almost subconsciously in his heart.

Only the deathly silence of Soul-Sealing Abyss in response to him.

Only at this moment did he realize with absolute clarity that Wan He's absence was not simply a lack of combat power. The transformation of the Void Returning-to-Ruin Divine Sword was one of his most important resonance anchors on the "existence level." When this resonance was forcibly severed, he lost the most crucial buffer when facing this Annihilation array structure whose essence was erasure.

Jin Hanyan suddenly took a step forward beside him.

She didn't look at the two mysterious figures, nor did she pay any more attention to the ongoing separation of existence. Instead, she made an extremely risky choice in an instant—to reverse the illumination of the Stainless Origin.

That's not supernatural power, but a near-self-destructive mode of operation.

The Light of Stainlessness within Jin Hanyan suddenly receded, no longer spreading outwards, but instead flowing upstream along her own destiny, cause and effect, and existence trajectory, reflecting back onto the deepest structure of this abyss. Her figure became exceptionally transparent at this moment, as if she herself was also approaching a state of "being analyzed." Silver-white radiance, like thin and sharp threads, extended from her body and pierced into the unseen structures around her.

The Soul-Sealing Abyss emitted its first truly meaningful "reaction".

It wasn't a vibration, but a deep and lingering echo, as if some vast and ancient entity had had its black cloth forcibly ripped off.

Jin Hanyan's pupils suddenly contracted.

She "saw" it.

It is no longer a surface container, no longer a rewritten space, but the true core of the entire Soul-Sealing Abyss —a super Annihilation array that has already been transformed. Countless Annihilation Structure patterns are not carved on any entity, but are directly embedded in the interlayer of space, time, and existence, layer upon layer, interlocking with each other to form a huge structure with "erasure" as its sole endpoint.

This place is not for imprisoning anyone, nor for defense.

Rather, it's for the purpose of directly clearing all unauthorized entities within a certain area when needed.

What Jin Hanyan even more was that, deep within the array, she sensed an extremely familiar yet terrifying aura—not from a specific being, but from a "traces of use" left by a high-level will. Those traces were cold and restrained, yet carried an unquestionable sense of judgment, as if the same thing had been done here countless times before.

"Qin Yu..." Jin Hanyan's voice trembled slightly, but she forcibly suppressed her emotions, "This is not a hastily set trap... The entire Soul-Sealing Abyss has long been transformed into a complete Annihilation Array. We are now standing in its execution layer."

Almost as soon as she finished speaking, the darkness of the Soul-Sealing Abyss tightened inward once more.

A second round of divestitures is in the works and is currently being planned.

This time, the target of the formation is no longer limited to the "outer edge".

Qin Yu slowly raised his head, his gaze calm to the point of being cold. He could clearly feel his own existence being peeled away layer by layer, but it was precisely under this extreme pressure that the logical structure within his body was forced to operate in an unprecedentedly clear state.

"Since it wants to erase me..." Qin Yu said in a low voice, his tone unusually firm in the abyss, "Then I'll see if it has the right to do so."

The surrounding darkness offered no response.

Meanwhile, deep within the Soul-Sealing Abyss, the super- Annihilation formation had begun to adjust, preparing to execute the next step of its judgment.